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At some point, all good things must unfortunately come to an end! For our final broadcast, we’ve recorded our first and only live, in-person stream out of Gray Area Foundation for the Arts! To show our immense gratitude to our hosts, we’re channeling all donations for this episode to Fault Radio - a West Coast based non profit broadcasting platform that’s been unrelentingly showcasing local and international artists as a free streaming service.

To learn more about and to donate, visit FaultRadio.com

DJ:
Matthew Paul is a co-conspirator and co-founder for both K.T.V. and the Kosmetik residency at The Stud. Not prescribing to a particular genre, Matthew conveys his love for underground dance floors, queer history, and West Coast psychedelia through his music selections.
https://soundcloud.com/matthew_paul_sfo
https://ra.co/dj/matthewpaul

To see the A/V format of the show visit faultradio.com/shows/ktv

KTV: Matthew Paul X Steve Pi | Fault Radio AV Set in San Francisco (October 27, 2021)

In-studio: Matthew Paul

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

@razrbark
IG: @razrbark

Distant Signals 030: Razrbark

@matthew_paul_sfo
@nascentattraction
@SutroFM

Matthew Paul - 10.07.23

@bliss_inc @ HS-013 • 14.10.23
Live recording • OXI / Berlin

Release: 21.03.24
Artwork: instagram.com/jg3000

Nice Mix 006 – Bliss Inc. @ HS-013

We are delighted to welcome our next guest for Re-Leaf Radio, the Berlin based, DJ/Producer 131bpm.

Settled in the queer party scene, 131bpm is a dancefloor trouble maker. Influenced by various electronic music sub-genres like vocal house, Detroit classic electro-breaks, 90s progressive and Latin music, his sets are always sweaty and sexy, scattered with catchy basslines, nasty vocals and bouncy percussions.

This vinyl only mix starts with an ode to New York early 90’s dance music, where 131bpm just came back from, loaded with 12inch weapons ready to burn down dancefloors. It progressively switches then to a less serious and more UK vibe, inspired by the queer northern late 90’s scene.

Thanks so much to 131bpm for taking us on a wild ride to 90's house heaven and back!

Re-Leaf Radio EP015: 131bpm

Top selection of oldskool slayers served by Prince Bennet who takes us on a safe trip under the golden water.

@bennet_bb

Bazaar 70 || Bennet

"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

LIVE RECORDING : Camilla Rae B2B 131bpm @ Body Language 18.11.2023
Our two residents - the closing queen and the dancefloor troublemaker - delivered an energetic and emotional closing set for our last Re:mise party.
—
@cami_lutz
@bpm131bpm

Body Language 18.11.2023 - Camilla Rae B2B 131bpm

Club Are #001 | eoin dj | 03.06.24

Club Are's resident DJ @eoindj (they / them) recorded the first mix as part of the Club Are mix series. 

www.instagram.com/club_are

Club Are #001 | eoin dj | 03.06.24

“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

an excerpt from the middle of a four hour opening set. enjoy.

photo by willem mevis

Richard Akingbehin @ Draaimolen x Sustain Release, Tilburg - May '24

Chiller dnb / downtempo songs to bliss out 2

https://www.instagram.com/rozaterenzi

@roza-terenzi

Drum and Bass, Downtempo

Roza Terenzi @ The Lot Radio 09-10-2024

"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

I first met Pjenne in the Bookar Crater at the inaugural Inner Varnika festival in 2017. Only moments after our introduction we were hugging and swaying together, to an unforgettable set by my brother Ben. Little did I know she had already played at the festival before I’de arrived and would soon become one of my favourite disk jockeys. 

Pjenne’s sets all manage to have a unique and alluring atmosphere, a vibe that permeates itself no matter the style or genre she’s exploring. Each set brings a sonic embrace, a warmth similar to that which I felt when we first met. 

This mix is no different, a certified classic of dubbed jams mined from the depths of ’89 to ’03. Please Enjoy!

Moonshoe Selects 00029 - Pjenné

At peak time during Summer in the City, Ciel & Priori snapped the mainstage in half with an energetic open-air masterclass. Now we get to enjoy that moment again!

Ciel b2b Priori - BFC Summer in the City 2024 @ Der Hintergarten

Oceanic - Wildeburg 2024

"Summer of Solstice 3055: 

I’d just returned from a long stint working the orbital docks, preparing to settle back into the life cycle routine that was Valkor Zenith. The last thing I expected was to reconnect with three old friends from my days at the Echo House orphanage. Sora had slipped back from exile on Neoterra Prime. Rion had fled the undercity of Crysalis after a grav-bike race gone bad. And Omrin, who I hadn’t seen or heard of in more than a decade, had shown up out of nowhere as if no time had passed with a stolen data map and a proposition: we’d go find the Dream Beacon.

We’d grown up with the story. A myth, really. Some ancient alien relic buried deep in the sand sea, spoken of in hushed tones in level D bars and back-alley data centres. The promise was simple, if you could reactivate its signal with your own transmission, you’d be granted your most longed-for dreams and unimaginable wealth. No one had ever found it.

I’m still not entirely sure what made us set off and follow Omrin so blindly that summer. Maybe it was grief, maybe hope. Or just that need to move, to do anything but sit still. Each of us were adrift in our own orbit of longing and loss, and somehow, we collided again, drawn together like shards of a broken constellation.

