Studio mixes

Live recording of @tim-reaper and @dwarde's massive b2b set at Parameter 2024 in San Francisco on May 11th.

"Mayhem", "Insanity", "Madness" - a few words we heard used to describe the loft when Tim and Dwarde put on an absolute clinic for 90 straight minutes. Tune after tune of pure, heavy jungle perfection.

Mastered by @mark-pistel

Tim Reaper b2b Dwarde at Parameter 2024, San Francisco

@djbluefunk joins us again with an exquisite selection of funk, soul, disco, boogie & rare groove.
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Heem & The Music Monsters - People Wake Up
Hudson People - Trip To Your Mind (SoulSeduction Edit)
Airto - Samba de Flora
Vodohrai - Remembrance
Doug Carn - Revelation
Rick Asikpo & Afro Fusion - Let’s Get High (Nick the Record Re-Edit)
Kosaka Chu - Kimagure Party
S.S.O - Faded Lady
Charles Stepney - Gimme Some Sugar
Domenique Dumont - L'Esprit de l'Escalier
Amadou Balaké - Whisky Et Coca-Cola
Sakamoto Shintaro - Let's Dance Raw
DJ Koco feat 45 Trio - World's Famous
Kyoto Jazz Massive - No Cross, No Crown
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Photo by the Phriz

DJ Blue Funk | The Spinzone #145

tracklist:
[ai] - AI-extracted
[sam] - sample

Sir Real - Backwash (reversed)
DJ Rels - Diggin In Brownswood
Roisin Murphy - Sow Into You (Bugz In The Attic Remix)
Rude Ass Tinker - Get Wicked
Human Resources - Desilu (U Edit)
Forme - Percussive Thinking
Benga / Fis-T - Rhythm Of The Night Hunter (L-Vis 1990 Edit)
Nubian Mindz - Black Science (Restless Soul Looptime Mix)
Plex - Afro Breaks
Dave Clarke - No One's Driving (The Chemical Brothers Remix) (Skee Mask Refix)
Lone - Triple Helix
Joi - E.Sy (Spring Heel Jack Mix)
Evian Christ - Thrown Like Jacks

Charas 023: Syncopation Overload

A concept I have been returning to again and again in making autobiographical mixes is Annea Lockwood's idea of a sound map, "an aural tracing [of a specified place] interleaved with the memories and reflections of its people". Unfortunately (or perhaps fortunately, *actually?*), I have been bouncing around a few different cities and countries the last couple of years, so my experiences have been super varied. I recently completed a marathon (for me, at least) 6 hour such mix-as-sound-map, with its own distinct emotional "beats". It begins *in media res*, in that it opens with a DJ Shadow sample with which I closed a previous mix (https://soundcloud.com/icarus-redux/the-great-beyond-2022-domeland), which I haven't heard of other people doing just yet! It also describes...how shall I say this delicately, my experience as a voice-hearer and targeted individual, something that I have experienced since the start of my DJ career thusfar (and in bits and pieces up to as early as 2012).

tracklist:
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1H86ndE_kwZM6hFFpn4EqHRqXes43thT-rvQ5cw4LKlE/edit?usp=sharing

Charas 019: Psychosis

Our latest compilation features seven artists: Mirko Loko, Fitzherbert, Works Of Intent, LEVOS, Hilit Kolet, Monfort, and Marco Bailey.

Mirko Loko, a prominent Swiss talent, known for his work as resident DJ at Couleur 3 and Loft Electroclub, and artistic director of Polaris festival, contributes "Mind Your Step." His releases include those on COD3 QR (under the alias Bel Air Ltd.), Planet E, Border Community, Cocoon, and Visionquest.

Fitzherbert, a producer and DJ, began his musical journey at age 9. After gaining attention as part of the duo Lakechild, he brings his solo sound, blending disco, funk, house, and techno. His previously self-released "Short Trip to Space" is now featured on COD3 QR.

