“When I play with Maya, there’s this context of falling in love. These big songs about love and the power of love… They’re tectonic, they shake the earth. They’re powerful enough that you can play them at festivals, but they have heart like music you don’t usually hear at festivals. So that’s one way that being with her and sharing music with her has let me embrace this part of myself that was just waiting to be unlocked.”

“When that vocal hits at a time where I might not be feeling great, but I need to hear it in that moment and I think someone in the crowd might need to hear it too… I’m singing along with it, and I’m trying to fully embrace what it is because everything that’s there means something to me.”

“This is the icing on the cake of a life spent with music. I’ve developed this personal relationship with synthesizers and records and sound… And it got me through all this stuff. It changed my life. Those high, euphoric moments are amazing and I want to provide them for people, definitely. And if I can help people have those moments, then yeah, that’s great. But it’s not everything. Dancefloor is not utopia.”

Absolute favorites! Eris & Maya are so loving, generous, and immensely hardworking, buillding up the underground community 😍

Recording of Peach's set at Lente Kabinet Festival 2023.

Lente Kabinet Festival 2023

Peach at Lente Kabinet Festival 2023

HÖR - Jul 12, 2023

In a world in which there is so much music it can be difficult to know whose perspective and opinion to trust. Often those with the most public profile and reputation receive the most recognition. However, behind the scenes there is a whole array of folk who picked them and so on and so forth…

Villella has been involved in the underground music sphere for many years – as a leading curator behind Truants and as a DJ in his own right. Having been exposed to a broad array of sounds and styles across well over ten years in Dance music it is interesting to see what has stuck not only in the mind but in the record collection of a DJ who has seen a hell of a lot come and go.


 
This mix has been a little while coming – something Villella apologised for upon delivery. However, all things considered, we were glad for his respective patience as the result is well worth the wait.

This mixtape features two hours of music spanning an eclectic array of sounds. It’s a real mix from start to end – a journey through sound done proper which really feels considered and put together in a way which few DJ’s tend to these days.

Villella: The 'Shine A Light On' Mix

People in Los Angeles usually remember the moment they first saw Colored Craig DJ. He cuts a memorable figure: throwing down records on the turntables and dancing like he's in the crowd, not behind the decks. He's one of those rare selectors who's almost as fun to watch as he is to listen. But the rest of the world should be listening. Over the past few years, Colored Craig has become one of the LA area's most in-demand DJs, not just because of his considerable skills, but because of his old-school, loved-up ethos. He plays classic house records with a verve and style that you can't really teach or learn. You just have to have it.

A choreographer by trade, everything about Craig has to do with movement, the joy of it, the energy you both gain and lose through dancing. His RA Podcast, recorded in his living room (a sort of nightclub in itself) gets across the infectious, uplifting energy of his sets, blazing through tracks from Kerri Chandler, Masters At Work and Chez Damier, and even including a disco house track that samples the Price Is Right theme. You might call this sound nostalgic, but it doesn't feel that way coming from Colored Craig, who is obsessed with the now, and the power of the moment. That outlook is all over this mix, and with any luck, you'll be hearing and watching him DJ around the world outside of LA sometime soon.

@coloredcraig

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RA.898 Colored Craig

When DJs and producers @eris-drew and @octoocta first met, they felt an instant connection that has only grown over the years. Kindred spirits in both music and life, the pair released their first split EP entitled Devotion in 2018, sharing the same artistic values that make their music deeply moving in all senses of the word. Their DJ sets, meanwhile, light up the dancefloor — their back to backs can be as bombastic and high-energy as they are personal and emotive, speaking to a healing force that seems to drive all of their work. 

In this episode, we discuss their b2bs, their joint tour and label, @T4TLUVNRG, and their collaborative project Alchemical Sisters — the latest addition to a cosmic world in full colour.


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Music: 
"Late Night Love" - Octo Octa (2023)
"My Body is Powerful" - Octo Octa (2019)
"Trans Love Vibration" - Eris Drew & Octo Octa (Eris Goes to Church)
"A Howling Wind" - Eris Drew (2021)

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AIR 058 / Eris Drew & Octo Octa

This mix is a goodbye letter to my mother to help her start her journey through the universe. 

It has pieces of her life in it to remind her that the pain was only in the end but her life story is not that. It was full of joy, love, laughs, dance, and music.

