Freerotation 2018

Punk house and techno from a modern Midwest icon.

Every DJ has their own genesis story: a pivotal sound, a formative scene, a defining philosophy. In Kiernan Laveaux's case, her philosophy, rooted in psychedelia and experimentation, sets her apart. Inspired by Nine Inch Nails, Depeche Mode and New Order, she came of age in Cleveland’s acid house and queer party scenes, developing an ethos that constantly pushes dance music’s limits. Her DJ style is scrambled (in the best way), with zany tricks like scratching, creative EQing and modulation.

This approach reflects the Midwest's DIY tradition, where artists thrive in isolation and cultivate a radical disobedience, as seen in contemporaries like Eris Drew and ADAB. As Laveaux recounted in a 2023 interview with GROOVE Magazin, "Titonton Duvante once told me that being a Midwest DJ is about playing music from anywhere and making it sound like a piece of your spirit."

Spanning two and a half hours, Laveaux's RA Podcast showcases this spirit. It’s a testament to her decade-long career, blending tracks from friends and cherished memories into a transcendent mix. It’s "music to shake your hips to and decalcify your pineal gland." (For the curious, the pineal gland helps regulate your circadian rhythm.) RA.963 will make you dance and think in equal measure—a beautiful, restless and resolutely wicked journey through a singular imagination.

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Read more at ra.co/podcast/963

RA.963 Kiernan Laveaux

full recording of S-R Year 10 ambient set — thank you to those who zoned and the Sustain team <3

Laurel Halo @ Bossa Lounge, Sustain-Release Year 10 (2024)

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Brian Leeds has spent a decade exploring electronic music’s murky corners under a range of aliases – from blown-out house and ambient to deep-fried trap and drill. As Loidis, he released one of 2024’s best albums, the minimalist dub techno LP ‘One Day’. 

Now, returning to his primary @huerco_s handle, the Philadelphia-based shapeshifter records a two-hour mix of rhythmic psychedelia for DJ Mag's Recognise series, and speaks to Michael McKinney about his family ties to the Jersey Devil, growing up in bands, his West Mineral Ltd. label, and learning to slow down.

Interview: https://djmag.com/features/recognise-076-huerco-s-loidis-west-mineral-interview-mix

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Recognise 076: Huerco S.

 Kiernan Laveaux, She/They

Kiernan Laveaux is a connective rhythmic energy conduit & ecstatic beat conductor from the Great Lakes. A boundless ball of discordant energy, she’s an adventurous spirit - conducting the vibrant forces of our world that are transmitted through the unbridled passion contained within her DJing. 

Inspired by forces of universal chaos & the innovative, experiential visions found within midwestern electronic music, she's since embarked on a lifelong journey of channeling binary dissolving phenomena throughout our known universe via her unbridled musical vitality & the multifaceted Sweet Abyss imprint. 

Originating from within Cleveland's multiversal DIY underground, she materialized through the rhythms of life & her loved ones - soaking up influence in everything from the enchanted & irreverent joys of disco, the raucous mayhem of hardcore punk & noise gigs, the spatial manifestations of dub, nonlinear revelations & outer reaches of free jazz expressionism, bewitching industrial conjurations, lineages & contrasts of freeform DJing across the world, & dancing with many weirdos in rooms full of fog, neon mesh, & skate ramps.


Notes on the Mix ///

"This mix is a live recorded portion of a set I played late at night at the wonderful club Outra Cena in Lisbon, Portugal in April 2024. The vibe of it is pondering the orb, watching your life and emotions play out in arcane swirls in front of your eyes as you embody the role of an unreliable narrator in your own existence. Sometimes this view allows clarity, other times overwhelmed by imagined insecurities, other times allowing a reprieve from strife into self love. Emotions and mental findings that feel held in many sets of mine. Sonically, I really felt encouraged this night to dive into my love of the stranger ends of house music, and combinations of industrial/dub/breaks on top. Specifically the influence of my lifelong love of industrial and synth music can really be felt throughout, as well as lamentations on loneliness and connection within capitalism that lots of that music speaks to - industrial music for industrial people. Discotekno, Haunted house, whatever name you want to apply to this music - as well as a healthy dose of dubwise rave stylistics. A strange dream within a stranger reality, living in the paradox. Musick for dance, musick for new corridors of your mind, musick against the fascist, ogliarchal pacification of who we are - viva la differenze!"

