Name: Big Leg's Bits - Valentine's Special (from 2020) by Big Leg
Duration: 1 h 59 min 46 s
Description: here to celebrate the original pagan day of love, i have re-uploaded my Valentine's show from back in 2020, which I hope can provide a soothing soundtrack to an embrace in candlelight, a flirtatious look across the train carriage, or for while you pour various natural ingredients into your cauldron for your yearly batch of love potion...

@kiernan-laveaux

Introduce yourself? Pronouns? Where do you currently reside? 1 fun fact about yourself?

Hey! Thanks for these thoughtful questions
My pronouns are She/Her or They/Them
I currently reside in Pittsburgh, PA
I eat strawberries whole :)

How did you get your DJ name? 

So one night when I was 18, I was at a Los Crudos show at the venue that a lot of friends and I would later throw parties at in Cleveland (shout out to Martin and any Limp Wrist fans reading this too!). The venue is next door to a terrible gay bar, I went there randomly (weird for me because gay bars are hell on earth 99% of the time) and ended up meeting a group of queens who said they were from the House of Laveaux and that I was their daughter now. They said I needed a name, and the name they chose for me was Kiernan Laveaux. I never saw them again after that night, but a few months later I began to go by the name when I started DJing. It’s become a part of my being in a way I couldn’t have imagined, and also a way of expressing my inner voice in hopes that it reaches the inner voices of others too - and maybe we all start to sing together.  

Who/what currently inspires your music-wise that has nothing to do with music?

Everything is musical & leads back to music for me no matter what, but recently leaning into the fact that I’m the oldest of a handful of young people on the paternal side of my family has been a really inspiring perspective shift of life. The potential of being a supportive & loving older person in the lives of younger people fills me with an infinite amount of joy.

I’ve been discovering more about Jewish heritage of mine that’s been attempted to be erased (as it goes), and in turn learning/reading more about Kabbalisitic thought & ways of being - engaging in magic in my own ways has been expanding my perspective on music/DJing the past several years. 

I’m far from any kind of expert on kabbalah, but the way energy flow & manifestation is written about and practiced within it has been validating to read, in music but as well as the way it feeds back into life. Even just the ability of the word “kabbalah” to translate to “reception”, “tradition”, or “correspondence” <3

Dream line-up?

System of a Down, Nissenenmondai, Cities Aviv, Devo, Mwandishi, The Body, Madam Data, Model Home, Obnox, Neon Phusion, African Head Charge, Cindytalk, Maurice Fulton, Via App, Cyrnai, Rakta, Plack Blague + all the homies DJing for a week straight

What was your best moment on the dance floor?

I’m thankful a lot of meaningful ones come to mind when I think of this - 
the one I always jump to with this question is the first time I saw Titonton Duvante & Bill Converse dj in May 2016, somewhere in Ohio. Both are definitely some of the first people who helped me see how unique & personal you can really be with DJing, Bill’s set that night especially helped show me how deep you can traverse the wormhole. It was just like this completely enveloping & beautiful psychedelic phenomena for me. I don’t remember a lot of the music, but I’ll never forget how it made me feel. Eternally grateful to have any of these experiences in life to help me smile and still feel coursing through my DJing to this day.

Do you have any upcoming releases/gigs?

Lots of ideas swirling in my mind to manifest for the future, but as of right now…

I’m playing in NYC Friday Sept 24 at Nowadays with 
Azu Tiwaline & DJ Voices :)

What would you like to see in the future for the dance community?

A complete & utter overhaul of the ways we create space, express ourselves, and love one another.

Check out the A/V set to Kiernan Laveaux's 363˚ mix here -> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yAFVqE6tdn8&ab_channel=KiernanLaveaux

For extended Q&A + OG pi pi pi game please visit the website ------> pipipi.life <--------

Kiernan Laveaux - 363˚

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@naffrecordings

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Introduce yourself? Pronouns? Where do you currently reside? 1 fun fact about yourself?

Hii I’m Francis. He/him. I live in Montreal/Tiohti:áke. I get car sick.

Who/what currently inspires you music-wise that has nothing to do with music?

The people closest to me

Dream line-up?

I would love to see Riuichi Sakamoto. 

If you had to trade your USB with one DJ, who would it be and why?

URA (Zac MacArthur)! Mans got tunes. 

How do you typically prepare a mix?

