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Guest mix #350 comes from London based Argentinian, Blixa. 

Blixa is a London based Argentinian who is a co-founder of the Polar collective.

His 'Gizmo' EP is released on April 30th on Vista Recordings. Pre-order here: https://vistarecordings.bandcamp.com/album/gizmo

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Hypnotic Groove Mix #350 - Blixa

1020 X ALHARA | BLIXA

Argentinian DJ Blixa comes through with a power hour session filled with Latin American flavour for podcast 137, capturing his post-rave high. 

Speaking about the mix Blixa says, "filled with 100% LATAM ingredients this mix was recorded in the early hours of a Saturday morning for those who like mushrooms in their salad."

Based in London, Blixa is a producer and promoter who co-founded the Polar Dance series and is a resident on community radio station 1020. With his feet firmly planted within the London DIY community, he works behind the scenes for The Cause and is a graphic designer within the music industry doing the graphics for the likes of Metalheadz and Irish label Woozy. Last year, he released his debut EP on Argentinian label Vista Recordings which was supported by Inverted Audio. Definitely one to keep your eyes on! 

@blixa96

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Untitled 909 Podcast 137: Blixa

Based in London, Blixa is an Argentinian producer, designer and promoter who works in the team behind the scenes for The Cause and their many projects. Alongside this, he is a resident on the community radio station 1020 where he showcases only Latin American productions and labels. Blixa is bringing in Tapes #79 and a preview of what to expect ahead of tomorrow tonight with Origins x The Cause at 60 Dock Rd. See you on the dancefloor.

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Alexander Kowalski - Sequential
Dentistry - bdw
DJ Scriby - lgqom Libuye
Rawtrachs - Rattle Funk
Nicholas G. Padilla - Zone
Si Begg - Hard Like Funk (Motor City Dub)
Dj Fucci & Aquamute - Ahuejote
Silkie - Test
Rene Wise - Don't Care
Elemental - Muff Beater
J:Kenzo - Astral Traveller
Hassan Abou Alam - Kesibt (feat. SHBL-LBSH)
Nick León x Luca Durán - Joga Bola
Octoptic - Tundra
Elemental + 3D - Sirens
Cubiqle - Duna (Datra Remix) 
Si Begg - My Style
Somnolent Works - Paperclip
Werfol - Cricket
DJ Godfather - Late Night Funk

Origins Tapes 079 - Blixa

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Rinse X Field Maneuvers Takeover: Blixa - 29 July 2023

Acid Chochi - Psychedelic Drug [SOUTH003]

The secret behind all our graphics, visuals and even snaps, our very own Blixa closed out 2023's NYE celebrations with a 2-hour power set. From touches of House and Breaks to dub-out Tech, this set had it all as it rolled us into 2024...

@blixa96

Blixa — Live From The Cause (NYE — DEC '23)

New York hailing underground staple, Mutual Dreaming label head and founder of Sustain-Release Aurora Halal, takes to the tools on the latest Crack Mix with a warm, groove-laden 55 minutes

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Crack Mix 581: Aurora Halal

ISAbella - BFC ADE 2024: RADION Saturday

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Berlin scene figurehead Gilles Aiken, AKA Edward, coming through with a massive Kalahari debut (and it’s safe to say he understood the assignment).

Booting off on a massive remix tip as the veteran producer reinterprets Mike Parker & Aric Rist’s Trybet project, but trust him to allow for a moment of dancefloor introspection. It’s prime early morning gear in a rousing juxtaposition of beatific string harmony and tough-as-nails deepness. Triumphant ‘window shutters open in the club at 5 AM’-type shit.

The other two are quintessential Edward: impressionistic, widescreen odysseys across lysergic terrain, but groove-forward where it counts. A pair of head-spinning explorations intended for the dancefloor, flush with shadowy flex, insectoid detail and tripped-out flourishes while keeping it funked-out in the tradition of Detroit.

The ‘Deep Sea Villain EP’ plumbs the depths of smudged abstraction, and as we’ve come to expect from Edward, it’s big on hallucinatory detail. It all oozes the multi-layered surrealism that typifies his best work. Proper transcendent biz.

Edward - Deep Sea Villain EP | Kalahari Oyster Cult (OYSTER65)

Kaleidoscopic psychedelia from one of Australia's finest.

While it might feel early to call bets on DJs of the decade, Kia Sydney, best known as Kia, is undoubtedly one of them. The Animalia founder began in Naarm's (Melbourne) underground scene in the mid-2010s, crediting a trip to the influential deep techno Japanese festival, Labyrinth, as the inspiration behind her sound.