CARTA A MI MADRE

Today's Crack Mix from Leon Vynehall settles into a deep and atmospheric groove almost immediately. From there, the hour-long set swaggers through recent Bandcamp finds and record shop gems tried-and-tested IRL by the London-based artist and producer.

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Crack Mix 522: Leon Vynehall

Name:  Alison Swing (@alisonswing)
Pronouns: She/her
Location: Berlin

Influences: New York / Chicago / Detroit 

Affiliations/Residencies/Projects: Frisky (Berlin) / Dig Deeper (Los Angeles)

Favorite Quote:  "We do not have to love. We choose to love.” - Bell Hooks

Advice for the DJs, producers and artists of our community: Follow your gut! If anything, from your next track to your next partnership doesn't feel right there's usually a reason for it. And your first idea is usually your best idea.

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Name: Stella Zekri (@stella-zekri-ouiddir)
Pronouns: She / Her
Location:  Berlin

Influences:  Boogie Hip Hop Disco New beat  House 

Affiliations/Residencies/Projects: Body Language, Stella and the Longos 

Favorite Quote: "When words fails, music speaks." Christian Hans Andersen

Advice for the DJs, producers and artists of our community: Trust your taste, play intentionally and emotionally :)

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With this mix Alison Swing asks for you to please learn more about and consider donating to:
❁ Casa Kua (https://casa-kua.com)

With this mix Stella Zekri asks for you to please learn more about and consider donating to:
❁ Don't Go We'll Fund Them (https://www.instagram.com/dontgowewillfundthem/)

Read more at - https://thedaisychain.club/2023/10/17/daisychain-300-alison-swing-b2b-stella-zekri/

Daisychain

Daisychain 300 - Alison Swing b2b Stella Zekri

@kimannfoxman live at The Grove on Saturday.

Campout Mix Series: Kim Ann Foxman

https://www.instagram.com/gabriellekwarteng

Gabrielle Kwarteng @ The Lot Radio 11-21-2023

I recorded this mix in 2018 for the Her Damit festival and titled it the Mystery of the Motherbeat. I was hungry to tour Europe for the first time and agreed to do a mix and play the festival on a shoestring budget. Her Damit went into bankruptcy later that year, failing to pay artists and others for their work.  They also let their Soundcloud account expire, losing all the mixes they commissioned for the series. 

I am re-releasing this mix under its original name. Its real name. It is one of my deepest mixes. It is filled with the love and hope for the future that I put into it. It was recorded a week before I went to visit Maya and Brooke for the first time in March of 2018, exactly two years ago. That visit would change my life.  

Metronome - Voyage to the Bottom of the Bass (WBR Records 1991) 
Visions of Rhythm - Power of Purchase (Klasse Wrecks 2017)
Christian Tiger School - If You Want To (Original Version) (Lissoms 2018)
DJ Python - Cuál (Incienso 2017) 
Pseudopolis - Tracer (Redstone Press 2017)
Bassbin Twins III - untitled (Bassbin Records 1995)
Nitro Delux feat Silk - Hypno House (Deep Dub) (Cutting Records 1990)
Christian Tiger School - If You Want To (Edmondson Version) (Lissoms 2018)
Friends of Mathew - Out There (Raw mix) (Pulse-8 Records 1991)
DJ bwin - Mit Bonus... (First Second Label 2017)
Glas Rm - Fully Dipped (Wells Street  2017)
Ben Cohen - Entrance (from “Lesser Mysteries”) (Brokntoys 2018)
DJ Psychiatre - Trust Issues (Gasp 2017)
Hawke - 3 Moods in a Gurple Parden (Hardkiss Music 1993)
Dream Cycle - Paradise State (Sneaker Social Club 2017)
Human Movement - I Need (12 inch mix) (Of Leisure 2017)
Waterpark - Data Orb (Deep Blue 2016)
Environments - Ultimate Thunderstorm (Syntonic Research, Inc. 1979)

Eris Drew’s Mystery of the Motherbeat Part 1 (formerly Her Damit)

AIR is an interview podcast series with a different theme each episode. 

Created in 2017, AIR aims to be something different in the wide world of music journalism. Tired of the usual promotional fluff, host Emma Robertson invites artists, DJs, and musicians to get deep on one topic that inspires them — everything from nature, to film, to spirituality — in the hope that it inspires you, too.

AIR 058 / Eris Drew & Octo Octa

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