Bliss Point Archive

Hi friends,

This week we have a mix from Sobriety, LYL Radio resident and host of Manifold and WAIFU, a queer + femme party in Tokyo, where she resides. Lately I’ve been getting lost in Sobriety’s LYL residency, The Greater Good, a genreless and consciousness expanded monthly offering, where guest DJs are encouraged to embrace the possibility of sonic landscapes.

When I’m feeling particularly heady I like to imagine my own consciousness as a landscape. It comes to me looking like the cover of Unknown Pleasures: a varied field of sensory data floating forward in time, generated by my body and translated into meaning by some shrouded internal mechanism. You have to wonder what Peter Saville was thinking when he converted a range of radio signals into a data plot for the iconic cover, capturing a chaotic pattern that’s become a ubiquitous image of modern life. The record is amazing but I’m not sure the music sold all those t-shirts!

Any time I’ve taken long stretches of chemical-free living, I’ve been struck by the feeling that the landscape of my everyday consciousness becomes a more exciting thing. Without regular chemical spikes (fun as they are), the amplitudes of daily living grow large, and I find myself riding a range of tiny, unexpected pleasures woven tightly into the fabric of the everyday. It’s a good time! And I like the reminder that sobriety can in fact be quite psychedelic.

A range of unexpected, psychedelic pleasures is exactly what Sobriety provides in her Bliss Point mix. She’s blessed the series with another of her imagined landscapes, unfolding at various speeds over a horizon of 83 unpredictable and deeply enjoyable minutes. It’s my pleasure to welcome her to the series.

Enjoy!
Max

@sobrietymusic

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Sobriety | May 7, 2021

Hi friends,

I’m very excited about our mix today - it comes from Catalina, a DJ hailing from Romania, now based in Brussels. 

Catalina’s propulsive, break heavy and future-focused mixes are an enormously good time. She has a modern digger’s ear for unearthing some of the tastiest club workouts, and remains unafraid of allowing otherworldly sonics to enter from stage left. 

Catalina honed her craft in London, holding court in clubs like XOYO, Corsica Studios and Printworks, as well as community stations Balamii and the late 199radio. Now back in Brussels, she continues her contribution to the vibrant local scene, mixing for Kiosk Radio, the Word, and collectives Club Dramatik, Queer Future, C12 and nacht. In addition to her mixes, Catalina has begun making tracks of her own, the first of which will appear on a Greenpeace x DJs for Climate Action compilation out later this summer. 

Bliss Point is very glad to welcome Catalina to the series with 82 minutes of the DJ and budding producer in top form.

Enjoy,
Max

Tracklist:
PAS1 -- Overpowered
Cabasa -- Al Chase
Masha -- Doris Day
Yaleesa Hall -- Daisy Wright
Mor Elian -- Move Like Atoms
Korzi -- Basmati Bandit
Bolam -- Honeycomb Kiss
Innapau -- Dcassab
Adam Pits -- Variation 2
Lisene -- Mind Palace
Oblique -- Faulty
Rassan -- Rota De Fuga
Briki -- Call from UFO
Awo Ojiji -- Ridicoloum
Billy2Chips -- Trieste

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Catalina | May 21, 2021

Hi friends,

This week’s Bliss Point mix makes its way to us from Melbourne, Australia, provided by local selector DJ Reg. Reg regularly contributes to Kiss FM with his show contact radio, which effortlessly spans genres and originally caught my ear.

DJ Reg’s Bliss Point mix is quite the journey in just over an hour - he starts off with laidback hip hop and downtempo breakbeat, and seamlessly guides us into the upper regions of club sounds without ever losing the thread. 

It's quite an efficient slice of euphoria, and one you’ll have no problem throwing on for another go. I’m on round three. Chef's kiss.

Enjoy, 
Max

@regcooper

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DJ Reg | June 4, 2021

Hi friends,

Ron Like Hell is my favorite DJ. He's also a truly kind soul, a consistent source of inspiration, and a friend.

