Distant Signals Mix Series

‘I’ve been binging a lot of episodic space operas lately and this mix is a result of that. Outlaws searching for meaning and themselves adventuring through the far corners of space. Expect turbulent 808 asteroid fields, breakbeat star-cruiser joyrides, treacherous acid planets, lush trance galaxies, and cyborg techno warfare’ 

@stevie303
IG: stevie303_ 

Stevie 303 is a Seattle-based DJ, designer, and party-starter. A lifelong affair with raves has led them home behind the decks - commanding dance floors through writhing acid grooves. They can be found playing all over the PNW and most notably with their hard-hitting quarterly techno residency at Kremwerk, CLANG.

Distant Signals 005: Stevie 303

"This mix is spooky or dark in tone, but occasionally contrasted with lighter qualities. I used that as a metaphor for the transmission, which I envision coming from a cold stony dark-gray world distant from the sun. But there are these large neon bioluminescent, maybe part-reptile part-fish alien creatures about :)"

@lexcd
IG: @lexiedobell

Lexcd is a fil-am dj living in Pittsburgh. They work in nonprofit development and would love to see increased accessibility to community resources for the underground music scene.

Tracklist:
Mount Kivikko - Jimi Tenor feat Imposter Orchestra (Sahko)
Four Dimensions - Aquadab & MC A (Bokeh)
Insect-Talk (Howes Reduction) - O Yuki Conjugate (Utter)
Awareness - Rolf Laureijs (Prasens Editionen)
Arco (Danceapella) - NY Graffiti (Peace Anthem)
Pressure Test - Destrata (PPRZ)
Anaconda Legs - Bass (Boogie Box)
Lovers (Boom Box Mix) - Modal (Dbh)
Life Through Analogies - Leif (Idle Hands)
Russulas - Tumulus
Fatal - gal (mould audio)
Earth - Arkajo
Spec 4 - Consulate (Pure Space)
Speak Up - Gavnlig (INDEXLIFE)
Indx - Homelander (Unrestricted Purpose)
Miss Unavailable - DJ BIG GUNS 
Adda - Altinbas (Observer Station)
10TIMES - rkeat
Mauna Loa Lows - 400PPM

Distant Signals 020: Lexcd

'I imagined this as being a message from a benevolent space deity, gently luring travelers into a wormhole, her message increasing in intensity and urgency, exposing them to cosmic secrets as she ferries them to their destination.'

@jpreg
IG: @joeyregan

Distant Signals 021: jpreg

"For the mix, I was inspired by a world in which improvements in human-computer interface technologies evolve to keep pace with rapid advancements in artificial intelligence. Humans are able to upload their consciousness to private networks via pseudo-organic metamaterial brain implant devices, developed and distributed by a small group of quadrillionaires and their affiliated conglomerates. Subjectivity transfer between individual users from vessel to vessel within a network is possible (and popular!), and AI brain module installation has been productized, provided that the host legally waives a % of agency and control of their body to the auto-pilot network of their choice. Unsatisfied with planetary conditions, many are completely surrendering their vessels and opting for 100% takeover, leading to a growing population of artificially-guided human bodies."

@clubchow
IG: @clubchow
https://linktr.ee/clubchow

Club Chow (he/they) is a Taiwanese-American DJ and queer rave enthusiast based in Chicago. An omnivorous selector, he blends tracks across genres and eras with an undercurrent of euphoric energy and playfulness. He expresses his range via DJ residencies at Berlin Nightclub, Steamworks Baths, Dim Sum and Drag, and his work as organizer/curator of the Forbidden Fruits day party at Easy Does It. Club Chow's taste and versatility have brought him behind the decks at notable Chicago nightclubs such as SmartBar and Podlasie Club, as well as around the US - playing parties in Brooklyn, San Francisco, Seattle, Salt Lake City, and Pittsburgh.

Distant Signals 023: Club Chow

"This mix is a live recording from a recent visit to Podlasie in Chicago. When I gig, I think less about how I’m supposed to sound and focus on recalling, reconnecting with, and sharing music I love. As such there’s a ton of old favorites in the mix that span eras, genres, and moods. It is a capture of old favorites meeting new favorites. This ambassadorial practice of compiling new and old is a symbolic act of finding a sense of familiarity within unfamiliarity. It creates a level of genuineness that is vital for world building and sonic transportation while being resistant to consumption, possession, and escape. It highlights how one can encounter a new world without leaving this planet. Worlds are made of context and exchange; planets are made of matter, gas, and gravity."

@experimental-housewife
IG: @experimentalhousewife

ExHouse aka Experimental Housewife is a Bay Area-based DJ and live performer of 25 years. Over the last 10 years, she has become an icon of deep commitment to electronic sound and the art of storytelling. Deemed a "pillar of the underground" by RA, ExHouse started out as a teen raver, obsessed with the sound and attitude of the electronica of the 90s, before being drawn to ambient and post-rock in the early 00s, from which she takes much technical and aesthetic influence. Today she brings diverse cataloging and fluid turntable savvy to the dance floor, causing holes to appear in people's shoes while making "it look so easy". With an ear for contemplative bangers, deep grooves, and heavy drone, ExHouse has released original dance and ambient works on Jacktone, Schmer, True Indigo, Identity Spectrum Records and more. She owns and operates Perfect Location Records, a highly curated cross-medial label geared toward the greater distribution of honest and independent electronic music. She has toured North America and Europe and participates in a number of underground-forward outlets.

Tracklist:
Monolake - Plumbicon
Dilated Pupils - The System
Thor - Black
Mandar - Wet Paul
Head High - Do It (Yourself)
Head High feat. Cassy - Changes
Gus Gus - Your Moves Are Mine (Sanasol Remix)
Mark Thibideau - Stage 5 Development
DJ Slyngshot - Hygh-Tech
Sneaky Alien - Blue Stream (Deep and Long Mix)
Jaun Recoba - Alpha
Moonface - Naan Madol
Daniela La Luz - Feel the Future
Private Press - Wetweird
Sasha feat. Darren Emerson - Scorchio
Submoon - Remote Viewers
Sappho & Damon Boucher - Feelgood (Experimental Housewife Remix)
Jasper Wolff & Maarten Mittendorff - Dubspace
Federsen - Ganja Dub
Earth House Hold - If Only for a Moment
Pittsburgh Track Authority - Pitfalls
Will Ward - All Ones
Mark Thibideau - Last Train

https://www.exhouse.info/
https://experimentalhousewife.bandcamp.com/music
https://bandcamp.com/exhouse
https://perfectlocation.bandcamp.com/

Distant Signals 028: exhouse

"You wake up as the sun pierces through the smog-choked sky on your final day on Earth. A bittersweet mix of emotions washes over you. The once-vibrant planet has succumbed to the relentless pursuit of resources by humans and corporate greed. 

Amidst the backdrop of a world ravaged by overmining and overconsumption, you prepare to embark on a journey to a new planet, a distant utopian oasis, that holds the allure of a fresh start and a chance to leave behind the polluted remnants of your past life.

As you wake up in your home adorned with fading memories of better days, you gather your belongings, knowing this is the last time you’ll see the familiar faces of friends and family who can’t join you on this exodus. The weight of leaving heavy over you like a long shadow.

