BL RADIO EP115: SUGAR [LIMITED NETWORK]
First hour and some features an all vinyl guest mix by SUGAR from our https://soundcloud.com/limitednetwork family out in Hamtramck/Detroit. She brings the serious funk properly like the dj's of old with her turntable skills and deep knowledge of midwest dance classics. Kosmik follows suit with an impromptu set of recently acquired bargain bin wax and more midwest classics from the 80's and early 90's - choon in!
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BL Radio EP 115: SUGAR [LIMITED NETWORK]

All-vinyl set recorded live at Mansions in New York City on February 2nd, 2024

SPRKLBB All Night Long at Mansions | 2 February 2024

"Man’s search for meaning in the universe; what can be said of it! Having lived for a time disguising myself as one, I am only vaguely qualified to comment. But young adulthood working as a volunteer Field Investigator for the Mutual UFO Network. MUFON is a worldwide non-profit that tracks UFO sightings, looking for a signal in the noise.

Most of the reports left much to be desired – vague reporting that lacked any detail to strike my intuition as proof of life. But there was one person whom I encountered that gave me pause, and still does as I write this now. A humble blue-collar man from the town of Rotterdam, not twenty miles from my own home. I’ve always had a failproof intuition about people & their intentions, and I felt from the moment he opened his mouth that this man was telling the truth about his sighting. He also had actual footage: a pale orange light, slowly gliding across the sky. The light passes behind a church steeple in the foreground, and then appears on the other side, moving on into the horizon. Remember reader, that this was prior to the days of smartphone video and its editability – this was VHS tape! 

In the days that followed talking with him I noted an icy, dreadful feeling growing inside of me. It culminated not long after, when I attended a regression hypnotherapist’s presentation at the New York State MUFON Chapter Annual conference. As the good doctor recanted his portfolio of abductee clients and the strange experiences they reported, I became quite nauseous and my body went into an extreme state of shock. I excused myself from the conference, and later that night, I found myself in a state of nervous breakdown. Was *I* an abductee? Had I been a passenger inside of that pale orange light in the videocassette? I don’t know the answer, but a lifelong obsession about the travails of space travel has followed.

What would it actually be like to be inside of an extraterrestrial spacecraft. Cold and sterile? Cozy and warm? Would you feel inertia, or would you feel stasis? I continue to ruminate on the topic to this day. Here is a DJ mix that explores the matter. Of course, the only important part of a DJ mix is if it has groove, but I hope it also opens up strange new worlds to you!"

@scotia-xo
IG: @scotia_the_real_human_scotia

https://hunterstarkingsrhythms.bandcamp.com/album/earthlings-4-palestine-in-solidarity-with-gaza

Scotia is a DJ & producer from upstate New York. She is co-resident of the Hudson Valley collective Community Rave Network, and has mixed records for platforms like Rinse, The Lot, The Bunker, and Mutant Radio. Her first original track appeared on the “Earthlings 4 Palestine” compilation last year, and she looks forward to a number of compilation releases and a solo EP later this year.

Tracklist:
Scotia - Procyon + On + On (2024)
Aroy Dee - The Planets (M>O>S, 2009)
Photek - Glamourama (Science, 2000)
Fast Ram - Haganol (Gyration Station, 2023)
Otodojo - Going Back (Acid Camp, 2019)
Fuckthegovernment - C’mon (Skylax, 2018)
LA-4A - Ignis Fatuus (Delft, 2023)
Boddika - Caterpillar (Nonplus, 2023)
Adam 2 - Dyad (Amphiboly, 2022)
Syz - Mindforms (Control Freak Recordings, 2023)
Pearson Sound - Freeze Cycle (Thaw001, 2015)
Decoder - Non Dualistic (Fixed Rhythms, 2024)
Mike Parker - Shakuhachi (The Lost Dubplate Mix) (Geophone, 2016)
The People In Fog - Deep Sea Dog (Sound of Vast, 2014)
Wata Igarishi - Arachnoid (Counter Pulse, 2013)
Pervocet - PH1 (Interdimensional Transmissions, 2019)
Juana - 1E Strategy (Trax Only, 2021)
Ulysses - No Matter How Many Hastags You Use You'll Still Die Alone (The Bunker New York, 2018)
Allen - Reagent (Codec, 2024)
Seck - Do It Yourself (One Sun, 2023)
Genius of Time - 909 Day (Aniara, 2023)
SND & RTN - Unknown Depths (Planet Rhythm, 2023)
Roger 23 - Deep, Deeper & Deeper (Bio Rhythm, 2023)
TM404 - Rysa (Acid Test, 2021)
Tadeo - S07 (Semantica, 2013)
Bileebob - The Mood (2022)
Scotia - Babe Skit (2024)

