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.

Here is a tune I made last week, I just started learning production and I'm currently in a bootcamp and making a bunch of tunes! Listen to SELAYNE flip- I'm Blue - Eiffel 65 by SELAYNE on #SoundCloud https://on.soundcloud.com/Hlx2IIM1UQ7fjcwt2m

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