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Honcho ‘25

For Georgie

Honcho 2025 Preview

For the 97th entry in the Honcho Podcast Series, we welcome Baronhawk Poiter (@baronhawkpoitier)! Growing up in PG County, Maryland nestled between Baltimore and Washington, DC shaped life for artist Baronhawk Poitier. Listening to local radio stations and sorting through records while working at The Record Exchange heavily influenced his pursuit of a career as a producer and DJ. He was recognized alongside mentor Kris Klayton aka Karizma/ Kaytronik with a grant from the National Endowment of Arts for electronic music production. Baronhawk expresses his passion for cultural preservation and education working with dance legends at the nonprofit culture and education project Urban Artistry, Inc. He has also earned a name for himself within the LGBTQIA+ dance music community as a member of the unique DC based queer artist collective “The NeedleExchange,” who are known for their independent events, raves and DJ residencies. 

In February of this year, we hosted Baronhawk for the Not Mass weekly stream. His outstanding mix blew us all a way and served as a beautiful 90 minute escape of house and funk. Baronhawk radiates joy; you can always count on him to bring a smile to your face.

Tracklist:

New World Generation / Curious Soul
Secretsundaze / Over The Edge
Karizma / Annihilate
Cerrone / Funk Makossa
Bertrand Dupart / Ketekole (Bodhi Stava Dub)
Nubian Minds / So Good (Psyan Remix)
Wham / Everything She Wants (Unknown Edit)
Roxy / The Contagion (Baronhawk Poitier Masked Mix)
Culoe Du Song / Bright Forest
Ray Charles / Elena Rigby (Quentin Harris Mix)
S3A / Sleepness 909
The Carry Nation / Majorettes
Tobias Schmidt / Brains
Pittsburgh Track Authority / Oculus Sinister
Eddie Fowlkes / X Groove
Dr Tintin / Texture
Technasia / My Force
House Gospel Choir / Gods Trying (Kaytronik’s Speak Dub)
Aretha Franklin / What A Fool Believes

Honcho Podcast Series 97: Baronhawk Poiter

Aired on the Community Investing Through Sound stream on 7/16/21

This Is A Simulation Mix

from timbre room NECK takeover april 23 2022
august222222.com

august V. M. @ timbre room DJ set april 2022

Deep beats, improvisational jazz, and oddities

http://www.instagram.com/cmioner

DJ Etta @ The Lot Radio 10-01-2023

Based in the pacific northwest, enereph (@nebula-716736875) weaves introspective sounds into intricate rhythmic layers, creating narrative atmospheres to connect with the innermost cores of feeling. Drawing from cross-genre experimentalism, enereph traverses the outer edges of sound, often pushing into the unknown. After two years focused on composing and performing live sets, enereph is slated to release an EP reflecting their distinct voice on NAGA in June.
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Tracklist:
Howie Lee - Mantra of Buddha Akshobhya 不动佛心咒
IHA - ginhawa ᜄᜒᜈ᜔ᜑᜏ
Seta Loto - L5 S1
Memeshift - Racially Charged
Apu Nanu - The Journal
Laughing Ears - Unstable 变
OHYUNG - now i close my eyes the world i see is so beautiful
Azu Tiwaline - Medium Time
Dagshenma - Extextext
Looting - Nervous System
FITNESSS | LAG SWITCH - SHRAPNEL
Amazondotcom - Leopard’s Dream
Arexibo - 3
Plebeian - Escarole
Mice - Purification 净化
Ziyiz - Slipd
Color Plus - Nota Huminne
Enayet - Chokkor
T5UMUT5UMU - arc
Undrwght - Ymir
Aylu - groove 4.2
Ashwell Woodland - Alone in Our Living Room (feat. ephemeral objects)
Yara Asmar - 4 is an okay number

KMS050 enereph

Bézier’s music walk the line between soft and hard, emotive and gritty. From their early interest in braindance and IDM to their dance-forward proclivities, Bézier’s influences are wide-ranging, resulting in music that is as carefree as it is relentless.

http://www.instagram.com/_bezier

Bézier @ The Lot Radio 06-07-2024

Ballroom/Club Tool of my favorite New Orleans Bounce tracks! Shoutout to Fly Boi Keno <3

Kicking Flavors Tool

As the first of this winter's snow hit the ground this week, we're channelling sunnier times with another instalment of Crack Magazine and Love International's Transmission to Tisno mix series.

This time, Bristol techno and UK bass legend Hodge and Dublin's Woozy founder EMA - who both played this year's edition of the festival - go b2b for a heads-down set filled with heavy heaters and impeccable vibes.

