You know me, live from the board recording plus crowd mic. One of my final festival sets of 2022, closing out Making Time ∞ in one of my favorite cities, Philly (long live dave p!) eternal gratitude crystals to all and to all a good night <3

Avalon Emerson Live in Philadelphia 2022 - 09 - 24 @ Making Time ♾️

Recording of Avalon Emerson's set at Dekmantel Festival 2023.

Avalon Emerson at Dekmantel Festival 2023

Daniel Avery - Recorded at fabric: Andrew Weatherall 60 (06/04/23)

Tracklist + Q&A: https://bit.ly/TheMix043EDOO

For 2024’s final instalment of The Mix, @eris-drew & @octoocta provide an hour of Motherbeat-infused ecstacy

"We wanted to do a proper, 128 BPM house mix. Our very ecstatic, house energy mix. It’s going to be just over an hour, because we want it to be in that radiant space for the entire time and play some of our older favourites, as well as newer favourites from our record bag over this past year. We’re not like ‘track of the week’ DJs, when we love something, it’s getting played over the span of a few years, sometimes even 10 years."

Tracklist + Q&A

The Mix 043: Eris Drew & Octo Octa

This Like That

LIVE FROM THE BOARD + CROWD MIC RECORDED MARCH 4TH 2017 FOR THE HYDRA LONDON

Avalon Emerson Live at Printworks London 2017

Recorded Live on April 30th 2018 in Berlin.
Broadcast on BBC Radio 1 on June 9th 2018.

Tracklist

Intro
Maurizio - Domina (Carl Craig's Mind Mix) [M - 3]
Skatebård - Stalheim-Mix [Digitalo Enterprise]
The Plan - Red Shift [Submerge]
 Project Future - Ray-Gun-Omics [Capitol]
Dexter - Echo Park [Klakson]
Stingray313 - Armchair Psychiatrist [Naked Lunch]
Monika Ross - Ever After [Entity London]
Octave One - Empower [430 West]
Marcel Dettmann - Quicksand [Ostgut Ton]
Get Fucked - Dark & Dirty (Matthew B. Remix) [Eukahouse]
Yak - Zephyr [Le Chatroom]
Artist Formerly Known As P. P. - Ruffneck Chicken [White]
A.W.E.S.O.M.-O. - Excellence Of Execution [Zyntax Motorcity]
Pangaea - Cuba Vox [Unreleased]
Syclops - Spin Cycle [BubbleTease Communications]
Pure Science - The Art Of Being [B+Positive]
EGZR - Untitled [Wania]
W.V. - Nachschub (B) [Auftrieb]
Donato Dozzy - Cleo [Eerie]
Shackleton - Blood On My Hands [Skull Disco]
Optic Nerve - G-Man's Journey (Mystic Mix) [Puzzlebox]
The Experience - Tubes [Mystic]
Barker - Filter Bubbles [Ostgut Ton]
Chino Amobi - Law II [NON]
Bitstream - Step Retracing [Touchin Bass]
Call Super & Michael Smith - SE X Mi Cyaan Believe It
Embaci - Walk On May 5th [Discwoman]
Dianne Lynn - Forever My Sunset (MAN-D.A. Dub) [Flying]
Powder - Spray [Born Free]
Chez Damier - Help Myself [KMS]
SMX - Sleep [Whities Blue]
Terre Thaemlitz - Admit It's Killing You (DJ Sprinkles' Dead End) [Comatonse]
Maurizio - Domina (Carl Craig's Mind Mix) [M - 3]

The Essential Mix for BBC Radio 1

My Essential Mix for BBC Radio 1, originally aired Aug 2018. Here it is without the radio drops.

I’m usually not much of a preplanned mix person, I massively prefer playing to a crowd and interacting with the atmosphere. Combine that with the extremely not insignificant fact that this is one of the most important and longest running mix series around, this was quite a challenge!

I spent a long time gathering these 40 songs and playing with the arrangement (even made a couple new edits). I included songs that have been staples in my sets, plus old favorites from before I was a DJ. Eternal shouts to Nathan Micay, Aurora Halal, Overmono, E-Talking and Koehler for letting me include your dope as hell unreleased new music (plus two unreleased songs from myself). 

