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Distant Signals Mix Series

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@sisterzo delivers the goods on this mix that marks the 1 year anniversary of the PMx series

Tracklist:
Sister Zo - Unreleased
Kangding Ray - Bitter Keylime
Ehua - Picaboo
RAAB - Outstraight
Coffintexts - half oz
Aloka - Rotary-XL
Farr - Wide Eye
False Persona & Sarah - Piped Up
Ozwald - Sex Drum
Sister Zo - Unreleased
JSPORT - Guillotine Drum
Ozwald - Lord Of The Buss
Despina - Tulpa
Hagan - Talking Drum
Piezo - Ottovolante
Coen - Clang
Peder Mannerfelt - Vankelmotor
Carlo Lio - B.O.D.Y.L.O.C.K. (Original Mix)
Le Motel - Spirals
Octopic - Seagal
Zenker Brothers - Sample Predator
Burna - Spectral
Sister Zo - Unreleased
JKS - The Tribe
RUIZ OSC1 - Snare 3000
Batu - Through The Glass

PMx 14 - Sister Zo

@deejay_jm brings the hardest drums for PMx 21

Tracklist:
D2 Feat Dan Diamond - Therapy
DJ JM - Winted
Peace Division pres. Dark Daze - Lotties Vogue
Jimmy Sommerville - Heartbeat (Armands Cardiac mix)
DJ JM - Barrakuda
Bawrut - Clapa
Robag Whrume - Unspoken
Mirweis Sangin - Athan Dance
A made up sound - Take the Plunge (beat mix)
Neil Landstrumm - Keep up
DJ JM - Charge 
La Fleur - Tears
Peace Division - Blacklight Sleaze (Gerds Tough Sleaze Remix)
Baby Ford - Ambo (alter ego rmx)
Shangri-lies - Greed
Ryan Eliott - Snake Charmer
Black Light Smoke - Maniac
Madam X & DJ JM - Copacabathens
Yotam Avni - Track for Agoria
Peter van Hoesen - Outlands
Dean Grenier - Sweet dreams
Erik Luebs - falling

PMx 21 - DJ JM

MAX WATTS STUDIO MIX JULY ‘24

“For this mix, I imagined a transmission from a world not unlike our own, in which a sentient species grapples with accelerating cultural and technological change. The slow, gradual rhythms of geologic time buried beneath the frenetic pulse of a technologized surface.

Within this vast evolving system, an individual awakes to look out at the structures criss-crossing the horizon – buildings that extend deep underground with people emerging to the surface like ants, distant waters pooled into huge humming tanks, mines carved into the side of a mountain, and lights illuminating a sky that never gets dark. They feel a momentary sense of unease before their attention is drawn to a torrent of information flooding their consciousness from transmitters embedded in their brain. They’ve been asleep too long and it’s time to get going.”

@shaifm
IG: @_shai.fm_

Distant Signals 069: Shai FM

In this last PMx for the the year @dyslecta traverses a spectrum of low end techno and percussive sonics

Tracklist
1. Emeka Ogboh  - Verbal Drift 
2. 0203983A  -  05             
3. Shelley Parker  -  Red Cotton 
4. Surgeon  - The Power Of Doubt      
5. Ottagone  -  Ottagone 003      
6. Tenebre  - Axe Nord-Sud 
7. Dyslecta -  Sapient Pig 
8. Aitch - Super Bowl Rice 
9. phil in a maze -  Hoax (Tool) 
10. Planète -  Passing Through  
11. LWS  -   Unstuck     
12. yas reven  -  Etoy  
13. Dean Grenier  - Radiant Damage    
14. Tymotica - Riptide     
15. Dyslecta - Fulcrum 
16. Toupaz - Rabatanto      
17. Ternion Sound - Ukandu Ikandu  
18. De Grandi - Valve 
19. Teqmun - Optimistic Fly    
20. Dyslecta - Int'toil 
21. VIOLA - IL Tek

PMx 28 - Dyslecta

Kicked off 2025 with @feralsound Recoil party at the 700 with a few forthcoming tracks available below :)
https://viefrecords.bandcamp.com/album/thermal-expansion
https://elicitrecords.bandcamp.com/album/connected-02-2
https://www.instagram.com/feralsound/
https://www.instagram.com/recoil.action/

