'Music They Love'... we ask DJ's and producers to delve into their collection and put together a selection of records that have meant a lot to them in the past, as well as the present. All things inspirational and influential - the records which have shaped their sound as a producer or selection as a DJ.

This week we are joined by the super talented party starter, DJ and producer @d-tiffany 💕 Her records are always a firm favourite of customers at the shop, as well as with us (we've still got her collab release with @regfant on repeat)! 

She provides us with a bass-heavy mix to see us all through until the clubs reopen. Turn. This. One. All. The. Way. Up. 🔊

D. Tiffany's latest release with @roza-terenzi is available to order now: https://www.coldcutshotwax.uk/products/tapestry-of-sound-roza-terenzi-d-tiffany-tapestry-of-sound

D. Tiffany // Music They Love #60

Pearson Sound b2b Pangaea b2b Ben UFO recorded live at Freerotation 2015.

Freerotation is a festival we've played for the last seven years. It's the only festival we've played so regularly, and it's an incredibly special place to all three of us.
 
This is the first time we've shared a recording of a set the three of us have played in a club or festival setting, and it feels right that it is a recording from there. This year we played the penultimate set on the final night in the second room, before Objekt closed it out (which you can hear here - https://soundcloud.com/keinobjekt/freerotation-2015-closing-set). Unfortunately the final 15 minutes were lost, but this is almost the entirety of our three hour set.
 
Huge thanks to Steevio, Suzybee, everyone involved in the running of Freerotation, all the attendees and to Alex Downey for the recording!

Hessle Audio at Freerotation 2015

Two hours from the revered UK selector, recorded as the sun set over RA's stage at Rainbow Disco Club.

@benufo
@rainbowdiscoclub

RA Live - 28.04.19 - Ben UFO, Rainbow Disco Club, Japan

Eris Drew is one of those artists who seemed to blow up over night, but who had actually been hard at work for decades. A long-time residency at Chicago's Smart Bar brought her to international attention, and her own Motherbeat parties at various places around Europe furthered that reputation. It is there that she manages to cook up pure, unadulterated dance floor love and euphoria with hi-energy selections and a unifying sense of oneness that is put together with her own so called “orchestration” mixing techniques. An inquisitive musician and innovative recording artist, she has also just put out her debut solo EP on Interdimensional Transmissions and runs T4T LUV NRG with partner Octo Octa. 

This week's mix is all of the above and more: a throbbing, impulsive and full bodied experience that serves up the most bumping house grooves but run through with the warm ambient glow of a post-rave comedown. The music feels at classic but also thoroughly contemporary: it will make you pump your fist in sheer joy, but also sends warm waves of euphoria through your body. This is the sound of the Motherbeat.

Eris on her mix:
"In a recent interview for DJ Mag I talk about my connection to the song “Secrets of Mediation” by Dutch producers Alex Dijksterhuis (Jamez) & Gaston Steenkist (Dobre). At Chicago raves in 1994 and 1995, this track revealed to me that modern dance music contains archaic ritual elements such as trance-inducing resonances, penetrating sacred drums, and language transformed into glossolalia. My DJ mix for Dekmantel is inspired by my formative dance experiences and by the intense extended sets I play at psychedelic raves such as Motherbeat and No Way Back. The mix includes bass music, progressive, breaks, house, techno, and minimal, all of which I collage, drop and scratch to put us into a tunneling trance."

Full tracklist here: dkmn.tl/270-ErisDrew

Dekmantel Podcast

Dekmantel Podcast 270 - Eris Drew

Over the last years Shanti Celeste has played in some of the best clubs around the world, she also has a monthly show on NTS Radio and runs the label Peach Discs, where her dope debut album "Tangerine" came out last year. Enjoy!

Interview: http://iliantape.de/ilian-tape-podcast-series-050/

ITPS050 SHANTI CELESTE

Beautiful Swimmers took part in Club Quarantäne's virtual party on 4/25/20 - shoutout to them for putting that together - this is the document of that session :)

During the broadcast we recommended that people in DC/DMV (and beyond) should donate to Casa Ruby, and we continue that here: https://casaruby.org/donate/

We both run music labels if you'd like to scope the goods:

World Building: https://worldbuilding.bandcamp.com/

Future Times: https://futuretimes.bandcamp.com/music

DC baby!

Please stay safe during these crazy times

-Swimmz

BEAUTIFUL SWIMMERS - NEW DJ MIX - APRIL 2020 (from Club Quarantäne virtual stream 4/25/20)

Back in the mix with a heavy-hitting hour of h basslines and euphoric melodies, thanks to one of our favourite selectors around - Melbourne's finest, @milluu!

Millú

Gestalt Records with Millú

This is the set I played at Dekmantel Selectors festival in 2019. I closed out the evening, following sets by Mad Miran, Khidja and OKO DJ.

I'm really missing the dancefloor right now, so it was fun for me to relive a memory this joyful. I hope you guys enjoy it too.

Dekmantel Selectors 2019 (Closing set)

Welcome Sleep D to BSRMIX #102...the last for 2020!

A message from Sleep D:

This mix is a live excerpt from one of the last parties we played before covid turned everything upside down. Two hours cut from an 8 hour set at Colour in Melbourne. After all these months, and finally listening back, we felt like it captures the essence of our DJ style quite well and took us back to those fun moments on the dance floor, feeding off the dancers energy. We hope you find some joy in it and we look forward to joining you all on the dance floor when it's safe to do so in 2021 :-)

BSRMIX102 - Sleep D

An uplifting ode to queerness and love.

Read more: https://ra.co/podcast/769

@octoocta

Resident Advisor podcast

RA.769 Octo Octa

Manchester-born, London-based DJ and producer Sophie Wilson, better known as Willow, joins us for the 81st edition of the Phonica Mix Series with an hour-long selection of off-kilter house, techno and electronic goodness, featuring tracks from Even Tuell, Parris, Sad City and more. Enjoy! 🔉 🔊 bit.ly/PHONICAMIX81