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Carrie Sours (she/her)

Carrie Sours is a disc jockey, musician, and event host and organizer from Cleveland, OH currently living in Pittsburgh, PA. She is currently a crew member of the Sweet Abyss event series and a resident DJ at Mary’s. She began her record collection at age 4 and came of age in smoke-filled music shops; throughout the 2010s she became involved in Cleveland’s underground hip-hop and electronic music scenes including vanguard queer parties at infamous punk venue Now That’s Class. With a voracious and irreverent approach to genre, she describes her sound as “moody & funky”, fusing emotional and psychedelic dance music with sensual grooves, post-punk, and private press records with an approach born of the DIY, glamour-free creative environment of the Midwest. She loves listening to, playing, and discovering music; along with bakery, sauna, the sounds of birds, and silliness as a sanity play. Amongst other gigs, she has been the announcer of an ice-skating competition and recently soundtracked a lesbian arm-wrestling tournament.


5. A few sentences (or a small paragraph) about the mix Ex. Notes on the mix ///
"This mix has come out of a period of intense change in my life. I opened the mix with a song that used to enchant me when it played weekly as part of a local block on the “extreme” rock radio station when I was 12 or so, and I wanted to evoke a heavy through-line of catharsis, anger, confusion, yearning, pleasure and acceptance (with a tiny bit of cheekiness thrown in for good measure). Some drone for tone-setting (courtesy of my dear friend Ted aka Celestyn), a block of sensual grooves, a detour into psychy chuggers, and altogether a nice spread of sounds and genres for reflective listening. If you enjoyed the mix, drop a line - the personal connections are always meaningful and motivating! I happened to meet the XOXA crew during a sunrise at Barbarella’s Discotheque this past summer - I appreciate being able to contribute to the Blend Series, thanks for having me :) -Carrie"

SOCIALS
https://soundcloud.com/carrie-sours
https://www.instagram.com/ssoouurrss/
https://ra.co/dj/carriesours

TRACKLIST:
Mushroomhead - Solitaire Unraveling
Celestyn - Damp
CV Smiles - Homeschooled SJT norap mix
Die Orangen - Lost in the Center ft. Haley Morgan
JBK - Red Track Dance
Mourning [A] BLKstar - Ain’t Ever
Ramuntcho Matta - Zoique III
We™ - You / Flutesque
Aromabar - Where Is Your Moon (Yuri Dub)
Piyojo - Pen
Human Primates - Auto Music in the Disco Dub Dtyle
Isolee - Willy Skipper
Brothomstates - Matala Bobo
Aya RL - Unikaj Zdjęć (Mental Rework)
Digital Orgasm - Reality



XOXA BLEND 272 - Carrie Sours

Dawn moods for the early birds, courtesy of Sleepier & Impey aka Spirit Blue.  
Find the full tracklist and related episodes on NTS: https://www.nts.live/shows/early-bird-show-spirit-blue/episodes/early-bird-show-spirit-blue-15th-october-2025

The Early Bird Show w/ Spirit Blue & tiffi m 151025

Living Room n°90 ~ @ghosttropics

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q. pls introduce yourself:

a. Hi! I’m Ryan aka ghosttropics and I think most people on here know me as “that person who is in the comment boxes of all the ambient releases on bandcamp”. Mostly I’m just a huge music nerd/listener/dancer, but I try to write about the music that care about as much as I can as a way to engage with the community a bit more and to give back to the artists who bless me with the music that brings so much to my life. Which is how you guys found me! This is only the second mix I ever made and I’ve since worked on a couple more, and it’s becoming this very fulfilling new thing in my life that I look forward to exploring a bit more.

q. is there a story behind the mix?

a. First of all I just wanted to thank you guys for having me here and giving me this opporunity to work on this mix, which ended up being very meaningful and downright therapeutic for me to make. It is dedicated to my late best friend Blakely, and also to anyone who lives with that soul deep and unnameable feeling of missing someone, but also feeling them with you all the time. At the very centre of the mix (both figuratively and at the literal halfway point) is a track of Blakes that I hadn’t been able to bring myself to listen to for years. I always thought it was one of the most beautiful things I ever heard and just the purest audio distillation of everything I loved about my friend, and as soon as the mix started to come together I knew it was the right time to bring it back into my life. Everything from there just seemed to come together on is own as if guided by a gentle hand.

