Bottom Forty Releases

JD Twitch (Optimo) @ The Lot Radio 10 - 23 - 2022

OPTIMO @ LEATHERETTE #009 - 26/12/24 (Boxing Night)

The latest episode in the ongoing site specific soundscape series for the bathrooms at The Bearded Tit on Gadigal Land, Sydney. The Bearded Tit is an LGBTIQA+ bar and gallery safe space which has been a sacred place for community to gather, dance, snack, drink and watch shows, bands and performance art. 

Composed specifically for the intimate sound system of The Bearded Tit’s gender-neutral bathrooms, this site-specific work is a drifting, layered soundscape—part séance, part tone poem, part meditation, part sonic embrace.

In this space between stalls and states of being, sound leaks and lingers. Field recordings, whispered histories, spectral cover versions, and spoken spells are woven together to create an ephemeral listening portal—something between memory and music, sculpture and scent. It’s a space to pause, to float, to feel heard without speaking.

This isn’t music in the traditional sense. It doesn’t demand your full attention or a paid seated audience. It slips into the edges of your awareness, inviting not hearing, but listening. It is sound art: invisible yet immersive, unfolding in time like breath or weather.

Inspired by the spirit of John Cage’s silences, the chaos of Russolo’s noise machines, and the legacy of queer voices who sang, screamed, and shimmered before us—this piece holds both the noise of now and the ghosts of then, them and anthem 

Here, in a bathroom turned temple, the sound asks you to stay—and subconsciously to notice. To sense the sacred in the incidental. To remember that even flushes, faucets, footsteps, flatulence and fragments are part of our queer chorus. 

Artwork By Manbo Key (Homopleasure Collective, Taiwan)

The Bearded Tit Bathroom Soundscape vol 5

06/06/2025 - Fatik @musicland NYC

Local crew

https://www.instagram.com/yurkmusic


Mechanical presents Yurk @ The Lot Radio 09-08-2025

Public Service is a (primarily outdoor) dance party for the people by the people featuring music by Toribio & Mickey Perez powered by Karlala Soundsystem.

This set was recorded live, Sunday September 14, 2025 at Herbert Von King Park in Bed-Stuy, Brooklyn. Part 1 is The Opening. Enjoy!

Public Service Season Finale 2025 Part 1 (The Opening)

Monthly transmissions from the other side. Robbie and Tony bring you joy, wonder & ephemera from the depths of their record collections to your home every month on NTS.

From the host: "Extraordinary mix incoming! Debit joins The Avalanches on The Recording Angel this Wednesday featuring previews from her upcoming album Desaceleradas, the chopped & screwed sounds of rebajada + half speed cumbia of Sonido Dueñez !" 
Find the full tracklist and related episodes on NTS: https://www.nts.live/shows/the-avalanches/episodes/the-avalanches-22nd-october-2025

The Recording Angel w/ The Avalanches & Debit 221025

https://www.instagram.com/houseofspiritsnyc
https://www.instagram.com/car0zilla
https://www.instagram.com/superiorelevation

SUPERIOR ELEVATION with CAROZILLA and TOM NOBLE @ The Lot Radio 10-28-2025

A journey through sound. 

https://www.instagram.com/magnoliapolaris 
https://www.instagram.com/sazondept

https://www.soundcloud.com/magnoliapolaris



MAGNOLIA POLARIS: Sazon Dept. @ The Lot Radio 10-29-2025

Ron Trent channels ancestral traditions and sacred wisdom through his music, guiding listeners into deep, transformational spaces. With his project WARM ~ DJ set ~ he weaves ambient, jazz, and experimental textures into a cosmic, free-flowing sonic journey. Each set becomes an immersive experience, where timeless rhythms meet futuristic soundscapes. 

www.instagram.com/noushh.bln

Ron Trent · WARM Deep Listening | Nou:shh @ OSD, Berlin | 13 Oct '24

American electronic duo Cid & Fancy are an anti-establishment production outfit dabbling in the dark arts of analog to digital production. Their sound has been described as "raw," "unfinished," "naïve," "overly-complicated," and even "pretty good." The act consists of Futurewife (Venice, CA), Rob Hanlon (Seattle, WA), and sometimes DJ ShmeeJay (Port Angeles, WA). 

Their first EP with Bottom Forty carries a late night beach dub vibe with chugging synths and soft airy voices. The Vrtual and Gotta Get It tracks tug on nostalgia while the twirling Cam remix brings Gotta Get It into an active dance floor track.

