These 5 tracks are straight from the heart, inspired by my time living here in NYC - particularly the time I’ve spent dancing and walking here, sometimes with no destination in mind.

I think of all the mornings I’ve spent watching the sun come up in a room of sweat, haze and a sea of people fully succumbing to the low end rumble of a good beat playing on club speakers, knowing that this has happened year round for past 50+ years, particularly here in NYC. And also the evenings around dusk where everyone is taking the train, simultaneously tired and unhinged, moving to the rhythm of the city's machinery. And in the summers when the hydrants have been loosened and the music is blasting on every block to soundtrack the feral energy pouring out. And the slow fall into winter depression, the creative season for music producers like myself to reflect and make new music such as this.

Devotion captures the feeling of surrendering to this city, but not as a means to escape, but as full immersion in a moment that will only happen once and simultaneously feels timeless.

released October 18, 2024

Written, produced, mixed by PlayPlay
Artwork: Jean Pierre Consuegra
Mastered by: Chris Dilday

Devotion EP

Live mixes

Studio Mixes

Mix for Footwork Jungle's INFRARED event on Currents.fm

Full video with visuals by Cool Boy 36 on Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2ym-kWjYRpk

Footwork Jungle INFRARED Mix (March 2021)

Alias: PlayPlay
Pronoun: They / Them
Location: NYC
Collectives: Party Ilegal
Label: Sorry Records
Name of the mix: Paradise Mix
About the mix: Discos of the 70s were intended to be safe and welcoming spaces for self-expression and celebration for queer and trans BIPOC communities, and the music played in these spaces would come to influence the innovators of house music. This mix focuses on house music’s queer roots in disco, with disco originals, edits, and current house tracks that reference these roots or otherwise feel “timeless.” Also sprinkled throughout are personal deep house fantasy favorites.  
Follow: @dj-playplay

Tracklist:
01. N.Y. House'n Authority - Apt 3b [Nu Groove Records/Burrell Brothers, 1990]
02. Sparque - Let's Go Dancing (Eli Escobar Remix)[Original from West End Records, 1981]
03. Man Friday Ft Larry Levan - Real Love (Paradise Garage) [Nite Grooves, 2007, original late 80s]
04. Goody Goody - It Looks Like Love (Breach and J33 Re edit)[Original from Atlantic Records, 1978]
05. The Daou - Are You Satisfied? (Def Drums Mix) [David Morales] [Tribal America, 1994]
06. Medlar & MSSS - Baby Gone Batshit [Self release, 2018]
07. Louie Vega - Vince Montana Tribute (RickLou Detroit Groove) [Nervous Records, 2021]
08. Aries, DJ Duke - Moon Over Egypt (Flute Mix) [Power Music Records, 1992]
09. Loose Joints - Is It All Over My Face? (Masters At Work Remix) [West End Records, 2001, or. 1980]
10. Nuyorican Soul - The Nervous Track (Ballsy Mix) [Nervous Records, 1993]
11. Patrick Adams Presents Phreek - I'm A Big Freak (R•U•1•2) [Atlantic, 1978]
12. Patrick Cowley Featuring Sylvester - Do You Wanna Funk [Dance Records, 1982]
13. Gat Decor - Passion (Naked Mix) [Effective Records, 1992]
14. Ladymonix - The Nerve (Original Mix) [Frizner Electric, 2021]
15. Cream Dream - Spice [Easy Bay, 2016]
16. Kenny Dope, The Bucketheads - The Bomb! (X-Mix Remix) [Henry Street Music, 1994]
17. Paul Johnson - Boogie Til' You Oogie [International House Records, 1998]
18. Kerri Chandler - Light The World [Deeply Rooted House, 2005]
19. MoMA Ready - Cerulean [Hot Rebels, 2017]
20. Lrusse - Extra Time [The Nite Owl Diner, 2017]
21. House Syndicate - Jam The Mace (Paul Woolford Re-Edit) [Original from Dopewax, 1990]
22. Rick Wade - I Can Feel It [Harmonie Park, 1994]
23. Moloko - Sing It Back (Todd Terry Tee's Freeze Extended Mix) [F-111 Records, 1999]
24. Big Baby - Big House (Deep In Big Baby Acid) [Big Productions, 1989]
25. Green Velvet & Oliver Dollar - Dance To My Beat [Relief Records, 2013]
26. Cherushii - Wild Abandon [Self release, 2015]
27. Luke Vibert - Disco Derriere [Hypercolour Records, 2022]
28. Iridium - Ill America [Lowdown Records, 1997]
29. Deee-Lite - Runaway (Masters At Work Dubb) [Elektra, 1992]
30. Octo Octa - Find Your Way Home [T4T LUV NRG, 2021]
31. Seal - Newborn Friend (Morales Club Mix) [David Morales] [Sire, 1994]
32. Jaco Matthews - Lesson One (Original Mix) [Rocksteady Disco, 2020]
33. Mark Hawkins - Sixth [Houndstooth, 2020]
34. Kerri Chandler - 11th Hour [Downtown 161, 2010]
35. Gossip - Get Lost (Junior Vasquez Remix) [Columbia Records, 2012]
36. Genichiro - Topaz [NC4K, 2022]
37. Fingers, Inc - Never No More Lonely [Jack Trax, 1989]

