Alixir DJ Collective

ALIA

ALIA is an Electronic Music Producer, DJ, Vocalist, and Producer of the Feminine Medicine™ Project based in the San Francisco area. Inspired by the global bass movement and the West Coast festival scene, ALIA's music is an evocative, lush journey into her own blend of bass-heavy electronic dance beats, melodic frequencies, gorgeous feminine voices, conscious lyrics, and sacred psychedelic textures. Described as feminine and fierce, elegant and gritty, ethereal and primal, her music offers a vast emotional and danceable landscape that unfolds in a pulsing, hypnotic journey that moves both bodies and hearts. She has performed at Wanderlust, Envision, Lucidity, Enchanted Forest, Beloved, and Imagine Festivals.

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AguaMayyim

AguaMayyim is a collaborative music project between Rose and Franky Garcia, born out of their deep love for the healing power of sound. Franky has been a DJ and music producer for over 20 years. He has traveled the world playing festivals and shared the stage with artists such as Tipper, Bluetech, OTT, and more. With a movement and art background, his selections inspire creative flow. Rose is a DJ, sound healer, singer, and musician whose passion for music began at the age of 2 when she would freestyle rhythmic poetry to her parents. Rose believes music, sound, and especially our voices are some of the most potent healing tools we have. Expect to be taken on a rhythmic, sonic journey through melodic deep bass, medicine, tribal, tropical, organic, international, afro rhythms, booty-shaking beats, and hip-hop.

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BOOGIEMEISTER

Boogiemeister has been involved in the music and dance scene for over 18 years. His "Remix The Earth" project is taking him around the globe to share elements of Afro-Latin-Brazilian-Indian-Arabic fusions of post- modern whompiness.He has played at Ecstatic Dances, underground gatherings and festivals including Symbiosis, Shambhala and Burning Man. Both a producer and band member (guitar/synths), music has always been a central part of his life. He has opened up for Dirtwire, Gaudi, David Starfire, Nickodemus, Afrolicious, Funk Hunters, Bluetech and more. He plays styles ranging from Global Bass, House, Future Funk, Electro-Swing, Downtempo, Dub and mixes that defy rhythm and gravity, tempos and time.

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Brotha Jag

Brotha Jag ( Isaac Williams ) is cofounder and producer of events in Sacramento, CA including Ecstatic Dance Midtown - Sacramento, and In The House. He supports an emerging community that cultivates wellness through music and dance events. Brotha Jag plays music for the people to dance to ... pure and simple! He leans into "feel good music" - empowered music that touches places on the inside. Brotha Jag curates a sonic journey that tells a story for you to be the main character in! Sets include afro-house among many sub genres of house, disco, funk, remixed oldies and classics, electronic dance music, and much more. His musical discernment is guided primarily by heart resonance. If it tickles the heart strings in some way, it may find a way into a dance journey.

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Cornflower

Cornflower’s sound emerges from the moment connecting you to your Soul. His voice calls us deeper into Presence utilizing modern mantra-like lyrics upon a landscape of vocal loops, he builds layers and dimensions of harmony and groove like a sonic tapestry into an anthemic chant to set your body ablaze in movement and prayer. With influences ranging from Phish to Michael Jackson, Al Jarreau to Björk, Cornflower’s music is a mix of experimental vocal soul, world-funk, jam & electronica layered over a delicate balance of structure and improvisation.

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DJ DZ

DJ DZ’s music features an eclectic mix of styles including funk, EDM, pop, trap, dub, tribal and everything in between. Dan hosts the Sunday Dance in San Rafael and The East Bay Community Dance in Oakland. Dan is widely recognized in the San Francisco bay area as being one of the most in-demand pianists around. He has performed at many of the SF's finest venues including Yoshi's, SF Jazz, Freight & Salvage, Piedmont Piano, Fillmore Jazz Festival, SF Jazz Festival, San Jose Jazz Festival. Dan has done extensive touring/recording with musicians like blues legend John Lee Hooker, jazz alto saxophone icon Lee Konitz (from Miles Davis' Birth of the Cool), Grammy Award winning violinist Mads Tolling and more. He also won the 14th IMA Independent Music Award for Best Jazz w/Vocals album.

