Mixes + Radio

"After Ecstasy, the Laundry"

This mix was recorded using digital and vinyl at home in Echo Park, Los Angeles during the height of a lockdown in 2021. It’s very special to me because I challenged myself to explore a downtempo aesthetic in my selections while still applying my usual affinity for solid foundational grooves fused with deep emotional textures. The title of the mix is ‘After Ecstasy, The Laundry’ – originally the title of a book by Western buddhist philosopher Jack Kornfield, the phrase alludes to that feeling after a particularly uplifting and transcendent experience when you are forced to face that all good things must end. With this mix I hoped to encapsulate that feeling but with a light, uplifting, and more positive essence, reflecting my own drive not to focus on the fact that these ecstatic moments have ended, but allowing them to enrich your life and cultivate the future.

Image credit: Center of the Earth by Fay Sciarra, acrylic on canvas

VPN Radio: Surrealchemistry 2/15/22 w/ SAMWISE

Elle Clark was joined by Bristol based producer Elpac who recently debuted on Cloudcore with his release Faaro alongside Mulholland. Elle runs through the first hour with tracks from TSVI, Ploy, Ahadadream and the forthcoming release from Gallegos on Curving Track, dropping this Wednesday. Elpac’s guest mix in the second hour features a bunch of exclusives as well as tracks from Amor Satyr & Siu Mata , Two Shell, Soso Tharpa, Josi Devil and many more.

Curving Track w/ Elle Clark & Elpac - May 2022

https://www.nts.live/shows/moxie/episodes/moxie-18th-may-2022

Moxie w/ Lance Desardi 180522

Sound Condition are rolling solo this month. Running through Summery 2step, 4x4 and speed garage. Featuring the likes of Dem 2, Genius Cru and Chris Mack.

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Sound Condition - June 2022

This mix was recorded live in LA at Fast At Work's recent party. A solid reflection of Fast At Work's vibe: speedy, fun, innovative, with a little taste of absurdity. First hour from Curving Track resident Elle Clark featuring perc, breaks, techno & much more. 

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Curving Track w/ Elle Clark & SAMWISE - June 2022

First Therapy Dog show back at @refugeworldwide after a few months away, and was so happy to have great DJ and vinyl collective BLVSH co-founder @acidfinky for our first time playing b2b.

Therapy Dog #5 w/ Acidfinky & ophélie @ Refuge Worldwide - 25/05/2022

Starting the show journeying through an hour of Ambient, Breaks & Dubstep before guest & Woozy head EMA takes the reign to close off the show with a classy hour of DnB.

@emma-jane-g 

EMA is also the co-founder of Dublin based collective Skin&Blister, a platform curated to nurture and encourage female, trans and non-binary creatives in the realm of music and the arts.

For your pleasure x

FYI Robyn TL - 
Rainforest Spiritual Enslavement - Blue Ocean Floor
Purelink - Rest Thru
RoyBattyJr - Slewd Bet
GLUE BOY - Big Vaysion feat. Garlic Man
Gacha Bakradze - Thank You for This Upload
F - Phantom (original mix)
Primal Code - Nanotecna
Byzar - Gaiatron
Hidden Crime - Frequency
Andrea - Trackqy
Boreal Massif - Black Rapids
943 - Nautil 2/3 B1
Andrea - Attimo
Sensational ft. Planteaterz - You Don't Know Me Like That (J.Albert Remix) 
Klaus - Qua
Soreab - Myth 
Rainforest Spiritual Enslavement - Jellyfish Reproduce Black Magic

EMA's TL - 
 Badawi - Critical Combustion
Hyperactive Leslie - Rebond
Loris x Wildkatz - From The River To The Sea
Overlook - Glass
Herman - Narcissus
dgoHn - Sporks 
F:lix - La Selva
WDDS - WANIYE 
Breakage - Elmhurst Dub
Doctor Jeep - Tensão
Primal - Digital & Spirit vs Flava & Dissect (Resound Remix)
Thing - Serious Case Of Jah
Twisted Individual, APB - Deep Gash
I.D. & Baobinga - The King
QZB & Rider Shafique - Perfectly Aligned
Thing - The Reference 
Mani Festo - Awake 
F:lix - Torrefiel

FYI Robyn w/ Ema on Voices Radio - 26/05/22

Belinduh Belinduh Belinduh takes the first hour to explore remixes of pop divas and vogue beats. The second hour Theoretic starts out with some sultry deep house, sprinkled with some vocals and rattling bass, then heads up to some swiftly pulsating techno. 

