“Recently, I’ve been really inspired by bass music in the 80-85 (or 160-70) BPM range that shifts between slow and fast registers, opening up space for a deep interior journey and for a driving, percussive dancefloor experience alike. Much music in this space that I’m drawn to has a visceral, haptic, and earthy quality -- body music for mental landscapes. 

The mix is conceived as a journey into a densely foliated forest of ever-shifting dimensions, drawing you deeper and deeper into its cavernous shadows and spectral pockets of light. Dewdrops shiver on pillowy moss ,flanked by the hungry mouths of carnivorous plants; burly vines dangle low and heavy under velvet leaves. Mysterious and heretofore unknown flora abound, beguiling you with their sensuous textures, suffusing the humid air with smells both luxuriant and noxious. Finally you emerge into a softly-hued meadow, your journey into the darkness having brought you closer to a sense of calm.”

@papayaofficial
IG: @papaya.official

DJ Papaya's approach to mixing draws upon downtempo, ambient, leftfield electronics, and bass music to craft surreal and emotionally complex narratives, rich in texture and rooted in the sensibilities of dub. They are a co-founder of the ambient/experimental series Spindrift, with Pontiac Streator and Opheliaxz, as well as the bass music party Chrysalis, with Amylia.

Tracklist:
Carrier - Slow Punctures
Blue - Slow Wave
Officium - Heartlapse ft Yolek
Gi & Trois Quarts Taxi System - Swarm
Chewlie x Fiesta Soundsystem - Savory
Proc Fiskal - A Fragrance
Anta Doma - Temples
Ancestral Voices - Mist of Avalon
Furtive - I Always Try to be This Gentle
Commix - Japanese Electronics (Instra:Mental Moog Remix)
Es.Tereo - Ancestral Path
K Wata - In A Mug on a Rug (Ronan’s Ecophilia Mix)
Trois Quarts Taxi System - Clef
Itoa - Diceman
Mike Parker - Spaceship Galliot
georg-i - Nightlife under the Arclight
Kobayashi Maru - Aesthetics of a Wormhole
traverse - Turpitude
Forest on Stasys - Sideral
Khey Mysterio & Stacktrace - Low Heat
felt. - Life Formed
Jonnnah - U Made Me
Ghjuliu - Sheila

Distant Signals 082: DJ Papaya

pouring rain on a tuesday afternoon, full of fuzzy feels from nachti. track for track all the way through. clangers near the end by bill santoro, done intentionally for comic effect. 

<3

post-nachti lamping w/ bill santoro & jack m

For RA.1000, DJ Sprinkles' first mix in over a decade is a powerful meditation on the genocide in Gaza.

Dance music often relies on simple narratives: release, escape, unity. But those narratives can often feel inadequate, and even at times, hollow. Or, as Terre Thaemlitz might bluntly put it, just "shitty."

For her first mix in around 15 years, Terre Thaemlitz AKA DJ Sprinkles, challenges us to think differently. "I felt this 1000th podcast should reflect the moment in which it was made," she told us in her Q&A.

And what is this moment? Every day since Israel's 2023 assault on Gaza began, an average of 28 children have been killed. That's an entire classroom, every day, for over 600 days (at the time of writing). It's a staggering figure that only captures a fragment of the listless cruelty imposed on the strip.

Faced with such a genocide, what can music really do? How political can it truly be?  For their RA.1000, Thaemlitz gives us an unflinching rebuke to the idea that music should provide escapism. The mix weaves ambient fragments and jazz passages, woven around samples from Israeli media and the voices of outspoken Jewish critics like Gabor Maté and Norman Finkelstein. 

The result is not just a protest, but a document of our time. For Terre Thaemlitz, music is never just music. Her RA.1000 serves as a reminder that in an age of relentless suffering, the most political act is to reject the illusion of escape, and search for something greater.