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Dakini

DJ Dakini is globally renowned for her refined ear and impeccable taste. An underground festival culture pioneer, she has been a pivotal part of global electronic music festival culture. Dakini specializes in a diversity of genres and is a true curator of dancefloor journeys - from bass music to medicine house. Originally from Australia, and having played all over the world, she is known to move any dancefloor with an infectious deep bassline and tribal sounds at festivals such as: Envision Festival, Eclipse Gathering, Symbiosis Gathering, Lightning In A Bottle, Burning Man, Rainbow Serpent Festival, Shambhala and more.

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Drez

Drez transforms the vibe of any scene his sound is set upon. Rooted in underground L.A. hiphop, Dr. EZ applies precise turn-table skills to a cutting edge vision for truly universal music, intelligently integrating elements of hiphop, world music, soul, funk, jazz, and reggae into his trademark sound and production. A master of his craft in the studio and on stage, Drez cuts and composes profoundly original tracks that facilitate body movement practice of all forms— be it dance, yoga asana or after-hours intimate/ecstatic.

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Fllow

Fllow is a musician and inspired vocalist on a mission to spread joy and positivity through music. A seasoned DJ, his Tribal EDM Bass music sets have brought inspiration to listeners for years. As well as leading ecstatic dances around the globe, he has opened for Zion I, Bassnectar, Ahee and collaborates with cutting-edge producers like Volo and Momentology. He also shares his music at electronic festivals and transformational retreats around the globe. Fllow and his partner Lummingbird lay live vocals over a mix of Conscious Hip-Hop and Bass music. Together they incorporate original songs and live poetry into their sets that will open your heart, and uplift your soul.

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Geometrae

Geometrae is a visionary music producer and tribal dance floor DJ based in California, USA. Dancers are guided on a journey into their embodied expression through the use of Earthly beats, deep bass lines, world instrumentation, and distinct sound design. Geometrae grounds the intention that each tempo, key, beat and tone are gateways for our soul’s evolution. When we meet these elements with our intentional and unique dance, we unlock our spirit into realms of unbounded bliss and coherence. Geometrae has graced many festival stages and shared the spotlight with many artists, including Atyya, Kalya Scintilla, Symbolico, Plantrae, Skysia, Dimond Saints, and many more.

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Izzy Wise

Hailing from San Francisco, Izzy Wise is a multi-instrumentalist and DJ who produces eclectic dance music that bounces from West Africa to the West Indies, and all points in between. For more than a decade Wise cut his teeth in SF, DJing at parties including Afrolicious and venues including The Independent, Monarch and 1015 Folsom. His pursuit for unique rhythms and melodies has led him to the jungles of Nicaragua and fabled islands lost in the Caribbean Sea. Wise releases music on imprints like Délicieuse Records, Lips & Rhythm and Mule Musiq. His original output reflects a well-blended taste of disco, boogie, funk and house. Wise also plays live with a variety of instruments that he works into his energetic performances. His sets are best described as funky underground ethnomusicology courses with hypnotic grooves.

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J Brave

J Brave’s greatest gift has always been to bring people together. As a former counselor for homeless and at-risk youth, he learned the importance of service, and now sees his music as a means to inspire. He is an MC, poet, rapper, songwriter, DJ, and storyteller. In addition, as visionary of Benevolence events, he curates diverse gatherings celebrating through music, movement, and transformative arts. J Brave founded the Hip Hop collective the Luminaries, has toured internationally, Ecstatic Dance DJ, and Keys Of Kreation community and Actualize retreats. He is most proud of being a father of his beautiful children Simunye and Numi.

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Jesse Klein

Jesse Klein is a producer, live instrumentalist, and DJ based in Northern California. His deep love and years of experience in partner dance, fusion, contact improv, east coast/west coast swing, cha cha, waltz, nightclub two step, and many other dance modalities lend his sets an inspired flow that encourages the listeners to express their authentic movement and feelings. He draws from 25 years of experience as a trained musician. He has collaborated and performed with The Polish Ambassador, Mose, Wildlight, Ayla Nereo, and many others. Expect to be taken on a journey through deep bass, sexy dripping beats, ambient dub, world fusion, foot stomping jams, cinematic epics, and heart opening ballads. Jesse creates space for deep journeying through the art of dance—for fun, playfulness and connection.