Deep techno might not cut it as a descriptor for Sydney's sound, though. Hypnotic ribbons of steely techno mix with atmospherics and nimble grooves, drawing from IDM, dub and tech house, sharing as much with DJ Nobu and Donato Dozzy (try to find the track that overlaps with Dozzy's own RA Podcast) as well as modern practitioners like Priori and Beatrice M.

This distinctly Australian scuttling psychedelia has made Kia one of the most sought-after underground DJs globally. Her brainchild, Animalia, showcases a plurality of sounds and scenes, serving as living proof of the fruitful shift of the 2020s: less serious, perhaps, but with a sense of open-minded worldliness that offers a far more promising vision of what dance music can be and achieve.

Sydney's rare talent lies in forging connections, bringing people, sounds and ideas together with a distinct playfulness. Her RA Podcast showcases this alchemy in abundance, weaving classics like Monolake and Enya with peers such as OK EG, Cousin and Command D.

As she told us in her 2023 Breaking Through profile, "people tell me I have quite a distinctive sound but I can't tell so much because I hear so many different versions of it." RA.973 serves as confirmation that Kia's style is, to say the least, the mark of a generational talent.
 
@kia-sydney @animalia-label  @cirruslabel

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RA.973 Kia

Surusinghe With DJ Life & Basic Chanel - 21 February 2025

A true wizard of the decks, Mr. Ho has been serving up razor-sharp selections and mind-bending blends for years, running the unstoppable Klasse Wrecks label alongside Luca Lozano. When he stepped into The Cause for the Klasse Wrecks x Super Rhythm Trax takeover last Halloween, he didn’t just bring the heat — he raised the inferno.

It was sweaty, it was heavy, and it was straight-up mayhem. Mr. Ho, delivered a set packed with slammers that had the room buzzing start to finish. the ghosts in the smoke machine weren’t the only ones losing their heads. If you were there, you already know. If you weren’t, now’s your chance to feel the burn. 

Now you can re-live it all. 

@mrho

Mr. Ho — Live From The Cause (HALLOWEEN — OCT '24)

Thrilled to be welcoming NAP aka Daniel Rincón to series, the CDMX based DJ and producer with a unique gift for capturing the wonky, hedonistic feels of the after-hours in his signature extended mix styles. Packed with sleazy twists and turns, there's never a dull moment with NAP at the wheel! Electro-fied highway rollers masterfully sliced and diced for that maximum long haul recharge! @napmusick

Q. What sounds/feelings did you draw upon when gathering inspiration for this mix, and what environments could you imagine it being best enjoyed in?

A. I wanted to make a driving mix that featured a lot of vocals but in mutated and affected ways. Either as a centerpiece of the tune or via chops and sampling, the vocals carry a lot of the tension and thread of the mix which I wanted to balance across a mix of sleazy and dubby sounds. Perfect for a night drive or an afters with some bffs.

Q. Are there any songs in the mix that you were especially excited to share, and what is it about these tracks that resonate with you so much?

A. Blacklight Sleaze (Dyed Soundorom Remix) by Peace Division’. I put it earlier in the mix as it's a bit of a fire starter in getting the mix boiling. This track is also an example of the use of the human voice in a classic but psychedelic/ experimental approach; many voices swirling around atop a sexy driving groove. 

Loose Control by Dino Lenny. Been playing this one a lot and I’d like to make mention to it because it hits a lot of the things that I like when playing a peacetime burner; driving arpeggiated Italo style baselines without being too garish, some dramatic silence drops that make you think the track stopped and then the use of the human voice as a melodic element displaced from language. 

Heart Misses - Heart Misses. This one is definitely in the pocket of  sassy/ minimal sleaze tune which encompasses the vibe of many of the other tracks in the mix as per the concept I had. Perhaps this one is also an evolution of my digging from having been really into electroclash growing up and playing a lot of that stuff across my DJ experience. This hits the reference points of that sound I grew up up with but perhaps actualized? More reduced, minimal but still sexy, driving, irreverent and trippy. 

Q. Tell us about the projects you’ve been most immersed in since moving to Mexico City, I know there’s a few!

A. Oh man, lots of collabs since I've been here! All a by product of new friendships and amazing connections I’ve made while being here. Stuff is still percolating and getting finished but Im very excited to put out new collab projects with Primordial Oh, Reedbriefcase and Tristan Arp; whenever the time is right. On the other hand I’ve also put the finishing touches on a collab project with my friend Pablo Arangoiz who I started jams with when he visited Mexico 4 years ago. Since then we’ve been working on a thesis on a specific type of experimental cumbia forward pieces which we’ve spent a lot of time and care on. 

