With this mix for the Ever Afters 2023 campout, I wanted to help set the stage (literally) for the lineup that Envelope booked for the Yurt. This took three forms: lesbian soundsystem music to establish dancing in that room as a norm (prog); dark and percussive and carnal tracks to open the gates for wider tempos and sonic palettes (dnb); and experimentally-focused pieces to acknowledge the history of the Yurt as a site of primarily ambient casting (experimental ambient). It works best I think if you imagine yourself in the depths of the California midlands, huddled under swerving UFO lights as the hours from 3-5am careen by 🖤

Track list

#	Artist - 					Track Title					[Year]
1	Adam Pits - 				Cosmic Confession			[2022]
2	Cass - 					Kenjin (Cass Mix)				[2003]
3	Sleepfreaks -				Distant Mellow				[2001]
4	Bipath - 					Paranoize (Flip-Path)			[2001]
5	Tata Box Inhibitors - 		Plasmids (Placid Mix)			[1994]
6	Roza Terenzi & D. Tiffany -	Gravity Bongo				[2022]
7	Subtone Trio -				Load (Chab Remix)			[2001]
8	DJ Nukem - 				Secrets (Deep Mix)			[2002]
9	Chab -					Get My Love (Moogwai Mix)	[2000]
10	Spray -					Ratenplan					[2022]
11	Leama -					Melodica (Humate Mix)		[2002]
12	Thing - 					Raw Space Work				[2015]
13	Gesloten Cirkel -			Submit-X					[2014]
14	Andy Toth - 				Subspace					[2022]
15	Maara - 					Rude, Crude & Out Of Control	[2022]
16	Max Watts -				Queue & Throw It				[2020]
17	Spray - 					Puk Codes					[2022]
18	Roza Terenzi & D. Tiffany - 	Lil’ Drummer Boi				[2022]	
19	Clarity - 					Kaitain						[2014]
20	Homemade Weapons -		Lamia (feat. Torn)				[2019]
21	Torn - 						The Fear						[2022]
22	Clarity - 					Inclination					[2014]
23	WDDS - 					Slow Burner					[2022]
24	Homemade Weapons - 		Third Rail					[2016]
25	Venom -                                  Torn Fury                                        [1997]
26	Syzygy - 					Luminous (4AM Mix)			[2021]
27	Skream - 	  			Ain’t It Cold?					[2005]
28	Holloway - 					Dust 2 Dust					[2023]
29	Overmono - 				iii’s Front						[2018]
30	Second Woman - 			700358Bc5					[2016]
31	Second Woman - 			/							[2017]
32	Rhyw - 					Aversion Two					[2017]
33	Torn - 						Disolcations					[2022]
34	Orbital - 					Halcyon (On and on)			[1993]

Faited @ Ever Afters 2023

upsammy at Praia - Waking Life '24

The producer best known as Huerco S. accompanies One Day, our record of the year, with two hours of minimal and dub introspections.

This summer, Kansas-raised DJ and producer Brian Leeds released One Day under his revived Loidis alias. Enamoured with the restrained, loopy sounds of early '00s dance music, the album’s eight tracks linger in the air, luxuriating in dubbed-out chords, swung beats and sub vibrations. It's our favourite record of 2024 for a reason. 

It's a sound he's coined, in his typically teasing fashion, "dub mnml emo tech." All winks aside, it’s no wonder One Day became the soothing balm we all needed. In a scene overwhelmed by hard and fast trends, the softer—and Leeds might argue, more sincere—stylings of minimal and dub techno enjoyed a welcome second wind. 

Not only was One Day one of our favourites of the year (more on that this week), but it also inspired us to break our usual no-repeats rule, inviting Leeds back to the RA Podcast under a different alias after his 2019 turn as Huerco S. 

"The prevailing trends in dance music are more and more maximalist," Leeds noted. "I missed restraint, subtlety, and sensuality." Clocking in at just under two hours, RA.965 embodies that ethos in spades.

@huerco_s

Read more at ra.co/podcast/965

RA.965 Loidis

@2shy2dj

For cheeky Q&A with DJ Fart in the club... 

https://pipipi.life/mix/djfartintheclub

DJ Fart in the Club - 12.7˚

Tripped-out excursions through percussive club music with the Nowadays resident.

Ayesha Chugh, AKA Ayesha, makes club music that activates the body. The Brooklyn-based artist has spent the last few years carving out a distinct lane in modern club music. Her fusion of dubstep, techno and essential '90s rave elements into dynamite club tools that test and support dancers in equal measure. This time though, for her RA Podcast, Chugh purposefully tilts in a "more colorful wonky direction."

