Third time enjoying this :-) You've traversed so many territories, themes, and landscapes in this mix. Really excellent!

Ariel Zetina is as charming as she is talented—one of the many reasons she was named "Chicagoan of the Year for Pop Music" by the Chicago Tribune last month. A straight shooter with strong principles, her witty personality shines through on social media and in person. She radiates both best friend and boss energy.

Musically, she wears her heart on her sleeve, infusing her personality into her DJing and production. Her sets and mixes are adventurous, moving from hard to soft to playful with precision. From producing theatre shows and opening for Beyoncé to releasing her RA-recommended debut album on Local Action in 2022, the smartbar resident approaches each venture with meaning and depth. That LP explored the complex experience of being a Belizean-American trans woman, using fiery house and techno to express vulnerability and triumph. 

Ariel Zetina's multifaceted personality is on full display in her RA podcast. There's baile funk-infused techno, crisp drum & bass and plenty of tracks from queer producers from all sorts of scenes, including Michael Cignarale, StrikeStone! and Perfect Lovers. It's a grand statement of power, flow and seriously good taste.

@arielzetina

Read more at https://ra.co/podcast/919

RA podcast

RA.919 Ariel Zetina

"It’s so much harder to breathe here. Even with your helmet on, each breath you draw is deep and labored, barely filling your lungs with enough oxygen. Your eyes go fuzzy, but you keep going. It’s just a few more steps until you can breathe normally again. You push the saloon doors open. You take off your suit helmet and make a promise to yourself that it was the last time you’d let yourself stay that long on the outside again. You wonder how many times you’ve told yourself that same thing. Some day you won’t make it back in. But today isn’t that day. Feels good to be able to breathe again. You need a drink. 

There’s no one tending bar. One guy’s sleeping in a booth, drink half finished, couple empty pint glasses beside him. You ding the bell and wait a minute, but no one comes to help you out. Some shithole you’ve found yourself in. You hop the bar and take a glass off the shelf. Not like anyone’s gonna stop you. You pour yourself some of whatever’s on tap. Looks cloudy, but still green. Tastes okay. You look around at the weird old junk in here. It’s mostly Wild West paraphernalia from Earth. Kitschy, kind of charming though. Feels a bit passé. There’s a warped pool table and sitting behind it is a jukebox and you make your way over. It’s covered in dust. You wonder when the last time someone touched this thing was. You turn it on, and a message comes on the screen which reads: “Do you wanna dance?” 

Well — Do you?"

@como-se-dj
IG: @como.se.dj
@rec.esss

Distant Signals 042: como se DJ

https://soundcloud.com/sardashhh
A self-described "rave-generalist", Sard is a DJ, producer, and Live PA artist living in Detroit. Combining his passion for perfect dancefloors and the deeper technical aspects of dance music, his performances and productions have maintained a steady placement in the Midwest and beyond. Sard channels a life dedicated to music study into his sound, blending influences of North American techno and rhythms from abroad. His releases on Fixed Rhythms, PPRZ, Amphiboly, and Codec Recordings have been played globally by friends and heroes alike.

RND 099 - Sard

Priori @ The Lot Radio 02-02-2024

Opening set recorded at Merge in Brooklyn, January 27, 2024 🌀
https://ra.co/events/1836706

