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@kiernan-laveaux

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

Hey! Thanks for these thoughtful questions
My pronouns are She/Her or They/Them
I currently reside in Pittsburgh, PA
I eat strawberries whole :)

How did you get your DJ name? 

So one night when I was 18, I was at a Los Crudos show at the venue that a lot of friends and I would later throw parties at in Cleveland (shout out to Martin and any Limp Wrist fans reading this too!). The venue is next door to a terrible gay bar, I went there randomly (weird for me because gay bars are hell on earth 99% of the time) and ended up meeting a group of queens who said they were from the House of Laveaux and that I was their daughter now. They said I needed a name, and the name they chose for me was Kiernan Laveaux. I never saw them again after that night, but a few months later I began to go by the name when I started DJing. It’s become a part of my being in a way I couldn’t have imagined, and also a way of expressing my inner voice in hopes that it reaches the inner voices of others too - and maybe we all start to sing together.  

Who/what currently inspires your music-wise that has nothing to do with music?

Everything is musical & leads back to music for me no matter what, but recently leaning into the fact that I’m the oldest of a handful of young people on the paternal side of my family has been a really inspiring perspective shift of life. The potential of being a supportive & loving older person in the lives of younger people fills me with an infinite amount of joy.

I’ve been discovering more about Jewish heritage of mine that’s been attempted to be erased (as it goes), and in turn learning/reading more about Kabbalisitic thought & ways of being - engaging in magic in my own ways has been expanding my perspective on music/DJing the past several years. 

I’m far from any kind of expert on kabbalah, but the way energy flow & manifestation is written about and practiced within it has been validating to read, in music but as well as the way it feeds back into life. Even just the ability of the word “kabbalah” to translate to “reception”, “tradition”, or “correspondence” <3

Dream line-up?

System of a Down, Nissenenmondai, Cities Aviv, Devo, Mwandishi, The Body, Madam Data, Model Home, Obnox, Neon Phusion, African Head Charge, Cindytalk, Maurice Fulton, Via App, Cyrnai, Rakta, Plack Blague + all the homies DJing for a week straight

What was your best moment on the dance floor?

I’m thankful a lot of meaningful ones come to mind when I think of this - 
the one I always jump to with this question is the first time I saw Titonton Duvante & Bill Converse dj in May 2016, somewhere in Ohio. Both are definitely some of the first people who helped me see how unique & personal you can really be with DJing, Bill’s set that night especially helped show me how deep you can traverse the wormhole. It was just like this completely enveloping & beautiful psychedelic phenomena for me. I don’t remember a lot of the music, but I’ll never forget how it made me feel. Eternally grateful to have any of these experiences in life to help me smile and still feel coursing through my DJing to this day.

Do you have any upcoming releases/gigs?

Lots of ideas swirling in my mind to manifest for the future, but as of right now…

I’m playing in NYC Friday Sept 24 at Nowadays with 
Azu Tiwaline & DJ Voices :)

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

A complete & utter overhaul of the ways we create space, express ourselves, and love one another.

Check out the A/V set to Kiernan Laveaux's 363˚ mix here -> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yAFVqE6tdn8&ab_channel=KiernanLaveaux

For extended Q&A + OG pi pi pi game please visit the website ------> pipipi.life <--------

Kiernan Laveaux - 363˚

An hour of kickdrum music that made me feel myself, that I danced to through lockdown. Built to get you warmed up for the club or have an extended moment enjoying yourself to.

Ghost Phone - The Last Valentino
Kuya Neil - Crybaby
Tearz - Dreaming
Rydeen - hanenbow (<3 4 me)
Nick León - Maze
Joy Orbison - better (feat. Lea Sen)
NGUZUNGUZU - Just a Touch (OSSX Remix)
Atro - Because of U (feat. Hence Therefore)
702 - U Don't Know (UKG Remix)
Wilfy D - What's Up
Mary Mary - Shackles (G4orce Vocal)
M.E.S.H. - On My Body Party
Ghost Phone - Brandy Tool
Mike Midnight - A Jewel Within A Teardrop
Sines & TenTwentySeven - GLB
NA DJ - Buzz
Chloe x Halle - Do It (Like Only Helix Can Refix)
Tearz - Quintana
Pluralist - See Me In The Club (Come June 21st) [Instrumental]
Lil Kim Feat. Sisqo - How Many Licks
Kelela - Better (Joey Labeija edit)
Summer Walker - Come Thru (Miracles Remix)

JJJ Mix Up

Buzzing to have a Josey Rebelle tape out there! Big thanks to Josey! : )
Catch Josey at TTT @ Strange Brew Bristol 3th December!!!

