Distant Signals Mix Series

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DJ Mixes

2025 mix series mixes, live dj sets, mixes, mixtapes

Philip Sherburne

BASS

Radio Corax in Halle 25.06.22 Schallwurm

@livwutang @ Nowadays, NYC, for Aurora Halal's residency. An excerpt of her opening set 10pm-2.30am 20th august 2022.

<3

@nowadaysnyc

ani/live Three: livwutang @ Nowadays

Kindergarten with Ayesha, Ma Sha and DJ Voices @ The Lot Radio 04-15-2023

Janus Rose is a producer, synthesist, and DJ hailing from Brooklyn, NY. A veteran of NYC's underground electronic music scenes, she has evolved her sound constantly over more than a decade. Composing hip-shaking club anthems on everything from hardware modular synthesizers to the Nintendo Game Boy, her compositions and DJ style draw heavily from the languages of cyberfeminism, rave culture, and DIY electronic aesthetics.

Notes on the Mix ///
"My friend MacKenzie Wark once described Techno music in a way that made a lot of sense to me. "I feel like it’s alien to any kind of body at all, so I don’t feel especially weird in it,” she told me when I interviewed her recently for an article about queer and trans experiences of raving. This feeling — of being pleasantly disembodied, guided by rhythmic sounds that bear no resemblance to anything in our increasingly terrifying material reality — has become a central focus of my practice as a queer musician.

Over the last few years, we’ve seen an expanding experimental sound palette begin to infiltrate club music. This is thanks in no small part to producers like SOPHIE, whose unrivaled ability to plumb the frequency spectrum for bizarre and unexpected sounds set the stage for a major shift in pop and dance music.

This mix was an attempt to capture some of most exciting examples of this sea change, focusing specifically on the club and the rave as sites of discovery and healing, generating within us what Wark describes as 'euphoric states of welcome strangeness.'"

SOCIALS:
@janusrose
https://instagram.com/janus.rose
https://ra.co/dj/janusrose
https://janusrose.bandcamp.com

TRACK LIST:
1. Cruel Diagonals - Precipice 
2. Delay Grounds - Wood_Building
3. Akira Takemoto - Psychedelic Farm
4. Sobolik - Cope
5. Debba - Thinking Of U
6. DJ Q - It’s You (Octo Octa’s Slammin’ With U Remix)
7. Villager - Never Gonna Be
8. Dual Monitor - Honey
9. Maude Vôs - Leave Your Body (ft. M-0ther)
10. Introspekt - Deep Inside 
11. Bluetoof - The Hole Got Deeper 
12. Henzo - Finola Shake
13. Nilitach - Awaken
14. Furious Frank, Ludwig A.F. - Trip 2 Fantasy
15. Known Artist - Spread Love (Club Mix)
16. Hannah Monica, Keyspan - Trinity (Original Mix)
17. Piezo - jRj
18. Ziyiz - Sprung Skeleton
19. R Cole - Citron
20. Silva Bumpa - Wickedest
21. Maude Vôs, Marie Nyx - In The Club Out (Janus Rose Remix)

XOXA BLEND 156 - JANUS ROSE

Recording from my live set on HÖR Radio on June 7,  2023. You can view the video version here: https://www.youtube.com/live/eZ8U4g4LCkg?feature=share

Track list below :)

Alejandro Marenco - (Unreleased)
Capiuz - Shift III
Simisea - (Forthcoming)
Kuscheln - (Unreleased)
Aryu Jassika - Greenwood Park Gqom
DJ Lag - Switz
Circuit 900 - Altitude (Decompression)
Ozwald - Lord of the Buss
JSPORT - Guillotine Drum
LWS - Corrupt
Sonia Calico - Neo Tokyo Folk (Ahadadreem & Sam Interface Remix)
Erik Luebs - Synaptic Jitter
Sobolik - (Unreleased)
Big J - pbanger
Anz - Clearly Rushing
Fleksor - YGGITM
Logic1000 - My Choice (Edit)

June

T.Wan Live on HÖR Radio

Simisea live from the Big Room Boogie Showcase at Dripping 2023

@simisea @slinknyc

Simisea at Dripping 2023

Breakbeat Acid & Techno dj mix for Lucid Radio - https://www.youtube.com/@lucidradionyc

// TRACKLIST // (* = unreleased)

