This is so insane i would've taken off my shirt i think

this moment changed the trajectory of my life

Fuck yes!! ❤️this track!🪩💃🏾👏

Artwork by the ever amazing https://www.instagram.com/explore/tags/blakecedricart/

Accompanying visuals:

https://vimeo.com/621095038

Cancun Blues

Former military man and marching band member James Bangura is next up for #51 on our Tapes series. He’s an artist who has roamed the world and picked up musical influences at every stop on the way. Be it D&B in Alabama, blog house in California, or the rich house sound of New York, this Washington DC native is now distilling all those references into his own searing sounds. 
They have come on labels like Mister Saturday Night and can range from sauced out to brutally energetic. And the latter of those two is what defines his unrelenting mix for us. It is a hard-hitting collision of raw, decaying textures, pummeling drums, and stark, post-industrial atmospheres that are thrillingly harsh. The rhythms roam from the fringes of techno to the heart of jungle and on to icy but powerful minimalism that very much consumes your body. So strap in, cause this is one helluva ride.

Interview: https://www.originssound.com/os-tapes/james-bangura-mix

Follow James Bangura:
https://soundcloud.com/jamesbangura
https://www.instagram.com/_james_bangura/

INTERVIEW

Origins Tapes 051 - James Bangura

THE MUSIC
This set is a whole new vibe for me. Most of my performances are specifically for the club, so fall into that 127-135 kind of tempo. I recorded this set over a year into lockdown, and was very disconnected from sound systems at the time, struggling with my relationship with club music and dancefloors. This set reflects that mindset, at a faster tempo than I've ever worked at before (158!), yet with more of an at-home listening vibe than a dancefloor feeling. While exploring this new tempo, I was thinking deeply about our interconnectedness and capacity for growth and change. We lost Andrew Smith two days before I performed this set, and his presence is felt throughout the recording. 

track listing:
1. Radiance (for Andrew)
2. Nucleation
3. Scattering
4. Reduced
5. Semblance *
6. Cracked
7. Precipice
8. Constellated

* Semblance is a live version of a remix of Headless Horseman
everything else is written by me


THE GEAR
My live show is usually given on a stage, away from my home, so I use a carefully chosen selection of equipment that fits into an airplane. Typically, I perform with a sequencer, drum machine, 4 synthesizers, and 2-3 effects pedals. Recording a live set in my studio made it possible to use as many instruments as I have inputs, so I brought as much variety as I could to this set. While some of this gear is used throughout the set (say, the 808 BD), some of it only appears in a single track (like the Deckard's Dream). Here's the complete list of what I used to make the set.

sequencer —
 - Genoqs Machines Octopus

drum machines —
 - Elektron Analog RYTM mk 1
 - Roland TR-606 with Quicksilver 606 mod
 - Roland TR-808

effects —
 - Empress Phaser
 - Eventide Space
 - Moog Moogerfooger MIDI MuRF
 - Strymon BlueSky

synthesizers —
 - Black Corporation Deckard's Dream
 - Dreadbox Typhon
 - Korg Mono/Poly
 - MODOR NF-1M
 - Moog Minitaur
 - Moog Mother-32
 - Moog Voyager RME
 - Roland SH-101
 - Sequential Circuits Pro-One
 - Waldorf Blofeld
 - Waldorf Pulse2

recorded and mixed through —
 - Ableton Live
 - SoundCraft Ghost 24LE
 - UA Apollo 16
 - UA Apollo x16

— Erika 

video: https://youtu.be/1cKTeHBAdQs
bandcamp: https://erika.bandcamp.com/album/no-way-back-streaming-from-beyond

Live at No Way Back

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IT.podcast.s11e09: Erika live at No Way Back Streaming From Beyond 2021

Juanita's Mix 072 with Kiernan Laveaux @kiernan-laveaux

Q. How would you describe yourself?
A. A girl doing their best to channel kindness, fun, & understanding throughout our known universe

Some ways other people have described me: Conductress of Chaos, Rockstar with a kind soul, Patroness of free divers


Q. How long have you been a part of the dance music community?
A. Since 2014, right after I graduated high school & started to help throw parties in Cleveland - almost like a whole decade now which is wild.

My relationship to it all continues to shift & grow but my life would be so much worse & empty without dancing & the people I've met thru it.


Q. Tell us about this mix.
A. So this mix is a super special one for me, composed of broken beat records I've picked up in NYC, but also Detroit & online. I've been really fortunate to be able to come to New York to play & see loved ones over the past few years, many of those times I'd end up leaving with a stack of these records in between some necessary laughs & growth in life. Every track in here honestly contains a snapshot of times I've felt able to really live my life & the people who've helped me realize we can all do that together - very much part of my soundtrack to feeling the sun & love around me in NYC.

