Daisychain's monthly residency on Berlin's Refuge Worldwide radio featuring mixes from series' curator Leesh (@dj_leesh) and past Daisychainers.

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Juanita's Mix 080 with Sterling Juan Diaz @sterlingjuandiaz

Q. How would you describe yourself?
A. As a person who’s not good at talking about himself for sure! Umm, I would say a music fan first and foremost, a sin vergüenza, an optimist, and (most importantly) a lover :)

Q. How long have you been a part of the NY music scene?
A. I was born and raised here but would say I’ve been in the NYC music scene since the early 2010’s? (If growing up going to emo shows doesn’t count as the “NYC music scene” lol). I’ve been sneaking into club nights in Brooklyn and Downtown since before I was able to drink legally. 

I started DJing frfr around 2016 tho, a friend asked me to DJ her party and I was embarrassed from mixing on an app on my phone and got a controller. Shoutout Rocio if you see this.

Q. Tell us about this mix. 
A. I put this mix together over the course of the last 2 months? I spent a while meticulously curating the tracklist to settle on a vibe that reflects everything I love about music, while keeping it approachable, and fresh etc. 

In the end I wanted to put together a good range of my current influences, undeniable grooves, and obvious bops through a Juanita's lens. Ultimately tried to not take myself too serious and just have fun TBH. 

I tend to kinda transform my sound based on the context of what I'm doing but this one feels super personal and uniquely me :) Hope you dig it.

Juanita's Mix 080: Sterling Juan Diaz

A Dancer turned DJ, Kilo weaves house, techno and jungle together to lose or find yourself on the dance floor.

"This is an hour snippet from my 3 hour guest set from JADALAREIGN’S Residency, @ Nowadays (NYC). This night was such a special night because the femme energy inter-sectioning with the hard acid and techno  gave me a sense of freedom and sensuality I don’t get to express often. I hope y’all have as much fun listening to this as I did recording it!"

soundcloud.com/kilopatrah-jones

FemmeDecks 070. x Kilopatrah Jones

taken from my opening set for ring flip @ bossa on 02.01.2023

big love to everyone who came through and anyone who listens <3

eros @ bossa nova civic club (02.01.2023)

Authentically Plastic embraces the sludgier side of life on Crack Mix 491, which features an hour of wall-to-wall thrills that share the same energy-driven source code as the artist's own releases.

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Crack Mix 491: Authentically Plastic

Cleveland's Ghost Noises (#090) is back as DJ Geauga Lake (@dj-geauga-lake) with a mix of precarious sounds, experimentally and eclectically electric! 📡🌐🌼

DJ Geauga Lake is the current musical project of Cleveland-based record collector / selector Eric Sarley. Pulling from their love of sampling and musical lineages, their appreciation for warm and psychedelic dance music sound design, and experiences in queer worldbuilding in the DIY, glamour-free creative environment of the Midwest; their approach to DJing and music sharing encourages moments of personal catharsis on the dance floor. Their moniker comes from the beloved and defunct eccentric Northeast Ohio theme park Geauga Lake. They are anti-AI and pro-dessert.

Refuge Worldwide is a Berlin-based independent, community radio station working in solidarity with grassroots and non-profit organizations.
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DJ Geauga Lake - Refuge Worldwide x Daisychain | 021

At Unsound 2022, Bored Lord from LA and Ariel Zetina from Chicago - each other's biggest fans - teamed up for their first-ever European b2b set. The two artists masterfully fused together queer club sounds with '90s hardcore breaks, trance, and house, resulting in a hard-hitting combo that kept the audience on their toes throughout. Once again we hit the record button, and the ripping result is Unsound Podcast 89!

📸 @multipolar

Unsound Podcast 89: Bored Lord b2b Ariel Zetina

Hailing from the Midwest, STARKA brought us a hefty helping of club in their mix a couple years ago (#128). Want some driving, dark club energy? Their door is open. And this mix will lead you there. 📡🌐🌼

Aspiring Chicago resident STARKA is most musically interested in crafting energizing, genre-spanning dance mixes. They believe that we all deserve spaces to flourish, which for them includes (but also goes way beyond) spaces to dance, commune, and relieve. They want to improve access to these and other life-giving spaces. They weave their passion for music and dance with their care for improving living conditions, particularly in terms of housing, environment, and health.

Refuge Worldwide is a Berlin-based independent, community radio station working in solidarity with grassroots and non-profit organizations.
refugeworldwide.com @refugeworldwide

Tracklist - https://www.instagram.com/p/CqlNXDgumqf/

STARKA - Refuge Worldwide x Daisychain | 022

Room 4 Resistance is welcoming spring at Refuge Worldwide with another 4 hours takeover, this time with special guests Oldyunmayn, Deena Abdelwahed, Rama & hosted by luz & Doc Sleep.

Tune-in for a stellar music program, goofs in the booth, and some updates on what R4R is cooking for you in the coming months!

