Fluid Druid

Fluid Druid // Bard // Broadcaster // Rambler //

If music is how we decorate time - there is a right song for https://www.mixcloud.com/darraghoconnor1/

19/10/2022

'Bog Spirits'

The season of Samhain is nigh...
Being an Irish tradition, it's an opportunity to explore our rich history and heritage.

Long before the church co-opted it in the 9th century, what became All Saints Day and later Halloween was initially celebrated as a liminal, or threshold, festival - when the boundary between our realm and the Otherworld thinned, allowing supernatural beings and the souls of the dead to cross over. This included the Aos Sí - spirits and fairies considered to be remnants of the Tuatha Dé Danann, our old pagan gods.

In the Celtic calendar, this transition from harvest season into winter also marked the beginning of the new year, just as their days began and ended at sunset (can't help but wonder if they might have been on to something with that).

Here's a new direction then, something original that taps into the landscape and folklore around us. I'm excited to share it with the world.

Taking further steps into the realm of live electronic music, this experiment merges a few things together in a style I like to call Psychegaelic.

Try it with headphones for the full experience, and have a wicked Samhain
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Ain't no stoppin' us nowSelecting global grooves and funky vibes for weekend jives tonight and tomorrow at RR.M.McCabes ...
29/07/2022

Ain't no stoppin' us now

Selecting global grooves and funky vibes for weekend jives tonight and tomorrow at RR.M.McCabes See you there from 9pm x

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https://youtu.be/wW80XpP1waM

After an amazing run of gigs, moments and memories of Vietnam that will last a lifetime - a reality shift finds me now b...
15/07/2022

After an amazing run of gigs, moments and memories of Vietnam that will last a lifetime - a reality shift finds me now back in the west of Ireland and thrust into the magical music scene here.

The Galway International Arts Festival is in full swing currently and tomorrow will be hosting Jon Hopkins - an artist who started out playing keys for Imogen Heap and has since gone on to forge a path as one of electronic music's present day pioneers.

His basslines are massive, his music is meaningful, and his light shows legendary. Bring on the spectacle.

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SUBSCRIBE to Pitchfork.tv: http://bit.ly/MgXoZpMORE Music Videos: http://bit.ly/J27abtA skateboarding odyssey in the desert.Artist: Jon HopkinsTrack: Open Ey...

Playing nothing but 90's bangers across all genres in The Ginger Mexican tonight.See you there from 9x🦩
03/06/2022

Playing nothing but 90's bangers across all genres in The Ginger Mexican tonight.

See you there from 9
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FLASHBACK FRIDAY

Featuring DJ Fluid Druid at The Ginger Mexican Bar

Let's dress up like we're living in 90s and bring all good vibes. FREE HOUSE SHOT for those who dress.

After party available.
Come join us at The Ginger Mexican
46/52 To Ngoc Van
Hotline 0961111256

See ya all 🥂

03/06/2022

The journey continues. Now with an ever deepening curiosity in live electronic experimentation.

Novation's Launchkey and Launchpad MIDI controllers have opened a portal into soundscape synthesis. Melodies, riffs and drum beats can be put down and looped whilst delay, reverb and vocoder effects are mapped to k***s and faders and applied in real time.

Naturally, I'm using this to make my own acid-house music.

Squelch on

Let's groove tonight.I'm making my Sala Club debut with a dedicated disco set.Been cooking up a sizzling set of classics...
21/05/2022

Let's groove tonight.

I'm making my Sala Club debut with a dedicated disco set.

Been cooking up a sizzling set of classics and imaginative re-works of all my favourite light-up floor fillers and boogie shakers.

No cover charge and free beer til midnight? Only in Vietnam.

Catch me on the decks from 10 x

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https://youtu.be/Lrle0x_DHBM

Summer is well and truly here. Excited to be curating three hours of poolside night vibes at The SPOT - Bar & Events thi...
11/05/2022

Summer is well and truly here. Excited to be curating three hours of poolside night vibes at The SPOT - Bar & Events this evening.

Come escape the heat/reality with some refreshing grooves and beats x

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Had a phenomenal time playing at this last night (with a bonus rooftop sunrise set this morning). A true pleasure to be ...
03/04/2022

Had a phenomenal time playing at this last night (with a bonus rooftop sunrise set this morning). A true pleasure to be behind the decks and playing out for luminous beings again.

