Buzzing to have a Josey Rebelle tape out there! Big thanks to Josey! : )
Catch Josey at TTT @ Strange Brew Bristol 3th December!!!

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Josey Rebelle – TTT Mixtape

Available on Audio Cassette and digital download directly from the label’s Bandcamp @ https://djbeige.bandcamp.com/album/amen-vol-1

T4T LUV NRG is proud to present “Amen! Vol. 1”, a breathtaking DJ mix tape conceived and blended by Detroit’s DeeJay Beige. “Amen! Vol. 1” is a singular presentation of a sound developed by Beige that is very personal and deeply connected to their history. Beige’s mix is an amalgam of ecclesiastical breaks and gospel house delivered with intensity and soul power like only they can do. Prepare to be enthralled with one of the most exciting DJs currently burning their way through the American underground. From the Holy Ghost TO YOU, this is Beige! Be not afraid…

ARTIST STATEMENT:
In the strictest sense, Amen! Vol. 1 is the result of more than a year’s worth of obsessive brainstorming, digging, planning, arranging, re-arranging, and countless discarded takes. And in another sense, this mixtape has been in the works for the six years since I started DJing, the ten years since my baptism as a teenage club rat, and for my entire life, which for better or for worse has been shaped by The Church and church music since birth. 

My mother was a promiscuously Christian divinity school dropout who pushed my family through a run of increasingly conservative churches: Unitarian, Episcopal, Baptist, Presbytarian, Charismatic-Evangelical, and probably a few others I forget. My fathers family on the other hand were career scientists and committed atheists who also all happened to sing in church choirs for fun. I cannot remember a time when Beethoven, Bach, folk hymns, old negro spirituals and gospel were not playing in my house, day in and day out. 

Cutting ties with both family and organized religion in my early teens left a void of community and belonging that wouldn’t start to be filled until my first experiences with clubbing (sometimes with drugs, sometimes without) years later. And when I started collecting records years after that, I gravitated heavily towards any music incorporating the familiar imagery, themes, musical motifs and language of church (especially Liberation Theology) which remained kind of bittersweetly comforting long after I stopped trying to believe. This might sound heretical, but over the last several years “gospel” has become much more of a feeling to me than a genre or even a sound. As far as I’m concerned, the rave, the club, the congregation, the choir, are only different ways to experience a many-sided mystery. 

For this project, I wanted to challenge myself to imagine going beyond just using a little soulful house to end the night or the mix on an uplifting note, and instead program a fantasy “gospel rave” for a thousand of my closest friends dancing in a field on a moonless night. How would I do my best to deliver a powerful, meaningful, salvatory collective experience from midnight until sunrise? Amen Vol. 1 is a snapshot of that imaginary night. 

The need to use contrasting peaks and troughs to create a sense of narrative for your audience includes emotional or spiritual contrast just as much as it does changes in BPM or a kick pattern.  So, it was important for me to try exceeding simply the emotions associated with “praise” music (like joy) because encountering the truly divine should also inspire fear and awe. Disregarding genre as much as possible, each piece of music was chosen for the sensation or sentimental meaning it inspires for me personally: you probably wouldn’t call most of them “rave tracks”, and plenty aren’t explicitly religious at all. Finally, of course I had to make sure that Detroit and Chicago were properly (but not exclusively, that’s for another mix) represented in the tracklist. Where I’ve ended up, grounded by a repeating classic “anchor track” for each side, is an attempt to simulate Genesis and Revelation, the Good News and the Flood, the dark night of the soul and the moment of salvation–whatever those might mean for you. Can I get a witness?

Beige - AMEN! Vol. 1

Name: Kelsie Walda
Alias: DJ Chia Pudding (@chiapudding)
Pronouns: she/her
Location: Chicago
 
Influences: dancing <3, earth and universal energy, god, flowers, Missy Elliott + the hip/hop and r&b of the 90's/early 00's that I grew up with, my friends, Noumenal Rave, pure joy, raving with real ones in the woods :), the Skate Palace (childhood skating rink), and trees
 
Affiliations/Residencies/Projects: Swung (party)
 
