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Next up we have a mix from one of LA's brightest DJ community members, Max Ellington (@berrmax). Max is an LA-based DJ with roots in Ann Arbor, MI. Through his VPN Radio show, Surrealchemistry, he has embarked on a mission to explore the power of deep and psychadelic dance music. He's also a resident DJ at the New Palm event series. Some words from Max about the mix: 

"I used this mix as an assignment to break out of a lower tempo zone I've been vibing on lately and grab some faster + most importantly weirder records from the shelf. I tried to find a balance between speed and intensity--moves to higher tempos eventually accompanied by pillowy synths and dubby basslines.. the feeling of accelerating towards a soft landing!"

FAST_CAST 009: Max Ellington

REC_5_MAX_ELLINGTON

Live on @RadioalHara 07.23.24 
with guest Max Ellington ( @max_ellington )
www.RadioalHara.net
راديو الحارة

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Out to Lunch Ep. 6 w/ guest Max Ellington - Live on Radio alHara 7.23.2024

For our eighth episode, we are excited to feature one of a kind selector and Anemone co-organizer, Max Ellington. Max performed a special closing set in the early morning hours at our augural Anemone party, and will be back for a frenetic and dynamic B2B2B at our upcoming gathering in collaboration with the Acid Camp family on 10/26. 

A note on the mix:

"This mix envisions a dancefloor suspended in the open ocean, bobbing and rolling with the massive surface waves above and lit by dappled sunbeams reflecting off of enormous, swirling schools of fish like a living disco ball, the light and motion interrupted periodically by the slow, looming silhouettes of whales and manta rays. Searching for the perfect beat with vast, endless blue in all directions."    -Max

Track list:
Bas Dobbelaer - Plural
Trinity Carbon - Ashley Road Steppa 
Billus - Cubic
Jeremiah R. - Transmission to the Eternal Sphere
Briki - Atmocid
Sam Bangura - How Are U Feeling?
Deezy - Earnin' Bumps
Liebus - Push Up the Price
Saphileaum - Kakadu
Design Default - Kagura
Kamila Govorčin - 2Fw
Anoesis - Hawassa
YS - Somewhere on a Train in 2035
Noha - Storia Della Notte
Chestnut People - I
Lone - Dolphin

Anemone 008: Max Ellington

We begin Season 8 with Bounce House organizer and resident, DJ Anarres who shepherds us through shame to get us back up on our feet. For Andi, there you ought to know how to experience the bad, so you know how to experience the good. Those familiar with Andi’s style should expect the same depth and variety they always deliver, but this time with an 80’s soul flare and Kermit the Frog. 

For the tracklist and more, head here: moods.substack.com/

Moods is community-curated and community-supported. By helping us out, you're directly supporting artist commissions, curator fees, merchandise, and materials for parties. Consider subscribing to our Substack (moods.substack.com/), or give us a buck, four, or more a month directly: danielsharp.cargo.site/Moods

Moods 77: DJ Anarres

New Palm 12: Max Ellington
Recorded live at the Plata Lounge on New Year's Day 2025
@max_ellington

TRACKLIST

Sonmi451 - White Horses On The Waves
Dntel - Anywhere Anyone (Pearson Sound Beatless Reduction)
Creation Rebel + New Age Steppers - Earthwire Line
DJ Spooky - Why Patterns
Telekinetic Soulmate - Sub-Ductress
DJ Paradise - Mbizi (R)
Angophora - In Lines
Remotif - Gondwana At Noon
Cosmic JD - A Media Noche
Saphileaum - Mystery of the Ancients
Future Sound of London - Among Myselves
Lawrence - Grey Light
Call Super - Music Stand
Deep Nalstr​ö​m - Beyond the Barrier
Pablo’s Eye - The Deep Dark Days of September
V/Z - Suono Assente
TCB - Fluency Shaping
Deadbeat - Third Quarter
Bowery Electric - Fear of Flying

New Palm 12: Max Ellington

Spring’s coming. We’re bearing witness to the thaw in Detroit, and it’s mirrored across the pond in Toronto. The city’s rising DJ and community organizer, 999ADJ (@999adj), takes up the Moods mix helm through a gallery of music that distills a sense of geographic movement and mobility. Lift your tray tables; buckle into your seats; prepare for takeoff; and plan to land somewhere warmer with foliage and forgotten frost.

Moods is community curated and community supported. By helping us out, you're directly supporting artist commissions, curator fees, merchandise, and materials for parties. Give us a buck, four, or more a month here: https://substack.com/@moods

We've paired 999ADJ's mix with a work by Kapwani Kiwanga titled Flowers for Africa (Ghana). Read more about it here: https://orgallery.org/exhibitions-projects/kapwani-kiwanga-flowers-for-africa/

For the interview, tracklist, and more on the artist head to our Substack :https://substack.com/@moods

Moods 78: 999ADJ

Moods is flying to Des Moines for the very first time with Mina Mills (@minamills333), a Chicago-based deejay, promotor, and sonic explorer. For this mix, Mills sidesteps her usual vinyl techno sound to cassettes obtained at noise shows in her home town.

