Deep Spring Rhythms under Quarantine 59mins
Friday, 1 May 2020

DJ mix of the main wave from a recent Nu-Movements Online session. Mayday... felt like an appropriate title in the dual-reality springtime we are living...

2019 Integration Wave 1hr 11mins
Thursday, 10 December 2020

Transitions II is an end of year wave for 2019. Recorded live at Limehouse Town Hall during the one-day dancingTao integration day

A Wave for the XR Pink Boat 53mins
Saturday, 20 April 2019

Wave for XR - played on the Pink boat, the Garden Bridge and diverse other spontaneously-emerging locations

The Way of the Dancer vol.2 71mins
Saturday, 21 January 2017

Second in the 'Way of the Dancer' series - this one deeper, longer, more of a rhythm meditation.
Mixed at the time of the Trump transition.
Body; Breath; Rhythm...
Look for the Light and Hold the Soul.

01. Circle of Flight - Tim York
02. Laraajingle - Laraaji with Audio Active
03. Delicate - Fingers in the Noise
04. W/Loon 2015 - Ólafur Arnalds & Nils Frahm
05. New Identity - Mathew Jonson
06. Pattern 3 - Moritz Von Oswald Trio
07. Har Zion 110 (Aril Brikha Remix) - Deep'a & Biri
08. Sunset - Sebastien Leger
09. Coconut Blues - Gabriel Ananda
10. Timo - David Charrier
11. Track 1 - The Birch Trio ????
12. The Web of life (rough instrumental) - Alex Forster & Christian de Sousa
13. Pure - Shimshai
14. Kalimba - Laraaji
15. The River Dart at Staverton on a Hot Sunny Day - Newtake Field Recordings
16. Za Zen (Meditation) - Tony Scott

Love is the Way... part 1 1hour 1min
Tuesday, 1 January 2019

What can I say... as we slip into the unknown stream of 2019, hopefully the title and the music speak for themselves...

01. The Other Shore - Raphaël & Shastro
02. Spring of Life - Ark of dream
03. Keep Your Heart Right - Terry Callier
04. The Prayer - Jepthé Guillaume
05. The WJ - Dennis Ferrer, Jerome Sydenham
06. The Thief That Stole My Sad Days - Moodymann
07. Garden of Love - Winston McAnuff & Fixi
08. Shibren (El Búho Remix) - Bukahara
09. In Lak' Ech Ala Kin - Dave Kearney
10. Universal Reprise - 4Hero
11. The Whole Universe Wants to Be Touched - Nils Frahm
12. Adonai Ori - Bettina Maureen Ji

Ocean Waves from the Pacific shore at Pfeiffer Beach, California

The Way of the Dancer vol. 1 46mins
Saturday, 9 July 2016

Taoist Funk to get things moving on a summer morning (on any other time it works for you) This is the first in a series of new waves for the new phase of Ecstasy Radio... Enjoy.

01. Anahata Either - Sound Ambassador
02. Pachamama - Kaya Project
03. Come Closer - Salma Agha
04. Taoist Tale - Blackanized
05. Let the Rhythm Just (feat. Mr. Lif & Ayla Nereo) - The Polish Ambassador
06. Body In Motion (Akufen Remix) - Mathew Jonson
07. They Make Us All Want To Hate Each Other Don't Do It - DJ Olive
08. Breathe (Banzai Republic's X-H) - Tèlèpopmusic
09. Earth Elixir - David Michael & Christopher Of The Wolves
10. Bamboo Flute Blues - Yusef Lateef

Funk & Soul wave 45mins
Tuesday, 1 February 2011

It seemed sensible to wait for warmer days before releasing a soul wave - but compiling a mix for the launch of the new Ecstasy Radio website, it became apparent that this one, guided by the Funk, was first in line...

01. Auntie's Harp - Flying Lotus (+BBC archive sample)
02. Ride Suite Ride - Terry Callier
03. Take me Higher - Fertile Ground
04. In This Whole World - Gramatik
05. The Conspirator (Main Theme) - The Quantic Soul Orchestra
06. Mashin' On The Motorway - DJ Shadow
07. Sinnerman - Nina Simone
08. Move On Up - Curtis Mayfield
09. The Furry Whale - DJ Olive
10. Going Home - Big Bang
11. Bamboo Flute Blues - Yusef Lateef

Artwork: Detroit DJ, Stacey Pullen, photographed by Christian de Sousa

Dancing in the Sky Fire 55mins
Wednesday, 10 January 2018

Rhythm as in beats, as in 5Rhythms practice - as in "wake up, surrender to the sound, let the vibration liberate the golden soul and take us all home."

