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This latest transmission simultaneously archives my Fever AM X Currents FM Multiverse Set and my broadcast on NTS the following week.

I was in the middle of completing a stressful multi-phased housing transition while coming up with this set so kinetic, frantic, and heavy hitting felt existentially fitting at the time. It's full of both anxiety and relief, made to resemble the movement from dread into joy that forced change conjures...

- Tracklist -

Russell Ellington Langston Butler - Too Stressed
African Head Charge Vs. Professor Stretch - Run Come Chant
Coco Bryce - U I Luv
Justice, Metro & Muted - Reader 38
A Guy Called Gerald - Cyberjazz
Kush Jones - BREAK SYSTEM
Rogue Unit Vs. The Dream Team ft. Princess - Good 2 You
Paradox - Life Without Drums
Underground Beat Movement - Check Dis
Macc & dgoHn - Ascorbic 403
Goldie - A Sense of Rage (Sensual VIP Mix)
1.8.7 - We Are Not Alone
Russell Ellington Langston Butler - Too Stressed

3. 26. 21

So pleased to welcome Pittsburgh based artist ADAB to the series with their second installment of "Dub Transmissions" ~ some words from them on the mix>>

"I wanted this mix to sound like it was coming from the deepest regions of space. A literal transmission (opposed to Vol. 1's more figurative name) from some far off starship where my black being is unbothered by Earth, it's bounds, and time. I selected tracks that I felt when sequenced together evoked the feeling of catching a chance radio burst from an unreachable place light years away that could break off into static and disappear back into the void forever. Everything in here for the most part sounds like it's coming apart at the seams a little bit, leaving you anticipating if this mix will fully disintegrate or evolve into something else..."

https://soundcloud.com/adab

Motion Cast Vol. 71: ADAB - "Dub Transmissions Vol. 2"

Azu Tiwaline's Guests are Kiernan Laveaux & ADAB this month.

ADAB :
ADAB is a way of being conjured, partly, into sound by the non-binary trans vessel of Miah Benton. They pull from the intersection of the pan african diaspora and afrofuturism in an attempt to scry for better more positive futures.
https://soundcloud.com/adab


Kiernan Laveaux :
Kiernan Laveaux is a non-binary trans energy conduit & ecstatic beat conductor from the Great Lakes, channeling love & understanding through the rhythms of life to dancers of open mind & spirit everywhere
https://soundcloud.com/kiernan-laveaux

Producer @azu-tiwaline works at drawing from her origins to find a new unique sound, taking inspiration from berberian & saharan trance music, as well as the relationship that develops between human beings and nature, through sound.

Catch Azu Tiwaline every 1st Sunday of the month, from 9 to 10pm [CET] on rinse.fr

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Azu Tiwaline invite Kiernan Laveaux & ADAB - 02 Mai 2021

This is a special edition of Zol featuring the debut radio performance of Boyz II Them (Adab and Russell E.L. Butler)

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@adab arrived at a love of electronic music on the dance floor of queer-run techno party In Training in their native Cleveland. Before long, they went on to established themselves as a DJ who plays electric sets of house, techno and club beats as part of a constant quest to "seek the unifying elements in the world and themselves." The Pittsburgh resident and radio regular is now half of Cleveland party Heaven is in You and has an international profile that is only set to grow as they continue to confound expectations with each new set. 

That starts with this week's mix, which is an other-worldly trip into genre-less electronics. Dense and cinematic ambiance and sound design set the opening scene - it's a world of searching synths and shadowy alien life forms in which a skeletal rhythm eventually appears. Deconstructed dub, club and jungle flavour the ensuing grooves which are heads down and dark. They evoke all manner of dystopian futures and make for a brilliantly unconventional ride.

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https://www.nts.live/shows/adab/episodes/adab-26th-march-2022

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Heaven is in You began as an intent based project in wide ranging exploration of the world and our own being. Now defunct, ADAB once curated the Cleveland based Heaven is In You parties alongside colleague Eric Sarley (Ghost Noises) for what became locally known as a labor of love in sonic variety. The sentiment finds itself resurrected here for ADAB's monthly transmissions.

https://www.nts.live/shows/adab/episodes/adab-15th-july-2022

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Heaven is in You began as an intent based project in wide ranging exploration of the world and our own being. Now defunct, ADAB once curated the Cleveland based Heaven is In You parties alongside colleague Eric Sarley (Ghost Noises) for what became locally known as a labor of love in sonic variety. The sentiment finds itself resurrected here for ADAB's monthly transmissions.

https://www.nts.live/shows/adab/episodes/adab-8th-october-2022

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Heaven is in You began as an intent based project in wide ranging exploration of the world and our own being. Now defunct, ADAB once curated the Cleveland based Heaven is In You parties alongside colleague Eric Sarley (Ghost Noises) for what became locally known as a labor of love in sonic variety. The sentiment finds itself resurrected here for ADAB's monthly transmissions.

https://www.nts.live/shows/adab/episodes/adab-28th-january-2023

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https://www.nts.live/shows/adab/episodes/adab-25th-march-2023

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"I’d say, humbly, it’s definitely meant to feel like a brief psychedelic plunge into Motherbeat sonic territory. With the end of retrograde happening within the same window (aswell as my 30th birthday) it only seemed right to release a mix that attempted to conjure lush, cavernous visions of self, ancestry, and the mystic energies in between both." - @adab

q&a: http://discwoman.com/mixes/adab

DISCWOMAN 89 x adab

Decided to upload the recording of my newtownradio.com set from last week to celebrate 420. Up until this mix I'd never gotten to really explore recording or doing a full set of all the types of dub sounds that resonate with me, so I thought during this time of personal self repair and exploration it was only fitting to finally venture in...

