Perception is one of two vocal tracks from Into The Light. The lyrics are based on the idea that your life is made up of your perception of the world around you and they offer up a simple piece of advice: to make the best of what you see in your surroundings, and focus on the light in the lens you look at the world through.

You can check out the music video, produced by my good friend Brian Duggan, here: https://bit.ly/ChandoPerceptionYT

Into the Light by Chando is a concept album that is loosely based around the ebb and flow of life: the ups and downs, the fast pace and the chill, along with everything else in between, and ultimately, always emerging Into The Light. This album is culmination of years of writing and producing and is largely an instrumental electronic Drum and Bass album, but also has a few vocal tracks, some slower downtempo electronic tracks, and two synth-inspired space odysseys.

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Into The Light

Perception

Dreaming in Analog, one of two synth-inspired space odysseys on the album. These two synth odysseys are inspired by the ambient music I was turned onto over the course of the pandemic from our weekly Holotropic Happy Hour live streams. I was only marginally exposed to this genre prior to these streams, but I gained an appreciation for chill, meditative, and often trance inducing nature of its free form, ever-evolving droning tones. In an attempt to capture the analog warmth and generative nature of the genre, this track was recorded in one single session, with very little editing or post-production work in an effort to leave the track in a real and raw form. And while I have limited access to analog hardware, I did my best to use software synthesizers which are modeled after their hardware counterparts, hence the title “Dreaming” in Analog.

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Into the Light by Chando is a concept album that is loosely based around the ebb and flow of life: the ups and downs, the fast pace and the chill, along with everything else in between, and ultimately, always emerging Into The Light. This album is culmination of years of writing and producing and is largely an instrumental electronic Drum and Bass album, but also has a few vocal tracks, some slower downtempo electronic tracks, and two synth-inspired space odysseys.

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Dreaming In Analog

Holdin' Onto Me is the first Chando tune that ever featured live vocals. I originally released this track back in 2019, but it's gotten a major face lift since then, here what's changed. The drums were updated to match the rest of the album, I re-recorded synth line in the middle, gave it a new mix & master, but most importantly, the vocals have all been re-recorded, with 3-part harmonies featured at the end of this track! Holdin' Onto Me is one of two tracks on Into the Light that feature live vocals by yours truly.

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Into the Light by Chando is a concept album that is loosely based around the ebb and flow of life: the ups and downs, the fast pace and the chill, along with everything else in between, and ultimately, always emerging Into The Light. This album is culmination of years of writing and producing and is largely an instrumental electronic Drum and Bass album, but also has a few vocal tracks, some slower downtempo electronic tracks, and two synth-inspired space odysseys.

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Holdin' Onto Me

Introducing the very first edition of Brunch with Chando. Over the course of roughly a 3-year period, I played a number of brunch sets in the River North Art District of Denver at the rooftop bar of The Woods Restaurant. This was typically a monthly gig on Sundays, and towards the end of my tenure there, I started to record the sets I was playing. The majority of these sets focused on chill, but groovy downtempo tunes, with some lounge house usually finding its way into the set near the end.

Downtempo music that grooves is some of my most favorite music to listen to and to play, and I'm forever grateful that I got the opportunity to curate these types of sets and expand the DJ catalog with a wide swath of tunes that you don't typically get to play in the night time club setting. So, without further ado, I present to you, Brunch with Chando Vol. 1!

Tracklist: 
Synkro - Knowledge
Michal Menert - Bloodletting
CloZee - The Golden Mask
Nym - Flipped
Wax Tailor - Que Será
Globular & Geoglyph - Take Down Everything
Giyo - Nocturne
EMOG - Kurukulla
Circada - Naissance
Zero Theory - Elements
Sounds From the Ground - Train of Thought
Plantrae - Ghostfox
Godblesscomputers - Lions
Gramatik - Muy Tranquilo
Giyo - Parisian Girl
Zen Baboon - Weeedz (Radio Edit)
Ott - The Aubergine of The Sun
VOLO - Lost Forest
The Flashbulb - Submerged Renewed
Poolside - Next To You
Islandman - Jambo Maro
Bill Withers - Lovely Day
Gramatik - Cool Thieves
GRiZ - Mystik Dub
Silk Sonic - Fly as Me
Jungle - Busy Earnin'
The Motet - Solar Plexus
Nym - Tall Talk
Kuba - Out Of The Box
Be Svendsen - Circle (Zen Baboon Remix - Ozora Mix)
Cubicolor - Down The Wall (Original Mix)
Lukas Endhardt - Faint Young Sun
Todd Terje - Swing Star (Part 2)
Tosca - Rolf Royce feat Stephan Graf Hadik Wildner
Zen Baboon - Solar Cat


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Brunch With Chando Vol. 1

Welcome to the second installment of Brunch with Chando! These sets were all recorded live at the rooftop bar of The Woods Restaurant, and this particular recording is the majority of one of my sets from last spring. These mixes in general focus on downtempo tunes that groove and this is mix is no different. Sit back, relax and enjoy this chilled out mix!

