Sowa - Vancouver

22/07/2024

For those of you at our regional burning man event next weekend, you can find me behind the decks FOUR times! Hope to see you there shaking and grooving the whole night through! Revised schedule now out!

Thursday Night
10PM-Midnight | Mystic Lounge
Organic house & Playa tech

Friday Night
12-2am | Camp Querencia
Organic & Melodic House
3-5am | Dark Desires
Melodic & Deep House & Techno

Sunday Night
1-2am | Bootti Frutti
House so House (maybe funky, maybe bass, maybe tech house...who knows where we'll go!)

06/04/2024

Is it just me or are the spring blossoms on the coast feeling extra magical this year? Feeling inspired by the burst of spring and one of my favourite places to visit and just be, I've just recorded the second set in what I'm calling the Wilding series. Slower, dreamier, and with tracks from some of my favourite moments on dusty dance floors over the years. Plenty of tracks to slow down and savour, heavy on the organic and melodic house with some touches of playa tech and deep house.

Recorded live on sc̓əwaθenaɁɬ təməxʷ (Tsawwassen), W̱SÁNEĆ, Stz'uminus, and Hul’qumi’num Treaty Group Lands and Territories, with gratitude to the stewards of this beautiful place and the multiple cultures that inspired the tracks in this set.

Feeling inspired by the burst of spring blossoms and one of my favourite places to visit and just be, this is the second set in what I'm calling the Wilding series. Slower, dreamier, and with tracks f

25/03/2024

At long last, I've uploaded my Winter Is Coming VII live set recording!

For the seventh time, our small but mighty crew threw our favourite party, Winter is Coming, in a climbing gym transformed into a candle lit cave for the long night. Playing from 2:45-4:00AM, my hope was to keep the energy up for just a little longer, before starting to bring us into space of winding down for our next phase of hibernation and dark winter days. Some of my favourite progressive and deep house tracks make an appearance here and I'm so excited to finally share it with you after months of not being able to upload it.

Recorded live on the unceded territories of the xʷməθkʷəy̓əm, Skwxwú7mesh, and səlilwətaɬ peoples with deep gratitude to the Black, trans, and q***r roots of house music

Winter is Coming VII - Live by Sowa 🦉

For the seventh time, our small but mighty crew threw our favourite party, Winter is Coming, in a climbing gym transformed into a candle lit cave for the long night. Playing from 2:45-4:00AM, my hope

16/11/2023

I'm currently prepping a set that is part of a December event raising funds for Gaza humanitarian relief efforts. Of course I'm looking into Palestinian artists and this mixmag article was a great starting point! Encourage you to check it out and read about the lived experiences of these DJs and producers and listen to them, too: https://mixmag.net/feature/palestine-palestinian-djs-artists-you-need-to-know

01/11/2023

I had the absolute pleasure of playing a funky house and disco set for the monsters and freaks of The Treehouse Monster Mash party this past weekend. You can find it here for your Halloween listening pleasure:

This not scary set is for all of the monsters and freaks that packed the dance floor this past weekend at the Treehouse. What an absolute pleasure to play this set for one of the best house parties an

02/08/2023

I'm still dusting off my things from our regional Burning Man event, Burn in the Forest, that happened this past weekend...but thought I'd get the first of my sets out there in the world for y'all to enjoy.

Dedicated to a dear Burner friend of mine, I was so grateful to provide this soundtrack to the lounge at Camp Querencia on Saturday night. Organic house, electronica, and playa tech await you...with very, very few vocals. Enjoy!

Dedicated to a dear friend of mine, this set was such an excellent chance to reconnect with my favourite organic house, playa tech, and electronic moody music with very little vocals. Huge thanks to t

23/07/2023

I cannot wait to share some juicy vocal house and tech beats with folks at our regional Burning Man event, Burn in the Forest! You can catch me at Skybar on Saturday at 6-7pm and then at Bootti Fruitti from 8-9pm!

And if you're looking for music with little to no words in a sexy lounge, you can find me Saturday 11pm-1am playing at Camp Querencia.

Stoked to share some of my fave old and new tracks with y'all! 🦉

20/06/2023

My latest set, live from The Vault at Bootti Heist, is now up on my soundcloud page! What a pleasure this one was to play and start out the night with!

Sometimes your pals throw a fundraiser party in an old bank vault. It only makes sense that it's heist themed, right? Live, opening the main stage at Bootti Heist, I present to you a set full of trac

29/01/2023

I can't believe it's already been two weeks since we gathered for the sixth edition of Winter is Coming! For your Saturday night listening pleasure, here's my set from my favourite winter party. Featuring an extra special starting song with vocals by the one and only Emily M Cheung, thank you for losing yourself on the dance floor with me from 11:40-01:00 that night.

One of the first local burning man fundraiser parties I attended in BC was Winter is Coming II (in 2014!)and the subsequent parties have consistently been one of my brightest nights of the long, grey

29/07/2022

Just in time for this long weekend, I've finally posted my first in my backlog of summer sets. Recorded live on June 25th, this one starts out in the pretty organic house realm and then ends up funkier and melodic at the end. Enjoy!
https://soundcloud.com/dj_sowa/the-nest-monochromatica

𝘖𝘯 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘦𝘷𝘦 𝘰𝘧 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘢𝘯𝘯𝘶𝘢𝘭 𝘍𝘦𝘴𝘵𝘪𝘷𝘢𝘭 𝘰𝘧 𝘕𝘦𝘴𝘵 𝘐𝘯 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘸𝘢𝘯𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘩𝘦𝘢𝘳𝘵 𝘰𝘧 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘴𝘪𝘹𝘵𝘩 𝘮𝘰𝘰𝘯 𝘰𝘧 𝘸𝘢𝘳 𝘛𝘩....

30/03/2022

A hush fell across these lands in December when we plunged back into small gatherings, waiting to dance again...and we waited...and waited...

We emerged again in mid-March to celebrate that much delayed NYE. After nearly two years, this upbeat set is me playing live and inside to more than 20 friends again. What a luscious, magical place to feel that long coveted dancefloor energy.

Recorded live on the unceded territories of the xʷməθkʷəy̓əm, Skwxwú7mesh, and səlilwətaɬ peoples with gratitude to the Black roots of house music.

https://soundcloud.com/dj_sowa/the-nest-new-new-years-eve

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