Favorite Quote: "The world is burning. Ideas are like hot potatoes. If you're still hoarding yours when the waves consume the shore, when the fires reach your village, you have lost the game. Don't hold an idea for too long. Give it away, and trust that someone may think it better than you. I have come to the conclusion that I may not live long enough to finish all the writing and stories I want to tell. How much better would it be to give these stories away to people who can grow them into something wilder and more durable? Authorship and individuality have only recently become attached to art-making. For most of human history art-making was always multi-generational and always a relational event" - Sophie Strand 
 
Advice for the DJs, producers and artists of our community: Get to know yourself because other people (often unknowingly) will try to exert their will on you. If you can stay grounded in your own body/energy, you will be better equipped to navigate these influences in a healthy way. Practice :)) 

With this mix DJ Chia Pudding asks to please learn more about and consider donating to:
Tokeyamaniwin Project aims to 
"- Preserve indigenous plant medicine by making flower and environmental essences throughout Lakota territory and collecting the stories and mythologies associated with these regions.
- Create a dialogue with mental health providers and other care providers about the beneficial uses of flower essences for people experiencing chronic and acute post-trauma symptoms, suicidal ideation, substance abuse, and anxious/depressive states.
- Make and distribute flower essences to those suffering generational trauma caused by the effects of long-term colonial genocide.
- Engage native youth on the Cheyenne River Sioux, Pine Ridge, Rosebud, and Standing Rock Reservations to learn and create flower essence medicine for the healing of their communities."
(www.shaynecase.com/pages/the-tokeyamaniwin-project)

Daisychain

Daisychain 241 - DJ Chia Pudding

Opening set from Elsewhere, with Jubilee + Breaka's NYC debut. Thought it would be fun to throw a few 90s/aught flips on top of some heat, hit record, and see what happened.

Boo Lean live at Elsewhere (w/ Jubilee + Breaka)

South LA's own Keenan finally joins the tribe at Lights Down Low as a resident. When he is not running things at the Gyration Station he is also blasting out sets as 1/2 of Trax Unit and bringing his own distinctive brand of club music to the masses and straight to their asses. Push play now and thank us later. :)

Welcome To The Factory (Angel's Journey Mix) - Angel Moraes
Those Native Drums (Unreleased Beats) - Mateo & Matos
Caught Up In Your Love (Original Mix) - Paul Johnson
Let The Music Motivate (Food For Thought Break) - Groove Masters
Get Up (Original Mix) - Kerri Chandler
Find Yourself (Tribal Beats) - Chris Staropoli feat. Melanie
Two Wrongs Don't Make It Right (Drumapella) - Vienna
Super Beats - Roxy Breaks
Dream Drums (Junior Vasquez Sound Factory Mix) - Lectroluv, Fred Jorio
Get Up Everybody (Mateo N Matos Beats) - Mateo & Matos
Sleepless - Good Time (J.F.K. Mental Mix) - Razor N Guido, J.F.K.
Deep Afro Roots (Eddie Matos Beatz) - Mateo & Matos
Burnin' Up feat. Sally Cortes (Sally's Wet Dub) - Angel Moraes, Sally Cortes
Holding On To Your Love (Grant Nelson's Holdin' Beats) - Stephanie Cooke
Mas Groove (Go For Yours Groove) - CEVIN Fisher
Dance MF - Anil Aras
Vibrate (No Vox) - Annika Wolfe
Move (Original Mix) - Uncertain
Grove - Saturn Reigns
burning tool (extended mix) - Black Girl / White Girl
The Jam (2009 Remix) - Trevor Rockcliffe
Groove 1 - INVT X DJ ANGELDU$t
Ascension - Black Girl / White Girl
Utility 2 - Truncate
ENTRAÑAS X PLAYBOI CARTI - @MEH (BAILE DRILL EDIT)

lights down low: 026 KEENAN

Did you think we'd left you?

HAUS of ALTR.

our 21st release. featuring

AceMo
AceMoMA
Amal
AMX
Black Rave Culture
Escaflowne
Huey Mnemonic
JADALAREIGN
James Bangura
JWords
Kush Jones
Martyn Bootyspoon
MoMA Ready
Nativesun
Ray Kandiski
SWAP MEET!
DJ SWISHA
Tim Reaper
WTCHCRFT

It's good to see you again.

