Nasty dirty epic goodness. This mix has me turnin!

For the 102nd entry in the Honcho Podcast series we have a very special recording to share with you all. In 2019, Honcho had the honor of playing the Genosys stage at Glastonbury and it remains to be a career highlight for the crew. The Genosys stage lived in the Block9 area and  aimed to explore the birth of analogue electronic music and its lasting legacy. 

We felt this set was a perfect example of our sound and a beautiful, cohesive moment for the three of us (@clarkprice, @humanaut-aaron, and @dadhemar). In typical late night fashion, we closed out the stage from 3 - 6:00AM.  There is nothing better than taking the decks at night and working a crowd straight through a sunrise. A huge thank you to Gideon and the Block9 crew for inviting us to play and for the tireless amount of work they put into the festival.

Honcho Podcast Series 102: Honcho Live at Glastonbury

Available on Audio Cassette and digital download directly from the label’s Bandcamp @ https://djbeige.bandcamp.com/album/amen-vol-1

T4T LUV NRG is proud to present “Amen! Vol. 1”, a breathtaking DJ mix tape conceived and blended by Detroit’s DeeJay Beige. “Amen! Vol. 1” is a singular presentation of a sound developed by Beige that is very personal and deeply connected to their history. Beige’s mix is an amalgam of ecclesiastical breaks and gospel house delivered with intensity and soul power like only they can do. Prepare to be enthralled with one of the most exciting DJs currently burning their way through the American underground. From the Holy Ghost TO YOU, this is Beige! Be not afraid…

ARTIST STATEMENT:
In the strictest sense, Amen! Vol. 1 is the result of more than a year’s worth of obsessive brainstorming, digging, planning, arranging, re-arranging, and countless discarded takes. And in another sense, this mixtape has been in the works for the six years since I started DJing, the ten years since my baptism as a teenage club rat, and for my entire life, which for better or for worse has been shaped by The Church and church music since birth. 

My mother was a promiscuously Christian divinity school dropout who pushed my family through a run of increasingly conservative churches: Unitarian, Episcopal, Baptist, Presbytarian, Charismatic-Evangelical, and probably a few others I forget. My fathers family on the other hand were career scientists and committed atheists who also all happened to sing in church choirs for fun. I cannot remember a time when Beethoven, Bach, folk hymns, old negro spirituals and gospel were not playing in my house, day in and day out. 

Cutting ties with both family and organized religion in my early teens left a void of community and belonging that wouldn’t start to be filled until my first experiences with clubbing (sometimes with drugs, sometimes without) years later. And when I started collecting records years after that, I gravitated heavily towards any music incorporating the familiar imagery, themes, musical motifs and language of church (especially Liberation Theology) which remained kind of bittersweetly comforting long after I stopped trying to believe. This might sound heretical, but over the last several years “gospel” has become much more of a feeling to me than a genre or even a sound. As far as I’m concerned, the rave, the club, the congregation, the choir, are only different ways to experience a many-sided mystery. 

For this project, I wanted to challenge myself to imagine going beyond just using a little soulful house to end the night or the mix on an uplifting note, and instead program a fantasy “gospel rave” for a thousand of my closest friends dancing in a field on a moonless night. How would I do my best to deliver a powerful, meaningful, salvatory collective experience from midnight until sunrise? Amen Vol. 1 is a snapshot of that imaginary night. 

The need to use contrasting peaks and troughs to create a sense of narrative for your audience includes emotional or spiritual contrast just as much as it does changes in BPM or a kick pattern.  So, it was important for me to try exceeding simply the emotions associated with “praise” music (like joy) because encountering the truly divine should also inspire fear and awe. Disregarding genre as much as possible, each piece of music was chosen for the sensation or sentimental meaning it inspires for me personally: you probably wouldn’t call most of them “rave tracks”, and plenty aren’t explicitly religious at all. Finally, of course I had to make sure that Detroit and Chicago were properly (but not exclusively, that’s for another mix) represented in the tracklist. Where I’ve ended up, grounded by a repeating classic “anchor track” for each side, is an attempt to simulate Genesis and Revelation, the Good News and the Flood, the dark night of the soul and the moment of salvation–whatever those might mean for you. Can I get a witness?

Beige - AMEN! Vol. 1

****Physical Cassette Mixtape Available Our Bandcamp****
https://octoocta.bandcamp.com/album/love-hypnosis-vol-2

I heal myself weekly with the music I play. I listen deeply to the words buried within; the intention behind the lyrics either peppered-in or chorused. So much of the house music I connect with is rooted in love. It’s rooted in desire and hope. It’s rooted in narrative, “Do you want to trip with me?”, “I’ll outstretch my hand”, “I won’t forget about you, you won’t forget about me, we won’t forget about love vibrations!”. I listen to the messages to remind myself what I need and why I continue to move forward.

Vol.2 is represented in two mixing styles; long-melded blends (Trippin’ On Love) and fast, tight radio-style cut mixes with overdubs (Slammin’ With Love). Both convey the deep need for connection to one’s body and to others. It’s this connection energy that I find so powerful about house music’s healing magic.