SOCIALS:

@kiernan-laveaux

http://sweetabyss.bandcamp.com - my debut collaborative EP with Johnny Zoloft as JZKL entitled "Pancake of the Infinite"

In lieu of a tracklist, here's 3 tracks that encapsulate the set to Kiernan:

Melancholy Man - Born to Rock (Rocking Dubwise) - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H0RYelZ9xGU

Junito Perez / I.M.T. - No Quiero Estar Solo - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2b5K-GPWSok&t=1s

Outa Tha Blue - Pressures of Life - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9_t_USokvfc


XOXA BLEND 247 - Kiernan Laveaux

The Berlin-based party starter wafts her energy our way for an hour a month. Colourful house & techno, vintage breaks, decontextualised bargain-bin club tracks & more in the mix... 
Find the full tracklist and related episodes on NTS: https://www.nts.live/shows/dj-fart-in-the-club/episodes/dj-fart-in-the-club-23rd-may-2025

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ContaCt TNT @ remix Time to say goodbey.wav

oh hi..

This was such a honor and a surprise for me! 
I was chosen to play the closing spot for the Dome outside at 
Freerotation Festival 2018
Enjoy
Much Love Ed Jus-Ed That is..
Please follow me here https://www.facebook.com/djjused/
For bookings contact me direct jus_ed@msn.com

DJ JUS-ED CLOSING SET AT FREEROTATION 2018.mp3

Live performance recorded at the Dreamtime stage, Freerotation Festival 2018.

The set includes parts of my Semnal album on Opal Tapes, as well as new material and improvised electronics and electro-acoustics.

Cosmin Nicolae - Live at Freerotation 2018

Recorded on the Sunday in Room 3 
Thanks to  Suzybee, Steevio & all the beautiful dancing souls

Freero 2018

Freerotation 2018 : The House Of Crocodiles (Live Recording)

DJ- Set from Freerotation 2018
Sunday afternoon at the dome...

Move D @ Freerotation Dome 2018

I had the immense privilege of opening proceedings on Friday night in room 1 at Freerotation 2018. As is customary when I DJ at Freerotation, the set on the night fell victim to distortion so this recording is actually a reconstruction as faithful as I can be to how it went down. The wobbles may be different ones, but hopefully reflect the natural weave of my set. I did consider re-writing history and sending the ending in a different direction - at the end of two hours I could have gone on longer and the deadline forced my hand a little more than it should have done, but I decided to keep it pure, warts and all. Either way, it was a dream come true to feel bass frequencies of records I love blowing wind from the subs around my ankles, and I hope you enjoy it...

Full tracklisting:

1. Dices & A.E.M. Rhythm Cascade - Echo Thought (12th Isle)
2. Andrew Pekler - Theme From Triestes Tropique (Faitiche)
3. Benoit B - Ice Valley (Wisdom Teeth)
4. Dimitris Petsetakis - Troy War (Into The Light)
5. The Mighty Bop - Lady (Herbert’s In The Air Dub) (Yellow Productions)
6. Cuisine Dub - Teraca (Sound Reflection)
7. Chaos In The CBD - Background Explorer (YAM Music)
8. Sergie Rezza - Treehouse (Sergie Rezza)
9. Different Fountains - That Snake (Different Fountains Editions)
10. DJ City - Teenage Sexdrive (Born Free)
11. The Idjut Boys & Quakerman - Copulating Drum (Glasgow Underground)
12. Golden Teacher Meets Dennis Bovell - Instigator (Dub) (Optimo Music)
13. Powder - Hole (CockTail d’Amore)
14. Bjorn Torske - Host (DJ Sotofett’s Stoydubb) (Sex Tags Mania)
15. También - Indignados (Public Possession)
16. Stasis - Samba De Fat Bloke (Peacefrog)
17. DJ Sotofett - Tribute To “Sore Fingers” (Fit Sound)
18. A Made Up Sound - Them (Clone Basement Series)
19. Voom:Voom - Ginger & Fred (Compost)
20. Ian Simmonds - Nikki (Musik Krause)
21. Golden Teacher - On The Street (Golden Teacher)
22. Different Fountains - Corpse (UFO Edit) (Different Fountains Editions)
23. Jackmate - Oval (Philpot)
24. DJ Cam Soundsystem feat. Gregory - I’m A Rasta (Original MPC Mix) (Inflamable)
25. James Duncan - ‘D’ Jam (Real Soon) 
26. Nature Boy - Tobago (Frame Of Mind)
27. Missing Linkx - A Short History Of… (Philpot)
28. Chez Damier & Priceless One - Let Me Do Yore (Yore)
29. Subdued Kamel - Studsande Kamel (Bossmusik)

Freerotation 2018 - Friday night - Room 1 - opening set - redux

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Freerotation 2018 : The House Of Crocodiles (Live Recording)

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