https://otherstothefront.noblogs.org/house-of-others-014/

House of Others #014 | PLAYPLAY | Paradise Mix

Our latest SORRYMIX comes via old friend and Sorry Records veteran PlayPlay (@dj-playplay), one of our favorite fixtures in East Coast Raveland and an overwhelmingly skilled presence in the studio and on the decks. 

SORRYMIX22 finds the NYC-via-NC firestarter kicking things off right at our first Sorry Records Good Room takeover, spinning vibey breaks, nostalgic house, percussive and at times winding techno, UK speed garage, Baltimore club, and more with precision and glee 🚀 💨

"My sets are usually a bit nostalgic in nature and I stayed true to that here."
- PlayPlay (Sorry Records, Party Illegal)

Recorded live at Good Room in Brooklyn for our Sorry Records takeover on Nov 4th 2022

SORRYMIX ARCHIVE:  http://bit.ly/SORRYMIX
https://ra.co/events/1596151

SORRYMIX22: PlayPlay @ Sorry Records Good Room Takeover

SORRYMIX ARCHIVE

https://soundcloud.com/dj-playplay

PlayPlay combines their penchant for percussion and bass with nostalgic samples & dreamy synths in both their DJ sets & music production. Their sound is inspired by years of clubbing, crate digging and the sounds they grew up dancing to - 90s club anthems, jungle, breakbeat hardcore, industrial, classic house, techno and old school hip-hop. With releases out on labels such as Sorry Records, Worst Behavior as well as a slew of self-releases and collaborations, PlayPlay has been slowly and steadily amassing a thumping discography over the years. Their most recent EP out on Brooklyn-based Sorry Records has been described as “euphoric and joyous” (Untitled 909) and as three “springing, two step-inspired club tracks” (DJ Mag).

Beloved Radio: PlayPlay

Take Me Back

PlayPlay (they/them)

PlayPlay is an energetic voice of the US queer rave underground, combining their penchant for percussion and bass with nostalgic samples & dreamy synths in both their DJ sets & music production. Their sound is inspired by years of clubbing, crate digging and the sounds they grew up dancing to - 90s club anthems, jungle, breakbeat hardcore, industrial, classic house, techno and old school hip-hop. With releases out on labels such as Sorry Records, Worst Behavior and Clasico Records, as well as a slew of self-releases and collaborations, PlayPlay has been slowly and steadily amassing a thumping discography over the years. You can catch them DJing and throwing parties all over Brooklyn, as well as in their hometown, Durham. 

Notes on the Mix ///

"This is a mix of gay n' guilty pleasures - luscious 90s vocal house, 80s hot rod fantasy tracks, a dash of filthy speed garage and of course, lots of percussion. This is exactly what I would like to be dancing to in a spacious corner during peak time."

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TRACKLIST:
DJ Sprinkles - House Music is a Controllable Desire You Can Own
Night Moves - Transdance (New York Disco Mix) 
Bassbin Twins - Two Turntables and a Crate of Skint
Classic Man 93’ - No More Mind Games (Waste No Time Mix)
Jaco Matthews - Snacks (Original Mix)
Cherushii - No Doubt in My Mind
Sylk 130 - The Reason (Sleaze Mix)
Club Asylum - Don’t U Wanna Be (Original Mix)
Marradonna - Outta My Head (I’m Going Out Of My Dirty Dub Remix)
Fear-E presents Breakbeat Energy - Dubplate Special
John Noseda - Used Future (DJ City Remix)
Madre Guída - Battle Beat
Armand Van Helden & DJ Sneak - Psychic Bounty Killaz
Kerry Chandler - Powder (6:23 Again)
Janet Jackson - Got ’Til It’s Gone (Armand Van Helden Bonus Beats)
Charlotte - Skin (Underground Solution Full Vocal Mix)
ODF - Beside Me
Way Out West - Stealth (Way Out West Club Mix)

XOXA BLEND 203 - PlayPlay

Subversion is a bass-centered, genre nonconforming event from @ripley @cristinyyya & @djsideswipe

Subversion fosters inclusion and welcomes experimental, progressive and genre-bending bass.

