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Distant Signals Mix Series

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2024 Ever Afters Lineup

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Techno

https://soundcloud.com/lycheefrut

A DJ, writer, designer, and event organizer, Lychee runs Spontaneous Affinity, a monthly mix and interview series, annual zine, and occasional event platform focused on how dancefloors have shaped artists. Currently based in Brooklyn, they grew up as a DJ and frequent dancefloor inhabitant in the clubs, backyards, and basements of Boston. With sets ranging from dreamy sunrises to corporeal peak time techno to ambient explorations, they gravitate most toward psychedelic, prismatic techno - sometimes escaping, sometimes transcending, and sometimes connecting back to the body.


1. Kode9 - Bacteria in Dub feat. the Spaceape, Luciana Parisi, Ms. Haptic [Kode9, 2020/2004]
2. Forest Drive West - New Day [Livity Sound, 2021]
3. Deepbass - Prophetic [Planet Rhythm, 2019]
4. Patrick Siech - Into The Faded Air [Semantica Records, 2019]
5. Anthony Linell - Evaporating Entities [Northern Electronics, 2019]
6. Simon Baker - Too Slow (Radio Slave Panorama Garage Remix) [20:20 Vision, 2010]
7. Peter Van Hoesen - Irrational X (Slowmix) [Exone, 2010]
8. Savas Pascalidis - Get Down [Sweatshop, 2010]
9. Mohlao - Depth of Field [Konstrukt, 2018]
10. Cromie - Bloom In (rRoxymore Remix) [Duality Trax, 2021]
11. Luke Hess - Pashko Version 1 [Echocord Colour, 2013]
12. Immortal Science - Black Metal ("Serenity Now" Mix) [Geryon, 2020]
13. D.X.M. - Welcome Home [Eternal Ocean, 2020]
14. Carmen Villain - Observable Future (Parris Remix) [Smalltown Supersound, 2020]
15. PLO Man - TX-ii [Tiny Bubbles] [Acting Press, 2017]
16. Kyntral - Ciervo Sagrado [Norite, 2020]
17. Pearl Vision - SD8 [Materia, 2019]
18. Optics - Divided Self [Dynamic Reflection, 2019]
19. Lerosa - Self Inflicted [Acid Test, 2019]
20. Cedric Elisabeth - Exit [Detroit Underground, 2020]
21. Mustatunturi - Lodde [Recycled Plastics, 2017]
22. Luke Slater - The Secret Garden [Peacefrog Records, 1997]
23. Korrē - Izole A2 [self-released, 2021]

Deep South Podcast - 073 - Lychee

we are very proud to share this very special live dj set by @bezier recorded live at our June 4 2022 party!

Bézier dj set at WRECKED June 4 2022

"Hiroshi Teshigahara’s 'Woman in the Dunes', Frank Herbert’s 'Dune', and an inaugural LSD trip all inspired me to weave this mix together in the engulfing feeling of barren desert. Scarce resources, harsh conditions, and rusted tech. Frenetic bursts of energy, endless climbing, exhaust hallucination, the life and death of ego."

@drakempfeiffer
IG: @drake_pfeiffer

Tracklist:
Thugghee- Muslimgauze
Spit- Gag Reflex
Folded Edge- Akkord
Seedling- Pugilist
Asando- INVT/Coffintexts
Liminality- Ayesha
ECOU #12- DYL & DB1
Bolbol (Sepehr Mortality Remix)- Aria Rostami
I’m With Empty (DJ Double Oh! Remix)- Yushh
Heaven Spot- Blu:sh
Nothing Else- Forest Drive West
Bad Apples- Objekt
The Wall- Joi Lau
Blure- Despina
Horus- Fadi Mohem
Capsulated Flow- Mor Elian
Spook- Syz
In The Middle- Laksa
GUI Shaap- Enayet
Sinkhole- DJ TOOL
Biased- Florist
Turbine Squelch- Drummy
A Drum To Ward Off Language- Amazondotcom
Burst- DJ Double Oh!
Planet E (Skee Mask Remix)- Wladimir M
Crushing Softness- Pinkcourtesyphone
Drip on Nape- Ben Bondy

Distant Signals 001: .dmp

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

CCL (@ccl-url) has many tricks and plenty of surprises up their sleeve. London-born, US-bred but now Berlin-based, they are playful in what they play but serious about how they play it, whether that's head spinning 160bpm cut, "cowgirl-breaks or wiggle steppers." The key for this multidisciplinary artist and former New Forms festival curator is to find the similarities and differences between shades of sound and rhythm and exploit them to spellbinding effect. As a producer, they are no different and have always managed to find fresh in-between sounds on labels like Fever AM and Discwoman. 

