This has been my battery all afternoon, propelling all of my activity today. Coming up for air to say: Great Mix! :-)

This is Duck Trash’s set from Tomorrow’s Fires, a party celebrating the release of Erika’s “Anevite Void” album on February 25, 2023. Mix theme: After getting abducted by aliens, one must learn how to adapt & grow plants on an unfamiliar planet in outer space.

It’s hard to overstate the transformative power of the American Underground. Things get lost when it’s just a systematic big business, all these special things that make the core essence so powerful and palpable. IT first encountered @ducktrash when BMG played for them in Indianapolis last September with Noncompliant at this exquisite dive bar called State Street Club with the most open minded crowd. It wasn’t what it looked like, it really transcended time and space. “Duck Trash is a queer techno & electro selector who believes in the healing power of the dance floor.” We couldn’t agree more, and we’re so glad they got to do their Detroit debut at Erika’s album release party. They are part of the fabric that makes the midwest so amazing, the true underground freaks.

Tracklist:
"Alien Encounter" - Mordio
"Mortming" - Cibo Matto
"Down" - Sunship
"Illusions" - Roza Terenzi
"In a Distant Light" - Stenny
"Army of Me" - Bjork
"Natural Disorder" - Filmmaker
"Earwig" - Pearson Sound
"Manks" - Beau Wanzer
"Untamed" - Lemont
"Broken Telephone" - Wata Igarashi
"T.T.-F.F." - Maurizio
"Identity Crisis" - Toumba
"Wire" - Lurka
"Earth Beat" - Yoshinori Sunahara
"Repeat" - D. Scale
"Acid Lab" - London Modular Alliance
"Hasty Induction" - Asvajit
"Aranha Vermelha" - Lake Haze
"Cannibals" - An-i, Unhuman
"VIVA" - BEARCAT
"fly to me" - Ramzi
"Freak n Tweak" - Roza Terenzi
"Misbehaving" - Marco Shuttle
"7.0" - Ateq
"Quartz" - Ltd Colours
"Dimension 10" - Marshall Applewhite
"Bodied" - Lurka
"Water Maze" - Stenny
"786" - Asvajit
"Alien Encounter" - Mordio
"Hypetex" - Mordio

Interdimensional Transmissions Podcast

IT Podcast

IT.podcast.s12e03: Duck Trash at Tomorrow's Fires

Live set recorded at Bounce House, West Philadelphia, 4-15-23 2am-4am.

The assignment: Brain-in-the-drain wormhole techno.

Many many thanks to Sasha (@furtivetrax), Emme and the whole BH crew.

Recording post-processing/mastering by FRDM (@frdmclub), sorry for the occasional clipping

threehz at Bounce House 4-15-23

For the 116th entry in the Honcho Podcast Series, we welcome @furtivetrax! 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 veritable product of the contemporary American underground, Furtive cut their teeth as a DJ and DIY event organizer in Washington, DC’s warehouses. Furtive now co-runs an intimate, blossoming off-the-books venue in Philly, and holds a radio residency at Philly scene mainstay Great Circles. Enjoy!

Honcho Podcast Series 116: Furtive

Interview: https://truantsblog.com/2023/truancy-volume-309-ron-like-hell/ ‎

Soundcloud: @ronlikehell

Access the download and full tracklist (Confirmed and added) on our Patreon. Your support helps cover all our costs and allows Truants to continue running as a non-profit and ad-free platform. patreon.com/truants

http://truantsblog.com

Ron Like Hell

Truancy Volume 309: Ron Like Hell

Lychee's sets present a magical, scintillating take on technoid psychedelia. In addition to holding down regular appearances at Basement, Nowadays, and Bossa Nova Civic Club, Lychee runs Spontaneous Affinity, a monthly mix and interview series and occasional event platform focused on how dancefloors have shaped artists.

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@lycheefrut
Recorded live at @hot-mass - November 19, 2022

DETOUR Podcast 22B: Lychee (Live at Hot Mass)

This is a mix I've sat on for a long time - nearly an entire year! On a hot August day of biking many, many miles, some incidental sweaty hijinks, and after completing work on Sympathies VII earlier in the day, this was recorded during a rampaging late-night mix session at the then still-fledgling Bounce House, Philadelphia. All alone in the sweltering warehouse space, I used the usual dancefloor speakers as overkill booth monitors and romped, recording three mixes in one night, ending with this one. 

This is, in some ways, me operating at my finest, or at least showcasing my best tendencies as a DJ: a wide range of genres, intentional progression in energy and between genres, deliberate selection, seamlessly executed eclectic stunts, a flow-state of three of four decks. It's also special to me because I happened to recreate one such dramatic stunt that I improvised when I had played in NYC earlier in the year for my Mild Fantasy record release party during a particularly emotionally turbulent period of life. The gaping dramatic, emotional moment on the dancefloor shockingly didn't clear the crowd - something that has been instructive for my growth as a DJ. 

