Name: Shanti Celeste Cotapos Maass
Alias: Shanti Celeste (@shanticeleste)
Pronouns: She / Her 
Location: London
 
Influences: My friends & Family, Jazz, Soul, R&B, 90's House & Techno , Tech House, Fashion, Art, Fruits, colourful stuff..... the list is endless :P
 
Affiliations/Residencies/Projects: Peach Discs, NTS, Mix nights 
 
Favorite Quote: "Life shrinks and expands in proportion to one's courage" - Anais Nin
 
Advice for the DJs, producers and artists of our community: Be yourself and do it because you love it and not for any other reason. This doesn't mean you should want to make money out of it btw! but don't let money and hype be the driving factor because it will show.

With this mix Shanti Celeste asks to please learn more about and consider donating to:
❁ Afghan Aid (www.afghanaid.org.uk)
❁ Reclaim These Streets (www.reclaimthesestreets.com)
❁ Mix-Nights (www.mix-nights.com)
❁ Saffron (www.saffronmusic.co.uk)

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Available on Audio Cassette and digital download directly from the label’s Bandcamp @ https://djbeige.bandcamp.com/album/amen-vol-1

T4T LUV NRG is proud to present “Amen! Vol. 1”, a breathtaking DJ mix tape conceived and blended by Detroit’s DeeJay Beige. “Amen! Vol. 1” is a singular presentation of a sound developed by Beige that is very personal and deeply connected to their history. Beige’s mix is an amalgam of ecclesiastical breaks and gospel house delivered with intensity and soul power like only they can do. Prepare to be enthralled with one of the most exciting DJs currently burning their way through the American underground. From the Holy Ghost TO YOU, this is Beige! Be not afraid…

ARTIST STATEMENT:
In the strictest sense, Amen! Vol. 1 is the result of more than a year’s worth of obsessive brainstorming, digging, planning, arranging, re-arranging, and countless discarded takes. And in another sense, this mixtape has been in the works for the six years since I started DJing, the ten years since my baptism as a teenage club rat, and for my entire life, which for better or for worse has been shaped by The Church and church music since birth. 

My mother was a promiscuously Christian divinity school dropout who pushed my family through a run of increasingly conservative churches: Unitarian, Episcopal, Baptist, Presbytarian, Charismatic-Evangelical, and probably a few others I forget. My fathers family on the other hand were career scientists and committed atheists who also all happened to sing in church choirs for fun. I cannot remember a time when Beethoven, Bach, folk hymns, old negro spirituals and gospel were not playing in my house, day in and day out. 

Cutting ties with both family and organized religion in my early teens left a void of community and belonging that wouldn’t start to be filled until my first experiences with clubbing (sometimes with drugs, sometimes without) years later. And when I started collecting records years after that, I gravitated heavily towards any music incorporating the familiar imagery, themes, musical motifs and language of church (especially Liberation Theology) which remained kind of bittersweetly comforting long after I stopped trying to believe. This might sound heretical, but over the last several years “gospel” has become much more of a feeling to me than a genre or even a sound. As far as I’m concerned, the rave, the club, the congregation, the choir, are only different ways to experience a many-sided mystery. 

For this project, I wanted to challenge myself to imagine going beyond just using a little soulful house to end the night or the mix on an uplifting note, and instead program a fantasy “gospel rave” for a thousand of my closest friends dancing in a field on a moonless night. How would I do my best to deliver a powerful, meaningful, salvatory collective experience from midnight until sunrise? Amen Vol. 1 is a snapshot of that imaginary night. 

The need to use contrasting peaks and troughs to create a sense of narrative for your audience includes emotional or spiritual contrast just as much as it does changes in BPM or a kick pattern.  So, it was important for me to try exceeding simply the emotions associated with “praise” music (like joy) because encountering the truly divine should also inspire fear and awe. Disregarding genre as much as possible, each piece of music was chosen for the sensation or sentimental meaning it inspires for me personally: you probably wouldn’t call most of them “rave tracks”, and plenty aren’t explicitly religious at all. Finally, of course I had to make sure that Detroit and Chicago were properly (but not exclusively, that’s for another mix) represented in the tracklist. Where I’ve ended up, grounded by a repeating classic “anchor track” for each side, is an attempt to simulate Genesis and Revelation, the Good News and the Flood, the dark night of the soul and the moment of salvation–whatever those might mean for you. Can I get a witness?

