Every year, our camp, “The Monks of Funk,” puts on it’s annual gathering: “Wednesday Night Worship.” This is a night when the various microcosms of Burning Man that comprise our community unite under an unspoken camaraderie. We look at it one of two main homecoming events (the other being Short Stack’s Tutu Tuesday.) 


This year, everything came together so perfectly that it felt like a showcase of every single Monk’s talents. The Dance Church was renovated this year by Trip, Chris, Thomas, and Marko with flaming flying buttresses creating space where people could interact without competing with the sound - a perfect balance between revelry and relaxation. Golden chandeliers, warm white lighting, and Rob’s psychedelic visual projection art completed the feeling. On the dancefloor, an upgraded soundsystem filled the entire church with a punchy, warm choons.


Behind the decks, Maryna made her first ever appearance DJ debut, opening up the night with a slow-motion techno and house set that had everyone moving - and asking who was playing. Next was an energetic, exuberant, uplifting house set from fellow Monk, Alex Lee, a new face this year who got everybody's hands up in the air and feet off the ground. SkyFish followed up by plunging into the deep and resolving with a melodic and dreamy bookend. Afterwards, Ben Gleitzman brought it home with a melange of house, disco, funk, R&B and hip hop - so good that the crowd wouldn’t let him leave before three encore tracks (and two sticks of Palo Santo).


What really stands out each year about Wednesday Night Worship is how beautifully present and alive the night is for us. Expectations are often so central to people’s burning man experience. You spend 358 days out of the year thinking of what you’re going to build, do, try, and experience at next year’s burn - and yet sometimes, letting go of expectations is what opens you up to the most unforgettably magical experiences.


Likewise, most of the year, our curated sonic journeys, gatherings, thematic storylines, and workshops really represent what we’re trying to do overall with the SkyFish project. We’re not ‘just DJs’ in the traditional sense - for every hour spent behind the decks, we spend 15-20 more hours planning everything that goes on during our gatherings. Yet on Wednesday Night Worship, we go into it with zero expectations and no advance planning of what or how we’re going to play. We perform as an open channel between the crowd's energy and our love of music, fully encompassing our three core principles: music, nature, human interaction. And every year, it’s better than the last.

Photo: Skyler Greene
Album Artwork Design: Rob Wadleigh

Monks of Funk - Wednesday Night Worship

SkyFish DJ Set • Burning Man 2016 Wednesday Night Worship

• dj ⋆ event curator ⋆ magic maker ⋆ groovez 🔮
• @inquiry-records * events lead / team mom
• breaks - house - techno - minimal - garage - dnb
• san francisco | san diego | bouncin' around

• other things n' stuff with @icarus_art_car @dusty-rhino-1 @yourewelcome-sf @dancewithhaha

• bookings: gofortorie [at] gmail 
• livestreams: twitch.tv/yotorieee

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Torie’s sound is multifaceted – to say the least. Coming from a global upbringing and current home base in the San Francisco Bay Area, she has been curating sonic adventures as a DJ and event producer for a decade. Torie interweaves elements of breakbeats, house, minimal, dark & driving techno, garage, acid, and drum and bass – balancing a line between heavy-hitting basslines and soulful vocals with ear-catching melodies.

She believes in the power of groove and always plays with one core intention in mind: to bring newfound life to the dancefloor.

– (she lives by the ethos of "i'm just here to play music & do cool shit with my friends").

As a core lead of Inquiry Collective and Inquiry Records, a builder & maker with Burning Man art cars ICARUS and Dusty Rhino, a resident DJ of You’re Welcome SF, and a co-founder of Dance With Haha, Torie draws inspiration from the dusty plains of the playa, the curious explorations of the Mojave desert, the underground dancefloors of SF, & the interstellar endeavors of ICARUS & its motley crew.

Torie has performed with KiNK, Superflu, Justin Martin, Overmono, Maya Jane Coles, Smilk, Anja Schneider, Tale of Us, Patrice Baumel, Marbs, Mikey Lion, Porky and Evan Casey, Rinzen, Dance Spirit, Eskuche, Marques Wyatt, Tycho, KMLN, Sabo, Justin Jay, Hoj, Kevin Knapp, Shiba San, Joeski and more. 

You may have also seen her with renowned crews like Space Cowboys, Distrikt, Ego Trip, and Desert Hearts – at the annual Breakfast of Champions block party on New Year’s Day for six consecutive years – or on the festival circuit at events including Lightning in a Bottle, Outside Lands, EDC Las Vegas, Northern Nights, Desert Hearts, The Untz Festival, Umbrella Weekend, Enigma, and Outside in Equinox. 

In 2025, you can find Torie throwing renegades and pop-ups with the Inquiry crew across California in clubs, deserts, undisclosed locations and beyond… as well as performing in SF, SD, Reno, LA and more.

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SkyFish : Skyler Greene & James Fish

Hi, we're SkyFish.
Our intent: to explore the intersection of nature, science, and the creativity of human expression through music. To create new experiences for people in natural environments. To make you think, feel, and dance. Come with us - there's so much we have to explore together.

The road to nowhere leads to now here.
Cosmic sonic explorations to ambient worldscapes to operating system upgrades from bassy glitch dubs.

Hello, I’m Skyler Greene, 
1/2 of SkyFish


Exposed in San Francisco
Developed in Berlin
Printed in LA

live electronic music with soul
www.jamesfishmusic.com
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past:
Resonance Showcase, 90mil, Berlin
COMMON GROUND Festival 2023
Lusatia Festival 2023
[DJ] Burner Sauna @ Studio dB //Berlin, DE
[DJ] Naked Tea Party //Berlin, DE
[Live] Wilde 13 //Hamburg, DE
[DJ] //In Touch Festival 2022
[Live] Ma'Ma Analog //Landau, DE
[DJ] Underworld //Kiezburn 2022
[Live] Musotopia //Kiezburn 2022
[Live] @ Chigal Festival 2022
[Live] @ Herzberg 2022
[DJ] Zum Brennenden Bären 2022 (CANCELLED)
[Live] @ 57 Grand //Brooklyn, NY
[Live] Public Works with Acid Pauli, Nicola Cruz //SF, CA
[DJ] Zum Brennenden Bären 2020
[Live] Sagrada Feminina //Garbicz 2018
[DJ] @ Hedone Seminar 2018
[DJ] Mystik Hedoné @KitKat //Berlin, 2018
[DJ] Sagrada Feminina //Garbicz 2017
[DJ] PantherRave @Beate Uwe //Berlin, 2017
[DJ] )'( that thing in the desert //2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018
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Booking requests: booking@james.fish