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

Sonic sketchbook

inquiries; m43bh@proton.me

Producer/DJ/Promoter/Organizer/bonehead/etc - [Bounce House] -  they/them - PHL - @bounce-house-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:
10/20 - Great Circles Radio Residency
11/2 - Belly Music w/ Cyrus for Particle.FM
11/12 - The Lot Radio
11/15 - TBA, Philly
11/17 - Great Circles Radio Residency
12/19 - TBA, Philly
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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. A shifting sonic chameleon, Furtive brings a scintillating, sentimental, and psychedelic touch to their artistry, rooted in wormhole-traversing technoid propulsion and dependably delivering riotous, slack-jawed whiplash moments of the delightfully unexpected. Their many polished and focused genre-spanning productions are informed by over thirteen years of experience in the studio, yielding a rich selection of tracks across their self-released discography, vinyl pressings, and contributions to compilations. 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 once played a variety of turnkey roles in putting on some of the District’s more proper techno parties. Furtive co-founded and co-runs Bounce House, an intimate, blossoming off-the-books venue in Philly where they regularly hold court as a resident. Furtive is on broadcast monthly through Ashen Vanity, a radio residency at Philadelphia’s indispensable cultural mainstay Great Circles. As a DJ, Furtive has played hallowed halls (recently rampaging at Nowadays and Basement), dingy holes, roaring renegades, broadcast booths, and festivals (The Great Beyond '23, '24, and headlining in '25, Honcho Campout '24, Making Time '25) - always with eclectic selections and a steadfast focus on pacing and dynamics while regularly jumping genres to build moving and impactful sets, often alongside internationally celebrated, no-nonsense acts. 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.”

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