Name: Nowadays Nonstop (March 25 2023) by BlackLauren
Duration: 3 h 6 min 15 s
Description: Nowadays Nonstop w/Lychee & Wata Igarashi

Furtive brings you a broad range of rave-related material with ambient tangents and excursions. Listen live - 3rd Mondays, 6-8PM ET on www.greatcircles.net

Ashen Vanity w/ Furtive - 20Feb2023

@aliendan

New resident Alien D steps up for a spacey Level mix to guide you into spring. Warm, slippery grooves abound.

Alien D - Anodyne Haze

This mix is all 23 tracks set to be released on April 07th as part of our Charity compilation series: PPRZ Variety Pack Vol 02.

Purchase the compilation here:

Pre-orders: March 16
Full release: April 07

A portion of the proceeds for this release will be donated to the Vancouver Black Library. The Vancouver Black Library is a grassroots organization offering resources and workspace by and for POC here in Vancouver.

Track Mastering by Pheek
Album artwork by Max Ammo
Mix Mastering by Nikki Jem

PPRZ Promo Mix: Variety Pack Vol. 02

aka-Sol (@acaciabaila) is an Ecuadorian DJ, producer, and multidisciplinary artist based in Brooklyn. Through their Acacia Baila label, they're also a connector: they've released their own tracks and collaborations alongside releases from their friends and community, as well as thrown events at spaces like Mansions and their involvement in the Dripping event series and festival. As a DJ, their sets are genre-defying and psychedelic, bridging the gap between heady, trippy sounds and groove and percussion that go straight to the body. Their mix for us is deftly controlled chaos — a fresh, freaky take on 'fast' that's as floating and expansive as it is frenetic.

Read the interview and see a tracklist:
spontaneous.zone/052-aka-sol

"I wanted to create a mix exploring the 150-160 bpm pocket. I feel like I have only landed in playing around these tempos a few times while DJing live, and had definitely not recorded a mix up there before. I was itching to submerge into it after a crucial year in my DJ career, where I have widely expanded the limitations of the things I feel comfortable playing.

It’s been refreshing to understand more and more that I am not an artist/DJ that could be defined by a music genre, but rather by the sensibility in which I lace the different styles and sounds I use to create narratives when constructing my sets. Another important challenge I presented to myself for recording this mix was the curiosity of understanding what kind of tunes I would select and blend for this as a non DnB nor hard techno DJ. I feel like by going through this challenge, I have opened a world of possibilities that I can’t wait to incorporate when playing out there.

In terms of feelings explored, I would say that expansiveness of the body and the mind are a recurrent element in my practice and it was very present in this mix too. I wanted to build something that could feel both complex yet fluid. Entering into deeper introspections while feeling your body being pulled in all possible directions at once until the point of surrendering into a floating state of slow movements is the only possible solution to cope with the amount of information being received.

In terms of gear, I used 2 Pioneer XDJ-700s and a Pioneer DJM 450 mixer. For the recording I use a Zoom H6 recorder."

@acaciabaila

Interview + Tracklist

Spontaneous Affinity #052: aka-Sol

Montréal born and raised zi! is a lifelong music lover & dancer. An avid digger, they are inspired by varying sounds and styles, adapting their craft to what their ear responds to. zi!'s work with online radio show and mix series Missed Connections allows them to further explore their diverse musical tastes by curating unique and thoughtful sets from friends around the world. With friends locally, they formed the queer DJ collective Flush, which has been organizing musically forward, community centered events for nearly 2 years. zi! is quickly becoming a mainstay in Montréal's vibrant underground scene. 

Notes on the Mix ///

"When I prepare a mix, I often pick one idea and expand on it for the whole session. This one explores a combination of bass, breaks, percussion, with elements of dub and world music. This sound just makes my body dance; it has something akin to the beats I grew up dancing to, melded with the more forward thinking production I find myself leaning into on today's dancefloors. Hope u enjoy<3"

SOCIALS:
@zi_dj
IG: https://www.instagram.com/ziryy_/
Missed Connections IG: https://www.instagram.com/missed_connections_radio/
Missed Connections SC: https://soundcloud.com/missed-connections-radio 
Flush IG: https://www.instagram.com/arriverflush/

XOXA BLEND 147 - ZI!

A Long Strange Dream is Batu's latest series which allows him to showcase a selection of music not limited to peak time dancefloors. Expect a deep dive into the crates for an eclectic mix of influences and oddities as you transcend into a collective long strange dream.

https://www.nts.live/shows/a-long-strange-dream-w-batu/episodes/a-long-strange-dream-w-batu-26th-april-2023

A Long Strange Dream w/ Batu 260423

Nowadays Nonstop w/Lychee & Wata Igarashi

Nowadays Nonstop (March 25 2023)

AD welcomes back DJ Voices to Level radio before their Nowadays takeover Friday.

http://www.instagram.com/thelevelparty

The Level Party with DJ Voices and Andrew Devlin @ The Lot Radio 05-11-2023

Dian Nao [电脑] label founder One Child Policy pays a visit from Los Angeles alongside Brooklyn's Lychee (Spontaneous Affinity/Antidote/Unimatrix Zero).

https://www.instagram.com/onechildpolicy
http://www.instagram.com/lycheefrut

Lychee and One Child Policy @ The Lot Radio 05-19-2023

Your #1 flower slings some sleek smooth brain crispies for about an hour for @radio-relativa.

@myflower1 @myflower1 @myflower1
techstartup.rekids@gmail.com for all booking enquiries.

My Flower

My Flower | May '23

A dedication to the legend, Deadmau5. The track was written by deadmau5. I have remade the track using NI Maschine+ to display its capabilities. No sounds from the original track were used.

Deadmau5 - Quezacotl (Adam Bowman Ambient remake)

Blacklauren derives his name from the first two things people typically notice about him. He’s Black, obviously, and has a strong affinity for Ralph Lauren. Split between the bustling hip hop world of NYC during the 80s & 90’s and an early exposure to Haitian Vodou, his music style combines various sonic elements of the black diaspora while maintaining a signature style. As a DJ, his thought provoking techno driven sets have earned him gigs at every notable venue in the city. Currently, he is working on his own label Nyabinghi Electronic Research. Follow him on Instagram.

Nowadays Nonstop (March 25 2023)

BlackLauren

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