With your heart heavy, you venture out into the bleak landscape of your hometown. The train station, once a bustling hub of life, now feels deserted and desolate. It’s a solemn journey, riding the train one last time to the spaceport, where the gateway to your new world awaits.

When you arrive, a mix of emotions swirls within you. The towering spacecraft looms ahead, a symbol of humanity's last chance for redemption. 

Stepping into the shuttle, you feel the rumble of engines beneath your feet and the pull of gravity releasing its grip. The moment has come. In an instant Earth's familiar surface gives way to the boundless expanse of space, and a final farewell leaves your lips. 

While in concept this mix is very specific, to me it is easily translated into letting go of the past. While that may be painful it is also freeing that your new life lies ahead. Making space for the bittersweet feeling of moving on, making your transition into a new and better self."

@coughmanselects
IG: @coughman.mp3

"I’m coughman. Longtime Wearer of many hats A dj, promoter, prior label runner & project manager but mainly Just a human from Kansas City that loves exploring the highs and lows of the sonic universe."

Tracklist: 
Yamaneko - Suzuka (Morning) 
Fred Firth - Part 1 
Sun electric - R-Gent 
Paradise 3001 - Earth vs Space 
Dcast Dynamics - Drill Down 
Clarence Rise - Totem 
Moderat - Rusty Nails (shakleton remix) 
Oneohtrix point never - Blue Drive
Croms - insivible cities 
Gacha Bakradza - Broken Wing
Porter Brook - Second Shift 
Metrist - Ark Specific 
Yushh - Self Couscous
First Epoque - Sequoia Affinis 
D.K. - Riding for a fall

Distant Signals 031: coughman

“This is the last known transmission from the Spaceship Bark.  Long story short, there were no survivors.“

@razrbark
IG: @razrbark

Distant Signals 030: Razrbark

Many lightyears away, a faint signal is received by an unknown entity.  As the transmission took thousands of years to arrive at the distant galaxy, it is now a distorted recollection of the final moments of humanity as a species.  While the purpose and origin of the signal is unclear, it paints a picture of the horrors of the end of a civilization.

@adamtwo
IG: @adam.two

For Adam 2, electronic music has always provided an opportunity for self-discovery, creative exploration, and personal liberation. Since 2016, the Vancouver-based producer and DJ has worn multiple hats in the city’s growing scene, fulfilling the roles of promoter, music curator, and co-founder of Techno label PPRZ.  2020 saw the release of featured mixes on Honcho, Techno Hour of Power, and the creation of Afrofuturism is Now – a mix series amplifying the music of Black artists. In 2022/23 Adam 2 maintained their stride sharing the bill with Carlos Souffront, Shanti Celeste, and Objekt, had high profile performances at Basscoast and Domesicle in Montreal and recently released their debut EP ‘Jungle Dreams’ on Toronto based label Model Future.  As Adam 2’s career gains momentum, they continue to build their reputation by transfixing audiences with evocative, experimental techno that intersects dynamic physicality and playful cerebralism.

For inquiries: mgmt@adam2.ca

Distant Signals 033: Adam 2

A low frequency pulse reverberates under the dense canopy.
Overgrown technological remains scattered across the lush landscape.
Derelict fragments woven through the alien trees ~ all emanating sound to the same rhythmic flow.
The waves wash over your body inviting you closer.
Your sensors light up as you approach the source.
~Please re-calibrate monitoring device for full spectrum mind/body transmission~

@m_kaiser
IG: @mwkais

Michael Kaiser is a DJ and DIY party appreciator native to Los Angeles and based in Pittsburgh.
Equally at home digging through stacks for old gems or soaking up the spectrum of modern electronic music, he is driven by uncovering and highlighting the connective threads running through a diverse range of sounds and rhythms.
He draws from techno, house, dub and the many shades of UK bass music, often venturing outside and in between and playing with an aim of balancing experimentalism with the cultivation of a happy dance floor.

This mix explores intersections between organic and synthetic and the junction of serious and playful.

Tracklist:
Madteo - Since Man Crawled Out Of The Slime
Matteo Coffetti - Intro
Paperclip Minimiser - A3
Cousin - Second Message
hmurd - Sync Button
Salamanda - Coconut Warrior (Tristan Arp Firefly Dub)
Front De Cadeaux - There Is Something Wrong
Haron - Pantala
KRIKOR - IT'S (NOT) HOUSERIDDIM FACE B
McGregor - Breath
Henzo - Loosen The Joint, Lock Firmly In Place
Piska Power - Eine Frau Eine Man
Roy Mills - My Safeword is Dolphin
Toma Kami - Later To The Bone
EYRA - Laedd
NirBorna - Whole Roar
Mxc - yyy
Nicola Cruz - Plexi Dub
Lewi Boome - Mints
Elon Skum - Desperation move
Nick Leon - Aguacero
INVT - CRECIMIENTO
Caski - Crooked
AceMo - Tribal Club Tool
LWS - Seriously Soda
Dyslecta - Engram
Kleft + Tolga Baklacioglu - Disguised in Black
Franco Rossi - Vulpes Zerda
DJ JM - Nasty, but attractive
HVL - Shiglo
bw - Maña
Linquency - Arch Sway
Eden Burns - Xoh Dub
Dolo Percussion - DOLO 23
ELLLL - PEPSI
Nod - EXO
SMP - Natty Bop
Dan Curtin - Got Me Somethin (Long Version)
Yen Sung & Photonz - Akasha
Adam Curtain - Noticed
Joey - Step 2
Chungo - Shuka
KiNK - Kazan
Delay Grounds x Yushh - Telomere
Fyu-Jon - Bembe Thoughts
Mistareez - Realistic Goals
Albino Sound - Squirt
HVL - Hunter Beat
Syz - Earworm
Altered Natives - Bhuuumbahcleeeeet
biggabush - Real & Regal (Illegal Dub Version) feat. Farda P

Distant Signals 036: Michael Kaiser

"// 1703817180 BEGIN TRANSMISSION

we followed the signal to its source,
an unremarkable spot in wide open space.
the equipment suddenly died -- its now all just a bunch of noisy junk.

the reality set in -- we're not going anywhere. 

whatever we followed is slowly getting louder and everything is starting to feel... different
its as if my thought process and the signal have somehow started to merge into one stream.
no, that makes no sense,

 my perspective shifts in ways i dont understand



space-time  collapsing all around us
 i feel it


reality
                 tearing

i am the rip ................





becoming






.
// 43017449613 END TRANSMISSION"

"For this one I definitely leaned into a little more of a dark and menacing vibe than I often do. I'll blame the bleakness that can come with New York winter and, well, the current state of the world in general certainly doesnt help. Despite all that, I really had fun playing with the idea of being amongst dying machines, lost in space for eternity, and having one's consciousness ripped to shreds by some kind of anomaly. That, and the idea that it could alternatively all be in your mind cause you've been lost for too long..."

@threehz
IG: @threehz

Brooklyn-based DJ threehz brings a deep and dreamy perspective to an often-aggressive techno landscape, with a strong focus on textured, spiraling, playful psychedelia to appeal to both mind and body. For them, DJing and the dancefloor both represent a flow state - a sense of being present in the moment as you would during meditation, tuning out the noise of life and just existing in time and space where nothing else really matters.

