DJ Sonic Sculptor - Ecstatic Dance

09/07/2025

🌿 DAO DANCE FESTIVAL 🌿- 🗓 July 29 - August 3, 2025 | Preddöhler Stausee (near Berlin - Germany)

Welcoming DJ Sonic Sculptor - Ecstatic Dance to Dao Dance Festival 2025 ✨

For over two decades, he shaped the worldwide psytrance scene as DJ Shawnodese – performing at festivals like Boom, Ozora, Antaris Projekt, Universo Paralello and many more.

Today, as DJ Sonic Sculptor, he dedicates himself entirely to the art of Ecstatic Dance. 💃🕺

Sensitive, powerful sound journeys between downbeat, world fusion, electronic dance music and organic grooves. Sonic sculpting became his expression of pure joy of life, inner transformation and deep connection on the dance floor.

When experience meets evolution, psytrance becomes ecstatic dance.

Sonic Sculptor @ Soundcloud 🎵🎵🎵
https://soundcloud.com/sonic_sculptor

ℹ️ More Info:

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10/06/2025

So, dancing freaks of the Universe. 💃🕺

Here's another DJ-set which was truly a blast and blessing to put together. It was so much fun to get back to styles of music I used to play many years ago in the early 90's, which often was a mixture of subtle, beautiful and deep blissful trance & techno, mixed up with all kinds of acidic, dubby, world music and other elements.

This promo set has been made for the awesome Ambrosia Ecstatic Rave events in Amsterdam. They are looking for some fresh DJ's so I gave it a shot at possibly playing there and created a DJ-set that is fused with the typical styles they love playing at their events so much, which are trance, techno, afro-world beats, rave and other more uptempo styles of music. Their events are a total blast and truly high-energy gatherings that totally set the place on fire and lit up every present Soul and Spirit to the highest possible freaky freestyling frequencies. 🤩

That's how their style and why this DJ-set is quite different from regular Ecstatic Dance events and my other Ecstatic Dance DJ-sets over here and I truly hope you dig it and turn you into a real baboon on heat while listening to it.🥳

And none of this would have been possible without the amazing artists I came across putting this set together and I'll put the tracklist here somewhere in the coming week, as I'm still planning to change a few tracks and upgrade this set another notch. 👌

To give you a sneak preview, here's some of the artists: Deadmau5, El Gato Negro, Daisuke Tanabe & Yosi Horikawa, Wuki, Poranqui, Carnage, Euryhtmics, Darren Styles, Manu Chao, Pixel Terror & Jaykode, Major Lazer, Fatoumata, Talamasca, Milo & Otis, Larisa Gosla, Stanton Warriors, Thornata & David Satori, Orange Boy, Yuvan Shankar Raja feat. Pradeep Ranganathan, Savitha Reddy & A.U. Navin Krubhakar, Flynninho, The Human Experience, Bang la Decks, Crissy Criss & Upgrade feat. MC Spyda and more...

That's it for now, stay tuned for the upgrade of this set and more sets to come in the near future folks! 😉

~ 💛 ~

More info soon, like artists/tracklist and more....

28/01/2025

Deze doe ik even in het Engels, zodat de buitenlandse lezertjes het ook snappen. 😁

So folks....as promised, here it is! 🥳

I've been postponing posting this last recorded Ecstatic Dance set of mine here on Facebook, which was due to other obligations and taking time to rest and enjoy high quality moments with family and dear friends of mine. 😊

Nevertheless, you now finally have the chance to enjoy this last Ecstatic Dance creation of mine, which is the set I played in the lovely chapel/church on the border of Leiden & Oestgeest in the Netherlands.

Here's the link to Soundcloud for all of you:

https://soundcloud.com/sonic_sculptor/dj-shawnodese-ecstatic-dance-cultuurhuis-de-paulus-leiden-29-11-2024

The crowd totally went for my musical luscious loving and wild wickedness combined with tons of other tones, vibes and musical mystery. 🙌

Hopefully you'll enjoy it just as much as they did and feel free to hit those 'like' and 'follow' buttons on Soundcloud to support me and my work (thank you!) and to get updated about the next uploads. 🙏

Stay tuned, stay wild, loving & wicked and keep dancing like there is no tomorrow! 💃🕺

~ 💛 ~

Many of you have known me for about two decades as DJ Shawnodese and those days have finally come to an end. I have experienced truly glorious years under this name and will never forget the beauty an

17/01/2025

Hello folks! 😉

Here's a bit of a last moment reminder for this coming weekend, where I'll have the honor of playing for Ecstatic Dance Emmen in the north of the Netherlands and which I'm really looking forward to.

