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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

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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

My third track, improving all aspects of the production process, better mastering, etc. Hope you like it.

Traski-Anxiety

Gisella Engel-Lichenor [Dark Nature Concept]

Day 2/13 — Fermi Para.
LADS (now Koyenga) with their very first release. Quiet but powerful.
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Recorded 8/21/20 by @claws and @tatianavaughan

Squirrels on Radio w/ C.L.A.W.S. & Vaughan

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01 The Exaltics ‘Introduction’ | Bunker
02  Adlas ‎’Currents’ | Answer Code Request
03 The Exaltics | Heinrich Mueller ‘Time Apeture’ | Solar One Music
04 The Exaltics ‘What’s Wrong’ | Solar One Music
05 Jeremiah R. ‘Exploring Depths’ | Distant Wave
06 Versalife ‘Neogenesis’ | TRUST
07 The Exaltics | Heinrich Mueller ‘Encoder’ | Solar One Music
08 Barker ‘Utility’ | Ostgut Ton
09 The Exaltics | Heinrich Mueller ‘Signal Filtering From Interstellar Noise’ | Solar One Music
10 Bitstream ‘Temporeal’ | Frustrated Funk
11 Versalife ‘Gravitional Anomaly’ | TRUST
12 Bitstream ‘Eltromat’ | Frustrated Funk
13 Fear-E ‘The Mouth From The South’ | Dark Entries
14 Bitstream ‘Glycon’ | Frustrated Funk
15 Versalife ‘Recirculator’ | TRUST
16 Bitstream ‘Communion (Arcade Mix)’ | Frustrated Funk
17 The Exaltics | Heinrich Mueller ‘Microwave Photon’ | Solar One Music
18 The Exaltics ‘Things Fall Apart ’ | Bunker
19 The Exaltics | Heinrich Mueller ‘3.26 Parallax Seconds’ | Solar One Music
20 Versalife ‘Cosmic Language’ | TRUST
21 ADSX ‘Fill In #2’ | Injection Records
22 Barker ‘Paradise Engineering’ | Ostgut Ton
23 Damon Wild ‘Loupian’ | Geometric
24 Moody Boyz ‘The Pygmy Song (Velcro City Version By Insync)’ | Prime
25 Sunrise Society ‘Edge Of Chaos (MDZ K-Otic Mixx)’ | Pacific Records
26 Steve Stoll ‘Seconds’ | Proper N.Y.C.
27 Silver ‘Glass House’ | Parallel Recordings, Ltd.
28 Pluto ‘Free To Run (Bullet Mix)’ | i.t.p. Recordings
29 Gadgets ‘Bonjour’ | Gadgets
30 Mr. James barth ’Stealin’ Music’ | Svek
31 Jeroen Search ‘Escape Velocity’ | Symbolism Limited
32 Fear-E ‘Craig’s Wee Sweet Shop’ | Dark Entries
33 DJ Powerout ‘Slime’ | Synewave
34 ADSX ‘DSL 26’ | Injection Records
35 Spectral Emotions ‘Chiswick Days (Bluey Bros Mix)’ | Labworks UK
36 Staffan Linzatti ‘The Mind is Racing’ | Modularz
37 Oscar Mulero ‎’Solarized’ Warm Up Recordings
38 Korridor ‘VI’ | De Stijl

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SYNTHICIDE is going freestyle this time around. Expect the classics, some surprises, and nonstop dancing.

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SYNTHICIDE With Rogelio, Nachthexe & Andi @ The Lot Radio 10 - 04 - 2020

Hi friends,

Yesterday morning, while standing masked on a subway platform with my wife, now in her fifth year in New York, it struck me that she’d endured hardship here, one of the currencies traded by residents of the city. 

Across bars and deli counters most of my life I’ve heard stories of collective shocks (“where were you for Sandy?”) broached less as a point of pride than a yearning to reach over the divide for a moment of urban communion. Like so much in this city, the exchange is not lingered on for a minute too long, but keenly felt. 

This yearning for connection may be a bit stronger in New Yorkers; COVID is a stark illustration that things really can hit harder here. What we endure together tethers us to one another, I think. The trauma is a weight shouldered citywide. 

I admit this is a romantic view of things, but I take no shame in it; the stories we tell ourselves about our place in the universe are as powerful a tool as we have. In a shop window not far from my apartment, a sign hangs - Together We Will See It Through. If I’m living in a fantasy, I’m not alone.

