recorded at Ground Hum - an event organized by the Lodge organizing committee in Seattle

Live at Ground Hum (2022/02/12)

"When I imagined the interception of this mix by a sentient intergalactic being, I wondered - how do we decipher the language of music? Would the sound of a human voice be perceived as the voice of the dominant species. Or, perhaps, would the sounds of the drum machine be interpreted as the “voice?” What does voice and language mean when spoken through music? 

While there are major differences in the style and teachings of musical traditions around the world, the use of voice and rhythmic percussion is present across cultures and throughout history. In this context, is rhythm truly the universal language? 

I have always been interested in the use of voice in dance music - the way it brings an organic familiarity to a technical genre. For this mix, drew from various sources and genres - both voice-centric and rhythm-centric to weave a melodic, deep, and genre-twisted story. I recently discovered konnokal, the south Indian art of performing percussion syllables vocally, which really inspired the concept and helped me think about rhythm in a new way. The mix opens with a reverbed out recording of Sheila Chandra, an English pop star of Indian descent, performing konnokal. The mix is rhythmic, yet meant for listening and the experimental nature of this project encouraged me to use 3 CDJs and run a delay pedal through my mixer for the first time. I hope you enjoy it!"

@seleneseattle

Selene (fka Aos) is a DJ, producer, and event organizer from Seattle. They are affiliated with the collective, secondnature, and have worked on a breadth of projects ranging from underground parties, to community-centered events, and educational workshops. Musically, they are drawn to texture, melody, and voice and the ways in which these things are expressed through technology-driven genres with a focus in techno, breaks, and ambient/experimental. Their DJ and live sets are playful, genre-bending, and expressive.

https://secondnatureseattle.com/
https://secondnature.bandcamp.com/album/the-secret-garden-is-in-your-mind
https://soundcloud.com/seleneseattle

Distant Signals 012: Selene

Bespoke edit of my favorite Solange track for my BB @razrbark's electrifying set at Honcho campout. Download while you can!

Solange - Binz [Trash BF's Re-Bin]

Seelene's 𝓵𝓸𝓾𝓷𝓰𝓮 𝓵𝓲𝔃𝓪𝓻𝓭 Lodge Afters

https://www.deejay.de/Accessories_To_Murder_MURDER001_MURDER001_Vinyl__1037674

@simictacoma
@accessoryrecords

MURDER001

Premiere : Accessories to Murder - Jump Into Your Television (MURDER001)

Follow Selene: @seleneseattle

Join us for Ground Hum on March 2, 2024. Tickets are available now at groundhum.net

Tracklist:

Swim - Terekke
Catsu - Cousin 
Twice Lived - Sanguine
Had 2b ft. Noa - Mike Midnight
Communication - Aura
Loom Dream - Leif
Errata ZZ - Liai
Tai Chi and Traffic Lights - The Detroit Escalator Company
Clamors - Enereph and Gianni Andreatta
Cilbien Trance - Ben Bondy
Introlude - Aura
Plonk VIII - Huerco S. 
Nodes - Nueen
Mirror Stone - Slowfoam
Azukiiro No Kaori - Susumu Yokota

Ground Hum Mix Series 02: Selene's Fever Dream

Mix of dub, reggae, ambient, experimental pop, UKG, acid, techno, hyper laden in real time effects, while utilizing 3 CDJ, and a 96, presented in an art for arts sake collage of matured selection, and mixing, from DEPTH’s Cory Simpson

Depth Spring Mix 2024: For the Culture

Harvest Moon

Andrew Weatherall's first official posthumous mix. The only b2b DJ Harvey ever agreed to. Six hours at Trouw. This one's special.

When mulling which direction to go in for RA's 1000th mix celebrations, many options came to mind. Some shadowy character 2-stepping around the fringe of our collective consciousness? An impossible-level IDM icon?

All tempting. But, ultimately, we are a DJ-forward publication and this is a DJ mix series. It felt truer to the history of the RA Podcast to release deep vault material from a time when the world of niche records felt different, tighter, more discrete.

The fourth-longest mix in the series' history is an unrepeatable masterclass, recorded in 2012 at a superclub that no longer exists. (2012, incidentally, is farther away from 2025 than 2012 was from 2000, and if we have to clock it, so do you.)

It's the coming together of one British icon who passed away in 2020, and another whose time on the road has scaled back considerably as of late. DJ Harvey agreed to exactly one b2b set in his life: this one, with Andrew Weatherall.

The night took place at Trouw, an Amsterdam club already considered legendary before it shuttered its doors in the opening hours of 2015, as part of an RA series anchored around rare combinations playing start-to-finish. Harvey was at the peak of an irresistible career second act, which dovetailed with a disco revival that dominated clubs for years. Weatherall, with infinite brownie points stockpiled from the '90s, remained everyone's favourite debonair psychonaut. 

What follows is a 385-minute marathon of arpeggiated chug and slow-cresting climaxes: a moment when the resting heart rate of dance floors plunged lower than any comparable point in the 21st century. 

If you've got time to spare, a fun side game is sussing out who plays what. Disco-dub covers of Echo & the Bunnymen? Smart money's on Weatherall. Exuberant EQ'ing of The Isley Brothers? Gotta be Harvey. As for the low 'n slow, lightly spangled house that was all the rage in the early 2010s (think Maxxi Soundsystem, Disco Bloodbath, Rub & Tug, C.O.M.B.I. and Full Pupp), it's anyone's guess. 127 BPM practically feels like an F1 car.

When we kicked off our RA.1000 campaign, we outlined a few full-send goals: tick off long-awaited dream guests, honour architects who shaped the world around us and deliver recordings you truly can't hear anywhere else.

DJing and the mythmaking around it has undergone a quantum leap since 2012, let alone 2006, 1996 or 1989. For those of us who were kicking around in the former, there's a creeping melancholy that our prime is fast becoming a matter of historical record. The killing moon really did come too soon. 

Where will electronic music, DJ sets or any of this be in 2044? Hard to say. Best not to overthink that one. Instead, we want to say thanks to all contributors on the series so far. Now enjoy luxuriating in the company of two of the greatest to ever do it, together, for the first and last time.⁠ – Gabriel Szatan (Editor, RA)

@andrew-weatherall

Read the interview with DJ Harvey and Andrew Weatherall's family at https://ra.co/podcast/1016. Listen to all RA.1000 mixes, as well as the complete history of the RA Podcast, at https://1000.ra.co

RA.1000 DJ Harvey & Andrew Weatherall

An ode to Glacial Lakes | January, 2009

cumbia & jazz fusion - Charles Mingus
companion - Dennis Wilson
cumbia & jazz fusion - Charles Mingus
charles ano 45 - Jorge Ben
holdin on - Sly & The Family Stone
haunted house - Lee Oskar
rickshaw - Cymande
african dance no 1 - Guy Warren
funkier than a mosquito's tweeter - Nina Simone
funkier than a mosquito's tweeter - Ike & Tina Turner
attica blues - Archie Shepp
nighthawkin' - Tim Buckley
my girl - Lee Perry
give rasta glory - Cedric Im Brooks
i can't help myself - Roy Ayers
hey senorita - War
damn my feet hurt - Leroy Vinnegar
liberation dues - Oneness of Juju
che che kule - Osibisa

Further reading: http://slowmusicmeltdown.blogspot.com/2009/01/companion.html

Companion

"Las mezclas del Blaqui" presenta: "Grupo Mágico - Disco Hollywood 2".

Grupo Mágico - Disco Hollywood 2

Slow Music Meltdown: Mondays 7-8pm PST
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