Tracklist
1. Young Muscle - Uber to Hackney
2. WRACK - Bamboo Shoots (Cassius Select Remix)
3. Shai FM - Heatsink
4. DJ Plead - DVE
5. Theorist - Runitbak
6. Doctor Jeep - Key Activation
7. Pearson Sound, Or:la - Chant (Pearson Sound Edit)
8. Pinch & Mumdance - Big Slug (Instrumental)
9. Crimewave - Redacted (Commodo x Crimewave)
10. Gantz - Lyrical Trick
11. Hebbe - Jah Seen Rastafari Dub
12. Jpeg - Bruk
13. Coffintexts - Suave ft Baby G (Florentino Remix)
14. DJ JM - Charge
15. Harba - Lakking
16. Laksa - LEO
17. Cardozo - Hurting My Feet
18. DJ ADHD - DL Underground (Jossy Mitsu Remix)
19. Shai FM - Snake Of All Points (Alloy Mix)
20. Shortage - Heavyweight (Phasmid Remix)
21. Toura - God Forgive Me If I Buss My 909
22. Kid Antoine - Recon
23. Toumba - Rashash
24. Ayesha - Ecstatic Descent
25. Biri - Upward Spiral
26. Pessimist - Danger
27. Human Movement - Yu
28. Ayesha - V7
29. Jialing & Farsight - Whistle Tip (Farsight Flip)
30. Toura - Salamander
31. Less-O - Last Mic Jack
32. Om Unit & James Bangura - Ruffneck
33. Debba - Just Wanna (Pluralist Remix)
34. RHR & Logan_Olm - Diagonal (Dub Mix)
35. LAS - Trippin
36. Tomás Urquieta - 32 Balas (Rhyw's Double Dribble remix)
37. Atrice - Chamber of Mazarbul
38. Fox - Deleted Scene

Shai FM @ Recoil [Feral Sound] 19 Jan 2025

@casper-hastings ushers in spring with propulsive techno weight on PMx 31

Tracklist:

Anodyne - Empire Of Time (Defekt Remix)
Casper Hastings - Akashita
Late Night Approach -The Naus Investigation
Stenny - TrackQY
Beaabea -Constants
Dom Carlo & Mulholland - 923
Frederic - Drift
Gesloten Cirkel - Submit X
Coco Bryce - NTT(Meant 2 B)
Gamma Intel - Casual Power
MarekSPolzki - One More (Fresko Remix)
Courtion - Slave Redirected
Taais - Native Rhythm
Andy Martin - Prima Materia
Amotik - Tirepan
MarekSPolzki - One More
SLV - Signature
Luca Treque - Power Prism 
Ecilo - Phlyps Frequencies 
Sunden - To Live Forevere In A Skylit Room

PMx 31 - Casper Hastings

Makeshift w/ Shai FM [ @shaifm ]. Makeshift is an evolving exploration of rhythm and sound, oriented towards global underground music. Spanning downtempo, global club / bass and occasionally experimental music, the show explores the liminal space between genres and tempos.

Listen live - 3rd Saturdays, 4-5PM ET at www.greatcircles.net

~Tracklist~ 
Tom Hillock, Nicolas Boscovic - Icescape
so wet's water kingdom - the grey space in between
Luar Domatrix - Bo Teias (Gen Ludd Disco Problem Remix)
URA - Hash
Diagram of Suburban Chaos - Cryhsat
Tetelepta - T5
Conna Haraway - Conna's Telephone Is Tapped (Opheliaxz Remix)
Gipsyan - Sad Dancer
Henzo - For Your Consideration (Terrace Mix)
Plebeian - Barcode
Topdown Dialectic - A4
Pugilist - Misanthrope
Yak - Darunia
Salamanda - Mirror Mirror
Pugilist - Flip Trix
Command D - Half Blue (Violet Mix)
Secede - Vega Libre: The Marvel
Circuit 900 - Bonus Level
Millia - Untitled Dub
Ciel & Ali Berger - Damn Skippy! (Davis Galvin Remix)
Vanoni - Lenga
Sputnik One - Connected by a Wall

Makeshift w/ Shai FM - 20April2025

Makeshift w/ Shai FM [ @shaifm ]. Makeshift is an evolving exploration of rhythm and sound, oriented towards global underground music. Spanning downtempo, global club / bass and occasionally experimental music, the show explores the liminal space between genres and tempos.

