Ben Annand Music

My return to Moontribe after 4 years! Hey it ain't so easy to pull off living in Oregon... but good news, my venue booking business has me in California at least once a month so far this year :) Anyway, it was great to be back! For a March Full Moon this was a little more intimate than I was expecting - still a few hundred people there on a beautiful Thursday night though! Musically this is on the...

Like many friends, I'm missing Matthew Parkey from the physical world today. The soul of the desert, Matthew was always friendly and inclusive. Always. At a time when I felt I was told to be playing this way or that in the desert, he allowed me to be free. At a time when I was not feeling included, he made me feel home. His events, to me, were the first notable series of desert events outside of f...

Live at the intimate HOHM NYE 2022 in Eugene, OR At BNF Kombucha and Jun Recorded 230am-345am between Luke Mandala and Bizio Was such a fun night, happy 2022 everyone!

This set played at the historic EndUp in San Francisco for the Real Deal Party Feel by Listed, Living, and the Grass is Green It was a party full of feels! TYSM Gunita, Nikita, and everyone who made it happen. DJs have the easy job at a party, but your work is not unnoticed. Playing a dj set in between two live acts - Moniker and all-time fave Dubtribe - I wanted to bring the energy up in an appro...

2019 was quite a year for DJing in retrospect, wasn't it? This was one of my best sets and experiences, it was previously released on @Innerflight Soundcloud. What's different now? WAV quality and downloads enabled. And being one of my best sets and crowd energies it belongs on my Soundcloud too. I will have a brand new 2021 mix coming out soon, hopefully from Live at Subtract this weekend :) Mark...

In my new studio mix series I want to offer some mixes in different genres, and with a little different feel than you might get from a live mix. I've been exploring tracks I don't play out much or else in a long time, that are not necessary dance-driven but more interesting conceptually... This first mix is a techno mix which starts gently and escalates quickly before coming back down to a nice cl...

Loved this party and this set weaving underground house and techno for my friends in Los Angeles! Some of my best mixing between the two genres, overall it was techno but also brought some house elements and a few classics for this Lover's Ball around Valentine's Day. Speaking of classics, I played four 90s tracks and the old-schoolers defintely recognized Mateo and Matos' Release the Rhythm as on...

I'm on a techno kick in January and good timing because it's been a while since I put out an intense one like this on Soundcloud. When I lived in Socal, Moontribe was the place I could play like this :) But can't make that much anymore. I never would have thought I could get away with this set in Sacramento. But the Lost in Groove team has cultivated something special there. And it was full moon!...

If you ever wondered what a vocal house set from me would sound like... here ya go! It's a bit fast, due to where I was left off and how well that was working I did not change ;) This set is from the genre, "FUN" - was played live at the FUNderware party at the historic Eagle House in Eureka days ago :) Playing a closing set after Jphlip starting in the wee hours of the morning seemed one of the l...

Well well well It's my 100th mix released on Soundcloud and damned if it's not my favorite! I worked unusually hard on this set for 3 reasons - (1) I wanted to play mostly new music and that takes more time to understand and prepare (2) the multitude of great djs on the We Are All One lineup ignited my fire to stand out (3) the massive effort to detail by the organizers on the event made me want t...

One of my faves I've put out, this set keeps the energy pushing through house and techno vibes in the range of 123-125bpm. *Track List added 11-22-19 after 1000 listens - A thousand thank-yous to the artists below for making my job possible. Making unique music takes skill and dedication and there would be no djs without producers like you! 1. Sumsi (Evren Ulusoys One In A Million Mix) - Albena Fl...

This brand new but sometimes nostalgic mix is tech-house/techno/tribal with a dash of breakbeat in the middle - hope you enjoy the flow! Updated with track list Nov 13, 2019: 1 Helios (Pete Bones Mix) - TR20 2 Love to Love You Baby (Christian Burkhardt Mix) - Tom Tom Club 3 Gridlock - L.K. 4 Peak - Patrick Kunkel 5 Is Mine - Dani Sbert 6 Roll Over (Dani Sbert Remix) - FAC3OFF 7 Reachin - Mark Broo...