Tracklist:
Porter Ricks - Phosphoric + Erik Luebs - Parched (Distant Mix)
Imugem Orihasam - Cleave
Darkduction - Away From Man
Giorgio Gigli & Brendon Moeller - Breath Of Forgiveness
Francesco Belfiore - The Commuter + Mika Vainio - Tutkamaa
Cybersonik - Technarchy (Marcel Dettmann Remix)
SHXCXCHCXSH - SsSsSsSsSsSsSsSsSsSsSs
Cory James - Caterpillar
Altinbas - Emphasis
Rrose - In Place of Matter (Mixed Matter)
Lakej - Elusive Perception
Donor - Apollo (Shao Remix Version 2)
Miro Lopasso - Space Attack (Rrose Remix)
Evod - DVE 9
Apart - The Late Breath (Original Mix)
Abstract Man - Synergy (Von Grall remix)
Donato Dozzy - Vaporware 02
Pyramidal Decode - DMSC3
Divide - Diaspro
SHXCXCHCXSH - VVOV
Hekum - Niente x Niente
Jheal - Passage
Motion Symmetry - Kaab
Brendon Moeller - Motor
Abdulla Rashim & Axel Hallqvist - Mark (Donato Dozzy Cave Man Remix)
Techno Animal - Bio-Morphium
Azoth - Reflection of Obscurity
CAO - Su Venida a Ser
KETEV - Golgotha
Lustmord - Section 2: Aldebaran Of The Hyades (Excerpt)
Oneohtrix Point Never - Describing Bodies

Distant Signals 038: threehz

"Stranded, not in space, but far below the surface of an otherworldly ocean. Breathing does not seem to be an issue here. Water, or a liquid that resembles it, surrounds you. Glimmers of light from unknown sources dance around the environment, allowing for just enough visibility to make out the landscape. A place where the lines between synthetic and organic appear to be blurred, where life slinks and flows like the domain it inhabits. The space around you seems to breathe with every step as you fumble in the dim light. Impossible to know friend from foe, bizarre lifeforms curiously approach, un-afraid, as they have no reason to believe there is any threat present. The existence of shapes, colors, and behaviors beyond conventional understanding piques your curiosity and fear. With no knowledge of how this place came to be or how to survive in it, you set off into the vastness that surrounds you."

“I’ve been having a ton of fun exploring the 90-100 bpm range as I haven’t historically branched into that realm. I thought that a lot of the music I was enjoying at that tempo fit the concept of the mix series, so I wanted to see what I could do with it. It was a fun challenge using tracks I wouldn’t typically play out on a dance floor. I hope you enjoy listening to it as much as I enjoyed making it.”

@sideiiside_x
IG: @side_ii_side

I’m a dj, producer, and event organizer from Washington D.C. I find it very difficult to stick to a single style or tempo and I try to reflect that in all the work that I do. I’m incredibly lucky to be surrounded by so many talented, caring people that make up the dance music scene in D.C. and I find inspiration in that daily. In 10 years, I want to look back and know that I positively contributed to and deeply impacted the community that gave me chances to play music for them.

Tracklist:
Palm - Giant Swan
Iron Lighter - Henzo
Sick Pup - Facta
Mirage - Vardae
To - Ido Plumes
Eyes For Three - SSSLIP
Maudlin Lakitu - Toupaz
Metro Hexx - Angel Rocket
Slow Stings - Rhyw
Sixty Frames - Toma Kami
XN - Toma Kami
Fragile State - Commix
Mourning The Living - Sun People
Gas Burn - Taro
Salamanda - κρήνη της νύμφης
A Touch Of - Piezo
Nvivo - Skee Mask

Distant Signals 040: side II side

"this mix is my love letter to dubstep. i normally try to play as many different styles and genres as possible in my sets, but this time i leaned deep into the 140. over the years it's become objectively my favourite genre to dance to, and whenever i hear it on a big soundsystem i'm always surprised and delighted by the new ways i learn to move my body. there are some darker bits, dreamy moments, silly curveballs, but most importantly lots of grimy abrasive wobbles that you've probably come to associate the genre with."

@kuschelntime
IG: @kuscheln___

Distant Signals 041: Kuscheln

"It’s so much harder to breathe here. Even with your helmet on, each breath you draw is deep and labored, barely filling your lungs with enough oxygen. Your eyes go fuzzy, but you keep going. It’s just a few more steps until you can breathe normally again. You push the saloon doors open. You take off your suit helmet and make a promise to yourself that it was the last time you’d let yourself stay that long on the outside again. You wonder how many times you’ve told yourself that same thing. Some day you won’t make it back in. But today isn’t that day. Feels good to be able to breathe again. You need a drink. 

There’s no one tending bar. One guy’s sleeping in a booth, drink half finished, couple empty pint glasses beside him. You ding the bell and wait a minute, but no one comes to help you out. Some shithole you’ve found yourself in. You hop the bar and take a glass off the shelf. Not like anyone’s gonna stop you. You pour yourself some of whatever’s on tap. Looks cloudy, but still green. Tastes okay. You look around at the weird old junk in here. It’s mostly Wild West paraphernalia from Earth. Kitschy, kind of charming though. Feels a bit passé. There’s a warped pool table and sitting behind it is a jukebox and you make your way over. It’s covered in dust. You wonder when the last time someone touched this thing was. You turn it on, and a message comes on the screen which reads: “Do you wanna dance?” 

Well — Do you?"

@como-se-dj
IG: @como.se.dj
@rec.esss

Distant Signals 042: como se DJ

"Man’s search for meaning in the universe; what can be said of it! Having lived for a time disguising myself as one, I am only vaguely qualified to comment. But young adulthood working as a volunteer Field Investigator for the Mutual UFO Network. MUFON is a worldwide non-profit that tracks UFO sightings, looking for a signal in the noise.

Most of the reports left much to be desired – vague reporting that lacked any detail to strike my intuition as proof of life. But there was one person whom I encountered that gave me pause, and still does as I write this now. A humble blue-collar man from the town of Rotterdam, not twenty miles from my own home. I’ve always had a failproof intuition about people & their intentions, and I felt from the moment he opened his mouth that this man was telling the truth about his sighting. He also had actual footage: a pale orange light, slowly gliding across the sky. The light passes behind a church steeple in the foreground, and then appears on the other side, moving on into the horizon. Remember reader, that this was prior to the days of smartphone video and its editability – this was VHS tape! 

In the days that followed talking with him I noted an icy, dreadful feeling growing inside of me. It culminated not long after, when I attended a regression hypnotherapist’s presentation at the New York State MUFON Chapter Annual conference. As the good doctor recanted his portfolio of abductee clients and the strange experiences they reported, I became quite nauseous and my body went into an extreme state of shock. I excused myself from the conference, and later that night, I found myself in a state of nervous breakdown. Was *I* an abductee? Had I been a passenger inside of that pale orange light in the videocassette? I don’t know the answer, but a lifelong obsession about the travails of space travel has followed.

What would it actually be like to be inside of an extraterrestrial spacecraft. Cold and sterile? Cozy and warm? Would you feel inertia, or would you feel stasis? I continue to ruminate on the topic to this day. Here is a DJ mix that explores the matter. Of course, the only important part of a DJ mix is if it has groove, but I hope it also opens up strange new worlds to you!"

