dragonfly ……..

PT 3. In Spotlight: https://soundcloud.com/djdragonfly/tumbleweedsoul
PT 4. https://soundcloud.com/djdragonfly/dragonfly-the-tumbledown-blues

A slow deep house travelogue from the Badlands to The Bayou, from the Western twang of Wyoming's cowboy country to the pensively achy ballads of Southern blues. Live & unscripted  (recording is from my set at Green River Rendezvous Festival,  Wyoming). Tracklisting below:

https://soundcloud.com/el-buho
The Limiñanas - Maria's Theme (El Buho's Cumbi-edit)
https://soundcloud.com/besvendsen
Be Svendsen - Leone
https://soundcloud.com/rapossa
Rapossa - Wild Guns (Samaha Remix)
https://soundcloud.com/k-paul
K-Paul, Kid Simius - El Remo Dub
https://soundcloud.com/nicopuschmusic
Nico Pusch - Blackbird (Thomas Lizzara Remix)
https://soundcloud.com/steven-maff
Steven Maff - Johnny
https://soundcloud.com/feinheitsbrei
Feinheitsbrei - Forest Of Souls
https://soundcloud.com/giaccaofficial
Antonio Giacca - Down Like the River 
https://soundcloud.com/a21producer
A21 & Fernando Sanchez - Niquelao
Nhii - A Mindful Blues 
https://soundcloud.com/nhii-music/a-mindful-blues
Devendra Banhart - Für Hildegard von Bingen (Crussen Edit)
https://soundcloud.com/devendrabanhart / https://soundcloud.com/crussen
Bob Dylan  - All Along The Watchtower (Soulmotion Dj Remix)
https://soundcloud.com/soulmotiondj
https://soundcloud.com/uone/premiere-uone-western-kaos-of-time-feat-briony-taylor-brooks-beat-pathwav
Briony Taylor-Brooks, Uone, Western- Kaos of Time
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v8Otzk1zidg
Rocknrolla  Soundsystem - Nobody’s Fault But Mine
....and finally, one of the most underrated producers  ever, of downtempo, chilled-out, electro-soul & folk Americana:
https://soundcloud.com/akshinalizadeh
Akshin Alizadeh - Inner Struggle
Akshin Alizadeh - Southern Man

DRAGONFLY - TUMBLEWEED HOUSE & PRAIRIE BLUES

An incredible festival, an incredible dance: In the late night steamy heat of the Costa Rican rainforest we Invoked the sacred through sonic alchemy and surrendered to the divine.  This set was the culmination of everything I strive for on the ecstatic dance floor - in the amorphously porous container of a festival a multi genre, tempo-twisted offering of deep groove and penetrating cadence elastically stretched the potential for expression over 108 minutes of unpredictable storytelling as each dancer exploded into the hyper-nowness of being.

#Bassmusic
#House
#Downtempo
#Halftime
#Drum&Bass
#Sacred
#Psytrance
#Latin
#African
#Brazilian
#Love
#Freedom

