Now based in the Bay Area, @sisgirlpgh has become a staple of the US queer underground via the close-knit and musically multifaceted Pittsburgh dance music community and through unforgettable sets at festivals like Gays Hate Techno and Honcho Campout. A co-founder of Pittsburgh's MESH, alongside ChadKid and newly minted resident Calin, and a resident of Kosmetik in San Francisco, their sets traverse many tempos within a dreamy, bassy, and effervescent palette. Their mix is a perfect backdrop as we lament the absence of those queer summer moments in the woods due to the COVID-19 pandemic, bouncing between melancholic reflection and joyful reminiscence.

Read the full interview and see a tracklist:
spontaneous.zone/027-sis-girl.html

"The tracks I put into this mix have been some I have been sitting on for a while and wanted to put together. When quarantine because of COVID started I wanted to create something with energy but still something on a tempo that wouldn’t necessarily be played on a dance floor.

The mix is recorded all around 100 BPM but still brings energy so it’s great for a mellow time or something different. The tracks are new plus some that I’ve had tucked away for a time like this. It’s one of my favorite things I’ve put together and I hope it brings people a lot of comfort and happiness during this time."

Sis Girl's fee for this mix was donated to SisTers PGH, a transgender centered drop-in space, resource provider, and shelter transitioning program based in Pittsburgh, PA.  https://www.sisterspgh.org

@sisgirlpgh / @meshparty

Interview + Tracklist

Spontaneous Affinity #027: Sis Girl

LA-based composer and vocalist Julianna Barwick gathers a soothing selection of tracks to float downstream to this Sunday.

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Sunday Mix: Julianna Barwick

Beyond / Below B2 by @carl-420. Received May 2020.
Artwork by Carly Barton

"Fan Club is an intimate community-focused celebration recurring quarterly on the solstices and equinoxes of each season. To usher in the new Spring (2019), we gathered in a modest structure in the forest near Silver Falls (Oregon). The fusion of energy provided by the fresh snow and impending Spring resulted in a night of mystical improvisation, becoming more hypnotic as the dark transformed into morning. This mix is a section of a near 4-hour recording using cdjs and turntables— diving into a fungi fueled trance that collages questionable tempos into new ‘scapes."

TRACK / ARTIST / ALBUM / LABEL [YEAR]
Psidium Guajava / Ibu Selva / Esquizogonia / Tropical Twista Records [2018]
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Staying For Winter / Cleared / Cleared / Immune [2011]
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Burn Up In Half / We™ / Decentertainment / Home Entertainment [2000]
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Untitled / Thomas Brinkmann / Studio 1 - Variationen (CD Version) / Profan [1997]
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Sergio Leone’s Wet Dream / David Moufang / Solitaire / Fax +49-69/450464 [1995]
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People of the Wind Pt. 2 / Borden, Ferraro, Godin, Halo, & Lopatin / FRKWYS 7 / Rvng Intl. [2011]
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Calene / Process / Shape-Space / Fat Cat Records [2000]
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Lovebeat / Yoshinori Sunahara / Lovebeat / Ki/oon [2001]
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Dona J Haraway / NSDOS / Female Guest List E.P. / ClekClekBoom Recordings [2015]
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Trial Dub / Dean DeCosta / Theorie E.P / Lo-Fi Stereo [2000]
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Data Haiku / Datacide / Datacide II / Fax +49-69/450464 [1994]
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Follow Me Home / Chessie / Meet / Drop Beat Records [1999]
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Streamline / Jet Chamber / Jet Chamber / Fax +49-69/450464 [1995]
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Resonant Orbit / Seabat / Scattered Disc / Goltimers Tapes [2013]
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Over 6633 / Ametsub / All Is Silence / Nothings66 [2012]
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Urania / Frank Bretschneider / Komet / Shitkatapult [2011]
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Baud / Biosphere / Stator / Touch [2015]
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Semiramis / Monoceros / Imaginary EP / Imaginary Nonexistent Records [2006]
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Elevation II (Original) / Vainqueur / Elevations / Chain Reaction [1997]
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Epa D’autore / Arg / iXem / iXem [2003]
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Etra / Manta / Etra / Where To Now? [2015]
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Abaddon’s Cave / Carly Barton / Unreleased [2019]
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Char / Carly Barton / Interludes / Self-Released [2019]
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Plant Charmer / David Edren / Music for Mimosa Pudica & Codariocalyx / Self-Released [2015]
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Mold / Carly Barton / Interludes / Self-Released [2015]
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Toyo Vinyl / DJ Nobu / Toyo Vinyl / INDUSTRIAL JP [2018]
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Shimmer / Heiko Laux / Fernweh / Kanzleramt [2014]
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Mushroom Maze / Carly Barton / Vidya World 12 / Self-Released [2018]
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5 (Spectre) / Moritz Von Oswald Trio / Sounding Lines / Honest Jon’s Records [2015]
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Many Blades of Grass Ago / Fenton / Pup / Plop [2005]