@scotia-xo
IG: @scotia_the_real_human_scotia

https://hunterstarkingsrhythms.bandcamp.com/album/earthlings-4-palestine-in-solidarity-with-gaza

Scotia is a DJ & producer from upstate New York. She is co-resident of the Hudson Valley collective Community Rave Network, and has mixed records for platforms like Rinse, The Lot, The Bunker, and Mutant Radio. Her first original track appeared on the “Earthlings 4 Palestine” compilation last year, and she looks forward to a number of compilation releases and a solo EP later this year.

Tracklist:
Scotia - Procyon + On + On (2024)
Aroy Dee - The Planets (M>O>S, 2009)
Photek - Glamourama (Science, 2000)
Fast Ram - Haganol (Gyration Station, 2023)
Otodojo - Going Back (Acid Camp, 2019)
Fuckthegovernment - C’mon (Skylax, 2018)
LA-4A - Ignis Fatuus (Delft, 2023)
Boddika - Caterpillar (Nonplus, 2023)
Adam 2 - Dyad (Amphiboly, 2022)
Syz - Mindforms (Control Freak Recordings, 2023)
Pearson Sound - Freeze Cycle (Thaw001, 2015)
Decoder - Non Dualistic (Fixed Rhythms, 2024)
Mike Parker - Shakuhachi (The Lost Dubplate Mix) (Geophone, 2016)
The People In Fog - Deep Sea Dog (Sound of Vast, 2014)
Wata Igarishi - Arachnoid (Counter Pulse, 2013)
Pervocet - PH1 (Interdimensional Transmissions, 2019)
Juana - 1E Strategy (Trax Only, 2021)
Ulysses - No Matter How Many Hastags You Use You'll Still Die Alone (The Bunker New York, 2018)
Allen - Reagent (Codec, 2024)
Seck - Do It Yourself (One Sun, 2023)
Genius of Time - 909 Day (Aniara, 2023)
SND & RTN - Unknown Depths (Planet Rhythm, 2023)
Roger 23 - Deep, Deeper & Deeper (Bio Rhythm, 2023)
TM404 - Rysa (Acid Test, 2021)
Tadeo - S07 (Semantica, 2013)
Bileebob - The Mood (2022)
Scotia - Babe Skit (2024)

Distant Signals 047: Scotia

"Close your eyes, feel the beat.. hold the vortex before you. Open your eyes slowly and begin. It’s not your mind that needs to work, it’s your body.. and you can’t separate the two. The more you feel the beat, the faster your body will go. It’s easy. If you reach inside you can feel your heart pumping fast, moving all that oxygen rich blood through your body. Just like a fire needs oxygen to burn, your cells need oxygen to burn impurities. Now your body is doing great on its own, let it work. Feel the flow of the wave, back and forth in your hands. You don’t need your mind for this."

@fleet_dreams
IG: @fleet.dreams

Emerging from the vibrant electronic music scene of Brooklyn, with roots tracing back to the musical melting pots of Texas and Detroit, fleet.dreams is a name synonymous with genre-defying sonic exploration. An enigmatic producer and DJ, fleet.dreams has woven an eclectic tapestry of sound that traverses the boundaries of electronic music, consistently pushing the envelope and challenging conventional notions of genre. With an impressive discography that spans across renowned labels such as UTTU / Hot Haus, PPU, All City Records, and his own personal vinyl imprint, Vinezza, fleet.dreams undeniably cements himself as a visionary within the global electronic music landscape. 

fleet.dreams' sonic odyssey defies categorization, crafting captivating soundscapes that traverse leftfield grooves, hypnotically percussive rhythms, the introspective depths of Trip-Hop, and the immersive echoes of Dub, continually pushing the boundaries of sonic exploration, forging a path that is uniquely his own. In a world of musical conformity, fleet.dreams stands as a beacon of creativity and a testament to the boundless possibilities of electronic music, ensuring that listeners remain captivated and curious.

Tracklist:
Paul D. Miller - Colophon
Mantaray - Zentrical Wheel
Automaton - Astral Altar Dub
Prince Charming - A Very Special Offer
The Bug - Bug Party
We™ - Modulana
Ish - Inner Bein' (ft. Shelene Thomas)
Equations of Eternity - Magamat
UVX - Elevator (13 Floor Spectrum)
Tommy Atkins – Live N' Let Live
Jaz - Whatcha Gonna Do?
Alexis Forge – Mon Cong (Cape Town Dub)
Jerome - Stars & Stripes
Cozmic Jazzz Futurist - Love Under The Starz
AUX88 - Phantom Power
Paul Mac - B2 - Untitled
DJ Qu - Slydin Thru
Pure Science - Bakwenas
DJ Jes - Closer To Freedom
DJ Bear Who? - The Jungle Fire
fleet.dreams - Echoes of Ego
Hydroponics In Dub - Dub Corner
Pitch Black - The 48 Skanks (Rockwood Remix)
The Bug - Riddim To Your Soul (ft. Singing Bird)
Cari Lekebusch - Untitled

Distant Signals 048: fleet.dreams

"Beneath the cold and iced ledges inside a cavernous cutout through the mountain, an eternal flame blazes and heats the air. The heat circulates the cave. A nearby river splashes into the cave, periodically hitting its flame, never enough to put it out, but just so that it conducts a great steam. A deep reddish hue glows from the flames, blurred with the steam, its bright halo spills out of the cave. 

Beings across the starscape know about this spot. They fly, swim, teleport and dance into it. The sounds of their movements, murmurings and exhales become one with the cycle of heat ensnaring the space.

A large stick brought into the cave by wind strikes the wall, which carries the vibrations and sounds of the heat, pressure, cold waves, and steam cycling. Its sound reverberates from the atoms of the heat and echoes on the walls of the cave. The sound carries across the cold water channel, outward into the depths of the unknown.

Listening through a seashell on the other end of the ocean, is a being playing in the sound, called to hold up the shell to their ear and hear how it was forged. The creatures of the ocean swim through certain sections of the water, where they know the transmission will be reverberant. Like swimming through radio signals, the path from the cave is well traveled.

You are now traveling through the water’s transmission carrying the sound."

@malzof
IG: @jmal_malzof
linktr.ee/malzof

Malzof is a DJ and Intermedia Artist based in Pittsburgh, USA and a resident of Sweet Abyss. Malzof plays abstracted grooves- weaving together melodies and rhythms across genre, BPM and era into sonic journeys. Spanning ambient, experimental, broken beat and multiple genres of house, techno and beyond, their sets enchant the dance floor with blissed out beats, fun and freaky vocals, psychedelic percussions and environmental sounds.

With a creative background in video production, live visuals and installation art since the late 2000s, Malzof has taken inspiration from their live performance style to inform the ways in which they DJ, make music and engage with the audience. Across mediums, they are inspired by the synesthetic connection between seeing, hearing and feeling; natural and industrial elements; and exploring community histories of liberation and joy.

Distant Signals 054: Malzof

"Aliens definitely exist and they are fucking gay."

