Mystic Beat Lounge Techno-Tribal Community Dance

 

Mystic Beat Lounge proudly presents Harmony Festival's long-running annual After-Dark celebration - Techno-Tribal Community Dance. For the past 12 years Mystic Beat Lounge has hosted the industry’s most elevated dance event with celebrated DJs of electronic music, and the freshest of visual VJ wizardry. Along with jaw-dropping aerial artists, Techno Tribal has a stunning array of fire dancers, and mesmerizing dance troupes. Continuing to top itself year after year, Mystic Beat Lounge has invited the renowned performance troupes: Quixotic, Luminesque, Visionary Alliance, Holistic Hooping, Shredder Hoops, and Flynn Creek Circus to ensure yet another night of epic performance art at one of the most thumping and bold parties of the year!

 

Opening the night is DJ Chango B., Sonoma County’s own icon of funk, soulful groove machine and purveyor of exemplary dance-floor vibes.

 

Then in a unique collaboration that represents the West-meets-East, L.A.-based producer David Starfire creates the ultimate mashing of genres and continents with the David Starfire Ensemble, featuring members of Tiraline, a “dance-pop” group that embraces the ethos of rap music, and including very special guest and world music legend Natacha Atlas, Belgian born singer known for her mix of Arabic and Western music. Fusing saffron sounds of India, and the jasmine grooves of the Middle East, Starfire's show is the bassbin kick-off you will not want to miss!

 

Claiming that they are “not a band” but rather “an agreement between two friends to create something that not only heals their beat-driven hearts, but pleases their rock ‘n' roll souls”, performers Ghostland Observatory are the on-ramp to the party, with squelchy, vocal-driven synth-tech popping over indie dance music and a spunky nod to 70’s disco funk!

 

Then, England’s star producer and DJ A.Skillz rises to the challenge by one-upping the sound system with the freshest and fattest funky UK breaks. From head-nodding to booty-breaking, A-Skillz dials in the sound with the urban tenor of hip-hopped vocals, generous layers of gregarious horn stabs, and the energetic jangle of funk guitar.

 

Bringing tonight’s journey to an hypnotic close is Portland Oregon’s acclaimed producer, and instrumentalist Emancipator. Accompanied by Monterey Symphony’s violinist Ilya Goldberg, Emancipator’s sound is both the delicate and sophisticated side of electronica, yet it's big enough in composure and structure to ensure the dance-floor keeps moving. A rich melodic haze connotes halcyon days as his music’s sensual textures, arcing strings, and gentle percolation of basslines and percussion all keep the mix shimmering, and magical.