Music as Somatic Release & Emotional Processing with SSIREN

This one's for anyone who's ever cried to a song and had no clue why, and wants to stop being weirded out by it. More info, resources & ways to connect - https://www.tacosfallapart.com/podcast-live-show/podcast-guests/ssiren Sebastian Siren is a DJ, producer and creative director out of New York who blends house, indie dance and trance into what he calls techno temple ritual. He joined MommaFoxFire on Even Tacos Fall Apart to talk about music as somatic release and emotional processing, and the conversation went way past the decks. Sebastian started sharing his story after a bad breakup sent him into therapy in 2019, which led him down a rabbit hole of books on mindfulness and interpersonal relationships that eventually became part of his brand. He talks openly about researching sound healing and metaphysics, and about how electronic music is genuinely primal, built on frequency and beats per minute that sync with the human body. He points out that house music sits around 128 BPM, close to an elevated heart rate, and that when a room full of people move to the same rhythm their brain waves start to sync up too. The two dig into how Sebastian builds a set as an emotional journey, opening either hard and fast or slow and ethereal, moving through waves of energy, and always ending on something euphoric so nobody leaves in what he calls the underworld. He explains why he wants people crying, laughing or feeling something real by the end of a night, and shares a story about eight straight hours of dancing curing six months of lower back pain. They also get into the parts of the scene people don't always talk about honestly. Sebastian speaks candidly about drug use in the rave community, the difference between intentional occasional use and losing yourself in it, and why balance matters more than the reputation the scene gets. He talks about burnout, about being an elder millennial figuring out who he is as an artist now versus who he was ten years ago, and about learning to just be, something his first therapist asked him that he says cracked his brain wide open. MommaFoxFire shares her own experience with music and depression, including a moment her therapist helped her understand about crying to songs as a sign of moving out of emotional numbness. Sebastian gives practical advice too, like building a music toolbox for hard days, when headphones help you go deep versus when a speaker filling the room does more, and why intention matters more than genre. This episode is honest, funny and grounded, covering everything from vampire novels to psychedelic therapy to what it actually means to let a song move through your body instead of just listening to it. Sebastian leaves listeners with a reminder that mental health doesn't always look loud, and that the people who seem like they have it together are often working through just as much as everyone else.