1. Na Nich - That Was a Long Day [Rhythm Büro]
2. Silent Servant & Luis Farfan - La Negra Luna [Stroboscopic Artefacts]
3. NKISI - Ma [NKISI]
4. In Aeternam Vale - Ice [Murder]
5. Endurance - Flow [Muzan Editions]
6. Adam 2 - Falling Stars [3024]
7. Sigha - Morning Star (Marco Shuttle Remix) [Token]
8. Sara Brown, Mad Monkey - Corpo [909 Connection]
9. Peter Van Hoesen - Vola Flash [Time To Express]
10. Blazej Malinowski - Sequential Dust [Semantica Records]
11. Pris - Fools Glory [Envra]
12. Architectural - 5.3 (Altered Version) [Architectural]
13. Nathaniel Young - Of The Mind
14. Monophaze - Detachment [Concepto Hipnotico]
15. Luke Hess - E. Grand Blvd. [dolly]
16. Etapp Kyle - Lyrae [Klockworks]
17. Massa - Bringing Order to Chaos [Semantica Records]
18. The Ripped - Primera Linea [Utch Records]
19. Jasen Loveland - My Medicine [Acid Camp]
20. Broken English Club - Chambers [Blueprint Records]
21. Oscar Mulero - Mentally Induced Action [Pole Recordings]
22. Ploy - Sala One Five [Hessle Audio]
23. Totem - Bug Trap [Lost Soul Enterprises]
24. Dauwd - The Yuzer (DJ Plead Remix) [Psssh Records]
25. LA-4A - Hamartia Complex [DELFT]
26. Mia Koden - Après Vous [Ilian Tape]
27. Peter Van Hoesen - Vooropgesteld-04 [Time To Express]
28. Andre Kronert - The Magnet [ODD / EVEN]
29. PRG/M - Germoglianza [Semantica Records]
30. Gentian - Sato's Song [Sungate]
31. Decoder - 4 Stub (Auspicious) [Fixed Rhythms]
32. Atom ™ & Tobias. - Physik E7532 [Ostgut Ton]
33. rrao - Ramanujan Prime [Worldwide Unlimited]
34. Vladw - Saya [Dynamic Reflection]
35. _ \ • / _ EON - IDRXX (Ne/Re/A Remix)
36. Hakai - Ningen (Phase Fatale Remix) [Megastructure_]
37. Silent Servant - M-87 [Tresor]
38. Cosmetics - Dream Sequence [Cititrax]
39. SHDW & Obscure Shape - Die Weisse Rose (Leksom Version) [From Another Mind]
40. Marqez - Evolving [Diffuse Reality]
41. Rrose - In Place of Matter (Mixed Matter) [Eaux]
42. Headless Horseman - Shattered [47]
43. Ulwhednar - Commuter Madness [Northern Electronics]
44. Tommy Four Seven - Sworn [47]
45. Blakk Harbor - Vitriol (Positive Centre Remix) [Blakk Harbor]
46. Rommek - Rhyolite [Blueprint Records]
47. ASC - Turbulence [Auxiliary]
48. DJ Sodeyama - Makura [Rekids Special Projects]
49. Gābi - Bile [Amphiboly Records]
50. G’ARRIG & O’LAARA - Offer [Diffuse Reality]
51. DJ Deep & Roman Poncet Present Adventice - Exsurgence [Tresor]
52. Blazej Malinowski - Madness [Semantica Records]
53. Archivist - Star in a Circle [secondnature]

Lychee at Merge // 11 pm - 1:30 am // 2024.01.27

Live @ Nowadays Nonstop - Jan. 20, 2024

This is a wild, unapologetic, barnstorming ride recorded between 1:00-4:00 on a throbbing dancefloor during the first leg of Nowadays Nonstop on the night of Jan 20. This was a romp of delivering my intentions passionately and precisely, playing many of my favorites, and operating at my very best across genres, traveling through a tunnel of engulfing psychedelic darkness, bass weight, shifting tempos, and beat structures into celebratory light. 

As an artist/DJ, these are some of the moments one lives for. It’s certainly something I’ve dreamed about for years. The opportunity to play in one of the rave’s hallowed halls - one of the most esteemed clubs and my own very favorite - was a dream come true and has been a quiet moment of apotheosis and vindication of years of dedicated, focused work. 

There are many nods and treats in this set: tracks shown to me by friends, absolute hypnotizing favorites and gems I’ve held onto, the voice of my true love, and (for those following my lore closely) the magic of opening with Phil Elverum’s work. Tracklist below:

[artist - track title]

