Our friend Max Mellman (@whomadecookies) is a lovely individual and  the host of the great "quiet music" series @turnoffthedark69 He has prepared a geographical wonder of a mix for y'all for SORRYMIX009 <3

"NOW BOARDING! After spending most of the last year daydreaming of the faces and places beyond my apartment walls, this mix is my loving homage to the wide world of sound. With each track coming from a different country, you’ll get to boogie all over the world! Please make sure your seatbelt is securely fastened during takeoff and landing!"
- Max

✈️ ✈️ Tracklist ✈️ ✈️
Che - Scream Like A Swift
Bad Girls - Hot-Line
Blue Vision - Blue Ambiente (Next Age Mix)
Siti Muharam - Alaminadura
Surya - Entituden (Remix)
Boo Boo And Mace - Hejaz
Guedra Guedra - Anlo Kinka
Angelo Ioakimoglu - Alonissos
Mar-Pa - Finale
Sankara Future Dub Resurgence - Two Thousand Seasons Dub
MC Yallah - Ndi Mukazi (Jay Glass Dubs Version)
Koyil - Shustari
Sapho - Train De Paris
Denis & Denis - Ti I Ja
Bappi Lahiri - Khoj Mein Kis Ki (ft. Sapna Mukherjee)
Praed - Stoned Crocodiles
Steve Lehman & Sélébéyone - Are You In Peace?
Rustəm Quliyev - İran Teraneleri
Per Cussion - Make Love Two
3Phaz - Dawayer
Commodores - Nightshift

SORRYMIX SERIES

SORRYMIX009 - Max Mellman’s Global Entry Mix

Shaking Air presents a collection of morning music: cassette tape dollar bin nature recordings, new age jammers, and hissy ambient vinyl cuts. The second hour features the world premiere of CICADA WAVES, a forthcoming Ben Seretan album of improvised piano and encountered sound out via NNA Tapes on April 30th.

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Tracklist:

"""Loons in the Morning Mist""
Pauline Anna Storm - ""Equatorial Sunrise"" - Angel Tears in Sunlight, RVNG
""Beneath the Waves"" - Where Dolphins Play, NatureQuest
Elori Saxl - ""The Blue of Distance"" - The Blue of Distance, Western Vinyl
""Wolf Talk"" - NorthSound
David Hykes and the Harmonic Choir - ""Harmonic Relation"" - Harmonic Meetings, Celestial Harmonies
""Waterfall Suite"" - Naturescape
Karima Walker - ""For Heddi"" - Waking the Dreaming Body, Orindal Records
Eric Tingstad, Nancy Rumbel, David Lanz - ""Magnolia"" - Woodlands, Narada
Bing & Ruth - ""Just Like the First Time"" - Tomorrow was the Golden Age, RVNG
"Wilderness Waves"" - NorthSound
Steven van Betten & Andrew Rowan - ""God Given Beauty"" - No Branches Without Trees
Private Elevators - ""Do You Have A Private Elevator"" - First Feelings, Perfect Wave
Ben Seretan - ""Cicada Waves 1"" - Cicada Waves, NNA
Ben Seretan - ""3pm Rainstorm"" - Cicada Waves, NNA
Ben Seretan - ""Cicada Waves 2"" - Cicada Waves, NNA
Ben Seretan - ""Rain and Cicadas"" - Cicada Waves, NNA
Ben Seretan - ""11pm Sudden Thunderstorm"" - Cicada Waves, NNA
Ben Seretan - ""8pm Crickets"" - Cicada Waves, NNA
Ben Seretan - ""Fog Rolls Out Rabun Gap"" - Cicada Waves, NNA
David Lyndon Huff - ""Chillout"" - Rhythmic Dreams
North Americans - ""Run Down"" - Roped In, Third Man
""Tropical Rain Forest"" - Moods Gateway Recordings

Ben Seretan @ The Lot Radio 04 - 27 - 2021

Join Sonosphere as we talk with Ben Seretan - his approach to composition, songwriting and his latest album - Cicada Waves. 

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Tokens (Monroeville)

music for pine needles

1. tomaga - intimate intensity (floating points & marta salogni remix)
2. gi gi - sagrat cor
3. eternal plough - misanthropic cradle
4. alan gesso - abraxas
5. m. geddes gengras - ohhh boyyyy
6. log(m) & laraaji - be as you are
7. iu takahashi - lotus
8. brett naucke - century on the cusp
9. christopher a. broom & dominic coppola - cling
10. fila brazillia - july 23
11. conga square - raiders
12. nonplace urban field - nike air
13. rapoon - we stand
14. universal being - refracted rainbow
15. nueen - wait until then
16. deadbeat - open my eyes that i may see
17. dj paradise - mbizi (r)
18. carly barton - heart scale II (mossdeep)
19. hotspring - obit for sunshade
20. car culture - coping mechanism dub

turn off the dark 23

Ron Like Hell provides eclectic sets venturing into obscure international sounds, Techno, Synth, House, Acid and Disco which are appreciated by some of the most discerning dance floor enthusiasts.

Approaching a dj mix as assemblages, Ron Like Hell aligns sound with emotion, focusing on texture to create psychedelic soundscapes, imaginative spaces for comfort and surprise spectators with an unexpected crafty transition. With 27+ years of making people dance in numerous countries along with years of vinyl shop experience and music promotion, his/their role in the industry is unique and influential. Their latest production, EXALT is their dream come true where Ron selects a personally beloved dj to play solo then close out the night together with a b2b set. EXALT's first guest was Matrixxman in April 2022 at Basement in Ridgewood-Queens, NY. Ron also djs as Wrecked, a music first queer dance party which will turn 12 in March of 2023.