Excited to share my set from the Woogie stage at this year’s Lightning in a bottle festival! I hope you enjoy the flow

This chill yoga set is the second festival collaboration of yoga teacher Jessica Annand and dj Ben Annand

A little story about this musical foray, my first vinyl set in some 4 year :) Twas my last as resident of the city of LA, my home base my entire dj career :) And perhaps yet even more topical... It was the 20-Year Anniversary of Tropical! So you see it was a special mix! All music is from 95 to 2006. Great tracks sure are timeless! To ignore them would be spineless So in this particular musical tr...

What did we do before Soundcloud existed? Well we started with mixtapes, then moved to mix cds for a while. Things started going digital around 2005/2006, and there was a gap before Soundcloud was founded in 2007 and of course took some time to become standard for djs posting live sets. In that little interim we had a bulletin boards called 4Four. It was here that my mix post of a set I did for Fr...

Shasta Gathering was one of the best dj experiences for me, starting back in 2004. My set that year was 4am-530am, and I drove with 6 really good friends straight there. Got on the decks right away, just my friends on the dancefloor. Kept playing through sunrise, other people kept coming out to the dancefloor Kept playing. Stopped right about noon. My first 8-hour set. This is the following year!...

My fave set of the 4 I played at Burning Man this year, this journey varies in style between techno, progressive, broken beat, tech house and tribal house! *Photo credit: Jacob Avanzato Track list: 1 Mathematical Symbols (@albradley3am Deep Remix) - AlBradley, @Swaab 2 Inward (Dub Mix) - @stankolevofficial 3 Dark Streets of Berlin - @ben_champell 4 Relapse - Dani Sbert (@dj_dani_s) 5 Gridlock - L....

Many thanks to the artists below for making beautiful music spanning 22 years, allowing me to wind this flow in front of the Feather River at the beach stage at Sunset Campout, and big love to @dj-Galen, @Solarsf and J-bird for having me there! Also thanks to Robin Russell for the great photo! instagram.com/robinrussellsf 1 Light - @Patlac, Afra (2018) 2 Escape - @Moti-Brothers (2016) 3 26 (@Addex...

Live from Moontribe's spectacular 25-Year Anniversary celebration at Los Coyotes Indian Reservation, june 28, 2018 It's not perfect... but it is psychedelic ;) Follow Moontribe Collective on Soundcloud: @moontribe_collective

After a 3.5 hour techno set which ended at 8:30am at Gorg-O-Mish Afterhours in Vancouver, B.C., 400 miles of driving including 2 naps at rest stops... I played this fabulous deep house set at the Hifi Music Lounge in Eugene, Oregon 11:45pm-2amm :) I am fully dedicated to music now and even though the travel was crazy, I really wanted to play in this fair town that one day I expect to call home. It...

In the middle of summer tour 2017 which included some many great festivals and outdoor events, the stand-out Dj experience for me was right here at a sweaty underground called Gorg-O-Mish in Vancouver, Canada. When it comes right down to it, a small room with the right energy can become one of the most focused dance experiences... Super high quality recordings were done in house, one mic-ed up to...

Proudly presenting my new favorite techno mix, live under the March 31 full moon 1am-230am. Track List added July 2, 2018 1 Argos (Takashi Watanabe Remix)- Mari Mattham 2 Time And Again - Deepbass 3 Solar Wind - K-Fel 4 Stellar - Steve Parker 5 Floating In The Cloud Of Venus - Steve Parker 6 Marbled - Gian Paolo Mantovani 7 Floating In The Cloud Of Venus - Steve Parker 8 Haze - Mladen Tomic 9 Utop...

At long last, my first-ever downtempo set, created for Jessica Annand’s yoga class at Oregon Eclipse 2017 Global Gathering August 22, 2017 Infinite thanks to Symbiosis Gathering for the opportunity, and the artists below for creating the music I wove together with intention of coming out of darkness post-Eclipse at the spectacular Oregon Eclipse Global Gathering Aug 2017 :) Special dedication to @...

I offer my closing set from Tropical Oasis Retreat Kauai as an artistic expression given from perfectly within my element, with zero prep and purely emotion, intuition and experience guiding the flow