I met Ron at the Lot Radio several years ago, during his tenure as buyer at Academy Records. It was almost summer and already hot. I remember seeing a tall figure with a large brimmed hat cutting a dark shape in the sun, like a friendly Jordowosky character arriving with a big bag of records from the horizon of Norman Ave. His set that day was mind expanding for me, psychedelic, jamming and guitar forward, yet revealed almost nothing of the damage he could do to a club system. This is the miracle of Ron's DJing: his uncanny ability to deliver a jaw dropping plethora of sounds, between mixes and within them; to be comfortable in an enormous range of styles, and yet always true to himself. It always sounds like Ron.

Among the club memories that kept me going through 2020 was one of hearing Ron play at Wrecked, the music-first queer dance party he runs with collaborator Ryan Smith, during their Basement residency. It was a slamming journey that kept me dancing into the morning hours (the party goes to at least 6am). Memories of the club's flood lights rushing the darkness periodically throughout the night, revealing the bodies around me, locked with me in sound, became a touchstone of hope in a quiet and difficult year.

Ron approaches a DJ mix as an assemblage, aligning sound with emotion, focusing on texture to create psychedelic soundscapes, imaginative spaces for comfort and surprise spectators with an unexpected crafty transition, many of which you will hear many in his Bliss Point mix - a "light sweat / mushroom tea in the woods" vibe, in Ron's own words. Beyond this mix, you can hear Ron play monthly on his Lot Radio residency, at  the off-the-wall Pride party he will be playing this month, or find him and Ryan on the coveted cover of the latest Love Injection fanzine, celebrating their ten celebrated years as Wrecked.

There's so much I could say about Ron and his work. It's more than I can fit in a newsletter, but when we meet on one of his dance floors, I'll be glad to tell you the rest. For myself and so many other DJs in NY he has been a beacon of passion, professionalism, and a true loving-kindness, the best kept secret you could never keep to yourself. 

Enjoy,
Max

@ronlikehell   

Tracklist:
Mecánica Clásica - Columnas De Agua
NRLSD -He Got Game
Nueen - Hum
Hoshina Anniversary - Michinoku
Spacemen 3 - Hypno-Beat
Angela Werner - I Gotta Little Love (Leo Young's Cosmic Edit)
Naum Gabo - Feln
Clarinets - Afternoon
Don Carlos - Alone (Social Disco Club edit)
YS - Kinetic Love
the Phenomenal Handclap Band - All of the Above (Frisvold & Lindbaek mix)
Spin (aka Groove Armada) - Cowbell Rock
Iglew - Caffeine Dream
Martin Solveig - A Few Words (Of Norway Bootleg)
the Orb - Vuja De (Living City remix)
Fra Lippo Lippi (Til Lippo Lippa edit)

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Ron Like Hell | June 25, 2021

Hi friends,

This week we have a mix from Alyssa Stowers, a NY based DJ who I had the pleasure of sharing a bill with at Secret Friend, a local night run by Noah Prebish and Michael Rudinski. The party was over Memorial Day Weekend, kicking off their monthly residency at Queens club h0l0. It was the first real night out for most of us, and we were doing our best to make sense of suddenly being back, readjusting to the once familiar feeling of other people and a sound system in a darkened club space. 

Alyssa’s set that evening was two hours of deep dug funk and disco gems, full of heart and built with care to please a dance floor. I remember turning to my friends and commenting on how it was exactly the kind of spirit lifting music I’d missed so much, and how pleasant and surreal it was to be back, hearing it loud and with others. The crowd was having a blast, and a number of dancers were keen to ask Alyssa for IDs as she slid records back in their sleeves. Who could blame them?

For her Bliss Point mix, Alyssa has provided us with an hour of meandering soul and laidback, heartfelt song, all supported by tight, percussive grooves. It's a mix that has kept me at the perfect tempo every afternoon this week - I highly recommend taking it for a walk or to the park in these dog days of summer.

Enjoy! 
Max

@alyssastowers

Alyssa Stowers | August 6, 2021

RICHARD PARKER-BABY

Artist: Cock Robin
Album: "Cock Robin" (Expanded Edition)
Original release date: 1985

I DO NOT own the rights to this material, nor do I claim to own them. Copyright belongs to its owners. We only spread your work, without any commercial spirit.
Thanks and enjoy!

To learn more material from this DJ/Producer, I invite you to activate the # Deejay Terry tab.