In these uncertain times I can only hope that this hour and thirty minutes of dub can provide at least a brief window of relaxation for you all. Smoke one, take a breather, and chill for a bit...

Much Love, 
أدب

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Juanita's Mix 018 with ADAB @ADAB

Q. How would you describe yourself? (DJ, producer, artist, etc.)
A. I think ADAB is definitely more of an intention to be conjured then a singular moniker for a person. It’s an instance of exploring self/collective through an array of sounds from or influenced by cultures of color and the worlds they influence at large (which are quiet a few). It's also intended to be a direct expression of afrofuturism. A humble attempt to make sets and mixes made for emboldening and envisioning future instances of pan african and POC beauty in dance music.


Q. Any memorable club nights in NY? 
A. My latest memorable club night in NYC is also the last one I was able to spin live before everything shut down. I played Public Records alongside my dear friend CCL and it was a much needed gig/trip. We played a lot of drummy stuff we both love throughout the night and eventually ended on a Jungle/DnB note which was a dream to do with them. The crowd was super into it, outwardly showed love the entire time, and danced their asses off the whole time. It was a blast!


Q. Tell us a little bit about this mix.
A. I decided to finally explore a lot of my 90-100 bpm percussive stuff that I’ve accumulated over time for this one. Up until now almost all my mixes have been above or around 130 bpm so it was nice to slow it down and mess around with this section of my collection. Definitely intended to be a psychedelic hip churner! There's also a few dear homies like CCL, Flora FM, Ali Berger, & Russell E. L. Butler in here as well so big shouts to them for some of these lovely tracks <3 Enjoy!

Juanita's Mix 018: ADAB

This is the first NTS guest mix I did in July 2020 before I started my monthly broadcasts. Made specifically for dreamy and humid introspection within the gyre...

- Tracklist -

Palta - Universel
Panchasila - Estero
De Leon -  A1 Untitled
Sunny Balm -  A Mobile Nature
RMP - 3'22"
Riccardo Schiro - Trans-garde
Zatua - Harimau
Cienfuegos - Bomba
MOUSE ON MARS Die Seele Von Brian Wilson
PWOG - True
DJ Python - Juntos
Meat Beat Manifesto - Nereus Rov
OL - Mt. Sonix
African Head Charge VS. Professor Stretch -  Drums Of Defiance
DJ Ungel - Velah
Chekov - Blanked Out

7. 17. 20

Archived from my September 11th NTS 2 broadcast. I made it with diaspora in mind. Whether it be the Pan African diaspora that ties into my being or the plethora of others that pertain to anyone that could be listening. It's about sounds that feel as if one is traversing...

- Tracklist -

Nihar - Phantom
Azu Tiwaline - Tight Wind ft. Cinna Peyghamy
Pugilist - Ruins
Batu - Reez
Parris - South East of the Mountain
Yak - Kaepora
Superficie - Febre Do Vale
Melly - Mask Shop
Rawaat - ˢᴄᴀᴍ ˢᴏɴɢ
E3 - No Fire (Alter Echo Dub Fyah Remix)
Sister Zo - Untitled3
Lurka - Nah So
Gulls Rhythm Force - A Harmonious Approach
Dolo Percussion - DOLO 2
JV & Palf - Nyx
Rroxymore - Hectadrums

9. 11. 20

This transmission is an exultation of Astro blackness through Afrofuturist and spiritual instances of Jazz. A sonic journey from our current concrete jungles out into the deep regions of the cosmos. It's about that abstracted distant world amongst the stars that we see in our minds as we deal with this hurtful world...

We hold this myth to be potential
Not self-evident but equational
Another Dimension
Of another kind of Living Life
                                               - Sun Ra 


- Tracklist -

Irreversible Entanglements - Enough
Vernacular - The Voodoo Runs Rafeeq Down
Cosmic Vibrations/Dwight Trible - Water flow
Christian Scott aTunde Adjuah - The Shared Stories of Rivals [KEITA] (Feat. Saul Williams)
Angel Bat Dawid - Transition East
Don Cherry - Brown Rice
Alice Coltrane - Huntington Ashram Monastery
Gary Bartz Ntu Troop - Celestial Blues
Eddie Henderson - Explodition
Pharoah Sanders - Astral Traveling
Eli Keszler - Fashion Of Echo

10. 9. 20

US-based selector @adab has been causing a stir with their bewitching blend of  tribalistic tunes with an Afrofuturist twist. Half of Cleveland party Heaven Is In You and an affiliate of queer techno party In Training, their beautifully unique sound has seen them turn plenty of heads.

