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     Music at the Spirit dance varies from Friday to Friday but we have a few genres that form the mainstay of our offerings.   Most of the music is prerecorded with an occasional DJ or live music.   Sound is provided by a huge professional JBL Dance System driven by 2 racks of QSC amps.   A 30 foot Octagon Lighting Truss is suspended above the Dance floor.

Schedule for February 2008 

February 1     Electronic World Beat   with   Satyasamadhi - Vegan Hedonist at Large

     She brings beats that ground and vibrate the root chakra silly. "Patron of Safe Spaces", "Lover of Light", and a "Free Spirit". These are just some of the ways to describe her. But on a more serious note, she believes music ought to be a transcendental experience bringing new awareness of ourselves, our spiritual selves, and those around us. She has been studying music for the past 19 years, lived in Los Angeles working hand in hand with the Music Directors of Luna Blanca, and helped run a radio station, WZLY, near Boston, while holding the title of Latin & World Music Director for a few years.

February 2     Special Saturday Event: Imbolc Celtic Fire Festival

THE QUICKENING
Inbolc Celtic Fire Festival

Saturday, February 2, 2008

An All-Night Benefit Celebration for the
Crystal Temple and Contact Festival 2008
Hi-Fi-Psy-Fi Sound by Psyren's New KV2 "Megatherion" System
Two Rooms | All Ages
No Drugs or Alcohol Please


Yoga at 7pm Followed by Ritual Theatre
and Opening Ceremony at 8:30pm

FIRE STAGE

7 - 8 | Yoga with Dawn
8 - 8:30 | Setup for Ritual Theatre (Doors to Stage Are Closed)
8:30 - 9 | Ritual Theatre & Opening Ceremony
9 - 11 | Satyasamadhi
11 - 12 | Rena Jones
12 - 2:30 | Desert Dwellers
2:30 - 4 | Loki (Minimal Techno Set)
4 - 5:30 | Chromatone
5:30 - 7 | Epsylon
7 - 7:15 | Closing Ceremony
7:15 - ? | Clean-Up (Please Help Us)


DRUID GROVE

9 - 11 | Semblance (Deep House)
11 - 12:20 | Electrokid
12:20 - 1:40 | Morphonix
1:40 - 3 | Blue Spectral Monkey (Downtempo)
3 - 4:20 | Psyren (Psychill)
4:20 - 5:40 | Manifest (Psy Dub-Hop)
5:40 - 7 | Loki (Dubstep)

 Crystal Temple
 7525 N. Richmond Ave.
Portland, OR. 97203

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RENA JONES (Live)
www.renamusic.com

A multitalented composer, producer, audio engineer, sound designer, violinist, cellist, and vocalist, Rena Jones has been described as "the revered daughter of San Francisco's electronic music scene" -- OEM Radio.

Rena Jones' third and most recent release "Driftwood" (2006) on Native State Records; features all mid-tempo, glitch and chill out. The album weaves cello, violin, woodwinds, electronics and rhodes through unique instrumentation. "Driftwood" was given the honor of the sixth most essential album of 2006 on NPR Echoes Radio. She has also released several tracks with such reputable international labels as Iboga, Spun Records, Aleph Zero and Native State Records.

Rena Jones' live sets are a potent sonic session. She orchestrates her cello and violin over hand crafted beats melding the organic with the electronic. Her performance is a sophisticated example of the modern movement in electronic dance and ambient music.


DESERT DWELLERS (Live - Amani & Rara Avis)
www.desertdwellers.org
www.shamansdreammusic.com

Desert Dwellers is the dynamic collaboration between Amani, Treavor Moontribe and Rara Avis; the roots of this “virtual band" emerging from deep within the electronic music scene of the Southwest deserts. Because of their diverse musical backgrounds, it is impossible hold the Desert Dwellers to any one genre; their expression ranging from full-on dance tracks to deep-hypnotic ambient spaces and yoga-dub soundscapes. The Desert Dwellers have remixed artists such as Deep Forest, Jai Uttal, and Karsh Kale; their music appears on White Swan Records, Six Degrees, Native State, Bedrock, System Recordings, Ritual Sounds, and their own label Desert Trax.

Amani also began collaborating in the studio with the Shaman's Dream Music collective in 2005, working with Craig Kohland and Rara Avis on albums for Sounds True, as well as scoring original music for instructional yoga dvds on Yoga Tribe & Culture and Acacia Media. Shaman’s Dream has been an instrumental driving force in the yoga, healing and ecstatic dance scene of LA for over a decade. Their music has accompanied teachers such as Micheline Berry, Shiva Rea, Hemalayaa Behl, Desiree, Duncan Wong, Jiva Mukti Yoga School, and Matthew Cohen.


CHROMATONE (Live)
www.vaporvent.com

Chromatone is L. Hoffman, a San Francisco native who has been producing electronic music for well over a decade. Working as a professional audio consultant, producer, engineer, he is also doing mastering for many labels with a growing list of clients.

A local favorite in San Francisco, Chromatone has Surprised countless audiences around the globe, with his buoyant energy, brilliant beats, and positive vibes. Highlights include Surround Sound Live at Burning Man Festivals 2003 + 2005, and Boom Festivals Portugal 2004 + 2006, Full Moon Germany 2005 + 2006, ZOOM 2004 and Time Gate 2007 Switzerland, and many other appearances during a constant 2 year tour in Europe.