01. People - Afterlife
02. Father King (Catching Flies Remix) - Emancipator
03. Father King - Emancipator
04. El Ritmo - JaJa
05. Gosh - Jamie xx
06. Annapurna (Avidus & Christoph Vogel Remix) - Jeremy Liar
07. The Work (Rudimental Remix) - Beating Heart
08. Je Ka Jo (Drums Of Passion Mix) - Joe Claussell
09. Ringo (Original) - Joris Voorn
10. Compañeros - Rainer Scheurenbrand
11. Ashe (demo version) - Alex Forster
12. First Harp Songs of the Road of Birth and Creation - Bwiti harpist & singers
13. Maya Lila - Lucid Picnic
14. Part 4 - Stephan Micus

Embodied Lunar Dream Journey 79 mins
Wednesday, 17 August 2016

A longer medicine wave for trance journeys. Body, breath and rhythm; dancing the bridge of connection between earth and stars.

01. Currents - Aes Dana
02. Microgravity - Biosphere
03. The Sheer Weight of Memory - Bob Holroyd
04. Audio Deepest Night - Cell
05. Spiritual Orphans - Gaudi
06. Aftermath #03 - Aes Dana
07. Solar Detroit - Maceo Plex
08. Drop 2 - Voices from The Lake
09. Kept Within - Aril Brikha
10. Urdangarin Resistance - Ferenc
11. Bakerson - Booka Shade
12. Close Encounters - The Orb
13. Friend of all that Lives - Dominik Eulberg & Gabriel Ananda
14. Le Vent Nous Portera - Noir Désir
15. Fly - Rainer Scheurenbrand
16. Endless Flight - Gustavo Santaolalla
17. Coplas de las Estrellas - Graciela Mendoza
18. Pastoral Journey - Unity Dub
19. Fight or Flight - Alex Forster
20. Summit - Snakestyle

5 tracks, 5 Rhythms - do the practice 24mins
Thursday, 10 September 2009

01. Dayvan Cowboy - Boards of Canada
02. Arabian Dreams (Night mix) - Fouad
03. Robot Replica - Jeff Mills
04. Senegal-Mauritanie - Kaouding Cissoko
05. Piano Intro (Live) - Tosca

Artwork: 5Rhythms logo, by Gabrielle Roth & unknown designer

5Rhythms practice wave 39mins
Thursday, 1 September 2011

New season, new opportunity to engage with your movement practice. Flows all the way through the five rhythms in the musical manner of a river. Try dancing to this first thing when you wake up, and let yourself flow into the day...

01. Beauty - Koss aka Kuniyuki
02. To Let Myself Go - Ane Brun
03. Le Long De La Riviere Tendre - Sébastien Tellier
04. The Birdcatcher's Oath - Boom Bip & Doseone
05. Dread River - Burning Spear
06. Jordan River - Burning Spear
07. Brenda's $20 Dilemma (Kuniyuki Dub remix) - DJ Sprinkles
08. La Valse - Les Négresses Vertes
09. African River (Instrumental) - John de Kadt & John Hughes
10. Om Shanti - Shiuli Subaya

Earth, Fire, Water, Wind... an MM practice journey 61mins
Monday, 2 May 2016

This new mix is a Movement Medicine journey through the elemental dreaming landscapes of Earth, Fire, Water and Air. Working with the elements is one of the core maps of the multi-layered MM approach. Each element comes in its own wave, with the whole journey going round the four directions of the MM mandala, or medicine wheel.