Shoutout to Vanderbeak for putting it all together with his usual flair. Here's to many more.

Song of the night -

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zH-m8n85vn8&ab_channel=DanieleBaldelli-Topic

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27/03/2022
Every moment is a fresh beginning Time to wake this page up from hibernation and spring into action once more. There's m...
27/03/2022

Every moment is a fresh beginning

Time to wake this page up from hibernation and spring into action once more. There's much to create, curate and share.

Let's start with this - Bonobo dropped his new album Fragments a while back, and this week featured on NPR's acclaimed Tiny Desk Concert series with some songs from it (and a truly brilliant opening shot).

Bonobo is known for chilling, minimalist electronica, so it's great to see him strip it right back and lean into a live band setting.

I previously had the pleasure of seeing him perform with a full accompaniment one fateful night in Madrid, and realised then that the lines between 'DJ' 'Musician' 'Producer' and 'Performer' are there to be blurred.

"Save me, save me from the unknown
While I daydream, I leave this world to follow
My footsteps are sinking to the hollows
I can retrace the memories in my shadows"

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The Tiny Desk is working from home for the foreseeable future. Introducing NPR Music's Tiny Desk (home) concerts, bringing you performances from across the c...

Just finished a fun project for the Totem Vinyl - Tiệm Đĩa Than Sample Flip Challenge.Totem are a record store in Hanoi ...
17/12/2021

Just finished a fun project for the Totem Vinyl - Tiệm Đĩa Than Sample Flip Challenge.

Totem are a record store in Hanoi and they lifted four random samples from their vinyl collection and sent them out to aspiring producers who were then tasked with using them to make a track however they saw fit.

Normally my game is playing other people's music, so this was the perfect prompt to dust off Ableton Live and make something of my own. The result was a disco-house number - built on a brief sample from a 00's dance remix of a 90's latin-disco cover of a 70's Stevie Wonder tune (which Coolio also happened to use as the basis for Gangsta's Paradise). Everything is derivative.

Voting will likely have closed by now, but I'm still chuffed to have finished it, and to be on the same list as these other artists is a real buzz.

Check out the rest of the tracks on Bandcamp and you'll be amazed at the sheer range of styles and approaches that emerged from the same four clips, there's some real bangers in there too.

Even with samples - creativity is an endless well. Dive in.

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https://studiototem.bandcamp.com/track/encore

https://studiototem.bandcamp.com/album/sample-flip-challenge?fbclid=IwAR3Lf6CGRGbZ9LMb48VTwFcQ8shKUznfUwzDHoeGpY0TUA9DbHcUpO2Dq3s

from the album Sample Flip Challenge

It's the weekend - get ready for a full-power Happy Hour of electronic and global music, lush with percussive beats, thu...
02/10/2021

It's the weekend - get ready for a full-power Happy Hour of electronic and global music, lush with percussive beats, thumping floor-fillers and continental bangers.

You can catch the special live-streamed show (with video) over on Hà Nội Community Radio's page - 7pm Hanoi // 1pm GMT.

It's like radio, but with moving pictures.

One Tribe One Vibe

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Earth Jam - the show that traverses all planes in search of pleasurable squiggly vibrations of air, is back tonight stre...
17/09/2021

Earth Jam - the show that traverses all planes in search of pleasurable squiggly vibrations of air, is back tonight streaming live on Hà Nội Community Radio from 8pm.

If you missed it, you can also listen back to episode three below. In that edition we meet a unique band who are reclaiming traditional Japanese folk songs and fusing them with groovy Latin boogies.
We look back on Cambodia's rockin' music scene in the '60s and Vietnam's national day of independence. We pay tribute to the recently departed Lee Scratch Perry, and learn about four lads from Liverpool who got a guru and went to India to find themselves.

With new beats from Maggie Tra, words of unity from Uncle Ho, and tunes from Colombia, Lebanon and Algeria to get your hips swinging with freedom.

One Tribe One Vibe

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Earth Jam - The show that traverses all planes in search of the most pleasurable squiggly vibrations of air out there. In this edition we meet a unique band who are reclaiming traditional Japanese folk songs and fusing them with groovy Latin boogies. We take a look at Cambodia's rockin' music scene....

Earth Jam continues its mission to showcase the best in human music... wherever it might be found. Join Fluid Druid as w...
03/09/2021

Earth Jam continues its mission to showcase the best in human music... wherever it might be found.

