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.

 

 

The fusion of East and West comes together creating peaceful space during a night of kirtan and beauty, in a joyful event of elevated spirit, and an audience bound by sound.

 

The night begins with the gentle and prolific melodies of Grammy Award winner and multi-instrumentalist Kitaro, with a devotional opening ceremony to set the tone upward for the night to come.

 

Bhakti Yoga devotional musician Krishna Das journeys deep into yogic chanting and kirtan, described by spiritual icon Ram Dass as being “someone whose heartsongs open the channels to God”.  Layering traditional Hindu kirtan with instantly accessible melodies and modern instrumentation, Krishna Das has been called yoga's "rock star." With a remarkably soulful voice that touches the deepest chord in even the most casual listener, Krishna Das has taken the call-and-response chanting out of yoga centers and into concert halls, becoming a worldwide icon and the best-selling chant artist of all time. His new sounds invest his magnetic chanting with an electrifying rock 'n' roll sensibility informed by a lifetime of experience and musical love. 

 

Next, long time favorites of Harmony Festival, Lost At Last are reuniting for a special performance featuring founding members Jaya Lakshmi and OM, and very special guests who have been members of the Tribe for many years. Their music is a hypnotic mixture of tribal world music blended with the ancient wisdom of the Sufi, Vedic, Native American, Indian, Afro-Mediterranean and Gypsy, combined with various world music styles, pop, rock, trance, house, and folk. They are at the forefront of a genre of music that embraces cultural integration known as Tribal-Trance-Dance music. This is dance music, with live percussion and drumming as a band priority.

 

Closing the night with a next-level performance that intertwines consciousness and nu-bass culture is Phutureprimitive. Touring heavily across North America, and performing music off of their critically acclaimed recent release, Kinetic. Phutureprimitive is the sonic amalgamation of Rain (guitar, programming, vocals),Thaddeus Moore (drums) and Joel Crane (bass), whose original compositions represent the crush of dubstep and glitch with a distinctly dense layering of soaring melodies drenched in an upswell of massive subharmonic bass.