The singular DJ steps up this week with almost two hours of pure sonic adventure. It's a perfect showcase of how they can soundtrack imaginary worlds from humid future jungles to robot dances in the sky. You'll hear rhythms you could never imagine and contort your body in impossible ways, all while admiring the dexterity of the DJ who has threaded together such a trippy trip.

Dekmantel Podcast

Dekmantel Podcast 427 - CCL

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

@razrbark
IG: @razrbark

Distant Signals 030: Razrbark

Thank you @dublab and @soltera818 for having me <3

Tracklist:

01. Simone Bauer (@simonebauer) - Arcadia [Sure Thing, 2019]
02. Shoal (@shoall) - Chi-fe [From A Lost Place, 2021]
03. Autechre (@autechreofficial) - Rotar [Warp Records, 1995]
04. Saint Abdullah & Eomac (@saintabdullah) - Wali [Self-released, 2023]
05. Luigi Tozzi (@luigitozzi) - Geonosis [Hypnus Records, 2014]
06. EBI - 三 San [Space Teddy, 1994]
07. Polygonia (@polygonia) - Vespula Pensylvanica [ARA, 2022]
08. Etapp Kyle (@etappkyle) - Alpha [Ostgut Ton, 2017]
09. Gladstone Deluxe (@gladstonedeluxe) - Lock Tunnel [Self-released, 2021]
10. Foreign Material (@foreignmaterial) - The Living Planet [Sure Thing, 2023]
11. Caldera (@caldera-caldera) - Amphibian Dance [Nummer Music, 2023]
12. Sansibar (@sunnysibar) - Technology [Darknet, 2020]
13. JdB (@djlactaid) - Star Gazer [Psuedonote, 2023]
14. agraybé (@agraybé) - Lately [FSL, 2022]
15. Otodojo (@otodojo) - Suzumebachi [The Bunker New York, 2023]
16. Francis Harris (@cfrancisharris) - Rebstock Fold [Scissor and Thread, 2022]

TODO O NADA with Azize | Recorded at Dublab LA | 11.13.23

Artwork by the ever amazing www.instagram.com/explore/tags/blakecedricart/

Jamil's Wig Party

"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

“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

"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

NE178: Container

"this transmission is a calibration device

i found it in the springtime under a shower of pink blossoms
my spirit, an ooze seeping out onto the floor
in this state of sub-being, words passed through untethered—
unintelligible, and touch was void

the device sent rippling waves through the air,
arranging it into mutating forms
they traveled inward and rebounded, inverting inside and out
wisps of feeling newly embodied pushed boldly from every pore

i watched as the shapes of people grew unimaginably
the glimmering swells were interspersed with pearls
which gradually came loose and fell
unlocked, my innermost madness unfurled into a spiraled conch

as the day darkened, the sounds became grim and hoarse
emotions scraped against each other with serrated edges
disintegrating madness into a fine lunar silt
voices came flooding, and in unison whispered: trust"

@enereph
IG: @_enereph
https://gravitypleasure.bandcamp.com/album/water-bodies
https://soundsofnaga.bandcamp.com/album/immortal-mirth

enereph fell through at least three dream worlds looking for sounds to send their nervous mind spinning.

Tracklist:
Mown - An Endless Sweet Sweet Storm
A Strange Wedding - Wormhole Breaker
Simone Bauer - Ego Hacker
Ettore Rigadello - Ooteca
Biocym - Vanishing Point
Souzo - A175 Levit8
Beatrice M. - Crossing the Rubicon
Circular Square - L - 80BN (Soa420 Remix)
Ettore Rigadello - Keratin
Smogo - Submit To The Forest
Khey Mysterio - Basalte feat. Under/Standing
AJO - Kawanone (La Serpiente Remix)
RM Estali - Pitfalls
Prieste5s - Golden Hour
SNKLS - Stir
Sytrjv - Vexomorphis
Nathan Ho - Immodality
Herbalistek - Sentium
Otik - Lightyear Dub
dBridge - Filtered Scenes
Laraaji - Universe
perila - Fallin Into Space
Aisha Vaughan - Campfires
Comechelet & ϙue - Forbidden Love

Distant Signals 080: enereph

"A utopian,
bright striver, turns their dial,
hears woven, strange sounds.

