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Fiona Zanetti

On Oct 6th 2021, about 2 years after my last set in London, I played from open to close (11pm to 5am) at Village Underground in Shoreditch. Here's a recording of the whole night with a bit of the crowd noise. 

Perhaps a full tracklist at some point... some unreleased stuff in here. 

Even though it had been a while, we had all night so no use in rushing things! I came across a lot of lovely music this year, but it mostly lived in my rekordbox or in a radio mix. I actually record a lot of my sets but it always feels like they're in a constant state of iteration, making it hard to pick just one "version" to release. Over the years I feel like this has led me to only very sparingly drop live-recorded sets. A "party" doesn't often lend itself to the archivable realm, maybe the memories are best suited to the ephemeral. 

Anyway, eternal gratitude crystals to those who came and those who danced, and to those listening now.

-av

Avalon Emerson Live in London (6 hour dj set) Oct 2021

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

Toronto's Cindy Li, AKA Ciel, has a knack for balancing warmth and pressure. Her productions and mixes often feel coated in an iridescent gloss, evoking the trippy stylings of '90s UK tech house and the swung drums of classic New York house. In between that, though, there's lots of vigor via sleek electro, rippling trance, barrelling techno and big, bad breakbeats. Her style may lean towards the atmospheric but it's loaded with moxie, giving her the versatility to close out a main room or kick off the afters.

Her fluid movements between bouncy basslines, spiraling synth patterns and weightless house grooves are just one facet of her impressive rise as a DJ and producer. When she's not behind the decks, presenting radio shows or working on the excellent Parallel Minds label she runs alongside other Toronto acts Yohei S and Daniel 58, Li throws herself into community work. Committed to diverse dance floors, affordable housing and overall equality in the music industry, she's a hard worker in the realest sense of the phrase.

Li's RA mix is a treat. Rolling through scintillating drum work, wonky rhythms and dreamy pads, it feels like quintessential Ciel. In her interview below, she described how she enjoys "the challenge of trying to combine and make cohesive all the diverse styles of music I loved in a DJ set." Judging by this mix alone, it's safe to say that Li succeeded.

Read more: http://ra.co/podcast/832

@ciel_dj

RA podcast

RA.832 Ciel

Recording of Cinnaman's recording at Dekmantel Selectors 2022.

Dekmantel Selectors 2022

Cinnaman at Dekmantel Selectors 2022

a floaty housey fix to soundtrack your afterparty, full of old and new favourites (✿◠‿◠)

Sunrise at the afterparty mix

@livwutang has really arrived on the world stage in the last year. The Seattle-raised, NYC-based artist came up through DIY raves and pirate radio and is now a regular at cult clubs and festivals across North America, as well as being booked in for next year's Dekmantel Selectors. Her sound freely moves between dub, Central and West Africa rhythms and a history of Black American music. All this comes out in her widescreen sets, her curation of the Eto Ano label and her hosting of their show on The Lot Radio.  

The confidence of her selections and ability to shift through moods from the serene to the deep, the energetic to the melodic is evident in this week's mix. It slowly works through the gears from dubbed-out depths to buoyant club rhythms via tribal techno. There is an ever-present mysticism and spirituality that adds an extra layer of intrigue to the body-popping rhythms and it's that which will keep you coming back for more.

Dekmantel Podcast

Dekmantel Podcast 413 - livwutang

Name: Merve (@mmmerve)
Pronouns: She/Her
Location: Berlin via Melbourne

Influences: My family and friends, the world that exists inside clubs and on dancefloors, sound, people, nature, art, colour, things that are funny.

Favorite Quote: ‘Vibing with the force of a thousand Suns’ 

Advice for the DJs, producers and artists of our community: Just be yourself and do you! Also, trust your ears and play/make music that you enjoy :~)

With this mix Merve asks to please learn more about and consider donating to:
Palestine Children’s Relief Fund
(https://www.pcrf.net/)

More at - https://thedaisychain.club/2023/04/11/daisychain-273-merve/

Daisychain

Daisychain 273 - Merve

Music for the small hours and for the early morning dancers. ISAbella's SonarMix offers a taste of what's to come during her back-to-back with Roza Terenzi at Sónar this June. The Colombian-born DJ and co-founder of Barcelona LGBTQ+ party, platform and collective MARICAS goes from ambient to techno across an hour and seven minutes, exploring the deepest parts of her record collection.

Tracklist:
Dream Dolphin - Rain
S.O.N.S. - Yamanote Underground Beach
Sepehr - Forgotten Glyphz
Unknown - Untitled
Emissive - Natural Springs
Jens - Psycho Strings
Blu:sh - Beats For Bogs
Dance 2 Trance - We Came In Peace
Friends of Matt - Out There (Raw Mix)
Ankara Dub
Eddie Richards - The Network
The Shamen - Make it Mine (Moby's Deep Mix)
Oxygen - Absent Minded

SonarMix 020: ISAbella

This mix from Paris-based DJ and Rinse resident FIONA, starts as it means to go on: high-energy, high-octane and all the party vibes. 

Shared ahead of an appearance at a midweek Vienna event entitled Summer of Joy, where went back-to-back with Austrian artist Wolfram on a bill headed up by Jayda G – FIONA embarks on a journey down into the French underground as she shines a light on the artists making waves right now.

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FIONA played Summer of Joy, hosted by Electronic Beats, on 1 June at Usus am Wasser, Vienna.

Sounds from the French underground: Mixed by FIONA

A fresh face in the Parisian electronic landscape, Italian-French talent FIONA offers a groovy collision between house & techno. Influenced by both Chicago & Detroit, her eclectic blend includes sounds from cultures as varied as disco, acid, breakbeat, 80s synth & Italo.

Catch Fiona every 2nd & 4th Monday of the month, from 19h00 to 20h00 [CET] on rinse.fr

Rinse France Podcast

FIONA Planet <to> Planet : Ambient Special - 24 Juillet 2023

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Episode 306 of Circoloco Radio with FIONA

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Circoloco Radio 306 - FIONA

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FIONA @ Kiosk Radio 01.09.2023

LOTR x RWW - FIONA - 25 September 2023

Up next for Tapes #125 is a rising artist on the electronic music scene, Paris-based, Italian/Swiss DJ Fiona. 

She runs a bi-monthly radio show on rinse named 'planet 2 planet' and is a resident for hangar in Belgium. An opportunity for her to explore genres and invite celebrated and upcoming artists to join.

Fiona’s sound is charged with euphoric influences that are merged with her love of house and techno. Her sets travel from progressive to hard house, italo, breakbeats, acid, electro to 90s/00s rave with a surprising, sexy and groovy tapestry of sounds.

Interview & Tracklist: https://www.originssound.com/os-tapes/fiona-mix

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Origins Tapes 125 - FIONA

NTS - Moxie w/ OK Williams 31.07.19

*clears voices* one faithful year ago.... the Freaky Gurlz radio show was born between 2 friends, Lis n @maara. to mark this historic occasion we present to you the Freaky Girls bday mix (one year around the sun).
originally recorded Friday Nov 13, dropped right the fuck now... 2021... inside.. outside... worldwide 🌐

here's to one year of music togeth and three years of friendship... and many more <3 xoxo

Freaky Gurlz Anniversary Mix, Suite No. 1

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Sounds from the French underground: Mixed by FIONA

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