Join Fluid Druid as we search for the right song to play at a Nubian wedding, hear how the Celts make their percussion, get a taste of Vietnamese beat boxing, and witness a musical flex from an octogenarian Trinidadian calypsonian queen.

New episodes every Friday at 8pm at https://hanoicommunityradio.com/

One Tribe One Vibe

Earth Jam continues its mission to showcase the best in human music... everywhere it might be found. Join Fluid Druid as we search for the right song to play at a Nubian wedding, hear how the Celts make their percussion, get a taste of Vietnamese beatboxing, and witness a musical flex from an octoge...

A new episode of Earth Jam airs tonight @ 8pm on Hà Nội Community RadioMiss the first one? No stress, you can listen bac...
27/08/2021

A new episode of Earth Jam airs tonight @ 8pm on Hà Nội Community Radio

Miss the first one? No stress, you can listen back to it here.

With music from Chile, China, Texas and Zanzibar, it explores Armenian proto-house, how a group of Tuareg rebels put down their guns and formed the band Tinariwen, Polo & Pan's newest release, and what happened when The Clash discovered hip-hop.

https://www.mixcloud.com/H%C3%A0N%E1%BB%99iCommunityRadio/earth-jam-ep-01-20082021/

One tribe, one vibe - we're jammin' till the jam is through.

Welcome to 'Earth Jam' - the show that curates and celebrates music from around the world. From the moment one of our hairy ancestors first struck a note to the last tune you hummed in the shower, our planet has been engaged in a glorious jam that transcends the constructs of borders and time. Every...

Earth Jam, my new weekly show, starts tonight on Hà Nội Community Radio I'll be sharing a select cut of tunes from acros...
20/08/2021

Earth Jam, my new weekly show, starts tonight on Hà Nội Community Radio

I'll be sharing a select cut of tunes from across the ages and around the world - with an emphasis on the authentic sounds and stories that bring us together.

Catch it live at 8pm HT (Hanoi Time) / 2pm GMT at www.hanoicommunityradio.com , or listen back anytime after on Mixcloud.

🌍One Tribe One Vibe 🌏

11/08/2021

After a phenomenal year of containing outbreaks, Vietnam saw its fortunes turn in April 2021 when the Delta variant took root.

Faced with spiralling numbers and a protracted battle on all fronts, to protect the people the powers-that-be implemented the highest level lockdown protocol: shutting all but the most essential of services and strictly forcing everyone inside to make dystopian electronic music in a summer of solitude.

They called it-

Directive 16

Two legends, one love. George Harrison and Bob Marley - July 13th, 1975
13/07/2021

Two legends, one love.

George Harrison and Bob Marley - July 13th, 1975

Deep summer rumblings...As Hanoi contends with cautionary closures and curfews, our solidarity is with everyone in Ho Ch...
09/07/2021

Deep summer rumblings...

As Hanoi contends with cautionary closures and curfews, our solidarity is with everyone in Ho Chi Minh City - who are at the heart of the Vietnamese fight right now. Hope burns bright, but without easy access to vaccines there's still a way to go.

That doesn't stop it from being Friday though (and the beat goes on), so this weekend's tunes come courtesy of the last gig that I played at The SPOT. This was back in April, just one week before that dastardly Delta put the kibosh on big events here.

In keeping with the theme of that day, I'd meticulously prepared a deep-house set, but then halfway through the setlist was abandoned as it morphed into something... more. With the tracks instead directed by the energy of the moment, it gave that sense of flow that I'm always chasing as a DJ.

Am looking forward to when we all can dance again.

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https://www.mixcloud.com/darraghoconnor1/deeplake-hanoi-april-24th-2021/

An excerpt from my set at the Deeplake day fest at The Spot, Hanoi. Featuring a selection of house and deep house tracks, this mix was recorded at a fun event that took place just one week before Covid found it's way back into Vietnam. We were lucky to have it while we could.

30/06/2021

If you like a good loop then you'll likely have noticed that Marc Rebillet has become the king of improvised live streams over the last year, (deservedly so - his twisted genius is unapologetic and refreshing), but this latest collaboration takes it to a new level.

