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

My name is Fana’ (which can be stylized a number of different ways; FANA’, fana’), my pronouns are they/them, I’m from NYC but currently live in Cleveland, OH and a fun fact about me is that I can’t tell people where I currently live without disclaiming that I’m from New York.

Who currently inspires your music-wise?

Indigenous throat-singing throughout Asia but specifically Ainu Rekuhara and Kurdish Dengbej

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

If anything this past year has given me the opportunity to just sit on my ass and do absolutely nothing without any guilt so instead of replacing going to clubs with hobbies I’d only be getting into for the sake of productivity, I’m really enjoying doing less and just having time to myself.

If you had to describe yourself as a plant what would it be and why?

Berfin (Kurdish snowdrop); a winter flower that grows in very low sunlight. There’s a scene in a Kurdish film called I Saw the Sun (Güneşi Gördüm in Turkish) where one of the main characters, a trans woman, is explaining why she kept a wilted berfin from the Kurdish village she’s from. In Kurdish folklore, berfin are in love with the sun but know they’ll wilt once the sun shines on them. Despite knowing this, they beg Allah to let them see the sun and when their wish is granted they inevitably die. They sacrifice their entire existence - the struggle of growing through snow - for a moment of warmth and happiness. Sometimes the meaning of struggle is risking everything to bask in the sun, and as a transgender Kurdish person myself, I really fucking feel that.

(Disclaimer: I Saw the Sun is loaded with transmisogyny and violence toward trans women so I don’t really suggest watching it if that’s something that would be triggering.)

How do you see your music taste evolving as time goes on?

The older I get the more pan-Asian and pan-African music I want to listen to and study. At the same time, I’m constantly revisiting/recontextualizing genres I used to listen to and applying that to how I feel about music now and what I wanna create in the future.

What was your first gig? How did it go? 

My first DJ gig was opening for Crash Course in Science when In Training brought them to Cleveland in 2016. I played Italo-disco and didn’t beatmatch and had a really great time.

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

Being Kurdish I know too well why sharing music is essential to the preservation of indigenous history and the passing on of endangered culture through generations; Kurds have been historically denied the right to publish our own history books in the places where we’re from, and the only narrative that gets told on paper is by our colonizers. Dengbej singing is the primary way we’ve passed down stories of our history, our mythologies, our geography, our language and all its dialects. Without the sharing of song my people wouldn’t have a way of keeping ourselves recognized in places that want to eradicate our heritage.

Tracklist:

Duma - ANGELS AND ABYSSES
33EMYBW - 冬虫夏草
Osmani Soundz - Spiritual Masterkey
Asian Dub Foundation - Debris
Gag Reflex - Silk
Nitin Sawhney - Nadia
Soichi Terada - Grand Senshuraku
Future Soundz of India - Shang High
???*** - Silsila Ye Chaahat Ka Remix
Natacha Atlas - Duden (Talvin Singh Remix)
Sharmaji - Jawani
D.J. Rawaat - Masbaha in the Bentley
Anuj Rastogi - Darth Veda
Anuj Rastogi - The River
Natacha Atlas - Taalet (The Kaya Project Remix)

***i dont remember where i got this track from and im not sure if someone had sent it to me a while back and i forgot so if this is you pls get in touch!!! it slams and also i wanna give credit

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Secretlifeoflust - Mike Midnight 
Cutest Kitty Contest - Piezo 
Pop HD - Atom TM 
Number, Weight, Division - Al Wooton 
Micheal Cera - Air Max ’97
Afta Hours - Impey, AcceMo; BAADNEWS 
Deep Breath - Batu 
Noayama - Ingot ft. SILO INF3RNX 
Wanna Dance? (Rosa Terenzi Remix) - Escape Artist 
Vetta Reprise - Donato Dozzy 
Medulla - Austen 
Strobe Fodder - georg-i
workOut! - Two Shell 
Crash Bash Party At BUFO’s - Delay Grounds X Wordcolour 
Bellhead - Liquid Liquid 
Laminar Flow - Mosca 
A Friend Of A Friend - Ben Klock/Etapp Kyle 
Full of Fire - The Knife 
Work To Live - Air Max ’97
Shading - Carrier
Clang - Coen 
Skip Ad -  ex-terrestrial 
F33l Lik3 Dyin - Playboi Carti

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CTM 2024 – Sustain
RSO.Berlin

The POLAAR label head is pushing the boundaries of wild leftfield bass music. Across the last two decades, the French DJ, producer, and label head has brought her transcendent visions of bass music to sound systems. Her latest album Rituals is a stunning encapsulation of her twisted sound chimaeras – juked basslines juddering, heavy percussion, and future techno beats soar amid moments of blackened ambiance and skittering, hip hop-adjacent hi-hats. A powerful and propulsive force behind the decks.

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CTM 2024: Flore at RSO.Berlin

2-hour set recorded live on the Deepwest stacks Feb. 23 0200-0400 at the first RuffNek Solutions show hosted at Voyage Fantastik, playing alongside DJ Keegs and Excalibur. Exported in mono due to recording issues 🌚

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