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For our third mix, we are happy to share the “Boo Boo Trance Mix” from New York’s own Quiet Time Tapes. The label typically specializes in far out ambient music, but this mix is a hard B-line. Clocking in at just over an hour, it features unrelenting big room trance and Eurodance bangers that will transport listeners back to the late ‘90s and plop you on a beach somewhere in Goa. Turn it up loud, put on your PLUR bracelet, and let it wash over you. 

Sex Mag: Quiet Time Tapes specializes in boundary-pushing ambient music, but your mix is entirely trance bangers. How long have you been into trance and what about the genre appeals to you? 

QTT: I think for a lot of people in our generation, that pop-ified Eurodance and trance sound evokes a strong nostalgic feeling, since we heard a lot of this kind of music as kids in the late ‘90s and early ‘00s. For me, it was those “Now Dance” cassettes. I’ve always been a sucker for this genre’s way of taking elements of underground dance music and adding a layer of shine, refinement, and perfectionism for a pop audience. 

Sex Mag: Where do these tunes originate? It’s hard to determine what country or even what year the majority of the tracks come from. 

QTT: Some of these are early ‘00s Eurodance hits from, well, Europe. Others come from current artists and labels putting a modern spin on Eurodance or Goa trance — artists like TDJ and labels like Union Trance Mission.

Sex Mag: What’s the best setting to bump this mix?

QTT: An intense walk through New York City or a New Year’s party 

Sex Mag: Are there regular parties, raves, or even DJs that are dedicated to this type of dance music in the US?

QTT: I am not sure, but please let me know if there are because I want to go! I think nostalgic music experiences can be very powerful and that music like this may open up the scene to people who are seeking something that is fun, accessible, and not too serious.

Sex Mag: How would you describe the music QTT puts out to someone who’s unfamiliar? And what's on the horizon for your label? 

QTT: We put out music that some would call ambient music, but for us is just more abstract, formless music that still evokes a powerful feeling. We also love rave music, since both rave and ambient can be immersive and meditative in a sense. We have a tape by an amazing artist named Ben Bondy coming out in April, and then two vinyl releases coming out in the summer — one new release by Liai called “Pome” and one re-issue of a tape by Ulla Straus called “Big Room.”

Bandcamp: https://quiettimetapes.bandcamp.com/
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/quiettttime/
Soundcloud: https://soundcloud.com/quiettimetapes

Sex Mix 003: Quiet Time Tapes - Boo Boo Trance Mix

Alternative pop singer and songwriter Clairo takes to the NTS airwaves once a month.

https://www.nts.live/shows/clairo/episodes/clairo-6th-december-2022

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Name a genre, and you can bet that Luis Garban has tried his hand at it once or twice. Once a staple of the mid-'00s IDM and breakcore scene—think Tigerbeat6—as Cardopusher, Garban found a temporary home in the dubstep scene afterwards, before shooting off in what felt like a million directions. He might be the only artist to release on both Hyperdub and Boysnoize Records. He makes music that can sound like the future or the past, sometimes both at once, and the Venezuelan-born, Spain-based producer's name is shorthand for musical adventurism and variety.

Last year, things got even wilder with the debut of Safety Trance, a new alias that explores pan-Latin club music, with a focus on collaboration and shorter, structured songs. (Artists he's worked with include Arca, Iceboy Violet and Virgen Maria.) It's some of the best and most creative work of his career, riding a larger Latin techno wave producing some of the best music around these days.

If that weren't enough, returning to Cardopusher, Garban has a career-best EP on the way for EVAR Records, pulling together the various strands of the project into a multi-genre, Gen-Z-friendly raveathon. Loaded with original tracks from both projects, RA Podcast could be billed as Cardopusher vs. Safety Trance, with highlights coming from Atari Teenage Riot, VTSS and Venetian Snares, which should give you an idea for the kind of controlled chaos you're in for with this one.

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First single from the upcoming album "KKUURRSSEE" out on Hundebiss Records on November 24th 2023.
FEIND features vocalist and agitator FALSE PRPHT from Prison Religion and composer S280F.

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