DJ Marcelle 💿 Are Dancefloors Free?

"I’ve known rivers:
I’ve known rivers ancient as the world and older than the flow of human blood in human veins.
My soul has grown deep like the rivers."
Langston Hughes

more context: https://nonogigsta.substack.com/p/memories-like-little-waves-licked
full tracklist: https://cashmereradio.com/episode/fictions-from-the-rivers/

Fictions #66 w/ Nono Gigsta 2024.10.10 – From The Rivers

It is not easy to find Saphira, and it is even harder to leave. If it so chooses, the city will appear first as a quivering mirage on the horizon, second as a blinding stone mirror, and third as a sprawling maze whose sounds and sensations embrace the traveler in a slow and languid frenzy. Quite famously, it is home to countless locked eyes and spellbound hearts. It is a place whose deep currents of longing, like the sound of its ocean shore, seem to rumble and hiss under the surface of every word and gesture, in every bead of sweat that blooms from the glimmering skin of its people.

Saphira is at all times caught between a low-lying sun to the west and a glowing moon to the east. They hang above the skyline with an eerie stillness, watching the city’s tireless creatures writhe together in tenderness and sin, casting upon them a pale, silvery gold light that hangs heavy in the humid air. It is in the tension of this peculiar light and its slender, tangled shadows that Saphira’s longing grows dense and time thickens within its walls. Traveler and resident alike are suspended in an endless eros, caught tightly between pain and pleasure, between the sting of saltwater in one’s eyes and the sticky sweetness of ripe fruit on one’s lips. 

Perhaps this is why Saphira’s radios and televisions stutter with phrases and images so ghostly yet so intimately familiar, why its dusty buildings seem always to crumble so gloriously yet never collapse, why around every corner there is a street that so closely resembles one of a distant and loving memory, and why the curling flakes of paint on its walls and facades will reach out against the heat without fading or falling. It is a city inside of want and outside of time.

Text by Devon Hansen, Photo by CCL

Invisible Cities Ⅰ: 𝓼𝓪𝓹𝓱𝓲𝓻𝓪

the next mix in the series is pure dubwise profundity coming from @edenaurelius and @milliamusic

Some words from the artists :

“This mix is a live recording taken from Nowadays in April of this year for livwutang’s recidency, where we were invited to open for Deepchord as a part of a dub techno focused event here in New York. 

The three hour mix is the culmination of our shared inspirations - contemporary and classic, and our own interpretations of the genre itself.

We have b2b’ed many times over the past 10 years, and we feel this may be our favorite set so far - we hope you enjoy”

Art by Jesse Osborne-Lanthier

naffcast012 ⦾ ﮩ٨ـﮩﮩ٨ـ ✹ Eden Aurelius b2b Millia ✹ Nowadays (4.18.25) ✹  ﮩ٨ـﮩﮩ٨ـ

Pacing the Platform 29 w/ upsammy on NTS (07.08.25)

Recorded in winter 2024, composed entirely of records from my parents' collection after my dad passed Sept-10-24. Happy birthday Dave G. Let the music be heard!

Songs For Dave

Rising Dutch producer + DJ Upsammy brings her ear for crystalline melody and intricate rhythm to the NTS airwaves for adventurous and narrative mixes once a month.  
Find the full tracklist and related episodes on NTS: https://www.nts.live/shows/upsammy/episodes/upsammy-2nd-october-2025

Pacing The Platform w/ upsammy 021025

RECORDED LIVE @ 5 GATE TEMPLE x DUSTY CABINETS (by SOW) EVENT @ DE SERING, AMSTERDAM 19TH OCTOBER 2024. KRACKFREE SOUNDSYSTEM. PHOTO BY KLAUS. 

SATURDAY 25th OCTOBER 2025
https://ra.co/events/2195458

@junior-loves
@user-307428965-64902278

JUNIOR LOVES DJ SET @ DUSTY CABINETS, AMSTERDAM 19/10/24

CHAM CHAM NACHDI PHIRAN REGGAE COVER

BOETIE VIBE

Roland released the TR-606 “Drumatix”, the cosmetic twin to the TB-303, in 1981. At the dawning of the digital era, two of the most influential producers in reggae - Prince Jammy in Kingston and Bullwackie in The Bronx - each bought one, adding to their increasingly electronic rhythm and bass sections. Nearly ten years later it would be phased out in favor of Casios and Yamahas - digital samples taking over in lieu of synthetic analog sounds. But in this period of around 1983 to 1985, as dancehall switches from roots playing and jamming towards the harder, stripped down sound of the 90s, the simultaneously sharp and soft sound of the TR-606 can be heard in many classics. This mix is an ode to that era of dancehall and the mighty TR-606.

Overdubs using Doepfer Spring Reverb, Bubblesound SEM filter, OTO Machines BIM.

Wackie’s Rhythm Force - Gimme Back Part 2
King Jammy - E20 Version
Tenastelin - Version / Burial Tonight
Tenor Saw - Original Pumpkin Belly
Prince Junior - Crucial Boy Version
Prince Jammys - Turn Them Back Dub
Nitty Gritty - Hog Inna Minty
Prince Jammys - Ickey All Over Version
Tonto Irie - Life Story
Annette Brissette - Jumping Up And Down
Tenastelin - Commercial Bwoy
Dennis Brown - The Exit Version
Cornell Campbell - Nothing Don’t Come Easy / Version
Wackie’s Rhythm Force - Super Dub
King Kong - Can’t Ride Computer
Love Joys - Gimme Back Part 1

TR-606 Inna Dancehall Style

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