Moods is community curated and community supported. By helping us out, you're directly supporting artist commissions, curator fees, merchandise, and materials for parties. Give us a buck, four, or more a month here: substack.com/@moods

We’ve paired Mina’s mix with a work by Brazilian artist Cildo Meireles titled Babel. The “tower of incomprehension,” Meireles has called it, is a stack of second-hand analogue radios tuned to different stations and adjusted to the minimum audible volume. What happens is a static hum of nonstop sound—information, music, and ads blending and competing for our ears.

Follow Mina: @minamills333

For the interview, tracklist, and more on the artist head to our Substack :substack.com/@moods

Moods 79: Mina Mills

Afro.fem’s breakbeat and house productions, their Universal Wi-fi show on Great Circles, and sets at events from Sonidero to Le Freaq scratch just the surface of the Philly-based musician’s archive. Their Moods mix takes us deeper—through pivotal moments of sonic discovery from friends sharing tunes to the beloved dubstepforum.com. Move through their deep house, grime, dubstep and more below.


Moods is community curated and community supported. By helping us out, you're directly supporting artist commissions, curator fees, merchandise, and materials for parties. Give us a buck, four, or more a month here: https://substack.com/@moods

We’ve paired afro.fem’s mix with a work from 1975 by Stan Douglas from the Disco Angola collection titled “Kung Fu Fighting.”

Follow afro.fem here: @afrofem69

For the interview, tracklist, and more on the artist head to our Substack: https://substack.com/@moods

Moods 80: afro.fem

Colliding Pin’s dance floor driven productions (No Floors and Red Ribbons from 2024 to name a few) and work as a label admin at Apocalypse Rave Culture feel at home during the month of May in Detroit—aka Movement, aka the Techno High Holiday. Pins, née Joe Wright, departs from the main floor nonetheless in their Moods mix, orchestrating waves of sonic selections across drone, jazz, ambient, and Irish traditional folk.

So, while the Moods team gets ready for our barbecue next week, pull up to the pitstop with us before we all get slammed with a wall of techno for five days.

Moods is community curated and community supported. By helping us out, you're directly supporting artist commissions, curator fees, merchandise, and materials for parties. Subscribe here: https://moods.substack.com/

We’ve paired Coliding' Pin’s mix with a work by Guillermo Galindo titled “Espejismo” - 2018. For more on Guillermo, head here: https://www.galindog.com/wp3/about/

And to follow Colliding Pins, head to their Soundcloud: @joseph-wright-510264476

Moods 81: Colliding Pins

Sharlese LIVE at Zero Chill (NYC) Womannial Edition

Lifesavers w/ Endash: 4th June '25

Ms. Ed (@ms_ed)—the prolific Maryland-born, California-raised deejay, producer, and label organizer at Acid Camp—has been on the Moods wishlist for a few years now. After sets at The Great Beyond, VPN, Made to Move, Anemone, Kajunga, and more, we’re excited to release her downtempo-meets-uptempo mix across 90s trip hop and 00s blog house. Tune in and read more about the mix and its tracks on our Substack: https://moods.substack.com/

Moods is community curated and community supported. By helping us out, you're directly supporting artist commissions, curator fees, merchandise, and materials for parties. Subscribe here: https://moods.substack.com/

Moods 82: Ms. Ed

Aaron Davis returns to The Lot Radio to share new music from Acid Camp Records, friends, and beyond. 

https://www.instagram.com/acidcamp
https://www.soundcloud.com/acidcamp



Acid Camp with Aaron Davis @ The Lot Radio 08-27-2025

hello <3 december 2018's @mooooods mix dooties are provided by Max Ellington (@berrmax), a DJ, record fiend, and LA-based maestro. For more visit: https://moods.substack.com/p/moods-12-max-ellington

Max centers his mix on a few regions and moments in time. His early days in Ann Arbor, Michigan opened up the gateway to crate digging, odd finds, and new discoveries. "Ann Arbor is the birthplace of Ghostly International," Max begins. "I was first told about Ghostly when I was a kid, and while it didn't initially stick—Lusine would have been a bit over my head at that point, I imagine—I eventually circled back around and got really into School of Seven Bells, Tycho and others. The music I discovered through that label, a particularly relevant favorite being Heathered Pearls' Loyal album, definitely gave me a lot of the experiences that furthered my interest in the music in the mix."

