Ben Annand Music

Here is the second half of my set from Minneapolis on Sunday April 12th! I will make the full 3+ hour Journey available in a few weeks on Dayfunk's SoundCloud - but for now I wanted to put the peak part of my set up on my own SoundCloud - because it's time for something fresh there :) This is my favorite party I've played this year due to the high energy, diverse crowd of several hundred dancers t...

Here's my first mix of 2026! Dropped it a couple weeks ago at Shift's Playhouse at Pachi Pachi Except for a little section between 40 minutes and 60 minutes, the music was all brand new to me. Like so brand new that I downloaded it right before I went to the party. Having new music makes it fun for the DJ ;) Shifta's Playhouse had a disco theme, and that's not a main style for me, but I wanted to...

What an amazing party Off the Grid Campout 2025 was! I think my Sunday evening set there was my best flow of the year

One of my most powerful sets in so many ways, though totally beatless - this was the second time ever I played a fully ambient set live, and is the first one I've recorded and released! Taking place approximately 5:30-7:00am Saturday morning at Tropical 27-Year Hot Tub Oasis Retreat, this is actually the second part of my complete set, which started at 4:30am and spent 1 hour winding down from 132...

Thanks to DoLab - Jesse, Dede, Megan and all for producing another amazing festival that I'm so honored to be regular at, and to the Junkyard- Patricio and Chino for the amazing stage and sound! Edit July 16 - Track List just added! A million thanks for the artists represented here for their dedication to making interesting electronic music in a world with limited interest in that. There are those...

Re-releasing a vinyl mix from 22 years ago today as a Tropical Throwback, and modern day mixtape giveaway for the upcoming Be My Tropical Valentine Party in Hawthorne, CA on 2-22-25. Along with the digital mixtape here, free late-night smoothies are back at Tropical! Tickets are sliding scale $5-$20 at: tinyurl.com/BMTV2025

With a heavy heart for my friends affected by fires in Los Angeles this week, I release my set from just a week ago when we started the year with hope and optimism at Subtract and Moon Kitty's super fun shindig to open 2025.  First of all, big thanks to Treavor and Anton for having me.  It was so, so fun to play this party.  I knew close to half of the people there, had many great conversations an...

This is my personal favorite set I played at Burning Man 2024 due to it's uniqueness and the vibes of the camp. It wasn't a huge crowd but it was contained nicely and people were down for the musical journey with me :). Musically it's varied and pretty hard to put into a genre but leans techno with some bubbly, melodic, progressive, and ravey energies Thanks much to Jack Donevan for having me play...

This second set release come from my Home Camp, Deaf Granny's Kitchen This was the best camp! So glad I stayed here ❤️. We had one of the best sound systems on the Playa thanks to @Antontumas Danley power. And 90% of the camp was deaf. What a unique experience! It was really inspiring and interesting for me as a 15-year English Second Language teacher, to have this experience. It was at times like...

I’m excited to release my first set from Burning Man 2024! What a wild ride it was! Vomiting Sparrows camp was just 2 ‘blocks’ away from the camp I stayed - Deaf Granny’s Kitchen . So I decided to walk over Halfway there, crossing 8:00 and B, the street had been watered down and I slipped in mud and ate shit. Laughing, I picked myself up properly playafied and continued to Vomiting Sparrows at 8:3...

It was so great to be back at Full Moon Gathering to celebrate 31-Year Anniversary! 26 of those years I have been an active Moontribe resident DJ, but it had been almost 2 years since my last visit. Living in Oregon makes things difficult, the stars have to align just right... and they did! This is one of my favorite sets I've played! I dug hard through my music, taking advantage of a months-long...

This set from 04-14-24 really exemplifies my deep house curation and mixing style.  For 6 months I've been digging through my collection, resisting the urge to buy new music and instead learning my 29-year music collection better. Over that time, I went back through and labeled thousands of tracks by energy and feeling and created playlists from there.  The overall energy of this mix is uplifting...

My most varied and ambitious set to date! Hope you enjoy AnnandEdance - I put a lot of thought, time and energy into this interpretation of Ecstatic Dance. From 0 bpm to 67 winding up to 126 and then back to stillness Ambient - Downtempo - House - Techno - Broken Beat - Progressive - House - Ambient It's an extended journey just over 3 hours so longer then normal Ecstatic Dance formet. And more 4/...