It will be my 1st appearance under my new DJ name as DJ Sonic Sculptor, which of course is somehow something I'm not used to yet, but I'm sure the name will settle in over time.

Last november I played my last gig under the name DJ Shawnodese, a name I was honored to carry for many years since 1996 and has brought me incredible joy and many unforgettable adventures. 🥳

For those who are not familiar with what I do as an Ecstatic Dance DJ yet, here's the link to my Soundcloud page, where you can check many Ecstatic Dance sets that I recorded live on the spot or in my cozy home studio. 🤩

https://soundcloud.com/sonic_sculptor/tracks

More info about the event you'll find right here on the FB event page: https://www.facebook.com/events/576859201674762

And you'll find tickets right here:
https://hipsy.nl/event/80609-ecstatic-dance-emmen-dj-sonic-sculptor

That's it for now and I really look forward to see you all on the dancefloor in Emmen tomorrow evening! 💃🕺

~ 💛 ~

05/01/2025

I totally forgot to post about it, but Ecstatic Dance Leiden was a blast on the 29th of November 2024 and which was a truly worthy saying goodbye to about two decades playing under my old name DJ Shawnodese! 🥳

The beautiful church was the perfect place for another celebration of life with lots of lovely and amazing people experiencing the magic of truly connecting with each other, which dancing their t**s off during my set.

I have recorded my DJ-set and will add the link in my next post somewhere the coming days, so stay tuned for that! 🤩

For those who are living in the North of the Netherlands or close to the Dutch-German border, I will be playing soon again, which is on the 18th of January for Ecstatic Dance Emmen.

This time it will be under my new name, DJ Sonic Sculptor and I am really looking forward to see you there!

And remember, keep dancing and celebrating life...no matter what happens! 💃🕺

~ 💛 ~

26/11/2024

Coming Friday I'm playing @ Ecstatic Dance Leiden and preparations look similar to this, but instead of papers and connecting lines allover my walls, I got tons of tracks on my screen and cable salad allover my studio.😂

Ticket link: https://hipsy.nl/event/80855-leiden-ecstatic-dance-met-shawdonese

19:15 - 19:45 Start + unwinding.
19:45 - 20:00 Opening ceremony.
20:00 - 22:00 Ecstatic Dance with DJ Shawnodese.
22:00 - Community time & snacks.

See you on the dancefloor! 💃🕺

25/11/2024

Hello dear friends, fans and music lovers...😍

I have some news in regards to my DJ story/career. It is the most radical thing I did over the past more or less 20-25 years and is about changing my DJ name.

Many of you have known me for about quarter of a century as DJ Shawnodese and those days have finally come to an end. I have experienced truly glorious years under this name and will never forget the beauty and amazing times I was allowed to experience. Those days are forever etched in the depths of my heart and are felt with immense gratitude.

For quite some time, the name didn't feel appropriate anymore though and felt as if the name of this magical Spirit keeper of the South (according the the Medicine Wheel of the Sun Bear Tribe) pushed me to let go of this name. I somehow got too attached to the name and the success I experienced during all those years and am clearly invited to let go of all of that and embrace a new path in my life.

The cycle feels completed and knowing and specially sensing this for some time already, I was kind of feeling puzzled which name to chose next. Somehow though, as soon as I decided I would take and invite in another name, it came to me in no time and the name rang very clearly in my head.

DJ Sonic Sculptor...

I could immediately feel the truth and power which these words embody and how they describe a very typical feeling I experience during my DJ sets. I truly feel like a sculptor building and crafting beautiful and majestic musical landscapes. How all those different musical masterpieces of art get sculpted by and through me and I somehow miraculously manage to craft all sorts of sonic soundscapes, once truly being in touch with the essence of who I am and from where the boundless love for music, life, dancing and movement automatically flows forward.

Yes, I feel very content with this new name and even dreamt about it the night after it came to me. I could feel the solidity and resonance with this name deep in my dream and body after waking up.

I will still play one last 'goodbye' gig under the name DJ Shawnodese, which will be this coming Friday in one of the oldest cities of the Netherlands, which is Leiden. For those of you who would like to join, I will post the event info here during the coming days.