Broken beat is a really special style of music for me - I was first introduced to it through Titonton Duvante & Charles Noel (Archetyp) through the way it influenced them in creating their unique vision of midwest techno that in turn has influenced a lot of my approach to music. 
The way that broken beat combines & dissolves so many eras of music (drum n bass, hip hop, 70s fusion, R&B, dub, etc) into new continuums is endlessly inspiring - always focusing on community, personal insight, celestial unknowns, the depths of life & self, the joys of moving with people, cultivating togetherness in a way that always makes me feel better after listening. 
Whenever I am having a weird day or don't know what music to play at home, I bust out my stack of broken beat records & just start mixing - this mix is very much a no thoughts vibes only kinetic result of that. 
I hope it can help soothe the mind & spirit for anyone else listening - a distillation of joy in the complicated world we share.

Included a thorough tracklist for this, really recommend checking any & all of these artists/tracks + the labels People, Main Squeeze, 2000black, Bitasweet, Archive, Co-Operation... the list goes on!
What is also really amazing about this music to me is the self contained but like infinite universe it's in, all sorts of producers & vocalists gliding in & out of each other's music - exchanging energy under all different names & sounds. Much love & respect to everyone whose music is in here & to everyone whose music will be in mixes like this in the future <3


Tracklist:
SK Radicals - Reachin 4 Da Farside (Misa Negra mix) / People
Scott Grooves - Inspiration Sound / Parts Manager
P'Taah feat. Sylvia Gordon - Nobody Knows / Ubiquity
Blakai - Callejon (Hi-mix) / Schtum
Afro-Mystik - Dreamwalkers / Om
P'Taah - Compressed Light (Black Science Orchestra Borg mix) / Ubiquity
Russ Gabriel's Audio Spectrum - Flip Down to Break / Emoticon
Bougie Soliterre, Orin Walters, & Melissa Browne - Something / Flipside
Russ Gabriel's Audio Spectrum - My New Room / Emoticon
Afro-Mystik - Infinite Rhythm (dub mix) / Om
Numbers feat. Valerie Etienne - Looking Back / Main Squeeze
Spacetime Continuum - Beveled Edge (Remix) / Astralwerks
Murky Waters - Check Yourself (Pranna mix) / Main Squeeze
The One Away - 1969 LSD Madness / Main Squeeze

Juanita's Mix 072: Kiernan Laveaux

Further Back & Faster: A Maximum Boom Special w/ Kiernan Laveaux & Yumi @ The Lot Radio 2-16-2023

recorded live at Market Hotel on 12/16/2023
@justbeige

BEIGE at Cause & Effect - December 2023

💥Recorded live at Bounce House on 2/9/24 between 2-4am💥

Shang is the co-organizer of the long-running and much-beloved Club Congress. Shang has been an enthusiastic, generous, and wide-ranging contributor to many facets of the Philly rave scene over the years, is a sharp-eyed photographer and documentarian of the Philly underground, and is a brilliant film buff, having also contributed some impeccable curation to Bounce House's film screening series Jellyvision. 

IG: @shangzilla

Shang - Live at Bounce House 2/9/24

DEBONAIR connects the musical dots, with a particular affinity for post-punk, techno and vintage electronica.  
Find the full tracklist and related episodes on NTS: https://www.nts.live/shows/debonair/episodes/debonair-25th-september-2024

DEBONAIR B2B SHARLESE METCALF 250924

Happy to announce my most supported release. With downloads from Chris Stussy, Watchers, Korey and more, this one isn't to miss. More music is on the way this year, with a new archive series in the works.

FREAKIN GIRL - Adam Bennett (Bandcamp Download)

Flextime lands on HUB Sounds for their second release with his sundrenched 'Hop Out Da Pool' EP.

This is a bouncy and uplifting EP, woven with choppy synths and vocals paying homage to the early garage house era. This is the perfect EP to soundtrack your summer.

Flextime is a prominent dance music producer from Sheffield in England. He keeps the dance scene fresh with wobbly basses, groovy drums and funky melodies. He's had releases on Southpoint, Duckland, Spraybox and arguably his biggest to date on exciting new label HUB powered by social media community House Hub.

Follow: @flextime_0114


Buy on Beatport: https://www.beatport.com/release/hop-out-da-pool-ep/5064601

Flextime - Babble

All That Scratchin

party series based in brooklyn, ny

@shameless-sound
@union456

BEIGE at Cause & Effect - December 2023

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