Cresting out of the potent core of a fully-eclipsed blood moon, Abstract without Abstraction is energized to present what feels like a truly break-out mix from the up-and-coming NYC-based DJ, Starka. Containing some of the most urgent genre-fucking club sounds that have been featured in the series, Starka’s contribution “Systemic Disaffection” channels the raw, celebratory energy of the packed club, but does so while simultaneously carving out sonic pockets to embrace and care for the dysphoria and trauma that unavoidably rack our fleshly dimensions. A clarion call to find each other, to lift each other up, and dance with each other, you can discover more of Starka at @starkamusic & https://www.instagram.com/andreas_starc/

From them directly: "I've been thinking a lot about politics and music, both separately and together, throughout this year. Initially, I wanted this mix to be explicitly political by including talk about past and current inequity, but it ended up sounding pretty corny. I'd like to include spoken bits in some future sets and production, but this mix ended up being more of a dip into some dancey sounds I've associated with dystopia and the struggle towards utopia."

AW/OA 019: Systemic Disaffection

1. Yumiko Morioka - Komorebi
2. bird sounds: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wgc_ojhOADs
3. tree chopping sounds: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aOv6a7um-0s
4. IVVVO - I Don't Know
5. Cold Spell x Wilhelmina - SCAN
6. Moni Moni - 26 , 172 (US) Bombs dropped on short notice
7. METAKNIGHT - VIOLENT (ft. SHUG)
8. Physical Therapy - Shield Of Faith
9. Dehousy & Ana Sia - Été Technique
10. MISS TWINK USA - ASK GOD WHO THE FIVE STAR BITCH IS!
11. Bulma - Ronin
12. uli k - itami (prod. by 1exposed)
13. Kamixlo - Lariat
14. Grrl - High Fantasy
15. Osheyack - I Not Me
16. SPECIAL INTEREST - NERVE (Kilbourne Remix)
17. False Witness - Perfect Attack (Estoc Remix)
18. Kilbourne - MY BETRAYAL (estoc's antifa tool)
19. Matt M. Maddox - The Sparoga
20. Lykke Li - Utopia

Abstract without Abstraction Mix Series 019

AW/OA 019: Systemic Disaffection [mixed by Starka]

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