"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

Received transmissions from the outer reaches of an exquisite corpse universe

Engineer, producer, and musician currently residing in South Philadephia, PA

~keep it spinning~

EMILY EMBER is a dancer,  DJ, vocalist and budding music producer/ritual artist known as ‘Spring Jaiah’

Growing up in the bushland of tropical far north-eastern Australia, she spent her twenties travelling the world in pursuit of body-mind healing which revealed the power of practice on intentional dance floors and music can have on community. Since her first event in the area as far back as 2015, in 2021 she founded Ecstatic Dance Cairns, bringing diverse flavours and global rhythms to men and women, through full bodied emotional and danceable journeys moving the FNQ region ever since. She is also a somatic-psychology/BA Psych/Couns student, shamanic practitioner and servant of creating and facilitating safe spaces for self and community transformation.

Some of her music flavours explored in 2025 include afro beats, world, global bass, drum and bass/jungle, melodic & ethnic house plus many more… in effort of fusing sounds from all across the world, from the Africas to the Andes, Bristol to Berlin and beyond in cathartic ritual ecstasy.

Everything Emily does is to serve re-connection of earth-wisdom and sacred remembrance.

Contact: springjaiah@gmail.com

Airplane pretzels suck.. Biscoffs are the best. Fight me

Distant Signals 031: coughman

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