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JesseM

Starting as a crate-flipping hip-hop vinyl DJ, JesseM honed his feel for what amongst his confined sonic-toolbox could bring spirits to move. Transitioning to digital, JesseM's taste for melodic house soon sprouted. Recently, JesseM formed De-La House - a renegade dance party for judgement free expression. Through 65+ weekly outdoor events JesseM played fresh tracks arranged to lift spirits and create community. Having tasted a healthy portion of the modern musical buffet, JesseM has formed a unique style that combines melodic detours, grounded thumps and playful levity. A dancer at heart, JesseM is known to sprinkle in a few self-produced tracks to keep the body moving even when the mind thinks it has it all figured out.

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John La Note

John La Note offers mixes that will let you sweat out all your worries and go safely into a variety of emotions & sounds from all over the world. His mission is to help your stomping feet weave new patterns with the sacred love of our Pacha Mama. He regularly DJ for his own community in France, for Ecstatic Dance Zürich, Switzerland and as well as touring to many other European locations to play Ecstatic Dance sets.

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K-Luh

K-Luh’s musical journeys explore polarizing energies and everything in between, honoring masculine and feminine, light and dark. From hair-raising vocals to dirty bass-lines her sets consist of bass, trap, world, house, hip-hop, pop and R&B infused with soulful, sexy, and trippy undertones. As a dancer, K-Luh's selections are designed to activate various parts of the body and inspire new and funky ways to wiggle.

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Kompass

Kompass (Nolan Watt) is a multi-instrumentalist, producer and ecstatic dance DJ from Northern California. His original productions weave sound from across the globe, fusing live instruments with down/mid tempo grooves. For live sets, listeners can expect sounds of global bass, ethno/tribal house and world rhythms - a diverse sonic landscape for dancers to explore and immerse into deep, ecstatic inspiration. Nolan is a graduate from the Berklee College of Music where he double majored in film scoring and electronic production & design.

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Leapin' Lygress

Leapin’ Lygress roams far and wide in the jungles of sound, hunting beats, breaks, and melodies served from the heart to move your body and soul. Her ecstatic dance sets feature an eclectic array of organic and electronic music woven into a tapestry intended to explore the full spectrum of human expression. She is a dancer’s dj, having been an ecstatic dancer since she discovered the form at Kalani Honua on the Big Island of Hawaii in 2007. Leapin’ Lygress offers a ferociously fun ride that will awaken the wild creature within and leave you with a deep appreciation for the magic of movement in community.

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Liquid Love Drops

Liquid Love Drops weaves hypnotic and enchanting sounds and entrancing patterns. She shakes booties with her vibrant skills as a soundtrack selectress combined with her own ear worm bass heavy mixes. As a professional artist, music producer and dj, she’s shared the stage as an opening or closing act for Glitch Mob, Little Dragon, Thievery Corporation, Balkan Bump, An-ten-nae, Kalya Scintilla, Random Rab, Attya, and more, at prestigious venues including the SF Bill Graham Concert Hall, Temple, SF SoundFactory and 1015 Folsom and festivals such as the Oregon Eclipse, Enchanted Forest, Burning Man, Raindance, and Envision Festival.

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Lo.Renzo

Lo.Renzo is a multi-instrumentalist and music therapist based in Italy who combines global bass music with the voice of the Sarangi, a bowed instrument from north India. He has released music on Merkaba music, Desert Trax and Outtallectuals and has collaborated with artists like Kaya Project, Marya Stark, Pedra Branca, Halfred and many more. Lo.Renzo is active in several projects including a folktronica project which has collaborated with artists like Liquid Bloom, Porangui, Mose and more. His live set will lead us through a unique journey moving from dreamlike atmospheres to strong world fusion beats.

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Maya Light

Maya Light loves to dive into the depths of connection and expression through the unique and captivating conversation that is awakened on the dance floor. She plays as a director of the human experience, offering countless pathways and possibilities of movement through the range of diverse music she shares. Drawn to deliciously wompy, heart-bass world beats, she encourages a rich exploration with a dynamically nourishing and inspiring journey of sound. Arrive, re-discover your curiosity, and allow the music to deeply touch and move you. Let what is flowing through your body and soul be fully expressed.

