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For the 97th entry in the Honcho Podcast Series, we welcome Baronhawk Poiter (@baronhawkpoitier)! Growing up in PG County, Maryland nestled between Baltimore and Washington, DC shaped life for artist Baronhawk Poitier. Listening to local radio stations and sorting through records while working at The Record Exchange heavily influenced his pursuit of a career as a producer and DJ. He was recognized alongside mentor Kris Klayton aka Karizma/ Kaytronik with a grant from the National Endowment of Arts for electronic music production. Baronhawk expresses his passion for cultural preservation and education working with dance legends at the nonprofit culture and education project Urban Artistry, Inc. He has also earned a name for himself within the LGBTQIA+ dance music community as a member of the unique DC based queer artist collective “The NeedleExchange,” who are known for their independent events, raves and DJ residencies. 

In February of this year, we hosted Baronhawk for the Not Mass weekly stream. His outstanding mix blew us all a way and served as a beautiful 90 minute escape of house and funk. Baronhawk radiates joy; you can always count on him to bring a smile to your face.

Tracklist:

New World Generation / Curious Soul
Secretsundaze / Over The Edge
Karizma / Annihilate
Cerrone / Funk Makossa
Bertrand Dupart / Ketekole (Bodhi Stava Dub)
Nubian Minds / So Good (Psyan Remix)
Wham / Everything She Wants (Unknown Edit)
Roxy / The Contagion (Baronhawk Poitier Masked Mix)
Culoe Du Song / Bright Forest
Ray Charles / Elena Rigby (Quentin Harris Mix)
S3A / Sleepness 909
The Carry Nation / Majorettes
Tobias Schmidt / Brains
Pittsburgh Track Authority / Oculus Sinister
Eddie Fowlkes / X Groove
Dr Tintin / Texture
Technasia / My Force
House Gospel Choir / Gods Trying (Kaytronik’s Speak Dub)
Aretha Franklin / What A Fool Believes

Honcho Podcast Series 97: Baronhawk Poiter

sugar armor A V. M. re-edit (703+autechre)

The Fall Ball: A Masquerade Banger
November 5, 2021, Spirit, Pittsburgh, PA

This one rumbles *hard* hard. I live for the rave. And playing such a hardcore set illuminated by the technological marvel of Ian Brill's "Event Horizon" light installation = top 10 moment of life.

A Mostbeautifullest x Jellyfish PGH x Longturn Music x OURS production

mastered by: Matthew Ladner
photo: Gavin Benjamin

The Fall Ball: HUNY

from timbre room NECK takeover april 23 2022
august222222.com

august V. M. @ timbre room DJ set april 2022

Oscar | February 9, 2023

Ballroom/Club remix of “Shake Sumn” FT Sexyy Red

Shake Sumn HA

New York-based label Kindergarten Records is thrilled to unveil Ayesha’s (@aye5ha) debut album, ‘Rhythm is Memory’ – 10 boundary-pushing tracks, a shape-shifting percussive journey with electric moments. While intended for maximum dancefloor impact, Ayesha’s first LP is also conceptually thought-provoking and playful, exploring how bodies store and channel creative knowledge.

Ayesha - Rhythm is Memory (KINDER016)
Out on Kindergarten Records on November 3, 2023

Rhythm is Memory

Ayesha - V7

Deep beats, improvisational jazz, and oddities

http://www.instagram.com/cmioner

DJ Etta @ The Lot Radio 10-01-2023

Part 1 of 4
Hot for You
Live from Parkside Lounge
Mother's Day 2023

RichKing HotForYou Pt1

Secret Level is pleased to welcome it’s first guest August V.M. (@august222222) today Thu Mar 14th at 6pm pacific on particle.fm

Augustina Moore (b. 1999 Vashon Island) is a trans songwriter & musician, DJ, & sound designer living and working in Seattle, Washington. As a selector and producer, August’s offerings blur reconstructed clubland frenetics into the hyper-familiarity of dancefloor heritage groove.

For this episode, she brings us a mix titled “Dawn of a New Day”. In her own words:

For this mix I wanted to embody and explore the concept of the “day-night cycle”, and the way video game music helps define and set atmosphere in relation to time of day. The mix is split into three distinct sections (morning, day, and night) and follows a loose imagined narrative of a day in the life of a game character! I like to use music in a very functional way to soundtrack my day and activities (I have specific music / playlists for things like studying, cooking, going for a walk, taking a shower), and was imagining this character / the listener doing the same with this mix: brushing their teeth and making breakfast to the first section, running errands and taking the train to the second, and winding down while reading a book to the final section. I pulled VGM from some of my all-time favorite games & composers, games that I've been meaning to play forever, and also some weird obscure OSTs my friends have put me onto (shoutout Cori, Mason & Natasha !!!). Please enjoy & have a nice day!~

Secret Level w/ August V.M. - Mar 14th 2024

Bézier’s music walk the line between soft and hard, emotive and gritty. From their early interest in braindance and IDM to their dance-forward proclivities, Bézier’s influences are wide-ranging, resulting in music that is as carefree as it is relentless.

http://www.instagram.com/_bezier

Bézier @ The Lot Radio 06-07-2024

Ballroom/Club Tool of my favorite New Orleans Bounce tracks! Shoutout to Fly Boi Keno <3

Kicking Flavors Tool

For her 2024 set at MUTEK Montréal, Brooklyn-based DJ Ayesha performed a one-hour mix of original music made during a period of healing and exploration whilst recovering from a brain injury.

