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The second entry in a series of living documents of momentum

Manifested live at Nowadays in New York City from 3am-6am the morning of June 27 2022

Euphoric kinetic connection embraces disorder inside the void, as we smile & dance toward anamnesis together

Destroy what destroys you

Natural's the way you should love
Feel the joy, elevate
It's the way we sway, riding waves eternally
Elevating me, through sky and sea
It's the calming breeze, whispering through the trees
Feel it push you, releasing love from every view
It's the way we sway in elemental harmony
Serenading me
Move so naturally
The moon, the stars
The sky & the sea
Why don't you follow me?
To a place
Where we can be free again
Natural, where I want to be

Thanks to Nowadays staff & everyone who danced & did their thing! This was a special moment in time & has brought me a lot of joy to listen back to since then. I hope it can do the same for any of you who listen.

Artwork by @malzof + KL in collaboration with the universe
Mastered by @claywilson

ENCAPSULATED JOY 002: LIVE @ NOWADAYS PRIDE NONSTOP 6/26/22

BUY VINYL: https://doc-sleep.bandcamp.com/album/cloud-sight-fade
Doc Sleep returns to Dark Entries with Cloud Sight Fade, an album of ethereal house and techno. Doc Sleep is the alias of DJ and producer Melissa Maristuen. Following 2023’s Birds, her ambient and IDM-leaning debut album, Cloud Sight Fade shows Doc drawing on her years of queer clubbing to bring us seven diverse tracks sitting between muscular New York house, Berlin twilight techno, and funky West-coast breakbeats. Production began in the Bay Area and was completed in Berlin; Maristuen says that this work became a love letter to the West Coast’s magnificent natural landscape, the light of the Pacific sunrise. While draped in dreamlike textures and melodies, this is also a record about embodiment and the memories that live within our corporeal forms. The powerful grooves on the breakbeat-inflected “Lemon Zest” and the propulsive “Cloud Sight Fade” remind us that dance music is for bodies dancing. Meanwhile, tracks like the sparkling album-closer “Enchanted Static” or the brooding groover “Water Sign” plunge us deeper into hypnotic depths. On Cloud Sight Fade, Doc Sleep guides us through slumber and wakefulness, in and out of our bodies, with the mastery of a seasoned DJ and clubgoer.

Cloud Sight Fade

Doc Sleep - Cloud Sight Fade SNIPS

This is a re-recording of my SR set. Unfortunately, the audio recording had stopped due to a power cut earlier in the evening.

Thanks for having me Sustain Release! I'll never forget this <3

DJ Plead - Sustain Release, Year 9

DETOUR, Pittsburgh mainstays behind the Hot Mass night of the same name, celebrate 10 years as a label with a double LP of the locally sourced, grassroots techno that’s been their raison d’etre since 2014. DTR-007 is a coming together of DETOUR members, long-time associates, rising local artists and members of the ever-expanding global Pittsburgh diaspora.

The result is a true reflection of the DETOUR ethos; a selection of ten expertly-curated tracks that is more than the sum of its parts; an homage to the city, its producers, DJs, dancers and the outsized influence they’ve had on the global techno underground.

DTR-007 ‘s ode to Pittsburgh electronics spans generations and genres. Booming maximalism from local originator Shawn Rudiman sits beside ace outings from already-accomplished next-gen producers Gladstone Deluxe, Davis Galvin, and Torvvo. After a spree of recent releases on Dark Entries and her own Jacktone imprint, Doc Sleep returns to the label for the first time since her 2016 debut EP with a slice of resonant deep house. Hot Mass co-founder Paul Fleetwood and perennial multidisciplinary favs, slowdanger appear on wax for the first time with levitating cuts of late-night hypnosis. Longtime modular enthusiast Nick Breinich commits a slab of true-school Midwest acid techno while DETOUR co-founders Naeem and Gusto each contribute tracks in signature styles. Naeem’s soaring electro melodics bring the compilation to an emotional peak before Gusto sends it off with an underwater broken beat chiller. The end product is an exhibition of steaming, sometimes-storming, always-deep heat calibrated precisely for your dance floor’s moodier moments. 

credits
releases July 26, 2024

Jacket Artwork by Stephanie Armbruster
Jacket Layout by Gusto
Mastered by Dietrich Schoenemann at Complete Mastering
@docsleep

DETOUR 007

A3 Doc Sleep - I Like You All So Much

ROOM 2 - SATURDAY 20 til 22 🐊🐊🐊

Thanks to Suzybee & Steevio, the volunteers, the dancers, the musicians, Théo & Ugo, the Friends of Fictions, Alex & very special thanks to @iambruce for mastering the recording :)

Hug to @r4r_luz who sadly couldn't make it this year and was supposed to play before me.

