Music

Kai - Bass Juxx

This rowdy mix comes to you courtesy of a recent set in Portland over the holidays.  It contains personally cutting edge meditations on the art of continuity and juxtaposition.  
 
Description and Track Listing coming soon!
 
  • Length: 58:11 minutes (134.46 MB)
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Kai - Sacred Union

Eric and Michelle's Sacred Union

This set came from the night before the ceremony. A perfect pre-ritual musical contemplation, full of flavors smooth and wise, scents and sense of the Divine - a genre so sublimely intoxicating that I can only refer to as... "Electrik Silk"

Drink deep, the nectar flows...

Much Love to Eric and Michelle!

Track listing:

Opening Ceremony - We Are Circling
Azam Ali - Endless Reverie
Govinda - Rumi Love Poem
Thievery Corporation - Satyam Shivam Sundaram
Govinda - Free Now
Martin Tilman - Close To Water
Liquid Stranger - Lotus
Emancipator - Greenland
SaQi - Twilight in Bardo (feat. Kyrstyn Pixton)
Kaya Project - Dark Tabla
Azam Ali - Abode (Bombay Dub Orchestra remix)
Kaya Project - Desert Child
Ott - Mouse Eating Cheese
Kaya Project - Salaam
Govinda - Higher and Higher
Ustad Sultan Khan - Sayaji (Joe Claussell remix)
Emancipator - Safe In The Steep Cliffs
Closing Ceremony - First Kiss in Union

Spirit Tribe Photography

  • Length: 78:20 minutes (180.3 MB)
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Kai - Live @ The Oriental Theatre

Here comes the latest installment of that Eastern Fusion Funk! Back by popular demand!

This mix kicks off with a trance-inducing exotic time signature, courtesy of Kaya Project's musical studies with the desert cultures of the world. From there, we enter a wild, wild whirlwind amongst a trinity of heavy-hitting world fusion producers: Govinda, David Starfire and Radiohiro. My new personal favorite, that I just got my hands on, is Govinda's Universal On Switch, which drops 19 minutes in. After getting our funked-out cultural immersion thoroughly on, we dive into some low-level heat and crank up the bass massage. Gotta let that otherworldly education sink in deeply between the cells and into the nano-nooks of the soul core. A special shoutout to Japan here, keep an ear out for the Zen flavor. After paying our respects, we return back across the Pacific with some western anthem-style dancefloor truth. Finally capping it off with a thick psy number from Bird of Prey.

This set comes to you courtesy of a fundraiser in Denver, Colorado for an upcoming Burning Man installation entitled The Zenith Project. The fundraiser series is called Zenlightenment, and the installation will be a zen garden and meditation dome. Keep an eye out for it, all you playa-bound folk...

"In Every Epoch... The Serpents of Wisdom... Incarnate Themselves
In Order to Teach the People the Laws of the Spirit"

Track listing:

Kaya Project - Desert Phase (Hibernation remix)
Govinda - Paint Ourselves In
David Starfire - Shimla
David Starfire - Flying Carpet
Radiohiro - She's a Bad Girl
Govinda - Universal On Switch
Phutureprimitive - Deeper
David Starfire - Mystic Whomp
Radiohiro - Supernova
Elite Force - Big Dog
Midival Pundits - Tonic (Piyush Bhatnagar remix)
Plastician - Japan
Dubtek, 3rdeye - Expressions
Metric - Twilight Galaxy (Gladkill remix)
Bulletproof, Tiki Taane - Soundtrack To Forever
Nero - Me & You
Bird of Prey - Paradise

Special Thanks to Michael 'Luki' Blank for the rad photography!

  • Length: 58:18 minutes (133.55 MB)
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Kai Shanti presents Angelas de Vegetal

~* Divine Sunrise *~

Dawn of the Light Within
Birth of Radiance
I Am That

  • Length: 12:46 minutes (29.24 MB)
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Kai - Entheon Sunrise Set

This set can only be described as EPIC! It just keeps going and going and going. I basically dove deep into the most beautiful, uplifting, euphoric downtempo I've got, and that turns out to be quite a bit, surprisingly. I received so much love for this set, people were comin up gushing about being lured over from afar, or 'groovin' on it from their tent (good for you! name em Kai), or how they were brought to tears by the end of it. That's the kind of feedback that makes me say things like, "well it looks like I've found my calling" with pure joy and gratitude.

