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

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 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 presenting the margins of existence and sound through their djing. The now Philadelphia resident started spinning various eras of dance music as a result of finding Cleveland's queer techno party & crew In Training and being a Chicago born queer youth raised across a few states in the Rustbelt. But ADAB, as presented here, is less person and more a way of being that seeks to illuminate refreshing perspectives for others wherever they may be found...

                                                                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”

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