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Phonica Mix Series 85: DJ Python

An ode to weird warm-up set sounds from Manchester's Abena.

More info and tracklist here: https://www.factmag.com/2022/03/07/abena-fact-mix/

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Fact Mix 849: Abena (Mar '22)

With co-signings from some of Europe’s most influential venues, platforms and labels, including Düsseldorf’s Salon des Amateurs and London’s NTS Radio, Cologne-based artist Phillip Jondo has garnered a well-earned reputation for driving sets and percussion-heavy tracks.

Jondo's Crack Mix treads a similarly weighty path. Commencing with a jittering cut from Iglooghost that wouldn’t sound out of place in a dance music lover’s sleep playlist, the recording deftly moves through an unpredictable barrage of “bass-inspired tracks ranging from drill and footwork influences to dembow, dub, r‘n’b and electro funk” from the likes of Jimmy Edgar, Proc Fiskal and PsychoYP. Listen out for an unreleased collab from Jondo, Xzavier Stone and DJ Plead, too. 

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Crack Mix 446: Phillip Jondo

I KNOW WHAT THE PEOPLE WANT - THEY WANT TO BE SHOCKED... AND GROOVED. AND THEY WANT HOUSE 
MUSIC.

Lawrence S. Williams Jr., better known as L.A. Williams, is an American DJ and producer from Chicago. Founder of the label Chisel, producer of over 27 releases, he has an idiosyncratic take to rhythms, sounds and grooves. 

As a huge fan, both impressed and beguiled, I wanted to shine a light on him. I still am often tripped up trying to blend his tracks while D'Jaying and fit them in a mix soooooooo I had to make this all L.A. mix ᏊˊꈊˋᏊ I spent the last few months collecting nearly all his releases on Discogs to use for the mix; a lot isn't available digitally, and it just felt right. 

I think the best way to hear his unique world and sound is via a tour of his various sides and styles, weaving and roiling, building and bubbling, jacking and smacking.

https://www.discogs.com/artist/4146-LA-Williams

TRACKLIST
All Aboard - Great Space Coaster EP
What Tha People Want (House Muzik Anthem) - House Muzik "98"
Da X-Menn (L.A.'s Magic II)- Da X-Menn EP
Program 35 - Chi-Town Sampler
Rainstick - Rainstick
Midnite at 31st Sbeach - D.T.T. 3rd R.
A Little “Old School” Track - Da X-Menn
Cries of Joy Dedicated to Armando Gallop - Sounds 4 Da Underground
Playing Inside Tha Wooden Sandbox - The Future Deescko
Toilet Hush - Sounds 4 Da Underground
Guest Star Entertainment - D.T.T. 3rd R. 
My Music Box - Da X-Menn EP
Hypnotic - D.T.T. 3rd R.
Going Insane (The Insane Asylum TRK) - The Straight Jacket EP
Your Inspiration - The Project Part 2

Only L.A. Williams

North London native and Hyperdub signee Loraine James is an electronic producer who effortlessly blends Electronica and IDM with whispers of jazz and ambience all wrapped up in the artists key avant-garde aesthetic and sensibility.

https://www.nts.live/shows/loraine-james/episodes/loraine-james-27th-october-2022

Loraine James w/ Kiernan Laveaux 271022

Stella's album War Bride is one of those works of art that leave me so changed after experiencing them. It was instrumental for me in understanding the ghosts that accompany me on the dance floor, so I was humbled that she was able to create something for this project. Her mixtape "Dream Jumble" is a performance of original productions, emotional selections, and fragmented vocal samples, whispering like a haunting upon the ancestral beat.
-hyeonje

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@amazondotcom is the project of Stella Ahn, a Korean-American electronic music producer based in Los Angeles. Currently she is interested in collapsing genre, meaning, and musical expectation. She uses intuition and a free-form approach to building structure, rhythms, and sounds.

001 - Amazondotcom - Dream Jumble

Name: Christina Ling
Alias: suade (@whoissuade)
Pronouns: she/they
Location: San Francisco, CA
 
Influences: 2014-2017 bunker raves in Hong Kong, my dad’s trance/euro/new age CDs from the 90s-00s, the original turntable.fm, this wave of Asian artists breaking new ground in electronic music (Howie Lee, Ciel, Yu Su, Sam Goku, Closet Yi, etc…), Total Science Vol. 2, community radio, rhythmic surprises, the internet
 
Affiliations/Residencies/Projects: HydeFM radio (@hydefm) ~ Club Moniker (@clubmoniker) in SF
 
Advice for the DJs, producers and artists of our community: 
✧ Let others inspire you, but compare yourself to no one.
✧ The more hours you put in, the more you’ll improve.
✧ Community is so so important; finding your people, celebrating your growth together, holding space for each other.
✧ Remember to rest and take care of yourself amid all the parties and promo and life spent on social media…slowing down is good for your spirit :-)

With this mix suade asks to please learn more about and consider donating to:
❁ Asian Mental Health Collective: (www.asianmhc.org)
❁ Iranian Diaspora Collective and their ongoing initiatives for women in Iran: (www.gofundme.com/f/freeirancallformedia)

Daisychain

Daisychain 258 - suade

008: the love mix

Propulsive, playful dance music from one of Denver's favorite DJs and promoters: wngdu. Her contribution to the Field Guide series resembles an assembly line, merging post-punk & industrial flavor with squelchy, heads down techno.

Full interview at www.fieldguide.quest

FG02: wngdu

ADAB is known as a black non binary trans individual who explores sound as a whole. The Pittsburgh based, Chicago born and molded, T4T LUV NRG artist has become known for melding boundaries, often sifting between crates of house, techno, bass music, jungle, broken beat and everything esoteric that exists in between. They've brought this balanced approach to their sets at esteemed parties/festivals like No Way Back, Draaimolen Festival, and Freerotation with no intent to stop anytime soon. Via their involvement with T4T LUV NRG you can often catch them flanked by dear friends behind the decks, conjuring with labelmates Kiernan Laveaux, Russell E.L. Butler (as b2b duo Boyz II Them), Bored Lord, Eris drew and Octo Octa. Equipped with this wide ranging approach and the bonds of chosen family they push against preconceived notions of the craft, continually self overcoming to bring us something with tangible intent...

Notes on the Mix ///

"I came into doing this pride mix with the intent of displaying my own personal joy as a non binary trans person. Every song picked is one that has lifted my spirit in some shape or form and I wanted to give that to my own this pride season. Pride for someone like me is often highlighted by isolation and a lack of desirability, so this mix is a gathering of gems that have battled against those feelings. It's also a collection of tracks that I've been listening to this Pride season in particular. A time that has been elevated by newfound love and a growing sense of finally finding somewhere to belong...enjoy!"

SOCIALS:
@adab
https://ra.co/dj/adab
https://www.instagram.com/ageless_adab/

XOXA BLEND 160 - ADAB

Melbourne-based DJ Plead is one of the newest members of Nervous Horizon, the label co-founded by TSVI - an Italian artist living in UK. Both artists explore rhythmic traditions from around the world, with a special focus on Lebanese wedding and pop music (Plead) and Sufi practices (TSVI). They played b2b for the first time at Unsound 2019 in Kraków, exploring the breadth of percussive music in front of a tightly packed Kitchen at Hotel Forum. Here's a recording of that set, filled to the brim with some of the freshest tunes in club music right now.

Unsound Podcast 58: TSVI b2b DJ Plead

Championing the new wave of electronic art.

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