This set arcs in a trajectory, beginning around 100 bpms and climbing up to 110 bpms, where it steadily deepens over the course of a couple hours down to 70 bpms.

Track Listing:

Ott - Rogue Bagel [2008]
Emancipator - Greenland [2010]
Kembwe - Into Wishin [2008]
Liquid Stranger - Lotus [2009]
Rara Avis - Medicine [2007]
Dr. Toast - Which Was the Stronger [2008]
Shulman - The Unexpected Visitor [2003]
Shulman - A Magnificent Void [2003]
Enterprise - Two Cups of Coffee [2006]
Kick Bong - 2 Seasons [2008]
Kaya Project - 65 Percent [2005]
Kaya Project - Desert Phase [2010]
Rara Avis - Post Burn Syndrome [2007]
Govinda - Sanati [2009]
Shen - Causation [2006]
Desert Dwellers - Solar Prayers [2006]
Desert Dwellers - Om Namo Bhagavate [2006]
Michael Franti - Skin on the Drum (Bassnectar Remix) [2002]
Kaya Project - Only the Brave [2004]
Emancipator - Kamakura [2010]
Random Rab - For My Corpse [2008]
Shen - Embrace [2006]
Random Rab - Melt into the Sun [2008]
Random Rab - K'hana [2008]
Phutureprimitive - Luminous [2010]
Phaelah feat. Indi Kaur - Rise
Puff Dragon - Shimmer [2005]
Ott - The Queen of All Everything [2008]

Spirit Tribe Photography

  • Length: 163:12 minutes (373.53 MB)
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Kai - Entheon Peaktime Set

This set is the epitome peak experience of my entire Burn this year, and quite possibly all Burns not only past, but combined. The international fire spinning troupe, the Pyronauts, were performing to live drumming next to the stage when they handed the floor to me. So I was playing this set, accompanied by live drums and with the talent of world class fire spinning rockin it home! 22 piece drum troupe led by Jonah Kai and at least 50+ fire spinners in rotation, so it was a collaborative moment of wild proportions, and there I was at the root of it, hands flying the dials of the sonic spaceship.

This set basically struts it from beginning to end. Its hot, sexy, bangin. The fire's a burnin in this one for sure! It pretty much hovers at 140 bpms the entire time. I threw a hint of glitch and a tiny chunk of crunk into this brew to spice the flavor just right. Crank this one in the car, or any place you can get away with it real loud, and see how stylie and smilin you be arrivin...

Track Listing:

Sub Swara - Koli Stance (David Starfire Remix) [2009]
Liquid Stranger - Hexed and Perplexed [2009]
Kito feat. Reija Lee - LFO [2010]
Stellamara - Prituri Se Planinata (Nit Grit Remix) [2010]
Ellie Goulding - Starry Eyed (Pyramid Remix) [2010]
Dirty Vegas - Days Go By (Mimosa Remix) [2010]
Gaudi - No More Blood [2010]
David Starfire vs Freq Nasty - Baghdad [2010]
Radiohiro - Bol Chande [2010]

  • Length: 31:47 minutes (72.75 MB)
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Kai - Entheon Warmup Set

This set contains my favorite of all time intros. There's a vapour swirling towards you... and when the tablas hit, its like this timeless intelligence from far beyond the veil appears to bless you with its presence.

This set overall is smooth, melodic, feminine, subtle, sensual, dubby, gentle, with just enough drive to charm the serpent fire into movement. It starts around 80 bpms and gradually climbs to 110 bpms. The sweat was just ripe enough on the dance floor to be glistening in the pores, by the time this puppy was done. Plus, the glitched out sitar towards the end is an extra special treat.

