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On Oct 6th 2021, about 2 years after my last set in London, I played from open to close (11pm to 5am) at Village Underground in Shoreditch. Here's a recording of the whole night with a bit of the crowd noise. 

Perhaps a full tracklist at some point... some unreleased stuff in here. 

Even though it had been a while, we had all night so no use in rushing things! I came across a lot of lovely music this year, but it mostly lived in my rekordbox or in a radio mix. I actually record a lot of my sets but it always feels like they're in a constant state of iteration, making it hard to pick just one "version" to release. Over the years I feel like this has led me to only very sparingly drop live-recorded sets. A "party" doesn't often lend itself to the archivable realm, maybe the memories are best suited to the ephemeral. 

Anyway, eternal gratitude crystals to those who came and those who danced, and to those listening now.

-av

Avalon Emerson Live in London (6 hour dj set) Oct 2021

121mix

Recorded at Machina Club
w/ STUDIO NYMPHO 4 SWAN LAKE

SWANLAKE mix at MACHINA 2023

Recording of Roza Terenzi's set at Lente Kabinet Festival 2023.

Roza Terenzi at Lente Kabinet Festival 2023

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:
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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

vinyl mix

Solid Steel in association with Serato (23rd October) We welcome Avalon Emerson in Hour 1 with an extended set, where the Berlin based US DJ, Producer and software developer delves into a quality selection featuring music from Peppermint Jam Allstars, Roland Clark, Paperclip People, New Order remixed by Kevin Saunderson, Demdike Stare and Italo Disco from Valerie Dore. She had this to say about her mix;
"I recorded it on one of the last hot and sunny Sundays on a Urei 1620LE, Bozure 201, Technics, borrowed CDJs, a filter and a TR8. Now that it's definitely sweater weather here in Neukölln, maybe some of that warm atmosphere comes off wherever people listen to it. This one's got a lot of personal favorites, unreleased treats, drum machine jamming, weirdo new and old things, etc. My last mixes have been live radio shows, which are fun and loose but more snapshots of what I'm playing at the time. This time around I tried to compose a mix while keeping its entirety in mind."

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Go to Hour 2 here https://soundcloud.com/ninja-tune/solid-steel-radio-show-23102015-hour-2-dj-madd


Hour 1  - Avalon Emerson  https://twitter.com/avalon_emerson
				
Nuno Canavarro	_	Untitled 6	_	Moikai 
Hermanas Pulido	_	Male Reginita	_	Nonesuch
Peppermint Jam Allstars	_	Geetarero	_	Peppermint Jam ‎
Johnny D De Mario & Nicholas Palermo & Johnick	_	Much Love	_	unknown
Ann Joy	_	You Make Me Feel Good	_	Unidisc 
Roland Clark	_	Simple Things Sacred Rhythm Dub	_	Sacred Rhythm Music
Mary Mary	_	Shackles (Praise You) (Victor Calderone Dub)	_	Tommy Boy Silver Label
Sound Stream	_	3rd Movement	_	Sound Stream 
DJ Spen Dana Weaver	_	Heavenly	_	Quantize Recordings 
2 Bitches from Queens	_	Women on Drums	_	H.O.T. Records ‎
Paperclip People	_	Reach	_	Open
Unknown	_	Unknown	_	Unknown
Serge Santiago	_	Mind Warp Edit	_	Santiago
New Order	_	Round & Round (Detroit mix)	_	Factory
Lime	_	Angel Eyes (dub)	_	Matra
Friction & Spice	_	Groove Me (Cybernetic Edit)	_	Cosmic Records
Khoeler	_	Sacred Realm	_	Skudge
Demdike Stare	_	Patchwork	_	Modern Love
Varg	_	Öhn	_	Northern Electronics
Unknown	_	tr8jam	_	Unknown
Knife	_	Like a Pen Demo	_	Brille Records
Avalon Emerson	_	Constantly My Cure	_	Shtum ‎
Valarie Dore	_	Get Closer	_	Merak Music 

Solid Steel Radio Show 23/10/2015 Hour 1 - Avalon Emerson

https://www.fluxfm.de/mint-berlin-dj-mixe-partytipps-clubsandwich/

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