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Belinduh Belinduh Belinduh - June 2022

Recording of my @noodsradio show from June 28, 2022. 

Catch me on the airwaves on rotating Tuesdays of the month from 6-7pm EST.

Flow State w/ T.Wan - Noods Radio (6.28.22)

Follow @dj_samwise

Samwise is an LA-based selector / DJ and eternal raver. Known as A&R for Diplo and the force behind his multifaceted house-focused imprint Higher Ground, he is also co-founder and resident at Fast At Work, a forward thinking party series that champions fast – but not necessarily hard – electronic music. While his sets are diverse and unapologetically raw, his sound cohesively elevates strong foundational grooves with deep emotional textures.

Acid Camp Vol. 139 — Samwise

Sam is resident and runs with the awesome Fast at Work party in LA and is known for playing a wide range of genres and tempo's, as we hear in the 10th space•cast. Sam is one of those DJ's who's tunes and sets reflect their personality - pure vibes from start to finish. Enjoy! 

Check more of Sam out here:
https://soundcloud.com/dj_samwise
https://www.instagram.com/salmon247/
https://www.instagram.com/fastatwork/

space•cast 10 - Samwise

@dj_samwise

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

Introduce yourself? Pronouns? Where do you currently reside? 

Hi! My name is Sam aka Samwise. I’m a selector/DJ, A&R, curator, promoter, and eternal raver. My pronouns are He/Him. I’m currently based in Los Angeles, but spend a considerable amount of time in London as well.

Describe your DJ set up in full detail?

My home setup consists of 2x Technics 1200 MKII turntables (internally grounded) as I like to have the freedom to play both vinyl and digital records, an Allen & Heath XONE 92 mixer (sorry to my V10 bbs but team XONE 100p), and 2x Pioneer XDJ-700 cdjs (I prefer having older CDJs for my home setup because they do nothing for you (technically speaking) and force you to play by ear. Ideal for practicing + warm ups.

3 adjectives that start with the same letter to describe your vibe?

Serendipitous
Sanguine
Sassy

Favorite movie and why? 

Darron Aronofsky’s Requiem for a Dream. I love bold, esoteric, analytical films with a dark and preferably psychological tinge. Aronofsky is the best of the best at this in my view, and this film remains his most poignant work. 


Listen to the moment at 45 min mark in your PI mix… describe how it makes you feel? 

This moment makes me feel solid, rooted, and hopeful. For me, recording mixes is a cathartic and therapeutic process that largely reflects an experience that I’ve gone through. This particular mix is really important to me on a personal level because I recorded it shortly after I uncovered a deeply rooted childhood trauma. The progression of the mix echoes the process of integrating this trauma into my life – in other words, realizing the way this has informed my way of living/behaving and how to move forward with the knowledge that it happened. The 45 min mark is the point at which I am able to shift away from being introspective and somber, and towards a newfound ability to be hopeful and rooted again.

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

I’d love to see more musical diversity and openness from DJs, promoters, and attendees alike. I think we made a lot of progress breaking down musical boundaries post-Covid, but we still have a long way towards destroying musical pretentiousness. Dance music is about connection and togetherness in all forms, period!

