@donis-bk

Donis sits down for an interview and a contributing mix to our Series Shift.

BIO:
Donis is a Dominican American, Brooklyn born DJ, producer and multidisciplinary artist helping keep the underground dance music of Brooklyn authentic. Making a name locally for the past few years by playing killer sets at parties via Bossa Nova Civic Club, Mood Ring, Black Flamingo and most recently Nowadays - Donis has slowly began the journey into music production and curating events. Helping build and expand Half Moon Radio - an independent music and media company that covers and reinforces emerging culture around the world through radio, events, editorial, and educational workshops - his network of creatives is expansive, collaborating with many different people in many different facets. His sets are wide-open, spanning high energy sonic waves of house, reggaeton, techno, jazz, funk, disco and everything in between.

Donis Series Shift Track List:
Tom Browne - Funkin for Jamaica (N.Y.)
Slave - Watching You
First Choice - Love Thang
Skye - Ain’t No Need (Dance Version)
Sylvia Striplin - Give Me Your Love
Antiballas - Che Che Cole (Makossa)
Coke Escovedo - I wouldn’t Change a Thing
Ritchie Family - I’ll Do My Best 
Unlimited Touch - Searching To Find The One (Remix)
Frank Hooker & Positive People - This Feelin’
Candido - Dancin & Prancin
Herbie Hancock - I thought It Was You
Dr Buzzard’s Original Savannah Band - Cherchez La Femme/Se Si Bon
Gregory Porter - On My Way To Harlem
War - Ballero 
Brooklyn People - Peace & Love
Yambu - Sunny
Light of The World - Time (Club Mix)
Hamilton Bohannon - Me & the Gang
The Pretenders - Just Be Yourself 
79.5 - Terrorize My Heart (45 Edit)
Sister Sledge - Boogie Oogie Oogie
LTG Exchange - Waterbed

Interview

Series Shift Mix 005: Donis

B2B by two Detroit DJs, Dj Etta, and BlkShine

devoye invites: Blkshine and DJ Etta! @ The Lot Radio 02-24-2023

In response to spring
Wiggle on your tippy toes
A mix for putzing about
Roll down all the windows in the car
For rockin out while the suns out
Kombucha
Taking 2 hours to put on just eyeliner
To make you go 😚😏😋


🩷 pink & beige 🤎

https://soundcloud.com/delilahtov's entry point to dance music was finding the West Coast bass scene in high school. some interesting stuff was starting to emerge from the post-dubstep soup, and it fostered an underground culture of festis and freaks whose alternative lifeways became my map out of suburbia. bass parties like Oakland’s Wormhole Wednesdays put me in my body and exploded my sense of what music could be.

then i spent six months in England, going to garage nights at a low-ceilinged club called Cellar that was literally under the High Street in Oxford. i drew closer to bass music’s roots, finding love for 2-step and old school labels like Deep Medi (who, in a full circle moment, i later saw do an all-night showcase in a redwood grove at a festival in Oregon). i learned to trace the family tree of drum patterns and rhythms—this comes from that, and in the end it pretty much all comes from Black music.

i started DJing 10 years ago, but gave it up partly because i didn’t think there was space for the music i liked in queerdom; at my first gay parties, all i heard was house and techno. there were of course the trans raves with their genre-defying splatterpaint, which can be great, but it wasn’t until i moved to New York that i got to frequent queer events where stuff like UK bass and footwork was regularly on the menu. i met queer producers making everything from garage to sounds from all over Latin America.

thus this mix was born—from the profound relief that i don’t have to choose between my loves. as Nita Aviance once put it, “it can all go together, and it all makes sense.” 

for Deep South i’ve focused on elements that defined my sonic path: thick basslines, warm textures, stuttering vocals, and bubbly British fizz. for me, making a mix is like putting together a puzzle, and when it’s done the picture is an expression of where i’m at in life. with this mix i was very intentional about building, sustaining, and ultimately resolving a narrative around some feelings i’ve had during the past couple years. i am nothing if not a storyteller, and DJing is a way of discovering the story as i go.

i’m a huge fan of the phone speaker, but this is best played on something that does at least a fair amount of bass :)

Deep South Podcast - 119 -  Delilah At Night

JADALAREIGN @ The Lot Radio 06-29-2023

The car in an empty parking lot motif, listening to music out the radio, dancing, smoking cigarettes, boo'd up with a honey, vibing with the homies.

CMBYN 1:48:37 (aka Cuffing Szn)

Inspired by autumn, romance, and falling for it while the leaves fall. 69 tracks (that’s on purpose!) cozied into one three-hour session from a late September weekend. Some bits from my set at our last Rendezvous of the year (9.17.2023) held at Genesee Valley Park.

Fall brings on a unique nostalgia for me. Music evocative of decades prior, tracks and genres heavy in instrumentation, an intentional softness. Pianos, flutes, strings, synths, jazz, swelling wistful melodies between emotional key pairings.

The change in season also inspires feelings of new love. Holding hands in big coats under bright foliage. Cool crisp nights spent warm and sultry indoors. The excited whimsy of feeling butterflies; the subtle fear of uncertainty.

The ‘love song’ selection, samples, and romantic references are intentional; the rest is new, newly discovered, or speaking to the season for me. The opener is a personal favorite, the ending to Sergei Rachmaninoff’s Concerto No. 2 Adagio sostenuto: piano carries floating leaves to the ground, strings send you soaring into the sky. The closer is a particular sunrise moment at Honcho Campout this year 🍁

fall, in love 🍂💌 9.23.2023

Lefto Early Bird 10.13.23 | VISLA FM

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PIQUE-NIQUE AM @ The Lot Radio 10-23-2023

Introducing Anónima, a dynamic force in Atlanta’s underground club scene. With an unwavering passion for the early foundations of electronic music, they have shaped the soundscape with their magnetic sets since 2015.

Utilizing DJing as a tool to facilitate space for others, Anónima founded Unruly in 2021; a DIY techno party that serves to celebrate, but above all else, amplify Black and Brown artists.

Anónima's aim is to provide a haven on the dance floor, where boundaries dissolve. Anónima's sets are more than just sonic experiments; they are catalysts for unabashed joy.

Deep South Podcast - 127 - Anónima

support me on bandcamp ♥ : planet-v.bandcamp.com/track/impure
check the vid: https://youtu.be/e8m7fT8Fk88
spotify: https://open.spotify.com/track/5JsZWjPY3RctjRmPa98DPw?si=8f823e431eb34f89

/𝕴𝖒𝖕𝖚𝖗𝖊./

Impurity itself is the proof of life.
不純こそ、生の証。

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#hardwave #wave #wavemusic #bassmusic #nightdrive #planetv #edit

full vid

IMPURE

I mix music and get in drag sometimes
Narratives, Stories, Feelings, Realness through Mixing
How she go so hard and so soft at the same time?

CMBYN 1:48:37 (aka Cuffing Szn)

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