Distant Signals 047: Scotia

After a long hiatus, we're kickstarting this series back up, with the recording of Vladimir Ivkovic's DJ set from the Nov 19, 2023 Weird Science.  What an evening it was. Now we can relive it and shed some tears once more.

Weird Science With Vladimir Ivkovic

pi pi pi's deep creep returns to the radio with a new twist of ambient, tripped out tech + more. 

https://www.instagram.com/deep_creep
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pi pi pi with deep creep @ The Lot Radio 03-25-2024

Interview: https://truantsblog.com/2024/truancy-volume-325-dj-wawa/ 

Soundcloud: @djwawabk

Access the download and full tracklist (Confirmed added) on our Patreon. However if you need anything leave us a nice comment and either us or DJ Wawa will get back to you! Your support helps cover all our costs, allows us to now pay our guests and allows Truants to continue running as a non-profit and ad-free platform.

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Truancy Volume 325: DJ Wawa

Juanita's Mix 100 with Ciel @ciel_dj

Q. How would you describe yourself?
A. a music maker with too much sincerity and a passion for sampling, film, and leftist politics

Q. What drew you to the music scene in the beginning and where do you hope to see it in the future?
A. Looking back at my life, I think everything from my birth led me on this path towards music. It was my first love. But as an only child, my experience with music growing up was always very solitary. I yearned to be part of a community radio station with Iikeminded music nerds, and it was working for a radio station eventually during my undergraduate that brought me toward DJing and rave culture. Back then I never thought I could do this full time, but once I got the chance to make a living doing this, I realized the scene was far from perfect, in fact it's very exploitative. I hope in the future we can find a way to fairly compensate music makers for the incredible gift of music they bestow upon the world, without becoming beholden to corrupt corporate & military interests. Artists can be hyper individualistic and self-interested, and I hope we can get better at looking out for each other instead of just our own paycheques.

Q. Tell us a little bit about this mix.
A. I wanted to present a different side of myself to international audiences on such a wonderful mix platform. Perhaps people outside of my home city of Toronto are less familiar with my downtempo sets, but it's been a significant part of my wheelhouse for years, and have gained even wider affection from me since I started doing a downtempo party in Toronto last year. Like I always say, 80-100bpm is the most natural tempo for extended human body movements. I also liked the idea of doing a mix that doesn't build in a predictable way, instead it waxes and wanes like the natural rhythm of life. So many of my favourite mixes build and release tension in a way that's very satisfying to listen to, the sounds intensify to a frenzy before disintegrating into nothingness. I wanted to play with that rise and fall and mix downtempo and dub with double time d&b in a non-linear way that is evocative of our most precious memories and tells stories we've only seen in dreams. Downtempo and dub also seemed like the perfect genres to play in the 100th mix for Juanita's, and in the lead up to my fav April holiday. :) I hope the listeners enjoy it.

Juanita's Mix 100: Ciel

Our latest SORRYMIX comes via transdisciplinary performance artist, curator, and educator MIRA MIRA (@mirasamira ) 🎶  

Although we only met fairly recently at Honcho Campout, Samira and I are both from the same hometown of Winston-Salem, North Carolina!! Currently based in Brooklyn, she's also spent a good amount of time in the Pittsburgh underground; co-founding collectives like @dyspheric-x alongside XC-17 (@stephanie-alona-helen) and @yessimusic and Uhaul Disco alongside @johnnyzoloft. Her deejaying is a joy to behold - psychedelic intimacy, passionate + personal, sublimely jacked out improvisational genre-soup flow that I just can't get enough of. 

