NEW TO BALAMII - ELISE joins us for the first instalment of her residency with us with a bag of unreleased gems from the likes of Kush Jones, OSSX, Color Plus and many more. Jungle, Footwork, Breaks, Techno and Jersey Club sounds from the offset.

ELISE - March 2021

Techno has always been about futurism, but in Russell E.L. Butler's (@russellelbutler) hands it becomes a vehicle for a more inclusive, communal and positive now. The Oakland based producer pairs their stripped back and powerful rhythms with uplifting sound design to make for music that is both defiant yet welcoming to all. They have done so on Left Hand Path, Mister Saturday Night Records and Spectral Sound since 2015, with 2018's 'The Home I'd Build For Me And All My Friends' album being a particularly standout work that showcased Butler's mastery of their machines.

In the studio, Butler is most at home manipulating modular machines and making propulsive techno, but as a DJ they expire wider sonic terrain. That's demonstrated on this week's mix, which begins with dystopian atmospheres and heavy rhythms that eventually break out into jerking EBM, bleak cold wave and mechanical house sounds. It's a brilliantly taught and tense selection with a careful smattering of human vocals that keeps it rooted in an approachable realism.

Dekmantel Podcast

Dekmantel Podcast 324 - Russell E.L. Butler

@FOOZOOL, @8ULENTINA and special guest Nihar Bhatt (Nine) of Surface Tension and Left Hand Path in San Francisco joins us for an interview + guest mix
@Niharb
@surfacetension-sf
@lefthandpathwax

www.radarradio.com

CLUB CHAI ON RADAR RADIO: FOOZOOL, 8ULENTINA + Nihar Bhatt - 22nd December 2017

lock in for a quick ride done up in lockdown for a favorite curious curator, asking all of the right questions as host of RA's 'The Hour', the queen of icy drill sets, Tempo LDN founder and polyhypenate wonder, the MARTHA. 
unreleased originals, remixes and collabs inside. 

??? / quest?onmarc
vibes pt.3 / cookie kawaii
low morgue / dj sinclair
protoquestion / elijah
??? / kieran loftus, neana and quest?onmarc
overstimulated / mapalma
skank or two / top shotta & grim sickers
sin / these evil streets
distant lights (quest?onmarc bootleg) / burial
venom / plastician
why / nazar
schoeneberg shuffle / quest?on meets neana
cj_(mala-nce)/ dj ill tariq

https://www.nts.live/shows/martha
original air 01 may 2020

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NTS Radio / quest?onmarc mix for MARTHA / 01 May 2020

@8ULENTINA's set from Boiler Room: 'Streaming From Isolation' series for CLUB CHAI.
May 21, 2020.
Watch the stream here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KzWdB4Uua38

8ULENTINA - Boiler Room: 'Streaming From Isolation'

Its not a revolution without centering the lives of the most vulnerable, today and EVERYDAY.

The mix isn't perfect but its the least i could do for myself and my people and to let some of the pain out into the music and to call the joy back into my heart.

#BTLM

streamed 06.27_11:40:00am on https://bohemnotsradio.com

aravot shut:: FOOZOOL

Support the compilation on Bandcamp! All profits go towards The Lebanese Red Cross and The Beirut Musicians' Fund

Lara Sarkissian - A House Is A Being

8ULENTINA - Break The Cycle

https://sistersofsound.bandcamp.com/album/sos-music-vol-1

Birthed from a radio show and event series with iconic Los Angeles radio station DUBLAB, SOS MUSIC’s goal is to provide a platform for forward-thinking electronic music, with a keen emphasis on female and non-binary talent from around the world.

In conjunction with legendary Berlin-based !K7, the label’s debut release, SOS MUSIC Vol. 1 is a 14-track eclectic compilation showcasing dance music from some of the best producers working at the moment including rRoxymore, Violet, Nightwave, Lara Sarkissian, Umfang, LCY & Minimal Violence - lovingly curated to uplift and celebrate the global electronic community in a time of deep uncertainty in the music industry.

SOS Music Vol 1

More exclusive music

Premiere: Lara Sarkissian 'fortress in the clouds'

https://soundcloud.com/larasarkissian
Lara Sarkissian is a sound artist, composer, DJ (FOOZOOL), and co-founder of Club Chai in the Bay Area; a music label, radio show, and curatorial project based in the Bay Area.

Lara Sarkissian - Affair 25

FOUNDERS:
@8ULENTINA @LaraSarkissian
2016 - 2021 • clubchai.bandcamp.com 
CLUB CHAI is a record label, event series and curatorial project founded by 8ULENTINA and Lara Sarkissian (fka FOOZOOL) in Oakland, California. CLUB CHAI centers diasporic artists with the intention of carving out sounds and spaces that consider the ways we build narratives as a reflection of our current and future selves. We believe in the transformative abilities of storytelling through sound and honoring its creation of genres and movements for marginalized people throughout the history of electronic music. Through our label releases and projects we hope to contribute to this archive and history.
CLUB CHAI hosted regular events in Oakland and San Francisco while participating in an international network of artists and collaborators. CLUB CHAI held showcases in New York City and London, and have also presented at Unsound Festival Krakow (2019), Mexico City, Milan, and a UK tour in collaboration with TT label. The label hosted shows and streams on NTS radio, Rinse FM, Lower Grand Radio, and Boiler Room.

CLUB CHAI ON RADAR RADIO: FOOZOOL, 8ULENTINA + Nihar Bhatt - 22nd December 2017

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