Shorter context: https://www.instagram.com/p/C9NI2bwMVcu/

Longer context: https://nonogigsta.substack.com/p/1ec95196-66ba-45d9-91d0-3b1031fc5c42

Freerotation 2024 : The House Of Crocodiles Part 2 (Live Recording)

A1. Virta Chords  - Beats Unlimited

@msmkulturegalerie
Bandcamp: https://kulturegalerie.bandcamp.com/album/volume-three
Info: Kulture Galerie returns with its third various artists record featuring Doc Sleep, Rambal Cochet, The Jaffa Kid, Mesmerist, Jack Bags and Undsidedly.

The multi format label run by Filippo MSM (of Metropolitan Soul Museum) is back with its 7th release overall, this time on wax. This new collection continues to show Filippo’s predilection for music with non straight forward drum patterns and moody melodies.

Volume Three is a well thought mix of styles, spanning to and from two Trance oriented tracks from Rambal Cochet and The Mesmerist through the broken techno of Doc Sleep, Jack Bags’s all analogue Acid House track, The Jaffa Kid’s uncompromising Drexcian’s Electro and Undsidedly dreamy’s own take on the genre.

Bandcamp

*PREMIERE* Doc Sleep - Deep Breath

@miseryconfusion at Hemlock Nights on Saturday morning.

'For a long time, I felt uncertain about what to play at Honcho for Hemlock Nights. It wasn’t until my friend Kayla (Seelene) asked, “So, you’re just going to play the Bobby afters classics, right?” that I began to break through the doubt. While this set includes a lot of new music for me, I took comfort in the tracks I often share with friends at home. My goal was to create a more intimate and personal space to introduce myself to a new audience.'

Tracklist:
Vladimir Ussachevsky - Wireless Fantasy
Kincaid - Falls Down
Five Rituals - Pungi
Polygonia & Popp - Onyx
Stereometrix - Alligators
Frank Rodas - Forest Dance
Pearson Sound - Blanked
The Horn - The Hunt
Isolated Material - Root Cause
Gladstone Deluxe - Errant Core
Amber - Sexual (Li Da Di) (Afterlife Chillout Remix)
X Prod - B & F
Moisk - Deoxyribose
Electro Force - Getting High
Nelly - Hot In Herre (Excursions Mix)
Hazed - Disconnected (Long Distance Mix)
Origin Unknown - Valley of the Shadows
Ghost - The Club
SND & RTN - 3SR
KW Griff & DJ Booman - Who's In the House
Cool Tiger - I Feel You
Theo Parrish - Solitary Flight
Simic - Orbetello
Limp Bizkit - My Way (Los Bastoneros Edit)
OSSX - INTERNET CAFE
Heavy D & The Boyz - You Aint Heard Nuttin Yet (Instrumental)
Itsu Ono - B-Boy Rave For the Aging Hipster
Farley Funkin' Keith - Jackin The Bass
Kate Bush - Running Up THat Hill (Infusion Mix)
Steve “Silk” Hurley - It’s Percussion (Dub Mix)
Gat Decor - Passion (D. Emerson 12" Edit)
Mappa Mundi - Sexafari
Syclops - NR 17
Daft Punk - Veridis Quo
Jane Dowe & Terre Thaemlitz - DT (5:03)

Campout Mix Series: 'nohup'

@tomsobolikmusic at The Grove on Friday night.