Buy on Beatport

Cid & Fancy - Gotta Get It

@bottom_forty Vinyl Release - @DocSleep EP, Out February 27th everywhere - free download of First Solar (La Fraicheur Remix) available here on the 27th

VINYL AVAIL NOW: http://www.juno.co.uk/products/doc-sleep-ep/640535-01/
DIGITAL AVAIL 2.27 - PREORDER NOW: https://www.beatport.com/release/doc-sleep-ep/1953681

Berlin-based Doc Sleep's debut EP on Bottom Forty is a record that pulls no punches and plays no tricks; it is instead a sophisticated, gorgeous array of minimal techno inspired by the darkest of dance floors. Doc Sleep's ear for sound and rhythm set the tone for your moments of eyes-shut dancing, giving you the chance to hang onto every subtle but flawlessly executed fragment of noise.

“First Solar” opens up with a contrasting blend of dark, rolling hills of bass and bright pads that quickly pick up a dangerous amount of momentum. The moment the track “Between” pounds its first kick, you can't help but be immediately sucked in by Doc Sleep’s ear for sophisticated, minimal, beautifully engineered sounds. Between is a track that stays on its groove while soft gorgeous pads pass over you like waves, it's the perfect time for patrons of a dingy basement dance floor to connect in the dark. Lastly, “Ampere” is a track that lays out a solid techno soundscape that is mixed up at the listeners surprise with heavily reverb’d snare hits and brooding sweeps. 

On the B side, two remixers bring Doc Sleep's EP into a different dimension. Bottom Forty label head @Nark extracts the gorgeous pads and pulls them to the forefront of “Between”, starting with a long ethereal intro sure to stop and sway any dance floor before continuing into a grimy minimal 303 bass line as the subtle rubs to Doc Sleep's original sounds lend it an exasperated grinding element. The second remix from Bottom Forty artist @CidandFancy takes “Ampere” into a place of rhythmic organized chaos with synth stabs that shoot off like metal sparks.

Our third remix, a digital only exclusive available for free download on soundcloud.com/bottomforty after February 27th, comes from forthcoming Bottom Forty Berlin-based artist La Fraicheur. We love @La-Fraicheur for her emotionally rooted and minimal grooves, and she doesn’t dissapoint with her take on “First Solar”, a driving, linear rhythm with unexpected analog twists and turns and the most heated breakdown on the record that we’ve personally witnessed energize many Berlin dance floors into a dancing frenzy. 

Tracklist-
1. First Solar
2. Between
3. Ampere
4. Between (Nark Remix)
5. Ampere (Cid & Fancy Remix)
6. First Solar (La Fraicheur Remix) [Digital Exclusive, Free Download]

The artwork for Doc Sleep’s EP was made by Bottom Forty’s label head Nark by converting raw image data into soundwaves and altering with sound effect algorithms.

www.bottomforty.com

Doc Sleep EP

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Bottom Forty 04 - Doc Sleep EP Preview

Bottom Forty Records 04 Vinyl Release by @DocSleep w/ remixes from @Nark @La-Fraicheur @CidandFancy
VINYL: www.juno.co.uk/products/doc-sleep-ep/640535-01/
DIGITAL: www.beatport.com/release/doc-sleep-ep/1953681

Berlin-based Doc Sleep's debut EP on Bottom Forty is a record that pulls no punches and plays no tricks; it is instead a sophisticated, gorgeous array of minimal techno inspired by the darkest of dance floors. Doc Sleep's ear for sound and rhythm set the tone for your moments of eyes-shut dancing, giving you the chance to hang onto every subtle but flawlessly executed fragment of noise.

Doc Sleep -Ampere

Argentinian DJ and producer @shittechno delivers his ‘Solo En La Pista’ EP on Seattle’s @BottomForty Records this June, accompanied by remixes from Ali X x Ximena and Fausto.

A renowned event series and DJ collective formed in Seattle, comprising of artists Nark, Pavone, Sappho and Hyasynth, Bottom Forty has rapidly established itself as one of the cities key names within underground dance music through their carefully curated, fully inclusive warehouse events and forward thinking parties. Having released their fifth EP on the newly formed label in mid-2017, here we see the imprints first release of 2018 delivered by Buenos Aires raised producer Nicholas Larransio, aka SHIT, in the process welcoming the first EP in a series set to focus on unearthing and showcasing the ever developing sounds of South America, with remixes courtesy of Mexican talents Ali X & Ximena, and fellow countryman Fuasto.

‘Elle Quiere Ser Raro’ takes things into darker territories, with a hypnotic and entrancing lead synth guiding programmed 909 drum shots and eerie chants throughout, unveiling a production made for hazy, early morning dance floors.