Cock Robin - The Promise You Made (By Deejay Terry Rework)

Listen / Download:  https://li.sten.to/tm-entanglement

Timeless Moment proudly unveils its next Unique Moment series: Entanglement—a six-track compilation inspired by the profound quantum phenomenon where particles remain mysteriously connected across infinite distances and dimensions. Just like entangled particles vibrating in perfect harmony, this release connects artists and souls from across the globe, weaving melodies into an invisible thread that transcends space, time, and genre.

From France, Helkah and Audio Key Architects unleash the peak-time melodic techno bomb “Deviate.” Sri Lankan master Echo Daft teams up with Brazilian talent Sam Sick for the hypnotic progressive journey “Samsara.” Iranian artist Zero Contact and Canadian Bryce Kenneth craft an introspective tale in “Connected to the Universe.” Serbian rising star LANNA debuts with the powerful “Take Me,” while producer Galgo, channels Playa del Carmen’s spirit in “Absolutely Pure.” Closing the voyage, Uruguayan artist Facundo Capott delivers the spellbinding melodic tale “Laberinto.” 

With Entanglement, Timeless Moment fuses global consciousness into sound—inviting you to become part of a universal rhythm.

Website:
www.timelessmoment.com.br 

Contact for licensing: kelly@timelessmoment.com.br

Mastering by @syntropy.ofc 
Syntropy.ofc@gmail.com 


Social networks for Helkah, Audio Key Architects:
https://www.instagram.com/audiokeyarchitects/
https://www.instagram.com/helkahmusic/ 

Social networks for ECHO DAFT  & Sam Sick:
https://www.instagram.com/echo_daft_official/ 
https://www.instagram.com/samsickofficial/ 


Social networks for ZERO CONTACT & Bryce Kenneth: 
https://www.instagram.com/zerocontactmusic/ 
https://www.instagram.com/brycekenneth_/ 

Social networks for Lanna: 
https://www.instagram.com/lannamusic_ofc/ 

Social networks for Galgo: 
https://www.instagram.com/galgo_music/ 

Social networks for Facundo Capott: 
https://www.instagram.com/facundocapottdj/ 


ZERO CONTACT, Bryce Kenneth - Connected to The Universe (Extended Mix) [Timeless Moment]

MIXES

MOOPIE - SANPO 080 - Sugar Hiccups

ELENA COLOMBI - SANPO 106

Opheliaxz

@opheliaxz

Who are you? Where do you live?
 
I'm Kelsey Knotts currently residing in Pilsen, Chicago.

How do you hydrate in the club?

With Topo Chico and lime! It's kind of a Chicago thing thats stuck with me. If i'm somewhere else in the world, any type of carbonated water is chill.

Advice for beginning Dj's?

My advice for Dj's starting out is to find out what works best for you, don't let someone tell you that there is a definite right or wrong way to DJ. For technical aspects try counting the 4 to the floors listen for the claps and kicks. If you can't find a pair of CDJ's or Technics any kind of music software is TOTALLY CHILL. Make due with what you have don't let some jerk tell you other wise because gear is expensive!~ Oh and practice makes perfect fall down and get back up again, messing up train wrecking is totally chill just push the track back into place, most of the time people don't even notice a small blip even the greatest Dj's of all time mess up!

What do you wish to see in the future for the dance community?

I wish to see my friends thrive and in general would love to see more support within groups in America towards underground dance music because It's really hard in the DIY community to put a rave/show on anywhere in the states. It costs a lot of time and money. I have high hopes that communities will all continue to be diverse with line ups as well.

Fav late night snack?
Hot salsa and restaurant style tortilla chips w/ a whole dill pickle

Opheliaxz - -270.45 ˚C

Hello friends, I write to you from the woods. 

Did you know trees talk to each other? My wife is reading a book called The Hidden Life Of Trees: What They Feel, How They Communicate - Discoveries From A Secret World, and all week she has been feeding me fascinating tidbits about the quiet but eventful lives trees are leading all around us. So far I’ve learned that they share resources, parent their young, and communicate with each other through vast networks of mushrooms, a conversation I believe I have dropped in on once or twice. 

This week we are are blessed with a mix from Duane Island, a New York producer and DJ whose joyful and uninhibited approach to sampling is on full display in this hourlong venture. Here, as in his edits - which have been praised by Resident Advisor and sport some of the best cover art of 2020 - Duane’s deep love of Italo, trance, and party starter breaks blend into a euphoria that I deeply admire. Easy as it is to forget, chasing moments of elation and escape is among the highest callings and largely what this whole music thing is about.