Works Of Intent, a UK-based mix-engineer-designer-essayist and activist, offers productions rooted in the UK underground with techno and pop influences. A master of live edits and four-deck wizardry, he is also project manager of DAYTIMERS and a designer and mix engineer. His track on the compilation is "Erase It."

LEVOS, a rising Australian talent from Sydney, is known for his record label and party series CG Discs, and explosive DJ sets. He also pushes the Sydney dance scene with Jazz Doof parties and performs live as Flux State. He brings a D&B touch with "Hood Oos" to COD3 QR.

London-based DJ and producer Hilit Kolet, a classically trained musician and veteran of Black Market Records, delivers high-octane DJ sets and sharp productions. Her track "Sunbed Tripper" features the spoken words of Juliet Mendoza.

Monfort, the new alias of Spanish producer and DJ Albert Salvatierra, makes his COD3 QR debut with "La Musique." His sound emphasizes strength and precision, crafted for both dance floors and attentive listening, with this track showcasing a more introspective approach.

Marco Bailey, a Belgian techno luminary with over three decades in the industry, contributes "Sweet Irony" to close the compilation. A regular on COD3 QR, his tracks have also appeared on Intec, Bedrock, and Cocoon.

[QR]D.199.SMERC.25

Works Of Intent - Erase It - 1 MIN PREVIEW

a discussion of an ongoing relationship.

tracklist:
[ai] - AI-extracted or -synthesized
[sam] - sample

Rhythm Devils - Napalm for Breakfast
YS - Dreams We Share
The Third Eye Foundation - Once When I Was An Indian
Andy Stott - Numb
Earl Sweatshirt - Grief
Sockethead - All My Days Are Dark As Night
[sam] Theo Parrish - empathy, sympathy, introspection...these are places to start (LEME '14)
Theo Parrish - I Can Take It
[ai] [sam] Simon Reynolds - the idea that the choice of chemicals could have any cultural repercussions or effects on music’s evolution (You Remind Me of Gold: Mark Fisher and Simon Reynolds dialogue about the state of dance music and the state of "the future", 2010)
Sim Hutchins - (Let's) Find Love in the Club
Alicia Keys - Unthinkable (Physical Therapy Real Heavy Vibe)
Leon Vynehall - Beau Sovereign
Jocelyn Enriquez - A Little Bit Of Ecstasy (Booker T Vox Dub)
Vikter Duplaix - Manhood
Baths - Ocean Death
Sim Hutchins - (Can't) Find Love in the Club
DJ Slyngshot - OF XTC (Action Mix)
Mickey Oliver (feat. Shanna Jae) - Never Let Go (Strip Steve RMX)
Simbad (feat. Melo) - After the Dance (Bugz In The Attic Remix)
Janet Jackson - Pleasure Principle (Special Request Offworld Mix)
Sim Hutchins - (Won't) Find Love in the Club
[sam] Earl Sweatshirt - I prostrated myself to the music (Microphone Check: "I'm Grown")
Rhye - Waste (Mishti's Disintegrated Version)
Stars of the Lid - A Meaningful Moment Through a Meaning(less) Process
[ai] [sam] Simon Reynolds - The comedown from ecstasy is like having your heart broken (You Remind Me of Gold: Mark Fisher and Simon Reynolds dialogue about the state of dance music and the state of "the future", 2010)

Charas 025: Love Hertz

a re-imagining of a set I originally performed at a private kink party at the Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, back in 2021.

