ROOM 2 - SATURDAY 20 til 22 🐊🐊🐊

Thanks to Suzybee & Steevio, the volunteers, the dancers, the musicians, Théo & Ugo, the Friends of Fictions, Alex & very special thanks to @iambruce for mastering the recording :)

Hug to @r4r_luz who sadly couldn't make it this year and was supposed to play before me.

Shorter context: https://www.instagram.com/p/C9NI2bwMVcu/

Longer context: https://nonogigsta.substack.com/p/1ec95196-66ba-45d9-91d0-3b1031fc5c42

Freerotation 2024 : The House Of Crocodiles Part 2 (Live Recording)

"In November 2007 Pinch’s debut album Underwater Dancehall was released to widespread acclaim. Four years later in July 2011 Space Shuttle Atlants commenced its final voyage from the Kennedy Space Centre. Unbeknownst to NASA and the crew, somehow a CD copy of Pinch’s landmark Dubstep masterpiece found its way aboard.

While the CD itself survived the journey into space physically unaltered the music contained within morphed and warped in its new zero gravity environment, Underwater Dancehall had become Dancehall in Outer Space. The weighty throb of the original floated away to leave a lean and spacious soundtrack for a new kind weighless wineing.

Whether through alien interference or some other miracle the CD started to play all by itself just as the Shuttle docked with the International Space Station. Beyond their control the crew found their bodies begin to contort into odd shapes as their muscles spasmed, seemingly in time to the beat. What follows is a recording of that moment from the Space Shuttle Atlantis sensors."

@sam_pv / @pumpingvelvet
IG: @sampv____ / @pumpingvelvetldn

Sam is the founder and a resident at Pumping Velvet, a London-based Queer dance party, and regularly plays at queer parties across the UK alongside a US tour and other international gigs including Planeta Manas (Lisbon), Savage (Hanoi), Kockiri (Seoul) and (Re)treat Festival (Vietnam).

Sam grew up in London, his tastes moulded by the city’s diverse dance music scenes: from childhood trips to Notting Hill Carnival, to formative dancefloor experiences at nights like FWD, Trash and Süd Electronic. He brings these influences to his DJing in sets that span a broad gamut of genres, tied together by a love for big drums, pop melodies and sleaze.   

Frustrated by the lack of queer spaces where you could hear both a Svek record and Kylie in the same night, Sam founded Pumping Velvet in 2018, driven by the firm belief that any barriers erected between pop and ‘serious’ dance music are entirely artificial and that there’s no such thing as a guilty pleasure. It’s this same ethos and disregard for boundaries that makes his DJ so thrilling.

Tracklist:
DJ Giant - Something Bady
Schuttle - Junkman
Joe - MPH
Leo - Jade Floors
Malcolm - Damâa
Brenda - Masato!
Kaval - Druid Potion
Product Toss - Willow
Yuseemi - Roll With It
Xzavier Stone, DJ Plead & Phillip Jondo - Bellydance
Plus One - Zero Chance
DJ Pausas & DJ Fofuxo - Tarracho Exxelentt  
Ayesha - Roll
Wes Lee - Gates
DJ Pitch - Juan Mecanico

Distant Signals 075: Sam PV

My set (with crowd noise) from the Grove Saturday Night 1-3am, after Djrum, before Identified Patient. 

Out to all the sexy witches of the forest, thank you to everytone there + entire crew @sustain-release-nyc :)

<3 Mastered by the best @wordcolour

CCL @ Sustain-Release Year Ten

@hjacksonnn b2b @notyumiko live from our first party 

ED0045: Hank Jackson b2b Yumi

Having crossed the Atlantic on a sailboat and toured all over North America by bus and train, Nono Gigsta attempts to translate the adventure through music. 

https://www.instagram.com/gigstab
https://www.soundcloud.com/gigstab



Nono Gigsta @ The Lot Radio 06-27-2025

Interview: https://truantsblog.com/2025/truancy-volume-353-james-k/ 

Soundcloud: @jamesk_1

With her forthcoming album ‘Friend’ set for release on @ad93rec in September, james K weaves memory and emotional directness into a sprawling map of love, euphoria, and intentful listening.

Music by Conna Haraway, Idoplumes, Terra Utopia, Marco Shuttle, Akio & Okihide, Marina Herlop, Carmen Villain, Konduku, MARMO, Pugilist, Pod & more...

Access the download and full tracklist (TBC) on our Patreon (patreon.com/truants). However if you need anything leave us a nice comment here with @jamesk_1 tagged and either of us will get back to you with an ID! Your support helps cover all our costs allows Truants to continue running as a non-profit and ad-free platform.

james K

Truancy Volume 353: james K

For the newest instalment, i'm really happy to welcome the incredible Brussels-based AliA (@aliamusicc). The local mainstay is a regular on Kiosk radio and runs her own label - @artisjokrecords. Alyah, better known as AliA,  has an exciting & unique approach to dj'ing. She is known for her blend of contemporary club music with jazz, classical and experimental sounds. 

I find AliA's musical outputs incredibly refreshing - the kind of artist who reminds you what a really good DJ can do - they can present genres & sounds to you that you'd otherwise maybe not typically explore, in a new and exciting way. For her Animix, Alyah has gone for an intensely chill blend of ambient & immersive music, with minimal, glitchy, dub techno, jazz, classical sounds and more.

Thank you so much for the mix Alyah <3 

Downloads enabled

Animix One Hundred & Seventy Seven: AliA

It is not easy to find Saphira, and it is even harder to leave. If it so chooses, the city will appear first as a quivering mirage on the horizon, second as a blinding stone mirror, and third as a sprawling maze whose sounds and sensations embrace the traveler in a slow and languid frenzy. Quite famously, it is home to countless locked eyes and spellbound hearts. It is a place whose deep currents of longing, like the sound of its ocean shore, seem to rumble and hiss under the surface of every word and gesture, in every bead of sweat that blooms from the glimmering skin of its people.

Saphira is at all times caught between a low-lying sun to the west and a glowing moon to the east. They hang above the skyline with an eerie stillness, watching the city’s tireless creatures writhe together in tenderness and sin, casting upon them a pale, silvery gold light that hangs heavy in the humid air. It is in the tension of this peculiar light and its slender, tangled shadows that Saphira’s longing grows dense and time thickens within its walls. Traveler and resident alike are suspended in an endless eros, caught tightly between pain and pleasure, between the sting of saltwater in one’s eyes and the sticky sweetness of ripe fruit on one’s lips. 

Perhaps this is why Saphira’s radios and televisions stutter with phrases and images so ghostly yet so intimately familiar, why its dusty buildings seem always to crumble so gloriously yet never collapse, why around every corner there is a street that so closely resembles one of a distant and loving memory, and why the curling flakes of paint on its walls and facades will reach out against the heat without fading or falling. It is a city inside of want and outside of time.

Text by Devon Hansen, Photo by CCL

Distant Signals 075: Sam PV

DISTANT SIGNALS