HAUS of ALTR 2022. 
credits
Mixed & Mastered by MoMA Ready

HOA021

HAUS of ALTR Presents HOA021 The Mix (Mixed By MoMA Ready)[OUT NOW!!!!]

Juanita's Mix 081 with Kilopatrah Jones @kilopatrah-jones

Q. How would you describe yourself?
A. A quiet dancer who uses music to connect with others. 

Q. How long have you been a part of the NY music scene? 
A. About 12 years as a dancer but 6 years as a dj. (I was a curious kid who stayed in the street)

Q. Tell us a little bit about this mix.
A. This mix is a little rude, sticky but sweet. I wanted to pull elements from my queer haitian identity and experiences as an NYC native. A lot of the tracks selected are from DJs and artists I look up to. The grooves, syncopation and cuts I mix are to paint a picture of it being 2am in the club, you are pumping & dancing so hard that you are sweating your hair and clothes out but you can’t stop because the music feels too good. In my own way if I was old enough to play at sound factory or the tunnel, this is what it would sound like!

Tracklist:
I'm Not Dreaming (Mystipsychotix Mix)- K.C.Y.C.
4 D.D. (For Devotion) (I Want You Mix) - K.C.Y.C.
Love Me Tonight [Junior's Sound Factory Mix]- J.D. Braithwaite
4 D.D. (For Devotion) (Smoothie Harden Mix) - K.C.Y.C.
I'm Every Woman (The Runs Mix II) - Whitney Houston
Ah yeah (club mix)- Flexter
The House Phreak- St. David
Good Time (Time Razor’s B.A.V Mix)- Sleepless
Reste Sur Moi (Blue Velvet Mix)- Patricia Kaas
Stay Together (Armand's ''Crazy'' Trauma Mix) - Barbara Tucker
Sex Machine (Erotica Mix)- 20 Fingers
Everyone Over there (Getting Robbed) (Roc-s SP1200 Dub) - Roc & Presta
Warm Leatherette (Danny Tenaglia Mix)- Club 69
Georgy Porgy (Armand Van Helen Remix)- 3D
Can’t Stop (Acid Rain Forest Mix)- Plez
C.U.N.T. (She’s Cunt, She’s Pussy)- Robbie Tronco
Throb (David Morales Legendary Dub Mix)- Janet Jackson

Juanita's Mix 081: Kilopatrah Jones

After weeks spent in Germany taking in the culture, history, sounds & wisdom - alas I present to you 55+ mins of my debut set as my dear friend Stella's guest on HÖR Berlin. The mix features recent tracks mostly produced by my peers who inspire me, as well as music I picked up along my travels. Head over to Youtube for the full video here ----> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AfgPhDprvvo&t

Enjoy x

Subscribe to hoer.live for the full tracklist :)

Stella's Snacks - Christian Tokyo - HÖR - Dec 5 ⧸ 2022

My set from annual 4th of July party '4th World' That takes place in new york. I closed the outdoor stage, i had a good time so I wanted to share this all with you. If you were there, thank you for dancing !

Photo by Jennifer Medina

MOMA READY - FOURTH WORLD 2K22

"I'm usually the first person to label Valentine's Day a commercial scam," says Kikelomo in the interview below, "however I recently realised that sharing music and connecting with people through sound is one of the ultimate expressions of love for me." When the Berlin-based DJ sent in her mix to RA, she subtitled it "All about love." It's nearly two hours of dance music that radiates warmth, positive energy and compassion, expressed through the wide, almost kaleidoscopic genre lens that Kikelomo has made her own. House, jungle, electro, hip-hop, you name it. The mix is even split into two distinct sides, like an old-school cassette mixtape.

In addition to being a great and adventurous DJ, Kikelomo also started @orokoradio, a station based in Accra, that connects the Ghanaian capital—and other African cities—with the usual electronic music hotspots, and showcases homegrown talent and sounds through a platform of their own making. It's all part of her mission as a DJ to not only share music and love, but also to connect, uplift and create real community, as she also discusses below. It's not just a buzzword for Kikelomo, but a mission.

@kikelomooo

Read more at https://ra.co/podcast/871

RA podcast

RA.871 Kikelomo

Live recording of @djshyboi with an absolutely bloodclaaaat blood bath.

Stella's Snacks - Christian Tokyo - HÖR - Dec 5 ⧸ 2022

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