Mixes

Garage Mixes One

Later beluisteren 2

Various Artists
'SMS 002'
Mixed By Blackboxx

To celebrate the release of his new EP 'Haze', Blackboxx delivers the second installment in a brand new mix series for Slime. Featuring tracks from the man himself plus Bad Habit, Flava D, Conducta, Cellardore and more.

'Haze' EP is out now : https://lnk.to/Haze

Stream the EP : https://soundcloud.com/slimetime/sets/blackboxx-haze-ep-slm170

Download the free track 'Still Breathin' : https://soundcloud.com/slimetime/blackboxx-still-breathin-free-download

SMS 002

SMS 002 - Mixed By Blackboxx [Free Download]

Rinse FM Podcast

Dappa - 13th January 2018

Oneman: A History of UK Pirate Radio Special - 26th October 2018

Rinse FM Podcasts

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Conducta b2b Mind Of A Dragon - 22nd November 2018

Myself and two of my mates and all round top djs go b2b for the full two hours ahead of this week's On Loop 3rd Birthday in London.

Full tracklist via NTS here: https://tinyurl.com/y5lohyzr

Moxie on NTS B2B special w/ Shanti Celeste & Peach(06.03.19)

For Eris’s mixtape “Raving Disco Breaks Vol. 1”, she uses old records to create a new style out of fragments. Many of the selections have been featured heavily in her live DJ sets, including her b2b sets with Octo Octa. Eris accumulated these records slowly, over decades, but it wasn’t until touring last year that she realized a “sound” coalesced in her bag. What does a rave at the disco sound like? Kinda like everyone took ecstasy at the roller rink. On her ecstatic mix, Eris colleges together a genre by scratching-in breaks with horn samples, mixing Disco House with broken beats, dropping Miami Bass jams with Boogie keys and blending Rave tunes with disco vocals. On the mix Eris utilizes turntable techniques such as “doubles” tricks and “hot mixing”—a fast-paced mixing style inspired by her beloved B96 Mixmasters, Chicago’s most popular 1990’s radio DJs. Like all of Eris’s mixes, she weaves strong narratives of embodiment, defiance, cultural transcendence and personal triumph (a classic disco emotion) into a flow of body rockin’ beats, scratches, drops, and sweet melodies. The result is a bass heavy summertime house mix for the psychedelic bad girls, boys and enbys. 

A limited run of Raving Disco Breaks Vol. 1 cassettes are available now exclusively from the label’s Bandcamp - http://t4tluvnrg.bandcamp.com

 The recording can be streamed on the T4T LUV NRG SoundCloud for free and hi-resolution versions are available for download on the label’s Bandcamp (donation requested). All profits  from Eris’s mix will be donated to the Sylvia Rivera Law Project (SRLP), which works to guarantee that all people are free to self-determine their gender identity and expression, regardless of income or race, and without facing harassment, discrimination, or violence.

Eris Drew Raving Disco Breaks Vol 1.

Recording of @call-super & @shanticeleste's set at Lente Kabinet Festival 2019.

"The first (and probably only) recording of us playing together. After a delayed flight Shanti arrived 5 minutes before the start of the closing set for the Tweede Kamer on Saturday. It felt whirlwindy and the crowd didn't seem to want us to get too settled. The Beautiful Swimmers had already cued it up for a lively closing, and it all seemed to just fly into something special. Thanks to everyone involved, CS + SC."

Call Super & Shanti Celeste at Lente Kabinet Festival 2019

for my 6th edition of my bi-monthly @operator-radio show i played 2hrs solo..

Abadan Bar 006 w/ Moody Mehran

Dj Okapi at Jaeger Oslo
live recording 04/09/2019

I have to tune the car radio manually to get to the place I want to be on Cape Town’s FM bandwidth. The seek button scans over the desired channel even though I’m just a few blocks away from the broadcasting headquarters. Immediately, the old, but familiar hiss of white noise transports me back to my youth and then it pops into life as I get to 89.5. A two-step punchy snare and a syllabic yelping in Zulu greets me on the other side, this sounds more like home.

“You have to listen to Bush Radio” a friend told me the night before, “if you want to hear South African music”. For the past week I’ve been driving around my hometown listening to the ubiquitous sounds of popular music from Europe and USA proliferated by the nationally syndicated stations like 5FM. This has always been the case in South Africa and notwithstanding the community focussed programming from small, inconspicuous stations like Bush Radio, this has remained the broadcasting practise for the most part of my adult life too.