01. Call of The Forest - Baka Voices
02. Earth - Ya'Acov & Susannah Darling Khan & Friends
03. God (unreleased edit) - 1 Giant Leap
04. Guinean Hunters’ Chant - Tiganá Santana
05. Udu's Dance - Rishi & Harshil
06. Untitled - Ortal Pelleg
07. Desert Stroll - Alex Forster & Jamie Catto
08. African Drug - Bob Holroyd
09. Waterfall (Cachoeira) - Edgar Silva, Carioca E Chandra
10. Doldrums - Ame
11. Air - Ya'Acov & Susannah Darling Khan & Friends
12. Dance of the Wind - Brinda Roy Choudhuri

Songs of the birds, various fires, streams, rivers & winds - recorded in south Devon and elsewhere

The Yin and Yang of Movement Medicine 65mins
Monday, 17 December 2018

A deep, soft trance journey through a few cycles of the twin receptive / active principles of life...

01. Mountain Spirit - Bansuri
02. Mystic Sound Bath - Music for Deep Sleep
03. Jineteada - History of Colour, Barrio Lindo & El Búho
04. Cinder - History of Colour, Barrio Lindo & El Búho
05. Ay Que Sera Del Sol - Rodrigo Gallardo
06. Rio Negro - Xique-Xique
07. ¿Y Dónde? - Graciela Mendoza
08. H2O Cycle. (feat. Anders Jormin, Mats Eden & Reidar Skår) - Terje Isungset
09. The Mist - Phaeleh
10. T-Rex Echoes (Live Version) - Carbon Based Lifeforms
11. Spiral Clouds (Kumharas 6 Full version) - Chronos
12. First Light - Kidnap Kid
13. Strands - Steve Hauschildt
14. Spirits Calling - Beautiful Chorus
15. A Daily Prayer and Practice of the Dalai Lama - Nawang Khechog

+ various sounds from nature in England and other places in the mix...

Jungle Medicine 1: Concrete 62mins
Monday, 1 August 2011

Summer special double-wave exploring two polarities of jungle living... Part 1 harnesses a selection of old-school urban beats in service of dancing as alchemy of the concrete...

01. Love Me - Timbaland & Magoo
02. Blanket - Urban Species
03. Strange Behaviour - Roots Manuva
04. African Voodoo Queen (Drama) - Madlib
05. The Frontline - Liberation) - Madlib
06. Only The Strong Survive - DJ Krush & CL Smooth
07. Success - DJ Cam
08. Signs (Blowfelt remix) - Badmarsh & Shri
09. Shot In The Dark (Gunshot mix) - DJ Hype
10. Iron Mask - Morphesis
11. (Unknown white label)
12. Love For The World (F.O.I. mix) - Fusion
13. Mutant Jazz - T.Power
14. Universal Reprise - 4Hero
15. Night Bus - Burial
16. Disko - Ryuichi Sakamoto
17. Wind Coda - Lou Reed

Artwork: 'Tokyo' by Christian de Sousa

Jungle Medicine 2: Forest 50mins
Monday, 1 August 2011

Summer special double-wave exploring two polarities of jungle living... Part 2 is a dancing journey into the forests in search of more organic forms of medicine from the drums.

01. Sounds of the Australian Bush at Dawn - Namadgi
02. Ritual a la Naturaleza - Alejandro Jahuanchi
03. Lambrancas - Carioca
04. Amazonia - Carioca, Zeca Assumpcao, Dimos Goudaroulis
05. Live recording - Kajuyali Tsamani & Friends
06. Ubumwe - Burundi Ensemble
07. Azouke Legba - Vodou Le
08. Congo - Drummers of the Scoiété Absolument Guininnin
09. Oya Y Ogun - Kodo
10. Jin-Go-Lo-Ba - Babatunde Olatunji
11. Waterfall (Cahoeira) - Edgar Silva, Carioca E Chandra
12. Boi-Bumpa - Carioca & Fabio Freire
13. Live Recording - Kajuyali Tsamani & Friends
14. Blessing - Bhakta & Darpan
15. Bai - Gabon People

Artwork: Tree photography by Christian de Sousa

Soundtrack for the urban situation & our transformation 80mins
Wednesday, 26 June 2013

Postcards from Babylon - a rough guide to liberation is a book of photography and writing by Christian de Sousa. Whereas PfB - the soundtrack is a compilation akin to a film soundtrack, this mix is an invitation to move through your own journey of urban alchemy as described and invoked in the book.

