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JAMMING with MALZOF radio is an exploration of and tribute to dance music labels releasing tracks from the 80s to the early aughts. Jamming With: is hosted by intermedia artist Jmal based in Pittsburgh. They enjoy exploring weird sonics, sampling and breaks, audio-visual connections, archives of history and raw expression. Select episodes of JAMMING with will hone in on one label with some commentary and insights from your host. 

Included in this playlist are guest radio shows on various stations and platforms 

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Cover Art / Photography / Design by Jules Malice / Malzof for album art, mix covers, photo collage, etc ❤

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North London native and Hyperdub signee Loraine James is an electronic producer who effortlessly blends Electronica and IDM with whispers of jazz and ambience all wrapped up in the artists key avant-garde aesthetic and sensibility.

https://www.nts.live/shows/loraine-james/episodes/loraine-james-27th-october-2022

Loraine James w/ Kiernan Laveaux 271022

almost 4 hours bubs to bubs @kiernanlaveaux live from de sound room September 2022

CCL b2b Kiernan Laveaux Live @ Public Records [09.09.2022]

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Kiernan Laveaux comes in here, with her exciting take on what we could call ‘making full use of our mixing gear’. Keeping the spirit alive of Ron Hardy in the few interviews she did, it really makes sense in regards of the mutual playfulness in the art of DJing. 
The character of this mix bright and weird, something that gains feelings of hope and liberation. A trip that pulsates and stretches with loopy looping, that makes it breath & constrict at times. Kiernan guides us so smooth and kindly through many different cosmic passages. Wavy landscapes without losing any of warmth or euphoria.
Kiernan is from Cleveland, an affiliate of the T4T LUV NRG label & a part of Sweet Abyss - where this mix was recorded live, amidst various gay psychedelic vibes. Thanks Kiernan!
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“This mix is 70 minutes transmitted live & direct from my brain at one of the transgender dance music focused Sweet Abyss events I helped to create in 2023, opening for my lovely friend Tabasheer. Recommended listening on a walk by yourself, in a room with strange lighting, or riding up & down life’s escalators”

Image by @malzof /Jules Malice Art

Knekelhuis # 108 - Kiernan Laveaux

Sweet Abyss with Kiernan Laveaux b2b Malzof @ The Lot Radio 02-04-2024

For the last Smooth Brain Sunday (ever!) on Beloved radio, Malzof graces us with a hybrid dance mix that gets your head and body in an electric groove. 

Starting off with abstract acid house, weaving into dub, freestyle and new beat, returning to the source of disco, 
Malzof takes us on an elemental ride. Their style is captured throughout the mix as it emits a liberating yet emotional feel shared across the genres and origins of dance music.

Malzof is an explorative intermedia artist based in Pittsburgh. Their background consists of multitudes of an audio-visual experience: video production, live audio + visuals, installation art, DJing and beyond. Pittsburgh’s finest Sweet Abyss provides a curatorial medium for Malzof to highlight the expansiveness of transgender dance music.

Catch a glimpse of Malzof’s creative expression in this Smooth Brain Session ^-^

Track List:

Holy Ghost - Walk on Air (Sun and Moon mix)
Midiboy - Midi Jungle (Midi Dub)
Off  - Step by Step (dub mix)
Frankie Knuckles - Bad Boy
Lil Louis - Wargames
Brooklyn Express - Hollywood Party
Martin Circus - The Circus Remix
Mike Anthony - Why Can't We Live Together (dream version)
Device - What is Sadness? (Club mix)
Isaac Hayes- Ike's Mood I / You've Lost That Lovin' Feelin'

Smooth Brain Sunday 19 wsg Malzof July 2024

Tracklist: https://wkdu.org/playlist/68441

As a long-time events & community organizer, Malzof is also well-known for their public art, projection art/installations and musical output.

Sweet Abyss resident Malzof has been DJing for a decade, playing their own signature style of transgender dance music. As a life-long music collector, their sound archives go deep. Heavily influenced by IDM, Ambient, experimental music, breaks, sampling, and dance music of all kinds, they are not afraid to make it blend. They see DJing as an extension of all the work they do- to bring people together, to encourage moments of release and joy, and to support people in showing up in their true expressions as resistance against hegemony.

You may have heard Malzof play a freaky downtempo set at last year's Sploosh alongside Yessi, or perhaps somewhere across the region - from just about everywhere in Pittsburgh to Philly, NYC, Ithaca, Rochester, Montreal, Detroit or on your radio waves across the world. Malzof brings their creative vision and multimedia art practice into the ways they share sound.

Freak Flag | Malzof | 2025-06-18

Highlighting selections from new and used: New Age, D&B, Downtempo, Acid Jazz, Dub, Rock, experimental and more
Your hosts: Matt & NFS with special guest Malzof

Caput Mortuum - Bobby Would / Digital Regress
Iri.gram03 - Iri.gram / False Aralia
Apple Pie Hubbub - Moss / Pork Recordings *used*
Herbie - Moon Juice / Plein Gaz *used*
Temple of Acid Hall - Noda & Wolfers / Nightwind Records
Allegorya - Windu / topo2
The Dayz - Shur-i-can / Big Chill Recordings *used*
Drained Strands - Wrecked Lightship / Peak Oil 
Shadowdance - Shadowfax / Windham Hilll *used*
Rickover’s Dream - Michael Hedges / Windham Hill *used*
The Fire of Mind - Todd Rundgren *used*
Chaleur Humaine - Uman / Freedom to Spend
Aubade - Uman / Freedom to Spend
Butterfly Brain - Mind Mirage / Psychic Eye
Drugs - Talking Heads / Sire *used*
Baby This Love I Have - Minnie Riperton *used*
Witness (Selfless Rework) - Lyra Pramuk & Colin Self
Plasmic Head - Freakniks / Scenario Records *used*

