Distant Signals Mix Series

Sam PV Mixes

2025 Part II

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Born in Rome, now based in Florence, DJ and producer Matisa has long been attuned to the intersection of music and style. Having studied at Polimoda, one of the world’s most respected fashion schools, she approaches music selection with an aesthetic gaze – crafting bright visions and immersive environments from her record crates.

For her Crack Mix, Matisa drifts between 133 to 135 bpm playing vinyl only. Setting the scene in her own words, Matisa told us, “I imagined the feeling of recording this in a water bubble, I wonder if your perception will be the same!”

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Crack Mix 428: Matisa

For the 115th entry in the Honcho Podcast series, we welcome Sam PV! Sam is the founder and a resident at Pumping Velvet, a London-based Queer dance party that takes place bi-monthly at LGBTQ+ venue Dalston Superstore.

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.

This mix is a live recording of Sam's set at Kiss Me Again, a Manchester-based LGBTQ+ dance party, in November 2022.

Honcho Podcast Series 115: Sam PV

placid.deep.electro.

Sam is a resident at the infamous East London party Pumping Velvet which takes place every two months at the much loved Dalston Superstore. For those in the know, this is a venue with a storied reputation as one of the most influential LGBTQ+ venues in the city and has been a home and safe space to music lovers and free spirits for many, many years.

As such, the role of a resident DJ in such as space is in high demand and highly acclaimed. Only the best and the most creative selectors are given the reigns. We are delighted to spotlight and showcase one such DJ in Sam PV who has built a reputation as a talented selector who knows how to read a room with skill and decorum.

Introduced to us by a friend, this mix takes us on a whirlwind tour across a breadth of sounds, featuring both a UK influence and music from further afield. It’s a riotous selection of Garage, Kuduro, Breakbeat and beyond which firmly celebrates the modern sound of club culture in London.

Unspeakable Joy (20358)

Sam PV: The 'Shine A Light On' Mix

Sam PV (He/Him) - Live at (Re)treat 2024

Sam PV is the founder and a resident at Pumping Velvet, a London-based Queer dance party. 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.

Notes on the Mix ///

"This mix is a live recording of my set from the most recent edition of Vietnam's (Re)treat festival, taking place in the beautiful location of Mai Châu. The set acted as a love letter to my wonderful queer friends and family who turned up to turn out the dancefloor while I played and features a number of queer producers who's music I hold dear <3 It opens with a patient stretch of house tunes, both new and old, before letting loose with Mexican electroclash, UKG and straight up pop bangers. I hope you have as much fun listening as I did playing!" 

SOCIALS
@pumpingvelvet
https://www.instagram.com/sampv____/

TRACKLIST:
1. Bex - Stretcher
2. Midland - Construct a Future (ft. Marlon Riggs)
3. Bouffant Bouffant - Colinda
4. Musclecars - Tonight (NV South Jersey Dub)
5. Jovonn - WHAT
6. Sun Children - The Gate
7. Banana Moon - Full Service
8. Adult Hits - Daybreak (Special Version)
9. Wallace - Tanzanite
10. K-Hand - Untitled B1
11. Dusk Til Dawn - Adrenaline Rush
12. Nelson - Love Reincarnation (Acid Mix)
13. Canetis - Gas Money
14. Michael Cignarale - Out of Control (Full 12" Mix)
15. Unknown Artist - Untitled
16. Sonido Lasser Drakar - Flesh
17. Chico Blanco - Sorry (Paurro Remix)
18. CCL - Plot Twist
19. Syclops - Pink Sarah NYC is Back
20. Luca Lozano & Mr Ho - Rok Thi Beet
21. ROCTIV - Life
22. Marshall Applewhite - TV Track
23. Tove Lo - HEAT
24. Moreno Acido + Diogo - Verde Grama
25. M.I.A. - Bamboo Banga
26. Daniel Beddingfield - Gotta Get Thru This (Joe Delon's Right Stuff Edit)
27. DJ Q - Superstylin' (DJ Q Bootleg Edit)
28. Kylie Minouge - Spinning Around (7th District Club Mental Mix)
29. Demuja - Back for More
30. Goldfrapp - Train (Ewan Pearson 4/4 Vocal)
31. Underworld - Two Months Off
32. Hud Mo - Is it Supposed