Listen live - 3rd Sundays, 6-8PM ET on www.greatcircles.net

Subversion

Subversion w/ DJ Sideswipe & Special Guest PLAYPLAY - 21July2024

"Drifting through the endless void, I find solace in the quiet chaos of time and space folding in on itself. My spacecraft Paradox glitches constantly, sending me hurtling through centuries and galaxies at random, but I’m honestly into it. Each jump brings me to new moments in time, and each encounter with objects feels like a fleeting ripple in an infinite ocean. I've met sentient beings, sharing brief moments with them, then always leave, watching their timelines fade into the distance as Paradox carries me to another era. Timelessness has become my constant companion, offering me a peace that no anchored reality ever could. 

Right now, I’m reflecting on a stunning exoplanet I just briefly visited. Like on many places with existing life, the beings there seemed to be in synchronized movement to a rhythm coming from the planet’s core, being piped in from a network of presumably other nearby planets, communicating like the trees from that one planet that ate itself. To my surprise, I suddenly had a deep craving to be in sync with them, but their shared rhythm was floating in and out for me like it was occasionally being smothered by a soft pillow. And sometimes it would echo all around me, ringing out of sync with their communal timing - but I moved to it nonetheless. The other beings didn’t seem to mind that I was out of sync, and we all moved together, as I embodied this lonely echo in my temporary quest for connection. As I left a bit later, floating on toward wherever I was headed next, I tapped into my own familiar inner rhythm, untethered and on the loose."

@dj-playplay
IG: @playplayyy
https://ffm.to/playplaydevotion

PlayPlay combines their penchant for percussion and bass with nostalgic samples & dreamy synths in both their DJ sets & music production. Their sound is inspired by years of clubbing, crate digging and the sounds they grew up dancing to - 90s club anthems, jungle, breakbeat hardcore, minimal wave, classic house and old school hip-hop. With releases out on labels such as Sorry Records, Clasico and Worst Behavior, as well as a slew of self-releases and collaborations, PlayPlay has been slowly and steadily amassing a thumping discography over the years.

Based in NYC, PlayPlay currently hosts two parties: Breaking Capacity, dedicated to all things breaks, and Satisfaction of What’s to Come, celebrating the many iterations of house music. In their home state of NC, they co-host PARADOX, a party exploring the timelessness of early rave music.

Tracklist:
Norman Feller - Frameless Structure (2003)
Brian Briggs - Aeo Part 1 & 2 (1981)
The Orb - Little Fluffy Clouds (1990)
PlayPlay - Agent of Drums (2024)
Cabaret Voltaire - Sensoria (Razormaid Combi Mix) (1992)
SSA - Space Bender (2023)
Jdotbalance - stress (2024)
Rhythm-Sound ft Paul St. Hilaire - Music A Fe Rule Part 1 (2003)
Psyche - Intermezzo (1986)
Reedale Rise - Eternal Return (2017)
An-i - Kino-i (Dub) (2014)
The Daou - Are You Satisfied? (Tao Of Jazz Mix) (1994)
Claudio PRC - Eelume (2022)
Decoder - 4 Stub (Auspicious) (2024)
Kellen303 - Havana Syndrome (2023)
Suspect Bitch - Dnt Wanna (2016)
Adam 2 - Stand (2023)
DJ Q & Hans Glader - Thief In The Night (Al Wootton Remix) (2021)
Killawatt - Lead Like Presence (2014)
Quest - Deep Inside (2008)
Amy Winehouse - Love Is A Losing Game (Moody Boyz Original Ruffian Badboy Remix) (2007)
Baby Ford - In Decision (1997)
Autokinetic - Wakeword (2023)
Goldie - Inner City Life (Rabbit In The Moon's Vocalic City) (1996)
Badboy - Badboy (4x4 Mix) (2001)
Adam Pits - Mineral Mine (2022)
young muscle - Club Apparitions (2024)
Meat Beat Manifesto & DHS - International Sound System (2023)
? - Hold On feat Preddi (1996)
Loefah - Fire Elements (2004)
1RM4 - CM MG (2017)
Coffintexts - 200K (2024)
Abyss X - Animosity (SOPHIE Remix) (2020)
Riva (Feat. Dannii Minogue) - Who Do You Love Now? (Larry Lush Ambient Remix) (2003)

Distant Signals 062: PlayPlay

Single off of "Devotion," out 10/18 on all platforms

I think of all the mornings I’ve spent watching the sun come up in a room of sweat, haze and a sea of people fully succumbing to the low end rumble of a good beat playing on club speakers, knowing that this has happened countless times in the past 50 years, particularly here in NYC. Devotion captures that feeling of surrender, but not as a means to escape, but as full immersion in a moment that will only happen once and simultaneously feels timeless. 