@mimizima
IG: @mimi.zima

Tracklist:
Rich White Ladies - Love Is For The Week
Dyslecta - Eating Woodlice (Henzo’s Permission To Leave Mix)
Trek Resort - Sauerkraut Intervention
RuPaul - I Bring The Beat
Dawl - I Am The Energy
Type-303 - Sound of Future
Lady Gaga - Venus
Phase Fatale - Velvet Imprints
Kendra Wilkinson - Lost In Space
Viers - Douglas Descend
Soso Tharpa - Evolution
Cybotron - Cosmic Cars (House Mix)
Slikback - Ascension
Identified Patient - Visualize It
DeFeKT - Acid Bounce
Madonna - Impressive Instant
Christoph - EPOCH
Thoma Bulwer - Speed Garage from Jupiter
Gosub - Earth Recompile
Eiffel 65 - Blue (Da Ba Dee) (Hannover Remix)
Space 92, Popof - Insomnia
Aloka - XTX3
MISS OZMA - UNIQUE !!
Club Cab - Space Case
False Persona - Orbit
Hermeth - Strictly Acid
WTCHCRFT - Dogfish
Ariana Grande - NASA

Distant Signals 055: Mimi Zima

"There she stood" the final girl. She sits in the radio tower hoping one day someone will answer her transmissions. Little does she know she's the only human left on sector 3. Chained to the machine, feeling the beat pump through her veins. She carries on knowing someone is listening ..dancing with her even if eons away. 

"There she stood" tethered to the noise her brain roars at her since all she's known...

@himhun
IG: @himhunonline

“Him Hun is a multidisciplinary artist and world builder based in Ohio. She is expected to be unpredictable and apocalyptic. The relentless cross of dark techno, deconstructed experimental  tracks (mainly produced or flipped by her) and jungle have had many of the maintenance staff cleaning up what's left of the audience well into the next day.

Affiliations :
New World Dysorder 
Halcyon Veil 
Haus of Hun

Her sophomore project is still yet to be announced but the tracks that she has shared definitely have us on the edge of our seats waiting eagerly for it!”

Distant Signals 056: HIM HUN

“You’re exhausted at the end of a long week and stumble into your local video rental store hoping to find something to watch on a Friday night. You’re poking around the Science Fiction section when you nearly trip over a box of old VHS tapes sitting in the middle of the aisle. Intrigued, you decide to dig through it. Before long you pull out a fairly nondescript tape with no photos or credits on it, but that’s simply titled DISTANT SIGNALS. The clerk behind the checkout counter doesn’t recall getting this particular title in, so she tells you you can just take it. Now your interest is really piqued.

You rush home and immediately pop the tape into your VCR. The film appears to be the document of some far away civilization. You see the beautiful homeworld of an alien species, their vibrant landscapes and bustling cities. Although you don’t understand their language, you’re still somehow able to comprehend the history that is being conveyed to you. You learn that over time the natural resources of their once beautiful planet were depleted and their citizens were forced to live underground before eventually fleeing into space. They have since settled in many worlds among many galaxies, living in secret in the hope that someday they can return to their homeworld. Although their story can be sad, they also speak of the beauty of the universe, of space travel, of the resilience of their people, of the many stars and planets they have seen, and how all beings across the cosmos are connected as one.

Where did this tape come from?
Are the things you saw real?
Are these beings here among us?”

@jump_r
IG: @unluck

Hailing from San Francisco, Joe Weidman (aka Jumpr) has been a staple of SF nightlife since 2016. He got his start in the leather scene as the creative director for Fog City Pack before jumping behind the decks himself in 2018. In 2021, Jumpr joined Stank, one of SF’s longest running fetish nights, and in 2023, he launched Synthia, a party that celebrates the queer sci-fi futurism of the 1970s & 80s with an emphasis on vintage synths & space disco. Jumpr prides himself on being a dance floor filler, agnostic of genre, spinning everything from sweaty bathhouse disco to throbbing techno bangers. Jumpr wants to bring the rush and keep the energy ecstatic.

Tracklist:
Ralph Lundsten – Discophrenia
Anna Clementi & Alien Alien – No G.D.M.
Unknown Artist – Guilty Desire
Svetlana Mart – Мускулатура
Randolph & Mortimer – Enjoy More (Kris Baha Remix)
Idolos Futuros – Criminal
Itako – Dangerous Solar Overdrive
Andre Bratten – Be A Man You Ant
Shubostar – Planet X
Mario Moretti – In Love With Nebula
Roe Deers – Arpa (Owen Ezard ft. Tkuz Remix)
Zillas On Acid – Dora
Jason Peters – Lost In Space (The Juan MacLean Remix)
Emmet Read – Machine Cardio
Tjor – Midnight
Plexi Glass – Krystal Runner
Zakmina – Viral News
Jakuzi – Hiç Işık Yok
The Bollock Brothers – The Last Supper (Mufti & Cheto Edit)

Distant Signals 057: Jumpr

“'The Worst Band In The Universe' is a children’s book by author and illustrator Graeme Base that I had when I was a kid, and I loved it. It followed a ragtag band of outlaw musicians that lived in a universe where improvisation and new music were outlawed - only the traditional songs were allowed to be played. Despite the law, the band wailed hard and wailed freely, so they had to flee and were exiled to seedy, backwater planets where the underworld thrived in all its filth. There, they could rock. This is a recording of one of their live performances, given on the planet Ohio #2, played mostly on autosynthers and splitwangers, with a little bit of drump and snoogel being played as well. It was recorded by a being whose name is a type of screech that I cannot transcribe, and it was blasted off into space by that being’s sibling, Georgie. Now, it is available for your listening pleasure."

@johnnyzoloft
IG: @johnnyzoloft

Johnny Zoloft is a DJ, organizer, and other things as well. Originally from the Washington, D.C. area, they reside in Pittsburgh, PA in a house on the side of a hill with a nice view of the river and the train tracks. Along with MIRA MIRA, they co-organize the UHAUL Disco party series, which has been throwing lo-fi hi-quality DIY raves in Pittsburgh since 2019. In addition to performing on the decks as Johnny Zoloft, they have played drums & percussion in a number of ensembles, and they were part of a sick band called Datamaster that released a cool tape in 2022 called “Seldom Seen.” They enjoy robot sounds, free jazz, being non-binary, wearing a skirt, wearing boots, playing the drums, dancing, and making spaces for queer people to do whatever they please.

Tracklist: 
Titonton Duvante - Foreplay [1998]
CiM - Typical (Morgan Geist Remix) [1998]
Titonton Duvante - Alleyways [1998]
bpmf - Liza (On Another Planet) [1995]
Morgan Geist - Detoured [1997]
Hanna - Spirit Logical [2002]
Dan Curtin - Luminous Seed Domain [2000]
Ali Berger - 2021.05.21 FM Arps [2024]
Maxelle - French Connection (Nubian Mindz Mixe de Swing) [2002]
The Memory Foundation - Made in Vienna A1 [1995]
Ihannoa - Linked [1997]
Titonton & Morgan - Frebis [1997]
Dan Curtin - Burst [2001]
Morgan Geist - Kilgore [1996]
Titonton & Morgan - Up Innis [1996]
Analog Tara - Heat Lightning [2021]
Teakup - Signal 23 [2023]
Ali Berger - Sump Pump [2019]
Gene Hunt - Jazzie [1996]
Gladstone Deluxe - Structure B [2023]
Phreax - Reflectron [1997]
Superabundance - Super A [2021]
Titonton Duvante - Taste Test [1998]

Distant Signals 058: Johnny Zoloft

"This may be hard to believe but you’re not who you think you are, well you are but you used to be different.