Samwise - -247˚

Undeniably demanding, occasionally straining, but often rewarding and invariably reassuring. In nuce, this is the existential rollercoaster rode by anyone willing to partake in this world of merry music we all strive to keep in motion and feed with emotion for the sole purpose of creating some magic moments that, if not wholly life changing, can be vastly mind altering and deeply heartwarming. However, as far as descriptions go and as honest and earnest as these are, descriptions rarely do justice to the most precious aspects of what is involved here. And this engulfs quite a lot of efforts carried out through manifold fronts that happen to find an outlet in this special space that serves as much more than a place for the meeting of forces, it is a catalyst for possibilities, allowing for the collision of intentions and the fusion of visions. Each episode aims at presenting the results of these encounters, all of them widely varied in terms of the rhythms they include and wildly vivid in the scenes they introduce. So, when we have a guest whose artistic presence is as multifarious as Samwise's, the potential for greatness is enhanced. As a gifted selector, he can be heard sharing his musical knowledge and taste at some of the finest festive initiatives around the globe, as well as helming his own Fast At Work events. His contribution to the series is a mind-opening and world-revealing trip across eclectic and ecstatic soundscapes.

Gop Tun 130 - Samwise

Holding Me Down

To Miss Eliza Wren,
Fleet Street, London

Dearest Eliza,

Forgive the lateness of this letter. The hours here have become my enemies, slipping past like shadows that move when no candle burns. The rain has not ceased for three days, and London has grown sodden with fear. You will have heard by now of the death of Father Ellory at St. Cuthbert’s. The papers say little, yet the streets speak more than the press dares print. The city insists that Grathok has passed among the pews. I wish I could call it rumor, but what I witnessed compels me otherwise.

I arrived the morning after. The nave smelled of wet stone and smoke though no fire had been lit. Constables kept the doors barred, yet the cats had gathered again. They prowled the aisles as if searching for a master. When the men tried to drive them off with sticks, the animals only hissed and returned. Their eyes glowed like embers caught in the gloom.

The priest lay in the vestry, tongue black as ink, hands clasped around an iron key tied with black thread. I touched it only briefly, and even through gloves I felt the cold of river water. I asked Inspector Dray what was done with the chalice. He told me it had been empty when they came upon it, though the floor about it was dry, as though the liquid had chosen to flee upward.

I spoke with the few parishioners who dared remain in the city. An old woman swore the rain itself had tapped her window the night before, spelling words in the glass that she could not bring herself to repeat. A boy who had hidden in the choir loft confessed he had seen a shadow pressed against the stained glass, its helm and sword vast enough to eclipse the saints. He has not spoken since.

Eliza, I am no stranger to crime. Men kill for coin, for pride, for vengeance. Yet these deaths are different. They are precise, deliberate, like a scribe crossing names from a ledger. Each victim so far has carried respect among the wealthy, yet beneath the surface their charity was false, their power rooted in cruelty. Colgrave the magnate twisted debts into profit, Ellory the priest sold salvation for coin. Both are now corpses. Both clutched keys.

What strikes me most is the atmosphere of the places he has touched. It is not blood or the stench of rot, but silence. The silence is so heavy it presses into bone. It lingers even when the body is carried away. I cannot help but feel I am not tracking a man but a judgment, one that has chosen me as its unwilling witness.

I walked the streets after leaving St. Cuthbert’s. Coldharbor Lane was drowned in fog so thick it seemed alive. Every window looked down on me with suspicion. I swear I saw words forming in the condensation upon the glass of an abandoned bakery, but they vanished when I drew near.

Dray, who follows me despite my orders, asked if I believed the stories. I told him truth is not found in rumor but in pattern. Yet as I write to you, I admit that I begin to doubt myself. The pattern here feels older than any man could devise.

My patron continues to fund the work. The coin appears in envelopes without seal, each smelling faintly of river reeds. Who but Grathok himself would pay a man to hunt him? Why would he wish me to follow? Unless the hunt itself is part of the judgment.

If this is so, then I have already stepped too far. Still I will not abandon it. Whatever Grathok may be, he is flesh or he is not. If he is flesh, I shall strike him down. If he is not, then may God forgive me for accepting coin against such a foe.

I write you this not to frighten but to prepare. If I should fall silent in the weeks to come, know that I kept my oath to the Guild, and to you. I will not run.

Your servant always,
Nathaniel Harrow

Chapter IV: Letter to Miss Eliza Wren

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