See also www.postcardsfrombabylon.net

01. Intro - (urban street recording)
02. Mass Transit Railway - Monolake
03. Architecture - Inner Zone Orchestra
04. Reach For The Dead - Boards of Canada
05. Who Am I - Peace Orchestra
06. Future Traffic Song - Ashtrax
07. Hard Time Pressure In A Babylon - Iration Steppas
08. El Capitalismo Foråneo (Antipop Consortium remix) - Gotan Project
09. No Justice - Smith & Mighty Feat. Rudy Lee
10. These Are The Days - Red Seal
11. Back From Exile - Breitbannt
12. Phase Drums - Joe Claussell, Jerome Sydenham
13. Erosion - Vibrasphere
14. Transition (acapella) - Underground Resistance
15. Sandcastles (Afterlife mix) - Jerome Sydenham, Dennis Ferrer
16. Pleureuse - Gabon People
17. Happiness - Aaron Andreas Gantenbein
18. Calm Upon You - Ravid
19. Heal - Aaron Andreas Gantenbein
20. Fading Sun - Terje Isungset

Audio-portrait of dancingTao 61mins
Saturday, 27 November 2010

Dragons on the Mountain is a longer wave, pretty deep, featuring some of the key tracks on dancingTao floors in 2010. Mixed as the snow fell on Lac Leman and the surrounding mountains...

01. People Are Friends - Biosphere
02. The Lake - Helena Ward
03. Astral Traveling - Pharoah Sanders
04. Trees Laugh - Hot Pink Purple
05. The Eagle - DJ Spooky
06. Calling Dub - Nucleus Roots
07. Aurelon (Misstress Barbara Reshape) - Vince Watson
08. Never-Ending Mountain (James Zabiela Re-Arrange) - Phil Keiran
09. A Break In The Clouds (Ambient Version) - Holden
10. Same Song - Susheela Ramon
11. Under Your Mind (Live) - Cell
12. Graceful Sky - Steve Roach
13. La Cariocala - Nagwa

Artwork: woodblock print by Tsuchiya Koitsu

A medicine wave for 2012 72mins
Sunday, 1 January 2012

So here it is, 2012, the famous last year of the Mayan calendar. The year, one in 26,000, that the Earth aligns with the centre of the galaxy... and a year mentioned in change prophecies from a variety of cultures around the world. What will happen!? The end of the world? The birth of a new era in human and planetary consciousness? Perhaps a step towards both, a marker in the fluid flux of time and right now rapid and chaotic evolution..?

01. Currents - Aes Dana
02. Jardim do Universo - Maureen Ji & Universal Symphonies
03. Tukutxi Yoremuru Katohu - Marlui Miranda & Ravi
04. Cloudless - Peter Gabriel
05. Dreaming of T'sama - The Human Experience
06. The Way to the Light - Bahramji feat. Masti
07. Salt Satygraha - DJ SPooky & Abdul Smooth
08. Timber - Coldcut
09. The Crawling Frog Is Torn And Smiles - Surgeon
10. Lamur (Henry Saiz remix) - Guy J
11. Nothing Is Something Worth Doing - Shpongle
12. Music 4 No Musicians - Coldcut
13. Spiral - Ravid
14. Alma - Ravid
15. Dreaming - Butch
16. Trisine - Solar Quest
17. Cantos Heri Paca - unknown Yanomami singer
18. Jai Me Reprise - Bhakta & Darpan

Samples from unknown streams, woodlands and shorelines also included in the mix

For peering through the veil... 40mins
Friday, 30 October 2009

01. Dawn - The Cinematic Orchestra
02. Camino - Murcof
03. A Large Grey Area - T-Power
04. North - Monolake
05. Burning Spear / Submerge - Mad Mike, The Trinity
06. What God Is - A Guy Called Gerald
07. Monsoon - Vibrasphere
08. Drops of Light - Maneesh De Moor
09. Safe Passage - Bhakta & Darpan
10. No News Is Good News - Naseer Shamman And Bass Communion

Artwork: 'Floating Spiral' - nature installation and photograph by Liz McGowan

Rhythms & Reality, part 1 38mins
Wednesday, 21 April 2010

A gentle, uplifting wave to start the day.