In resonance they
vibrate to the transmission
and recognize that

every return
implies the journey before:
past adreads present.

Time glimmers ahead,
but also trails their escape,
reaches, pulls backward.

A stubborn relic,
internalized deserving,
haunts like history.

Our listener leaves
their old self behind, shedding,
cutting time's chords;

broken rope rings out:
no person earns punishment
nor deserves reward.

Throw stones at the walls,
striking old sequestration ––
do you hear great music?

Build bridges, not walls,
crossing inherited rifts ––
do you feel deep love?

Thanks for pulling me into the Distant Signals universe :) recorded
with a Xone + DD500. Vocals by @user-76549051
reading Ursula le Guin's The Dispossessed."

@ok-carty
IG: @ok_carty

Distant Signals 083: OK Carty

“You head down from the installation into the glacier, breath fogging the air. You hear echoes of splintering icicles reverb back to you from under a frozen lake. Deep unseen movements in the dark vibrate the walls as you go deeper into the ice. Underneath the loudspeakers of the installation above, you hear whispers and distant murmurs below.

You follow the whispers, turn to page 56.
You go back to the installation, turn to page 89.”

@s_h_o_p_p_i_n_g
IG: @sandelephants

Tracklist:
1. Burner - BunZer0
2. Soundcheck - Ekcent
3. Cracked Plates - Korzi
4. Kalo - Mulholland
5. Tension - Saule
6. Look After The Dead - Mosca
7. Adelia - Honeydrip
8. Filtered Contact - Slow83
9. Archos Gmini - Danny Goliger
10. Humo - Andrae Durden
11. Movements - Mia Koden
12. TAB3 - Průvan
13. Second Room - R4NS0M
14. Agora - Hiroma Keo
15. Layer 03 - No Sir
16. Grill Party - SPLT
17. Crunch - K-Lone
18. Melting Ladies - Roza Terenzi & D. Diffany
19. Should Be Looking - Arina Krondeva
20. Melt! (Coby Sey Rework) - Kelly Lee Owens

Distant Signals 081: shopping

“Recently, I’ve been really inspired by bass music in the 80-85 (or 160-70) BPM range that shifts between slow and fast registers, opening up space for a deep interior journey and for a driving, percussive dancefloor experience alike. Much music in this space that I’m drawn to has a visceral, haptic, and earthy quality -- body music for mental landscapes. 

The mix is conceived as a journey into a densely foliated forest of ever-shifting dimensions, drawing you deeper and deeper into its cavernous shadows and spectral pockets of light. Dewdrops shiver on pillowy moss ,flanked by the hungry mouths of carnivorous plants; burly vines dangle low and heavy under velvet leaves. Mysterious and heretofore unknown flora abound, beguiling you with their sensuous textures, suffusing the humid air with smells both luxuriant and noxious. Finally you emerge into a softly-hued meadow, your journey into the darkness having brought you closer to a sense of calm.”

@papayaofficial
IG: @papaya.official

DJ Papaya's approach to mixing draws upon downtempo, ambient, leftfield electronics, and bass music to craft surreal and emotionally complex narratives, rich in texture and rooted in the sensibilities of dub. They are a co-founder of the ambient/experimental series Spindrift, with Pontiac Streator and Opheliaxz, as well as the bass music party Chrysalis, with Amylia.