Room 4 Resistance at Refuge Worldwide #4 with Oldyungmayn - 05.05.2023

Back at it again, a live recording from Leesh (@dj_leesh) at Daisychain's 5 Years of Rave anniversary celebration tour, this time at JAMS in Madison, Wisconsin. An hour and a half of pure ecstatic Rave energy, heavy in the bass and bright in the melodies. 📡🌐🌼

Refuge Worldwide is a Berlin-based independent, community radio station working in solidarity with grassroots and non-profit organizations.
refugeworldwide.com @refugeworldwide

Tracklist - https://thedaisychain.club/2023/06/01/daisychain-x-refuge-worldwide-leesh/

Leesh - Refuge Worldwide x Daisychain | 023

Leesh (@dj_leesh) comes hard and fast. In this live recording from a party at The Hideout in Chicago, expect speedy break-heavy trance-laden crushed up distortion, bumping in bass and nostalgic rave pingbacks.

Refuge Worldwide is a Berlin-based independent, community radio station working in solidarity with grassroots and non-profit organizations.
refugeworldwide.com @refugeworldwide

Tracklist - https://thedaisychain.club/2023/07/26/daisychain-x-refuge-worldwide-leesh-2/

Leesh - Refuge Worldwide x Daisychain | 024

Baltimore’s Kir (@itiskir) and recent Daisychainer (#292) guests on this month's installation of the Daisychain residency for Refuge Worldwide, playing some of their favorite minimal, electro, and shuffly cuts alongside original productions. It's a dream cloud floating through the textures both smooth and softly gritty. This special edition is the first of the residency performed live from Refuge Worldwide HQ at Oona Bar in Neukölln📡🌐🌼

A raver first and born by the California beachside, Kir began making music at a young age; first pop, and eventually, electronic, all inspired by the ocean. After relocating to Arizona for high school, where they witnessed their first desert raves and were introduced to genres like hardstyle and happy hardcore, their eyes turned to underground production styles and DJing. It wasn’t until they moved to Chicago to study music that they began collecting records and investing in gear, and it was truly post-pandemic that Kir had the opportunity to first share their original, tropical-inspired music with the world. Their hardware sets contain compositions performed live on two vintage Korg Electribes (MX), energetically mixing techno with their gritty, old-school, breaks-centric rave productions in a fashion similar to DJing. With a deep love for shuffled beats and syncopated rhythms, Kir’s DJ sets span a similar range, and explore the bounds of minimal, UKG, electro, breakbeat techno, and drum & bass.

Refuge Worldwide is a Berlin-based independent, community radio station working in solidarity with grassroots and non-profit organizations.
refugeworldwide.com @refugeworldwide

Tracklist - https://thedaisychain.club/2023/08/30/daisychain-x-refuge-worldwide-kir/

Kir - Refuge Worldwide x Daisychain | 025

Doula live @ Bossa Nova Civic Club 8.29.2023

A creature is born out of the ashes of human remains after a mass extinction event. Emerging into a new world where nothing else shares its consciousness, it assembles clues to its lineage through the drum, pitched instruments, and the human voice. Slowly accumulating more and more breakbeats over time, it goes through phases of discovery and learning before reaching an eventual cacophony – the overwhelming pain of knowing the fatal flaws which cause its ancestors’ demise. Eventually it reaches a gentle reconciliation, an understanding of its history with the courage to move forward in its own light in a grim new world.

“dis poem shall continue even when poets stop writin
dis poem shall survive u me it shall linger in history
in your mind
in time forever” 
Mutabaruka

@aftrmthmusic
IG: @kyle.aftrmth

AFTRMTH (Kyle Rogers) is a DJ and musicologist based in Brooklyn. Raised by jazz musicians, he came to dance music through the queer DIY scenes in 2010s NYC and Atlanta. Though his sets span genre and tempo, he has a particular affinity for the rhythmic experiments of jungle and drumfunk and the bassweight of dubstep. He is a graduate student at the NYU Department of Music.

Distant Signals 029: AFTRMTH

MOMA PS1 WARM UP 2023

It's here! We are so honored to have Chicago's finest, Club Chow with us on Gimmick Radio. We kicked off ATL Pride weekend with some healing house music and lots of giggles. Press play and let the music take you away for a while! <3 Follow @gimmicksounds on Instagram and SoundCloud to stay up-to-date on what we've got going on!

GIMMICKRADIO w/ Club Chow 10.13.23

Daisychain is a movement to showcase power, beauty, and strength of DJs and artists. Like the sequencing of electrical equipment, Daisychain will connect and develop a symbiotic network of trans, nonbinary people and femmes - from all backgrounds. DJs and artists from these realms of identity will continue to find their strength in sound by showcasing their art for a weekly guest mix series. 

Contact/Submissions: Leesh - daisychain.network606@gmail.com

Based in Chicago, IL

STARKA - Refuge Worldwide x Daisychain | 022

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