tracklist:
[ai] - AI-extracted or -synthesized
[sam] - sample

Armand Van Helden (feat. Mita) - Entra Mi Casa
Rinf - Big Bondage (Kinky Sex Wet Mix)
Mappa Mundi - Sexafari
DJ Sprinkles - Masturjakor (Bonus Beats Edit)
Ste Spandex - Undress Me
Grace Jones - Warm Leatherette (Club 69 & Danny Tenaglia Remix)
Juju & Jordash - Clubsex
Delicious, Inc. - Eau De Chanté (For Sex)
Paul Johnson - Women Masturbate Too
Bored Lord - Spit In Your Mouth
DJ Technics - Change Positions
Anthony Rother - Sex With The Machines
Annanan & Maroje T. - Confrontation In Terms Of Sexuality
Martyn - Like That
Djrum - Sex

Charas 027: Sexafari

It is not easy to find Saphira, and it is even harder to leave. If it so chooses, the city will appear first as a quivering mirage on the horizon, second as a blinding stone mirror, and third as a sprawling maze whose sounds and sensations embrace the traveler in a slow and languid frenzy. Quite famously, it is home to countless locked eyes and spellbound hearts. It is a place whose deep currents of longing, like the sound of its ocean shore, seem to rumble and hiss under the surface of every word and gesture, in every bead of sweat that blooms from the glimmering skin of its people.

Saphira is at all times caught between a low-lying sun to the west and a glowing moon to the east. They hang above the skyline with an eerie stillness, watching the city’s tireless creatures writhe together in tenderness and sin, casting upon them a pale, silvery gold light that hangs heavy in the humid air. It is in the tension of this peculiar light and its slender, tangled shadows that Saphira’s longing grows dense and time thickens within its walls. Traveler and resident alike are suspended in an endless eros, caught tightly between pain and pleasure, between the sting of saltwater in one’s eyes and the sticky sweetness of ripe fruit on one’s lips. 

Perhaps this is why Saphira’s radios and televisions stutter with phrases and images so ghostly yet so intimately familiar, why its dusty buildings seem always to crumble so gloriously yet never collapse, why around every corner there is a street that so closely resembles one of a distant and loving memory, and why the curling flakes of paint on its walls and facades will reach out against the heat without fading or falling. It is a city inside of want and outside of time.

Text by Devon Hansen, Photo by CCL

Invisible Cities Ⅰ: 𝓼𝓪𝓹𝓱𝓲𝓻𝓪

Disco After Dark is a monthly dance party/residency curated by Minneapolis based DJ collective @pivotworld and hosted at downtown Minneapolis gay bar, EAGLE/MPLS. 

parties take place every third Saturday of the month beginning 10:00 PM & ending 2:00 AM.  NO COVER

-direct in / Raw recording of nearly all of my set. The first 20 minutes of my set were not captured.  No additional mastering or post production 
w/ exception 2 the removal of dead air / silence from the beginning of recording.

out 2 willy, may louise, matt f. & dancers for engagement/support <3

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Sonic Trip - Back Once Again	
Bored Lord - Nowhere Fast	
Donato Dozzy - Aurora	
DJ Minx - A Walk in the Park (Minx's on the Slide Remix)
Lena Platonos - Lego (Lena Willikens Remix)	
Hagan - On Sight	
No Pain - It's Gonna Be Alright (No More Pain Mix)	
Keith Kemper - La Grosse Femme			
downstairs J - Solid Air City	
5AM - Loosing My Mind	
Erika de Casier - Little Bit
Cleyra - Naked	
Aera - 6 Sides
Barada - Untitled (b side) 		
DJ Pierre - Matrix Chamber (Professor Traxx Bass Trance Mix)			
Local Artist - Feelings
Bybo - New Dimension 		
Lamin Fofana - It’s Only a Matter of Acceleration Now	
Traxx Unit - Haywire
Rauw x Lyanoo x Caleb - Tengo un Paal (AAAA Rework)	
Simo Cell - Paris Funk Express
Bella Boo	Can't Leave You Like This
Nu-Birth - Anytime (Dancing Divaz Mix)
Dionne - Apologize	
Lucid - I Can't Help Myself (Judge Jules Vocal Mix)	
Dilemma - In Spirit (96 remix)
Abfahrt Hinwil - Tech8

erlaab DJ set @ DISCO AFTER DARK - July 20th 2025

Operating at the frontiers of electronic music, Spekki Webu stands apart as a true architect of his own sonic universe. The visionary behind the Mirror Zone label and a highly prolific producer, his work - including an excellent debut album last year - is a testament to a relentless pursuit of the new, sculpting a sound that is both boundary pushing and universally mind-altering.