MORPHONIX (Live)
www.myspace.com/morphonix

Morphonix is L. Hoffman's new divination of music and should be heralded as a genre melting masterpiece. L. Hoffman (aka Chromatone) blends aspects from a wide spectrum of styles to manifest a captivating spirit journey, haunted by the serene voice of Irina Mikhailova. Luscious and dreamy atmospherics soar over a mountainous landscape of buoyant bass lines. Gargantuan grooves and playful percussions dance within majestic melodies and swirling psychedelics. Listeners will find themselves more enchanted with every play of this futuristic album. Produced in the magic vibe of both San Francisco and Ibiza. Cover art by Christine Web, painted in the studio of Robert Venosa.


EPSYLON
www.metakinetics.com

Brennan Murphey is known throughout the northwest for his prolific music production, uplifting live psytrance sets, and live flute and guitar work. He was the first performer on the west coast to publicly demonstrate an original implementation of the reacTIVision tangible user interface, whereby he mixes his songs using playing cards in front of a video camera. Originally from the high desert town of Taos, New Mexico, he has preformed his original music for energetic crowds alongside the likes of Osiris Indriya, Sirius Isness, and Rabbit in the Moon throughout the western United States. Epsylon is also a successful promoter and experienced professional music educator, heading up Spun Academy's music production program for over a year before recently founding his own Phoenix Fire Sound School in Portland. He has helped many aspiring producers achieve expertise in the crafts of sound. In December of 2007, Epsylon teamed up with Osiris Indriya to form the project "Penticle". Penticle is currently working on its first album entitled "Keys to Shyamballah", scheduled for release in early 2008.


LOKI
www.abstractearthproject.net
www.abstractearthproject.com/images/Loki_Vic.jpg

Loki says of himself...

After spending several magical years in the industrial rave scene (warehouse spaceships) in Pittsburgh, PA during the middle to late 90's and after promoting about 20 raves during that same incredible mystical time period, I began my expedition as a dj. Actually, it wasn't that glorious, it happened by accident. A friend of mine left on vacation for a few weeks and asked if I would do him a favor and babysit his gear. I promptly agreed and his turntables and mixer sat in my basement for 2 days before I even touched them. I then decided I was going to "play" with them, so I went to a "new" little record store in Pittsburgh called Milk and bought my first tracks on vinyl. I went looking for some deep house and walked out with an arm full of Danny Tenaglia style tribal. After about 48 hours of nonstop trainwrecking I decided it was time to eat and get some sleep. I was straight up hooked on the vinyl crack.

Now seven years later, I am back to my east coast roots spinning melodic, chunky, dirty, minimal techno. I would not dare deny my west coast family a style that suits their tastes as well, so look out for new dubstep mixes with special mc work by Pete Clark. I want to thank anyone who ever danced while I played, you will never know how precious those moments are to me and I look forward to enjoying many more moments where we all meet on higher plane and the world slips away.


SATYASAMADHI
www.satyasamadhi.metakinetics.com

Downtempo and Psydub DJ, Satyasamadhi is working to bring grounded sounds and atmosphere to various events around Portland, OR. Her goal is create safe spaces at event where people can relax, recover, and regroup as needed. For Satya, music ought to be a transcendental experience that brings new awareness to ourselves, our emotional and spiritual selves, and those around us.


ELECTROKID
www.basscult.org/sobroken.htm

Electrokid's mixes and reputation speak for themselves. Nuff said!


PSYREN
www.myspace.com/timebender

PsyRen is a fairly new psychedelic trance producer who has been learning about synthesizers and DAW software for 4 years. He strives to create unique and complex audio bubbles of rhythmic math that take your sense of sound into a joyous overload while simultaneously giving your aura a tune-up maintenance and letting your brain's foundation know that its time to increase the range of audible frequency in yourself and your next of kin. You can expect to hear new songs produced by psyRen for years and years to come. Some of the things that have influenced him include: yoga, eastern philosophy, Robert Anton Wilson, Shpongle, Autechre, oCeLoT, the Nommos, the fact that everything you hear are vibrations of energy traveling through a medium and the fact that everything you see is light projected into your brain.


MANIFEST

Jamie has been a central and pioneering figure in the Pacific Northwest’s trance community since 1998, moving to Oregon from San Francisco where he received important spiritual information about the role of trance music in the planetary awakening of consciousness. Over the next decade, he became a leader in the Northwest’s trance scene, helping focalize the Apollo’s Lute quarterly solstice and equinox gatherings and performing across the West Coast. He travels frequently to other cities and sometimes other countries in his work of awakening consciousness with his powerful music.

February 8     Dance Hits of the 70's, 80's, & 90's

Playlist as shown:

And Many More hits...

February 15     Radiance Event with live Dj's

Radiance is a monthly spiritual music event organized with the intention of helping seekers awaken their consciousness to higher realities through the incredible power of sound. Using the ancient tools of music and dance, participants are invited to collectively experience unity in diversity and peace in the face of conflict. It is open to all ages, traditions and beliefs.

February 22     Techno / Trance

Playlist as Shown:

And Much More Music...

  Pulsing Rythmic Soundscapes of Light to Fill Your Senses!

February 29     80's Night 

Playlist as Shown:

And the Beat Goes On... Sound and lights are 80's style, come as you are!