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Merav

DJ Merav picks you up and sets you in the groove captivated with delicious selections of styles over flavorful depths of layered dance genres. Passionate and professional, DJ Merav's turntable prowess has never disappointed her audience. Hypnotized by her sound, poise and widespread appeal, with a style and sound of her own, DJ Merav got her start on radio shows and hosted her own slot on 90.3 FM Honolulu. She has toured for events and guest appearances along the West Coast, Canada and Israel as well as a regular for hot spots in Hawaii and California. A dancer and a DJ, Merav nourishes her insatiable love for creating Ecstatic Dance journeys. Her fans enjoy her versatility, energy, ear for music, and ability to blend genres.

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NAOBA

Tamara Montenegro, also known as NAOBA, is a pioneer sound artist, singer & DJ who leads the organic downtempo and global bass scene in Centroamérica and represents ancestral and multicultural music on the world stage. NAOBA is ceremony, ethnomusicology and world music fusion interwoven with deep global beats, conscious hip-hop and driving grooves for the modern dancer’s soul. Her musical journeys conjure expansive, multicultural universes to have dance floors with no boundaries, dreaming deep into the rainforest illuminated by ceremonial fires. Her musical and somatic offering draws knowledge from ancient frequencies and instrumentation, mesoamerican shamanism and earth-rooted spiritual practices.

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Neptune

For over 30 years Neptune has been an avid collector of tunes across the entire musical spectrum, compiling one of the most vast and eclectic collections in the world. He has mastered the art of reading the room and crowd. He reaches into his musical pallet to play the perfect music for the moment with no limits on style or genre. As a Sonic Shaman, Neptune transforms people as he guides dancers into their bodies, awakening emotions, and calling upon their spirits. He creates a musical map of the soul’s evolution.

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Presencia

Presencia's aim is to create medicinal journeys for us to move to and remind us all of our Divinity. The name "Presencia" comes from her strong internal value to remain present in every life moment and creative process, including creating musical journeys. Her musical curation has been inspired by the west coast bass and eclectic music scene she grew up in, her years living and teaching in Central and South America, yoga, and nature. Chelsea began her ecstatic dance journey in Mountain View, CA.

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Rabellion

DJ-Singer-Producer Rabellion combines original music and live vocals within her DJ sets to offer a unique dance journey filled with love, Latin vibes, deep bass, music medicine, reiki and lots of energy. Resident DJ at Ecstatic Dance Valencia in Spain, and originally from Puerto Rico, she has been touring since early 2022. She loves to take people on a deep journey of dance, catharsis, transformation, healing, love, joy, community and self-expression.

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Rachel Jordana

Dr. Rachel Jordana Horodezky, Psy.D is a Licensed Clinical Psychologist and Certified 5Rhythms Teacher. In her teaching, she incorporates music and intentional guidance to evoke trance, emotional process and deep healing. She lives in Santa Cruz, California where she has a full-time private practice and two rambunctious little boys. She teaches movement workshops nationally and internationally.

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Radiance

Nina, aka Radiance, weaves big beats and sacred sound to craft ecstatic dance and somatically-sensitive movement meditation. A certified Ecstatic Dance DJ, conscious dancer, and certified meditation teacher, Radiance composes a range of deeply grounded experiences, from sacred, heart-opening journeys to deep groove thumping bass sets.

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Roaming Sunshine

With intention and love, Roaming Sunshine weaves global sonic dance journeys for ecstatic dance and other conscious movement spaces.

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SOOHAN

To know the music of SOOHAN (Stephen Suchan) is to be flooded with a rush of the vague and familiar: nostalgia meets unique and unknowable, as he deftly weaves worldwide influences into a dance floor and festival-ready settings. SOOHAN’s signature interpretation of dance music ignores borders, favoring a shared community dance floor experience that enthusiastically exposes audiences to new musical territory with every performance. Starting in Baltimore, SOOHAN has taken off as an identity in global dance floor fusion, effortlessly combining diverse rarities with familiar 808s and basslines. SOOHAN has toured at Envision, Lightning In A Bottle, Symbiosis, and Burning Man. With seven albums, five million streams, and a DJ mix series with Global Bass Radio, SOOHAN has hit his stride. Cultivating an appreciation for music, driving a direct line to the celebration of global culture, and bringing people together in rapturous dance remain in SOOHAN’s sights everywhere he goes.

