DFA’s Infinity Machine aka The Juan MacLean and Gee Dee share five meditative healing songs.

Infinity Machine is a new project from Juan MacLean – as in the Juan MacLean, longtime DFA traveler – and Gee Dee, also known as Greg Droggitis, a producer and DJ based in Brooklyn, a 10-year veteran of Philly’s iconic Making Time party, and 1/3 of the Earth Beat DJ troupe. Fans of DFA will likely remember Juan MacLean as the producer behind the label’s 2009 dancefloor bomb “Happy House,” which featured LCD Soundsystem’s Nancy Whang on vocals. Merging a stomping disco beat with euphoric house chords and a pop-punk hook, the track tore through clubs during the peak of the indie dance era. It’s been over a decade since then, and now, after probably countless transportive dancefloor moments, Juan seems to be heading on an entirely different kind of voyage with one of New York’s most promising talents.

The Infinity Machine project started shortly after lockdown when the duo began hosting a series of intimate “psychedelic dance ceremonies” in various private spaces around New York City. Influenced by ceremonial tea, these events would last 8 or 9 hours with the duo playing improvised meditational music using an array of acoustic (flute, guitar, gong) and electronic (DX7) instruments. Three albums worth of ritualistic healing music (ambient, psychedelia, new age, drone) would eventually emerge from these sessions and, much like Gee Dee’s home base at Dave P’s Making Time parties, the music is transcendent; the perfect soundtrack for both a deep journey through self reflection or a casual stroll through nature.

The duo just played a sold out show this past Saturday in New York at Public Records’ lauded Sound Room. To celebrate Infinity Machine’s debut release, Juan and Greg shared five selections of meditative healing music with us. Listen below and read their writeups on each pick.

Tom Kenyon – The Multiverse Sound Meditation

“Tom Kenyon started out as a Country singer and then had a shamanic experience that sent him on a path as an intuitive singer. He is also widely known for channelling insightful and accurate esoteric information from a group of interdimensional beings known as The Hathors; this information is relevant to the extraordinary shifts in consciousness we are witnessing across our planet today. He is also a therapist and in 1983 he formed Acoustic Brain Research to scientifically study the effects of sound and music on consciousness and the brain.”

Don Campbell – Crystal Caverns

“This cassette is very hard to come by, selling for hundreds of dollars on the resale market at this point. It’s icy and crystalline synth sounds conjure images of snow and winter with a kind of coldness that is still full of humanity. Super minimal, taking full advantage of just a couple of synths and a delay, it’s music that sounds exactly like its title.”

Kay Gardner – See My Wings Shining: Brow / 3rd Eye Chakra

“Kay Gardner was a pioneer in the field of sound healing, as well as a masterful classically trained flute player.  She was a Dianic priestess and in 1974 produced an album with explicitly lesbian-feminist lyrics. She was a pioneer and a badass, and her music conjures reverence for the natural world.”

Klaus Wiese – Akhira II

“Deep journeying record released on CD in 1999. Klaus Wiese was a German ambient musician and multiinstrumentalist. He specialized in meditative and healing acoustic music using instruments like the zither, chimes, singing bowls and Persian string instruments. I discovered this CD some years back after finding a cassette release by Wiese called ‘Alhambra’.”

Robert Rich & Lisa Moskow – Baja

“Robert Rich is a composer and musician from California with an extensive catalog spanning New Age, ambient, drone, non-traditional, and non-Western music. ‘Baja’ comes from a collaborative album Rich recorded in 1994 with sarod player Lisa Moskow. It is based on the classical Indian musical form known as alap, which is the first and slowest section of a raga. The entire album is incredible, full of deep pads, warm flutes, and Moskow’s hypnotic sarod.”