Prix choice redeemed UR Goddess of sparkle. Selena ahead. ghost in tjeres maschine.

Recording of Carlos Souffront's set at Dekmantel festival 2022.

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Carlos Souffront at Dekmantel Festival 2022

Beautiful moody vibes and rhythms captured by NYC based DJ Lychee. This mix was based on an opening set at Basement NYC before Pangaea and Freddy K. 
Thanks Alyce for the beautiful mix!
@lycheefrut

MT Mix 014 - Lychee

Russell Ellington Langston Butler (they/them) is a Black artist from Bermuda, living and working in New York City. Russell has painstakingly cultivated a unique artistic expression that integrates and investigates themes around process, technological innovation, the archive, and decolonization. Their works have taken the form of vinyl records, digital audio releases, live A/V performances, and special archiving projects. 

In 2022, Russell has kept a busy schedule. Remixing artists like Scott Avery and Joakim, touring internationally, and holding it down on many dancefloors in NYC. Russell recently released a new process oriented work called Three Things Minus One and has been playing live gigs again.

Notes on the Mix ///
"I’ve had a lot on my mind this summer as I’ve adjusted to an intense tour schedule. This is my job now and I am super grateful for the opportunity to travel and share music. This heightened intensity has made it hard to take a moment to breathe, so I’m working on that. This mix isn’t entirely focused on that though. I made this mix while thinking about all of my friends medically transitioning at the moment. There is no explicitly trans messaging in this mix, or even trans artists (to my knowledge), but I made it while holding space for my friends starting to bind, starting HRT, fundraising for Top surgery, growing and expanding their consciousness whilst reconciling with and embracing their bodily autonomy. So this one is a kind of dedication to them and my love for them and my hope that these sounds give them some space, just for them."

Tracklist ///
Live at the Sahara Tahoe, 1973 - farben
Your Sweet Lovin - Moodymann
lake 2 - Shinichi Atobe
Verklempt Theme - Selim X
No Love Lost - Jay Daniel
My Cassettes - Joey Anderson
Falling Out of Cars - Levon Vincent
Raw 7 - DJ Qu
Ezuku - Damon Bell
The Rider - Da Sampla
Globalización Ácido - Juan Ramos
Is That You (Auv mix) - Mulengasound
Per Assurdo - Nulla
Gold Coast - Hallicinator

SOCIALS:
@russellelbutler
https://www.instagram.com/russellelbutler
https://ra.co/dj/russellelbutler

Photo credit: Manny De La Cruz

XOXA BLEND 117 - RUSSELL E.L. BUTLER

The Hot Mass podcast series is finally back after a long hiatus and we're excited to present a live recording from Hot Mass resident and @detour-pgh co-founder, @alex_price. 
 
Alex was on opening duties when Hot Mass hosted Wata Igarashi this past July and presented here is ~2 hours of his 3.5 hour opening set of deep, cosmic techno.

Recording mastered by @m-parent.

MASS CAST 026: Alex Price @ Hot Mass

.Freq With Mike Servito @ The Lot Radio 09 - 27 - 2022

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

With roots in Pittsburgh and a recent stint in Denver, Paul Fleetwood @fleet412 is both a beacon and a connector within the North American dance music community. A co-founder of Hot Mass with hands in events such as Honcho Campout, Lot Mass, VIA Festival, the Great American Techno Festival, and Humanaut, his DJ sets and productions blend a classic, grounded Midwest techno sensibility with a modern edge, always infused with emotion and sincerity. In 2021, Fleetwood launched his own label, Perimeter Junk, which has already cemented itself as a forerunner in predicting the next wave of dancefloor heaters for kind-hearted weirdos.

Read the interview and see a tracklist:
spontaneous.zone/050-paul-fleetwood

"I knew I wanted a mix that featured mostly four-on-the-floor music, upbeat but smooth and not too aggressive. I imagined a much deeper and more emotive mix than what I originally intended but that didn’t make me any less happy with how it turned out.

This was recorded Saturday, October 8th, 2022 at my apartment in Denver, CO. I used two XDJ-700s and a A&H Xone:92 rotary mixer. I compiled a playlist of roughly nine hours of music from which to choose. Experimenting from that list, it took around seven takes to nail a flow that felt right.

The interview questions brought Molly Nilsson’s 'Never Coming Home' to mind so I decided to include it. I couldn't come up with a smarter way other than to place it as an encore so there ya go, my creative apex at work."

