Name: Campout Mix Series: CCL by Honcho
Duration: 3 h 8 min 13 s
Description: @ccl-url blasted us all into space in their closing set atThe Grove on Saturday night.

Bloody hell. Only half way through but it’s already been spicey throughout 🥵

Off the scale sequence of tracks - one of the best party sets ever

friday at sustain-release 2021, 12-2am. thank you karen nicole for the photo :)

thank you @sustain-release-nyc

livwutang @ Sustain-Release Year 7

@ccl-url blasted us all into space in their closing set atThe Grove on Saturday night.

Campout Mix Series: CCL

Available on Audio Cassette and digital download directly from the label’s Bandcamp: https://cclurl.bandcamp.com/album/a-night-in-the-skull-discotheque

Side A: Bass is Eternal
Side B: 2-step Mutual Dream

A Night in the Skull Discotheque by the beloved underground selector CCL is the latest offering in the T4T LUV NRG label’s highly limited DJ mix series of cassettes. This immersive journey through a wonderland of proto-dubstep sounds from the late 1970s through the year 2000 is a sonic sibling to CCL’s acclaimed 2018 mix Ode to Queer Steppas.

Inspired in part by Eris Drew’s use of “old records to create new styles out of fragments” on her Raving Disco Breaks Vol. 1 mixtape (T4T LUV NRG, 2019), CCL approached this recording with a parallel frame of mind. Created with 3 CDJs, one Turntable, and a Boss Digital Delay 200, the tracks included in the mix are deconstructed from their whole, and constituent parts are intertwined, sampled, and dubbed out while being further stretched beyond their physical limits. CCL mixed many tracks at the 'wrong speed', pitched beyond their original recognizable tone; others are recontextualized through imaginative layering.

With a solid nod to seminal mixtapes of the early 90s, CCL references the namesake for Side A, Bass Is Eternal, an unreleased 1992 mixtape by influential Bristolian producers Smith & Mighty, an important sonic fulcrum amongst the musical tributaries of the hardcore continuum that continues to reverberate to this day. CCL experienced the after-effects of this ‘proto’ sound genesis in 2008, while living in Bristol, by which point its emergent whispers had coalesced into what became known as dubstep. Tracing a rich history of reference through the samples, basslines, moods, and drum patterns emanating from Bass Is Eternal while looking for connections that predate it became a long-term fascination for CCL. The result is a DJ mix that connects the oft-forgotten dots between proto eras and modern developments in bass and dubstep.

For the resulting sonic ride on A Night in the Skull Discotheque, CCL leads us to a fantastical place of timeless surreality – a majestic haunted dancehall soundtracked by a giddy rush of steppers and dubbed-out delights. Subs rattle through syncopated percs, and moody synths glisten in macabre glory. Fantastical dancers wriggle in wispy eternity, liberated from their corporeal forms in all their greatest spiritual wonder. Both extravagant and dusky, A Night in the Skull Discotheque is a world of seductive in-betweens, a place caught between the moodiest depths and the highest exuberance – A love letter to one of the most impactful formative sounds of the last decades.


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A portion for the proceeds from this release will go to fundraiser "SUPPORT PALESTINIAN SOLIDARITY IN EUROPE!". You can also directly donate via:
https://www.gofundme.com/f/support-palestinian-solidarity-in-europe
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Tape design: Nina Muro
Mastering: TJ Hertz
Additional tape mastering: Eris Drew
Photography: CCL 
Linear notes: Nevan Jio

A Night in the Skull Discotheque [T4T015]

CCL - A Night in the Skull Discotheque

My set in full from New Year's Nonstop 2024. Image credit to Amar Patel. Mastering detail by @milesmercer.

Dedicated to the people of Palestine
& all Nowadays staff.

🇵🇸💙

Live @ Nowadays // New Year's Nonstop - Jan 1 2024

Recorded for @Refugeworldwide. Inspired by how water interacts with solid structures. 

Image by CCL

𝙡𝙞𝙦𝙪𝙞𝙙𝙩𝙞𝙢𝙚 w CCL #11 Rock Pools @refugeworldwide

ROOM 2 - SATURDAY 20 til 22 🐊🐊🐊

Thanks to Suzybee & Steevio, the volunteers, the dancers, the musicians, Théo & Ugo, the Friends of Fictions, Alex & very special thanks to @iambruce for mastering the recording :)

Hug to @r4r_luz who sadly couldn't make it this year and was supposed to play before me.

Shorter context: https://www.instagram.com/p/C9NI2bwMVcu/

Longer context: https://nonogigsta.substack.com/p/1ec95196-66ba-45d9-91d0-3b1031fc5c42

Freerotation 2024 : The House Of Crocodiles Part 2 (Live Recording)

live @ nowadays august 2024

Recorded live from @RefugeWorldwide - this show inspired by Mist, all things deep, atmospheric and spacious, with some warmth and soul -- dub techno, deep house, dub-wise tracks.

𝙡𝙞𝙦𝙪𝙞𝙙𝙩𝙞𝙢𝙚 w CCL #12 Mist @refugeworldwide

@miseryconfusion at Hemlock Nights on Saturday morning.

'For a long time, I felt uncertain about what to play at Honcho for Hemlock Nights. It wasn’t until my friend Kayla (Seelene) asked, “So, you’re just going to play the Bobby afters classics, right?” that I began to break through the doubt. While this set includes a lot of new music for me, I took comfort in the tracks I often share with friends at home. My goal was to create a more intimate and personal space to introduce myself to a new audience.'

Tracklist:
Vladimir Ussachevsky - Wireless Fantasy
Kincaid - Falls Down
Five Rituals - Pungi
Polygonia & Popp - Onyx
Stereometrix - Alligators
Frank Rodas - Forest Dance
Pearson Sound - Blanked
The Horn - The Hunt
Isolated Material - Root Cause
Gladstone Deluxe - Errant Core
Amber - Sexual (Li Da Di) (Afterlife Chillout Remix)
X Prod - B & F
Moisk - Deoxyribose
Electro Force - Getting High
Nelly - Hot In Herre (Excursions Mix)
Hazed - Disconnected (Long Distance Mix)
Origin Unknown - Valley of the Shadows
Ghost - The Club
SND & RTN - 3SR
KW Griff & DJ Booman - Who's In the House
Cool Tiger - I Feel You
Theo Parrish - Solitary Flight
Simic - Orbetello
Limp Bizkit - My Way (Los Bastoneros Edit)
OSSX - INTERNET CAFE
Heavy D & The Boyz - You Aint Heard Nuttin Yet (Instrumental)
Itsu Ono - B-Boy Rave For the Aging Hipster
Farley Funkin' Keith - Jackin The Bass
Kate Bush - Running Up THat Hill (Infusion Mix)
Steve “Silk” Hurley - It’s Percussion (Dub Mix)
Gat Decor - Passion (D. Emerson 12" Edit)
Mappa Mundi - Sexafari
Syclops - NR 17
Daft Punk - Veridis Quo
Jane Dowe & Terre Thaemlitz - DT (5:03)

Campout Mix Series: 'nohup'

high energy rave sound live from the warehouse

live @ zero chill halloween

Brandon Flakes - Get up

Queer-oriented music collective at Pittsburgh's @hot-mass, residents at @nowadaysnyc, annual festival in the Pennsylvania woods (Aug 16-20, 2023). Resident DJs >> @humanaut-aaron  @clarkdprice and @dadhemar

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