BCCO × BODYSHIFT for Trans Awareness Week 2025'

For Trans Awareness Week 2025, we’re spotlighting trans and non-binary artists with a special SoundCloud mix series curated by @bodyshift. Each set is an invitation to listen with an open heart, to care, and to act with intention.

Awareness means listening, amplifying, and protecting what’s vulnerable and too often unheard. When dignity is debated, we choose action: book, pay, credit, platform, and protect trans and non-binary artists. Visibility matters. Joy matters. Safety matters. Let’s make all three non-negotiable for the future leading to Trans Day of Remembrance on 20th of November.

Saeleen Bouvar is a trans artist, writer, and curator based in Hamburg. Her work explores the trans sonic experience through collage, memory, and emotion, using music as a form of thought and feeling beyond genre. Moving between dance music and experimental sound, she treats the mix as a site of queer musicology — a way to rewrite sonic histories through trans embodiment. Founder of the Transtronica Festival, the world’s first trans electronic music festival, her sets evoke tenderness and rupture, tracing how sound can dissolve boundaries between archive and desire.

This mix explores the trans sonic experience — the tension between dissolution and emergence within electronic sound. Drawing on the legacy of SOPHIE and early IDM’s retrofuturism, it reflects on how machines once offered escape from a body perceived as inadequate, and how sound now reimagines that same body as radiant and free. Acid, electro, and broken rhythms collide where metallic surfaces meet emotional vulnerability, turning transition into texture — a movement between glitch and grace, circuitry and flesh. Within these fractured melodies lie both melancholy and explosion: the joy of becoming and the pleasure of resistance.

@saeleen-bouvar

Track List
TAAHLIAH : Eylvue
TSVI : Hossam
Escaflowne : Devoted
Mignon : Jack Flow (KEENO18 Remix)
DJ Plant Texture : DDrumz
Richard Devine : Mov Macros 7
Jon Convex : Convexations
Deapmash : Complex
Differ-Ent : Drum Addict
Jeremy Meeks : Anna’s Envy
Brothomstates : 25101999
Fear-E : Marching Pooder
Phoenecia : Odd Job (Soul Oddity Rhythm Box Version)
Locked Club : Doschitai
Surusinghe : Bop
Coffintexts : Bellaquella
Randomer : Juju
Portishead : Machine Gun

BCCO Mix Series: 717: Saeleen Bouvar | BCCO x BODYSHIFT for Trans Awareness Week 2025

BCCO × BODYSHIFT for Trans Awareness Week 2025

For Trans Awareness Week 2025, we’re spotlighting trans and non-binary artists with a special SoundCloud mix series curated by BODYSHIFT. Each set is an invitation to listen with an open heart, to care, and to act with intention.

Awareness means listening, amplifying, and protecting what’s vulnerable and too often unheard. When dignity is debated, we choose action: book, pay, credit, platform, and protect trans and non-binary artists. Visibility matters. Joy matters. Safety matters. Let’s make all three non-negotiable for the future leading to Trans Day of Remembrance on 20th of November.

Hige thanks to all five artists this week and to @bodyshift for the colab and curation.