Track listing:

Alex Theory - Oasis [2009]
Liquid Stranger - Lotus [2009]
Alex Theory - In The Deep [2009]
Govinda - Use To Go [2009]
Niyaz - Ishq Love and the Veil [2008]
Govinda - Om Tare [2009]
Terra Nine - No Return (Ott Remix) [2010]
Anoushka Shankar & Karsh Kale - Slither [2008]
Rabbit in the Moon - Dubassex [1993]

  • Length: 35:31 minutes (81.31 MB)
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Kai - Smoke & Mirrors, Shadow & Flame

Where there is Smoke, there is Flame.
Illuminating Mirrors of Shadow.

A heavy dose of in-your-face bass-droppin wicked madness. For listeners at the archetypal intersection of 'alchemical warrior' meets 'bass junkie'.

An unabashedly frightening exposé of the glorification of some seriously twisted human culture. Transmuting lead to gold, one twitch at a time!

Shadowy Mirrors.
Smoke the Flame.

Track Listing:

16bit - The Tale of the Exploding Fist
Reso - Holograms
Nero - Bad Trip
Skism - The Blank
Murs and Chase & Status - Mad House
The Prodigy - Breathe (Numbernin6 remix)
Metallica - Seek & Destroy (Bassnectar remix)
Amanda Blank - Might Like You Better (Vaski remix)
Simian Mobile Disco - Cruel Intentions (Joker remix)
Distance - Night Vision (Skream remix)
Plan B - No Good (Chase & Status and Beni G remix)

"Theatre of Cruelty" by Stephanie Edmark

  • Length: 31:14 minutes (71.5 MB)
  • Format: MP3 Stereo 48kHz 320Kbps (CBR)

Kai - The Fabric

Do you remember the experience of being in class, and involuntarily drifting into the dreamtime, and dropping your pencil? And for that split second in the dreamtime, whole cosmic time spans unfolded? Yet in waking reality the pencil had merely left your hand and hit the floor?

What a mystery!

I submit to you, dear beloveds, a gateway. A vibrational key, in the sense of unlocking mysteries, and also in the musical sense. I humbly offer the ability to *voluntarily* drop into the dreamtime, through vibration and entrainment, if you wish. And be held in lucidity ever so gently.

This gem draws upon the drones of two ancient lineages. Indian and Australian Aborigine. Two ancient technologies. The Tambura and the Didgeridu.

A background soundtrack for deep practice.

Without further adieu...

"Back To The Burning Dreamtime" by Jeff Wood

  • Length: 23:30 minutes (53.8 MB)
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Kai - Call of the Future Mystic

The Soaring Mystic
Traveling Ever Present
Ceaselessly Piercing
The Illusion of Time

Sacred Innovation

Tracklisting:

Stellamara - Prituri Se Planinata (Nit Grit remix)
Liquid Stranger feat. Deeyah - Hexed and Perplexed
Bassnectar feat. Nelly Furtado - Magical World
Dirty Vegas - Days Go By (Mimosa remix)

"Tantric Marriage" by George Atherton

  • Length: 18:05 minutes (41.4 MB)
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Journeymen - Veil ad Venturia

Gratitude to Hummingbird.
Ancient Ones, Ancestors.
You who have Yet to Come.
The North.
Thank you for the Sweet Song of Knowledge.
Thank you for Lighting the Way.

Soundtrack to the story about Nelson Mandela:
Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan - Sea of Vapours

"One Heart's Journey" by KA Kathryn June

  • Length: 26:16 minutes (60.13 MB)
  • Format: MP3 Joint ster 48kHz 320Kbps (CBR)

Kai - Possibility's Parable

How much beauty can one handle for an extended period?
Let's find out.

Gentle groovin' guidance through sensitive subconscious spaces.
Perfect for deep medicine expeditions and creative trance marathons.

Fertile wonderlands await your arrival...

Inspired by Stephanie Edmark.