SORRYMIX29 finds her opening up the first party of our 2024 residency at techno living room @bossanovacivicclub in Brooklyn before sets from @mxblaire and myself. There's some words from Samira below on the recording ✨ Make sure to catch Nowadays debut at our label night this Friday alongside Hits Only (@davisgalvin + @aliberger) and myself! - @nickboydnyc

𝙎𝙤𝙢𝙚 𝙩𝙝𝙤𝙪𝙜𝙝𝙩𝙨 𝙤𝙣 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝙧𝙚𝙘𝙤𝙧𝙙𝙞𝙣𝙜 𝙛𝙧𝙤𝙢 𝙈𝙄𝙍𝘼 𝙈𝙄𝙍𝘼...
"It was my first time playing at Bossa and I was kinda nervous but also feeling a lot of feelings from the week. I was pulled by cops twice that week, the day before four cops stopped me supposedly for hopping a turnstile, stopped for $2.90... The day of I came in fresh off of a shift at Trans Pecos where I worked a benefit show for Gaza. It featured some powerful performances and a teach-in by DegrowNYC.

Usually, when I'm given opening duties I like to warm things up and keep things a little lighter but I had too much on my heart. I decided that it was more important to speak to what's happening in Gaza, Puerto Rico, and the U.S. I think the mix ended up being a chaotic reflection of what I was feeling. Hopefully it made people reflect with me and wiggle a little bit too."

SORRYMIX ARCHIVE

SORRYMIX29: MIRA MIRA - Live At Bossa Nova Civic Club

Inviting my dear friend Docsleep this time, she prepared a lovely chill out selection the first 30min

Rinse FM Podcast

rRoxymore feat. DOCSLEEP - 06 April 2024

"Chicago native Justin Aulis Long discovered his fascination for uncanny music at an early age when his mother entrusted him with her record collection that spanned from UK punk to American dance. This  served as a gateway, stimulating his journey into the sonic vortex. As a child of Medusa’s on Sheffield, Long gained a higher level of musical education. His weekly pilgrimages to this venue’s all-ages hedonistic dance parties supplied a compelling musical concoction of acid house, UK bleep, industrial and new wave. Possessed by these unorthodox forms of music, Long purchased his first set of turntables and began to collect 12-inch singles from local record shops. Though his intentions were solely to pander to his musical appetite in the privacy of his bedroom, this acquisition proved to be the genesis of a voyage that continues to present him with new challenges that are met with an unforgiving dogmatic approach.

Long cut his teeth during the early 90’s at many of Chicagos Infamous DIY and underground warehouse raves. pulling selections from a variety of his musical influences and interests. Eventually graduating to take residencies at many of the cities established club venues and landing a residency at Smart Bar where he is currently the longest consecutive resident."

Episode 63 w/Justin Aulis Long

There is nothing ordinary about Sepehr (@sepehr-a): he hails from the Bay Area of San Fran, is based in New York City but has Iranian heritage and takes great pleasure in pulling apart everything you think you know about dance music. His maverick approach results in versatile and genre-defiant sounds that collide EBM, drum & bass, techno, electro, acid and plenty more on some of the finest labels out there. He runs his own Shaytoon Records which is focussed on the Middle Eastern underground, and in May lands on our own Dekmanel Records with Genesis Domain, a varied EP full of intriguing sounds.

The same could be said of his mix for us this week. It's a deep dive into his eclectic and eccentric musical mind that spans several sounds and scenes. Although united by body-moving rhythms, there is everything from club to techno to broken beat and plenty more besides. Each track is packed with detail and surrealist sounds that will keep your head as busy as your heels.

Dekmantel Podcast

Dekmantel Podcast 463 - Sepehr

Received transmissions from the outer reaches of an exquisite corpse universe

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