Well, my post-ISE high has spilled over into a bit of a creative obsession for the past week, the fruits of which i am so happy to share with you all!

Empty Spaces: an 80-minute musical meditation on silence, featuring Sally Kempton, Alan Watts, Alex Grey, and Ken Wilber.

This is what my Dark Night of the Soul sounds like.  I hope you enjoy.

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Duration: 80 minutes (192 MB)

TRACK LIST

IMPORTANT: By offering these songs for free in my dj mix, i am in no way suggesting that this be a replacement for purchasing these tracks yourself and adding to your own personal music libraries.  PLEASE SUPPORT THESE ARTISTS by purchasing any of the songs that you have enjoyed in the Empty Spaces mix.  For your convenience, most of these songs can be bought in iTunes by clicking the links below.

Thunupa – Bill Laswell
Experience the Nature of Thoughts – Sally Kempton
Mantra – Material
Within You Without You/Tomorrow Never Knows – The Beatles
To Know That You Are God – Alan Watts
Raghupati – Bhagavan Das and Mike D.
Ghost Dance – Tomahawk
Roads – Portishead
Weathered Stone – Aphex Twin
Integral Spiritual Experience Meditation – Sally Kempton
Who Am I? – Peace Orchestra
Locomotion – Plastikman
Dark Night of the Soul – David Lynch and Danger Mouse
Empty Spaces – Pink Floyd
Farewell Ferengistan – Banco De Gaia
Best Mamgu Ever – Underworld
Everpresent – Ken Wilber (TSO)
Cat People – Cujo (Amon Tobin)
The Vast Expanse – Alex Grey
Final Home (Piano Mix) – DJ Krush & Esthero
DLZ – TV on the Radio
National Anthem – Radiohead
Lonely Soul – U.N.K.L.E.
Complications of the Flesh – Nine Inch Nails
10 Ghosts II – Nine Inch Nails
Sala – Tosca
The Ultimate Experiment – Ken Wilber
Splitting the Atom – Massive Attack
Banged and Blown Through – Saul Williams
Get Innocuous! – LCD Soundsystem
Blood on the Motorway – DJ Shadow
Good Vibrations – Brian Wilson

I had the honor of playing the Dharmapalooza 2009 afterparty this past weekend (11.14.09), taking the stage after a gorgeous music and spoken-word performance by Stuart Davis.  After driving through a nerve-racking snow storm from Denver to Boulder, and then realizing that there were only about 25-30 people at the studio, it initially did not seem like the night would go very well and i wondered if i should even bother setting up my equipment.  But it turned out to be one of the strongest sets i’ve ever played (mixing five decades’ worth of music into a tight 2.5 hour performance) and probably the most fun i’ve ever had playing (thanks to the beautiful hearts and minds shaking their beautiful asses to my noise.) 

Hell, i even got Jun Po Roshi and Stuart Davis to dance, which has to be one of my all-time greatest personal victories.

Here’s a few highlights from the evening.

(Thanks to Nomali Perera and Robert MacNaughton for the videos, and to Jason Digges for the photos.)

A monster mashup for all you trick or treaters: Things That Go BUMP In The Night

Things That Go BUMP In The Night
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Running Time: 66 minutes, 6 seconds

Complete tracklist below the fold….

Enjoy!

*UPDATE* I just uploaded a new version, having thrown out a mix i wasn’t particularly happy with and adding a better closing song—all while keeping the entire mix to a diabolical 66 minute 6 second running time.  If you’ve already downloaded the first version, go ahead and replace it with this one.
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