MUSIC

Neptune has been a professional dj for over 38 years, mastering the art of reading the space and playing the perfect music for each moment. As a Sonic Shaman, Neptune continues to develop the art of transforming people through Music as he guides the dancer into their Bodies, awakening Emotions, and calling upon their Spirits. Through the Magic and Mystery of a Sonic Journey, he helps to create a Musical Map of the Soul’s Evolution.

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David Block, “The Human Experience,” is constantly pushing the boundaries of live electronic music. Playing, composing, and conducting his electronic symphony live on stage, his performances are brimming and layered with human emotion, world exploration, and sacred sounds. He has presented on mindfulness, creative process, and using art as a tool for transformation worldwide at institutions like the MIT media lab, to festivals/events like Lightning in a Bottle festival and Mindvalley’s Afest.

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Yemanjo is the artistic moniker of producer and multi-instrumentalist Ben Harris. Inspired by ethnic music from around the world and his own international travels, Harris concocts a unique and compelling fusion of downtempo, folktronica and organic house with influences from Latin America, Africa and beyond.

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Maz Karandish is a Devotee of music - A well traveled vocalist & multi-instrumentalist covering grounds from Rāga, Maqām, and Dastgāh to Harmony, Jazz, and Opera. As Māh Ze Tār, he is propelled by the vision of fusing traditional eastern music with modern electronic composition as a form of cultural preservation. Each Māh Ze Tār set is uniquely dynamic -and brings a kaleidoscope of emotions through the wide plethora of ancient sounds, mesmerizing vocals, and grooving beats. Māh Ze Tār seeks to make familiar that which seems “other” through serving the sounds of distant lands on a platter of familiar body moving bass lines and thumping grooves. Māh Ze Tār is an active performing member of Balkan Bump and has had significant musical collaborations.

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BrightSide Blue & Honey of the Heart, two established NorCal bands - both duos of love and music, have united to create a Superband delivering folk-soul-roots-rock-latin/flamenco grooves, swoon-worthy vocal harmonies, and wailing solo-spiked jams – all offered in a spirit of care, humor, and hopes for a better world. While there is no knowing exactly how it will unfold, the chances of crying, laughing, or dancing wildly during a live performance is nearly guaranteed.

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Two decades of applying relentless dancefloor pressure to West Coast heads has this selektah carving out a crazy niche of followers who live for the groove - and the lost art of DJing. If music is medicine, Dragonfly’s apothecary of sonic tonics are elixirs for the spirit, melodies for the mind & tribal beats for the body. A magic carpet ride of sound transports the dancefloor when Dragonfly throws down his full-spectrum, body-mind-soul transglobal sound experience where cutting-edge, polyrhythmic akashic bass meets primordial sound, elastic dreamtempo, tribal mayhem, & ecstatic bliss.

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Laura Escudé is a producer and sound artist creating magic through music, tech, and consciousness. She is an innovator, entrepreneur, and live show designer with a deep understanding of complex technology and a profound passion for music and art. Fusing tech with art is her superpower. Synthesizing her skills as a classically trained violinist and technical prowess as an avant-garde electronic producer, Escudé infuses Neo-classical and sleek futuristic style with raw emotion that’s elicited with her musical machines.

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Reina Williams uses her voice and innate penchant for lyricism and musicianship to tap into the cracks in our armor, reaching the most familiar parts of our humanity. Her music is a unique fusion of acoustic soul, hip hop/ R&B, and conscious roots music blended with elements of live electronic production to create an evocative, raw, and edgy style all her own. Her signature sound taps into the unspoken emotions of self discovery, revealing, healing, and returning to love.

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Karenna Slade brings years of stage and performance experience in clown, dance, comedy, burlesque, improv and as front woman of an all women rock band. The pandemic led her into a solo-music journey using song and music to express the complicated aspects of being a human. She has begun to write songs about everything- it has turned out to be a solid coping strategy. Karenna hopes her music and sharing of her authentic voice will inspire others to do the same. Karenna’s unique original music has been described as Lady Gaga meets Tenacious D, blending strong power vocals, accompanied by her baritone ukelele with sprinkles of absurd hilarity.

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Arula is a singer-songwriter, electronic music producer, DJ, creative coach, music mentor & sound healing facilitator. She views music & movement as sacred expressions of a universal language; a language that unites and empowers people from all backgrounds. Her songs are encoded in prayers for the earth and for humanity. Themes of sacred sensuality, earth reverence, collective healing, soil regeneration, and divine feminine awakening linger in her lyrics.

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Tiger heart is an Agent of Change, one of the lights of the new wave here to bring higher dimensional frequencies to this realm to assist with the global ascension. Sharing their positive vibrations and electric sensations for healing and transcendence. They bring House, Trance, EDM, Tribal House, Bass House, Electronica to open hearts and expand minds.

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Coop Mahndala writes music for healing, inspiring joy and deep compassion.

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Spirit-led sonic conduit & DJ Blu Moon explores rhythms and melodies meant to both ignite and soothe the soul. Their Deep South roots influence their jazz, Afro diasporic house and experimental sets. It is their belief that spirit is everywhere and sound is one of many tools for connecting to the source. Blu Moon is based on Ohlone land and part of the ritual art house and label 7000COILS and Black, queer housing collective Blaq Yard.

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