TTT MIX

TTT CLOTHING

Josey Rebelle – TTT Mixtape

Name: Mor Elian (@morelian)
Pronouns: She / Her
Location: Berlin/ Los Angeles 

Influences: david attenborough

Affiliations/Residencies/Projects: Fever Am, Rinse FM, Alloy Sea

Favorite Quote: "if it aint broken why fix it"

Advice for the DJs, producers and artists of our community: take your time to find your voice and invest in your craft and dont forgot to 
feed back and give back to the community in any way you can.

With this mix Mor Elian asks to please learn more about and consider donating to:
❁ The Endometriosis Foundation of America(www.endofound.org)
❁ The World Food Programme for Yemen (www.wfp.org/countries/Yemen)
❁ The World Food Programme for Palestine (www.wfp.org/countries/Palestine)

Daisychain

Daisychain 230 - Mor Elian

https://www.nts.live/shows/dj-fart-in-the-club/episodes/dj-fart-in-the-club-16th-september-2022

DJ FART IN THE CLUB INVITES: ASTRAL VIP 160922

Recording of DJ Plead & Phillip Jondo's set at Dekmantel Festival 2022.

Dekmantel Festival 2022

DJ Plead & Phillip Jondo at Dekmantel Festival 2022

Chima Hiro's tenderly ecstatic sunrise set from infinity rug at Planeta Manas, Lisbon

tracklist:
Hiroshi Yoshimura - Water Copy
Harold Budd - Bismillahi ’Rrahmani ‘Rrahim
Lamin Fofana - I’m Your Question
Beverly Glenn-Copeland - Ever New
John T. Gast - Shanti-Ites
Annelies Monseré - You’re On Your Own
Dolphins Into The Future - Lone Voyager
Popol Vuh - Why Do I Still Sleep 
Singing Dust - Song Of The Reed
Soft Machine - Carol Ann
Midori Takada & Masahiko Satoh - Ancient Palace
In The Beyond - Hunted
Popol Vuh - Ah!
June 11 - Memories
Cosmo Sheldrake - Nightjar
June 11 - A Peaceful Vale
Suzanne Kraft - Renee Sleeping
June 11 - Who Is Still Dreaming?
Laraaji - I Am Ocean
Popol Vuh - Hand In Hand
CV & JAB - Alfred Hitchcock Haze
Alice Coltrane / Turiyasangitananda - Madhura Manohara Giridhari
Robert Aiki Aubrey Lowe - M’bondo (Version)
Gigi Masin - Consequences Of Goodbyes
Laraaji - Ocean Flow Zither
Fatima Al Qadiri - Shanzhai Feat. Helen Feng
CV & JAB - Nub With Three Wraps Of Fabric
Keith Jarrett - Lalene
Max D - Inspo (Ambient Mix)
Lonnie Liston Smith - Warm
Admas - Astaweslehu
Aretha Franklin - Precious Memories

Chima Hiro ~ infinity rug 18.11.22

Yumi @ Nowadays (12 - 10 - 2022)

In antipication of the first excursion to Planet Groovy in the new year, Basel-based brotherhood of bass, Somatic Rituals joins the GG crew for their Lot Radio debut. Expect all things, lush, deep, rolling from the heart.

https://www.instagram.com/planetgroovy
https://www.instagram.com/somaticrituals

@andrewakanbi
@somatic-rituals

GROOVY GROOVY and Somatic Rituals @ The Lot Radio 12 - 30 - 2022

anuraag @ the 2022 edition of inner Varnika, friday night 1-4am.

@anuraag69

mastered by joseph buchan

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ani/live Seven: Anuraag @ Inner Varnika 2022

@g_b_d

For extended Q&A... visit our website ----> pipipi.life <----------

Introduce yourself? Pronouns? Where do you currently reside? 

Hi I’m gianpaolo, nonbinary human. At the moment I am using they/them pronouns. Since 2008 I've produced and dj’d under the name “savile”, and as of this mix I’m transitioning to a new artist name, “gbd”. I live in beautiful brooklyn, new york city.

What track would you listen to... 

If it was the only thing you could listen to 24/7? Alice Coltrane - Turiya and Ramakrishna. It could be any one of a handful from the Coltrane family. Their works have served as a place of solace and safety that’s hard to understate.

Favorite DJ mixing trick?