XOXA BLEND 235 - Sam PV

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

For us, Tet is getting gayer by the year, and now we’ve got Britney Spears’ snake (or python?) lined up for 2025. Can you imagine?!🐍 To celebrate, we’re welcoming a new friend who’s been weaving his way deeper into Vietnam’s queer scene with every visit: Sam PV. She’s been busy! From Savage (Hanoi) to Kockiri (Seoul) to (Re)treat Festival (Vietnam), Sam’s definitely been making plenty of friends in our corner of the globe. Known for his iconic Pumping Velvet parties in London since 2018, we’re thrilled to share a little of that sparkle to you. About his mix, Sam says something about edging… and honestly, it is the fantasy. Enjoy! 🎶🍌💦

“For this mix I wanted to create an hour of dancing music for queers of all persuasions that also provides the kind of enjoyable home listening experience that makes you wish you were out dancing. The mix is all about balance and restraint, coursing with sex, pop and c***y nrg, while never becoming outright banging. A bit like the aural equivalent of edging ;-)” - Sam

DJ Rawcut - How Low Can U Go?
2 Gucci 4 U - Attention Please
Decius - Walking in The Heat
Wallace (ft Love Letters) - Cravings
Whitney Weiss - 3 Demons in a Trenchcoat
Physical Therapy & Jacob Meehan - Deeesire
Vermelho Wonder - Dance Fatal (Zopelar OG Remix)
Capes & Adult Hits - Rush
Kylie Minogue - Where is The Feeling (West End TKO Mix)
99 Allstars - Soakin’ Wet
Byron the Aquarius - Baddest Behaviour (Dam Swindle Remix)
Sally C & Elisa Rose - Dr Pleasure
Ghost Phone - ATM
It’s Giving - It’s Giving Theme
SCJ -Voltaire’s Mantra

Genderfunk #2 with Sam PV

@pumpingvelvet
Sam is the founder and a resident at Pumping Velvet a London-based Queer dance party. His taste is moulded by the city’s diverse dance music scenes. Sam’s mixing style is eclectic in it’s sexiness creating a unique Sam PV groove. 

Track Highlight:
"I'd like to ID After That by Sain Guel (coming in at 39 minutes into the mix). It's a wonderfully classy slice of garage inflected house that sounds utterly timeless, even though it only just came out in December last year as part of the iconic Thai label More Rice's 7th anniversary compilation. Miguel is from the Philippines but this tune screams 90s NYC with its shuffling drums and hypnotically uplifting vocal. Just the bit of sunshine I need to see me through this winter"

Thank Sam!

Sam PV...IsBurning #163

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

"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

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

Project Reality w/ Deejay Energy - 230425

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

A clinic in minimal from the elusive Acting Press boss. 

Why do certain sounds cultivate a cult following? Simply put, it's often because they resist easy consumption. PLO Man and his imprint Acting Press lean into this. 

Searching for the Berlin-based DJ and producer, you won’t find much online presence, interviews or conventional PR. What you will find, if you look hard enough, is a catalogue of records and mixes with a kind of tape hiss charm (a spiritual successor to Basic Channel and Chain Reaction, but scuzzier and lighter on its feet).

Founded in 2015, Acting Press once seemed to belong to the short-lived "outsider house" trend, but is now synonymous with a certain strain of modern minimal, one that is analogue, spacious and pointedly opaque. PLO Man's output is equally sparse by design: this week, he joins the RA Podcast with a characteristically elusive style, accompanying the near two-hour mix is a one-answer Q&A that gives almost nothing away.

Stripped-back, ever-so-slightly sleazy and coated in dust, PLO Man's RA Podcast continues that lineage in style. Opening with the featherlight microhouse of Margaret Dygas, RA.988 unfolds into a carefully curated spectrum of minimal, dub and deep techno. Among familiar names—look out for the blinding Rhythm & Sound and Moodymann blend—are deep cuts and left turns alongside the odd outlier, like lovers' rock pioneer Gregory Isaacs.

Like the best of his forebears, PLO Man wants RA.988 to take time for you to settle in. But once you do, you won’t want to leave. 

@p_el_oh

Find the tracklist and interview at ra.co/podcast/988

RA.988 PLO Man

https://callshopradio.com/shows/objet-personnel

Objet Personnel w/ softburn (Klympt) 13.05.25

“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

“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

Received transmissions from the outer reaches of an exquisite corpse universe

Distant Signals 075: Sam PV

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