Tracklist:
Carrier - Slow Punctures
Blue - Slow Wave
Officium - Heartlapse ft Yolek
Gi & Trois Quarts Taxi System - Swarm
Chewlie x Fiesta Soundsystem - Savory
Proc Fiskal - A Fragrance
Anta Doma - Temples
Ancestral Voices - Mist of Avalon
Furtive - I Always Try to be This Gentle
Commix - Japanese Electronics (Instra:Mental Moog Remix)
Es.Tereo - Ancestral Path
K Wata - In A Mug on a Rug (Ronan’s Ecophilia Mix)
Trois Quarts Taxi System - Clef
Itoa - Diceman
Mike Parker - Spaceship Galliot
georg-i - Nightlife under the Arclight
Kobayashi Maru - Aesthetics of a Wormhole
traverse - Turpitude
Forest on Stasys - Sideral
Khey Mysterio & Stacktrace - Low Heat
felt. - Life Formed
Jonnnah - U Made Me
Ghjuliu - Sheila

Distant Signals 082: DJ Papaya

"The context:
I am alone. I am found. I died alone. I never thought I’d be found. I am overwhelmed by memories of a dystopian existence on a collapsing planet where evil took over and subsumed good. All of the kindness evaporated and was swallowed by greed. Memories of my past life occlude my consciousness causing confusion between modes of time like a mirage. Is it the past, present, or future? I can no longer tell.

A journey through being:
Confronted by the pain of knowing but trying to exist and embrace being in the world. Did I give up too quickly? Did I fail to change reality? What did I sacrifice in order to function and live a worldly existence like everyone around me? Blinded by hedonism, the collapsing of the mind and soul into the throws of desire left me empty. I gave up. I lost myself. I returned to the comfort of despair. It’s throbbing. To live without hope is to live in despair. Was there a reprieve from it all? Distractions, pleasure, and attachments turned into a vicious cycle of yearning and loss. Accepting impermanence with a half-open heart. It never got better. It just got worse. Functioning with an ever-growing sense of doom. And now I’m here. Alone. All I have are my memories. But existing in confusion from when these memories took place. Introspection with escapism outside of time. The vicious interplay between existence and non-existence. I am left with nothing."

Opening for Rrose at Smartbar, Chicago in June utilizing 4 CDJs and a V10 mixer.

@shantievanti
IG: @shantiism
https://ra.co/dj/shanti
https://youtu.be/QqfMYAyS8bM?si=iwapv-7i2LFIPNlG

Shanti has made textured waves in Chicago’s techno scene with her curation of dark, sinister, and ethereal soundscapes. Music has always been a means of coping with the otherness and hybridity Shanti experienced throughout her life. She has been deeply moved by the transcendent ability of music to express concepts, states of consciousness, and conflicting emotions. Shanti’s sets weave a story of the simultaneous despair and yearning that are intertwined with the human condition and illustrate an intentional trajectory through combining and cultivating surreal, atmospheric, and haunting sounds.

Enamored by the liminal dynamics of sound, she cohosts Otherworldly Ambiguity with Scum.ee –an experience that is centered around the phenomenon of existing in between and outside of pre-existing concepts and rigid categories. She is also a member of techno collective Research & Development and hosts a monthly radio show, “Liminal Radio” on WIIT 88.9 FM featuring thoughtful artists at the core of Chicago’s underground music scene. Shanti has had the privilege of warming up and closing out dancefloors for incredibly inspirational artists such as Rrose, DJ Nobu, Ø [Phase], Aurora Halal, Mozhgan, Lady Starlight, Black Light Smoke, Esther Dune, Zenker Brothers, Noncompliant, Xtin, and more. She has had the immense pleasure of conjuring spirits at Chicago’s most beloved clubs such as Smartbar, Smoke & Mirrors, Podlasie Club, and several underground gatherings.

Experiencing music outside of the confines of a club or the underground is extremely important to Shanti as she had initially discovered her favorite artists through online podcasts and radio. The universalizability of podcasts and radio enable music to be experienced by more humans situated in different contexts. This is why she has contributed to many notable online mix series and radio channels. Her mixes have been featured on The Black Lodge Radio, SutroFM, Mutant Radio, PPRZ, Death Decay & Magic, Braid Records, Low Visibility, Dance All Day, and m50’s etc radio among other podcasts and shows. This past year, Shanti has expanded her surreal storytelling beyond Chicago by playing in Amsterdam, LA, Detroit and notable Midwest festivals such as Minnesota’s The Great Beyond and Madison’s Musique Électronique. This Halloween, she will be playing at Chicago’s notoriously dark music festival, Sanctum.

Distant Signals 084: Shanti

Recorded in his studio, August 2015.