01. My Queen - Maureen Ji
02. Hayling (Radio Edit) - FC Kahuna
03. Going Places - Hugh Mundell
04. It's The Pee Back 2 Work - Mobb Deep, Fat Joe, PMD
05. Schubduse (Anthony Rother Mix) - Sven Vath
06. You Are - Kenny Larkin
07. This Train - The Staple Singers
08. Today - Zero 7
09. Sweet In The Mornin' - Bobby McFerrin

Artwork: photograph by Christian de Sousa

Rhythms & Reality, part 2 49mins
Wednesday, 21 April 2010

A darker wave for embodied night-time journeying...

01. Suspended Static - Snakestyle
02. Chilling Moments - Shmuel Flash
03. Sit Back, Relax - Gaudium
04. Hallelujah USA - Booka Shade
05. Demon - Isolee
06. Eargate - Anarchy, Dickster, Barker
07. Tonite (featuring Ursula Rucker) - Tigerhook
08. Battle Hymn for Children (Tensnake Mix) - The Faint
09. Strings Outro - Culprit 1
10. Umbrella (Beatless Mix) - Chymera
11. Kearn - James Holden

Artwork: photograph by Christian de Sousa

Sweaty Thursdays circa 2006... 72mins
Monday, 10 July 2006

Whilst the site is in transition to version 2.0... here's one from the deep-time archive - mixed in 2006, about a year into Sweaty Thursdays. Old-school euphoric conscious dance experience :-)

An electronic wave for urban soaring... 50mins
Wednesday, 1 July 2009

01. From A Solid To A Liquid - Biosphere
02. Beautiful Strange - Bedrock
03. Arcadian - Link
04. Where Is It? - Will Saul, Ursula Rucker
05. Another Excuse (DFA Remix) - Soulwax
06. Can't Let You Go (Hoxton Whores Dub) - Mack Vibe
07. Neu-Neutral - Max Waves
08. Blue (Reprise) - Deep Dive Corp.
09. A Wonderful Life - Carl Craig
10. The Last Reading - Sussan Deyhim
11. Unknown

Artwork: street sign opposite St Peter's Church in Vauxhall

Deep world dreaming... 75mins
Friday, 11 March 2011

This is a wave for deep world dreaming, mixed specially for the Earthdreamers project, an emerging initiative to bring the energy of ecstatic dance, movement meditation and shamanic practice into alliance with social, environmental and political activism

01. From The Cradle - Michael Stearns
02. Ec0noMiX (sound collage) - Blly Unknown
03. Song Of The Disposessed - Dead Can Dance
04. The Way You Dream - 1 Giant Leap feat. Michael Stipe & Asha Bhosie
05. The Earth Mother - Soel
06. Run Revolution A Come - Hugh Mundell & Augustus Pablo
07. Amazon Secrets - Knowa Knowone
08. Dub Club - Sterotyp & Soothsayer
09. Get Thee Behind Me - Soma
10. Aufm Klo (version) - Kalabrese
11. Where We At v1 - Henrik Schwartz, Ame, Dixon
12. Re-awakening The Spirits - Bob Holroyd
13. Je Ka Jo - Joe Claussell & Jerome Sydenham
14. Holiday (Peace) - Moodyman
13. Forest Veil - Lisa Gerrard & Pieter Bourke
14. Healing Hang (live recording from ceremony) - Kajuyali Tsamani & Friends
15. My Friend Of Angel Tribe - Mari Boine
16. Song of Earth - NASA

Artwork: 'The Greening of The Desert' - by Derrick Greaves

Climate Change Special 58mins
Tuesday, 1 December 2009

Dedicated to all the people cultivating awareness, taking action and creating real solutions to climate change.

01. Mass Transit Railway - Monolake
02. Get Misunderstood - Troublemakers
03. Gridlock - Red Snapper
04. Mother Nature - Fauna Fish
05. It's About - Isolée
06. No Justice - Smith & Mighty feat. Rudy Lee
07. Galvanise - The Chemical Brothers
08. Floor Control (Carl Cox's ultimate mix) - Awex
09. Humanity (Ashley's Love & Compassion mix) - A Guy Called Gerald
10. From Selma to Soweto - Julius Orlando
11. Freedom Charter - Amandla
12. Waves - The Ocean
13. Beware of Fake Gurus - Deep Dive Corporation
14. Sticky End - The Orb
15. Universal Love - Nawang Khechog

Artwork: photograph by Christian de Sousa