B2. Carly Barton

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Bake with Wonja - 28 September 2020

Fana' is a multimedia artist, musician, and DJ from NYC currently residing in the midwest. From 2016 - 2018 they hosted and curated Disco Paradiso, a retro-futurist dance party held in Cleveland, and since 2018 they have been focusing on writing their own music. They've released 3 EPs so far, and are currently working on new material. Their mix is taken from the Jellyfish Virtual livestream from May 2020. 
Check out more at @fanafellahin.

(pictured: Mana from Malice Mizer---the same pic Fana' had printed out and taped to their wall when 12. :))

JELLYFISH MIX SERIES 03: FANA'

Rinse France Podcast

Perko invite Special Guest DJ - 14 Octobre 2020

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

@taylorbratches

Introduce yourself? Preferred pronouns? Where do you currently reside? 1 fun fact about yourself?

My name is Taylor and my preferred pronouns are they and she. I live in Brooklyn! Fun fact about myself… I used to teach hip hop dance in the early 2000’s. 

How is everything going with you right now?

It’s going pretty well despite the circumstances, which of course are not ideal. Been navigating a lot of personal challenges lately, from a break-up to family drama, but strangely I feel ok, like all is looking up….something in my attitude has shifted

What are you missing from pre-covid life?

Dancing. With people. More than anything.

Any fun goals for winter time?

3rd installment of Dance Floor Epiphanies for Resident Advisor is happening, and I also have an ambient release coming out for the boutique cassette label, Enmossed. And I want to finish my memoir! (maybe it will actually happen this time). 

Who currently inspires you music-wise?
ASC (always). Europa. Ma Sha Ru. May Vary. Abby Echiverri. E.C.C.O. Pugilist. Air Max ‘97. Eris Drew and Octo Octa. Datach’i. H.E.R. Noumen. And I’ve been kind of obsessed with heavy bass music lately like Ternion Sound and TMSV. those lower chakra vibes


4 djs you would want to see on a lineup for the first party post covid asap?

Oh god this is hard. Umm… I’m thinking about the DJs whose sets just tether me to the floor and make me really fucking jump-up-and-down happy:

Erika
Danny Daze
Ben UFO
Eris Drew

What other activities have you dipped into with a break from djing?

Writing and Spiritual Channeling / Energy Work. Deepening into both of those practices.. 
 
Let’s play a pipipi game… I give you a situation & you give me a track (youtube links plz)

** 1 track for the insect world
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=30stBhRAnmA
OR
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pcZZR49OQ_4


** pool party for the older generation of club kids?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QnHXnyLtGhk


** b2b with Claude Young
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EkQVO4NRAUI


Favorite weird drug experience?

The very first time I took acid I accidentally took too much and merged with the soul of another human until we no longer could distinguish ourselves from one another. I saw his third eye blinking on his forehead, as real as an actual eye, and then we became telepathic, and then we astral projected as one entity into the godhead. It was cool.

Why do you think it's important to share music?

I believe it’s the most unifying force in the world. It’s the most human language, and gives us access to our emotions in a way that brings joy. And it connects us beyond the mind… it connects us through the body, and through the heart. 

What would you like to see in the future for the dance community?

Cohesion & Unification. A return to how things used to be, without trying to emulate the past too much. Meaning, a sense of PLUR that permeates not only the dance floor but the social spaces, online and physical.

Taylor Bratches - 111˚F

your flower @myflower1 kicks off the gregorian decade on @radio-relativa with a foray into kosmische musik.

recorded in the beercan.

My Flower's "Kosmische Special" | Jan '21

Worldwide booking:
 booking@t4tluvnrg.com

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”