Transmission to Tisno: A Winter Warmer from Hodge b2b EMA

Rinse FM Podcast

Pariah presents Voam B2B MJK - 14 November 2024

Honcho is a DJ and curation trio made up of Aaron Clark, Clark Price & d'Adhemar. A pillar of the new American wave of queer underground house and techno, Honcho is a resident party at the infamous Hot Mass club in Pittsburgh and it also has become known for their annual Honcho Campout festival. Enjoy!

ITPS111 HONCHO

Pariah presents Voam with Akua - 12 December 2024

Recording of CCL & Objekt's set at Dekmantel Selectors 2024.

CCL & Objekt at Dekmantel Selectors 2024

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

HUNY XO live at Papi Juice Vol. 96, Papi Pressure. Elsewhere (Brooklyn, NY). Dec 13, 2024.

HUNY XO @ Papi Juice Vol. 96

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

On October 21st, 2023, Miscellaneous records and DETOUR presented a night of locals ONLY! To celebrate the home team, slowdanger, Oscar Celedon and Kay Chin took us thru the night, playing only the best tracks from their respective collections!

slowdanger:
"slowdanger’s sound work emphasizes the activation of the senses through vibration, groove and texture. For listeners of this mix, they invite you to feel the groove enter your flesh, vibrate the bones and escape into the invisible architecture of the sonic world."

Recorded Live: 10.21.23 (by @slowdangerslowdanger at @Hot-mass)
Mastered By: M Parent
Photo By: Michael Parente
Artwork By: Gusto

DETOUR Podcast 30: slowdanger (Live at Hot Mass)

Tripped-out excursions through percussive club music with the Nowadays resident.

Ayesha Chugh, AKA Ayesha, makes club music that activates the body. The Brooklyn-based artist has spent the last few years carving out a distinct lane in modern club music. Her fusion of dubstep, techno and essential '90s rave elements into dynamite club tools that test and support dancers in equal measure. This time though, for her RA Podcast, Chugh purposefully tilts in a "more colorful wonky direction."

Since first turning heads with releases on labels like Fever AM and Kindergarten Records, she’s continued to refine a sound that feels both playful and punishing, marked by writhing basslines, rumbling drums and an innate ability to make bodies move. Her productions capture a kind of kinetic precision—tracks that are slippery yet forceful, balancing psychedelic textures with dubstep-like physicality and club-focused power. As Andrew Ryce wrote of her debut, Rhythm is Memory, her skill is "full of textures that wrap around the otherwise thudding, sub-heavy kick drums." After a serious accident in 2024 stopped her in her tracks, this year marks a full return to global touring with a new vantage point on life and the sound she seeks to push.

RA.983, clocking in at nearly two and a half hours, finds Chugh flexing that club muscle once again. Offering a tour through global club music both old and new, it's based around a set at her home base Nowadays this February. It's a patient but relentless ride: from deep, tunneling psytrance, progressive techno and slippery electro before really turning on the gas at the half mark, moving into slanted UK techno territory.

As she explains in the Q&A, it's a carefully curated selection of tracks that probes "what we perceive as tasteful." It's a mix that speaks to her deep knowledge of dance music’s lineage—and her intuitive ability to push it forward.

@aye5ha
Find the interview and tracklist at ra.co/podcast/983

RA.983 Ayesha

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

"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

999ADJ @ Revival (5.25.25)

Club Moment celebrates its 50th episode, inviting Berlin-based Londoner Kenny, aka B.B.K. and local hero BEARCAT. Kenny is the founder of the Black Music Summit and runs the creative agency Taboo, where she’s known for building creative partnerships, curating lineups, and organizing community-driven events. While spending the summer in New York, she’s been soaking up the city’s energy, connecting with its people, and exploring its vibrant soundscape. For this episode, she’s curated a selection spotlighting music by predominantly Black artists and producers.

In the second hour, fellow Londoner and genre-blurring DJ/producer BEARCAT steps in with a special guest mix—bringing their own bold and distinct perspective to the show.


https://www.instagram.com/justkennyx 
https://www.instagram.com/b_e_a_r_c_a_t
https://soundcloud.com/bearcats_mixtapes



Club Moment #50 with BEARCAT @ The Lot Radio 07-13-2025

"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

BEARCAT IN THE BADROOM 1.6.18

Received transmissions from the outer reaches of an exquisite corpse universe

Distant Signals 080: enereph

DISTANT SIGNALS