The feeling I tried to capture in this mix is not simply sadness because grief is SO much more than that. It’s about how that sadness can also be so deeply intertwined with a feeling of indescribable gratitude and joy in having known a person, and it’s about all the beautiful and unexpected ways we can keep them with us throughout our lives. To me, this mix is exactly that. A way to share the story of my friend with the world and feel closer to him, and I hope that listening to this can give others the space to remember and relate to their own experiences in a way that feels meaningful as well.

q. what’s the best way to enjoy your mix?

a. As is my answer to most things: lying down, eyes closed, cuddling a cute dog. But really, wherever works best for you! 

q. describe a favourite object in your living room...

a. I found the most beautiful/perfect antique rocking chair with a rocking footrest on the sidewalk a couple months ago and I swear I could not even conceptualize a better reading chair. I refused to buy one for years because I wanted it to be perfect (I read nearly as much as I listen to music) and part of me feels like I willed this thing into reality. 

q. are you working on any projects right now (music or not music)?

a. I’m thinking about maybe starting some sort of newsletter as my friends keep telling me to do, but for now I’m just gonna keep writing my little bandcamp reviews and making more mixes, cause that’s what’s feeling good right now. And despite my past promise to myself to never become a DJ (half joking) maybe buy a controller and start figuring out how to do some of this stuff live at some point!

Living Room n°90 ~ ghosttropics

whispers from the pond tell us that two wrongs don't make a right, but two frogs make a ______? k means invites mel keane to fill in the blanks...

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Outsiders: k means w/ Mel Keane @ Kiosk Radio 21.10.2025

Artist, producer, label owner and DJ Lee Gamble bringing an oneiric bi-monthly show of current sound and music from his hallucinated musical continuum. Expect anything from Drill to Dream pop, Conceptual Sound and Jazz to bleached out rave memories..  
Find the full tracklist and related episodes on NTS: https://www.nts.live/shows/lee-gamble/episodes/lee-gamble-27th-october-2025

Lee Gamble 271025

pi/live: Malzof b2b Yessi at Sploosh 05-31-2024

Dj wiggles drifts through dubby textures, hazy rhythms, and warm low-end currents in this month’s show - floating somewhere outside the peak-time zone, in the liminal hours where the energy softens and everything feels a little blurred and weightless.

🌐 “Outsiders” is our daily show hosted by labels, collectives, venues, clubs, … worldwide
📡 Connect with the Outsiders, every day, at 9 am or 9 pm CET
🔗 kioskradio.com

Outsiders: kinetic w/ Dj wiggles @ Kiosk Radio 06.11.2025

Car Culture, the not-dance-music alias of long-time NTS resident Physical Therapy, collages fuzzy folktronics, found sounds and unexpected edits into foot-gazing soundscapes.   
Find the full tracklist and related episodes on NTS: https://www.nts.live/shows/car-culture/episodes/car-culture-6th-november-2025

CAR CULTURE 061125

A genuine wildcard, Philly freaker Furtive draws on technoid propulsion and whiplash psychedelia to conjure refractions of the rave. Expect to ride a progressive groove of surprises and delights from the Bounce House boss. 

https://www.instagram.com/furtive.sasha
https://soundcloud.com/furtivetrax



Furtive @ The Lot Radio 11-12-2025

‘soak u’ returns with a smooth fusion of dub, trip-hop, and modern downtempo in “dub the soak out mix” by Miami-based DJ & producer @duunscape

tracklist:

Zenker Brothers — Who’s In Control
Pawel's Bar — Point Of View
Purelink — Depression Dub
Pistaccio — Old Moon
Stress Assassin — Special Dish
guess — trot (unreleased)
Deadbeat — Ruination
Tribilin Sound — Massive Attack - Teardrop (Tribilin Sound Remix)
Pawel's Bar — Tardigrade Dub
Stress Assassin — Shopcleaner
Stress Assassin — Nature
Conna Haraway — Freon
HENZO/Emby — Worm Grunting
OL — Block24
softi — spiral
Other Joe — I Run This City
Stone — Goosie
Erika de Casier — The Chase
guess — I77 (unreleased)
ben bondy — Ur Ghost Is My Shadow feat. Kissen
guess — everyone_s different (unreleased)

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