Listen live - 3rd Saturdays, 4-5PM ET at www.greatcircles.net

~Tracklist~
1. Yak - Uncle Legs
2. Pluralist - Tondaru
3. Product Toss - Bile
4. Batu - Meridian
5. Yushh - I Don't Care Until I Do
6. Ultramax & Cadeu - So Good
7. Drumskull - Recovered Artefacts
8. Viers - Blow
9. Bitter Babe - Nadie lo puede parar
10. Oso Feo - Clear Mind
11. Trussie - Scuzzy
12. Saudade - Mueve Tu Cucu
13. Coen - Slayer
14.  - ovid - tooth hurts [v2 demo]
15. noRecall - Listen
16. Josi Devil - Restless Sleep
17. Gloorp - Glimpse
18. SBWT - SBWT - Liquify
19. Insomniast - Ships in the Night
20. Dj Fucci x Manao - Sabores

Makeshift w/ Shai FM - 18May2025

LU2K invites Philadelphia based Producer & DJ - Shai FM

LU2K INVITES Shai FM - 09 Juin 2025

"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

For the 25th installation of our series, @shaifm delivers complex, organic percussions interwoven over elastic and flavorful basslines. Based on bass music, and folding in an eclectic palette of global electronic music influences, the set maintains an impactful, driving, and playful energy. A perfect one for sweating it out under the summer sun. 

Born in China and raised in the San Francisco Bay Area, Shai FM is a DJ and producer who moves fluidly across the bass and club spectrum, influenced by his cross-cultural upbringing. Now based in Philadelphia, Shai FM continues to push his sound forward, sharing stages with artists like Two Shell, Nikki Nair and Anna Morgan, earning a reputation for blending forward-thinking club music with his own productions. He holds a residency on Philly’s Great Circles Radio and has been featured on Resident Advisor’s Mix of the Day. As a producer, his tracks have earned spins on influential platforms such as Dekmantel, Rinse FM and Lot Radio and support from artists like Om Unit, Interstellar Funk, Re:ni, Aloka, Ayesha, Pluralist, Teqmun and more.

His most recent release came out just a week ago: Erre, rooted in club music experimentation and aligned with RUTA’s transnational creative ethos. Featuring producers from Colombia, Mexico, Ecuador, Germany, USA, the UK, and France, Erre maps a global network fluent in bass-heavy rhythms.
https://rutamp3.bandcamp.com/album/erre

Tracklist: 

1. Vice City - Rewild The Dreams
2. Syz - Mindforms
3. Asusu - Velez (A Made up Sound Remix 2)
4. Drummy, Martini - Martini - Friendly Fire
5. Kahter - Bubble
6. DJ Plead - Dj Plead - Crush and Burn
7. Aroent - Say (Ploy's Skeletal Tool Remix)
8. Casper Hastings - Reaper (Peder Mannerfelt Remix)
9. Louie - Mecha
10. Trudge - Eye For An Eye
11. Dj Spit - Heavy Breathing
12. Hojo - 16 O's (Instrumental)
13. DJ Doomscroll - Doomscroll
14. Pearson Sound - Alien Mode
15. Dubrunner & SCG - Rainbow Road
16. Fraxinus - Stone Drums
17. K-65 - No Stop
18. Ayesha - Tunnel Visions
19. Lenson - Andiam
20. 3Phaz - Drum Track (OMAAR remix)
21. Laksa - Mind
22. R A L L Y - Amaranth (Young Muscle Remix)
23. PPC - Maximum Style
24. Malo2k - Aukén
25. Eversines - Plooi
26. Fluid Matter - Tiptoe

hyphen mix 025 - Shai FM

"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

Received transmissions from the outer reaches of an exquisite corpse universe

Distant Signals 069: Shai FM

DISTANT SIGNALS