Mount Eerie - Mouth of Sky (Wolves in the Throne Room remix)
Dawn Razor - Scary Movies
Eric Fetcher - Balter
Secus - Time Dilation
Antigone - Artefakt
Teno - Cyclamen (Polygonia remix)
Goyle - Immaterial Expansion
ORBE - Nepo
Erika - Wandering Mountain (Mike Parker remix)
Cirkle - Cygnus
JX-216 - Yuba
Furtive - Body and Mind (feat Emme) (Vocal Version)
stndrd - Trichophyton
George Effe - Metronomic Chemotherapy
Crøwn - Impulsive Decomposition (Begin Repaint)
Klara - Trajectory Bound
Denise Rabe - Don’t Leave
NØ Shelter - Steel Under Skin
JUDAΣ - Anathema III
Robert Hoff - Boderline (DJ Sodeyama remix)
Ritaffein - Tension 05
Fixon - Star Signs
Reeko - Habitación 877
Stndrd - Transmissions (T Kode Remix)
Kavari - Attachment Style
Red Army - Yergacheffe VIP
Blood Trust - Carboot
Homemade Weapons - Vexagon
RDG & Gaze III - Fracas
Bereneces - Rain
Shiken Hanzo - The Reaping VIP
Rhythm Assembler - Geometric (Conrad Van Orton Amen edit)
Verdae - San Caravan
Fetus, Itti - Mayflies
Rask - Artificial Intellingence (Seul Ensemble remix)
Aloka - Granulate
Porter Brooker - Present Tense
Shai FM - Bounce
Trois-Quarts Taxi System - Rat
Intellagama - Tellurian Gait
Kick21 - Hollister model type beat
JC Laurent - Nothing But An Illusion
A Strange Wedding - Temples of Quantum (Straigth Backward mix)
ULV - My Sofa Turns into a Desert
Spekki Webu - Elevation
DJ G2G & Marilao - Swift
KayTV - Fancy Shamancy
DJ Bondefar - Ice Worm
Dejan SE - Mytomani (Juan Trujillo remix 1)
Terminus - Green Mirror
Kyle Geiger - Slingshot Orbit (Stripped Edit)
Benales - Grip
Kuba Sojka - Basic Form
Baugruppe90 - Destiny
Edvvin - Do The Damn Thing (William Arist remix)
Murat - Missing
Johnny from Space - sinimiedo
D Stone - Something is Coming
CRYME - MIND UR BODY (DJ Emerson remix)
n_o - You Deserve Beauty and Spa Juice
Rene Wise - Fuego    
MNLR - Arsenic Mind
Vohkinne - Velocity (Vegin Repaint)
Reeko, Jonas Kopp - Introducción Gradual de la Tiranía
Kastil - Submissive
Ritaffein - Tension 02
Prior & Al Wooton - Leniency
Attenuator - Wyrd
k2dj - Peroxic (with Stella)
Sangam & Kid Smpl - Found Wings

Nowadays Nonstop January 20, 2024

Furtive live at Nowadays Nonstop Jan. 20, 2024

Truancy Sessions S01 E01: suade (@whoissuade)

New year, new sounds! Introducing Truancy Sessions, our latest mix series dedicated to elevating the underground music scene. With eight episodes per season, we'll be looking to amplify the voices of emerging DJs and longtime Truants friends, all while collaborating with talented designers and artists. Our mission is to cultivate connections and celebrate people with an ear for music from every corner of the globe, be it people we've seen on our travels to friends we've made at festivals and clubs. For our first season, we'll be collaborating with the exceptional designer Kushagra for all things artwork, and for our debut episode we have a seamless blend of mesmerizing grooves from San Francisco-based suade (@whoissuade) for a transportive musical experience. Here's a glimpse into what suade has in store:

"This mix is a cruise through some records I know I’ll love forever - rolling, percussive, driving, and euphoric sounds. Put it on for a nice drive, a long run, getting ready for a party, or maybe just to hype up your work day. I spend a lot of time in the shapeshifting, hyperactive world of bass-driven music and I have an equal love for timeless grooves, long blends, and dreamy sounds. Sometimes these feel like mutually exclusive worlds as a DJ. The latter is what I’m reaching for these days, in a slow and reflective period of my life, and what I bring to the mix. It consists mainly of records from the mid 90s to early 2000s with some newer releases sprinkled in there. I decided to avoid maximalism and opt for a steady ride through a few key ideas. I’ve been wanting to record something like this for a while, so I’m super grateful and happy to be sharing it here. I hope this hour and twenty four minutes locks you in and is something you can come back to. Enjoy"

We've put the mix as well as a little photo diary and selection of the tracklist up on our wesbite. Access the download and full tracklist (Confirmed, added) over on our Patreon, however leave us a nice comment on the mix and either us or suade will get back to you 🖤 Your support helps cover all our costs, allows us to now pay our guests and allows Truants to continue running as a non-profit and ad-free platform. patreon.com/truants

http://truantsblog.com

suade

Truancy Sessions S01 E01: suade

9th June 2023, the incredible @kiernanlaveaux live at Mansions, NYC. A 2 hour snippet of a 6 hour set. <3