That's it for now, maybe see you this coming Friday in Leiden and don't forget to keep dancing! 💃🕺

~ 💛 ~

(Picture taken @ Ecstatic Dance - 'Edanz' - Groningen in The Netherlands)

18/11/2024

DJ humor... 😂😂😂

05/05/2024

My most sincere apologies to so many of you out there that have been waiting for ages for some Ecstatic Dance DJ-sets I played last year, but never uploaded here on my Soundcloud page., so my apologies for the long wait.🙏

This past year has been incredibly beautiful, but also very challenging, including a new job, diving deep in healing personal trauma through therapy and well...of course there's the general madness of the world on top of it all. It most surely wasn't my best year, but I'm managing to get myself back together, am slowly stepping back behind the DJ-decks again and here's a 1st tangible result of doing so. 💪😁

So, here it is, finaaaaaaaally another upload and it was about frikkin' time right? 🤪

This is a homebrew version of a set from last year I once more played up north in my old hometown Groningen, which is up north in the Netherlands. Unfortunately the recording went to sh*ts at the time, so here's a slightly altered version of it. I hope you fabulous freestyle frolicking freaks & freggels dig it somehow and dance till dawn on it! 💃🕺

And as always, a big shout out to all the awesome and amazing audio acupuncture artists such as: Armand Amar, Symbolico, Jacob Hauge Mateo, El Gato Negro, Henry Fong, Deya Dova, Electrowavez, Jimi Hendrix, Solar Fields, Dirtyphonics, Niklas Paschburg, Amanati, Liquid Stranger, Ben Bushill, Father Funk, Audiomachine, Chic, Soohan, Martin Roth, Seyed Mohammad Sanjani, Globular, Bear McCreary, Tantrum Desire, Sinhead 'O Connor, Mixwell, F.O.O.L, Wardia, Shaman's Dream, The Polish Ambassador, Shaka and Lilo Aurora. 🙏

~ 💛 ~

My most sincere apologies to so many of you out there that have been waiting for ages for some Ecstatic Dance DJ-sets I played last year, but never uploaded here on my Soundcloud page., so my apologie

30/08/2023

Oh yes, how I loved those magic days before CD's and digital downloads and streaming hit the market! 🥳

All those hours, days, weeks, months and years I used to spend in record shops allover the Netherlands, Europe and outside of Europe whenever I was playing around as a DJ on other continents.

Yes, those days were magic and specially during the weekends when tons of DJ's and artists gathered in the record shops. 🤩

I feel glad I've witnessed those days, which all the younger generations missed. Days I will never forget and probably some of you will remember with a big smirk on your face as well. 😁

~ 💛🤍 ~

27/06/2023

ECSTATIC DANCE WITH DJ SHAWNODESE @ 'DE LAURENTIUSKERK' - WEESP [25-06-2023] 🥳

I don't have a lot of words for this truly magic and amazing experience of playing at one of the most beautiful locations in the Netherlands and for one of the sweetest most lovely crews I met thus far.

And the dancers? They just totally went for it without any limit and it was such a wonderful thing to watch and to receive so much appreciation and so many compliments.

I can most definitely advise you to go visit this magic yoga studio (Yoga Today), which is organizing an Ecstatic Dance every last Friday of the month on this fabulous location.

And for the rest I feel the picture speak for themselves. 😉

~ 💛 ~

06/06/2023

DJ SHAWNODESE @ 'LACH JE WAKKER & EGGSTATIC' - 'ECOGEBOUW' - BUNNIK [26-05-2023 + 02-07-2023]

I totally forgot to drop this one here, but wanted to share it anyway, as this was such a fun and truly hilarious event. 😜

We started together with my good friend Marnix Lamers, who facilitated a workshop for our crew and our guests and did so in the form a laughter workshop. We almost literally fell of our chairs and had some serious stomach and belly aches & issues due to not being able to stop laughing about the most ridiculous things and even about absolutely nothing.🤪😂😆

After we had a shoft break and it was my chance to do my thing and show what being a happy Easter Egg was all about at this special Easter Eggstatic Dance. 🐣

The combination of laughing our asses to bits & pieces and dancing them once more into smithereens wil always make me remember this day as a very happy and joyful experience and it's something I most definitely advise you all to try-out sometime.

There will be 2 more editions for which I have added the other flyers as well and this will be on June the 16th with DJ Shivanne and on July the 2nd, which will be another chance for me to show my Eggstatic magic. In case you are considering coming, be sure it will most definitely leave a seriously happy and hilarious impression! 😁

I hope to see you on one of those 2 fabulous events and am looking forward to once more be your musical and dancing puppetmaster. 💃🕺

~ 💛 ~