This series, itself an exercise in connectivity, continues with a contribution from MNTY, a DJ who has been making her name with stellar appearances on NTS, The Lot Radio, and Dublab, among others, turning out high quality mixes at a breakneck speed. 

There is a dedication to quality that comes through incredibly strong in MNTY’s work and practice. This particular mix was rerecorded three times before it was up to MNTY’s standard, evidence of a gripping need to do her best work - a need I have a lot of respect for, and which continues to garner her well deserved praise.

MNTY has been on the short list of DJs I’ve hoped to host for some time now. Our first interaction was a series of excited voice notes I sent her, explaining that her recent mixes encapsulated exactly the sonics increasing at the center of this project: chopped breaks, expansive pads, propulsive subs, an ear toward the horizon; exactly the kind of life affirming music I need to pick up the burden of my city and keep going, going, going. 

Enjoy, 
Max

Tracklist:
SW. - ELEctreC
HVL - Lush Breeze
Konduku- Lila
Ebi-San 
BOOF- Butterfly
Priori -Tech Ne (Beta Librae Remix)
D. Tiffany - Low 
Eusebeia - Evolution I
Bliss inc. - Radiant Reality 
Priori - Dreams Of A Digital Sublime (Roza Terenzi Remix)
Two Shell - Touchpad 
Kim English - Learn 2 Luv  Pearson Sound Remix)
Adlas- turn 
Rhyw - Loom High
Skee Mask - Zodiac
Lou Karsh - Extraterrestrial Highway
Blue Hour - Lotus Bells
Shanti Celeste & Saoirse - Solid Maass
Solitary Dancer -Persuasion

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MNTY | October 19, 2020

mit kfpnyx 023 erweitern wir die genrediversität unserer podcastserie um diesen vinyl only dnb/jungle mix des berliner plattenliebhabers trainee. ein ausflug mit 140-180bpm durch komplexe drum pattern, sich verwandelnde synths und kantiger klingende gefilde.

die kfpnyx mix serie beeinhaltet diverse stile elektronischer musik, insbesondere zackigen sowie flächigen techno, house, electro, breakbeat und ambient. einbinden möchten wir unsere residents, freunde der crew und ausgewählte gäste.

artwork by tizian hempel
malzwerk erfurt, 2015

berlin based record collector @trainee030 spins heavy jungle & dnb flavours through kfpnyx 023. with complex drums and morphing synths leading into more distorted realms, he creates a unique journey anywhere between 140 and 180 bpm.

the kfpnyx mix series includes many sub kinds of electronic music, especially rough and melodic techno, house, electro, breakbeat and ambient. for this purpose we want to involve our residents, friends of the crew and selected guests.

artistlist in chronological order:
polar inertia
ancestral voices
forest drive west
homemade weapons & torn
forest drive west
cressida
moresounds
j:kenzo
overlook
roho
homemade weapons
roho
rude operator
king fifi
es.tereo
torana
overlook
king fifi
skee mask

kfpnyx 023 by trainee

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Aguila + r.ss @ Counterbalance (2020.12.13)

A showcase of music from the label featuring lots of upcoming releases
Mixed by Perfect lovers
Mastered by Mijo

Tracklist:

Testosterone - Celestial (Forthcoming)
Nikki Nair - Steximist
Emi.te - No Matter What (Forthcoming)
Max Jones - The Choo Choo Train vs The Choo Choo Train (Mr TC Remix)
Djs Pareja & Lupe - No Puedo Funcionar
Non Profit - Wet Dreams (Forthcoming)
Aiden Ramos - Found Love (Forthcoming)
Kinsuby - Diana 303 (Forthcoming)
Mijo - La Proxima (Forthcoming)
Don Esquivel - Special
Perfect Lovers and Victor Rodriguez - Inside Me (Forthcoming)
Perfect Lovers and Victor Rodriguez - Las Tabacalera (Toby Tobias Remix)Forthcoming
Non Profit - Morfeo (Forthcoming)
Djs Pareja - Nuestra Forma (Beats Version)
Non Profit - Hypnic Jerk (Forthcoming)
Don Esquivel - La Estancia
Perfect Lovers and Victor Rodriguez - Now, right now (Demo) (Forthcoming)
Djs Pareja & Lupe - Verano Lejano
F1423 Nighthawk - Solitude Sunday (Forthcoming)

Muy Muy Limited Showcase 2021

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MNTY | October 19, 2020

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