MAGENTA is a DJ and musician born, raised, and based in Chicago. Like many from the city, they grew up surrounded and fascinated by Chicago's dance music culture, and they were particularly intrigued by the mysterious person sometimes playing records. Over the last year, MAGENTA has been that shadowy figure as a resident DJ at Sinister Sundays, a weekly industry and goth night, spinning dark and gritty industrial, EBM, and punk late into the night.

This mix finds MAGENTA in their purest form: percussive, corrosive, genre-fluid dance music blended with abandon, as punishing as it is melancholy.

@magentamoods

Tracklist:

quest?onmarq - Tropical Goth
MXC - Swarm
Bloody Mary - REALITY TWO (ALTERNATIVE MIX)
Sorcery - Hypertask
Vod Kasat - Ashley Speaking
Aphex Twin - Phloam
Terence Fixmer - Detune My Brain
Alva Noto - Uni Blue (Florian Kupfer Remix Version 1)
Ole Mic Odd - Maenadic
Gridlock - Sever
Baby Blue - Rainy Trip to Netherworld Sequence
Animistic Beliefs - Thief of Sanity
Teste - The Box Man
The Exaltics - Hammerheads from Outta Space
The Southern - B2basic (DJ Rush Remix)
LIZA AIKIN + BLUSH RESPONSE - WHY SHOULD I BEHAVE?
Halv Drøm - Natures Wicked Scorn

Braid Recordings // 044 - MAGENTA

I like music. I like finding new stuff or being introduced to new stuff. My taste are varied. 

*Bookings: shantievantimusic@gmail.com
*Otherworldly Ambiguity* (Evanti)
"Liminal Radio" WIIT.FM second Mondays, 1-3pm CST
*Research & Development

Shanti is a Chicago-based DJ who explores philosophical themes of existential angst and ambiguity through surreal, foreboding, apocalyptic techno, angsty EBM, and squishy acid soundscapes. Her sets weave a story of the simultaneous despair and yearning that are intertwined with the human condition.

Shanti also hosts a monthly radio show "Liminal Radio" on WIIT 88.9FM Chicago every second Monday of the month, 1-3pm CST featuring inspiring guest DJs.

Upcoming Sets:
11/1: Sanctum Fest, Chicago 
11/1: Sanctum Afters, Chicago
11/22: Freedom from Choice, Intellephunk and Enemy Records, Minneapolis
11/28: Otherworldly Ambiguity Feat. Function, Podlasie Club, Chicago
12/31: Transitions Perc Trax, Smoke & Mirrors, Chicago

2025:
10/23: Research & Development, The Whistler, Chicago
10/11: Senders, Life on Marz, Chicago
10/10: Polygonia, Smartbar (FORMAT, R&D), Chicago
9/20: DJ Nobu, Smoke & Mirrors (R&D), Chicago
9/6: Life on Marz, NFC Records, Chicago
8/24: Sinister, Chicago
7/27: The Great Beyond, Franklin, MN  
7/17: Otherworldly Ambiguity, Podlasie
7/11: Musique Électronique, Madison, WI 
6/27: FreshCorp, Spot Lite, Detroit
6/26: Research & Development, The Whistler
6/20: Rrose, Flowers of Romance, Smartbar
5/29: Bordello Aperitivo, Amsterdam , NE
5/24: Ø [Phase] , NERV, Smoke & Mirrors
5/9: Aurora Halal, Smoke & Mirrors
4/26: BLOODLUST, TBA
3/15: Mictlan Underworld, TBA 
3/4: H.O.T.H., California Clipper 
2/22: Flowers of Romance, Smartbar 
1/30: Otherworldly Ambiguity, Podlasie (Evanti)
1/25: VELVET, Los Angeles, TBA 

2024:
12/13: Zenker Brothers, Smoke & Mirrors 
11/27: Research & Development, Podlasie 
11/2: Protocol & Dimibowie
10/25: Braid Records, Podlasie 
10/12: Usual Suspects and Temple, Montrose Beach 
9/1: NEW BLOOD, Research & Development, The Whistler 
8/31: Dark Forest, TBA 
8/29: Otherworldly Ambiguity, Podlasie (Evanti)
8/3: INFERNO, Mictlan, TBA 
7/14: Green Machine, Techno BBQ
7/6: Beloved Radio Night, California Clipper 
6/27: The Goods, Swig (Evanti)
6/22: YardJamz
6/14: Errancy, Hyde Park 
6/1: Wisteria, The Whistler 
5/23: entropic, Smartbar 
5/18: Lumina by HzM 
4/20: Vampire's Ball 
4/18: Otherworldly Ambiguity, Podlasie
4/5: Smoke & Mirrors 
3/23: Vamplified, Surround Chicago 
3/17: Otherworldly Ambiguity, The Whistler (Evanti)
3/7: Stankbugz Radio 
2/13: Wisteria, The Whistler (Evanti)

Brutal Rhythms and Industrial Design. 
Berlin based vinyl label.