Beige - AMEN! Vol. 1

Peach's DJ bio simply reads: "Ball of energy." And that's exactly what she brings each and every time. The Toronto-born, London-based DJ has made high impact, thrillingly eclectic sets an art form in the last few years having first started to turn heads with her brilliantly broad radio shows on NTS. Her dynamism also carries over into the music she has produced for labels like Midland's Intergraded and Shanti Celeste and Gramrcy's Peach Discs. 

Peach's signature passionate style runs all the way through this week's mix. From the flurry of jungle breakbeats that open it up to the prickly bass, frenetic club rhythms and euphoric rave of the midpoint, it's an unrelenting ride. The second half becomes more spaced out, with roomier cuts and hypnotic grooves carrying you through the night and into the next morning.

@ohpeach

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Dekmantel Podcast 383 - Peach

****Physical Cassette Mixtape Available Our Bandcamp****
https://octoocta.bandcamp.com/album/love-hypnosis-vol-2

I heal myself weekly with the music I play. I listen deeply to the words buried within; the intention behind the lyrics either peppered-in or chorused. So much of the house music I connect with is rooted in love. It’s rooted in desire and hope. It’s rooted in narrative, “Do you want to trip with me?”, “I’ll outstretch my hand”, “I won’t forget about you, you won’t forget about me, we won’t forget about love vibrations!”. I listen to the messages to remind myself what I need and why I continue to move forward.

Vol.2 is represented in two mixing styles; long-melded blends (Trippin’ On Love) and fast, tight radio-style cut mixes with overdubs (Slammin’ With Love). Both convey the deep need for connection to one’s body and to others. It’s this connection energy that I find so powerful about house music’s healing magic.

Xoxo Octo Octa

♥︎♥︎♥︎♥︎ 50% of the profits the mix will be donated to the Sylvia Rivera Law Project (SRLP), which works to guarantee that all people are free to self-determine their gender identity and expression, regardless of income or race, and without facing harassment, discrimination, or violence. ♥︎♥︎♥︎♥︎

Octo Octa - Love Hypnosis Vol. 2 Mixtape

Recorded live at RONS Coffee House, Holdrons Arcade during the Peckham Festival 2023 as part of their first birthday celebrations.

Morenas - Cuando Brilla La Luna (En La Cima Del Mundo)
Laroie - Friend or Lover (Manuel Darquart Remix)
Brijean - Angelo (Space Ghost Remix) 
Don Surf – Remind Me
Soul II Soul - Back to Life [Masters At Work House Remix] 
Body Moods - Agitate It (Jazz N Groove Deep Mix)
BRS - You Know Why 
Frits Wentink – Move Steady
Brothers Of The Underground – Gotta Love
Reality Check - Fantasy (Whipped And Turned Mix) 
Gene Farris - Visions Of The Future (Roy Davis Jr & DJ Skull Mix)
Frits Wentink – Intentions
Maurice Fulton – You Give Me Good Feeling
Cultured Pearl's - Mother Earth (Hoff's Optimistic House Edit)
Afrimerican Coalition - No More Weeping (VSMQ Underground Mix) 
Ruf Dug x Lovescene – Make This Right (Club Mix)
Frits Wentink - Double Man
The S-Man - Time 2 Stop (9 to 5 Mix)
Grant Nelson – Rhode House
M.A.D Productions feat. Carroll Thompson - Too Late (Underground Dub)
Henk Donkers x Ell Murphy - Without You
Incognito – Nights Over Egypt (MJ Cole Dub)
JD Hall - Into You (Johnathan Morning Mix)
D Knox - Just Let Me Go 
New Horizons - Find the Path (In Your Mind)