@fleet412

Interview + Tracklist

Spontaneous Affinity #050: Paul Fleetwood

As part of RA2122, our ongoing celebration of 21 years of club culture, we'll be featuring some of our favourite DJs from around the world, highlighting the parties or clubs most important to their lives in dance music. DJ Voices will be playing our RA2122 party in New York this Saturday, November 29th.

DJ Voices is a prime example of an artist that really can do it all. The New York-based artist, originally from Florida, has been an integral part of New York's electronic music as a DJ and as a booker at one of the city's best venues, Nowadays. Voices got her footing as a selector as a founding member of the DJ collective Working Women, but these days she performs solo through her Nowadays residency and her radio show on The Lot, Nothing In Moderation. Her sets are known for their psychedelic dynamism—her selection, with which she prioritizes "energy and drama over genre," often flits from rolling low-end music, uptempo tracks (that she then slows all the way down) and wonky leftfield beats. 

"It would be hard to overstate how much Nowadays is part of my story at this point, personally and professionally," Voices told RA in the following interview. Her approach to assembling this mix she recorded for us makes that abundantly clear. The mix she recorded for RA—which sprawls out over almost three hours—features tracks that she has either played in her five-year tenure at Nowadays or that she plans to play there in the future. She organized the set in a similar way to the way she goes about her Nowadays sets. She kicks off with fast and nimble bass music ("I like to start fast in hopes of people dancing half-time"), then transitions into a knotty web of dubstep and bright percussive tracks and closes with weightless jungle. The playlist she sourced from to create this mix featured music from every Nowadays resident. It's this same thoughtfulness and meticulous attention to detail that has made her a household name in her local scene.

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RA.858 DJ Voices

@livwutang has really arrived on the world stage in the last year. The Seattle-raised, NYC-based artist came up through DIY raves and pirate radio and is now a regular at cult clubs and festivals across North America, as well as being booked in for next year's Dekmantel Selectors. Her sound freely moves between dub, Central and West Africa rhythms and a history of Black American music. All this comes out in her widescreen sets, her curation of the Eto Ano label and her hosting of their show on The Lot Radio.  

The confidence of her selections and ability to shift through moods from the serene to the deep, the energetic to the melodic is evident in this week's mix. It slowly works through the gears from dubbed-out depths to buoyant club rhythms via tribal techno. There is an ever-present mysticism and spirituality that adds an extra layer of intrigue to the body-popping rhythms and it's that which will keep you coming back for more.

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Dekmantel Podcast 413 - livwutang

Looking to his early years for inspiration, deep house hero Fred P dedicates his butter-smooth Sunday Mix to "love, the lovers, those in search of and the idea of recognising it when it may appear".

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Sunday Mix: Fred P

Emma Blake is, musically, something of a nomad. She made her name—Solid Blake—that is, in Copenhagen, where she cofounded the influential Apeiron Crew alongside Mama Snake and Smokey. They were responsible in establishing the city's "fast techno" sound, which blended sleek techno and trance influences into something colourful and retro-futuristic. But Blake's side of things was always more rooted in electro, with a party-starting flair that you might be tempted to pin to her Glaswegian upbringing. (Her first release, <i>Mario</i>, came out on the label of the legendary Glasgow taps-aff basement nightclub La Cheetah.) And she's also spent time in Berlin, so she has those techno bona fides, too.

Another EP, released on Modeselektor's Seilscheibenpfeiler, further fleshed out her electro-techno hybrid sound, also explored in her Historical Repeater project with Danish artist Ctrls. DJing has been her major focus, though—she has an excellent Rinse FM show—and you'll hear a refined approach on her excellent RA Podcast, which is like a club set in miniature, starting out midtempo and rushing towards a heady climax with tracks like Pariah's "Squishy Windows." It's loaded with creative grooves, toothsome textures and the kind of sleek melodies that helped define her stint in Copenhagen since the beginning.

@solid_blake

Read more at https://ra.co/podcast/873

RA.873 Solid Blake

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Residents:

Aaron Clark / @humanaut-aaron (Honcho / Humanaut)
Alex Price / @alex_price (Detour)
Clark Price / @clarkdprice (Honcho)
d'Adhemar / @dadhemar (Honcho)
Ondo/Gusto / @ondo-1 (Detour)
Jack Morrin / @jckmrn(Humanaut)
Jarrett Tebbets / @tidbits-1 (Cold Cuts)
Naeem / @detournaeem (Detour)
Scout / @detour-scout (Detour, girlFx)
Tony Fairchild / @tonyfairchild (Humanaut)

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