Artwork by her partner Malzof with a photo from this Mansions set

"The shape design is from Wind Chorus by Pauline Oliveros - which I also have the design of on some custom slipmats that are also visible in the photo ;)"

<3

ani/live Forty: Kiernan Laveaux @ Mansions

Nowadays Live and Direct returns after a long hiatus with a 5-hour recording from Carlos Souffront (@csouffront), recorded from 10 am - 3 pm at our Halloween Nonstop party on October 29, 2022. Carlos returns to Nowadays for another Nonstop set this weekend, playing from 3 pm to 6 pm Sunday afternoon.

A regular at Interdimensional Transmissions' No Way Back parties in Detroit and beyond, Carlos Souffront brings a brilliant sense of creative alchemy to the decks, combining years of experience and digging with a sensibility like no other. Abstract rhythms meld together into inexplicable chaos magic. Dark, shadowy selves emerge, ready to be explored with a sense of mischief and playfulness, carried through by an acid bassline or cheeky vocal.

For this extended Halloween set during the real witching hours, Carlos summoned all of the party gremlins, goblins, and ghouls to the Nowadays dancefloor for the ultimate seance.

Nonstop: 3/9-3/10

Nowadays Live and Direct 016: Carlos Souffront

https://www.instagram.com/ronlikehell
https://www.instagram.com/ccl_url

The Space Between Spaces with Ron Like Hell and CCL @ The Lot Radio 03-19-2024

In very loose terms, James K's (@jamesk_1 music operates at the fringes of the pop world. It is experimental and industrial, packed with hooks and riddled with dreamy textures that show off her mastery of synths. She has released it in album form with Dial and Incenso, dropped EPs on AD 93 and collaborated with the likes of Drew McDowall and Stefan Maie, and always manages to imbue her adventurous arrangements with real-world emotions and anxieties. This year she will join us at Dekmantel Festival but not before serving up this week's podcast.

It's the sort of rhythmically thrilling workout that has always stood James apart: jittery drum patterns and kinetic grooves that unfold at 100 miles an hour as a barrage of caustic motifs, hypnagogic melodies and hyper-real colours all bounce about the mix. There is an ever-present sense of tension in the way things are assembled - it's as if they might implode or explode at any minute, and it all sounds fantastically futuristic.

Dekmantel Podcast 460 - James K

Producer/DJ/Promoter/Organizer/bonehead/etc - [Bounce House] -  they/them - PHL
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For booking, production, remix work, promos, or any other inquiries, please write to: furtivetrax@gmail.com
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Upcoming Dates:
4/19 Bounce House, Philly
7/28 - The Great Beyond, MN
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Furtive is a full-gonzo rave conjurer and relentless creative tinkerer, intractably committed to the rave as a Philadelphia-based producer, DJ, underground event organizer, and dancer. Furtive brings a scintillating and sentimental touch to their many polished and focused genre-spanning productions, informed by over a decade of experience in the studio and yielding a rich selection of self-released tracks, contributions to VA comps, and recent vinyl pressings. A veritable product of the contemporary American underground, Furtive cut their teeth as a DJ and DIY event organizer in Washington, DC’s warehouses, where they played a turnkey role in putting on some of the District’s zaniest techno parties. Furtive now co-runs an intimate, blossoming off-the-books venue in Philly. As a DJ, Furtive has supported internationally celebrated, no-nonsense acts and held court in dingy local watering holes with eclectic selections and a steadfast focus on pacing and dynamics, regularly jumping genres to build moving and impactful sets. Beyond the fog and speaker stacks, Furtive creates art in a variety of mediums. They're as unapologetic in their sincerity and flair as they are in being a die-hard True Believer in the rave.
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Learn more here: https://www.attackmagazine.com/features/introducing/furtive-the-astronaut-in-a-pool-of-mermaids/
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As a closing note: the journey can be summarized in their own words (or, a cheeky amalgamated existential portmanteau): “I aim for the stars, but sometimes I land in a pool of mermaids.”

https://furtivetrax.bandcamp.com/
https://soundcloud.com/furtivetrax
https://www.instagram.com/furtive.sasha/
https://ra.co/dj/furtive

Furtive live at Nowadays Nonstop Jan. 20, 2024

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