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Live from MUTEK Montréal: Ayesha

BEARCAT is a London-born, New York-based, DJ, producer, and performance artist of Jamaican and Irish descent.

BEARCAT’S DJ sets activate her masterful knowledge of black diasporic genres to evoke a dance floor experience of healing and release; both for herself and others. This incantation of uncompromising, pulsating rhythm and bass has brought her to perform at prestigious nightclubs around the world; festivals like Pitchfork, Afropunk, and Panorama; and museums like The Museum of Modern Art, The Guggenheim, The Whitney, and The Brooklyn Museum. Most recently she was Madonna’s opening DJ for a portion of her U.S. Celebration tour, additionally playing her iconic Oscars party.


BEARCAT’s sets are best described as transcendental, captivating, pounding and eclectic at their core, seemingly bringing together everything from jungle, drum’n’bass, techno, and house; to dembow, dancehall, rap, punk, deconstructed pop edits, and grime. This range of musical interests is reflected further in her work as a producer. BEARCAT has created a number of mixes for Boiler Room, RinseFM, NTS and The Fader. As well as producing fashion soundtracks for brands like Chromat and NoSesso. She's been a part of recent vinyl releases from legendary labels Invadar and Epitaph and a digital release with Nervous Records. BEARCAT’s next release as a producer is an album that spans experimental sounds, blending unlikely genres but stressing visual storytelling through film.

BEARCAT has always embraced music as a part of her lifelong, anti-colonialist project, which began growing up in London; performing on the live music scene and discovering music as an escape from the daily violence of white supremacy. Throughout her journey, BEARCAT has conceived of her work as a therapeutic release, not only for those listening in the present, but as a healing exorcism that channels ancestral pasts through music. BEARCAT has performed and talked on panels regarding anti-racist /-colonial rhetoric, spirituality, queer politics and art at universities including Cornell, Wesleyan, and Oberlin, additionally sharing deeply personal stories of survival and adversities she has overcome.

BEARCAT’S queer politics, vast experience in the industry, and passion for equality inspired her to curate SELTZER, a night prioritizing queer, black and brown, experimental club DJs and artists. Originally born out of DIY spaces in West Philadelphia, SELTZER went on to hold a five-year residency at the infamous NYC nightclub Nowadays where, notably, BEARCAT was the first DJ to ever perform. She was one of the first DJs to be represented by the original female-lead booking agency Discwoman, and as a part of this collective, helped diversify club lineups around the world.

BEARCAT - Black Techno Matters Radio

HUNY XO live at Papi Juice Vol. 96, Papi Pressure. Elsewhere (Brooklyn, NY). Dec 13, 2024.

HUNY XO @ Papi Juice Vol. 96

On October 21st, 2023, Miscellaneous records and DETOUR presented a night of locals ONLY! To celebrate the home team, slowdanger, Oscar Celedon and Kay Chin took us thru the night, playing only the best tracks from their respective collections!

slowdanger:
"slowdanger’s sound work emphasizes the activation of the senses through vibration, groove and texture. For listeners of this mix, they invite you to feel the groove enter your flesh, vibrate the bones and escape into the invisible architecture of the sonic world."

Recorded Live: 10.21.23 (by @slowdangerslowdanger at @Hot-mass)
Mastered By: M Parent
Photo By: Michael Parente
Artwork By: Gusto

DETOUR Podcast 30: slowdanger (Live at Hot Mass)

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

ROJO LIVE FROM TWIRL PRIDE NIGHT 6.07.25

Baronhawk Poitier pulls no punches on The Lot with this pumped up mix celebrating NYC Pride! - 

https://www.instagram.com/bhawkpoitier



Thousand Percent Baronhawk Poitier @ The Lot Radio 06-27-2025

999ADJ @ Revival (5.25.25)

999 Radio w/ 999ADJ @ CS Radio - 07/03/2025

Oscar - The Ever Afters Campout 2025 - Heart Lodge

Club Moment celebrates its 50th episode, inviting Berlin-based Londoner Kenny, aka B.B.K. and local hero BEARCAT. Kenny is the founder of the Black Music Summit and runs the creative agency Taboo, where she’s known for building creative partnerships, curating lineups, and organizing community-driven events. While spending the summer in New York, she’s been soaking up the city’s energy, connecting with its people, and exploring its vibrant soundscape. For this episode, she’s curated a selection spotlighting music by predominantly Black artists and producers.

In the second hour, fellow Londoner and genre-blurring DJ/producer BEARCAT steps in with a special guest mix—bringing their own bold and distinct perspective to the show.


https://www.instagram.com/justkennyx 
https://www.instagram.com/b_e_a_r_c_a_t
https://soundcloud.com/bearcats_mixtapes



Club Moment #50 with BEARCAT @ The Lot Radio 07-13-2025

OSCAR Sunset Campout 2024

https://physicallysick2.bandcamp.com/album/physically-sick-2

VIVA

@baronhawkpoitier is releasing four-track EP 'Temperado Tornado' on @honeysoundsystem next month. The record closes with the dubby and atmospheric 'Gasp & Grasp'.

Out April 10, pre-order it here: https://honeysoundsystem.bandcamp.com/album/temperado-tornado-ep

Temperado Tornado

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