DJ Solitare @ ZNA Gathering 2022 remixed

My reworking of the set that I played at the ZNA Gathering on August 19, 2022, from 11 am to 130 pm. In the weeks and months leading up to event, I was ruminating over various tracks and ended up with about 8 hours in a shortlist for my 2.5 hour set (and I am never restricted to only the ones in the playlist but those are often the ones I feel more drawn to). As I worked on various flows in practice sessions, I was primarily aware of how I wanted to begin and end: starting with a blend of some excerpts from the three unreleased tracks that closed my 2019 Goa Guardians set (with the intention of making the intervening 3 years 'collapse'), paying homage to Olli with the first kicking track of my set and some others, and having Tiny Little Engines be the climax. Although I am generally as known for my access to unreleased music as I am for my meandering storylines, this set was a bit different. A lot of artists continually tell me that the released versions were chosen for a reason: because they are great; and while some unreleased edits are of course amazing, lack of availability is not the only reason to play a track. I am constantly amazed by the astounding music that we have in our genre and I wanted to craft an upbeat story for that middle-of-the-day time of my set, so it was this vibe and character that were primary in my selection ... so even if it might seem to some like something of a selection of popular classics with fewer gear changes than I often incorporate into my sets, it's still (in my opinion) 'all killer, no filler' in a sequence that tells a cohesive flow-filled story, and the crowd was certainly beyond enthusiastic in its response. I've replaced only one of the unreleased tracks I played at the event with the issued version as I know the artists did not want the unissued mix published. I hope you'll enjoy it as much as I did playing it - it was an unforgettable experience with an incredibly enthusiastic and responsive forest dance floor! Track list: (Ambient collage of Wizard, Uforica, and LSD alt mixes) Space Tribe: Geo Matrix Pleiadians: Alcyone live (alt mix) Excess Head: Expo Laughing Buddha: Karma Total Eclipse: Chaotic Circus (live in Bordeaux) Green Nuns of the Revolution: Lost & Found GMS: Protos Upgrade Space Tribe: So Deep Green Nuns of the Revolution: Ring of Fire (extended mix) Satori: Back to Earth Universal Sound: Third I Man With No Name: Tarantula Kox Box: Stay Psychedelic Infernal Machine: The Loin King Space Tribe: Star Travellers Doof: Destination Bom (alt mix) X-Dream: Freak Psychopod: Psychopod The Visitors: Tiny Little Engines of Creation Psyko Disko: Mon Ami photo courtesy Sauriêl Creative Photography