Track Listing:

Iron & Wine and Calexico - Burn That Broken Bed
Massive Attack - Teardrop
Telefon Tel Aviv - What It Was Will Never Again
Nine Inch Nails - A Warm Place
Kaya Project - Under The Spell
Andrew Stoltz & Jeremy Bleich - Daya
Welder - Purple & Orange
Puff Dragon - Sazanami
Tripswitch - Tomahna
Desert Dwellers - Dragon's Mist
Elemental Journey - The Band From Atlantis
Tripswitch - Tachyon
Kaya Project - Good Morning London
Mystical Sun - River Goddess

"Tiger Rosey" detail by Andrew Jones

  • Length: 75:26 minutes (69.06 MB)
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Kai - Sweet Annihilation

Seductively, she smiles... astride her tiger.
Durga, destroyer of ego - she's gonna get ya!

Go ahead boy, stalk the mystery.
"Yea! I'm gonna let her see, how much she means to me."

Just remember boy... before you explode into sparks of light,
There is no worship without sacrifice.

Track Listing:

Doctor P - Sweet Shop
Emalkay - When I Look At You (Sduk Remix)
Boy Crisis - Dressed to Digress (Nero Remix)
Kid Sister - Pro Nails (Rusko Remix)
Datsik & Excision - Swagga
Foreign Beggars, DJ Primecuts - Hit That Gash (Itchy Naaan Re-Rub)
La Roux - I'm Not Your Toy (Nero Remix)
Nneka - Heartbeat (Chase & Status Remix)
Chromeo - Night by Night (Skream Remix)
Blue Foundation - Eyes on Fire (Zeds Dead Remix)
Brittany Spears - Womanizer (Borgore Remix)
Chase & Status feat. Plan B - Pieces
Shimon & Sparfunk - Cold Killa (Sub Focus Remix)

Spirit Tribe Photography

  • Length: 43:30 minutes (99.56 MB)
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Kai - Sitka's Sieve

Dreamwalker of the Medicinal Path. Kundalini Charmer. Sensualite.

Produced with a hand drum, vibraphone, didgeridu, breathwork, and speaking in tongues. Recorded in mono.

"Its like taking a shower and letting Water wash your third ear."

For an invigorating exercise, breathe along. Feel into the inhale and vocally express pleasure in the exhale... Notice how relaxed and charged your body feels after just a few minutes of this. Make sure to drink water!

  • Length: 4:17 minutes (7.86 MB)
  • Format: MP3 Stereo 48kHz 256Kbps (CBR)

Kai - Sophia

Belly Dancer Enchantress. Gypsy Wanderer. Goddess of Wisdom. Grooves to Mesmerize.

Track Listing:

Herbalizer - Something Wicked This Way comes
Alex Theory - 165 Star Oasis
Hamsa Lila - Full Moon Flow
Niyaz - Arezou
Bassnectar & Kraddy - Snakecharmer
Thievery Corporation - Mandala
Adham Shaikh - Belly Dancer

NagaSita - Spirit Tribe Photography

  • Length: 29:38 minutes (40.71 MB)
  • Format: MP3 Stereo 44kHz 192Kbps (CBR)

Kai & Heskin - Galactic Lone Ranger for a Brave New World

Behold the fastest Acoustic String Quick Draw in the West Side of the Galaxy!

This number comes out of nowhere, and before you know it, all that's left is a curiously vague memory about a shadowy ranger with a brimmed hat and a guitar...

Spirit Tribe Photography

  • Length: 11:04 minutes (10.14 MB)
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Kai & Heskin - Experimental Soundscapes

Intrepid traveling thru alien corridors of spectral light.

"Podular Manifestation" by XAVI

  • Length: 12:48 minutes (23.45 MB)
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David Heskin - Dream Time

A master of the arts, yet infinitely humble. This live session will gently tug at your heart strings, honoring a devotion to the soft beauty of blossoming. Warm your favorite flavor of tea, relax, and soak in the sweet feeling of being treated royally.

David Heskin is Newskin Studio.

"Fractal Feline Filigree" by Luke Brown.

  • Length: 12:20 minutes (22.59 MB)
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Kai - Cellular Harmoniks

A soothing and ultra relaxing journey into purely harmonic being... with some of the finest "effortless groove" to bring you back to waking consciousness.

Track Listing:

Lama Gyurme - Hope for Enlightenment
Kimba Arem - Spiral Ebb
Sheila Chandra - Abonecronedrone 2
Kaya Project - Always Waiting

"Islands in the Sky" by Mark Henson

  • Length: 26:02 minutes (59.59 MB)
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Kai - Olivia

She's dying for a peek at the other side...