I fill a stick or a bag with music I want to play. Try not to overthink it. After a while I feel like intuition is king.

Who do you think is the most underrated artist of our time?

CFCF / Cecile Believe

3 goals for 2022 that has nothing to do with music?

Breath. Stretch more. Get a dog?

If you had to go back in time music wise what era would it be and why?

I think I’d stay right here. Insane music coming out right now!

What was your best moment on the dance floor?

DJ Fart In The Club @ Sustain Release

What is your most recent favorite DJ mix and why?

Huerco S and DJ Healthy at Public Records. Refreshing club music. Love it.

What was your first gig? How did it go? 

It was in a bar in the suburbs using Virtual DJ. My girlfriend at the time was celebrating her birthday. We were 16. It was hype. 

Any advice to upcoming DJs? 

Find a good therapist

What would you like to see in the future for the dance community? 

r.e.s.p.e.c.t

Priori - 75˚F

A beautiful, enchanting mix from Montreal's Evita. 

"A very personal one, with more than a few tracks that have recently been soundtracking my existence. 
Really enjoyed trying to build bridges between moods while maintaining a general aesthetic, navigating between the down to earth fields and the more hypnotic and celestial ones.
Pretty much how I try to navigate through life." - Evita @la_dolc_evita

Tracklist on IG

031 - Missed Connections w/ Evita

Rhythmic, cosmic and textual trip in experimental dance adjacent grooves.

https://www.instagram.com/betaalibraee

Daystar with Beta Librae @ The Lot Radio 01 - 03 - 2023

The first Therapy Dog show of the year on @refugeworldwide is with good friend and favourite radio host @gigstab. Gigsta's radio show and event series Fictions has been very influential for Therapy Dog, and after doing a Fictions show together a few years ago, I'm happy to have Gigsta as my guest for a 1-hour b2b and a little chat.

Therapy Dog #12 w/ Gigsta & ophélie @ Refuge Worldwide - 10/01/2023

here to celebrate the original pagan day of love, i have re-uploaded my Valentine's show from back in 2020, which I hope can provide a soothing soundtrack to an embrace in candlelight, a flirtatious look across the train carriage, or for while you pour various natural ingredients into your cauldron for your yearly batch of love potion...

Big Leg's Bits - Valentine's Special (from 2020)

Enter the mythology of NYC artist James K - her sound, equally organic and electronic, is a combination of odd dreams, hybridizing enchanted samples, ripped, broken and morphed rhythms, and vocals, both incomprehensible and appealing.

https://www.nts.live/shows/james-k/episodes/james-k-5th-april-2023

TRIP LICK W/ Moopie 050423

Gag Reflex's moniker is an apt embodiment of her musical output. It's propulsive; pushing you forward then pulling you back, dragging you under then spitting you out.

It's down to the intriguing spread of influences that fuel the US-born, Berlin-based producer and DJ's work. While there's nods to percussive noughties techno, classic rave and early UK dubstep in there, you'll hear echoes of her formative love of punk bands like Crass and The KLF bubbling underneath the surface too.

As a DJ she's made quite the name for herself in the US, holding residencies in Portland and San Francisco, as well as her former home of Seattle, where she ran transfeminist club night BLOOM: a space to inspire connection, catharsis and experimentation within the local scene and beyond.

The connections that she's made have led to releases on international labels like Scuffed Recordings, Violet's naivety sub-label and, most recently, on the former's newly minted sister label Angel with her Lush EP, which drops on 21st April.

In the lead up to the release she takes the controls of this week's Shine A Light On mix with a blend of murky, percussive and weighty sonics for the heads down and the hands up crew...

Gag Reflex: The 'Shine A Light On' Mix

@carl-420 sets the vibe in a hazelnut orchard in Newberg, Oregon. 

Photography by Drew Cornwall
IG: @drewcornwall
www.drewcornwall.com

Orchard Vibration  2023 - Carly Barton

wonja - rootless flowers

40.6888396, -73.940876

If you’re feeling dull these days allow @blibrae to massage your soul with 90 minutes of vibrant and metamorphic grooves.

d o w n 2 e a r t h 16 - Beta Librae

1/3 of https://soundcloud.com/astralvipz

~~~ b l o g ~~~
https://soundsfromtheslump.substack.com/

Big Leg's Bits - Valentine's Special (from 2020)

Big Leg

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