Bertie B

20/08/2026

So excited to be playing at Matakana tonight!!

16/08/2026

Bertie B is excited to be playing at the following three events in the next couple of months:

1. DJ Gems, Cullum and Bertie B are all playing at the Social Club, Matakana. This month it is FREE to attend because it's DJ Gems' birthday. Normally it's $20 to attend, so please register at the Humanix link in the comments below.

This Friday (21st August), come for a dance! 🥰💃🪩🥳

📍 Bramble Cafe, Matakana Country Park
⏰ 6.30 – 9.30pm(ish)
🎟️ Free - grab a ticket, please, at https://events.humanitix.com/social-club-bramble-cafe-matakana.

2. Bertei B will be playing at this mini festival. See graphic. It's the Sacred Waters Gathering, held at Wai-O-Tapu Forest Camp, 25 minutes south of Rotorua. It's the Spring Equinox, 18th to 21st September 2026, and we'll celebrate and weave some magic together as the seasons change. Please DM me if you want tickets.

3. Awaken, Heal and Connect at the Forest Healing Festival, October 23-26, 2026. This is a transformative festival of nature, movement, music, and deep healing. Inspired by the awakening of consciousness and collective healing for the Earth and humanity.

Use discount code ROBERTSON10 for 10% off tickets for 23-26 OCTOBER, 2026 at
📍 EARTH VILLAGE, KERIKERI, NEW ZEALAND

Bertie B is playing a somatic dance set plus doing my "Get More of What You Want by Trusting Your Heart' workshop.

Somatic dance is free-form movement that follows sensation from the inside out, rather than how it looks from the outside. It's judgement-free, with no steps to learn, nothing to perform. To release stress, process emotion and settle the nervous system.

Hope to see many of you soon!

10/08/2026

So good to be back in NZ. Appreciate the sunrise and view so much more after 5 weeks away

18/05/2026

This was so much fun!

I am still a little stunned at how natural my first time felt!

This was the first time on the mic leading a Somatic Dance set!

We had learnt the Somatic Dance structure, then we had to do it for the first time.

During this 10-day Somatic Dance training in Bali, we all had a few days to select music for our 20-minute set.

As an Ecstatic Dance DJ, it was easy to choose my music; I already owned 4 of the 5 tracks, so I just bought the 5th.

Similar to Escastic Dance, we start with slower tracks, build to a peak, then slow down at the end.

The core difference is that with Somatic Dance, we use a microphone to guide people on a pre-planned journey.

Somatic Dance is dance therapy, self-growth, and embodiment; hence, big thanks to the amazing Sarsha Hope for creating this training and now worldwide dance movement.

So I decided to make the focus of my set letting go of fear and disempowerment, and replacing that with power. This is my own core self-development journey, which is also my job.

Then it felt so good to find the words to fit the general plan intuitively.

Below are the 7 minutes of highlights from the full 20-min set. The full video can be viewed from the link at the end of this video.

Heaps of learning and things I will change next time, yet stoked with the result.

18/05/2026

I had not used my own DJ controller since January 16th, so Saturday night at Stargate Forest, with 3 DJs currently in residence, was a lot of fun.

It's so good to be learning more advanced DJ skills from Taode while he is living at Stargate Forest.

The big learning is how he differentiates DJs. To put it into perspective. He runs the festival Yatra NZ, so he has hired hundreds of DJs over the years. Plus, he is an amazing DJ himself.

He explained that anyone can learn the physical DJ skills, but it’s the passion tied to a music genre that differentiates DJs and shapes their reputation.

He suggested that Bertie B has a unique style of music, something he hadn’t seen before!

As a professional DJ, we buy our own music. I only buy music that I love and want to play.

Somatic Dance is different; it’s a structured experience, so I buy the music I need for that journey, but I'm talking today about my party DJ side.

Much of the newer music from the approx 60 billion songs ever written has a few remixed versions of the original.

As an example in my video today, I play a well-known Lorde song with about 8 remixes I could have purchased. My version is more techno-sounding with the extra dance beats added.

This is why each DJ is so unique. For example, Beatport, the site I buy much of my music from, has about 12 million mostly remixed songs. Hence why DJs have their own unique flavour based on what they buy and love to play.

His feedback is that he had never heard a DJ with my unique blend of music. Interesting, as I am still new to being a DJ. I was only trained in 2024 by the very talented DJ trainer, DJ Kimba Jade.

Back to Saturday night, I did just a 9-minute DJ slot for our Stargate Family, and the video is uncut.

It's a quick transition from one song to the other without professionally planned queue points.

In this uncut video, I made two significant errors that a professional DJ shouldn't make.

Please comment when you identify my mistakes, noting the time in the video when they occur.

Plus, I'm not sure a 10-day-old new hip, just had the op, can really be the excuse for the non-conformist dance moves. I am just different 😂

I am out of practice as a DJ because I lent my controller to a new DJ in January, whom I am training.

Another learning is I need to raise my table as my posture is rubbish, bent over, like an invalid who has only had a hip replacement 10 days ago. Ok, well, that is actually what happened🧐

I do wonder how my dance will change when I'm off my crutches!

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13/05/2026

I have had a few pretty intense days until I returned to grounded as explained in my post below:

05/01/2026