Track listing:

Massive Attack - Angel
Tool - Wings For Marie (Part 1)
Unkle - Lonely Soul
Thievery Corporation - Heaven's Gonna Burn Your Eyes

"Vajra Being" by Alex Grey

  • Length: 22:47 minutes (41.72 MB)
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Kai - Sunny

Nothin' but Sunshine and Butterflies!

Track Listing:

Nventa - Two Reasons To Be Shai
Rena Jones - Driftwood
Norah Jones - Day Is Done
Michael Franti & Spearhead - Love'll Set Me Free
311 - Love Song
Willy Porter - Falling Forward
Karma Sutra - Prana
Kan'Nal - Dreamwalker

Spirit Tribe Photography

  • Length: 38:16 minutes (35.03 MB)
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Kai - Three Gateways

Mythically empatterned in this sonic weaving are Three Gateways. The first gateway is Initiation and begins with the instruction "the first few minutes will be very disorienting, remember to stay calm and focus." Following takeoff will be contact with a guru, and insight into the nature of self-awareness. Once we've stabilized your rhythms, your awareness feedback cycle will begin to approach itself (I AM that I AM that I AM), and when this engagement happens we pull out the rhythm phasing mechanism and let you drift off and expand out.

Welcome to the frontier of the second gateway. Enter the Void. Remember to breathe deeply, the deeper the better... A stairway of notes will appear gradually over time to greet your every step. As we ride the spiral together, the stairway will dissolve: allow yourself to float into dreamspace. From here, we reintroduce the rhythm stabilizing sequence to guide you safely along. If this movement begins to feel alien, this is a good sign, we are establishing pathways to the far parts of your psyche seldom traversed, where another stargate awaits. As we approach this last gateway, a chorus of angel and seraphim welcome us, and warn us.

This last gateway is guarded by a dragon, and this passing requires of us to sacrifice our life. To share our blood. This is the final battle, with the boundary of ourselves. This dragon is a mythical reflection of our perceived capacity. As we choose to sever our boundaries and pass through the last gateway, we begin our final journey. Return to Source. Deep, ancient and original. Voices within voices within voices. We transform inside out and become One, again. Golden rays of brilliance in all directions. Let us be worthy of another life... Enter the sunlit road of rhythm, the path to a new birth of our choosing. As we walk this path, prayers of rain shower down upon us, and we begin to grow again with the waters of new life.

Track Listing:

Phutureprimitive - Rites of Passage
Shpongle - Around The World In A Tea Daze (Ott Remix)
Capsula - I Know That I Know
Kimba Arem - Sacred Circling
Rabbit in the Moon - Out of Body Experience (Live)
Tipper - Whomi
Tipper - Rotundus Maximus
Dead Can Dance - The Host of Seraphim
Rabbit in the Moon - Hokus Pokus
Kimba Arem - Nganana Tjunguringanyi
Bluetech - Worthy
Vibrasphere - Manzanilla
Bluetech - Prayers For Rain (J. Views Remix)

  • Length: 65:17 minutes (59.77 MB)
  • Format: MP3 Stereo 44kHz 128Kbps (CBR)

Kai - Hand Swat Science

You know the drill.

Track Listing:

Edit - Straight Heat
Tipper - Off Kilter
Bassnectar - Ridiculous Wobble

"Temple / Boom" detail by Andrew Jones

  • Length: 11:51 minutes (21.71 MB)
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Living Mandala - Aloha Aina

This gem showcases a moment in flight, unveiling a glimpse of activated lightship status on the Big Island of Hawaii early in 2008. Recorded in stereo. A portal indeed. Levity on the guitar, Lindy Kehoe on flute, with joyous laughter ringing out in the air. Deep Mahalo to the Aina (Thanks to the Land-ing).

"Mother Earth" by David Hewson.

  • Length: 6:26 minutes (5.89 MB)
  • Format: MP3 Stereo 44kHz 128Kbps (CBR)