This mix is deliberate and methodical in progressing through vibes and genres, beginning with a gentle atmospheric bath and moving into bass and wiggly  material and sunshine-y rollers before settling into a full-tilt 3+ deck techno firestorm and easing back out into some surprises and delights. expect (or don't!) wormhole techno, drum & bass, dubstep, a handful of originals, and even a glint of hyperpop. 

TRACKLIST:
(artist - track title)* 
Kali Malone - Fast Goodbye
Supreems - Soft Spring
Stones Taro - Tiger
side II side - Stranded
Dubtek & Mouhc - Visionary
Dukwa - Jingle
Sweater & DJ Dre - Gang Gang
Kush Jones - Worldly Rhythm
Dustmite - Hiding
Albert Zhirnov - Old Malt
Guilt Attendant - The Icon is God
Furtive - Convoke
Blacklauren - Teocalli
Anthony Linnell - Falling into Form
Furtive - Voltaic Kisses
Flashe - Protocol
Giordano - Direction of Rotation
Marcal - Manta Ray
P. Lopez & Octavio - ONTO70
DJ Hockey - Take a Tumble
Cosmic Xplorer - Space Run
William Arist - Like Everybody Wants Now
Bop ft. Anastasia Basenko - Glancing Stream (instrumental version)
LUAP ft. Marsch - Unspoken Words
Modus - Plot Rider
Dold - Version (Newa Remix)
Yawning Portal - Minute Sun
otodojo - Tetsuo's Arm
Furtive - Question Accelerator (No Answers)
Presha - RATS (The Untouchables Remix)
Forest Drive West - Persistence of Memory #3
Furtive - I Always Try to Be This Gentle
Happa - Fever
Petal Supply & Himera - It's U (Diamond Version)

*the way it's supposed to be, you deranged freaks

Unvanquishable Summer (Furtive // Bounce House, August 2022)

Rinse FM Podcast

Ilian Tape with KW & the Zenker Brothers - 01 September 2023

Amber Gillen (IT / WCBN) meditates on craft, American music history, and the roots of funk right before Samhain. 

Moods is community curated and community supported. By helping us out, you're directly supporting artist commissions, curator fees, merchandise, and materials for parties. Give us a buck, four, or more a month here: danielsharp.cargo.site/Moods

For her first mix released in over a decade, Amber Gillen (immersive installation artist and visual artistic director for Interdimensional Transmissions) takes us on a journey through time—and ultimately ourselves. It’s also Samhain: the end of October where the boundary between the past, present, and future feels thin and energy flows thick. It reminds us of Keith Moxey’s suggestion that time might not “run at the same speed and density” in all places. Either way (or any way), it’s the right time to have Gillen take us through her sonic past across ambient, rock, and funk.

Read her interview, tracklist, and more on Substack: https://moods.substack.com/p/moods-62-amber-gillen

We’ve paired Gillen’s mix with a piece from Berlin-based, Sulaymaniyah-born Hiwa K. Hiwa, while originally a realist painter, now crafts sculptures, videos, and sounds that  “aim [not] for an accurate depiction of a reality that could be, but reinvent and transform the reality at hand.” Work such as Blind as the Mother Tongue unspool the debris of capitalism to better see how social structures like borders and time zones are reinforced. “The work I do is very much about reminding how many fingerprints we have onto each other,” Hiwa mentions, “[and] how much we are embedded into each other.”

For more on Hiwa, we recommend reading about his exhibition at the New Museum in 2018: https://brooklynrail.org/2018/11/artseen/Hiwa-K-Blind-as-the-Mother-Tongue

For keep up to date on Amber Gillen’s work, head here: https://www.instagram.com/amber.gillen/

For the interview, tracklist, and more, read on our Substack: moods.substack.com

Moods 62: Amber Gillen

Read our interview with Skee Mask and check out this podcast's tracklist here: bit.ly/SkeePod

Tracklist

Groove Podcast 50 - Skee Mask

Last year at Tresor 25 at the Tangent, Silent Servant surprised us with his request to open. What wasn't surprising was the result, where he elegantly mixes between every known tangent of his sound so flawlessly that we haven't been able to stop listening to this recording. Pure magic.

IT.podcast.s06e03: Silent Servant @ Tresor 25, Tangent 2016

Unreleased version (sans announcements) of "The Great Gigolo Swindle" recorded live at WCBN-FM Ann Arbor in 2000.

Gigolo Mix (Unreleased EFX mix)

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

Unvanquishable Summer (Furtive // Bounce House, August 2022)

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