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Max In The World | Mixes

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

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Bliss Point with Max In The World @ The Lot Radio 08-04-2025

Hi friends,

Last month I was invited by the team over at OnAire to join them for a two hour set at their home and on their Twitch stream. It was a really nice time - I hadn’t recorded a mix since the summer, so it felt great to have a new place for all the Bandcamp purchases I’ve been overspending on lately. The OnAire crew were super welcoming, and the evening ended with homemade fried chicken tacos. 

The result is a freewheeling two hour listen that I’m quite proud of, so I thought I’d share it as my next contribution to the Bliss Point series. Be sure to peep the tracklist for some unreleased gems from the extended Bliss Point family.

By the way, today is Bandcamp Friday, so after you’re done with the mix, you can go purchase your favorites and rest assured that 100% of proceeds will go to the artist/label that made the music possible.

Enjoy!
Max

Tracklist:
James Marrs - Image May Contain (feat. Ju Canon)
Black Mighty Orchestra - Give Me Your Love (Crazy Penis Re-work Instrumental Mix)
Keita Sano - Missing Dub
DJ Harvey - I Want It
Atsushi Yano - Fat Tail
No Smoke - O.A.U In Music
Gerd Janson & Jacques Renault - Just Wanna Pry
Studio Mule - Carnival (Superpitcher Main Mix)
Yukihiro Fukutomi - Feel My Love Vibes (Feel My Love)
Akasha System - Climate Bend
Bawrut - Rumba
Deeper Kenz - CDO Palms
Daniel Stefanik - #six
Jestofunk - Special Love (Soulfuric Special Dub)
Cabin Fever Trax Vol. 34 - Cheryl From The River 
Castillo - Bellisimo
Max In The World - Exodus NY [forthcoming on Bliss Point]
Sentiments - Taken And Handed Back
Franck Roger - La Baraka
Takuya Matsumoto - Be
Fit Of Body - House Music (TWINS edit)
Ase Manual - Lawdaa Mercy
Wa Wu We - Opens The Door
Max In The World - Ah Ha!
Frames - Completely Club Tool
Cleveland - Gamma
Active Surplus - Yaye
Gunnar Haslam - Margareten
Sim Hutchins - Like Herding Cats
SPF 50 - Sumimasen / Track 1
Jori Hulkkonen - (I Got) Pressure Control
Perko - Plover (Perko Remix)
Sentiments - I Like T h a t Bee [forthcoming on Light On Earth]
Ubahnrider - Poppin It Since '86
salute - Fortress
ind_fris - Guitar Under Water

Max In The World | October 2, 2020

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