When you were eight years old you were hospitalized for a mysterious stomach pain that was never resolved, that’s when they first implanted your device, every time you were put under after that; your wisdom teeth, your tonsils, your surgery, they’ve updated it. 1 year ago when that stomach pain came back so badly you went to the ER, that pain wasn’t sickness they made you feel that pain so that you had to get an endoscopy, so you’d be put under and they could update your device one last time activating they’re new code and putting you on this new path to fulfill some type of plot points in their insidious plan to control us all. Look around, they’ve already got so many people.

I know you feel like you and that things in your life have become so much better in unexpected ways since that time but I’m here to tell you that this is not you, you’ve left people and things you care about behind in order to live this new life. I know because I am you from the other timeline where you never got the implant at all. 

I made you this mix to remind you of who you are, if you listen correctly you can use it to deactivate your device and get back to a life that centers friendship, connection and love. I know you think you’re happy now but trust me, you have no idea how good it can be. 

To deactivate your device it’s simple, use headphones and listen to this as you fall or while you meditate in the morning. It may not work at first but the more you listen the more you’ll begin to remember and the closer you’ll get to switching back. Once you start seeing your old self in your memories you’ll know you’re getting closer. Try the meditation again, at sunrise if possible. Listen deeply and feel yourself come back into your body, it will be unmistakable. It may feel hard at first, disorienting and unfamiliar but it is you and you are amazing. It will get easier each day.

Your old friends are waiting for you, they’ve missed you and have been trying to get you back this whole time, don’t worry, they will find you and forgive you. 

I know it’s scary but you won’t be alone. 

Good luck,

You/me"

@chainletter
IG: @chainlettermusic
chainletter.bandcamp.com

chainletter is a producer and dj whose music serves as a bridge, uniting people through collective experiences in late-night wormholes. Whether using CDJs or an unsuspectingly minimal hardware rig, the audience can expect to be enveloped by sound. Focused primarily on ambient and techno, they use sequencers and synths to make time-expanding atmospheres and wonky rhythms.

Dedicated to DIY, they have been actively involved in playing and organizing parties in the Durham, NC area since 2012. Together with a few friends, they started Triangle Rave Committee in 2019. TRC is a collective that aims to create safer dance spaces for queer and trans people, raise money for prisoners and other mutual aid projects, and provide a platform to local artists outside of conventional venues, primarily under highway overpasses and in the woods. CHAINLETTER is dedicated to advocating for increased access within the music industry for those who have historically been marginalized and denied opportunities, particularly other QTPOC.

Distant Signals 059: CHAINLETTER

“Void Archive Year: 15
Anglo Year: 2178

This earth year began as Duke Barron Dumbarton II (DBDII as he prefers) transmitted his spirit and mind into another WWE Champion Wrestler thereby prolonging his rule another 60 years. His most pressing earth challenge remained his search for potable water for the manicured lawns of his relatives. 

He commissioned a spacecraft hastily titled "Sergeant Arthur MacBadass" for the regrettably named "Doritos' Cool Ranch Cool Space Mission Sweepstakes IV".  By design, the craft could travel to numerous galaxies, but poor navigation and the in-flight conflicts generated by DBDII for his amusement hindered any measurable progress. The craft was thereby confined to traveling among the moons of Jupiter. Ganymede in the Jovian system was encrusted with wudder/ice, rendering it impenetrable, and no craft dared enter Europa after DBDII's physical altercation with the Intercontinental Planetary Naming Convention (IPNC). The IPNC took particular exception to renaming all known Milky Way Galaxy moons after DBDII's favorite luncheon meats and cheese spreads. 

DBDII also despised the word Europa because the Earth Zone of the same name had been long overtaken by African super scientists. These superior minds harmonized sound waves to dramatically increase technological development in the now dominant global South. New Ghana's space program alone colonized entire galaxies with her peaceful inhabitants and sublime Sly and Robbie recordings broadcasted among the stars and planets. Ultimately, "Europa" was one of many multisyllabic words forbidden in DBDII's presence.

I digress. Badass was left to search either Io or Callisto due to a bitter dispute from the two Blackrock executive's daughters on board, Braighlynne and McKennah. The transmission features so many biting, pressurized snares attempting to shield the bickering, no speech from the craft was quite audible. Callisto's atmosphere also distorted the communique with its pulsating sound waves ever which increased in frequency as the crew sat prone playing Valorant hurtling toward the moon's core. The scientists originally charged to decipher the cacaphonous mess were unmotivated because, after 17 terms of inbreeding and corruption, DBDII's only available currency was illusory promises of back rubs written on cocktail napkins. 

While "Doritos' Cool Ranch Cool Space Mission Sweepstakes IV '' will become DBDII's greatest success in 120 years in office, only 40 gallons of water were able to reach Earth. Actually, these 40 gallons mostly evaporated upon reentry into the atmosphere. DBDII was no less delighted that the lawns of his progeny could be gently moistened for about 6 afternoons. 

So the only remnant of the mission is the mix you hear today. Are the changes reflective of heavy wind patterns or McKennah's violent instrument operation? Are the squelches from Callisto's many HAM radio hobbyists? Do the metallic sounds symbolize dialog with the wise Callistonians or the dying screams of the Badass occupants? Do the final 5 minutes of the recording indicate the onboard computer's joyous discovery of perfect lawn care H2O deep within the planet? 

It is left to the discerning Distant Signal ears for interpretation.”

@bossrossdj
IG: @associatedcdj + @midwest.plenty.dc

Associate is a sentient being located in the USandA capital, Washington, DC. He can be seen in his verdant neighborhood, brooding about with headphones, probably greeting a dog and scowling at its hooman. Musically, he is a polymath. Raised on WGPR, WJLB, 89X, WJZZ, WDET, and Electrifying Mojo, he really has no music core at this point. Groove, weird, swing, and sometimes minimalism are a feature but not a trait. He hosts parties as Midwest Plenty once he has saved enough disposable income set ablaze on luxury items for his treasured guests. Additionally, he plays party music with the group Midnight FM. Well, if you consider Joy Division party music, that is what he plays.

Distant Signals 060: Associate

"The baby blankly stared into deep space for an endless amount of time. Surrounded by distant, meaningless signals, it floundered its head in stupid confusion. A hollow language spoken by all around it…contradicting actions and evil decisions made by the giants rising high above the baby’s chamber…a society drowning with heartbreak. Though the fragile baby didn’t understand heartbreak yet, that emotion breathed a contagious smell, and the baby already felt it deep inside. 

The dark world sat still. But right on cue, a giant, peculiar hand reached across the baby’s chamber and tapped a black robotic block. Neon reds emitted from the mechanical block and greeted the now-nearly-blind baby. The large hand lightly placed a circular shiny disc inside the machine. The hand pressed another button…this one read, “PLAY.” The music started and, suddenly, the baby felt a sense of purpose, and everything made sense..."

@rickymawzlin
IG: @rickymawzlin

Ricky Mawzlin is a DJ, event organizer, musician, and all-around music nerd from Pittsburgh. He started playing in indie/post-punk/electronic projects and promoting punk shows at a young age. After years of researching and writing about music scenes and amassing vast collections of tracks, he began DJing via his party “Total Trash” at a divey gay bar.