Since first turning heads with releases on labels like Fever AM and Kindergarten Records, she’s continued to refine a sound that feels both playful and punishing, marked by writhing basslines, rumbling drums and an innate ability to make bodies move. Her productions capture a kind of kinetic precision—tracks that are slippery yet forceful, balancing psychedelic textures with dubstep-like physicality and club-focused power. As Andrew Ryce wrote of her debut, Rhythm is Memory, her skill is "full of textures that wrap around the otherwise thudding, sub-heavy kick drums." After a serious accident in 2024 stopped her in her tracks, this year marks a full return to global touring with a new vantage point on life and the sound she seeks to push.

RA.983, clocking in at nearly two and a half hours, finds Chugh flexing that club muscle once again. Offering a tour through global club music both old and new, it's based around a set at her home base Nowadays this February. It's a patient but relentless ride: from deep, tunneling psytrance, progressive techno and slippery electro before really turning on the gas at the half mark, moving into slanted UK techno territory.

As she explains in the Q&A, it's a carefully curated selection of tracks that probes "what we perceive as tasteful." It's a mix that speaks to her deep knowledge of dance music’s lineage—and her intuitive ability to push it forward.

@aye5ha
Find the interview and tracklist at ra.co/podcast/983

RA.983 Ayesha

Thrilled to be welcoming NAP aka Daniel Rincón to series, the CDMX based DJ and producer with a unique gift for capturing the wonky, hedonistic feels of the after-hours in his signature extended mix styles. Packed with sleazy twists and turns, there's never a dull moment with NAP at the wheel! Electro-fied highway rollers masterfully sliced and diced for that maximum long haul recharge! @napmusick

Q. What sounds/feelings did you draw upon when gathering inspiration for this mix, and what environments could you imagine it being best enjoyed in?

A. I wanted to make a driving mix that featured a lot of vocals but in mutated and affected ways. Either as a centerpiece of the tune or via chops and sampling, the vocals carry a lot of the tension and thread of the mix which I wanted to balance across a mix of sleazy and dubby sounds. Perfect for a night drive or an afters with some bffs.

Q. Are there any songs in the mix that you were especially excited to share, and what is it about these tracks that resonate with you so much?

A. Blacklight Sleaze (Dyed Soundorom Remix) by Peace Division’. I put it earlier in the mix as it's a bit of a fire starter in getting the mix boiling. This track is also an example of the use of the human voice in a classic but psychedelic/ experimental approach; many voices swirling around atop a sexy driving groove. 

Loose Control by Dino Lenny. Been playing this one a lot and I’d like to make mention to it because it hits a lot of the things that I like when playing a peacetime burner; driving arpeggiated Italo style baselines without being too garish, some dramatic silence drops that make you think the track stopped and then the use of the human voice as a melodic element displaced from language. 

Heart Misses - Heart Misses. This one is definitely in the pocket of  sassy/ minimal sleaze tune which encompasses the vibe of many of the other tracks in the mix as per the concept I had. Perhaps this one is also an evolution of my digging from having been really into electroclash growing up and playing a lot of that stuff across my DJ experience. This hits the reference points of that sound I grew up up with but perhaps actualized? More reduced, minimal but still sexy, driving, irreverent and trippy. 

Q. Tell us about the projects you’ve been most immersed in since moving to Mexico City, I know there’s a few!

A. Oh man, lots of collabs since I've been here! All a by product of new friendships and amazing connections I’ve made while being here. Stuff is still percolating and getting finished but Im very excited to put out new collab projects with Primordial Oh, Reedbriefcase and Tristan Arp; whenever the time is right. On the other hand I’ve also put the finishing touches on a collab project with my friend Pablo Arangoiz who I started jams with when he visited Mexico 4 years ago. Since then we’ve been working on a thesis on a specific type of experimental cumbia forward pieces which we’ve spent a lot of time and care on. 

As far as ACA, Phran and I have a lot of things on the pipeline which will hopefully get some releases this year. It's tough to get a lot of the projects we want to do out when we live in different places but we’re damn excited about all of them and aligning on getting a digi release out from Venezuelan Miniteca legend ‘El Mago. We also got some homie comps cooking up and some sassy merch coming up.

