On Friday , January 15, 2010 from 9:00 PM DJ M will be guest DJ at the Linga Bar, Siem Reap, Cambodia. This will be his first appearance at the Linga Bar and in Cambodia.

The Linga Bar [www.lingabar.com] is the hot spot in Siem Reap’s Old Market, arguably the coolest part of town today. That area of town is morphing into a sophisticated melange of ultra chic hotels [The One Hotel, Hotel Be Angkor, www.theonehotelcollection.com], galleries and boutiques.

The name Linga refers to carvings of religious significance from the Khmer Empire.  Lingas, phallic cylinders symbolic of the god Shiva were widely used in the Khmer Empire in ritual worship to represent the creative energy, strength and fertility of the god and the power of the divine kings of the Khmer Empire. The Linga  symbolized the king’s power to confer fertility and prosperity to his people and lands.

At the hillside River of a Thousand Lingas, the riverbed has numerous linga sculptures carved into the stone. The Khmer believed that these lingas fertilized Angkor’s fields as the river flowed over the sacred pillars and into the countryside below.

Surviving lingas were carved in polished stone or crystal. Lingas of several different forms survive from the Angkorean period. Some lingas are implanted on a flat square base, termed a yoni that is symbolic of a womb. Mukhalingas have the face of the god Shiva engraved on them.  More complex, segmented lingas portraying a square base symbolizing Brahma, an octagonal middle section representing Vishnu and a round tip symbolic of Shiva.

DJ M has been focussing his attention more on the transition from one song to the next in his recent remixes, in addition to the traditional beat matching used by all DJs, DJ M is more finely merging the rhythms of the 2 songs to generate new and different sounds, increase the complexity of the transition creating a new area of interest for both the dancer and listener.  Patrons at the Linga Bar should concentrate their listening on the transitions between songs, they may be surprized and certainly DJ M would love any feedback.