Belly Music Worldwide

Clervaux - Zibaldone I of CVX
Elektriktus - First Wave
Szun Waves - Constellation
Storm Bugs - Up The Middle Down The Side (Excerpt)
Robbie Basho - Allons Au Ball Colinda
Untitled
Pseudo Code - The Crook Of Your Heart
CoH Plays Cosey - Mad
John Lafia - Propaganda
Geluidshouwerij - Everybody Can Do The Zero
Ciccone Youth - Into The Groovey
Talking Heads - Psycho Killer (Greg Wilson Edit)
Das Ding - Take Me Away
Twilight Circus Meets Edward - For Breakfast?
Champagne Dub - Drops
Jon Hassell - Citys Superdub (Psychogeography)
Flying Rhythms - Base Fall Ye (Instrumental Version)
Tagliabue - Blue Trance (Edit)
Al Chem - Baudelaire
Magazine - Thank You (Falettinme Be Mice Elf Agin)
The Replacements - Androgynous
Freur - Door Door (Extended Version)
Low Flung - Babbling Brook (Excerpt)

Belly Music w/ Cyrus - Nov 1st 2022

Belly Music w/ Cyrus - Dec 6th 2022

Belly Music w/ Cyrus - Jan 6th 2023

Belly Music is back with Cyrus and special guest DJ Papaya, host of Entanglement on Great Circles radio. Tune in tomorrow on particle.fm at 1pm pacific / 4pm eastern for some explorations in electronica and more

Belly Music w/ Cyrus + DJ Papaya - Feb 5th 2023

Cyrus and special guest Kiernan Laveaux. This one is not to be missed!

Belly Music w/ Cyrus + Kiernan Laveaux - Mar 5th 2023

"This months Belly Music will feature a guest mix from dear friend, Carly Barton! She prepared a beautiful 1 hour mix that I can’t wait to share with everyone. " - Cyrus

Belly Music w/ Cyrus + Carly Barton - Apr 2nd 2023

Belly Music w/ Cyrus & Rrose Defoix - May 7th 2023

"After a transformative weekend in Detroit at Movement, I am eager to harness and transmit the magic that I feel in my heart. Music is god." - @hotelsmotels

Belly Music w/ Cyrus - Jun 4th 2023

"For this month's installment of Belly Music, we welcome special guest Needle Fag to the program. They are a long-running resident at the notorious underground afters Void. Additionally. they are the founder of Lindo, a queer, POC-focused dance party that happens every third Thursday at The Dolphin. Beyond the pulsating energy they exert on the dance floor, Needle Fag's creative endeavors extend to the radio waves. Hosting the captivating show "Social Anxiety" on Great Circles Radio every fourth Friday of the month, from 6 to 8 PM, which seeks to explore techno, drum & bass, trance, ambient, and beyond." - @hotelsmotels

Belly Music w/ Cyrus + Needle Fag - Jul 2nd 2023

DJ Anarres (Andi) is unquestionably a staple of the Philadelphia underground—an avid, obsessed, and passionate record collector. DJ Anarres listens to and plays what is true in their heart and connects the roots of techno, soul, and disco to the modern dance floor. Andi helps run an underground space called Bounce House that hosts parties, movie nights, and harm reduction classes. They also host a monthly radio show, Transilience, "the function of rhythm that makes being" on Great Circles. Their knowledge and curiosity of sound, revolutionary thought, and art practices translate directly to their care for their community and beyond. DJ, Dancer, Friend… Having DJ Anarres on the Belly Music program is an absolute treat.

Belly Music w/ Cyrus + DJ Anarres - Aug 6th 2023

"For the September installment of the Belly Music program, I am so happy to bring Lisa Früh (@billy.grippo) to the program FINALLY. Lisa is one of my biggest influences in music, art, and life. They have provided the soundtrack to many magical moments we've shared, and they constantly inspire and challenge me. They also happen to be my partner and best friend. I am soo beyond happy to share this recording with you all! Lisa and I recorded this a few weeks back going b2b, playing some of our favorite jams. Some lush chillers for the comedown of summer :)" - @hotelsmotels

Belly Music w/ Cyrus + Lisa Fruh - Sep 3rd 2023

Ship’s Log, Stardate 6969: ezri_dax (mikrodisko collective) selects compassionate speed to bring you into transwarp; bumps high camp into the stratosphere; and keeps it spacey on the 1s & 2s. I am beyond excited to make first contact with Ezri Dax for the season finale of the Belly Music Program. Expect fringe black hole science and occult symmetry.

Belly Music w/ Cyrus + Ezri Dax - Oct 8th 2023

This month, Belly Music turns one! A little over a year ago, I was encouraged by my friend and particle host, Alyssa (@nishkosheh), to apply for a show on the station.

The idea of having my own space on the airwaves to share music and mood was both exciting and terrifying, but nonetheless, I applied and was graciously accepted.

I have always struggled with a strong imposter in my head who oftentimes prevents me from doing things because I fear that I am not good enough or intelligent enough to figure it out. I saw this opportunity as a way to hold myself accountable for putting something out every month no matter what, and standing here today, I can see the progress and growth that has come from it.