On the Ambien Baby tip, Soph and I have been jamming a lot every time we have the chance to but again, not living in the same place makes it a bit hard to wrap stuff up. Still the past year has yielded a lot of sick fire starter jams that hopefully we can zinch up before the end of the year. We also have a collaborative sound piece we made with our friend Florence Scott-Anderton some years ago for a show she had at the ICA some years ago. This one is a very dear collab for all 3 of us and I hope we can get it out before the end of year as well. Lots of stuff coming up and cooking up!

MDC.312 NAP

The Sustain-Release co-founder steps up to the Phonica mix just ahead of the acclaimed festival’s 11th year. 
New York has an iconic history when it comes to club music, and over the years has seen many great names emerge from its underground scene. In modern times, Aurora Halal is undoubtedly one of those names. 
Aurora has become a staple at forward-thinking institutions like Berghain, De School, and her home base, Nowadays, where she holds a residency. Alongside her international touring, she’s carved out her own vital space through the long-running Mutual Dreaming parties and Sustain-Release, the DIY-rooted festival she co-founded, which continues to push boundaries as it enters its second decade.
Her Phonica mix offers a vivid snapshot of her deep, intuitive approach to DJing—captured live at Mansions, a cozy NYC wine bar turned house party haven. Known for her genre-fluid sets that blend hypnotic techno, house, acid and experimental textures this is the perfect calling card to showcase why she can hold it down with a range of greats like DJ Nobu, Vladimir Ivkovic and more.
We had a chat about the mix with Aurora as well as touching off Sustain and some of her favorite moments at the festival.

Phonica Mix Series 134: Aurora Halal

artist: @faited

It is during summer 2024, in front of 40 subs stacked under the trees of Draaimolen’s Forest Rave stage that we first met Faited. Envelope Soundsystem conjurer, soundsystem fabricator, and a wonderfully skilled vinyl DJ, Faited has made of sound an element that she invokes, crafts and playfully selects. Based in Oakland, CA, she is deeply involved in building and nurturing communities in the pure rave spirit, sharing both her knowledge of acoustic waves and bringing people together around music. 

When it comes to her vinyl selection and practice, it is raw sounds and moving energies that connect her record collection. From mind melting drum’n’base to ravey techno and trippy tech house escapes, it is a body freeing feeling that she creates on the dance floor. 

Faited had a busy summer, touring in Europe and playing a few festivals: The Great Beyond Festival in Minneapolis, Draaimolen in Tilburg (with an incredible performance alongside Octo Octa), and the multi-day rave System Activate in Vermont. When not DJing, she designs and fabricates new loudspeaker designs under her brand Faited Systems.

It is a real honour and pleasure to host Faited for Polychrome Radio on Echobox Radio. This hour of music encapsulates her unique dance floor perspective, and we can’t wait to share it all with you!


Polychrome Radio on Echobox - Episode 44 - Faited

DM "Desire" ON INSTAGRAM TO DOWNLOAD https://www.instagram.com/bobbydazzlerdj/

Chris Stussy - Desire (Bobby Dazzler Dark Edit)

Had a lot of fun with this one. Self mix and master, bass is quite heavy - be careful playing on big systems. If it's too much let me know and I'll nail it down.

Enjoy and please support the original!
https://www.beatport.com/track/desire/19604717?srsltid=AfmBOopB5VNOFhI2quKsjEeq6hGWy9UueVUKa6NUfeSzM8Yv_z3ukZR9

Chris Stussy - Desire (Bobby Dazzler Dark Edit) *FREE DOWNLOAD*

2025

EN

"Skälling" is a cut.
A blade glowing through the dark.
A slow, melodic rise that evolves into a raw, slicing acidcore strike.

This track marks a new chapter in my musical rebirth — a ritual, an ascent, a transformation under the name Skäle.
The acid drifts like a faint light before exploding into a drop that hits sharp like a katana.

Thank you for listening, sharing, and supporting this new journey. ⚔️🔥
Enjoy the immersion.
Mix & Mastering : Skäle .

FR

« Skälling » est une découpe.

Une lame qui brille dans l'obscurité.

Une montée lente et mélodique qui se transforme en un coup acidcore brut et tranchant.

Ce morceau marque un nouveau chapitre dans ma renaissance musicale – un rituel, une ascension, une transformation sous le nom de Skäle.

L'acid flotte comme une faible lueur avant d'exploser en un drop tranchant comme un katana.

Merci d'écouter, de partager et de soutenir ce nouveau voyage. ⚔️🔥

Plongez-vous dans l'univers.

Mixage et mastering : Skäle.

Skäle - Skälling

Soundsystem Chaser & Pitch Rider

Envelope Soundsystem Conjurer
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Designing & mfg. loudspeakers at Faited Systems