And now for something completely different! 132 BPM Progressive-leaning techno mix :) I wasn't expecting to be left at quite this fast a tempo but I'm glad I was :) Only my Moontribe mixes tend to get over 130 like this, so it was a rare chance to spread my wings. Deseract puts on a really cool party and the space, sound, lighting, and deco were all on point here. It felt super underground and all...

This is one of my best set recordings so how come I never released it? Only because I had released a set with similar vibes right before playing. This was a really fun winter party - in fact I had a rather sketchy drive home to Eugene in a snowstorm... Been meaning to put this one out there for a while. In 2024, I'm dedicated to putting out more mixes so here ya go!

Something a little different for ya.  Me at my moodiest.  In more recent years I apply tags to my tracks of different vibes so that I can organize my massive music collection better.  One of the biggest categories is 'Moody.'   Of course a lot of people going out on Friday and Saturday night to my gigs are out to celebrate, so this category doesn't get as much play live as more funky upbeat rhythm...

Recorded live midnight to 2am at Tropical's 25-Year Anniversary in Santa Monica I need to out more sets out, here's a start

Excited to release my set from LIB 20-Year Anniversary!  Every LIB experience for me seems to top the last.   This year was special as I hosted Camp Tropical for the first time and had my daughter, Cerise, there for the first time since 2019.  And it was LIB's 20th year, and a brilliant one! Huge thank you to the Flemming Brothers - Jesse, Dede and Josh and team for producing the Fest, to Patricio...

I had a short but sweet time at Bug Out Campout 4: Garden of Dreams on day 8 and 9 of my Spring Break roadtrip with my daughter, Cerise. This set went down at midnight on a pretty frigid desert night, did my best to warm people up with some break and then some techno. Ok, fine, there's. little house in there too :). Something for everyone, hope you enjoy! Overall one of my faster sets, starting at...

If you don't like house with vocals swipe left lol. This set for House Music Fridays so my musical direction was clear. So again, if you don't like my vocals you can kiss my *ss- just kidding you can check back for my Studio Mix at the end of March which will be minimal techno with a side of breaks :) Big thanks to Matthew Brian for having me at House Music Fridays which was a super vibing night....

Here's to new beginnings!  This mix - titled 'Strength" is part 1 of a 12-part monthly themed studio mix series that I've committed to releasing this year. I mixed this set in October 2022, when I began feeling my strength again, in my amazing DJ Lounge in Eugene, Oregon. The picture was taken on January 1st, 2023 at Bucerias beach near Puerto Vallarta, Mexico. 2022 was a huge challenge for me.  T...

One of my most emotional mixes, this set was recorded Live at Subtract open Air party just outside of LA (Valley) in an absolutely chaotic time for me. Two days after my only lover of 16 years and wife of 12 told me she didn’t love me anymore and I went to LA with my daughter to process it. It was also my first time back in LA since moving from there in 2019, and first time seeing/staying with my...

PLEASE JOIN US FOR LIB 20 YEAR ON SALE NOW at libestival.com. Many thanks to @Rithma for the beautiful mastering job! Lightning in a Botttle 2022 was my first big festival after the pandemic and it was HUGE - more than 30,000 people. I played Thursday night and there were only 3 stages going and already 18,000 people there. This set was played on the Junkyard stage to I don't know maybe 1500-2000...

Here is part one of the infamous Moontribe 29-year kimono set that I previously may have made some waves about - this part is on the house side but trippy for the desert... This set had many challenges. I made a great playlist for it from my entire collection, did everything except export to usb, and then my logic board failed the next day. Bye bye playlist! So I rebuilt, as we do. But with limite...

My Full Moon 29-Year Story Alright alright I’ve got a new set for you and it’s part two of the infamous Moontribe 29-year kimono set that I previously may have made some waves about but hey, Tropical is my party, waves and kimonos for the win! Why am I posting part two first? A few reasons, some background first. This set had many challenges. I made a great playlist for it from my entire collectio...