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

For th 110th entry in the Honcho Podcast Series, we welcome @fivefivefivefivefive!. Five is a New Orleans born DJ currently living in San Francisco. ‘Club’ music in a very broad sense of the term has been a mainstay in Five’s DJ sets through the years, but a focus on classic house music directs the overall sound following some recent years of access to digging in record shops throughout NYC.

Five is also one-half of the DJ duo Babygirl, who’s sound fixates on the raw, fun, and sexy energy present within the classic house music sound. For this mix I wanted to keep that same energy, but take things a little slower as we get into the thick of Summer. New and old favorites, some surprises, and plenty of moments to feel the Love because… (Love is the message)

This two hour mix is a live recording of Five's set at Quiche during San Francisco Pride 2022. Enjoy!

Honcho Podcast Series 110: Five

I KNOW WHAT THE PEOPLE WANT - THEY WANT TO BE SHOCKED... AND GROOVED. AND THEY WANT HOUSE 
MUSIC.

Lawrence S. Williams Jr., better known as L.A. Williams, is an American DJ and producer from Chicago. Founder of the label Chisel, producer of over 27 releases, he has an idiosyncratic take to rhythms, sounds and grooves. 

As a huge fan, both impressed and beguiled, I wanted to shine a light on him. I still am often tripped up trying to blend his tracks while D'Jaying and fit them in a mix soooooooo I had to make this all L.A. mix ᏊˊꈊˋᏊ I spent the last few months collecting nearly all his releases on Discogs to use for the mix; a lot isn't available digitally, and it just felt right. 

I think the best way to hear his unique world and sound is via a tour of his various sides and styles, weaving and roiling, building and bubbling, jacking and smacking.

https://www.discogs.com/artist/4146-LA-Williams

TRACKLIST
All Aboard - Great Space Coaster EP
What Tha People Want (House Muzik Anthem) - House Muzik "98"
Da X-Menn (L.A.'s Magic II)- Da X-Menn EP
Program 35 - Chi-Town Sampler
Rainstick - Rainstick
Midnite at 31st Sbeach - D.T.T. 3rd R.
A Little “Old School” Track - Da X-Menn
Cries of Joy Dedicated to Armando Gallop - Sounds 4 Da Underground
Playing Inside Tha Wooden Sandbox - The Future Deescko
Toilet Hush - Sounds 4 Da Underground
Guest Star Entertainment - D.T.T. 3rd R. 
My Music Box - Da X-Menn EP
Hypnotic - D.T.T. 3rd R.
Going Insane (The Insane Asylum TRK) - The Straight Jacket EP
Your Inspiration - The Project Part 2

Only L.A. Williams

All my love and thanks to Carry Nation and the extended family <3

Track IDs on request :* :*

Live @ Carry Nation (Good Room NYC) [June 2022]

ANY022: Aaron Clark
he/him
Pittsburgh
instagram.com/honchoaaron
@humanaut-aaron

WHAT IS ALWAYS?
Taco Bell :)

WHEN WOULD YOU NEVER?
Coachella :(

TELL ME ABOUT YESTERDAY
Sadly, I came home from Berlin with a vintage case of Influenza-A. So it was lots of working from the couch on Campout. Crunch time. 

SOMETHING WE SHOULD KNOW ABOUT YOU
My childhood was growing up in a family that ran Christian music festivals. lol

*recorded live at Maybeland II in Pittsburgh on April 30, 2022*

Always Never Yesterday

ANY022: Aaron Clark

Ron Like Hell provides eclectic sets venturing into obscure international sounds, Techno, Synth, House, Acid and Disco which are appreciated by some of the most discerning dance floor enthusiasts.

Approaching a dj mix as assemblages, Ron Like Hell aligns sound with emotion, focusing on texture to create psychedelic soundscapes, imaginative spaces for comfort and surprise spectators with an unexpected crafty transition. With 27+ years of making people dance in numerous countries along with years of vinyl shop experience and music promotion, his/their role in the industry is unique and influential. Their latest production, EXALT is their dream come true where Ron selects a personally beloved dj to play solo then close out the night together with a b2b set. EXALT's first guest was Matrixxman in April 2022 at Basement in Ridgewood-Queens, NY. Ron also djs as Wrecked, a music first queer dance party which will turn 12 in March of 2023.

Notes on the Mix ///
"Created deep from the bottom of my heart respectfully for the queer community in my off kilter multi-genre inclusive style this live in one take mix includes vinyl and cdj media. Mash-ups sit near disco originals, disco sampled 90s house thumpers meet modern deep tech house
pumpers and adjacent to all that, unashamed sassy vocal house is celebrated too. I also featured a few productions by some friends near and far: a trend that I can not shake since creating mixes during the 2020 shutdown. Overall, I wanted this mix to be a version of near
perfect just as when we go out and hear DJs at the club where a perfect blend is a fortunate dream come true and also some skips or light off the beat-mixing reminds us of our beautiful mortality. I feel the intention and soul of the dj is revealed when those moments are noticed. I hope everyone who follows the XOXA mixes and parties will play this mix before they head out to a party this Fall and Winter and beyond :)"

SOCIALS:
@ronlikehell
https://www.instagram.com/ronlikehell
https://www.facebook.com/djronlikehell
https://www.mixcloud.com/ronlikehell/
https://ra.co/dj/ronlikehell/biography
https://twitter.com/RonLikeHell

XOXA BLEND 123 - Ron Like Hell

Freq With Bouffant Bouffant @ The Lot Radio 11 - 22 - 2022

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

Kiernan Laveaux - Live at Sole Rehab 7 YR anniversary

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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