Tracklist;
Solo En La Pista (Original Mix)
Elle Quiere Ser Raro (Original Mix)
Solo En La Pista (Ali X x Ximena Remix)
Elle Quiere Ser Raro (Fausto Remix) 

Release Date – 05/06/18

Solo En La Pista EP

PREMIERE - SHIT - Ella Quiere Ser Raro (Bottom Forty Records)

Chile’s Alisú joins Bottom Forty Records to release three hypnotic cuts entitled ‘Rompiente’ EP including a remix from In Flagranti.

Alisú is a producer and graphic designer from Viña del Mar, Chile who started her musical journey when founding her Manziping project back in 1998. 
Alisú released her first solo album on the Chilean imprint Imprar in 2007 and has since gone on to release on labels such as Tropic, Yukiyaki, Pueblo Nuevo and her Modismo label. 
Her productions naturally balance a combination of ambient soundscapes, field recordings and rhythmic grooves which can also be heard in her performances all over South America. 
Alisú’s ‘Rompiente’ EP sees her join the Bottom Forty Records family following releases from Doc Sleep, Leonard De Leonard, La Fraicheur, Ali X x Ximena, SHIT and Cid & Fancy.

Alisu
Soundcloud: https://soundcloud.com/alisu
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/Alisumusic/

In Flagranti
Soundcloud: https://soundcloud.com/inflagranti
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/inflagrantiofficial/

Bottom Forty Records
Soundcloud: https://soundcloud.com/bottomforty
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/BottomForty

PREMIERE: Alisu - Rompiente (In Flagranti Remix)(Bottom Forty Records)

https://soundcloud.com/alisu  https://soundcloud.com/bottomforty
Chile’s Alisú joins Bottom Forty Records to release three hypnotic cuts entitled ‘Rompiente’ EP including a remix from In Flagranti.

Alisú is a producer and graphic designer from Viña del Mar, Chile who started her musical journey when founding her Manziping project back in 1998. Alisú released her first solo album on the Chilean imprint Imprar in 2007 and has since gone on to release on labels such as Tropic, Yukiyaki, Pueblo Nuevo and her Modismo label. Her productions naturally balance a combination of ambient soundscapes, field recordings and rhythmic grooves which can also be heard in her performances all over South America. Alisú’s ‘Rompiente’ EP sees her join the Bottom Forty Records family following releases from Doc Sleep, Leonard De Leonard, La Fraicheur, Ali X x Ximena, SHIT and Cid & Fancy.

‘Cyberspace’ gets things rolling with resonating bass rhythms, alleviating melodies and fluttering percussion before ‘Rompiente’ delivers dubbed-out sound design floating around scattered drums and warming vocals to form meditative atmospheres throughout.

‘Wake Up’ then fuses crunchy modulations, pulsating low frequencies and weaving synth pads until In Flagranti, the Swiss duo with releases on Codek Records and Phantasy Sound finish with a low slung remix of ‘Rompiente’ as the rolling bass grooves bounce delicately off hypnotic tones and deep riding percussion.

Alisú ‘Rompiente’ EP drops on Bottom Forty Records on 1st May 2019.

Rompiente EP

PREMIERE: Alisú - Wake Up [Bottom Forty Records]

Co-Owner and booker of Massive Club (Seattle), head of Bottom Forty Records, clumsy smooth brain

Nark // acid queen
aka Young Hearts // disco queen

Young Hearts, a trans-galactic cross-generational discotheque residing monthly in San Francisco.

Desertopia, an alternative pride and memorial day weekend festival in Palm Springs in co-horts with Victor Rodriguez, Perfect Lovers and Anthony John.

Bottom Forty, a record label, queer collective and driving force behind the underground queer music scene of Seattle.

Massive, a futurist gay club in Seattle opened in 2023 by Nark featuring a diverse array of queer talent.

Label Releases: NEIN, 2MR, MR INTL, Get Up, Bottom Forty, Soul Clap, Acid Camp

Booking/Contact: kevin@narkmagazine.com
Bottom Forty Records : @bottomforty

Out Now : Nark - Queer Acid Energy
www.bottomforty.bandcamp.com

Bottom Forty is a world-inspiration-powered, dance-centric, multi-media art project, record label and sensory enhancing mix series and party brought to you by Nark, Pavone, Sappho, and Hyasynth.
“Bottom Forty is a mirror ball in New York, a basement in Chicago, a cruise in L.A. and a night in the desert.”

Bottom Forty DJs:
Nark // Hyasynth // Pavone // Sappho

Our new home, Massive
www.massive.club

Records:
www.bottomforty.bandcamp.com

Contact:
Nark: kevin@narkmagazine.com

Doc Sleep -Ampere

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