Acting as a transatlantic companion to the Unbound sound, this instalment of Unbound Riddims shows how adab and DJ Winggold's sounds are two sides of the same coin. Expect glitched out tribal vibes and plenty of percussive madness...

Unbound Riddims w/ DJ Winggold & adab - 9th Nov 2020

1.29.21

Aphrodite's Child - Seven Bowls
Aphrodite's Child - The Wakening Beast
Luis Perez - Ketzalkoatl Yauh Miktlan
HP Lovecraft - Electrallentando
Black Sabbath - Solitude
Shimshon Miel - Nueiba Nueiba
The Eleventh Hour - Low Tee Tah
Santana - Singing Winds, Crying Beasts
Aphrodite's Child - The Four Horsemen
Silberbart - Chub Chub Cherry
Owen B - Daily News
Aphrodite's Child - Aegean Sea
Obnox - Names

1. 29. 21

NYC/Chicago Brick Rap for the snow and your soul...

Wu Tang Clan - Clan in da Front
ODB - Cuttin' Headz
Onyx - Throw Ya Gunz
Mobb Deep - Skit #1
Smif N Wessun - Sound Bwoy Bureill (Re-Edit)
Method Man - P.L.O. Style
ODB - Baby C'mon
Das EFX - Check It Out
GZA - 4th Chamber 
Wu Tang Clan - Can It Be All So Simple/Intermission
Tha Chamba - Hood Thang
Raekwon - Knowledge God
Jeru The Damaja - My Mind Spray
Busta Rhymes - Everything Remains Raw
Mobb Deep - Q.U.(Hectic)
Lord Finesse - Hip 2 Da Game

12. 4. 20

"For this Samhain set I aptly found myself wrestling with transition in my personal life. My housing situation was in flux and mind/patience thoroughly worn down from a year of society's hyper performative fixation on an always present Black struggle (made more dire by a pandemic). With the ancient origins of this holiday marking transition and a collision of existential planes I wanted to play from within my situation in that same manner as a means of closing the door on it in my own way. I wholeheartedly believe 'the only way out is through' and with this drummy widening gyre I wanted to present an illusive path..." 
— @adab

video: https://youtu.be/WYAENPkajuQ

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For Black History month I dedicated my NTS to a celebration of my people in dance music. It's a mixture of tracks old to new spanning 25+ years from areas & individuals mainly in the Midwest, East Coast, and UK. A lot of the older tracks are foundational pieces of music that have shaped me as a Black Afrofuturist deejay of Pan African intent, while many of the newer imbue the brilliance and hope I currently see in modern Black dance music despite a scene that still has long to go with properly valuing us as more than diversity center pieces:

This is the space age...
A new direction
Beyond the gravitation of the past...
You will learn to journey with courage...
With fiery-aim
To reach the splendour days
Of the even greater tomorrow of the Cosmo-age 
(Sun Ra)

- Tracklist -

Da Sampla - Frictional Beat #6 (KMFH 808 Dub)
BEARCAT - Emergency
Jasmin Infiniti - Intervention
Russell E.L. Butler - Teachers
James Bangura - Big Change
Moma Ready - We Could Have Been Better
REKchampa - Atonal Shit
Kush Jones - Right Out The Box
Titonton Duvante - Signs of Inertia
Loraine James - Never Leave Me
Underground Resistance - Subversive Communication
Archetype - Marz Attackz
Shake - Foundry
The Moody Boyz - Pygmy Song (VelcroCity Version)
Outa The Blue - Universe
FAUZIA - Untitled 01

2. 26. 21

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Inquiries: ageless.adab@gmail.com

Miah Benton (adab) puts heavy emphasis on translating the unifying elements between us through djing. Characterized often by their palette of sounds, they made a niche for themselves spinning a variety of sounds. Having started djing dance music as a result of finding Cleveland's queer techno party In Training and being a Chicago born non binary black youth raised across a few states in the Rustbelt, adab seeks to unabashedly present refreshing perspectives and dialogues for both themselves and others. 

                                                                أدب

“Adab, Islāmic concept that became a literary genre distinguished by its broad humanitarian concerns; it developed during the brilliant height of ʿAbbāsid culture in the 9th century and continued through the Muslim Middle Ages.
The original sense of the word was simply “norm of conduct,” or “custom,” derived in ancient Arabia from ancestors revered as models. As such practice was deemed praiseworthy in the medieval Muslim world, adab acquired a further connotion of good breeding, courtesy, and urbanity. 
Parallel to and growing out of this expanded social meaning of adab there appeared an intellectual aspect. Adab became the knowledge of poetry, oratory, ancient Arab tribal history, rhetoric, grammar, philology, and non-Arab civilizations that qualified a man to be called well-bred, or adīb.” -  Encyclopædia Britannica on “Adab”

"Reverend mothers have many memories from previous lives in their brains. When one of these memories pushes itself to be paid attention to, that is adab..." - Frank Herbert (DUNE)

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