Every time I return to South Africa I’m always astounded and dismayed how very little has changed in that regard, even when in Europe, South African music is being proliferated by DJs and radio everywhere. The sound of GQOM, the band BCUC, a revival of seventies era Fusion, and the newfound interest in the eighties bubblegum sound had all been largely instigated and promoted through European labels and record stores in recent years.

Limited by constricts like the lack of vinyl presses to re-issue music and the fact that most of the original records are harboured in European record collections, it’s obvious why this has happened, but it doesn’t look set to remain this way for much longer. In recent years a DJ, a blog, a label and a record store has come along, all dedicated to changing this, bringing South African music back home and making availeable on the vinyl format again. It all funnels down to one man, Dave Durbach, better known by his DJ alias Okapi, who is tirelessly and selflessly, collecting and re-distributing this music through Afro-Synth, a blog, store and record label dedicated to new and forgotten South African music.

Hailing from Cape Town, where he cut his teeth around the bars and clubs in the small scene around Long Street, playing everything from Hip Hop to Jazz, Dave had always been known as something of a “vinyl junkie” by the locals. At a time when the format was largely forgotten for the more accessible digital formats, Dave would haunt the used record shops in and around Cape Town for obscure records from the eighties. The records largely disregarded as disposable “bubblegum” music by a predominantly white music media, became an obsession for the latent digger in his teens and laid the foundations for what would later become Afro Synth; a blog dedicated to shedding new light on a lost era in South Africa’s rich music history.

Afro Synth garnered attention for its unique and largely untapped source of records from from an apartheid-era South Africa with considered reviews and articles about the artists and the records sound tracking the end of white-minority rule and the first exciting years of post-apartheid South Africa. These were the talented, mostly black artists that remained obscure for the longest time, pressing limited runs of their records on independent labels that were quickly assigned to bargain bins all over SA. He established the blog to highlight these finds and through his words, many South Africans (this writer included) were lead on an extensive journey of discovery through a very niche, and almost forgotten corner of music history.

Dj Okapi at Jaeger Oslo - live recording 04/09/2019

Playing deep Indonesian digs in the RLR AMS SHOP listening basement. One hour of esoteric gems, traditional Sunda, psych rock and more.

@redlightradio

RLR AMS SHOP - Sekan for Waves September 19th 2019

CC&PT with Steven van Hulle #013

"[Started DJing] sometime around 2011-2012. I'd made hiphop beats for a long time before that and then stopped for a few years. When I started making music again, I was focused on dance music and DJing seemed like a good outlet for that." - @reverenddollars

DISCWOMAN 79 x Reverend Dollars

The 50th and final show on Cashmere Radio. I’d like to give a massive thank you to everyone in the Cashmere Radio community. Hosting the show over the last 4.5 years has been an incredibly rewarding musical experience and I’m blessed to have had this opportunity and to have made so many positive connections along the way. 

I’d also like to give a shout out to everyone who graced the decks with me; 2krazy, Alec Falconer, Ben Mono, Big Leg, Bruce Hall, Christian Jay, Cope, Dan Beaven, DC Ops, DJ Perception, Dan DNR, Dr Banana, Dub Jamz, Ease Up George, Ecke Records, Eff_El, EL-B, Elissa Suckdog, Entity London, Ethel, Folklore, Future Beat Alliance, Harry Luda, Harry Wills, Jackie G, Jonny Chorley, Jonny Counce, Klon Dump, Lucas Eb, Mare, Mark "Turbo" Turner, Max Hill, Medallion Man, Mejle, Nollern, Northern Jon, Operate, Qumasiquame, Roland Samuel, Sam Mole, Samuel Rodd, Shai Spooner, Skratch, Stephen Howe, TMSN, Toxido Mask, Xantrax, Zosse records. An extra special thank you goes out to anyone whom I may have forgotten ;)

And of course big up all the listeners, I appreciate the support.

Final Enchanted Rhythms on Cashmere Radio

San Francisco's Chrissy joins Dansu Discs following his release on the label earlier in the year. A full 120 of house, breaks and garage with lots of new and unreleased bits from Chrissy and the Dansu Discs family inside.

Dansu Discs w/ Chrissy - August 2020

Hessle Audio with Ben UFO - 01 February 2021

Musician and record collector
Bookings: booking@ninkasi.co
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