Campout Mix Series: Sobolik

2'15" of my set at water festival in montreal in early october, 2024. I started around 4:30am and the next guy didn't show up so I ended up playing as the sun came up until the cops showed up around 9am, beautiful and special experience, shout out to mateo, ilias, mati, filou and all the ravers who danced outside with me, free tekno in our lifetime <3

live at water festival (montreal)

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
FRIDAY FEB 7 2025 (Bandcamp Friday / Wildfire Relief)

LA is the ESP Institute’s hometown. The label’s captain, Lovefingers, is a native Angeleno who has lived in 15 of its neighborhoods spanning decades. While the ESP Institute was born in 00’s New York City with an international cast of artists, the DNA of the label has always been infused with the wild sense of freedom and space that is LA. It breaks our hearts to see the city and its residents in such a difficult position today. Our home and label’s office were damaged, the grounds incinerated and fire/smoke damage right up and onto it’s walls, and although it is still uninhabitable, we consider ourselves unbelievably fortunate that the structure was spared, surviving among our many neighbors whose homes are reduced to ash. Both the Palisades and Eaton fires have left so many of our friends and family with nothing – we collectively mourn not only for their physical space, much of which is generational, but for mementos of family history, their sense of security and ability to function from a safe sense of “home.” The grief and tasks of recovery are uncharted and ongoing, the rebuilding is daunting, arduous and overwhelming, and everyday brings new challenges in the fires wake. This will take time. If there is any light that we see in this, it is the prevalent sense of community we are witnessing in real time.

This is the 15th year of ESP Institute and we had an idea for a compilation planned, but, given the circumstances and the immense needs of our city and fellow Angelenos, we have decided to expand this release to 3x its initial scope and commit all of its efforts and income to wildfire relief organizations. We have initially selected the following vetted non-profit charities: CalFund, MusiCares, GiveDirectly, Global Empowerment Mission, Canine Rescue Club and plan to manually top up funds from circulating GoFundMe spreadsheets for under-represented families, commencing with those in Altadena. We anticipate a bi-weekly dispersal of funds, given the urgent and evolving nature of community needs, but will re-assess this consistently as time passes.

ESP’s artists have generously allowed us to present their music for this compilation and our gratitude starts with them. It is our hope the following 90 tracks will bring you something you need, whether it be joy, catharsis, wonder or meditation.

Thank you for your support from the bottom our hearts,
Andrew / Lovefingers & ESP Institute
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[ESP150A]
ESP Institute XV - I - Active
Dosage: 30 tracks spanning fifteen years of the label’s work with a focus on physical movement and mental release.
Energy level: High.
Recommended: Late night / witching hours.

[ESP150B]
ESP Institute XV - II - Passive
Dosage: 30 tracks spanning fifteen years of the label’s work with a focus on ambience, mood control and meditation.
Energy level: Low.
Recommended: Daytime / sunset / sunrise.

[ESP150C]
ESP Institute XV - III - Unobtanium
Dosage: 30 tracks spanning fifteen years of the label’s work with a focus on unreleased rarities, demos and remixes.
Energy level: All over the place.
Recommended: For those who know. 

released February 7, 2025

I Active, II Passive, III Unobtanium

Madame Tussaud

LA Wildfire Relief

Madame Tussaud - ESP Institute L.A. WILDFIRE FUNDRAISER

Gay Felony (@gayfelony) is the creative project of Melody Scallion, mainstay of the LA dance scene for nearly a decade as DJ, video artist, sound system architect and promoter. A staple of the above-and-under-ground, she delivers ecstatic and exceptionally skillful extended vinyl DJ sets exploring genres from soulful deep & beautiful progressive house to brutal hard house & melodic techno. She has been a monthly resident on dublab for over three years and has performed in warehouses, wine bars and derelict sheds across North America with artists including Octo Octa & Eris Drew, Bored Lord, Introspekt, Claude Young, Justin Long. Through her fast & loose, uncompromising DJ sets she attempts to bring about an essential queering of the universe, pulling society into the Trans Future by any means necessary.

GYSTMIX-030 - GAY FELONY

@tomasurquieta is a New York City based DJ, Using this platform to bring light on some of his favorite underground artists and scenes from around the world. Drawing from house,techno, bass music to experimental.

Tomás Urquieta - 21 Juin 2025

DJ TOBZY's half of a double-sided mix by two Nyege Nyege all-stars.

Nyege Nyege is synonymous with radical sonic innovation. Since 2015, the boundary-pushing Ugandan festival and its associated label have become a vital hub for adventurous, experimental sounds emerging from East Africa and beyond. Its alumni roster includes some of the past decade's most thrilling and forward-thinking artists—DJ Travella, Nihiloxica, Juliana Huxtable, MC Yallah, and even New York's mayoral frontrunner, Zohran Mamdani. In the process, the collective has reimagined what club music can be.