S.O.N.S. & Go Dam - Force of Will
Maude Vôs - The Evil Side of Love (feat. Radioactive Dyke)
Tuff Culture - Solar 
Maruwa - On My Mind 
Bored Lord - Feel It*
Friend Within - Don’t Hurt Me
God Colony - Who’s Gonna Save Me?
Monsieur Frazier & Hannah Monica - Action Perfection 
DiGJiT - Blade 4
Sonia Calico - Breaking the Wave
Prizefight - Alnitak
Asphalt DJ & Gzardin - Okra Slink
Maude Vôs & Marie Nyx - Bump of Gay
not even noticed - Don’t You Dare
Maude Vôs & Marie Nyx - In The Club Out (Janus Rose Remix)
R Cole - Doom Vakoom*
Ekzander - Overexposure
kumo99 - Jack-Ten
Overdrive Alliance - Missing U
Ravver - Weightless

Lucid Radio // September 2023 (DJ Mix)

Janus Rose is a NYC-based producer, DJ and synthesist. Utilizing a broad toolset that includes everything from DJ decks to modular synthesizers, her musical practice draws heavily from the languages of cyberfeminism and queer rave culture. 

Hailing from Brooklyn, NY, she has performed both live hardware an DJ sets at clubs across the U.S., as well as in Europe, Australia, and Japan. In 2023, she began releasing music on the LA-based queer imprint Delusional Records, as well as hosting Soft_Reset, a local party for experimental club and bass music.

Most of the tracks in this mix were drawn from a growing playlist I named “Lesbian Techno Sex Forest,” which is hopefully self-explanatory. I wanted to inhabit this percussive catharsis that has been coursing through the leylines of techno and club music - an invitation to move freely and fearlessly within the queer body, and beyond it.

Tracklist on instagram.com/femmedecks

https://www.instagram.com/janus.rose/
https://soundcloud.com/janusrose
https://janusrose.bandcamp.com/album/castles-janus-rose-remix
https://linktr.ee/janusrose

FemmeDecks 099. x Janus Rose

The latest episode of Newtype Rhythms features a guest mix from Brooklyn-based producer, DJ and synthesist https://soundcloud.com/janusrose. For more info on Janus Rose, as well as tracklist for this episode - check out Inverted Audio: https://inverted-audio.com/janus-rose-newtype-rhythms/

https://soundcloud.com/sheepshead-music

IG Page

Newtype Rhythms #186 - Special Guest: Janus Rose

Introducing our third mix artist @janusrose, a NYC-based producer, DJ + synthesist. Utilizing a broad toolset that includes everything from DJ decks to modular synthesizers, her musical practice draws heavily from the languages of cyberfeminism + queer rave culture. Hailing from Brooklyn, NY, she has performed both live hardware and DJ sets at clubs across the US as well as in Europe, Australia + Japan. In 2023, she began releasing music on LA-based queer imprint Delusional Records, as well as hosting Soft_Reset, a local party for experimental club + bass music.

~ ωнαт ∂σєѕ тнιѕ мιχ єχυ∂є? ~
“4:36AM subterranean dancehall flowstate. Slithering through homosexual fog machine haze. Girl I just met touching my ass (consensual). Would you still love me if I was a 40Hz worm?” - Janus Rose

~ тяαᥴкℓιѕт ~
1. Kercha – Separation
2. Doctor Jeep – Phase Morph
3. Siu Mata & Amor Satyr – Phowa
4. Hassan Abou Alam – Mage in a Rage
5. Fleksor – Gouge My Brain
6. Henrique Botella Feat. 808Bhz – Fala Baixo
7. Roy Mills x Human Resources – Sycophantasy
8. Dufraine – Wake
9. Gesceap – Rezonance Burn
10. Ziyiz – Prescience
11. Hudmo x Nikki Nair x Tayla Parx – Set The Roof (Maude Vôs Light It Up Remix)
12. Neida – Halfway
13. Ma Sha – N8sty
14. Kercha – Arguments
15. Laksa – Tech Steppas
16. Martini – If I Don’t Laugh I’ll Cry
17. Delay Grounds – I’d Like to See You Try
18. Atrice – Multiplex
19. Angel Rocket – Rydeen Terminals
20. De Grandi – Vincente De La Makina

~ αятιѕт ℓιηкѕ ~
instagram.com/janus.rose
https://janusrose.bandcamp.com
linktr.ee/janusrose

єχυ∂є мιχ₀₃ ~ Janus Rose

@kiernan-laveaux
WHOLE Ambient Stage 2023

KIERNAN LAVEAUX

“// EXCERPT — LIMINAUT TRAINING MANUAL v1.05 // Last Revision: 2078.10.04

> Once the interface enters Phase 4 you will be synchronized with the ancestor matrix. Which path to follow? Each portal holds a prayer for change beyond its hazy threshold. Transformation is rarely without peril, but stagnation always brings death. 

