DJ Gotek

On Friday, April 1st, I was beyond humbled and honored to be the single opening DJ for a world-class Trancer from the Netherlands, who’s been a pioneer and influencer on the Uplifting Trance genre for nearly 20 years, one whom I’ve been a huge fan of since the early 2000’s, MENNO DE JONG. Menno intended to do his “Farewell Tour” before the pandemic hit, and he had to postpone it until now, but thi...

On January 29th, 2022, I was honored to be on the opening roster for UK Trance legend and true pioneer from the very early days of Trance music, JOHN OO FLEMING, at Ora Nightclub, Seattle. This was another one of those "Pinch me, am I dreaming?" moments for me haha, as I have been a fan of JOOF since way back at the beginning when I first started to discover this world of Trance and Progressive, s...

On Friday, October 29th, 2021, I was incredibly honored to be the direct opener for one of my all-time FAVE Anjuabeats artists, Hungarian Trance music and Progressive House producer, Levente Márton, better known by his stage name, SUNNY LAX, for his stop-over in Seattle on his North American tour. This was Halloween weekend so it was so much fun playing to an audience all dressed up in the Hallowe...

On Saturday, September 18th, 2021, I was incredibly honored to open for a couple of my long-time top favorites and two incredibly talented individuals who’s songs have been featured in so many of my sets; rising star Canadian progressive house DJ/producer, Derek Silvester, a.k.a.. DEZZA, and French electronic dance music prodigy, David Ciekanski, better known by his stage name, MATT FAX, who basic...

On Friday, August 22nd, I was honored to take part in what turned out to be an incredibly fun private party weekend event up in Bellingham, WA; the "High Vibes Weekend-er", put on by this arts and wellness organization called Evergreen Flow Events. This sort of rave-esque party took place literally way out in the untamed countryside, outside the college town of Bellingham, on the grounds of this a...

On Friday, August 19th, I was incredibly honored to be on the opening roster for Canadian Anjunadeep rising star, SIMON DOTY, at Q Nightclub in Seattle. This was such a fun show, and ironically just the weekend before I had the once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to be the only opener for Cosmic Gate on a Seattle DJ boat cruise around Lake Washington called “Sunset Session on the HIYU”, and the two Sim...

On Saturday, August 14th, THIS was a big one for me….. I was beyond honored to find out, just one week before this event, which I already had purchased tickets for, that I would be the opening DJ for world-renown German Trance legend, Nic Chagall of COSMIC GATE, on the “Sunset Sessions on the HIYU” DJ Cruise, Saturday, August 14th, 2021. I am pretty much speechless about this one, almost impossibl...

Brand new!! On Thursday, July 29th, I was invited to spin a guest set alongside my good DJ buddy, Chris Paape, at Suite Lounge in Bellevue, WA. If you’ve been listening to my sets for a while, you may recognize Chris’s name because Chris had this kind of legendary party every year, the “Chris Paape Cabana Party” which was held at the boat house at his condo on Lake Sammamish, with this crazy amazi...

Brand New!! On Saturday, July 17th, I finally got around to recording a new Hi-NRG, Uplifting 138 BPM Trance demo mix that's been on my mind for a while, and it was so much fun to finally be able to spin it live. This was a one-time play through, no rehearsing, just did my best to arrange the tracks harmonically and according to energy build, had to do a couple key hops to make it work, nothing to...

Brand new!! Just uploaded this set that I recorded on the 4th of July, and it’s a combination of emotive, euphoric, summery-vibe tracks that I just loved. This mix was inspired by the joyous feelings we’re experiencing of finally coming out of COVID lock-down, being able to see friends and family and even people’s smiles again (w/o masks), and it just so happened that I went to see my very first D...

Blast from the past here, I have a number of older sets that I never uploaded to Soundcloud for one reason or another, been meaning to upload this one for a while.. As you'll hear this is before I had my voice ID's recorded, and even before my "Gotek" logo was created, so WAY long ago.. :P Anyway, I had the honor of being one of two opening DJ’s for the Seattle stop on the PRYDA FRIENDS North Amer...

Seattle Trance Alliance (STA) recently had it’s 5-year Anniversary Stream Party, and I was incredibly honored to be on the DJ line-up for this super fun, 2-day event which aired on Fri/Sat, Feb 19th & 20th. Each night had a unique line-up featuring world-class Trance/Progressive headliners, including Solarstone, Myon, Reorder, and Elevven. It also featured several rising star Northwest breakout ar...

On Friday, December 4th, 2020 I recorded this as a demo set for my long-time DJ buddy, Eric Weber, a.k.a. WEB, who was nice enough to invite me to be the guest DJ on his monthly podcast, "United by Music", December edition. This was kind of a special mix for me because I finally got to play a bunch of amazing tracks I had been listening to all summer and had envisioned trying to make a beach-theme...

