@formosapgh  this is such an incredible mix. THANK YOU! <3

Good news! Pacific Spirit is back after a small hiatus with our first mix of 2024. This time around it's a 3 hour live recording from one of Pittsburgh's finest, Aaron Clark. Here's a bit of back story on the recording:

In October 2022, Hot Mass threw a fundraiser for the Kyiv Angels – a group doing work to support Ukrainian civilians. We tapped Kyiv’s Closer resident Shakolin, and I took the warm-up set of the night. This is the recording of my part of the night. I dusted off a lot of old favourite records and leaned into a slow build that I try to set the club up with, tugging the floor between psychedelic rhythms, trippy techno and pops of house. This recording landed in that bullseye opening zone I aim for, and I hope it transports you to my favourite little dance floor in the world."

Enjoy the audio everyone! Also be sure to familiarize yourself with the many projects Aaron is involved with including - Hot Mass, Honcho, and Honcho Campout. Aaron is also a resident at the NYC dance institution Nowadays, if you happen to find yourself in the Big Apple and he's playing you're in for a solid session!

@humanaut-aaron

Pacific Spirit No. 85 | Aaron Clark

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Basic Paradise - livwutang - 25 Jan 2024

Recorded live at Nowadays in Queens, NY on Friday, January 5, 2024.

JADALAREIGN Residency w/ Hieroglyphic Being ✰

Alias: Dee Diggs
Pronoun: She / Her
Location: Brooklyn, NYC
Music labels: Toucan Sounds
Name of the mix: House is a Spiritual Feeling
About the mix: For me, House music is a 44-year-old genre of music that originated and popularized in the black gay LGBTQ+ nightclub spaces of New York, Chicago, and Detroit that spilled on to influence and inspire the world. House music is a living breathing relic that tells its own story in the hits, the lyrics, the parties, and our legends and legacies in local and worldwide scenes. 
House music is a mode of being, a ritualistic euphoria we gather for, a space of praise, connection, and unadulterated feeling, healing and dancing- kind of like church should be, a dance floor where there is room for someone like you.
The mix I made explores a spiritual realm of House music with influences of Jazz, Disco, Gospel, and African and Latin Diasporic sounds. 
Its infectious rhythms take you into a certain sentimentality. This is an ancestral conversation twisting into different messages of hope and resilience. The heart, soul, and mind are wrestling with big themes in these transitions. Though breaking through at times to find lightness, this one is meant to go deep. I love that House Music can hold all the multitudes and complexities of being human. 
Follow: @dee_diggs

#tracklist
01. Dee Diggs - Go Deep [*unreleased* Toucan Sounds, 2024]
02. Trinidadian Deep - Euston Street [ Future Shock Music, 2021]
03. Paul Johnson - Dream of You [Chiwax!, 2017]
04. Danny Tenaglia - Do You Remember (Original Mix) [Tourism, 1998]
05. Ben Cenac - Africa [ Rush Hour, 2023]
06. Sounds of Blackness - The Pressure (Frankie Knuckles Classic Mix) [Perspective Records, 1991]
07. Debbie Winans Lowe & Korean Soul -  It's All Good (Louie Vega Remix) [Nervous Records, 2022]
08. Steffi - Fallin (Vinyl Remaster) [Dolly, 2020]
09. DJ Patti Kane - You (Soulminded mix) [House Royalty Records, 2020]
10. Lynette Smith - Only You (Nu Birth Test The Dub Mix) [Defected Records, 1998]
11. Martha Wash - Carry On (Tee's Crazy mix) [Delirious, 1997]
12. Dialect - Sitting in the Sun (Derrick Carter's Winter Crazy Vocal Dub Reprise) [Distance, 1998]
13. Salākastar - On Black Thoughts: Dreams and Joyful Movement [Salākastudios, 2023]
14. G.U. - Detroitism [Strut Records, 2012]
15. dunnEasy - Won't Stop (feat. Monique Bingham) (dunnEASY Club Mix) [Jellybean Soul, 2008]
16. Ananda Project - Straight Magic (feat. Heather Johnson) (Wamdue Kids Jazz Mix) [Nite Grooves, 2020]
17. Mariah Carey - Anytime You Need a Friend (Boriqua Tribe Mix) [Columbia Records, 1993]
18. Stevie Wonder - Another Star (The Jackal's 'La La La' Edit) [unofficial remix]
19. Felix Dickinson feat Blane Lyon - People's People (Ron Trent Remix) - [Ugly Music 2023]
20. Sole Fusion (House Nation Mix)  - Bass Tone [Strictly Rhythm, 1994]
21. Louie Vega feat. Luisito Quintero, Nina Rodriguez  - Yemaya (Louie Vega's Bassline Mix) [Defected Records, 2018]
22. Delano Smith - Ancestors (Deep Mix) [Kolour Recordings, 2010]
23. Naked Music NYC - It's Love (Joshua's Mo' Musique Vocal) [OM Records, 1997]
24. Joe Claussell -  Je Ka Jo (Original Vocal) [Ibadan, 2000]
25. Wamdue Kids - Echoes & Instruments [Guidance Recordings, 1996]
26. Tarika Blue - Dreamflower [Chiaroscuro Records, 1977]

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House of Others #053 | DEE DIGGS | House is a Spiritual Feeling

livwutang at Outra Cena, This Side, 20/01/2024

For the 125th entry in the Honcho Podcast Series, we welcome Pittsburgh's own, @formosapgh. Stephanie Tsong is a multi-disciplinary Taiwanese-American DJ, artist, and designer who performs as "formosa" and as half of monthly Pittsburgh queer party and music duo, Jellyfish. Jellyfish has become an incredible force for the queer scene in Pittsburgh, they've helped usher in an excited, youthful audience and we're proud to work alongside their efforts.

Lock in to Steph's gorgeous hour long mix, she was LONG overdue <3

Honcho Podcast Series 125: Formosa

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

For round 28, we welcome a dear friend of the club and scene at large, @Erin_Platner.

This was recorded live during the July 1st, 2023 Humanaut party, ahead of Taiwan's legendary @diskonnected.

MASS CAST 028: Erin Platner @ Hot Mass

Nowadays Live and Direct returns after a long hiatus with a 5-hour recording from Carlos Souffront (@csouffront), recorded from 10 am - 3 pm at our Halloween Nonstop party on October 29, 2022. Carlos returns to Nowadays for another Nonstop set this weekend, playing from 3 pm to 6 pm Sunday afternoon.

A regular at Interdimensional Transmissions' No Way Back parties in Detroit and beyond, Carlos Souffront brings a brilliant sense of creative alchemy to the decks, combining years of experience and digging with a sensibility like no other. Abstract rhythms meld together into inexplicable chaos magic. Dark, shadowy selves emerge, ready to be explored with a sense of mischief and playfulness, carried through by an acid bassline or cheeky vocal.

For this extended Halloween set during the real witching hours, Carlos summoned all of the party gremlins, goblins, and ghouls to the Nowadays dancefloor for the ultimate seance.

Nonstop: 3/9-3/10

Nowadays Live and Direct 016: Carlos Souffront

All-vinyl set recorded live at Mansions in New York City on February 2nd, 2024

SPRKLBB All Night Long at Mansions | 2 February 2024

For the 127th entry in the Honcho Podcast Series, we welcome @rickymawzlin! Ricky, who represents one half of @jellyfishpgh, is one of the hardest working and talented DJs in the city. He and @formosapgh have helped forge a new wave in Pittsburgh nightlife and we're proud to work along side them.

Honcho Podcast Series 127: Ricky Mawzlin

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 125: Formosa

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