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Luke Cohlen ╚═ Future Intel ═╗ 04 02 2021

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

Skylab x Slow Burn - liucy & agane

“Shift into freedom” 

The number 20 is a powerful number because it contains double the power of the number 10. When the number 20 appears, especially if it repeats itself, it can act as a incitement to take time to be alone, attending to thoughts, emotions and physical sensations.

This episode was recorded on the West coast of Australia. Lots of love to all the wonderful people there.

Gi Gi - Montjuïc ft. Mi Mi
Madeleine Cocolas - Across The Ocean, But Not Yet
Ben Green - The Call 
Perila - Wave Blanket
Picnic -  Dewey (Nadia Khan version)
J - wide gaps closed in hidden hurt and passive wounds
Aardvarck - U Are, Not What U Think
Angelo Harmsworth & Theodore Cale Schafer - Tucked Behind Your Ears Like Wings Part 2 - AHTCSTBYELW 4
Anna Peaker - it would be in a dream

The Best Effort Show - Episode Twenty

This month, the wonderful Tilly (NTS/ Noods) takes the reins for Hot Love. Get involved for an hour of silky and sultry slow burners into some new beat and freestyle 🏩💋☎️

Hot Love w/ Tilly 17/04/21

Hi friends,

For many people, myself included, creating something and putting it out into the world is an attempt to kick start a virtuous circle. You work to make something that is meaningful to you, then send it out as far as you can. You hope that if it could provide so much to you, alone here in your apartment, it might be able to do something for someone else. For me this is a beautiful act.

With music, the results of sending out your work are not easily tracked. Besides top cities analytics in the backend of your streaming services, or the names of a few shops your distributor mentioned took your record, it’s not possible to know where your work ended up, or is being played now, if anywhere. The hi-hat you agonized over might be blasting from a pocket Bluetooth in Belarus right now, or it might not. You don’t know!

If you’re lucky, what you’ve made will find a few like-minded people out there and become meaningful to them.  Tiny channels of connectivity opened up between people amid an ocean of noise; positivity that will continue to travel in some form. This is the fuel that powers most creative endeavors. 

As the Bliss Point catalog slowly grew over the past year, I noticed the same profile kept supporting our releases. The avatar was a hand drawn face that reminded me of Tin Tin. Seeing that avatar pop up a fourth or fifth time, I finally dug a bit deeper, and discovered that cartoon face belonged to Ippei, a house DJ in Chiba Prefecture, Japan.

Ippei’s mixes gripped me, nailing hour after hour of impeccable, high energy club journeys. He and his crew have run a regular party, homework, at a number of clubs in and around Tokyo the past few years. Judging from the recordings on the homework Mixcloud, these parties sound very, very good.

I thought right away that Ippei would be a great guest on the Bliss Point series, and I love the contribution he's made. I’ve been unsure what kind of music I want to make next, but in a number of Ippei’s selections here, I’ve found much needed inspiration. The circle forms, the circle grows.


Enjoy,
Max

@hara-ippei

Tracklist:
01. Anther - Lawrence Le Doux
02. Fast Track To Bliss - Tom VR
03. Le Tigre -  Overmono
04. Design Of The Body Sublime - Call Super And Parris
05. Espresso - DJ Plead
06. ALEX (いつまでふたり) - Oyubi
07. Snake Dance - Al Wootton
08. Blitz (Hodge Remix) - Hodge & El-B
09. Ignite - Instinct x 0113
10. Midnight Request Line (Pj Bridger Refix) - Skream
11. Lyrical Tempo - Ghost
12. Back 2 Earth - DJ Swagger, Luz1e
13. People (Original Mix) - Stylistic
14. Untitled - 3 In Key
15. Brothers - Housey Doings
16. Let It Play (Rap Mix) - Bushwacka! Featuring E.Q.
17. Let's Dance - Makesome Breaksome
18. Pocari Sweat (Ft. Borai) - Denham Audio
19. The Rest Is Bullshit, You Know It - Robbenspierre
20. Strontium 90 - Chris Moss Acid
21. Destroy Your Concept - DJ これからの緊急災害
22. Can't You Feel It (Soundbwoy Killah Remix) - Chrissy
23. I Won't Forget - Logic1000
24. Juli - Brand

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Ippei | April 30, 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

Relaxer (Planet Mu, Ave 66, Climate of Fear) b2b Léon (Acacia Baileyana) 

IG: @relaxerelaxer, aele___

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Relaxer b2b Léon @ The Lot Radio 06 - 08 - 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

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Glad to welcome Belgian label Stroom among our Outsiders!

Contributing to this first show with “The Mirror”, a 60-minute original piece by Brussels' project Pablo’s Eye .

“The Mirror” is a musical journey based on an endless loop with an ever- different and slightly changing feel all the way through, creating a feeling of travelling in time and space. To feed the loop an extract was taken from Pablo’s Eye's track “Tentative d’épuisement d’un lieu parisien” released on Longform Editions in 2020.

Pablo’s Eye is a Brussels-based international collective of musicians and artists who share a vision to make magic through music. In 2018 a trilogy of selected works were released on Stroom label. Pablo’s Eye is also part of Berlin Atonal’s: More Light compilation boxset released this month with a brand new track 'A way you’ll never be'.

Pablo's Eye don't really endeavour to be a band, it is more a temporary atmosphere, like a taste, like a dream."

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