On Saturday, November 28th, 2020, I was honored to be invited to spin a guest set for the 3rd iteration of the "SIGNAL" live DJ broadcast, this time featuring streams from heavyweight headliners including the likes of Christopher Lawrence, Monoverse, Tempo Guisto, 10 total DJ's for this epic streaming event. It was a total blast to share the airwaves with Seattle local favorites, MarQ, Oxymoron, a...

On 4th of July Saturday, I finally got around to recording an Uplifting Trance set I've been working on and playing around with for the past few months, so it felt great to dust off the decks after what seemed like eons of disuse during the pandemic and all the endless lonely self-isolation and boredom. I don't know about you guys, but being able to escape into my little world of electronic dance...

Hey guys, just uploaded my streaming set from the “All For One, One For All virtual tour 2020”, last Saturday, May 23rd, that took place here in Seattle and elsewhere around the world, featuring the amazing sounds of MYON, RODG, & JORN VAN DEYNHOVEN, with Marc Pospisil a.k.a. MARQ and me warming up the decks for the first two hours. I was first up that day so tried to create an atmospheric and mes...

On Saturday, March 21st, I was honored to take part in a streaming DJ show called “Quarantine”, which was put on by the North American Trance Alliance and The DJ Sessions. It was streamed live from a rooftop with a commanding view of downtown Seattle on a beautiful sunny day, and in spite of the circumstances, was a lot fun. This was the 2nd iteration in a row of the Quarantine show, the first of...

On Friday, Feb 7th, 2020, I was incredibly honored to be one of two openers for the Anunabeats Worldwide 09 Tour, featuring world-renown British Trance Producer/DJ, Damion Houchen, better known as GENIX. On top of being a HUGE fan of GENIX, having played so many of his tracks in my sets over the past several years, and also having seen him perform live at one of my all-time favorite Trance festiva...

It doesn’t happen every year, but on this past Dec 31st I was incredibly excited to be asked to DJ a NYE party, this time at one of my favorite clubs and essentially where I got my start at DJ’ing shows over 10 years ago, the Whiskey Bar in Portland, Oregon. Portland is always a super fun city to be in for New Year’s Eve; all the clubs are packed all night and as expected the Whiskey Bar was no ex...

On Friday, December 20th, I was honored to be on the DJ roster for TRANCEMAS 2019 at The Underground, Seattle, for a holiday party to kick off the holiday festivities!! We had a cool crew of local NW DJ’s assembled for the night, including special guest DJ visiting us from Portland, OR, and a very good buddy of mine, ZOXY, and between the four of us we did our best in taking The Underground into t...

On Friday, December 12th, I was incredibly honored to be the main opener for Finnish Trance music duo Miika Eloranta and Janne Mansnerus, better known as SUPER8 & TAB, at Ora Nightclub, Seattle. I’ve been a fan of these pioneers in Trance for so many years, since the early 2000’s, and also have had the amazing luck and good fortune to be on the opening roster for them 3 times so far, plus have see...

On Friday, September 27th, I was honored to be on the guest DJ roster at a 2-stage event for the 2nd iteration of the Last Supper Club Reunion Night featuring DJ’s spinning Classic Progressive House on the upstairs Box House stage, and full-on funky House music on the downstairs stage at the Underground. This night was a total BLAST, and it was such an honor to share the decks with Seattle DJ lege...

On Sat, September 7th, 2019, I was honored and SUPER stoked to be part of the lineup for the 2nd iteration of the ANJUNABEATS Tribute Show down in Portland, OR, at the Whiskey Bar. The first Anjunabeats Tribute show put on by Mission Trance Promotions happened at Whiskey Bar back on Nov 10th of 2018, and this was an incredibly magical night with a completely packed, almost sold-out house, and this...

On Saturday, July 20th, I was honored to DJ for the third time at a very special party and beloved, semi-underground, cult-classic Seattle DJ institution that has been around for many years, the Chris Paape Cabana Party. This party used to be held every July on the deck of a marina boat house on Lake Sammamish and had a long-standing core crowd of friends and DJ’s who would attend and/or play a se...

On Friday, July 19th, I was incredibly honored to be on the opening roster, along with my good buddy, Eric Weber a.k.a. WEB, for world-renown Serbian Trance & Progressive producer/DJ and honestly one of my favorite artists of all-time, VINTAGE & MORELLI, for his debut US tour with the Silk Music Showcase # 500. I have probably played more Vintage & Morelli tracks in my sets than any other artist,...