01. Don Cherry - North Brazillian Ceremonial Hymn [Caprice Records]
02. Conoco - Keppi [Sigma Editions]
03. Antenes - Fire Rises [L.I.E.S.]
04. nsi. - Bird [Non Standard Productions]
05. Scion - Emerge0 [Chain Reaction]
06. Microsmiles - Drugs Are Right [Logistic Records]
07. Daniel Bell - Science Fiction [Tresor]
08. Don Williams - Orderly Kaos [a.r.t.less]
09. Underground Resistance - Beauty Of Decay [Underground Resistance]
10. Norman - Greenroom [Synewave]
11. Mark Verbos - Mafia [Deepfried]
12. Love Inc. - Contradition [Force Inc.]
13. Peter Van Hoesen - Nineteen Continued [Time To Express]
14. Jasper - The Attempt [Cytrax]
15. Surgeon - Syllable [Downwards]
16. Transllusion - Unordinary Realities [Supremat / Tresor]
17. Acronym - Jotunheim [Semantica]
18. Musicology - Hall Of Mirrors [B12]
19. Gunnar Haslam - Athabaskan Languages
20. Ø - Spiraalit [Sähkö Recordings]
21. Robert Hood - Home [Tresor]
22. Basic Channel - Octagon [Basic Channel]
23. Jeff Mills - Automatic [Purpose Maker]
24. AFX - Batine Acid [Rephlex]
25. ?
26. Beau Wanzer - Grooves No Zone [Beau Wanzer]
27. DJ Harlow - Waxwork (CP Mix) [L.A. Club Resource]
28. Gescom - Motor2 [Source Records]
29. Sun Electric - Osram 527 [R&S Records]
30. Harmonia - Watussi [Brain]

The Bunker Podcast 103 - Gunnar Haslam

Tracklist: http://bit.ly/roy-ayers-75

Celebrating the 75th birthday of Mr Roy Ayers with this mix, showcasing some of my favourite tracks from his slightly lesser known material… Well, I mean compared to tracks like Everybody 
Loves The Sunshine, Searching, We Live In Brooklyn, Running Away, Love Will Bring Us Back Together…

I also hear new stuff that I hadn’t noticed before when I listen to his music - the track with Jack Wilson that opens the mix up is so heavy and cosmic for its time, and I’d forgotten about the track with Wayne Henderson! There are so many great albums out there including the 2 Virgin Ubiquities BBE put out... We could devote a whole week of radio programmes to Roy, his archive is so large… 

He is the key to all things between jazz, soul, disco and hip hop…. Thank you roy for all the music...


Tracklist

Roy Ayers 75th Birthday Mix

Very few musical acts achieve the levels of unanimous acclaim of Autechre. The English duo of Rob Brown and Sean Booth are not an act you simply like; they are an act you love, fawn over and dream about. They’ve got themselves here over the course of the last 28 years, and have done so by amassing a discography that’s about as perfect, influential and accomplished as could ever be possible. A key Warp label act from day one, they have released tens of albums, well over a ten EPs and have featured on a dizzying amount of essential compilations, mixes and remixes in that time. Without their contribution to the IDM canon, its fair to say the modern musical landscape would look very different. 

Rhythmic but experimental, absorbing yet abstract, cerebral and psychedelic, their ever evolving output is up there with the likes of fellow luminaries Boards of Canada and Aphex Twin as some of the most important in all of electronic music. As well as being fine craftsmen in the studio, Autechre are also revered live performers who really manage to conjure up captivating and otherworldly soundtracks that marry heavy bass with ethereal melody. The pair themselves do not care for genre, but suffice it to say that they have mastered everything from hardcore to ambient to glitch and plenty of indescribables in between. 

When the pair recently laid down an impressive set at Dekmantel Festival, we asked if they might be up for a doing an early inspiration mix, whereby they put together a collection of the sort of electro and hip hop tracks that turned them on as youths. At first they hesitated, pointing out that "we don't do strictly retro stuff, it's too corny.” But alas, a few days later, a huge file landed in our inbox… That file is a 4 hour and 18 minute mix that basically encapsulates not just Autechre’s own influences, but also acts as a fine anthology of the greatest electro sounds of all time. Every sub genre imaginable gets touched upon along the way, with nods to forefathers like Kraftwerk, killer cuts from Man Parrish, classics from Newcleus and retro gold from the likes of The Beat Club. It is a thrilling ride and a truly rare treat that reminds us just why we love Autechre, as well as shining a light on a vast genre that often pays second fiddle to house and techno.

