Zoey Shopmaker aka Sister Zo is a Brooklyn-based producer, DJ, writer and co-founder of the Kansas City-based Queer/Trans collective and record label, UN/TUCK. Her February debut EP 'Screw Cheek' on Scuffed Recordings was met with critical acclaim, earning support from the likes of Ben UFO, Surgeon, I. JORDAN, Jossy Mitsu, Louise Chen and more. With her forthcoming 'Freak Shift' EP on Martyn's 3024 imprint, Zo has established herself as one of North America's breakthrough artists exploring the continuum of UK bass and techno. She has recently played sets for New York City's premier techno institution, The Bunker NYC, and is set to make her Nowadays debut on June 11th. Her sets combine the weight of percussion-heavy dubstep, UK funky and techno with effervescent club cuts and emotive house. 

Notes on the Mix ///
"I originally planned to call this my TRANSEXUAL BASS Mix, drawing exclusively from music made by trans women. Eventually I decided to include a handful of tracks that , while not made by trans women, nonetheless conveyed the message clearly. The mix begins with dark rumbly bassweight courtesy of aya (fka LOFT) interspersed with a scene from POSE in which Elektra tells off a transphobe; and it ends on an overwhelmingly positive note—with the Morales Carnival Club extended mix of 'Spice Up Your Life' by the Spice Girls. It feels like a journey from justified rage into effusive joy and affirmation, with each track carefully selected to amplify the energy of trans and queer empowerment."

SOCIALS:
https://www.instagram.com/sister_zo/
https://mobile.twitter.com/sister__zo
https://sisterzo.bandcamp.com/
https://ra.co/dj/sisterzo
https://soundcloud.com/sisterzo

XOXA BLEND 104 - SISTER ZO

ADAB @ The Lot Radio Block Party 2022

Name: Isa Soto
Alias: Nada Fácil (@nadafacil)
Pronouns: she/her
Location: Chicago via South Texas

Influences: 
i grew up a dancer, so dance is definitely the central influence when it comes to my relationship to music and how i interpret it. if it moves me, i'll move! major influences are also my beautiful talented creative friends in chicago and beyond, delicious food, merengue bachata and dembow, drums, bass, heat, sweat, love


Affiliations/Residencies/Projects: 
TQM.FM on Beloved Radio


Favorite Quote: 
“It is because I dove into the abyss that I am beginning to love the abyss I am made of.” - Clarice Lispector

Advice for the DJs, producers and artists of our community:
i feel silly offering advice since i am still really new to DJing, lol. but! one thing i try to use as a guide for myself in all parts of life, and specifically in exploring music and DJing, is taking comfort in the fact that i will never know everything and understanding that there is always something to learn somewhere else or from someone else. thinking of myself as a student keeps me infinitely more

With this mix Nada Fácil asks to please learn more about and consider donating to:
❁ South Texans for Reproductive Justice: South Texans for Reproductive Justice advocates for reproductive rights, bodily autonomy, and access to reproductive health care. By hosting community events, civic engagement, practical support, and educational outreach, South Texans for Reproductive Justice seeks to eradicate all forms of restrictions to reproductive rights.  (https://strj.org/)
❁ The Frontera Fund: Frontera Fund's mission is to make abortion accessible in the Rio Grande Valley by providing financial and practical support regardless of immigration status, gender identity, ability, sexual orientation, race, class, age, or religious affiliation and to build grassroots organizing power at intersecting issues across our region to shift the culture of shame and stigma. (https://fronterafundrgv.org/about-us/)

Tracklist - https://www.instagram.com/p/Cnzlc9MuOEN/

Daisychain

Daisychain 262 - Nada Fácil

"Here at Distant Signals Laboratories, we are excited to present our recent discovery of an exoplanet with quite unusual gravitational properties. Lead scientist on the project, boxofbox, has obtained a gravimetric recording for analysis and reports their findings below:

bit.ly/3UzLq3k

In March 2023, our Advanced LIGO detectors were able to hear a planetoid body in the star system Phustrus, 2.7 Gpc, Earth relative. The planetoid, hereafter deemed Aephus.5722.27a appears to be near the Roche limit with its star and the system also possesses a rapid, secondary, 0.5-hourly orbit around a nearby black hole, NGX-HL 3777. Over time this binary system has apparently forced the planetoid’s bulk into a bi-lobular conical form (confirmed by Vortex coronagraph), the most directly measurable consequence of which is that Aephus.5722.27a possesses multiple meta-stable gravitational norms. We hypothesize from the obtained recording that the beings of Aephus are attuned to this multiples-of-gravity effect as evidenced by the musical artifact extracted from the LIGO recording, as this “music” appears to express simultaneous, approximately integer-multiple, polyrhythmic tempos (61.1±10g, 90±5.2g, & 180±12.7g are the three most significant and consistently detectable of these quasi-static gravities) .

There appears to be some periodic (perhaps anxious) temporal dissonances (we’ve termed this ‘almost-clangs’) indicated by moments where the metastable time slips, degrades, and recalibration occurs in the recording. We hypothesize that this has to do with the difficulty in maintaining a planet-wide clock and rhythm synchronization with the relativistic effects. Alternatively, this could be a result of large scale gravitational fluctuations due to changes in angular momentum given the measured axial precession wobble.


During rare moments in its dual orbit, Aephus.5722.27a is at apogee with both NGX-HL 3777 and Phustrus; here we calculate an overall period of planetary “weightlessness” as the gravity goes below detectable levels during these periods. This has been difficult for us to precisely measure as it nearly always coincides with an Earth-NGX/Aephus syzygy, introducing significant gravitational distortional that temporarily blocks our detector. Yet finally, we are fortunate with this latest recording, as we were able to capture the onset of one of these events; the sudden breakdown of any discernible temporal consistency near the end of the recording seems to correspond to this event. A list of all our extracted measurements is provided in the tracklist appendix."

@boxofbox
IG: @boxofbox

boxofbox is an artist/scientist/engineer working on bioelectrical systems, adaptive signal processing, and the fundamental physics of rump-shaking. A long-time giver to the US underground rave scene as a dancer and afterparty DJ, they are known for their genre-slippy, psychedelic, qu-ear'd sonics, and a passion for longish sets. They can frequently be found in the form of a tender and weird light in chatty internet corners or as a sweat-drenched, grinning pumpkin, smack dab in the middle of the closest dancefloor.

Distant Signals 018: boxofbox

Rinse FM Podcast

Sputnik One - 25 April 2023

The recording from my opening set at Nowadays's monthly Nonstop party.
Recorded on 04/29/23

Nowadays Nonstop Recording 04/23

One out of six mixes from PF's three-volume tape set. All proceeds from the initial press were split between The Freedom Theater in Jenin refugee camp and a fund to safely relocate Din's family, and so will the proceeds from the digital release. 

Mix by @din_d

All six mixes are now on Nina Protocol and a second pressing of the cassettes will be on Bandcamp soon.

www.ninaprotocol.com/hubs/palestineforever

spot.fund/p2r3xsc (Din's Family Gofundme)

IG: @thefreedomtheatre / thefreedomtheatre.org/

docs.google.com/document/d/19BVbP…7vkR0/mobilebasic (Mutual aid directly on the ground)

Kingtown Dub

They  See Us

A Collection Of Unreleased Cruising Tunes For Your Festive Driving And Partying.

The Church

Recorded live on 11/1/19 at CNC Halloween.

CNC LIVE - PLOY

Bleep/ bloop creator

For booking and all inquires:
escaflowne.the.3rd@gmail.com

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Nowadays Nonstop Recording 04/23

EscaFlowne