In 2017, thanks to his love of all-things italo and disco, he co-created Jellyfish. He’s one half of Jellyfish: a duo that DJs & organizes traveling queer parties around the USA and abroad (with their home base still in Pittsburgh). Ricky’s sometimes-chaotic mixing can bounce between hi-NRG disco, to melodic techno, to sleazy house, to chugging italo, to dreamy shoegaze. Musical influences stem from both his travels along with the energy & community that the right dance floor can somehow magically manifest.

Distant Signals 061: Ricky Mawzlin

"Drifting through the endless void, I find solace in the quiet chaos of time and space folding in on itself. My spacecraft Paradox glitches constantly, sending me hurtling through centuries and galaxies at random, but I’m honestly into it. Each jump brings me to new moments in time, and each encounter with objects feels like a fleeting ripple in an infinite ocean. I've met sentient beings, sharing brief moments with them, then always leave, watching their timelines fade into the distance as Paradox carries me to another era. Timelessness has become my constant companion, offering me a peace that no anchored reality ever could. 

Right now, I’m reflecting on a stunning exoplanet I just briefly visited. Like on many places with existing life, the beings there seemed to be in synchronized movement to a rhythm coming from the planet’s core, being piped in from a network of presumably other nearby planets, communicating like the trees from that one planet that ate itself. To my surprise, I suddenly had a deep craving to be in sync with them, but their shared rhythm was floating in and out for me like it was occasionally being smothered by a soft pillow. And sometimes it would echo all around me, ringing out of sync with their communal timing - but I moved to it nonetheless. The other beings didn’t seem to mind that I was out of sync, and we all moved together, as I embodied this lonely echo in my temporary quest for connection. As I left a bit later, floating on toward wherever I was headed next, I tapped into my own familiar inner rhythm, untethered and on the loose."

@dj-playplay
IG: @playplayyy
https://ffm.to/playplaydevotion

PlayPlay combines their penchant for percussion and bass with nostalgic samples & dreamy synths in both their DJ sets & music production. Their sound is inspired by years of clubbing, crate digging and the sounds they grew up dancing to - 90s club anthems, jungle, breakbeat hardcore, minimal wave, classic house and old school hip-hop. With releases out on labels such as Sorry Records, Clasico and Worst Behavior, as well as a slew of self-releases and collaborations, PlayPlay has been slowly and steadily amassing a thumping discography over the years.

Based in NYC, PlayPlay currently hosts two parties: Breaking Capacity, dedicated to all things breaks, and Satisfaction of What’s to Come, celebrating the many iterations of house music. In their home state of NC, they co-host PARADOX, a party exploring the timelessness of early rave music.

Tracklist:
Norman Feller - Frameless Structure (2003)
Brian Briggs - Aeo Part 1 & 2 (1981)
The Orb - Little Fluffy Clouds (1990)
PlayPlay - Agent of Drums (2024)
Cabaret Voltaire - Sensoria (Razormaid Combi Mix) (1992)
SSA - Space Bender (2023)
Jdotbalance - stress (2024)
Rhythm-Sound ft Paul St. Hilaire - Music A Fe Rule Part 1 (2003)
Psyche - Intermezzo (1986)
Reedale Rise - Eternal Return (2017)
An-i - Kino-i (Dub) (2014)
The Daou - Are You Satisfied? (Tao Of Jazz Mix) (1994)
Claudio PRC - Eelume (2022)
Decoder - 4 Stub (Auspicious) (2024)
Kellen303 - Havana Syndrome (2023)
Suspect Bitch - Dnt Wanna (2016)
Adam 2 - Stand (2023)
DJ Q & Hans Glader - Thief In The Night (Al Wootton Remix) (2021)
Killawatt - Lead Like Presence (2014)
Quest - Deep Inside (2008)
Amy Winehouse - Love Is A Losing Game (Moody Boyz Original Ruffian Badboy Remix) (2007)
Baby Ford - In Decision (1997)
Autokinetic - Wakeword (2023)
Goldie - Inner City Life (Rabbit In The Moon's Vocalic City) (1996)
Badboy - Badboy (4x4 Mix) (2001)
Adam Pits - Mineral Mine (2022)
young muscle - Club Apparitions (2024)
Meat Beat Manifesto & DHS - International Sound System (2023)
? - Hold On feat Preddi (1996)
Loefah - Fire Elements (2004)
1RM4 - CM MG (2017)
Coffintexts - 200K (2024)
Abyss X - Animosity (SOPHIE Remix) (2020)
Riva (Feat. Dannii Minogue) - Who Do You Love Now? (Larry Lush Ambient Remix) (2003)

Distant Signals 062: PlayPlay

“This mix was heavily inspired by Sunset Campout where transmissions were being sent and received in Belden, CA. I took the prompt quite literally - selecting music to convey what it would feel like as a radio signal traveling through space; deeper, spatial compositions that evoke weightlessness. Even though space travel is a violent and terrifying place, I wanted the primary takeaway feeling to be peaceful. At this moment in Earth’s history, anywhere might be better than here.”

@matthew_paul_sfo
IG: @matthew____paul

Distant Signals 063: Matthew Paul

"Across the expanse of time existed a place so rich in amphibious lifeforms that it continued to challenge and mystify its invaders well into the surrounding planetary transformation. An order of diviners had predicted this place would shapeshift, changing its identity and turning on those who continued to shelter in its dense core. However, that never happened. Even as the invaders seeked to halt, divert, and capture the place's energy arteries and flows, its integrity held, buoyed by the impossible fecundity of unruly life itself. The place's offspring penetrated the minds and paralyzed the bodies of the invaders themselves who realized that their brutal fetishes and charms would inevitably decompose. As that suffocating superstructure fell, its limbs were swallowed, becoming one with the very place it had sought to dismember and destroy."

@konifer
IG: @benja.konifer

Cartographer/artist based in Los Angeles, USA; co-founder of Rhizome Records. Resident for Makes Me Human (Seattle). Lover of all things humid & wavy.

Distant Signals 064: Konifer

“Near the star Vega in the Summer Triangle asterism, the massive array of radio telescopes built by the lost spacefaring civilizations of the past receive a constant stream of high frequency transmissions from a small blue telluric planet 25 light years away. For the past ten years, a stream of a new type of music that is heavily percussive and lacks the organic vocalizations of the beings assumed to live on this alien world has been received. The rhythm of this music seems to be inherently primordial in its form, but consists of sound waves believed to be created digitally by inorganic machines. Its uniform beat is analogous to the pulsating source of life in all beings in the universe.

A new transmission unlike the rest is converted to sound waves and patched through an electroacoustic transducer by the current stewards of the telescope. They feel strangely connected to what they hear, energized by an innate desire to move. The spectrum of frequencies from this signal fills their core with joy as they embody a sonic energy that transcends worlds. For sixty earthly minutes, they dance.”

@wyatt-m66
IG: @wyatt.m66

M66 (aka wyatt) is a Bay Area DJ and Sutro FM resident. They host the show Nascent Attraction every first Saturday of the month from 6-8pm PST.

Distant Signals 065: M66

"In the starry night beyond the known galaxy, swarms of electric shocks shake the air full of gas and beams of blue light, under that sky where the tribes of all the Northern constellation met.
All brought the gifts of the cosmos, and the dreams of a night that lasts 100 years.