Xoxo Octo Octa

♥︎♥︎♥︎♥︎ 50% of the profits the mix will be donated to the Sylvia Rivera Law Project (SRLP), which works to guarantee that all people are free to self-determine their gender identity and expression, regardless of income or race, and without facing harassment, discrimination, or violence. ♥︎♥︎♥︎♥︎

Octo Octa - Love Hypnosis Vol. 2 Mixtape

Music in praise of the Moon
Mix series hosted by Stathis (@stathisvt) and Luigi Di Venere (@luigidivenere)
29th Episode by Bouffant Bouffant (@bouffant-bouffant)
Artwork by Thodoris Dimitropoulos

Moon Gazing 029 by Bouffant Bouffant

The 'cause it' queens:
@bouffant-bouffant
@jacob-meehan

Recorded live on a September morning, as the sunlight poured in through the orange-tinted windows along the river Spree; Fitzroy, Berlin.

Radio Buttons #118 - Longitude

En esta nueva entrega de la serie Fun Fun Mix presentamos al dj Jacob Meehan, con este increíble mix grabado en vivo en el Zenner Club de Berlín el día de año nuevo de 2023. Después de mudarse de Chicago a Berlín en 2016, Jacob ha estado produciendo y alentando algunos de los eventos queer más queridos de su ciudad adoptiva, particularmente Buttons @radio-buttons y el Whole Festival. Su experiencia multitudinaria con la producción cultural, (ha sido anfitrión de una radio comunitaria, manager de restaurantes y de una galería de arte contemporáneo, vendedor de discos en una legendaria disquería, director de sesiones de meditación guiada y organizador de fiestas disco en un teatro porno gay), demuestran su atención al detalle para lo experiencial y lo efímero, demostrando que la creatividad está en todas partes. El tiempo de inactividad durante la pandemia le dió a Meehan la oportunidad de sumergirse más en la producción musical; Esperen nuevos lanzamientos de él en este 2023!

For the 39th entry in the Fun Fun Mix series, we present dj Jacob Meehan, delivering this amazing mix recorded live at Zenner Club in Berlin on New Year's Day 2023. After relocating from Chicago to Berlin in 2016, Jacob has instigated some of his adopted city's most beloved queer events, particularly Buttons @radio-buttons and WHOLE Festival. His multitudinous background with cultural production - hosting community radio, managing neighborhood restaurants, operating a contemporary art gallery, selling records at a legendary record shop, leading guided meditation sessions, & throwing disco parties in a gay porn theater - inform his attention to detail for the experiential & ephemeral, proving that creativity is everywhere. The downtime of the pandemic afforded Meehan the opportunity to dive further into music production; expect new releases from him in 2023!

Soundcloud: @jacob-meehan
www.instagram.com/jdmeehan/
www.instagram.com/buttonsberlin/

Fun Fun Mix 39 - Jacob Meehan (Live at Zenner Berlin)

Name: Wawa
Alias: DJ Wawa (@djwawabk)
Pronouns: They/Them
Location: NYC

Influences: Cherushii, DJ Rashad, Octo Octa, Larry Heard

Affiliations/Residencies/Projects: Hit Factory, Lot Radio and NTS

Favorite Quote: If you have a plan B you’ll never do plan A

Advice for the DJs, producers and artists of our community: the best DJ’s I know are music historians, musicologist, music nerds and music freaks. Love the music. Find the music that you connect to and translate that. let that love run through you.

With this mix DJ Wawa asks to please learn more about and consider donating to: 
Kurdish Red Moon - Kurdistan Earthquake Relief (https://www.heyvasor.com/en/banga-alikariya-lezgin-ji-bo-mexduren-erdheje/)
(https://t.co/4d45DKMIjM) 

Tracklist  - https://thedaisychain.club/2023/02/21/daisychain-266-dj-wawa/

Daisychain

Daisychain 266 - DJ Wawa

ANY025: Bouffant Bouffant
he/him
New Orleans/NYC
@bouffant-bouffant
instagram.com/bouffantbouffant

WHAT IS ALWAYS
Always is under the assumption that everything is constantly changing

WHEN WOULD YOU NEVER
I try to never not never

HOW WAS YOUR YESTERDAY
Yesterday was a little heavier than most, but not without a dose of gratitude

ANY025: Bouffant Bouffant

Bouffant Bouffant recorded live from Savage - Red Cube in Hanoi Vietnam.

Live from Savage - Red Cube - Hanoi, Vietnam

Honey Soundsystem Potcast

HNYPOT 378: Bouffant Bouffant's Touch Me In The Morning Mix

dublab - Masha - Analog Players Club w/ Bouffant Bouffant

dublab is a non-profit music public broadcasting internet radio station based in Los Angeles. They have also been involved with art exhibition, film projects, event production, and record releases.

Masha 0:00 - 0:51
Bouffant Bouffant 0:51 - 1:55

@mashadjs @dublab

dublab - Masha - Analog Player's Club w/ Bouffant Bouffant

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

Honcho Podcast Series 102: Honcho Live at Glastonbury

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