The best part up till now was a lack of proper, heavy techno. That was solved with the movie Blade (1998) with, specifically, "the blood rave scene in Blade. So, I guess I'd say it sounded like it was for vampires!" It was Confusion (Reconstruction Mix) by Pump Panel, and after endless repeats on his friend's iPod, he dug into Detroit, the history, DJing, Movement, Interdimentional Transmissions, and more. "When I saw Carl Craig play live as 69 and I could hear the fusion of soul, funk, future sounds... It was the first time I heard a set that made the lineage of techno culture from black dance clubs through to the present form so explicit, so tangible. I love the sound, of course, but the cultural and historical significance of techno, and the fact that it's a distinctly Midwestern art form, made it infinitely more important to me."

And some advise for us all: do your homework. "Always keep working to better understand why techno parties exist, why they need/needed to happen underground, and who is communicating to/for whom in this music. Get educated, gain a sense of respect for the people who paved the way out of necessity, learn to share the space where you are a guest, and most importantly, be able to identify and support who is genuine and making a real positive difference right now in your community.

"You will be rewarded with a more whole experience each time you go out to listen to music—feeling a greater connection with the people dancing and with those who came before us. It's all fun but if you put in the extra effort it can really be something special!"

TO LIST

1. Steven Leggett - Bathhouse
2. Dedekind Cut - Virtues
3. Pauline Anna Strom - Spatial Spectre
4. Skee Mask - VLI
5. Modern Heads - Elemento A
6. Palta - At Ville
7. Steve Hauschildt - Stare into Space
8. Vera Dvale & Psykovarius - Taevakehad
9. Dub Tractor - Wow
10. Anton Zap - Fade to What?
11. Steve Moore - Endless Caverns
12. Rhythmic Theory - Machine State
13. Microstoria - Per Formal
14. Sleep D & Albrecht La'Brooy - Sleeping Patterns
15. Heavenly Music Corporation - Cloudless Light
16. Protocol - Waiting

TO LOOK

Max's mixed is paired, fittingly, with the one and only Hito Steyerl, whose work mine both internet history but the history of media, memory, and technology. Factory of the Sun (2015) is literally a film about a fake video game the viewer can't play, as they sit in poolside chairs inside a Tron-like grid.

Moods 12: Max Ellington

Name: Julie Malice
Alias: Malzof (@juliemalice)
Pronouns: they/them/theirs
Location: Pittsburgh, PA

Influences: gravity, large bodies of water, wind, plants, radio hosts, the community around me and a long history of resiliency

Affiliations/Residencies/Projects: BOOM Concepts / gfx

Favorite Quote: "This company that provides 'security' for numerous agencies as well as rehabilitation services for young girls 'at risk' in the United States, while operating private prisons in Europe, Africa, and Australia, also provides equipment and services to Israeli checkpoints in the West Bank along the route of Israel's apartheid wall as well as to the terminals from which Gaza is kept under continuous siege. G4S also provides goods and services to the Israeli police in the West Bank, while it offers security to private businesses and homes in illegal Israeli settlements in occupied Palestine. As private prison companies have long recognized, the most profitable sector of the prison-industrial complex is immigrant detention and deportation. In the US, G4S provides transportation for deportees who are being ushered out of the US into Mexico, thus colluding with the increasingly repressive immigration practices inside the US." - Angela Davis on G4S, the third largest private corporation in the world (pg. 57) Freedom Is a Constant Struggle: Ferguson, Palestine and the Foundations of a Movement

Advice for the DJs, artists and producers of our community: Don't be afraid to try out new mediums. Keep sharing your ideas and voice. Collaborate with friends and artists that you respect, provide them feedback and mentor each other. Gain ownership over space and do what you want with it. Take space where you can and remember your greatness and worth, even while the world tries to take that from you/us. Be unrelenting in all media. Take breaks when you want to and don't feel guilty about taking time for yourself. Taking care of yourself always comes first.

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Endash (Daniel Sharp, b. 1994, Grand Rapids, Michigan) is a Detroit-based artist, musician, writer, and interdisciplinary organizer. Their sonic work explores landscape, memory, science fiction, ambient, and techno.

They have released with Acid Camp (2024) and self-released three EPs (2014-2018) and one LP, Come Home (2019). They are the founder and co-organizer of @mooooods.

To book: dsharp13@gmail.com
Releases: https://endash.bandcamp.com
IG: http://instagram.com/dshrp
Website: https://danielsharp.cargo.site

Played and ran events at:

SutroFM (2024)
Jupiter Disco (2024)
ANYTHING BK (2024)
Beloved Radio, Chicago (2023)
Disco Zwei, Germany (2023)
Hunter Thompson Saloon, Germany (2023)
Imbolc, Detroit (2023-)
Public Records, New York (2022)
Flyover, Minneapolis (2022)
BEVERLY'S, New York (2021)
GLU, New York (2019-)
Basilica Soundscape, Hudson (2019)
The Lot Radio, New York (2018-)
Bossa Nova Civic Club, New York (2018-)
WCBN, Ann Arbor (2015)

@memco alum
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Moods 12: Max Ellington

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