One must always pass through doorways with clear intention while traversing the hyperdream, lest the connection grow unstable. DO NOT import any external thoughtforms once synchronization is complete. Liminautical travel tends to be most dangerous for those who lack vision and focus. Believe in the truth of each realm you transit within the construct. Allow the ætherwaves to carry you between crystal forests and floating continents, impossible geometries and unknowable voidspace. 

Resist the urge to become attached to one place. Absorb each experience and guard its knowledge like a precious gem. Remember that the great powers of our world do not want us to see worlds beyond their own. The data we gather here shall be their undoing.

//“

@janusrose
IG: @janus.rose

Janus Rose is a NYC-based producer, DJ and synthesist. Utilizing a broad toolset that includes everything from DJ decks to modular synthesizers, her musical practice draws heavily from the languages of cyberfeminism and queer rave culture.

Hailing from Brooklyn, NY, she has performed both live hardware and DJ sets at clubs across the U.S., as well as in Europe, Australia, and Japan. In 2023, she began releasing music on the LA-based queer imprint Delusional Records, as well as hosting Soft_Reset, a local party for experimental club and bass music.

Distant Signals 072: Janus Rose

Recorded at VINT: Lapsus Records 20th Anniversary, Paral.lel 62, Barcelona, September 26, 2024.

Ken Ishii - Kala (Innerelements / Apollo, 1994)
Seefeel - Utreat (Succour / Warp, 1995)
DJ Trystero - VALIS (Castillo / Incienso, 2023)
Oneohtrix Point Never - Stress Waves (Returnal / Editions Mego, 2010)
uon - suB1 (zlo / Motion Ward, 2017)
Tammo Hesselink - Choice of Onto (Work Work Work / Midgar, 2023)
Elkan - Dub for Funny Cats (Elkan / Nous’Klaer, 2024)
Leo Anibaldi - Muta 4 (Muta / ACV, 1993)
Oni Ayhun - OAR002-A (OAR002 / Oni Ayhun Records, 2008)
Autechre - Teartear (Amber / Warp, 1994)
Boards of Canada - Hi Scores (Hi Scores EP / Skam, 1996)

There was a problem with the recorder that caused a second-long dropout in the left channel every 20 seconds. I did a manual fix by copying over the audio from the right channel to fill the gaps; IMO it's almost unnoticeable, unless you're listening for it. I also did a more elaborate fix that papers over those moments, BUT the mix ended up losing some dynamics and stereo separation. I prefer the one uploaded here, but if you find the glitches too distracting, you can download the other version from the link below.

https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/peb7ppsp550ah7t2za7l1/Philip-Sherburne-Lapsus-20th-Anniversary-Set-phase-corrected.aif?rlkey=ahv4442zqry4z2uu7nagydzj2&st=io2khe8n&dl=0

Lapsus VINT 20th Anniversary Set

netil radio ~ spiralling, naturally 006 w/ basic chanel & OL drift (18 12 2024)

Irregular extra special shows from the world of Melbourne reissue label Efficient Space.  
Find the full tracklist and related episodes on NTS: https://www.nts.live/shows/efficient-space/episodes/efficient-space-21st-december-2024

Efficient Space w/ Kuniyuki 211224

a collection of gems from the mind of Eletun Selona

Eletun Selona - before we reach the end (Mix)

The Dekmantel favourite kicks off 2025 in an exploratory mood.

Since her breakout in 2017, Thessa Thorsing has built an enviable CV: a debut release on Nous'klaer Audio, an album on Dekmantel and a residency at former Amsterdam clubbing institution De School. Over these years, she's honed a singular sound, navigating wild variations in tempo and mood that dance along the edges of techno, IDM and drum & bass (we could list many more, but you know the drill).

Her creative arc has seen her delve into ever more abstract concepts, such as 2024's ambient-leaning album, Strange Meridians, exploring the interplay between synthetic and natural textures through drumless experimentations. As she explained in her 2018 RA Breaking Through profile, "I just want to hear the weirdness in the music."

Thorsing's RA Podcast showcases exactly why she's one of the most  consistently adventurous names in dance music. Describing it as "a mix with a narrative," the former landscape architecture student flexes her ability to build sonic environments, beginning in a landscape more akin to a swamp than a club.

Across 90 minutes, she moves through numerous layered terrains, exploring everything from Skee Mask's lucid, beatless techno to the piercing acid of Mike Parker. Unfolding with a restless sense of curiosity, RA.970 captures an artist challenging the boundaries of electronic music, ever upward.

@upsammy

Read more at ra.co/podcast/970

RA.970 upsammy

Basový archeolog Fahell pokračuje ve své výpravě napříč kapitolami jeho oblíbených žánrů - tentokrát ho jeho bádání zavedlo k surovým kořenům oldschool dubstepu a "první vlně" dubstepu. Jeho (i sonické) vyprávění tě provede důležitým kontextem i osobními srdcovkami.

