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Trance, Progressive Trance, Tech Trance, Melodic Techno, Mainstage
I started playing guitar when I was 5 years old as my dad and my oldest brother were playing it too. When I was 10 I also picked up the Alto Saxophone. During Middle school and High School I performed in marching band, jazz band, and orchestra and played many instruments in the process. I also played in several punk rock and thrash metal cover bands during high school and college. It wasn’t until my college days that I discovered EDM music and a Tuesday Techno night at a club in my college town of San Luis Obispo, CA. This was also about the time that trance started to emerge as its own genre, but I instantly fell in love with the driving beats and euphoric breakdowns. It added a good sonic diversity from my punk, trash metal and classical palette yet had an energy that the other music could not evoke for me. Fast forward several decades latter and my children now being musical learners, one of my sons discovered EDM music and all my memories of my techno clubbing days flooded back to me. So, my son and I decide that we were going to make EDM music. Well, it didn’t go well. We didn’t understand the arrangement and technical details so anything we produced was just, well bad. But what we did notice is that the best records we were hearing were from producers who were DJ’s, so we thought if we become good DJ’s it should help us to become good producers. So here I am on my musical production journey, but really fell in love with being behind the decks. I still haven’t produced my first official record, but I will.
Music is a muse that allows us to transcend this mortal plane and affords us to reconnect to the Divine. Since we are all composed of the Divine, it is where our spirits desire to be, so when we encounter the Divine our hearts are euphoric. It reminds us of our own Divinity and it is where we know we truly belong. I enjoy crafting and creating a journey where we have the opportunity to experience this reuniting with Divinity as often as we need. I really enjoy listening to hundreds of new tracks every Friday in preparation for the next journey.
Not so much a track, but a mood/genre….when crafting a journey it’s about setting the right environment and growing from there. I feel this changes depending on me, my maturity and where I am at on my own journey. Lately, I have been finding that melodic house or afro house is setting a good mood/pace to start the journey/party.
So, it actually isn’t my experience but it was my son’s first DJ gig where he got to perform for about 500 of his friends last summer. To see how nervous and excited he was before and then how excited and energized he was after the gig. Just enjoyed sharing that with him more than anything I have done.
Trance hands down. The energy, the positive vibe and its the perfect combination of techno and euphoric breakdowns and angelic vocals.
I can narrow it down to three artists: Ludwig Von Beethoven, Bob Marley and Cliff Burton. Imagine LVB and a DAW, Bob Marley vocals and Cliff Burton bass lines…..a very eclectic trance album.
This is tough, I typically do not repeat songs on any set. Each set is a curated journey of music that is from newly released music from that week. But I do find that when you go from a beautiful trance breakdown and build up to a euphoric drop, always slays.
Have epistemic curiosity, be courageous, put yourself out there and be consistent, your tribe will coalesce but it takes time and patience.