Feathers made of thunders, soiled by the mud of the ground, flew under the infinite progression of the incessant rhythms that came from the strange electronic gadgets, once called speakers, found in the farthest point of the northern galaxy: the earth.

The tribes embraced, the dance began under the electric storm, where time flows slowly, with the crazy beats of ancient objects brought from afar, mysterious tools capable of taking the electronic waves and turning them into sound, cables long as the galaxy connecting the celebration of the dancing bodies.

A tribal dance that was born millennia before and arrived in the great northern galaxy thanks to the blue sparks, in this ground of mud, feet and legs that are unleashed, in the greatest ritual of infinite time: dancing until the cosmic morning, Until the lights fade, when the dawn of 100 years this galaxy will end."

@epo40135
IG: @epo40135

EPO, founder and member of Mentalità (a Bologna-Italy based electronic crew), is a Selector and DJ who recently moved to Pittsburgh with his bag full of european records and found a second home in the vinyl stores of the Steel City.

A true old school raver, started from the illegal raves in the woods, which he prefers for a real connection to the dancers and the spirit of free music, to organize parties in the north and center of Italy, with the Mentalità crew in cities like Milan, Rome, Turin and Rimini.

In Pittsburgh he felt in love with the people of Transit, an underground crew that brings the same vibes as he always searched for, helping them in any ways.

Every month he brings his selecta of vinyls on MSYH Fm radio with the personal show “Squirrel Hill Vinyl Club”, a deep immersion on hidden gems from the secondhand stores of Berlin, Amsterdam, London, Rome and the finest last releases.

Trance, Acid, techno, all bonded in the tornado of the progressive, a bridge between the mid-90s to the present, in a translucent continuous kick.

Tracklist:
Channel 69 - that groovy feeling / pure music records 1994
Arkana - who do you trust / indochina 1995
The dirty pots - u mudder fucker you (peek a boo mix) / Western 1998
Tino - work my body (workout mix) / non stop rhythm 2023
Hang tough - flux (mix 1) / one little Indian 2003
GTR - manco cepas revenge (Justin Robertson mix) / planet 4 1994
Dj Fett burger & LA 2000 - Trush your body! / sex tag ufo 2024
Darwin Chamber - do you feel the love / money dog music 2023
Sourmash - pilgrimage to paradise (BLIM’s bourbon bass mix) / hooj choons 2000
Andy Ling - Calling angels (analogue heaven mix) / fluid 1996
André 3 - I used to underground / tribal sun 1995
Andy Ling - Anuna (part one) / fluid 1998

Distant Signals 066: EPO

"Saturday I awoke conflicted. For I realized, autobiographically speaking, that there remained one vast area of self-experience as yet unexplored and unexplained, viz. sky as a medium of annihilation. Warfare is a fact of life for all the creeping creatures that creep upon the earth (as the book of Genesis calls them on the 6th day) and warfare is mostly a history of death-bringing stuff flying through the air—bullets, bombs, bows and arrows, Big Berthas, B-52s, poison darts, poison gas, portable nukes, cannonballs, curses, lethal drones. My first instinct was to fashion all this into a fast-paced crime novel. Certainly there were crimes.

But it proved impossible to condense that long evildoing into a simple algebra of cause and effect. Crime fiction is very condensed. And its impact on the reader derives from giving a face to the algebraic components—the victim, the criminal, the detective, the good, the bad. Warfare has grown increasingly faceless throughout its history. Surely Hektor and Akhilles looked into each other's eyes on the battlefield, but in 1092 Pope Urban II found it necessary to outlaw the crossbow as being inglorious due to its distance from death, and by the 21st century a soldier in Nevada can push a button and have five people in Pakistan burst into flame. Without the face, no ethics: this is an old idea. But also, without the face, no function for me, nothing to write about. No one can make sentences using only verbs. No one can tell a story without believing in the reality of others.

Yet I didn't, I don't, expect all you creeping creatures that creep upon the earth to stop wanting warfare anytime soon. And I didn't, I don't, expect me to stop delivering the hysterical valentines of your desire through my beautiful blue air.
 
That's just who we are." 

-Anne Carson

@evedefy
IG: @du_feuilles
https://linktr.ee/evedefy

Distant Signals 067: Eve Defy

"Log 000023-2241

We woke up from cryo sleep a few weeks back as we arrived to the Tuldorah system. Things have been slow as we adjust to being awake. It's been nice to play Go with Zaid. And Anh is fun to be around, though they sing a lot when doing their chores and it's kind of driving me nuts. Space can be hella boring at times. But today, looking at the planets of Tuldorah in the navigation pane, I felt that sense of wonder that got me into this in the first place.

Log 000341-0953

The year hadn't been very fruitful. We explored yet another planet that ended up being a gas giant. But today, our radar picked up the signal of a previously unidentified rogue planet, which we have named Ortali. It seems to have lined itself up to orbit around the Tuldorah system. This behaviour is fascinating and something we agreed our expedition should research more deeply. We have set the coordinates to Ortali's proximity. While we get there, we'll continue to chart some orbital models and run scans of its surface.

Log - 000405-1444

We haven't seen much from Ortali yet, but we are eager to keep exploring. Its surface is unlike anything we have seen before. In appearance it is chitinous, but upon interaction it is incredibly dense and solid. We have discovered several tendril-like lifeforms that sprout from the surface. They are gelatinous, hairy, and gently ondulate. They are not hostile. We have taken some samples to analyze their composition. I can't wait to see what hides in other regions of Ortali.

ᯊ ೈᾖ ꔘ�ꥄ⨕ㆬ⠨-鯦ᙶၦ

I am deep into the chasm. Things seemed safe enough but I suddenly got separated from Anh and Zaid. I try to make my way back but the path seems to change every time. The life forms are becoming much denser, they seem to be reacting to my presence. I can't shake this feeling of being watched, puppeteered even. It sends shivers down my spine. I feel like Ortali... is alive."

@cbdiabla
IG: @cbdiabla

Tracklist:
Laurie Spiegel - The Expanding Universe
Amon - Tanit Zerga
Zvrra - Silence Zoning Device
Kenji Yamamoto - Silence [Metroid Prime 2 - Echoes]
Kelly Bailey - Space Ocean [Half Life]
Ben Prunty - Cosmos (Explore) [FTL]
Buena Tarde - Amphibon
Aeondelit - Liquid Time
Oscean - Spacion
Parallax Deep - Secrets
DJ Fucci - Kepler 16b
alva noto - Uni Mic B
enereph - Talisman
Octoptic - Lophiforme
We will fail - Very Urgent
Microhm - Sin Traducción
Zoë Mc Pherson - Outside
Objekt - Nervous Silk
Oranssi Pazuzu - Reikä Maisemassa
Kelly Bailey - Shu'ulathoi [Half Life 2 - Episode 2]
Bobby Krlic - Crimson Wastes [Returnal]
Andrew Prahlow - Dark Bramble [Outer Wilds]
Sunn O))) - Cymatics
Sutekh Hexen - Elemental Uproar
Portal - Olde Guarde

Distant Signals 068: CBDiabla

Received transmissions from the outer reaches of an exquisite corpse universe

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