DRAGONFLY - SPIRIT CATCHER @ ENVISION FESTIVAL ECSTATIC JUNGLE DANCE 2023

(L)et's 
(S)tart
(D)ancing: 
I got on my bike today and made a spontaneous mix honoring of Albert Hofmann's  magnificent moment in history, 80 years ago.
This global psychedelicatessen of elevating, knotty, percolating, pulsing and squidgy bassliness is woven with a smorgasbord of flavor. Low-end basscapades, traditional horn lines and global soundplay all meet up with  the skank and stutter of dub reggae vibes for a mesmerizing entanglement with psychedelic sound design. ARTIST LISTING BELOW (explore, discover, dance!)
https://soundcloud.com/sensorythm84
https://soundcloud.com/psydraft
https://soundcloud.com/kuba-laurence-harvey / https://soundcloud.com/gaudi
https://soundcloud.com/pandadub
https://soundcloud.com/chriskomus
https://soundcloud.com/fletric
https://soundcloud.com/wolf-tech
https://visionaryshamanics.bandcamp.com/track/kumara-arcanum
https://soundcloud.com/ethnicalvibes
https://soundcloud.com/akashaexperience
https://soundcloud.com/sikadaofficial / https://soundcloud.com/byzantine-time-machine
https://soundcloud.com/mantismash
https://soundcloud.com/livinglight 
https://soundcloud.com/m00nrakers 
https://soundcloud.com/quanta-uk
https://soundcloud.com/axelthesleff / https://soundcloud.com/pandadub 
https://soundcloud.com/zoranpsychoz
https://soundcloud.com/schatsi /  https://soundcloud.com/mantismash
https://soundcloud.com/nomadic_escape
https://soundcloud.com/beatfarmer
https://soundcloud.com/gumiproject / https://soundcloud.com/kayaproject
https://soundcloud.com/suduaya 
https://soundcloud.com/psybur
https://soundcloud.com/cosmosis-official

ALBERT HOFMANN'S BIG DAY OUT - A PSYCHEDELIC GLOBAL DUB RIDE: AN 80TH ANNIVERSARY  MIX!

ENVISION FESTIVAL - ECSTATIC DANCE
(edit. Sat, 9 March: Renamed set "JUNGLE PRAYER ECSTATIC DANCE". Thank you everyone for the feedback. Your dance in the jungle was juicey.  The set was a collective somatic prayer, an embodiment and a devotion to the dance as medicine).

And like all my ecstatic dance mixes, this is a raw portrait of the dance floor before me,  each set experienced as a unrehearsed, spontaneous collaboration with the dancers. But on this particular night in the jungle I had and agenda: Peace, prayer, healing, tribe, remembrance, beauty, home.

Envision Festival was the apotheosis of what a dance floor can do, and how far it can go as collective cathartic release: It was a total hot, sweaty meltdown of a trust fall.  

p.s. DJing ecstatic dance at a festival generally requires getting down to business from the get-go. Unlike indoors, these dances compete with other stages, are a porous container, comers-and-goers, talking on the dancefloor....and this also makes it special and surprising for the uninitiated.

p.s. If there is a specific track you want to know about, pm me. It will tell me that you listened.

DRAGONFLY - JUNGLE PRAYER ECSTATIC DANCE - ENVISION 2024

Just polished off and upload for you is my set from the Lapa Stage at Envision 2024.
Easing into the dancefloor a super vibey neo Cumbia Terror/Cactus & Cuervo Cuervo collab opens the set. Following is a deep organic house set of uniquely Afro/Latin rhythms threaded with the ecstatic timbre of village voices, seductive brass, percolating percussion and heartfelt melodies. The tempo cascades and falls throughout the mix...and ends with a parking spot in your melodic heart.  

I was thrilled to share billing with some of my fav house music artists,  Birds of Mind, Chaim, Henry Pope, Maz, Okuma, Rayon, Rey&Kjavik, Paralelle, Sadhu Sensi, Lorie…and many more EnJoy!!