Soundman Chronicles #3 w/ Fahell

Kicking off 2025 in the best company as Tokyo-born, Amsterdam-based don Wata Igarashi takes over with a masterclass in pulsating futuristic techno and widescreen sonics. Through a flurry of top-of-the-range releases for the likes of Dekmantel, Kompakt, Figure and his own imprint, WIP, the Japanese producer has been cementing his position as a true innovator of techno music. His unparalleled knack for crafting big-room-ready tunes that engineer a complex cocktail of cutting-edge elegance, modular intuitivity and hi-impact punch has logically made him a much sought-after talent in the scene. Not departing from that polymathic approach, his RYC mix, recorded at the PURE G event at FINAL Taipei on December 7, treats us to a storm of shape-shifting grooves and brutalist fractals of sound. Beware, high voltage.

soundcloud.com/wata

Reclaim Your City

Reclaim Your City 625 | Wata Igarashi

Jan Swam's artistry is an ever-evolving journey through the boundless realms of sound. With deep roots in diverse musical traditions, his performances traverse tribal polyrhythms, psychedelic soundscapes, and intricate structures, blending vintage tones with cutting-edge innovation. A regular presence at renowned clubs and festivals like Mo:Dem, Garage Noord, and Paraiso, Jan’s sonic explorations captivate audiences across Europe. As one-half of Convoluted Mental Mirror, he delves into immersive, percussive narratives and innovative A/V projects like Mycelium, reflecting nature's interconnected rhythms. Co-founder of Refractor Festival, Jan curates transformative musical experiences, uniting global artists in harmony with the natural world.

@janswam

RADIANCE PODCAST 007 - JAN SWAM

En mursejlers væsen

@bipooolar presents the fourth chapter of Tribal Wanderings, a fluid journey through ambient textures, hypnotic tribal  and eerie free-tekno.

Chapter IV ✧ Bipolar

Numa Gama - A Spectral Turn (Low mix)
Geese - Mystery Cover
Gilb'R - Jah, Il Sait
Barış Manço - Eğri Eğri Doğru Doğru (FOC Edits Rework, Remix)
Ex Ponto - In a Quarry... Far, Far Away
Alpi - Oxalis
Otik - Garuna
oma totem - ER 5
oma totem - Sardana Sardana
Lindamann - Repetation
ADULT. - This Behaviour
A² - Reckless
Untold - Bones (Rockwell Remix)
Randomer - Freak Dub
Joe - R.E.J. Bit
Monibi - Palermo
Soul Mass Transit System - Feelin U

0305

Ghosttown Sound w/ Yas Reven & Mui Mui (10/04/25)

18.04.15 TENSEGRITY feat. Notte Infinita at Daphnia

TRACKLIST

1. AUX MIRARI - MERMAID DUST
2. HAAI, KAM-BU - SHAPESHIFT
3. DEKI ALEM - FUN
4. NO_4MAT - CYBERNETIK JAZZ FM
5. DEVOYE - CLASSIC CLUB TRACK
6. VEGYN, LOUKEMAN - LAST NIGHT I DREAMT I WAS ALONE (LOUKEMAN REMIX)
7. LOPROFILE - MIDNIGHT CLUB
8. CRRDR, BRENDA - KIERE PARY
9. JIALING, THIRD SELF, HONEY B, ROSE KOURTS, WTCHCRFT - ADDY (WTCHCRFT REMIX)
10. WAHALA.WAV - THE GOODS
11. LOVE HIGHER - TIMELESS
12. OKLOU, SOFTT - HARVEST SKY (SOFTT EDIT)
13. SFCOWBOY - GUM SCRAPER / SILVER APPLE
14. SHERELLE - DON'T WANT U
15. MISCHLUFT, FAIRY MARY - OUR SONG
16. SEXTILE - KIDS
17. ANITO SOUL - THE CORDILLERAS
18. DJ MANNY - ALL I DO IS (SMOKE TREES)
19. CHEETAH, NIA ARCHIVES - GET LOOSE (EXTENDED MIX)
20. FIXATE, TIM REAPER - MAY CONTAIN TRACES
21. GYROFIELD - MOTHER
22. KETTAMA, INTERPLANETARY CRIMINAL, WILKINSON - YOSEMITE (WILKINSON REMIX)

APRIL 2025 - Mix

"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

Received transmissions from the outer reaches of an exquisite corpse universe

Distant Signals 072: Janus Rose

DISTANT SIGNALS