WOLF Music Balamii Radio Sept 23 - Live At RONS First Birthday

** You can buy a cassette or digital download of the mix on our bandcamp**
https://erisdrew.bandcamp.com/album/raving-disco-breaks-vol-ii-rock-the-house

T4T LUV NRG is about to rock your stereo this spring with a sequel to the label’s first release “Raving Disco Breaks Vol. I” (2018). Eris Drew wanted to create a new sound for the second volume of her acclaimed mixtape series instead of simply retracing the pure disco vibes of the original. Setting her sights and intentions on creating a rock ‘n’ roll infected house mix, Eris worked on building crates for the last five years, finally reaching an inflection point—a moment of concrescence—when she was ready to put the needle on the records and let the beats flow. “Rock The House” was born, a concept for Volume II built from musical fragments, memories, and synchronicities. There are no classic Big Beat tunes on Volume II, instead Eris kicks out the jams for this mix with non-stop house and breaks cuts featuring plenty of rockin’ vocal vamps, as well as the likes of Janis Jopin, Joe Strummer, Ramones, and Led Zeppelin—all sampled, scratched and dropped along the way. Both sides of the mix include some of her most personally coveted recordings. To gather these records, Eris spent decades identifying tracks from older mix cassettes recorded by her DJ heroes, such as Terry Mullan and Mystic Bill, as well as discovering many of the featured tracks through happenstance and countless hours digging through dusty bins and YouTube rips. Each of the tracks on Volume II are at least 20 years old—some much older—but fresh is the word here, and the word is freeeesh!

Now, as the snow melts and the flowers of rave romance start to bloom, T4T wants to know one thing…Are U ready to rock right?

Eris Drew's Raving Disco Breaks Vol. II - Rock The House

Mizz Diggs is doing her rounds in Brooklyn this spring. She's back from her jet setting to pinch the veil on her evolving sound. 
http://www.instagram.com/dee.diggs

Dee Diggs @ The Lot Radio 04-19-2024

Recorded live at Giant Steps on Easter Sunday, 31 March 2024.

The clocks went forward. The speakers were still moving. (They don’t call it a travelling sound system for nothing.) Once the sound settled and after a needle change or two, the dancers flooded in and the sun dipped out of sight.

This recording picks up from about that moment. Just a fun, loose energy from a crowd that knew Monday was a freebie. Flowing between groovers and steppers as the night got extended (twice). 

We felt the love and gratitude, and hope you enjoy the listen back.

Special thanks as ever to Aneesh and Amit, and to Juan for sound at the venue.

Customs Live at Giant Steps 2024

Gerd Janson and I played back to back at the Circoloco x Loveland party a couple of weeks ago at ADE. We had a lot of fun and the recording came out pretty nice! So we decided to share it with you guys...

Gerd's wicked new Fabric CD is out now. Check it: http://www.fabriclondon.com/store/fabric-89.html

Jackmaster facebook page is here: http://facebook.com/djjackmaster

Photo by Sebastian Manox for Warehouse Project!

Upcoming shows from the two of us: 

Sub Club Glasgow NYE: https://www.facebook.com/events/1875988389295617/

We Are Festival: http://www.wearefstvl.com/

Jackmaster b2b Gerd Janson live @ Circoloco x Loveland ADE

recorded live from the Mioli holiday vibes part at monarch in sf, ca.  dedicated to johnny igaz aka the eternally talented producer Nackt, Amanda Kershaw, and Chelsea Faith; victims and survivors of the oakland ghost ship fire...  thinking of you always.  They Sleep, We Live.

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Alex Lin -- Mioli Holiday Vibes @ Monarch SF 22.12.2016

Will Buck & Tilman @ Broken Shaker Los Angeles, July 26th 2019

the shuffle co-op | unaverz art car | lips & rhythm

lucidity, burning man, sf decom, hercules & love affair, willie burns, omar-s, andrés, flying lotus, justin martin, mstrkrft, worthy, greenbay jackers, et al.

Alex Lin -- Mioli Holiday Vibes @ Monarch SF 22.12.2016

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