TRACKLISTING:
Terror/Cactus & Cuervo Cuervo - Agua Mágica
@https://soundcloud.com/ohxala - Yawanawa
@https://soundcloud.com/g-e-j-u - Az 
@https://soundcloud.com/maaje_music - Chouette
@https://soundcloud.com/les-yeux-orange/premiere-fernanda-arrau-balam-baila - Balla
@https://soundcloud.com/sebjak - Aguacero
@https://soundcloud.com/cafedeanatolia/elias-fassos-risk-gr-anasa-cafe-de-anatolia - Anasa
@https://soundcloud.com/pepo-bosser/david-tort-markem-yas-cepeda-ft-ella-loponte-strangers - Strangers 
@https://soundcloud.com/scottnice - Bossa Supa Nova
@https://soundcloud.com/wait_for_me (WAR Low Rider Wait For Me 'Tech Dub Rub' Mix)
@https://soundcloud.com/afrohouseunited/ahu-premiere-augusto-yepes-kasango-moya-original-mix-my-other-side-of-the-moon - Moya
Tomi H & Soul Star - Nnangalimbe @https://soundcloud.com/tomihofficial - Nnangalimbe
La Santa, Sparrow & Barbossa - Cumanayagua 
Elcinho Dj, ORINegrix - Apito
Lua Preta - Quero Mais (feat. Morena Leraba) (Jowaa Remix)
Vintage Culture, Shapeless - Bidolibido
Victor Alc - Sudamérica (Extended Mix)
Léo Leobons - São Bento para Ramiro (Chico Correa Remix)
Junior Jack - E Samba (Jolyon Petch & Mobin Master New Vocal Club Remix)
Andi & Alex - Mama Say [Maneki Neko]
Volanda Be Cool & DCUP - Soul Makossa (Gambino Sound Machine remix)
Frank Nitty, AL Sharif - The Iberian
Augusto Yepes, Calussa - Amore
Nasca - Trippy Chulo 
Boca Beats (CloZe edit)
Zerb, Sofiya Nzau - Mwaki (Slowed)
Frohlocker - Florcita (Ohxalá Remix)
Principe Q -  BUEN DIA

DRAGONFLY - LAPA STAGE - ENVISION FESTIVAL 2024

( TUMBLEWEED SOUL PLAYLIST:https://soundcloud.com/djdragonfly/sets/way-out-west )

THE TUMBLEDOWN BLUES (LIVE @ NORTHERN NIGHTS FESTIVAL) : 
It's 2:30am and in a fast-paced, ever changing world  I’m dropping a downtempo mix that blazes a slow, achy trail across the American West. Festooned with ghost towns, rusticating prairie graves and lonesome crows, this collection of tunes lends you doleful voices, blues guitars, twangy banjos and the stuttering ragtime of vintage pianos. Its sideshow twin is the conjoined grumble and grime of downtempo bass. The cadence does have moments of upswing; ribald bar rooms and scurrying outlaws make a momentary presence. But the coffee-meets-whisky approach makes this sonic libation yet another perfect slow-sipper as the soundtrack for your wayward soul.

Mad props to my friends Kr3ture, Dirtwire, Morillo, Scott Nice, Ryan Herr, Jesse Hendricks, DJ Taz...and all the other super talented producers in this mix:
@kr3ture 
@dirtwire 
@morillomusic 
@scottnice 
@vandelux 
@daily-bread 
@bitskymusic 
@ryanherrmusic 
@tnertle 
@moontricks 
@buttonz00 
@thomasvent 
@inbloom1469 Gravitas-recordings – Koy-nobody-elses 
@keraladust 
@djtazrashid

DRAGONFLY - THE TUMBLEDOWN BLUES (live @ Northern Nights Festival)

Super chill ceremonial music, indigenous voices, languages, sounds and the instrumentation of South America traverse the void between the back of time to the end of now.

Download

DRAGONFLY - KEEPERS OF THE LIGHT (SOLSTICE MEDICINE MIX)

A shoe-gazing, slowed-down deep house mix connoting weightless thoughts and evanescent sounds.

Inspired by the poet Mary Oliver (reading her poem Wild Geese at the intro here).

Tracklisting:
https://soundcloud.com/nils_frahm - Says (Akob remix)
Sakura - ???
https://soundcloud.com/luna-semara - Yul Brynner
https://soundcloud.com/ron-flatter  - White
https://soundcloud.com/djmartinroth - An Analog Guy in a Digital World
https://soundcloud.com/oliverkoletzki- Tankwa Town 
https://soundcloud.com/kimono
Quartz - Crystal (Melokolektiv Edition)
https://soundcloud.com/chapter-24/quartz-crystals-melokolektiv-edition?in=iris-rosin/sets/chapter-24-records-quartz
https://soundcloud.com/thmoy1 - Road to Heaven
https://soundcloud.com/teenage-mutants- Muerte
https://soundcloud.com/daniel-ray  - Dance With a Stranger
https://soundcloud.com/ludovicoeinaudi - Ora ( https://soundcloud.com/sasha-ventura Remix )
https://soundcloud.com/ludovicoeinaudi  - Time ( https://soundcloud.com/hanszimmer Remix)
https://soundcloud.com/kygo - Piano Jam 2