This is a mental trick, and it definitely changed my playing: in my first
years of DJ’ing i found myself often reaching for tracks based on similar
qualities, like genre, bpm or production style. Instead, I started to prompt myself to select the next track that blended and provided contrast due to how different it was from what played before. I imagined this like building a log cabin upwards, rather than constructing a path of steps in front of me, one after another. This “trick” of challenging myself to choose the next track based on a nonlinear quality, gave me permission to be more personal in how I played, rather than choosing more common likenesses that I felt were more conventional or common. I know this may seem simple but it really opened up my brain:)

What is your favorite party/collective where you reside and why?

I do my best to avoid ranking things that I love. I aspire to avoid hierarchy everywhere. But, if I had to pick one, it would be Dweller. There is such important work happening at the festival and throughout their initiatives. I especially implore white people in this scene who’ve not heard of Dweller to double-back and learn closely from the work they are doing. It’s our responsibility as guests to engage and create in a tradition that is not ours, to learn the roots of the music, and to defer to black and brown people in their efforts to reclaim it and build anew.

If you could transfer all your knowledge from what you do now into something completely different, what would it be and why?

My mind immediately ran to different “practical” applications that I could apply this to, but in the end I am deeply grateful for the life I’m living and I have a hard time imagining another skillset or practice I would apply the same rigor to. I would however love to master other crafts !

What is your most recent favorite DJ mix and why?

This is like 10 months old but still sticking to me. Sometimes one hears a mix from a DJ that makes you realize how deep their ‘crates’ are - this was that mix ! Yumi’s “Haunted Dancehall”

https://soundcloud.com/movement-radio-athens/guest-mix-by-yumi-w-haunted-dancehall-22042022

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

Boyyyyy this could go a million ways... I find this to be a deeply political
question in 2023. There is no doubt we are experiencing an unraveling of systems and structures around us, and I believe the way forward amongst these ruins must be together. In that way, I hope to see a quieting of this drive for fame and popularity, a broadening sense of empathy for one another, and much, much more cross-collaboration between disparate groups and people across social and class stratifications. At the same time, i hope for an abundance of
spaces created by and for black and brown people, trans and queer people, and much less white hegemonic ownership structures.

gbd (savile) - 777˚ Bardos

A monthly undefined Friday flexx on club-not-club in Toni Yotzi's House of Sports. New releases with a hint of old spice. Joined by friends who inspire.

House Of Sports - Skylab Radio 2.11.18

Anuraag
As part of the Cool Room collective, Raag has been behind some of the best dance parties, panel talks and live music explorations in Melbourne. A highly diverse and inspirational selector, they have a deep connection to artists and scenes across the world. Pushing anything from intriguing bass and dancehall, unhinged footwork and ambient, I was also recently blown away at their perfect deep, rhythmic and textural warm up for DJ Sprinkles at the RA 24/7 party.

But please enjoy this fast paced work out in part 2 of the show. ^___^

Pt. 1 w. Toni Yotzi --- > soundcloud.com/toniyotzi/house-of-sports-pt-1-skylab-radio-21118
Pt. 2 w. Anuraag  ---> www.soundcloud.com/toniyotzi/house-of-sports-pt-2-skylab-radio-21118
tracklist  --->  skylab-radio.com/shows/house-of-sports-e3

@toniyotzi
@anuraag69

House Of Sports Pt. 2 w. Anuraag - Skylab Radio 2.11.18

All the mesh had long been ripped off of the cage booth and been made into makeshift outfits at Revolver Upstairs by the time the Cool Room crew took to the decks, keeping the room dancing and ready for DJ Sprinkles to close.

RA Live - 24.11.2018 - Cool Room at twenty four/seven Melbourne

@ciel_dj

For valentine´s special we have invited the super talented Ciel to join us for our next mix in her own words: 
In honour of Valentine's Day, I decided to make a mix that's all about love. Love that's flirty and sweet, sometimes shy and sometimes passionate, sometimes tumultuous and sometimes ecstatic, sometimes innocent and sometimes sensuous, love that's fun, joyful, and open-hearted. Of course everyone has their own definition of love music, and what they tend to associate with love is usually dependent on the style of music they share with their past and present partners, and so is very personal. For me I tend to think nothing is more romantic than soul, r&b, and jazz. But since this is a dance mix, I selected music for the dancefloor that I consider the descendants of these styles---house, hardcore, and UKG. And just so I can be extra cheesy, every song talks about love explicitly. This is my first year since I started touring that I'm actually home for Valentine's Day, so I plan on enjoying it with my two loves—my bf & our cat. :)

MARICAS - Ciel's  Love Is A Roller Coaster  Mix

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