The enigmatic DJ TOBZY is one of the freshest voices in this ever-expanding ecosystem. At the tender age of 23 years, he's at the forefront of the effervescent cruise scene in his adopted hometown of Lagos. Breakneck, unpolished and fiercely DIY, it's a sound journalist Giulio Pecci described as "a delirious blur of vocals and drums, influenced by other African dance music styles but moving only to its own strange, internal logic." TOBZY's mix captures the frenetic energy of a scene evolving in real time—bold, street-born and completely unfiltered.

His contribution to RA.995 sits alongside that of Kampala-based Kampire, a core Nyege Nyege member since the label's inception, and she takes the B-side. 

Together, the two-sided mix forms the launch of a new series marking the countdown to RA.1000—offering a bracing snapshot of a collective that has redefined electronic music over the last decade.

Find the tracklist and interview at ra.co/podcast/995

RA.995 DJ TOBZY

DETOUR 005 - DOC SLEEP

DETOUR 005

Buy All

A1 - Doc Sleep - Yr_Esq

For the 80th entry in the Honcho Podcast Series, we welcome @fleet412! As a co-founder of both Humanaut and Hot Mass, Paul has been instrumental in the Pittsburgh dance music scene. While Paul now resides in Denver, he will always have a special place in our hearts here in Pittsburgh. His kindness, work-ethic, and mastery behind the decks are legendary. Enjoy!

Hey guys,

Initially I wanted to tag the tracklist on the SoundCloud mix itself, but SC's timestamping feature is inaccurate and bad; stamps weren't going where I told them to. 

Would you please update the description with the below tracklisting? 

Thanks again for hosting me and what you said in the description was really sweet. Definitely always a Pittsburgher, no matter where I live... I'll be back one day! <3

01: Fft - Regional [The Trilogy Tapes]
02: Atom TM - Apart 2 [Atom TM Archiv]
03: Dialectic Sines - Zlip [Dialectic Sines]
04: Carl Finlow - Structure [20/20 Vision]
05: Partisan MIDI - Phono Abduction [Frustrated Funk]
06: DJ Problems, Aztyekk - Reflexxx [Spinnup]
07: Silicon Scally - Proton Mass [self-released]
08: SC-164 - Separate Follower (Sync 24 remix) [Cultivated Electronics]
09: James Shinra - Kord [Craigie Knowes]
10: Richard Holhburn - Just Stare [Cross Street Music]
11: James Shinra - Gyorgy [Craigie Knowes]
12: 214 - Earthworm [Cultivated Electronics]
13: Jensen Interceptor - Bubble Boy [E-Beamz]
14: Volruptus - Juggernaut Cosmonaut [bbbbbb]
15: Steffi - Ankertje [Fabric]
16: plant43 - Edge of the Wood [eudemonia]
17: Scape One - Cosmic Jam [self-released]
18: Kosh 212 - Headache [20/20 Vision]
19: Supreems - Amygdala [Nice Age]
20: Proxyan - Human-Error Processor (Tracey remix) [Something Happening Somewhere]
21: Tracey - CCLRT [Dial Records]
22: Mor Elian - Planet Kismet [Visible Spectrum]
23: Black Rain - City of Atomic Ghost [Blackest Ever Black]
24: Men With Secret - Cabaret (Demode) [The Bunker New York]
25: L.F.T. - Geister Fabrik [Mechatronica Music]
26: Versalife - Cosmic Language [Trust]
27: Cignol - Semiprimes [Lunar Disko]
28: Solitary Dancer - Getting Reacquainted With Myself [Private Possessions]
29: Aril Brikha - A Lifetime Ago [Mule Musiq]

Honcho Podcast Series 80: Paul Fleetwood

**Music released on ESP Institute, Tartelet, Dark Entries, Future Times, 100% Silk, Kulture Galerie, Detour, Silva Electronics, Diskotopia, Jacktone, Hypno Discs, Bottom Forty

**1/2 of Beats Unlimited 

**1/2 of Collectibles

**1/2 of Jacktone Records

**Resident of Room 4 Resistance

Residing at the intersection of house and techno, DETOUR is a Pittsburgh collective that creates visually and sonically immersive experiences. DETOUR seeks to act as a junction where both seasoned and newly-interested enthusiasts of house and techno can come together for an experience of both sight and sound.

A1 - Doc Sleep - Yr_Esq

DETOUR PGH

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