We had left the neon haze of Valkor Zenith behind at sunset, riding the wide stretches of plasma rail to the outer edges as the city lights faded behind us. Nights were lit by twin moons and we passed the time listening to old mixes we’d recorded in our youth, our playlists humming through our comms as we hurtled across other-worldly landscapes at 200mph. In the two months that followed, we would laugh in the ruins of the Oblivion Cradle, party with rogue miners in bioluminescent fungi caverns, feel the cold rush of air as our bikes skimmed the ridges of the Halcyon Scar, be chased by Karn bike gangs through synth-storms, and save a lone settler named Joyce trapped in a dust pocket whilst traversing the Ash Spires. 

As we hurtled towards the promise of the Dream Beacon, I often wondered, was the beacon even real? And if it was, what would I even upload as my transmission? Maybe one of those old mixes we used to make. I’m sure all these questions flickered across all our minds, unspoken. But that summer, deep down, none of it really mattered. I would’ve followed those three anywhere..."

@riccardovillella
@truants
IG: @villella303
truantsblog.com

Distant Signals 077: Villella

“No planning went into this mix. Just one take recorded after reading the prompt. Recorded alone in my studio in Burlington, VT on a quiet night. I tried to not think about beatmatching. I also try to only play music I love, and I think I did that here. I enjoyed myself, which is another important thing I try to do. Here are some moments in my life that I have enjoyed greatly. 
-driving to a 24/7 truck stop diner in a snow storm in the middle of the night and writing thoughts down inbetween sips from the ceramic mug. 
-smoking a cigarette in an outhouse in the morning.
-every party that has disregarded time.
-everytime music has made me smile or gotten me so inspired that I find myself stuck in a repeating loop.”

@burlingtonelectronicdepartment
IG: @roost.world
Burlingtonelectronicdepartment.bandcamp.com

Distant Signals 078: Roost.World

“Geologist’s Erotic Log, Stardate 6969:

A lithophile—if literal and not biological or geochemical—is a lover of rocks as opposed to a scholar of them. I was shocked to find mineral sentience on a planet that had been mined for centuries. I wonder how many were lost to our ignorance.

They made themselves known while I was surveying a new shaft, a desirous, violent penetration. It was a delicate return of touch, skin against stone; my fragility tantalizingly clarified by their solidity. Although I pulled away, nearly ran away, I was rapt. A vibratory intensity held me, invited me deeper into their earth-dark interior with fingers traced along a precious fault line. In absent sight, I became haptic expanse, relishing my tongue against water-polished smooth and bloody, igneous scrape on inner thighs. They were pleasured too, I both flesh stalagmite and cavern. I came, a quiver; they came, a quake. As quickly they were gone into the indurate expanse at which I could only chip away. Perhaps a taste of our own medicine.”

@ezri_dax
IG: @ezri_dax

ezri_dax selects compassionate speed to bring you into transwarp; psychedelic rhythms to meld minds; high camp to tug the heartstrings; and always keeps it spacey on the 1s & 2s.

Tracklist:
1. Chris and Cosey, “Re-Education Through Labour”
2.  Fever Ray, “This Country Makes it Hard to Fuck (Björk Remix)
3. Raja Kirik, “ACT II. Budhal Gumuruh”
4. Octopic, “Eremita”
5. Nihiloxia, “Bwola (BFTT’s Swamped Edit)”
6. Vilaan, “How to Heal”
7. Jek, “Body”
8. Krumelur with Minimal Criminal, “Climbing Coconut Tree Backwards”
9. mögela, “Katten Lotus”
10. Sindh, “Liquefaction”
11. Rxex, “ATS IND”
12. Egg Meat, “Georgel”
13. Nebuchadnezzar, “eatmacand”
14. Orieta Chrem x Selvagia, “Puñete”
15. Muskila, “QAAR B”
16. Evelyn, “Pregunta”
3 / 3
17. sard, “defused”
18. Zvrra, “Alluvial”
19. Dåsar, “Doabey”
20. Xen Chron, “1L4U”
21. RM Estali, “Reboot”
22. Emelexy, “Raaro”
23. Seta Loto, “5MeODMT”

Distant Signals 079: ezri_dax

"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

“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

KTV episode 3: Matthew Paul

For this episode we’re amplifying an important fundraiser for Rosibel, a homeless Honduran Trans Woman who is seeking stable shelter and a financial safety net as she seeks asylum in San Francisco. To learn more about Rosibel and how to help visit: https://www.gofundme.com/f/honduran-trans-woman-rosibel-seeks-safety?fbclid=IwAR3wjcWC8uET1ec_pRuMg2w2lTBCxwqFOx7y_MovNIAtZCkF9wC1zQey8GM

Matthew Paul is a co-conspirator and co-founder for both K.T.V. and the Kosmetik residency at The Stud. Not prescribing to a particular genre, Matthew conveys his love for underground dance floors, queer history, and West Coast psychedelia through his music selections.
Soundcloud: https://soundcloud.com/matthew_paul_sfo

To see the A/V format of the show visit faultradio.com/shows/ktv

KTV: Matthew Paul X Zachary Rodell | Fault Radio AV Set in San Francisco (October 14, 2020)

Received transmissions from the outer reaches of an exquisite corpse universe

Distant Signals 063: Matthew Paul

DISTANT SIGNALS