Ben talks with music producer and DJ, @Michael Holding aka em.ash. 'The difference between play and performance - As a DJ I have a lot more freedom to present you with a curated experience or we can go on a very exploratory journey over a number of hours together. The DJ sets, I think, are more like a love language in terms of communicating with the dance floor.'

Super proud & stoked to share "Electric Feels" - my first ever public DJ performance as StellarJay! 🎶 🐦 ✨ I delivered this set live on Friday the 13th (🤞) at Aquasphere 🌎: a friend's apartment-turned-immersive, intimate venue adorned with live amphibians, psychedelic visuals & of course, beautiful dancing humans! 💫 🐸 💦 If you like pulsing robotic tech house music that features edits w/ Daft Punk, Black Eyed Peas, Justice, and so many other timelessly influential electronic artists, you will dig it! Thanks to everyone for encouraging me to embark on this DJ journey! Let's Begin 🪩 🤖 🎧 https://on.soundcloud.com/I0EKeZ7bjMgGlKHOQm

Hello everyone, I'm Nathan, I own a music retail store that sells & repairs vintage stereo equipment called Sound Heritage (Nanaimo), I've lived on Vancouver Island for about 5 years & love the music & events scenes here! I've hosted many small live music events at my shop in the past two years, & am working on getting an outdoor space behind the store up to code for 100-200 person events in 2026-2027. Additionally, I'm into volunteering & working at festivals and burning man regional events, and am exploring ways to level up my skills in the off-seasons to be more helpful in these contexts. I attended the Laketown Events Training Program last year, gaining hands-on training in site operations and stage management. Was proud to lend my skills at Sunk City Music Fest, Pachena Bay, Otherworld & What If in summer 2025! I'm also learning to DJ, with Tech House as my first musical love in this regard! Hoping 2026 will be the year I perform in front of a crowd. Stoked to be a part of this intentional community and the collaborations to come 💫🎶🏞️

Hey Friends, Nice to meet you all here and excited to be part of this community. My name is Khan, I’ve been a DJ for roughly 25 yrs and event producer for 22. I had my start in the Vancouver rave scene back in 1999. Back then influenced by the pioneers of Trance and Progressive House music like John Digweed & Sasha after seeing them play here on the island at the Memorial arena. Between 2003-2008, me and a close friend group in Vancouver threw events in the Elaho valley (mile 36) up in Squamish with our collective called Beheshto. I learnt a lot about leadership in running a non-profit group of misfits to create rich temporary autonomous zones in nature by the mountains on the river bank. I moved to Victoria in 2007 (still here) and continued my DJ career over on the island, and started diversifying the genres of music I played, to different types of 4x4 and Bass music. It is around this time also I started playing at Festivals like Shambhala, Electric Love and Inshala. Around 2017 I started working with the Crew of Ironic Spin and joined the Island Burner scene, and became a co-lead for them for the past few years. I am excited to have met @Benjamin Eliah Howells and started participating at Pacheena Bay Music festival as of last year, and looking forward to be participating again this year. I attribute a lot of my personal and spiritual growth to the music scene and so throughout my music career I have always felt strongly about giving back to the community by the dancefloor magic I co-create with the dances while I DJ and events that I produce. No matter what genre I’m playing, I select music to play that derives its soul and depth by the juxtaposition of punchy electronic music paired with the soulful organic music from around the world, specially middle eastern and Indian influences where my roots are from. Recently I have been working on the ideation and creation of a Saas platform that helps DJs and eventually artists with promoting themselves. I’ll share more in a dedicated thread about this.