CCL Mixes

Long 6

December 2024

Dekmantel Selectors 2024 recordings

Recording from our Butt2Butt Sunrise (5am-9am) at @NowadaysNYC Nonstop Sept 26, 2021.

CCL x Physical Therapy [Live @ Nowadays Nonstop Sept 2021]

from @RefugeWorldwide for my dramatiq emo queens

𝙡𝙞𝙦𝙪𝙞𝙙𝙩𝙞𝙢𝙚 w CCL #8 ꜰʀᴏꜱᴛ [21.12.2022] Winter Solstice Edition

Recorded live in studio from @refugeworldwide, a journey into the darkside of 2-step, garage, and proto-dubstep.

Big up the bad gyals, boys and theys!

𝙡𝙞𝙦𝙪𝙞𝙙𝙩𝙞𝙢𝙚 w CCL #9 Cape Fear: A Trip to the Darkside of UKG @refugeworldwide

Available on Audio Cassette and digital download directly from the label’s Bandcamp: https://cclurl.bandcamp.com/album/a-night-in-the-skull-discotheque

Side A: Bass is Eternal
Side B: 2-step Mutual Dream

A Night in the Skull Discotheque by the beloved underground selector CCL is the latest offering in the T4T LUV NRG label’s highly limited DJ mix series of cassettes. This immersive journey through a wonderland of proto-dubstep sounds from the late 1970s through the year 2000 is a sonic sibling to CCL’s acclaimed 2018 mix Ode to Queer Steppas.

Inspired in part by Eris Drew’s use of “old records to create new styles out of fragments” on her Raving Disco Breaks Vol. 1 mixtape (T4T LUV NRG, 2019), CCL approached this recording with a parallel frame of mind. Created with 3 CDJs, one Turntable, and a Boss Digital Delay 200, the tracks included in the mix are deconstructed from their whole, and constituent parts are intertwined, sampled, and dubbed out while being further stretched beyond their physical limits. CCL mixed many tracks at the 'wrong speed', pitched beyond their original recognizable tone; others are recontextualized through imaginative layering.

With a solid nod to seminal mixtapes of the early 90s, CCL references the namesake for Side A, Bass Is Eternal, an unreleased 1992 mixtape by influential Bristolian producers Smith & Mighty, an important sonic fulcrum amongst the musical tributaries of the hardcore continuum that continues to reverberate to this day. CCL experienced the after-effects of this ‘proto’ sound genesis in 2008, while living in Bristol, by which point its emergent whispers had coalesced into what became known as dubstep. Tracing a rich history of reference through the samples, basslines, moods, and drum patterns emanating from Bass Is Eternal while looking for connections that predate it became a long-term fascination for CCL. The result is a DJ mix that connects the oft-forgotten dots between proto eras and modern developments in bass and dubstep.

For the resulting sonic ride on A Night in the Skull Discotheque, CCL leads us to a fantastical place of timeless surreality – a majestic haunted dancehall soundtracked by a giddy rush of steppers and dubbed-out delights. Subs rattle through syncopated percs, and moody synths glisten in macabre glory. Fantastical dancers wriggle in wispy eternity, liberated from their corporeal forms in all their greatest spiritual wonder. Both extravagant and dusky, A Night in the Skull Discotheque is a world of seductive in-betweens, a place caught between the moodiest depths and the highest exuberance – A love letter to one of the most impactful formative sounds of the last decades.


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A portion for the proceeds from this release will go to fundraiser "SUPPORT PALESTINIAN SOLIDARITY IN EUROPE!". You can also directly donate via:
https://www.gofundme.com/f/support-palestinian-solidarity-in-europe
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Tape design: Nina Muro
Mastering: TJ Hertz
Additional tape mastering: Eris Drew
Photography: CCL 
Linear notes: Nevan Jio

A Night in the Skull Discotheque [T4T015]

CCL - A Night in the Skull Discotheque

As a producer and DJ, TSVI is in the form of his life—which you can't always say for an artist a decade in. He's been an enduring presence through several underground cycles for a reason: the man knows how to flow.

TSVI's RA Podcast features a solid number of new and forthcoming cuts from the current vanguard pushing club music forward, amongst them Verraco, Surusinghe, DJ Plead, Doctor Jeep, DJ JM, WOST and Dj Babatr—who just dropped a split 12" with TSVI on TraTraTrax last month.

