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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

@djcatalina

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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

This track has been one of my most treasured songs for so long. I finally am ready to release it out into the world. I hope you enjoy! Wrote this a while back with a good friend. 

Keys - bdrnec
Mastered - Leon Smith

Free Download

Beretta

ipaplanitanner (super slowed)

Future Blind plus (Pretty Lights + Late Night Radio)

Crafted with technique rather than pastiche, D.K. continues to flirt with East Asian tropes on a housey, post-club fable.

'Riding For A Fall' is out May 6th on Antinote.

Pre-order: bit.ly/2UtQFVq

@d-k-music
@antinote-records

RIDING FOR A FALL EP

Premiere: D​.​K. – Riding For A Fall [Antinote]

PRE-ORDER:
jupiterjax.bandcamp.com/album/dee-life-mix
midheaven.com/item/deelife-mix-by-jupiter-jax

Available only as Cassette Mix !

A 40-minute ode to and odyssey of smoky basement jack and melancholic warehouse anthems crafted from the psychic crates of short-lived, lost-to-time house imprint Dee-Life Records.

Credited to a cast of forgotten label staples – LifeLess, Hush Hush, Brad K, and beyond – the tracks weave from magic hour to midnight, Chicago moods and Detroit mirages, heady and hypnotized. Deep cuts dug from a dusty DJ bag found behind fog machines in a long-shuttered club, the disco sleeves shredded, the vinyl thrashed, peeling center labels scrawled with BPMs. Dee-Life Mix serves as both portal and party, parallel universe vintage club gems transported to the here and now.


from the "Dee-Life Mix" CS (SILK121)
100% Silk / 2020

STREET DATE: MAY 8

JUPITER JAX - DEE-LIFE MIX (EXCERPTS) (SILK121)

OUT NOW! Grip from the FT shop direct > https://futuretimes.bandcamp.com/album/zeus-dub-b-w-59-positions

press release:

Mezey & Nosho
Zeus Dub b/w 59 Positions
Future Times Records - FTDIGI010 - 2020

A. Zeus Dub
B. 59 Positions

Mezey & Nosho, back on FT! Mezey & Nosho graced Future Times’ FIGS Compilation from 2019 with a surprise techno beast, “Hippy Trick (Vocal).” Mezey (Benny Boeldt) has released a few amazing solo EPs but the union with Nosho (Matt Papich of Lifted, Co La, and more) came out of the blue, ripping.

FTDIGI010 continues that streak with two new hot ones from the duo. M&N are from Baltimore, and the music draws influence from dub, techno, and even that ‘step to create psychedelic sound-system weight. “Zeus Dub” starts it off with shades of Untold’s Hessle 12s, with shifting scenes of bass figures, odd vox and melodies that change the shape of the dance. “59 Positions” is there too, with added string synth waves and plenty of space for the DJ, in its Pepe Bradock-steppin’ soundworld, with a laboratory table of sensations swarming the song.

Not to be missed.

Zeus Dub b/w 59 Positions

Mezey & Nosho -  Zeus Dub (FTDIGI010)

This weeks’ Bliss Point mix comes to us from Igor Dampé, a Belgian producer, DJ and graphic designer whose track “The Earth Prelude” caught my attention, and who was good enough to provided us with an hour of spacious downtempo gems, the perfect requiem for the summer that never was. 

@dampesounds

Tracklist:
Henry Mancini - Lujon
Minor Science - Spoken and Unspoken
Nicolas Jaar - Shame
Igor Dampé - The Earth Prelude
Suzanne Kraft - Renee Sleeping
Yves Tumor - Economy of Freedom
Gacha Bakradze - The Single Hound
Ulwhednar - Midvinter 5
Neel - Life On Laputa Regio
Acronym - Isolated From the Land
Portico Quarter - Ways of Seeing
Asio Otus - Waterdemon
Khotin - Water Soaked In Forever
Turner Street Sounds - Stoned Mix (Midnight T’s Broke Bones Dub)
Stones Taro - Digital Vintage
Breaka - Stretch 130
Pluralist - Gallak
Nuyorican Soul & George Benson - You Can Do It (Baby)
Flying Lotus - Drips / Auntie’s Harp
Age Coin - Damp
PNL - Naha
Eversines - Insanity Is Normal
Ivan Chestopaloff - Seeing (Beyond)

Igor Dampé | September 4, 2020

Using their lockdown time wisely the More Rice camp are back with their most ambitious project yet. “Harvest001” a 14 track compilation featuring old and new friends from across Asia.

Pre-Order: TBA
Release Date: 15th September 2020

The Hernandez Bros & Lustbass - At The End Of Time (Original Mix)

We’re putting out the first Mister Saturday Night Records release in a long while. It’s by Russell E.L. Butler, and it’s called “Blah Blah”. The record comes out on Friday, September 4, and it contains three tracks made in Prague at the Synthesizer Library and one track made in Russell’s pre-New York home in Oakland.

On the EP’s release date Sept 4th, which is Bandcamp Day, all of the Mister Saturday Night Records share of Bandcamp proceeds from the release will go to Princess Janae Place, an organization that provides referrals to housing for chronically homeless LGBTQ adults in the New York Tri-state area, with direct emphasis on Trans/GNC people of color.

The vinyl release, designed by Boot Boyz Biz, includes a poster featuring these words from Russell:

What are my dreams when they are spoken into real space? Are they statements centering my desires? Are they indictments to hold myself accountable to my vision of life?

My consciousness is meandering and at times I celebrate this drone of words. Stripped of meaning, to reveal what’s beneath. Not an answer, but further questions. The purpose of the mantra is to quiet the conscious mind until the spirit takes over.

Place is important. It grounds the abstract in our humanity. These things came from somewhere. Many places. To culminate into one. Connecting them all. And creating something entirely new. Not an answer, but more questions.

Written and Produced by Russell E.L. Butler.

Many thanks to the the Synthesizer Library, Alissa, Mary, Martin, Oliver, the whole Prague crew.

A2 - Krymska - MSN031

FOUNDATION FM - The Specialists w/ Heléna Star 03.09.20

After 7 long years Juk Juk has returned with the Metallic Horizon EP,
his first solo release for Emperor Recordings. Rumour has it, he
joined a Millennial Cult and ascended to an inter-dimensional
mothership; turns out these rumours were unfounded. It would seem
instead he was in a Berlin basement working on this dark, grubby,
303 driven EP. Although when you hear Metallic Horizon you may
wonder...

Metallic Horizon

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Igor Dampé | September 4, 2020

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