With him in the room here are the legendary Reggie Watts and Flying Lotus - and they all work in tandem to build a sequence of natural grooves from scratch, each adding their own flavours whilst staying mindful of the others styles and the direction the song is evolving in. Not an easy thing to do live!

This is true synergy and the very best of vibes 👌

Sad that Annie Mac will be leaving BBC Radio 1 after 17 years, but I hope she'll be back to presenting shows like this b...
04/06/2021

Sad that Annie Mac will be leaving BBC Radio 1 after 17 years, but I hope she'll be back to presenting shows like this before long -

It's a brilliant docuseries, set against a festival-laden backdrop of 2014 (dreamy sigh), where she spends time with the biggest DJs around and goes deep on their identity and origins.

The other episodes are proving hard to find, but YouTube has this gem with Fatboy Slim - the original unapologetic acid-house party-animal turned global sober-buzzer.

Bangin'

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Great Friday vibes... I've made a new mixtape with organic house beats from around the world. Have a deep Easter 🐰
02/04/2021

Great Friday vibes...

I've made a new mixtape with organic house beats from around the world.

Have a deep Easter 🐰

Just breathe. A smooth blend of organic and deep house tracks to charge you up and get your energy flowing.For more mixes & mischief, go to -https://www.face...

Mixmag bringing all the big guns out for this jam-a-thon. Five hours of bops from the industry's finest 🔥
27/03/2021

Mixmag bringing all the big guns out for this jam-a-thon. Five hours of bops from the industry's finest 🔥

Mixmag & Coors present... 20 DJs. 3 tracks each. A worldwide b2b featuring Carl Cox, Seth Troxler, Charlotte De Witte, SHERELLE, Kerri Chandler, Jamie Jones ...

Spinning tunes and making magic for a full moon tonight. Come discover Xuân Diệu's hidden rooftop gem 🌚
26/03/2021

Spinning tunes and making magic for a full moon tonight. Come discover Xuân Diệu's hidden rooftop gem 🌚

RẰM-MING together!

Vào ngày RẰM, hãy JAM music cùng nhau thôi!
Tomorrow will be the full moon... let’s bring good vibes and jam together!
With DJ Be’An, Freak spinning! With a sepcial guest Fluid Druid! What else!!

To power your weekend - "the ultimate authentic Daft Punk experience", a recently released 4K video of their legendary A...
19/03/2021

To power your weekend - "the ultimate authentic Daft Punk experience", a recently released 4K video of their legendary Alive 2007 tour.

In the last episode of the Hanoi Diaries, I waxed lyrical about how Daft Punk's (aptly named) 'Discovery' marked a watershed moment in my life by accidently introducing me to electronic music.

A few years later, a copy of the 'Alive 2007' CD lived in my car and fuelled many's a late-night cruise. It's a perfect live set, with the robots masterfully mashing all of their best tunes together on the fly.

To add to that, this performance was paired with what is considered to be one of the best light shows of all time, and it introduced the pyramid stage that they became so famous for afterwards.

It's taken 14 long years for a proper video of this to be released (they refused to do a DVD), but it couldn't have come at a better time. Certainly it's a nice consolation for those of us who didn't get to see it in person. Stick it on a big screen and plug in.

Technologic 🔺

For the first time in 14 years, experience Daft Punk like never before! The first professionally recorded live show; revived meticulously by remastering and ...

Overjoyed at the response I've gotten to the launch of The Hanoi Diaries, but after 500 views the Gods of Copywrite have...
11/03/2021

Overjoyed at the response I've gotten to the launch of The Hanoi Diaries, but after 500 views the Gods of Copywrite have not looked favourably on our first episodic foray on Facebook...

From Zuckerberg HQ -
"The following action(s) have been taken:
Your video is partially muted in some countries, but fully available in: Netherlands Antilles, Japan, East Timor and Kosovo"

Great if you happen to live in one of those four incredibly random locations (what on Earth connects them? I must know).
However, neither surrender nor partially muted are ever options on this ship, so we're taking the party over to YouTube - who are far sounder about these things. Will continue to post links here.

Granted, I still can't monetise the videos and make millions from them, but that's a small price to pay for uninterrupted tunes.

Episode 2 is in the works.

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Episode 1 - Space DiscoWelcome to Hanoi // RIP Daft Punk // The science of gratitudeWith music from Chic, Sister Sledge, Ninetoes, Sophie Lloyd, Sean Finn an...

05/03/2021

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