Notes on the Mix ///
"Created deep from the bottom of my heart respectfully for the queer community in my off kilter multi-genre inclusive style this live in one take mix includes vinyl and cdj media. Mash-ups sit near disco originals, disco sampled 90s house thumpers meet modern deep tech house
pumpers and adjacent to all that, unashamed sassy vocal house is celebrated too. I also featured a few productions by some friends near and far: a trend that I can not shake since creating mixes during the 2020 shutdown. Overall, I wanted this mix to be a version of near
perfect just as when we go out and hear DJs at the club where a perfect blend is a fortunate dream come true and also some skips or light off the beat-mixing reminds us of our beautiful mortality. I feel the intention and soul of the dj is revealed when those moments are noticed. I hope everyone who follows the XOXA mixes and parties will play this mix before they head out to a party this Fall and Winter and beyond :)"

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XOXA BLEND 123 - Ron Like Hell

Tickle Polyester @ The Lot Radio 10.14.2022

This was my closing set at Nowadays on October 13 with Yumi and Call Super. I believe this mix represents the direction I'm headed as an artist, and furthermore is perhaps the best set I've played thus far in my career, in my own opinion. Huge thanks to DJ Voices for selecting me to close out her residency night with two of my favorite DJs. It was an absolute dream.

Nowadays Closing Set - October 13

Some laid back funk for eating an ice cream cone while aimlessly riding your bike on a hot summer afternoon 
Find the full tracklist and related episodes on NTS: https://www.nts.live/shows/heatwave/episodes/heatwave-ice-cream-bike-ride-w-max-mellman-20th-august-2024

Ice Cream Bike Ride w/ Max Mellman 200824

Part 48 of 48.

My Life's Work is 24 hours of guitar improvisations recorded over three nights, August 2017.

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I recently had the opportunity to rifle through a bunch of shit I left at my parents lake house in Missouri the summer I graduated college. That was 8 years and a season ago now and most of this stuff I hadn’t thought about or even remembered ever possessing. It’s now wallowing and slowly eroding away inside purple plastic tubs kept in a storage unit in Las Vegas. I took a quick inventory. There was my yellow melodica, purchased at a flea market in Berlin when I was 17, along with a felt replica of my yellow melodica, don’t remember who made it. A beautiful tambourine, a set of bongos, an old transistor radio. There were old LPs from various people’s collections - I recognized my brother’s taste in 90s hardcore and power metal and my dad’s love of fusion. Most of them are warped and probably won’t play right, but I took a few under my arm anyway. There were three unlabeled VHS tapes, no idea what they are. Books I read in college, graded papers, notebooks full of notes from classes. I can barely read my own handwriting. The hat I wore at my college graduation plus some of the decorations from a party I don’t remember. A kaleidoscope. A “don’t tread on me” flag. A signed picture of the Beach Boys I received in the mail at age 7 after I sent a letter to their fan club. Brian almost wears the big tweed suit and beard comfortably, with dignity, but he’s in the back, obscured behind Al Jardine. Mike Love has “USA” written down the sleeve of his leather jacket. There was another picture of the Beach Boys, too, this one larger and unsigned and in sepia tones from their early, striped shirt days. The contrast and the gulf of time between the two photos is astonishing. There was the label from an antique can of squid given to me by a docent at a maritime museum in California in 2008, neatly preserved in plastic. High school yearbooks full of inside jokes indecipherable to adult me. There was a really official-looking commendation from the state of California recognizing my efforts in organizing a charity dodgeball tournament at my high school on behalf of the victims of a tsunami. A copy of my high school girlfriend’s child modeling headshot. 3 paintings by Steve Keene I won in a raffle in 2009, one of them is a quickly rendered version of the album cover for Neil Young’s “Everybody Knows this is Nowhere.”
All of this took me back. It took me aback, too, but the thing that really got me was the amount of correspondence I held onto, how many letters and postcards I accumulated. I found a note from my friend on the night of my senior thesis recital - there’s a facsimile of an Agnes Martin piece on one side and him saying he believes in me on the other. I don’t remember receiving the note or having read it or why he apologizes at the end, but the physical proof of it existing, of it having been in a box next to a lake for the last 8 years, gets stuck in my throat. There’s a letter from a friend of mine written on a particularly large leaf. We don’t speak anymore, not out of anger or out of anything other than growing apart. Her handwriting is craggy and hard to make out and the more I handled the leaf the more it crunched, pulverizing in my hand. I remember getting really stoned with her once years ago and throwing a frisbee around and giggling nonstop, a pure and simple moment of boneheadedness. And now we don’t speak, but there’s this leaf. There were two photos of someone I once considered my best friend, tucked away discretely behind other powerful totems of my history. Some days I feel that I ruined that friendship, other days I feel it’s his fault...

A project by Ben Seretan. Hotline coding by Johann Diedrick. Recorded overnight at Spaceman Sound. Released in collaboration with Infinite Best.

My Life's Work - 48 - Far Away From Where I Am, Further Still From Where I Was

Music for Asian diaspora kids who can't sing but love karaoke, anti-imperialist punk rock fil-am anthems, songs heard while browsing Jackson Heights Bollywood music shops, soundtracks to your favorite Jia Zhangke movie, those Sufi qawwalis your dad used to play all the time in the car, Hong Kong indie pop discovered on Tumblr circa 2011, anime love songs from late nights on Crunchyroll, Lollywood disco hits, Japanese synthpop à la Ryuichi Sakamoto, and more.

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Stray Dogs with OHYUNG & Rachika Nayar @ The Lot Radio 03 - 01 - 2021

**ECSTATIC / ELECTRIC**
"Whatever's clever"
Super down to play weddings