1:33 - 2:05
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Cone Zone Epi 51 with Special Guest Malzof

The phase shift from No Way Back’s nocturne rave acrobatics to Lot Mass’ sunkissed daytime salon is always a sight to behold: an eclectic mixture of smoked out ravers emerging from the depths of Tangent Gallery, freshly showered music heads taking in the Memorial Day sun, & multi-generational dancers defying category or definition, the day feels infinite, & the musical possibilities especially so, bookending the weekend’s mayhem. This year, Johnny Zoloft and Kiernan Laveaux took the post-Scott Z morning baton pass into further realms of house music in the beyond, equipped with nothing but two turntables, Alpha Theta Club Standard DJ Gear, & a surprise special guest: Baltimore saxophonist (and Johnny Zoloft’s brother) Shane Kelly, blowing raucous textures over abyssal blends under the midday sun, as they beckoned dancers towards their final day of Detroit Electronic Music Celebrations. 

Reinvigorating the floor & painting with bold brushstrokes on a kinetic eisel, Laveaux’s xenofeminist inclinations and the duo’s expert dubwise FX manipulation enticed the crowd and provided succulent ear candy throughout the set. Further entrancing dancers into endless movement after No Way Back’s 12 hour marathon in the mind palace, they brought forth a unique vision of so-called Midwest dance music - conjuring soundscapes as informed by the expanses of Detroit’s storied history & multi-lane highways as it is by the DMV’s intersection of funk stylistics, punk attitude, & Sing Sing breakbeats, the expansive mountain ranges & hidden wonders of Appalachia, & northeast Ohio’s irreverent sonic dialectics birthed from the backdrop of industry & decay. All of these combine to form something greater than the sum of it’s parts - an audio cauldron of what makes the midwest so rife with electrified mojo, brought to you by simply another bold presentation of groove, energy, & harmonious cacophony on a special Memorial day afternoon.

Mastered By: @m-parent
Mix Graphic By: @malzof

Recorded Live at Lot Mass 2025 (During Return to the Source 25 @ Tangent Gallery)

Sweet Abyss

MASS CAST 035: Johnny Zoloft B2B Kiernan Laveaux @ Lot Mass

Next we are pleased to have @gay-marvine give us an etiquette lesson on the 36th edition of our Mass cast series. Mass Cast 36, continues the thread of recordings from our 2025 edition of Lot Mass during @ithqdetroit's Return To the Source.

Gay Marvine took over the decks around half through the party immediately flipping a switch, announcing the change over. Subtly refreshing the crowd and raising spirits. What proceed to happen was a 2.5hr glimpse into the mind of Gay Marvine covering house, techno and disco to be brief. Maybe even a few of Marvine’s signature edits added in too. 

The early chorus of Diva vocals and soaring piano riffs were eventually exchanged, for even punchier kick drums and aggressive 303 basslines. The harder grooves echoed across Tangent galleries Garden stage until the sun started to wane. To meet the waning sun and flip the dance floor were short vocal stabs that patiently unfolded to match evolving disco loops that beckoned resting dancers back to the floor. Ultimately culminating the set with another round of joyous shouts and  cheers from the dance floor before the next DJs took the stage.

“This set was an extended love letter to the Detroit scene, the Pittsburgh Hot Mass/Honcho crew, the Return To The Source/IT crew, Movement weekend, and Dance Music in general.



I decided to start off on a joyous vibe to get everyone energized, then took it in a harder direction for the heads. I paid homage to the 90’s Detroit scene with a few classic cuts and then got weird with my edit of Pink Floyd! Mixing out of that into the seminal “Feel The Mood” by E-Dancer (Kevin Saunderson), pointing the way back home to warm House. I finished up with a couple of my Disco edits (time ran out, where did it go?) as a special Thank-You to the amazing crowd who followed all the twists and turns!



Thanks and Much Love to all,

Gay Marvine”

Mastered By: @m-parent
Mix Graphic By: @malzof

Recorded Live at Lot Mass 2025 (During Return to the Source '25 @ Tangent Gallery)

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MASS CAST 036: Gay Marvine @ Lot Mass

his mix was recorded live at Sweet Abyss from resident DJ Malzof, in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA on August 6th, 2025. This is the first hour of the opening set, at the cozy tea shop (Bantha) where they host the party, ahead of special guests Na Bonsai and King Sophia (live), and Madame Trio (DJ).

Tracklist:
African Head Charge - More Bizarre
Boards of Canada - The Devil Is In the Details
Beta Librae - Tea Too
Minotaur Shock - Muesli
Pantha Du Prince - Im Bann
ALONA - HADD
Black Quantum Futurism - Anti-Clock
Motoko & Myers - Basis Key
Hoshina Anniversary - Seseragi
Eric Douglas Porter - Zig Zags
Projections - Stillness Meets Me
Parov Stelar - Silent Shuffle
African Head Charge - Stoned Age Man
Towa Tei - Sunny Side of the Moon
Ozric Tentacles - Fragmentary Aura
Slug Beat - Slug Beat
Keleketla! - Freedom Groove (On-U Sound Humanity Screams Mix)
SUNS OF ARQA - Nam-Myoho-Renge-Kyo (BBC Radio Lancashire ‘On The Wire’ Steve Barker Show 1980s)
Maurice Fulton Presents Boof - We

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