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It's Nick León who's delivering the goods in this week's Rhythmic Culture podcast. The Miami-based DJ and producer is known for mixing organic textures with club polyrhythms and sci-fi sound design. With releases on Tra Tra Trax, NAAFI and recently on Future Times, Nick is in front of a new generation of exciting artists coming out of Miami's club scene.

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Violet with Gag Reflex - 19 March 2022

🥸 ----------------- this is a Thursday night closing set i played from like 1:30am to 3am at the last  @lovelessrecords party at Heaven (fka Las Vegas)

Legit had so much fun playing vaguely downtempo kitchen sink freak jams for the like 20 friends and strangers there 🎃 This recording is missing a DJ Deeon cut up top out of @evkh set (forgot to record) and I fully intended upon playing Willie Colon's "Set Fire To Me (Inferno Dub)" AND Steve Miller Band Like an Eagle at the end but I ran outta time milking Moby's interdimension mix of the B-52s "Is That You Mo-Dean?"  when like ten people showed up on the dance floor in the last 20 minutes and started to waltz together. EDIT: oh fuck it tacked on those two tracks this is the directors cut ppl

lets see I also left the dub echo on for like 2 min somewhere in here, played some bass stuff up top just for @figur36 , and the headphone cue on the mixer stopped working halfway through -- i had a blast 🤤 thx @drvmmy for the ones and twos 

🦔  🍳 tracklist is on my twitter ----------------🥸

closing heaven on a thursday night for loveless records // aug 12th 2022

Mixed live on @hoerberlin for @kontinuum_productions

https://soundcloud.com/kontinuum_productions

the video:
https://youtu.be/lNUAcBha_-A

Gag Reflex on Hör for Kontinuum

Live recording of my 3-hour set at Nowadays Nonstop September 24th 2022

STERLING JUAN DIAZ LIVE @ NOWADAYS NONSTOP 9-24-2022

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Scuffed Recordings with Marshall Applewhite, Young Muscle & Gag Reflex - 30 December 2022

"I imagine that 20 years ago, a society of hard-working, secretive machines buried twenty miles below the surface of Proxima B began receiving the wispy artifacts of our Terran speech that had escaped our radio stations, sung like a gospel through the vacuum of deep space, to be intercepted by their above-ground sensors. I wonder if that would have been the first time they ever heard music and thought to take a break and dance. I wonder if they bump their own subsurface rhythms. If they grind their servos on each other, if they sniff their own electromagic powders. Perhaps this mix is their response to my question."

@hyeonje-fka-hommegranate
IG: @hyeonje._

Hyeonje is an artist based out of Seattle, WA, who is creating, loving, and living in diaspora. They use their DJing as a means of storytelling, play, ancestor worship, and somatoemotional connection with fellow human beings.

Distant Signals 014: Hyeonje

“For this mix I kinda wanted to make something that felt reminiscent of how I open and close out dj sets at a club. The tracks that have been speaking to me the most all like in a 90-110 BPM range which I think kinda can be played at any point of the night. I appreciate drake’s patience on this since I made like 2 ambient mixes and 3 super-fast techno mixes before just saying “fuck it” and doing a single take here that felt a bit more reminiscent of what I actually prefer to hear when im in a club. Hopefully this mix takes you to a place that is not too far from here 😊”

@havingsex
IG: @dj_having_sex

Tracklist:
Personals - John Hassell and Blue Screen
Cotorra - Simisea
Dame Más - D. Juan León
Nice Girl - Unacknowledged Star Nose
Heatwave Riddim - Stacktrace
Crooked Teeth - Kaval
Headbangers Ball - Jetty
Rethink Your Reality - Heap
Es-Matrix - Piezo
Inside - Kincaid & J. Caeser
Raw Riddim - PPC
Boy Baby - Bob Traxx
Lekki Aiah Freeway - Emeka Ogboh
Y2038 - Vina Konda
F E E L I N G  T H I S - aya

Distant Signals 016: DJ Having Sex

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

Eclectic rhythms and twisted bass with Ring Flip ringleader Eros.

http://www.instagram.com/eros__________

Eros @ The Lot Radio 05-06-2023

'I imagined this as being a message from a benevolent space deity, gently luring travelers into a wormhole, her message increasing in intensity and urgency, exposing them to cosmic secrets as she ferries them to their destination.'

@jpreg
IG: @joeyregan

Distant Signals 021: jpreg

Hot on the heels of the Summer solstice, tonight's full moon catches us at an apex of abundance. Gilding the moment with music is Gag Reflex, who's woven together a mix brimming with droney, pensive intensity, and interspersed with percussive fervour. An incantation to the earth as the moon waxes into Capricorn; a reminder of how indebted we are to its seasonal bounties.

sc: @djgagreflex

Gag Reflex @ SWOON | 21.06.2024

Vigor Trax - Raw Frequencies - Paris Burning 91'

Raw Frequencies

Paris Burning 91´

Simplicity

Underground pressure meets dancefloor fire.
1Techno1G delivers raw speed garage energy, techno house rhythms, and deep bass music power.
Turn it up loud – this one hits hard.
🔥 Released by EXPROKACHU DJ.

Gag Reflex on Hör for Kontinuum

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