Read the interview and find the tracklist at ra.co/podcast/1013. Listen to all RA.1000 mixes, as well as the complete history of the RA Podcast, at https://1000.ra.co

RA.1000 Terre Thaemlitz / DJ Sprinkles

Thanks to my friend Lexie who asked me to play on their FM radio show 777 for 88.3 WRCT. :)

Thanks to my mom who helped me move apartments while I was prepping this, giving me the space to explore and regulate in transition. :)

Thanks to music for teaching me what resonance feels like. :( :) :( :)

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"The snail built its shell line by line, secreted through the mantle, a fleshy hood that separated the internal organs from the outside. The newest layers of shell were the ones closest to the main body, while the oldest parts of the shell were farthest away. The mantle, filled with nerves that collect to clusters of ganglia, was the closest thing the mollusk had to a brain. Therefore, whatever it thought, it secreted, and the secreted story became the shell, the testimony.
...
How could she possibly know, at this moment, the pattern of her shell? Contents can't see outside the parameters of their own packaging; it would be like questioning your mind with your own mind. All she could do was add to her shell, one line at a time, in layers, like writing. Then she would be able to look back, one day, to see what she was creating." [Anelise Chen]

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“Finally, its own growth begins to crack the shell, and the world as the chick knows it is coming to an end. Its sky is falling. As the chick wriggles through the cracks, it begins to eat its shell. In that moment-growing but fragile, starving and cramped, its world breaking-the chick must feel like it is dying. Yet once everything it has relied on falls away, the chick is born. It doesn't die, but falls into the world." [Mark Nepo]

~ 

Faceless – Lusine
Ever So Lonely / Eyes / Ocean – Sheila Chandra
You and Your Sister – This Mortal Coil
Pastel – Elsa Hewitt
desire machine – spirit blue
Falling Down a Well – Jack J
Wonder – sweet93
This Is Real – feeble little horse
sofie – Sunken
Twice – Eterna
Laughing Gas – Triš
Synthesize Me – The Space Lady
Astrology Poisoning – Avalon Emerson
My Baby's Got It Out For Me – a.s.o.
Geysers – Roza Terenzi & jd
Sweet Tides – Thievery Corporation
Automatic Weather – Panther Hollow

Eat the Shell {{777 mix}}

ܨ ܨ ܨ 

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Gi Gi @ The Lot Radio 09-05-2025

Exploring the slower, tripped out side of percussive type beats for this months show. Made for reflections on intentional portal opening... 
Find the full tracklist and related episodes on NTS: https://www.nts.live/shows/adab/episodes/adab-6th-september-2025

Heaven is in You w/ ADAB 060925

the next mix in the series is pure dubwise profundity coming from @edenaurelius and @milliamusic

Some words from the artists :

“This mix is a live recording taken from Nowadays in April of this year for livwutang’s recidency, where we were invited to open for Deepchord as a part of a dub techno focused event here in New York. 

The three hour mix is the culmination of our shared inspirations - contemporary and classic, and our own interpretations of the genre itself.

We have b2b’ed many times over the past 10 years, and we feel this may be our favorite set so far - we hope you enjoy”

Art by Jesse Osborne-Lanthier

naffcast012 ⦾ ﮩ٨ـﮩﮩ٨ـ ✹ Eden Aurelius b2b Millia ✹ Nowadays (4.18.25) ✹  ﮩ٨ـﮩﮩ٨ـ

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https://www.soundcloud.com/jamek_1



james K @ The Lot Radio 09-22-2025

Salamanda from Seoul presents an hour-long mix of ambient, leftfield, downtempo music 

https://www.instagram.com/8salamanda8
https://www.soundcloud.com/8salamanda8



Salamanda @ The Lot Radio 09-25-2025

Our b2b at @sustain-release-nyc 2025
00-02 Friday night at The Gym
A lot of physical activity indeed

Mor Elian b2b Piezo @ Sustain Release Year Eleven

I think there's something
Strange, strange, strange
Going on, on in my heart
I think I'm hurting
More, more, more
Gonna break, break me apart

I think there's something
Strange, strange, strange
Going on, on in my heart
I think I'm hurting
More, more, more
Gonna break, break me apart

I used to daydream of you
But I don't know if I can make it through

I think there's something
Strange, strange, strange
Going on, on in my heart
I think I'm hurting
More, more, more
Gonna break, break me apart

I used to daydream of you
But I don't know if I can
I used to daydream of you
But now it's only my nightmares come true

Eat the Shell {{777 mix}}

corryl 🪸

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