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Sasha Rose

Sasha combines elements from her decades of musical experience to offer an innovative artistic expression. Her popularity with spiritually focused dance crowds comes from her unique hybridization of original production featuring live vocals and flute with carefully selected tracks. Her performances flow from celestial grooves to tribal world rhythms to down tempo dance dub to collective ascensions to higher realms. Sasha has taken her live solo electronic show to festivals throughout the US including Symbiosis, Beloved Festival, Earthdance, Sonic Bloom, Enchanted Forest, Raindance Campout, Photosynthesis, and many more. She has guested with several electronic artists including Random Rab, Vibesquad, Mimosa, Anasia, Zilla, Eoto, J.Boogie, Lafa Taylor, Jamie Janover, Lynxand and others.

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Scott Nice

Informed by his personal healing journey Northern California producer Scott Nice brings a union of electronic and acoustic sounds to both move the body and feed the soul. Indigenous prayers and hand drums are a hallmark of Scott's sound while the juxtaposition of his hip-hop turntablist roots create a one-of-a-kind dance journey. Since 2016 Scott has released 6 full length albums working with many amazing collaborators such as El Buho, Mose, Alex Serra, The Polish Ambassador, Ayla Nereo, Wildlight, Uji, Yemanjo, Volo, Equanimous, and many more.

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Shalman

Shalman’s has experienced the medicine of music and dance all over the world, inspiring him to curate musical journeys that elevate and activate the senses and body, allowing permission for dancers to journey to their truths within. His music is uplifting, spiritual, mystical, tribal, deep, and ecstatic. Salman has played at Ecstatic Dances at Yoga Barn in Ubud, Bali and the Church of 8 Wheels in San Francisco, as well as on the main stage at Bali Spirit Festival and at Burning Man. He is a transformational artistry coach, multi-instrumental sound healer, breathworker, psychedelic journey guide, and transformational event producer and facilitator.

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Sheena Medicina

Sheena Medicina is a life-long dancer and Ecstatic Dance journey facilitator. She cooks up fresh mixes of uplifting soundscapes with hints of cumbia, twerk, bass, pop, psychedelic downtempo, tribal electronica, house, organic & world beats, with plenty of funk & throwback tracks in the mix and always a good healthy dose of feminine medicine.

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Tasha Blank

Tasha Blank is a celebrated international DJ, somatic practitioner, coach, creative mentor, founder of Powerhouse DJ School (PhDJ) and founder of BODY LVNGUAGE: a global dance party reviving the soul of nightlife with a uniquely raucous, sexy presence and rich culture of respect. A student of somatic trauma healing, shadow work, story and ceremony, her nervous system-based approach to transformation through movement is a wild invitation into your most powerful expression. She’s known for liberating hips in New York City’s most legendary clubs, the world’s wildest festivals, and museums, churches, helipads, boats, roving desert ships, forests and mountaintops everywhere. 

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Temple Step

Producer, DJ, Sound Healer and Sound Alchemist based in Melbourne, Australia. Temple Step collaborates with musicians, ceremonialists, neo shamans and sound healers around the globe. His music is an intentional conscious creation, weaving dance music and world music in a unique and original way. Co-Founder of Motiv Music (Music Production Company) and Ecstatic Dance Melbourne)

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Twerkaba

Light. Booty. Activation. Enter Twerkaba to embark on the genre-defying, rump shakin’ ecstatic dance adventure you've been looking for! The silly, sexy, sacred selector and sacral activator, Twerkaba, will bring fire to your hips with a range of rhythms from World Bass/Bounce to Afro-Latin House beats and everything in between. We’ll traverse all elements of sensual pleasure across BPMs from high-energy twerking, to deep, bassy undulation. You’ll feel your inner ascended master come alive on this trip and your booty will thank you.

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Vesica

Vesica joins us from Berlin, where she co-founded Ecstatic Dance Berlin in 2010. A true dancer's DJ, ecstatic dance is her non-negotiable pilgrimage twice a week for over 15 years. Vesica's music is deeply steeped in West Coast Bass and organic world beats.

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Yemanjo

Yemanjo is a project of producer, DJ, and singer/multi-instrumentalist Ben Harris. Born and raised in the rich cultural stew of California's Bay Area, Harris has called Lake Atitlan, Guatemala home since 2016. His original music is a polyrhythmic concoction of downtempo/ethnic house beats blended with traditional instruments and tribal chants from Latin America, Africa and the Middle East--influences drawn from Harris' near-constant world travels. He is well-known on the international conscious dance circuit in Europe, the US and in Central America, where he is part of the vanguard of a flowering dance scene in Lake Atitlan.

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