Played an awesome set at my favorite rave church Ruigoord! Landed me the opportunity to play at the big Room in Paradiso with Ballonnenfeest!
Landjuweel, Ruigoord 2024 – Willow Portal’s Cosmic Leakage
We’ve built the willow portal to channel the cosmic leakage of Ruigoord into your body through all of the senses.
It was my pleasure to create a special musical journey into the depths of Saturday night with a blend of mesmerising electronica filled with scintillating vibrations, obscure textures, other-worldly melodies and subtle resonances rooted in the other side of consciousness.
To be honest, this might be one of my favourite sets I’ve ever played. Feeling free to not just play straight bangers, but delving into the more subtle and refined realms of electronic music and using that to create a different kind of blissed out energy on the dance floor, is an absolute blessing!
Ecstatic Dance – Estonian Midsummer – Tallinn
It was my honour to be invited to play the Midsummer Solstice in the beautiful Pirita Cloister ruins in Tallinn, Estonia. I can barely imagine a more suitable location to dance in tribute to the sun.
An open sky, surrounded by the ruined medieval walls: a place to stand with the movements of the past, and evoke them to dance into the future with us.
The perfect starting point for this musical journey was a psalm by Hildegard von Bingen, which I imagine to have been sung here since the cloister opened in 1407: Spiritus Sanctus Vivificans, a song that seems as much an ode to the sun as anything else. From there I wove together the old and the new from all the far flung reaches of the world, following the the lines of the beginning:
The Holy Spirit: living and life-giving,
the life that’s all things moving,
the root in all created being:
of filth and muck it washes all things clean—
out-scrubbing guilty staining, its balm our wounds constraining—
and so its life with praise is shining,
rousing and reviving
all.
Check here for some more pictures of the event: Facebook photo album
Ecstatic Dance – Border Crossings March 2023
The past few weeks one was the new Dune film and the mesmerising score by Hans Zimmer, the exquisite Arabic-French World-Fusion of Bachar Mar-Khalifé, the French weird-pop tech-house of Jacques, Aleksi Perälä’s spaced out deep psychedelia, Photay’s jazzy funk, Dauwd’s warm heart-throb techno, Nadia Struiwigh’s ambient idm and Reda Darwish’s devilishly percussive whirly dervish.
I played variations of this set in Dansunie Deventer, Ecstatic Dance North Groningen and finally at home base Odessa Amsterdam, where this set was recorded. It garnered so much praise there I should upload it here to Soundcloud.
Enjoy!
Ecstatic Dance – Groningen Christmas 2023
From some modern classical ambient and jazz interpretation of classic trip hop tracks, to deep mesmerising techno and funky jazzy bass tracks, moving between the Apalachian mountains, Japan, Bollywood, Warsaw and acid laced Arabian deserts.
Landjuweel 2023 – Wilgenportaal – inphiknight x DJ+ x LY Foulidis
During the day we had lectures, story telling and lovely songs and live music. But I had something special planned for the night, and this is the entire recording of what transpired.
Landjuweel 2023 – Boogie Bos – Stenitz b2b inphiknight
This year we spun the Friday night of the Boogie Bos into a deep rave session for you all to enjoy.
Thank you Stefnitz for being such an amazing co-conspirator, and thank you for letting me host and program one of the nights of the awesome stage you put together for this year’s Landjuweel!
Ruigoord – Maanzin – Easter 2023
The first two tracks of this set were to accompany a heathenish ritual to awaken the springtides in our hearts, the rest an ecclectic rave journey going from techno to breakbeat and drum and bass.
Friday the 13th @ Odessa Amsterdam
Ecstatic Dance Rotterdam: 15 Oktober 2022
This mix contains a wild eclectic ecstatic dance journey with music from Réunion, Japan, India, Egypt, Estonia, Brasil, UK, US, Spain and France, combining styles like Bhangra, Bass, Dub, Dubstep, Drum&Bass, Grime, Juke, Techno, Disco, Hip-Hop, Neo-folk, Jazz, Classical, Breakbeat, Flamenco, Ambient, Tribal.
Rotterdam loved it so much, they wanted to have me back. I will be returning the 31st of december: launching the past year in the air together with all their hearts and feet.