DRAGONFLY - SOUNDS OF THE DEEP NORTH SOLSTICE MIX

Opening set for Lee Scratch Perry/SubAtomic Soundsystem @ Terrapin Crossroads.

pm for tracklisting
props to https://soundcloud.com/jef-stott-embarka for: https://jefstott.bandcamp.com/track/jelem-cantina
and https://soundcloud.com/masaladosa for Dussehra Dub

DRAGONFLY - DUB & FLY (OPENING SET LEE SCRATCH PERRY & SUBATOMIC SOUNDSYSTEM)

This mix is the live portrait of the 120 minutes of sheer community éxtasis we had together. Here it is, as it was.  Hail Sacramento! (Note: The 15-minute ambient warm-up was trimmed out of this recording).

Featuring some of my fav, tried-and-true classic tracks, and tunes by friends:
https://soundcloud.com/govindamusic
https://soundcloud.com/lo-renzo-project
https://soundcloud.com/nominus
https://soundcloud.com/lazysyruporchestra
https://soundcloud.com/clozee
https://soundcloud.com/kareemraihani
https://soundcloud.com/drumspyder
https://soundcloud.com/temple-step-project
https://soundcloud.com/shamansdream
https://soundcloud.com/ganga-giri
https://soundcloud.com/panelectric-music

DRAGONFLY - DANCING WITH THE MYSTIC - SACRAMENTO ECSTATIC DANCE

Beloved Festival. This is Ecstatic. This is Dance.  Prophetically, for the first 15 minutes of the set a large dragonfly swirled and flew above the packed dancefloor...and thus the transformation began.

This is  how it's done; one take, no pre-planned mixes as it evolves as an organic conversation with the dancefloor.

https://www.belovedfestival.com/lineup/music/

DRAGONFLY - BELOVED & ECSTATIC (Beloved Festival 2019)

Part 2: https://soundcloud.com/djdragonfly/tumbleweed-house-prairie-blues

Part 3: https://soundcloud.com/djdragonfly/tumbleweedsoul

Part 4. https://soundcloud.com/djdragonfly/dragonfly-the-tumbledown-blues
Today I crafted this pretty 'n gritty downtempo journey of blues and bass meets Folktronic Americana: Music meandering like the Mississippi and swampy like the bayou,  this grimy grip of downtempo speaks from a snatch of six-string, a chatter of banjos, lonesome  voices and pondering bass lines...

Mad props to all friends/artists on this mix. Please find them, listen to them, support them.
>>>>>>>>>TRACKLISTING:
@Moontricks - Mountains
@Dirtwire - When the Levee Breaks (ft. Sidecar Tommy https://soundcloud.com/sidecartommy)
@Smoovi - Blue Bulbs
@Friend. - New Familiar
https://soundcloud.com/telmini Canned Heat - Going Up The Country (Telmini Edit)
https://soundcloud.com/ecklecticmick King Chubby meets Ecklectic Mick - Keep On (Mississippi Swamp Mix) -
https://soundcloud.com/beat-fatigue - Thongs  Strings 
https://soundcloud.com/oxaka - The Saz
@Kr3ture - Anthropocene
@Dirtwire - Damn Rooster
https://soundcloud.com/the_widdler - Outlaws
https://soundcloud.com/nomagikmusic - Daphne BlueBird & AkizzBeatzz - Who Will Comfort Me (cover: Melody Gardot)
@Gangstagrass - O Death 
@KairoKingdom - Take Me Higher (RDR2)
@ZackaRose - You should have a living
https://soundcloud.com/elmagomusic Anin Misone - Nobody's Fault (EL MAGO EDIT)

dragonfly ……..

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