Artwork: Jean Pierre Consuegra
Master: Chris Dilday

Devotion

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Dusk

Drip Hop

Destiny

Agent Of Drums

Live recorded set from PlayPlay @ Good Room 10 Year Anniversary (XOXA's Bad Room Takeover) Recorded on Saturday November 16th, 2024 1am - Close

PlayPlay @ Good Room ~ XOXA Bad Room Takeover (Good Room 10 Year Anniversary)

PlayPlay - live @ Earthly Delights - 01.10.25

https://soundcloud.com/dj-playplay

Tracklist:

Mort Garson - Symphony for a Spider Plant
Luscious Jackson - Water Your Garden
Kepler x Human Resources - Spring
MF Doom - Arrow Root
Book of Love - I Touch Roses
Alex Kassian - Spirit of Eden (Original Mix)
A Psychic Yes - Moss
SPF 50 - UV Got Me Faded
Basic-Variation - Decay/Sustain/Release
Mort Garson - Music to Soothe the Savage Snake Plant
Loefah - Root
Pinch - Angels in the Rain (Instrumental Version)
Sneaker Pimps - Six Underground (Richard H. Kirk Mix)
Mort Garson - Swingin’ Spathiphyllums
?? - The Rain
Mike Parker - Stinging Insects
Mort Garson - Plantasia 

Concept:

Over the early pandemic, I was stuck living in a warehouse and grew a garden on our rooftop. For some I started seedlings and for others I just stuck the seeds directly in the planters. Soon, life sprung up and took over, these plants were resilient as fuck. At one point I cut open a cherry tomato from one of the plants and attempted to dry out seeds for the first time. I eventually stuck them in an envelope and forgot they existed between my many moves over the next 5 years. This spring I found them and figured they were bunk but put them in some soil anyway. And lo and behold they all popped up as seedlings! Thinking about resilience and the way plants can magically live and thrive without extracting tons of resources - they take very little and yet provide so much. What if we...

PLAYPLAY - PLANTASY MIX

6 hours live at ANIMAL (NYC) - italo and space disco, 80s/90s house, new wave and odds and ends that somehow fit

Live At ANIMAL

Bondage

Bandcamp

BANDCAMP

Flamingo Footwork

BKGD Audio - One in a Milli
Yolanda Be Cool & Wongo - Roosevelt
Bezem - On the Drums
GRRL - Ring Me
Mighty Mark & TT the Artist - F Trump
Too Late Productions - Forward [Wile Out]
Isabella - Variable
Honnda - Box Outs
Prince Royce - Te Me Vas (banginclude & DJ Chela Remix)
Dj Jakkz - Bom Bom Jersey Club Remix
Vices - ESSA
IMAABS - Voy (LAO Edit)
Equator Club - ITSAPARTY
DJ Phantasy & DJ Gemini - Never Try the Hippodrome
WHIPPED CREAM & Holly - POP’N
Musical Mob - Pulse X (Anna Morgan Bootleg)
SaBBo - The Way I Feel
Dillinja - Deadly Deep Subs (Remix)
PlayPlay - Deep Sewer

Subterranean mix

teksen - currents (playplay's sarah mclachlan blend)

Free on Bandcamp

TaySwift - Bad Bl00d (PlayPlay Beachside DnB Bootleg)

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The House Is Yours

Buy/Stream

VSPRTN - CLiCLaK (PlayPlay Remix)

released July 20, 2018 
Written and produced by: PlayPlay & @sodrove
Art by Sam Lubicz

Brokeback Mountain ft. So Drove

Geri

Original artist: Björk
Edit by: PlayPlay 
Image: A still from Chris Cunningham's iconic 'All is Full of Love' video, edited by PlayPlay

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All Is Full Of Love For Björk (PlayPlay Dancefloor Edit)

Signaling

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Rise Up

Inquiries: booking@djplayplay.com

Upcoming 2026: 
1.2 - 8 Ball Radio for Rave Cafe
1.12 - Bossa Nova Civic Club [NYC]
1.24 - ANIMAL [NYC]
2.6 - Jupiter Disco [NYC]

inspired by everything from classic house, early rave, B-more club and Detroit techno to dark wave, new wave and industrial, jungle, bass music and old school hip hop, PlayPlay combines their penchant for percussion and bass with nostalgic sample chops and lush synths in both their DJ sets & original music production.

music out on @sorry-records I @clasicorecs I @fperecs I @worstbehaviorrecs I @delusional_records I and more 

50% of @powerplay1312 and @paradox-mix-series

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