Tracklist: 
Edamame - At Home
Ott - Smoked Glass And Chrome
Nicolas Godin - The Foundation
Lemon Jelly - Elements
Air - Cherry Blossom Girl
The Flashbulb - Hello, I'm Benn
Molly McPhaul, G Mills - Waterfalls
Kuba - Dontmakemedance
beatfarmer - Piano Masala (Pangani Remix)
CloZee - Aurora [Interlude]
Islandman - Agit
L'Indécis - Staying There
Air - La Femme d'Argent
Chando - Iced Memories
GRiZ - Sundown
Mythematica - Tout le monde aime l'Air
STS9 - Summit
SuperTramp - Take the Long Way Home (Lazy Syrup Orchestra Remix)
The Breed - Smunchiiez
Artifakts - Hustler
Bob Moses - Keeping Me Alive
EMOG - Kurukulla
Ish Dub - Shamans (feat. Chistopher Salvatierra & Vittoria)
Dirtwire - Polar Vortex
Washed Out - Feel It All Around

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Brunch With Chando Vol. 2

Prior to the epic Boogie Lights headliner at the Bluebird back in May, my friends over at Vibrate Your Best Energy put on a special edition of their Park & Play, which is a gathering of creative minds and all around good people at Cheesman Park, encouraged to play, create, and just have a good time! 

During this edition of Park & Play, I was invited to DJ along with other members and friends of the Boogie Bunch and I knew I had to come up with something super funky, fresh and fun.  This is the set that came out of that incredible Sunday afternoon. It's starts out with a little bass-funk, before transitioning into a near hour of house music, topped off with a little bass-house mash up that I just couldn't believe worked so well together.  

This is without a doubt some of the best live mixing I've done and it's easily one of the most fun sets I've put together and released to date! Strap on those dancing shoes and let's get FUNKY!

Tracklist: 
Phyphr - Up
40 Thieves - Backward Love
FEYNMAN - Diego In Vegas
Franc Moody - Terra Firma
Zhu - Stardust (Intro)
Gigamesh - When You’re Dancing (feat. Induce) (RAC Remix)
BoomBox - Shakedown Street
Discoslap - Having Funk (Original Mix)
Bonobo - Rosewood
Choices,Oliver,Ryland Blackinton - Cybernetic
Oliver $ & Jimi Jules - Pushing On
Folamour - Fearless
Goldfish - Three Second Memory
Chromeo - Tenderoni 124
JADED - Welcome To The People
The Sponges - Gotta Move On (Sgt Slick's Melbourne ReCut Extended Mix)
JADED,Carlita - Zorro
Jax Jones & Years & Years - Play (Purple Disco Machine Remix)
Nora En Pure - Swing Island (Original Mix)
Clozee - VISIONS


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Park & Play

I'm very excited to bring you the third installment of Brunch with Chando! Picture a sunny spring time day, raised high upon the rooftop in Denver while these chill but groovy tunes provide the soundtrack for your brunch. Are you there? Then you're at brunch with Chando, enjoy! 

Tracklist:
KiloWatts - Reflection
Antenna - Take Me Home
Antenna - Sparks
Pretty Lights - Finally Moving
Legion of Green Men - Hotbox Highway
Frameworks - Expansion
Frameworks - The Passenger
Purple Disco Machine - Can't Get Enough
Be Svendsen - Circle (Zen Baboon Remix - Ozora Mix)
Pretty Lights - At Last I Am Free
Zen Baboon - Red Frog (LX Edit)
Frameworks - Fires
Abakus - Dreamer
Monolink - Father Ocean
Bob Moses - Tearing Me Up
Frameworks - Delphina (jackLNDN Remix)
Frameworks - Cusp
POOLCLVB - Space
AIISO - Hopeful For A Sign

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Brunch With Chando Vol. 3

Welcome to Brunch with Chando Vol. 4, where the tunes are chill but the vibes are always high. This particular set is a snippet from a springtime session of the brunch gigs I had at the rooftop bar of The Source Hotel. I often times liked to start the sets more downtempo & chill and then ramp them up into an up-tempo, but still chill type of vibe. This particular set is a snippet of the front end of the set, where we’re keeping it more downtempo and features a lot of the instrumental, head-bobbin’, hip-hop type of feel.