Enjoy!
Max

@duaneisland

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Tracklist:
Italian Ice - Mars Re-Pumped
Chocolate Bam Boo ‎– Gotta Make A Living
Atlantic Starr - Secret Lovers
Klein & M.B.O. - I Love You
Jaap Eggermont - Formula One
Guitar Interlude
Atahualpa ‎– Toca Las Congas (Mr. Marvin Mix)
Duane Island - Pablo Toto / Watching Guillette Medley
Cosmic - Cosmic Lullaby
Jessica Blue - The Dark of Light x MDMC ‎– How About It (Duane Island We Make Drums Medley)
Giusy Ravizza - Light
Komanoff Brothers - Trust Your Heart
Pepsi & Shirlie - Dreaming
Cetu Javu - Situations (Razormaid Remix) [Duane Island No Vocal Edit]
Cetu Javu - Situations (Razormaid Remix) [Duane Island Chopped n Screwed]
Mr. & Mrs. Dale ‎– It's You (NU Style Mix)
B.W.H. - Stop
Fabrizio Fattori - Babihe
R.E.M. ‎– Computer Communication (Remix)
Judie Tzuke - She Don’t Live Here Anymore
Duane Island Ambient Midi Interlude x Lectroluv ‎– Dream Drums
The New Morning - Anthems
Ann Marie ‎– Just Waiting For You (Bonus Dub)
Chico Hablas - Marguerita
Mi Muchila - Spellbind
BT - Love, Peace And Grease (BT's Puma Fila 7" Mix)
Arlene - Who Will It Be (Dub Mix) (Freestyle Side)
Duane Island - Another Galaxy
Boris - Looprider (Hatchback's Pacific Wind Mix) [Extra Drums]
Duane Island - Voco Slab
Duane Island - Cold Beat
Duane Island - Balearic Blues

Duane Island | July 24, 2020

Promoter @ The Lot Radio 11 - 02 - 2020

https://soundcloud.com/marijanaanajiram

https://www.retreatradio.net/deflections

Deflections #8 (21/11/20)

“This week…I have been mostly listening…to doom jazz, post-post-punk and ‘90s afro cosmic era.

A cabinet of curiosities, inorganic matter, penguins, frogsies, and the not so completely oblique.”

Damaged Goods 1 FINAL SENT

Damaged Goods w/ Mike BC 29/11/20

Artwork par Ravon https://ravonus.tumblr.com/

Carpaccio Cathédrale est une émission mensuelle avec des artistes invité-es.
Pour chaque émission @carpaccio.cathedrale fourni l'intro et l'outro à l'artiste qui doit s'en servir pour réaliser son mix.

ce mois ci nous invitons :
@mercredirecords, collectif qui se cache derrière la chaîne Monsieur Mercredi, l’enfant qui goûte à tout, qui n’a toujours pas appris à classer ses disques, et passe du Coq à l’Âne pour impressionner ses camarades au centre aéré. Collectionneur de disques, il essaye d'en faire aussi, via son label lancé en octobre 2019 et qui compte aujourd'hui 3 sorties dont le dernier Pile Ou Faune (octobre 2020).
Mélange des genres, musiques asexuées et sensuelles, rythmiques chaloupées à tout heure.
https://mercredirecords.bandcamp.com/
https://soundcloud.com/mercredirecords
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCakOpl5EnghKJbGwN7nuBmA

En intro et outro, c’est au tour de @penaflor de nous fournir un enregistrement en provenance du Japon.
https://soundcloud.com/penaflor
https://penaflor.bandcamp.com/
https://www.instagram.com/_bea_flor/

Carpaccio Cathedrale Invite Mercredi Records ~ 09.12.2020

Bliss Point is a label, party, and mix series from New York.

LABEL:
https://blisspointsound.bandcamp.com/music
https://linktr.ee/BlissPoint (EU)

MIX:
@thelotradio every 4th Monday 10-midnight EST

NEWSLETTER:
Mixes and thoughts from NY
https://tinyurl.com/4sm7ck6u

Duane Island | July 24, 2020

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