As far as ACA, Phran and I have a lot of things on the pipeline which will hopefully get some releases this year. It's tough to get a lot of the projects we want to do out when we live in different places but we’re damn excited about all of them and aligning on getting a digi release out from Venezuelan Miniteca legend ‘El Mago. We also got some homie comps cooking up and some sassy merch coming up.

On the Ambien Baby tip, Soph and I have been jamming a lot every time we have the chance to but again, not living in the same place makes it a bit hard to wrap stuff up. Still the past year has yielded a lot of sick fire starter jams that hopefully we can zinch up before the end of the year. We also have a collaborative sound piece we made with our friend Florence Scott-Anderton some years ago for a show she had at the ICA some years ago. This one is a very dear collab for all 3 of us and I hope we can get it out before the end of year as well. Lots of stuff coming up and cooking up!

MDC.312 NAP

For home use only’ is an anti-club social, a chance to get to know someone/something. A series of transmissions purely dedicated to exploring the other side

Welcome to the world of No.19, A magical place full of wonder and excitement. A land of tree’s full of fruit and chest’s full of loot. A land of audible nourishment, good for the soul, drenched in sun with the most perfect breeze, at a constant of 23 degrees. 

The lord mayor/founder/proprietor of this fine land is the one and only DJ Fila aka the frantic Fabio aka captain kick-ons aka spritz master z aka 1/2 of 6am at (someone else’s) garage aka Liam. The epitome of hard work, this guy has given his everything to Melbourne and everyone in it. Successfully running a weekly night at Lounge (yeah i know right) as well pulling the strings behind the scenes for the rest of the week, as well as running the 6am ATG parties with Benny (ledge) and many other forays in the light and dark happenings of Melbourne (rip Innocuous) He’s and absolute slick deej with the taste to match, can start a dance floor at a funeral (cue trance classics 05’) Amongst all of this he still has time for every person under the sun, he’s helped me out more occasions than I can count and i know I can always count on him. He’s definitely one of my ‘trapped on a desert island 5’, because i know I could just kick back and he will have everything sorted in no time and then manage the island and somehow turn a profit. 

anyway …….. 

He’s absolutely nailed the brief (or lack thereof), A beautifully charted cruise around the world, good food, a rotating cuisine to keep things interesting,  a great cover band that gives it everything, 2 minutes walk to the closest pool, a sauna that somehow is always free, a competitive shuffleboard scene that nicely challenges your talent with the bonus of improvement in style and that one bartender that knows exactly how and when you like your negroni. Long winded metaphors aside, this mix is pure class, an absolute schooling in Yazz (loose term), the perfect soundtrack to cooking poached eggs on a Sunday morning for your future ex-husband/wife. Two and a bit hours of pure joy with a splash of bliss. It won’t leave your discman for years to come, it’ll be one of those CD’s that your kids find in your glovebox in 20 years time. Enough jibber jabba. Hopefully you pressed play at “hello”

be well. x

image : someone cooked at a kick on 

his sounds >>>>>  https://soundcloud.com/djfilahsl

his baby >>>> https://soundcloud.com/6am-at-the-garage

FHUO # 19 // Dj Fila

For home use only’ is an anti-club social, a chance to get to know someone/something. A series of transmissions purely dedicated to exploring the other side

I honestly can’t believe we’ve made it to number 20, obviously, you’re all still listening for some weird reason, I hope its the same reason I’m still putting out the mixes. 

it fills me with immense joy to bring you number twenty by way of DJ Regret aka Unfettered aka captain jack sparrow aka the dreadlocked dreidel aka Scott Levy not reddy. This bloke has been one of the driving forces in my musical life, especially in the birth of the concept of this whole series. He has delivered a beautiful journey just shy of 4 hours. As mentioned before Scott has been a musical compass for me for last 15 years, consistently being ahead of curve, actually he creates the curves every year his set from Inner Varnika will be echoed throughout the year through every other Melbourne DJ and spotify enthusiast. Mimicked but never reproduced. Consistently adding his beautiful compositions to the ‘Trushmix’ series by our burger brethren.

I've also been throwing parties with him for the past 10 years, we started the now-defunct Out of Focus (rip) together, he started Sound of Thought (rip) and then we went on to start Inner Varnika, I’m very happy to of shared my journey with Scott and I’m not actually sure I’d be here without him, he has and always will keep me grounded. So after months of hassling he finally shot me something, a recording from a house party some weeks ago, basic setup, a huge vibe that builds into the evening/morning recording on a shitty mixer the peaks on a few songs so please bare with it. 

On that note, turn your brightness all the way down and grab a cold beverage from the fridge and enjoy the trip! 

שלום ובהצלחה

FHUO # 20 // DJ Regret

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london based ( • - • )
contact: blixa.polar@gmail.com

1020 X ALHARA | BLIXA

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