I am grateful to Christian for giving me this opportunity, Alyssa for pushing me to do it, the talented guests who have shared their creativity and passion on the show, myself for always looking for ways to improve BM, and the friends and community that have been here for me and shown their support unwaveringly. I am truly grateful and honored to be a part of something that is so special. Here's to another year!

That being said, it has been really hard for all of us during this last month. Witnessing the continued genocide of the Palestinian people at the behest of the Israeli and US colonial war machine is abhorrent, disgusting, and devastating.

For this month's show I would like to sonically reflect with music that has been in conversation with the intense feelings of rage and grief that have consumed me and to say a prayer of peace for the suffering that is being inflicted on so many right now. I stand in solidarity with the people of Palestine. From the river to sea, Palestine WILL be free.

- Cyrus (@hotelsmotels)

Belly Music w/ Cyrus - Nov 5th 2023

Security Dog (Ryann McHale) is a name that is synonymous with the Philly underground. A friend to many with a deep collection of sounds, a supporter and advocate in the queer community, always unapologetically herself, and my road dog for life

Ryann hosts a monthly radio show on Great Circles Radio that she describes as "An exacting practice in coming undone." Ryann's style is adaptive and collaborative, playful, attentive, and surgical.

I am delighted and excited to see what she brings to the BM universe for the final installment of the year. Expect a little bit of bark and a whole lot of bite as we say goodbye to 2023.

Belly Music w/ Cyrus + Security Dog - Dec 3rd 2023

Max and I met in Portland at a ticket meet-up for the infamous Limited Edition party in 2016 and have been good friends ever since.

We share a love and nostalgia for early ’90s and 2000s guitar music and often reflect on our own past experiences playing drums in crappy (but important) punk bands.

Max grew up in Northville, Michigan, and later moved to Ann Arbor, where he found his home and community inside local parties at Arbor Vitae, PillowTalk, and Detroit party outfit Haute To Death. He moved to SF in 2021 and, while living there, hosted a monthly radio show on HydeFM. His set on Lower Grand Radio from last year is a prime example of his taste and skill as a selector and a DJ.

I am very excited to host my dear old friend from afar in the studio on the first edition of Belly Music in 2024!

Belly Music w/ Cyrus + Blowy Shirts - Jan 14th 2024

“For this month’s installment of Belly Music, I will play two full hours of cassette tapes from my collection. I have wanted to do this show since the beginning of Belly Music, and I am super excited that it’s finally happening. This will be the first installment of a cassette tape series I plan to do throughout the year.

The photo on the poster is me, at age 1 or 2, pulling out all of my dad’s cassettes. There was always music in my home growing up because of him. After he passed away when I was 9, he left behind his entire media collection. I was too young then to realize the importance of these objects and ended up trading them in for a Gameboy Advanced so I could play Pokemon. I do regret never getting a chance to explore his collection, but his love for music was certainly imprinted on me, and I have chosen to honor that and build my own collection of objects and sounds during my time on this plane of existence. I have always found great comfort in the hum and wavy distortions of tape fidelity. I love how mechanical it is. Everything about cassettes evokes a very special nostalgia and comfort that I don’t experience through any other musical format or process. Sometimes, when I lay in bed listening to my tapes, I can feel him around me. These objects and sounds are sacred to me, and I can’t wait to share them with you.” - @hotelsmotels

Belly Music w/ Cyrus - Feb 4th 2024

I am super stoked to have Michael Brunner as our special guest this month on Belly Music. Michael and I officially met outside of a show at Solar Myth (Moor Mother, Ka Baird, Jessica Moss) last year but had been peripherally in orbit of each other long before. We sealed our connection when we ran into each other last year at Tangent Gallery during Movement in Detroit.

Michael’s DJ life started as a baby junglist in the mid-90s. He got turned onto grime for a while in the early 00s and accidentally ran into dubstep at Plastic People in 2004. In his words, “Disillusionment followed the predictable bro step era, and I turned to my real passion: weird sounds, unusual structures, and the pure expression of human creativity.”

Michael started hosting a show on Great Circles Radio 3 years ago called Catagory 4, which echoes similar forms of the Belly Music broadcast. He describes the show as “Each episode is broken into four segments, which are connected in some fashion, but routinely unique in many others. This allows for the drawing of comparisons between otherwise disparate concepts while simultaneously creating enough creative restrictions to focus the musical selections.’

Michael is also an aspiring hot-air balloonist. Funny enough, The 5th Dimension song Up, Up and Away was actually written about Michael. According to him, he requested anonymity to avoid the inevitable crush of balloon groupies, which he calls ‘baloopies.’ Subsequently, the old man character in the hit Disney film ‘Up’ was actually based on Michael, portrayed as the old man - grumpy on the outside but secretly floating with a heart full of adventure and a house powered by nostalgia and well balloons. Good Morning America called it “very identifiable.”

Prepare for some strange cosmic and organic leftfield wonders.

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Belly Music w/ Cyrus + Michael Brunner - Mar 3rd 2024

"After a month off, Belly Music is back to its irregularly scheduled programming. This month's show is a snapshot of the music that has been tickling my brain and sonically refractive blips of the changing season. Taurus season is here, and the wisteria is blooming." - @hotelsmotels

Belly Music w/ Cyrus - May 5th 2024

PDX → PVD → PHL

Particle FM: 1st Sunday of the month, 1-3pm pacific / 4-6pm eastern

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