Dekmantel Podcast 035 - Autechre

magic mountain high
live improvisation
dachstock bern feb 2015
peace yo!

Magic Mountain High @ Dachstock, Bern 2015-02-27

Phase Fatale is the techno project of Berlin-based DJ and producer Hayden Payne from New York. Born out of his various post-punk and cold wave bands in the past, Phase Fatale is an artistic endeavour that serves as an outlet for his own interpretation of the darker, harder and industrial-leaning techno. The project aims to demolish the border between music and noise to create a new individual vision of techno – the sound of future war, whether it’s captured on vinyl or an extract of the digital static.
Phase Fatale uses exclusively hardware to achieve his distinguishable sound for his live sets while his DJ sets feature a unique blend of techno laced with EBM and industrial. His 2014 debut EP Skyscraper on Italian label Avant! Records moves between noise-ridden soundscapes and minimal industrial techno rhythms, capturing the spirits of both EBM classics and modern contemporaries. His most anticipated forthcoming 2015 releases include EPs on Berlin-based [Aufnahme + Wiedergabe] followed by Jealous God. Phase Fatale has played alongside acts such as Clock DVA and Cold Cave around the world from Los Angeles to Moscow.

More info: http://digital-tsunami.org


Digital Tsunami 084 - Phase Fatale

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Cxemcast 068 – Radiant Futur

Neptunian Influence Podcast, Twenty-Six | Featuring @adab

"3000 AD...

The Pan African Liberation Movement (P.A.L.M), having long since established a deep space orbital platform for Earth separatists in a dark region not too distant from Neptune, sends a recovery team to their deep space reliquary, “Osiris” on Neptune’s moon Larissa. It contains a multitude of PALM’s ancestral earth tribe’s sacred (and most secret) relics...

The shamanic council of elders foresaw that Larissa, on a slow spiraling orbit towards Neptune, would eventually start to shatter into a ring around the icy hot liquid giant...

The cataclysmic events have started, the operation is underway...

Extraction operators encounter a myriad of bizarre visual and auditory hallucinations during the mission as the moon slowly disintegrates into Neptune's noxious atmosphere of hydrogen, helium, and methane...

This is one." ~ADAB 

| Tracklist |
Logout Praises (Urawa x African Headcharge edit)
Da Boo - Spark this
Ambien Baby - Mari Posa
XCOR - Adelaar
Szare - It Was Sent To A Vault...
DJ JM - No Days Off
SYZ & LKY - Turbulence 
Zenker Brothers - Innef Ruins
Sister Zo (Unreleased)
Dorisburg - 135
TSVI - The Healer
Al Wootton - Omega
Shackleton - Let Go
Moving Ninja - Witchdokta
Pugilist - Syncopate
Kode9 & Daddi Gee - Stalker
Daniel Stefanik - Dambala Experience Pt.2
Timeblind - Extracate
Archetype - Roots Of The Rights
Black One - Digital Percussion Part 2
Sadesper Record - Nestic (Awakening)
Air Liquide - Antidrum
Subtonal - Harc

Note from Whipnotiq: One of my favorite things about this mix series are the stories that are cultivated from exploring Neptune's influence. I am elated to invite you on this journey, for which ADAB has exemplified the beauty and vastness of Neptune's impact. ADAB, affiliated with Cleveland's @heavenisinyou and @in-training parties, DJ'd at our third annual brunch during Movement Detroit this past May, and we are pleased to feature them in this capacity now. Meet you in the Great Dark Spot <3

MEDIA | https://www.factmag.com/2019/12/23/the-best-mixes-of-2019/?fbclid=IwAR0CEJPZ63BDrxco4TcXN-QPRDrKzjK2gyzmntRjn55JkIvCoQNtEgfTZZ4
https://www.theguardian.com/music/2019/jul/31/the-months-best-mixes-adab-russell-el-butler?fbclid=IwAR0zFM-0dzyMel7lqZAMm0MTr0ZFSu-1uQymuyB6sTaS1PLNdBxtoQAVyMg

NIP 26 | ADAB

One-Hundred-Forty-Fourth Hate exclusive podcast with Denise Rabe

Download available.