Offering some insight into the deeply personal and experimental nature of this deep trip, the Dutch maestro explains:

“This mix is mainly music by myself, upcoming music on the label and some unreleased tunes by friends. I have been exploring lots of different tempo's the last few months and also been reprocessing a lot of field recordings which have been layered a lot in this mix. You can almost say that this is a hybrid mix where I am live layering field recordings and processing them in real time. But the main focus is of course the DJ part. Slowly unfolding and blending from chapter to chapter, I don't engage my mixes as mixes anymore, more like this feeling of reading a few pages from my personal book.

Minimalistic movements drowned in wider atmospheric arrangements within this story. A lot of this music in this mix has been made in the last months and dives into introspective moments. Blurring textures which have felt like clouded moments in my consciousness, like living in some sort of dream and moving on to the next stage. Preparing for changes. Waiting for new movements.”

Follow:

https://soundcloud.com/spekkiwebu
https://www.instagram.com/spekkiwebu.mirrorzone
https://spekkiwebu.bandcamp.com/
https://soundcloud.com/mirrorzone
https://mirrorzone.bandcamp.com/
https://www.instagram.com/mirrorzone.records/


MNMT 480 : Spekki Webu

Tracks including samples from or emulating whatsapp, phone calls, facetimes, voicemails... 

https://www.instagram.com/livwutang
https://www.soundcloud.com/livwutang



livwutang - Phone Call : Voicemail Special @ The Lot Radio 07-26-2025

For RA.1000, DJ Sprinkles' first mix in over a decade is a powerful meditation on the genocide in Gaza.

Dance music often relies on simple narratives: release, escape, unity. But those narratives can often feel inadequate, and even at times, hollow. Or, as Terre Thaemlitz might bluntly put it, just "shitty."

For her first mix in around 15 years, Terre Thaemlitz AKA DJ Sprinkles, challenges us to think differently. "I felt this 1000th podcast should reflect the moment in which it was made," she told us in her Q&A.

And what is this moment? Every day since Israel's 2023 assault on Gaza began, an average of 28 children have been killed. That's an entire classroom, every day, for over 600 days (at the time of writing). It's a staggering figure that only captures a fragment of the listless cruelty imposed on the strip.

Faced with such a genocide, what can music really do? How political can it truly be?  For their RA.1000, Thaemlitz gives us an unflinching rebuke to the idea that music should provide escapism. The mix weaves ambient fragments and jazz passages, woven around samples from Israeli media and the voices of outspoken Jewish critics like Gabor Maté and Norman Finkelstein. 

The result is not just a protest, but a document of our time. For Terre Thaemlitz, music is never just music. Her RA.1000 serves as a reminder that in an age of relentless suffering, the most political act is to reject the illusion of escape, and search for something greater.

Read the interview and find the tracklist at ra.co/podcast/1013. Listen to all RA.1000 mixes, as well as the complete history of the RA Podcast, at 1000.ra.co.

RA.1000 Terre Thaemlitz (AKA DJ Sprinkles)

Earthly II

Earthly II - Jam City

Switzerland: Closing off our Polaris Festival broadcast w/ a ‘1993 Elevation’ live set from Lyon’s LB aka Labat.

LB aka LABAT | Boiler Room x Polaris Festival: Day 3

// PAST: @WRGW, @ALPHAPUP, @dublab, @ninja-tune (LA office), Moony Habits, @rootnotecollective, @particlefm
// PRESENT: @daytimers_uk
// FUTURE: orbis non sufficit

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