Tracklist: 
Lemon Jelly - The Curse Of Ka'Zar
Bonus Points - Morning Mist
Moods - Sofa Stories
Polygon Rainbow - Pony Ride
Sounds From the Ground - Train of Thought
STS9 - Native End
STS9 - ReEmergence
Air - modular mix
Bonus Points - Extra Breezy
Birocratic - tony's belated breakfast
L'Indécis - Wine & Roses
SayWhat - WhatWay
Gramatik - No Place Like NYC

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Brunch With Chando Vol. 4

This Après Ski DJ is part 1 of a two-part series, which features a 4-hour DJ set I played in Winter Park at the A-Frame club near the base of the mountain on the Winter Park side of the mountain. This particular Après DJ set was the last one of the season (I did 5 in total) and featured that legendary, warm, Colorado sunshine while the mountain was still fully covered in snow, so naturally we setup outside for this one. The set started out on the chiller side of things, as the first 30 minutes or so was pretty quiet, but then, it eventually picked up in a groovy house-inspired type of set as people started to arrive. Once the BPMs started to rise, they never really stopped as more and more people started to fill in and soak in that Après vibe. Enjoy Part of my Après DJ set. Part 2 will be coming soon!

Tracklist:
L'Indécis - Spleen & Malt
Birocratic - lullaby of the sea
Tycho - Japan (Satin Jackets Remix)
Sofi Tukker - Purple Hat
Poolside - Save Their Souls
Gramatik - Spoiler Alert
GRiZ - Keep Bouncin'
Wynslo - Death Will Come
Artifakts - Not Quite Gone (feat. Michal Menert)
The Polish Ambassador - Two-Step
Franc Moody - Charge Me Up
Gorrilaz - Stylo
GRiZ - Solo
The Polish Ambassador - Mystic Matterz
Kuba - Cut the Engine
Röyksopp - The Ladder
Slow Magic - Bear Dance
Birocratic - throwing sadé
Shiny Objects - A Light at the End
Purple Disco Machine - Can't Get Enough
Washed Out - All I Know
Cubicolor - Down The Wall (Original Mix)
Todd Terje - Swing Star (Part 2)
ZHU & Tame Impala - My Life
SunSquabi - Night Moth
Frameworks - Fires
Giyo - Can't Forget
Bob Moses - Too Much Is Never Enough
Frameworks - Mirrors (Feat Palladian)
Trippin Jaguar - Oratory (Original Mix)
Antenna & Tasma - Astra
Frameworks - Imagine Gold (il-lo Remix)
Hedflux - Cloud Mountain


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Après Ski Pt. I

Part 2 of this Après Ski DJ set is when things really started to get interesting. This was the first time I was requested to play a 4-hour set for this particular gig, but little did I know that the folks at the A-Frame Club in Winter Park had hired some fire poi performers to really heat things up for the last two hours of the set. So naturally, once they showed up and started doing their thing, I felt the need to bring the music into a little more tribal and weirder sort of vibe to match their energy and this is where the set really starts to come alive. For the last two hours of this set we weave been the strange and unknown musically, while still coming back to a more high-energy house feel to keep the vibes high and keep people’s sprits uplifted until the sunset. This was a really fun set and one of my favorites of year!

Tracklist:
KiloWatts - Zwartkop (feat The We're Home Family Drum Brigade)
Motel77 - Dykwe (Thomass Jackson Remix)
Phaelah - Icarus
Sofi Tukker - Drinkee
Franc Moody - Dream in Colour
Nora En Pure - Loneliness
Franc Moody - Terra Firma
Zhu - Stardust (Intro)
Tinlicker - Axis
Boogie Lights - Funk Decision
Gigamesh - When You’re Dancing (feat. Induce) (RAC Remix)
Griff - Coin Flip
TheBusiness - Hold It Up
Sofi Tukker - Swing (Mahmut Orhan Remix)
Polo & Pan - Dorothy
Be Svendsen - Let Them Not Weep
Be Svendsen - Nabia
Emancipator & Lapa - Vortex Cortex
Islandman - Lumiere (feat The Swan and the Lake & Langkilde)
J.Viewz - Sunswoop
Jake Kaiser - Kestrel
Massane - No Return
Mr. Scruff - Kalimba
Nora En Pure - Come With Me
Nora Van Elken - All Night Long
Polo & Pan - Kirghiz
Polo & Pan - Tunnel
Ryan Shepherd - Never Give up on You (feat. Georgi Kay)
Alex Metric & Amtrac - Upswing
Jerro - The Fool
Amateur Dance - Dreamhack
Jax Jones, Years & Years - Play (Purple Disco Machine Remix)
TheBusiness - Make A Move
CloZee - Winter Is Coming

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Après Ski Pt. II

Say it with me now: "Shan-doh"

Synth infused House/Hip-Hop beats, with a lil DnB on the side.  
Also bringing you DJ sets focused on everything from downtempo to house, instrumental hip hop beats to melodic bass, and much more! Chando's eclectic DJ sets also highlight a wide variety of genres focusing on downtempo, instrumental hip hop, house, melodic bass, and more often than not, will include some live improvisational keys sprinkled throughout. Chando's selections for DJ sets are focused on bringing you deep cuts, that groove.

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