The last song is by Oakland band Them Are Us Too and this mix is dedicated to those who lost their lives in a diy music space a year and a half ago. Your music and love lives on. FUCK technocrat capitalist greed in the bay. One of Ghost Ship’s spiritual predecessors, Ghost Town in Oakland, was one of the first gigs I ever played, back in 2011 right around the time when I was realizing that I loved making music and DJing. 

If someone told me then that I’d eventually make an Essential Mix and be touring around the world, I’d be incredulously curious to see just how that would unfold. It’s been wild. Thank you to everyone who has listened and danced with me since then. 

recorded on two cdjs and an xdj, xone 92 & extra help from the teil1 delay and blue sky reverb

Avalon Emerson Essential Mix

Live from the board plus crowd mic on Saturday November 24, 2018. Thank you to Mutek and everyone in attendance.

Partial BMC tracklist of music available on bandcamp:
https://buymusic.club/list/avalon-emerson-mutek-mexico

Live at Mutek Mexico

I love opening sets.

Opening sets allow the DJ to create the atmosphere for an entire night and are a true challenge (and lost artform) for those DJs, who travel from town to town every weekend playing 2 hour peak-time sets.

Opening sets allow to play tracks (and / or songs) that you usually don't hear in a club when you arrive after a certain time due to the DJs fear of losing people off the dancefloor (so what? :-D ).

For this and other reasons I dedicate this mix to those who tend to come (too) late and to those who come early at the same time and send a huge "THANK YOU!" to those who were participating LIVE in this session. 
Also to those who contributed a few "WHOOHOOOs" in silent passages - one of the many nice things you only get when playing vinyl :)

It was a pleasure seeing the packed floor bouncing...early, did I mention that? 

There is this line in the song "Hello" by The Beloved:

    All you late-comers, just step on board.
    I'm happy, glad you came.
    So welcome home again!

Maybe next time then ;-)

<3

Please understand that I can't answer all track ID requests due to lack of time. 
Use Shazam (but it might not find it ;-) )

There are some reasons why this mix is not for download. 
Please respect these reasons which I don't want to explain any further. 
It is as it is... Next mix will be downloadable, promise! 


"Saturday Night Live" was recorded live on Saturday, January 26th 2013 at Panorama Bar in Berlin with roughly 98% vinyl & some unreleased tracks from CD.
The mix begins at 12:30am and ends 4:30am with some feedback from Virgo Four's microphone. Enjoy!


Saturday Night Live

Live from Watchers Holt at Lost Village 2019

Video 🌲📺🌲 www.youtube.com/lostvillage

Website 🌲💻🌲 www.lostvillagefestival.com

Live from the Village - Chaos In The CBD

https://avalonemerson.com/andthecharm

Now one of dance music’s most respected DJs, Avalon Emerson first made a name for herself in the storied warehouse scene of her birthplace, San Francisco, before relocating to Berlin in 2013. Over a decade of performances at the famed Berghain led to appearances at numerous festivals around the world which all cemented Emerson, and her evocative, genre- and decade-spanning sets, as perennially in demand. 

In 2020, she released her first full-length collection: a contribution to the longrunning DJ-Kicks series (which Resident Advisor described as “The sound of a well-honed DJ at the top of her game.”), nestled alongside a steady stream of remix releases for the likes of Four Tet, Slowdive, Robyn and more.

Next up was 2023’s Avalon Emerson & The Charm, an instant classic which saw Emerson exploring her singing voice and more traditional songwriting outside of the boundaries of her dance music work.  Created after a move to New York, the resulting & The Charm album was released to critical acclaim, landing on numerous critics’ best-of-the-year lists.

The stage is now set, then, for her to carve out a wholly unique path, and with the help of new label home and indie giant, Dead Oceans, Emerson is poised to connect her various musical endeavors to create an untouchably rich output of material. First up is Perpetual Emotion Machine, consisting of songs created for her DJ sets, delivered via a living, evolving project and announced ahead of her worldwide tour.