Echo Garden - November 2025 Mix by Peter Marks

Some dark, percussive, sexy heaters for Halloween.

Nothing like a federal government shutdown to get you to finish a mix! Just posted a recording of some balearic disco reminiscent of what I’ve been playing all summer on my rooftop (pictured).

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While traveling the Greeks Isles with friends this past week, I channeled the ethereal energy by cooking up a mix of ambient / balearic tunes. Hope you can find peace and slow down with it! Feel free to comment for a track ID.

@petermarks on the main stage of @canyonvibration opening for @djdissolve and @aguycalledgerald.

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For this month’s echo garden mix, I laid down a 100bpm progression of ethereal downtempo cuts building up to a string of balearic ballads. Exactly the kind positive, sunny and steady energy I’ve been soaking in the past month leading up to Canyon Vibration this week!

DJ Enyah (@b-in-love) live at the Echo Garden takeover Sunday Love at Flash in Washington, DC.

Echo Garden - May 2025 Mix by Peter Marks

The latest echo garden mix covers a range of downtempo flavors conveying both the optimism of spring and the melancholy of persisting winter. Includes new tracks that came out this year as well as several from 25+ years ago (that sound like they could have been released this year).

1,000% positive vibe house heaters. Inspired by seeing my teenage hero @djsashaofficial play a quality warehouse party this weekend, I threw in some late 90s progressive house tracks that got me into this music 20+ years ago. It’s an energy changeup from the chill previous two installments. Listen to it in the gym, not watering your plants :)

I set out to make this mix series positive and consistent, which is pretty much the opposite of the environment I find myself in. DC is a strange place to be an optimist, especially now as my civil servant colleagues in government are being laid off left and right with little explanation.

So what keeps me positive aside from surrounding myself with great music? Well, I had a conversation on Friday with someone I greatly respect who laid out a case for why this country is irreparably f-ed. While there weren’t exactly holes in her argument, I would argue that similar cases could have been made at pretty much any point in history. Yet most would choose to live in this moment over almost any other.

No one knows the future and we as individuals have limited control over it. But we can choose to believe that a better tomorrow, a better next week, a better next year and a better next generation could possible. We can choose to do what we can to make it so, in our own lives and for others. That’s always seemed like a more attractive approach to me than assuming the worst.

The moral arc of a great DJ mix is long, but it bends towards justice.

Thank you for listening to my DJ promotion spam. Peace and love from tranquil Washington DC :)

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