Tracklist:
Luis Flores - Anomie (ARTSCollective030)
Kangding Ray - YYYYYY (Fundamentum003)
Shifted - Seel (SATOTEM004)
Denise Rabe - Manifesto (SATOTEM005)
Kon Janson - Main(void) (CUES005)
Oliver Roseanne - Intermediate World (MT21)
Reeko - The Gravedigger And His Bitch (2019 Version) (MD23)
Giorgio Gigli - Fulmicotone (Absolute Records)
Unbalance - Warehouse Tool 1(OVB01)
Judas - DI?TRESS II (DRKMT005)
Hypnum - Haters (PA001)
Denise Rabe - Drop It (Kwartz Remix) (Rabe004)
Refracted - Polar Creatures (Subl007)
Pris - Monument (Semantica89)
Caiazzo - Todbody (EMS003)
SSTROM - Drenched 8 (Rosten8.2
Cassegrain - Nubian Index (WU005)
Kujo - ???? (MM-03)

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Denise Rabe - HATE Podcast 144

Exhausted Modern is a project established by Czech musician Ladislav Zensor whose approach to sound creates metaphorical expression of fatigue which comes from living in a world where technology takes over. In his compositions accent is put on analogue sound with a slightly raw character. The percussive passages are interluded with melodic elements which altogether create very atypical, personal and often dystopic sound. Work of Exhausted Modern is regularly released on well-established labels as Brokntoys, Veyl or Rotterdam Electronix. He also releases his music thru label Endless Illusion which he co-founded together with Raphael Kosmos back in 2011. Together they as well create series of mixes for radio stations including Integalactic.FM. He always tries to bring unconventional glimpse into electronic music combining old forgotten tapes with the current avant-garde sound.

A recording above was done by Exhausted Modern at a Lithuanian festival - Supynes Playground 2019 - where he was invited by curators of that stage, online media platform Calypso Magazine. Accompanied by another artist, responsible for the live visual projections - Mgla2080, from Polish electro-industrial crew SYNTETYK, Exhausted Modern’s live set was taken to a new intense and unique sonic experience that audience could live through.

@exhausted-modern
@endless-illusion
https://www.discogs.com/artist/5713645-Exhausted-Modern
https://www.residentadvisor.net/dj/exhaustedmodern
https://exhaustedmodern.bandcamp.com
https://www.facebook.com/exhaustedmodern/

Phormix Podcast #155 - Document #34 Exhausted Modern

Private press North American new wave and post-punk selections from 1980 - 1991.

01. Quickflight - Fantasy (Vancouver, BC 1983)
02. Inner Landscapes - In Waiting (Long Island, NY 1980)
03. John Ruth - Stalked The Wild Animal (New York, NY 1981)
04. Here Today - In The Maze (Baltimore, MD 1983)
05. Onyx - S.O.S. (Boston, MA 1982)
06. Homer The Band - Dangerous Man (Superprince Edit) (Los Angeles, CA 1986) 
---- Free Download: https://soundcloud.com/universalcave/digitaldeadstock008
07. The Affordable Floors - Walk Into The Night (Pittsburgh, PA 1986)
08. Elodie Lauten - Sunrise (New York, NY 1980)
09. Silver Leaf - Can We Rebuild Our City (Cincinnati, OH 1986)
10. Tomek - Now or Never (New York, NY 1984)
11. Justin Love - Touch The Sky (Syosset, NY 1982)
12. The Effect - Stranger (Austin, TX 1983)
13. Crimen Exceptra - Restrictive Clause (Oradell, NJ 1991)
14. Bunnydrums - Too Much Time (Philadelphia, PA 1983)
15. RJ/8 - Tomorrow Never Listens (Williamsburg, VA 1981)
16. Foluntear - Dancing On The Rainbow (Monrovia, CA 1988)

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keep on riding the Cave Wave:
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Walk Into The Night

2 AetatisSuae

After-dark sounds from one of the DJs behind Honcho Campout.

Read more here: https://www.residentadvisor.net/podcast-episode.aspx?id=735

@clarkdprice

Resident Advisor podcast

RA.735 Clark Price

Received transmissions from the outer reaches of an exquisite corpse universe

Distant Signals 001: .dmp

DISTANT SIGNALS