Alongside the names you might expect, TSVI also leans into a streak of personal history. On RA.944 you'll hear fast, deep and percussive '90s and '00s cuts from Spain, Latin America and his native Italy, with a particular focus on the kind of playful progressive trance minted by the late, great Franchino. It makes for a truly dynamite mix.

@tsvisions @nervoushorizon

Read more at https://ra.co/podcast/944

RA Podcast

RA.944 TSVI

Rinse FM Podcast

Otik - 06 July 2024

https://replay.rinse.fm/uk/MasonCollective010624.mpRinse FM Podcast

Pangaea - 07 July 2024

Jossy Mitsu - 08 July 2024

Interview: https://truantsblog.com/2024/truancy-volume-331-parris/

Soundcloud: @parris_dj

Access the download and full tracklist (Confirmed, added) on our Patreon (patreon.com/truants). However if you need anything leave us a nice comment here and either us or Parris 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.

Parris

Truancy Volume 331: Parris

Mitch Freeman - Clinical

Ukrainian label Aimed is returning after its last main series release in January 2022, and, after releasing some "limited" stuff, this time going back to its roots. The spotlight here is on Palmiz, who recently also featured on iO Mulen’s Hoarder label. Fans of that sound will find plenty to enjoy in this release. [continue reading at...https://trommelmusic.com/music/premiere-a2-palmiz-strange-from-94-aimed007/]

Buy AIMED007

Premiere: A2 - Palmiz - Strange From 94 [AIMED007]

A Beyond Mix Vol. 7: Running Hot

Alich has just launched his label DiskCard, delivering a 5-track EP packed with crunchy, electro-house goodness. [continue reading at...https://trommelmusic.com/music/premiere/premiere-a1-alich-pay-digital-play-analog-dc01/]

Buy DC01

Premiere: A1 - Alich - Pay Digital Play Analog [DC01]

VINYL AND DIGITAL AVAILABLE FROM 13th DECEMBER

TESS022 The Trip - Spiritually Tessellate

Recording of CEM & JASSS' set at Dekmantel Selectors 2024.

Dekmantel Selectors 2024

CEM & JASSS at Dekmantel Selectors 2024

Recording of DJ Koolt's set at Dekmantel Selectors 2024.

DJ Koolt at Dekmantel Selectors 2024

Recording of L.B. Dub Corp's set at Dekmantel Selectors 2024.

L.B. Dub Corp at Dekmantel Selectors 2024

Recording of Angel D'lite's set at Dekmantel Selectors 2024.

Angel D'lite at Dekmantel Selectors 2024

Recording of CCL & Objekt's set at Dekmantel Selectors 2024.

CCL & Objekt at Dekmantel Selectors 2024

xxxtentacion Feat. Kin$oul & Killstation - Slipknot (Prod. P.Soul)

Green and Purple_Ruff 5_Mp3

Green & Purple f/Playboi Carti

FIND ME (Intro)

trippie next chu heardd ????
Produced. Pierre Bourne

xxxtentacion & trippie redd - Uh Oh, Thots! (Remix)

Juanita's Mix 34 with CCL @ccl-url

Q. How would you describe yourself?
A. An amorphous blob/orb that likes to wiggle & and dance :)

Q. What was your last memorable club night in NYC?
A. Funnily enough many of my memorable NYC club nights have been with persons in series :). My last NYC club night was with adab. I'm pretty incredibly lucky I got to have that as one of my last club experiences before the pandemic - I think about it all the time. Our friend Shane aka Kiernan Laveaux was also present, and so were some other friends, which made it extra wonderful. adab is a sonic sibling and I look up to them a lot, we got to play separately and back to back. Their set was so profoundly deep and spiritual, and our B2B was like flying at Warp-8, we got to play faster Jungle and DnB and dance around. It was one of the most joyous I’ve felt in a long time. Another notable NYC club experience was an all-night “stop and start” with the one and only Physical Therapy, the heads know. ;)

Q. Tell us a little bit about this mix.
A. I made this mix thinking about what I would like to listen to at a freaky stage called “The Way In” that was at Honcho Campout last year. The visual and memory is so visceral to me, it’s a place my mind travels to often during these times. Slinky, shimmery & freaky in the glow of sunrise. I’ve been listening to a lot of Trip Hop during lockdown, so this is undeniably influenced by those sounds. I miss the feeling of dancing slow, and fast, at the same time, and hugging friends on the dance floor. 

Some hum, crackle and mistakes in here for good measure, so you know I’m a hooman.

Juanita's Mix 034: CCL

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