2025 Part II

Born in Rome, now based in Florence, DJ and producer Matisa has long been attuned to the intersection of music and style. Having studied at Polimoda, one of the world’s most respected fashion schools, she approaches music selection with an aesthetic gaze – crafting bright visions and immersive environments from her record crates.

For her Crack Mix, Matisa drifts between 133 to 135 bpm playing vinyl only. Setting the scene in her own words, Matisa told us, “I imagined the feeling of recording this in a water bubble, I wonder if your perception will be the same!”

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Crack Mix 428: Matisa

placid.deep.electro.

Memory Lake #7 w/ ophélie | Shella Radio 19.01.2025

the worlds gone crazy™️ and 85% of shit has changed since 1992.

but this hasn’t, not really. this is what i do, and have been doing every night since i was 17.

i find records i love, i fly to a city. i take a nap. i play the records for people. they dance. i get paid i go home.

sometimes i actually think there might be something wrong with me to STILL be doing this. am i stupid?

HOW…. how could you STILL be playing records for people at 5am. shouldn’t you have developed an APP? A line of Wellness Products? surely you should have “sold your company” by now? WRITE A DECK? raise capital!!!! Get bored.
but then i play a set like this (link above) and remember that this is, in fact, as good as it gets, that the core idea i had as a 16year old was actually the BEST idea: to live a life surrounded and protected by MUSIC. armed with your favourite songs, the ones that keep you young and confidant, the ones you want to share with friends.

so that is DJing for me. simple. not particularly revolutionary… except for the fact that to be excited and happy seems revolutionary these days.

also: i’ve played about 4500 parties. and most are like 6 or 7 on tens….. sometimes an 8.

THIS WAS A 10. And the 10s never get recorded. there are lots of exclusives and THREE of my new tracks. and its been recorded WITH all the crowd noise…. trust me its a good one.

if you only listen to one of my 4 hour sets this year…. make it this one.



love from montreal via Offenbach/RJ (one of the best clubs on earth)

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Tiga 4hr live from Robert Johnson with full crowd audio. Nov 2024

"In November 2007 Pinch’s debut album Underwater Dancehall was released to widespread acclaim. Four years later in July 2011 Space Shuttle Atlants commenced its final voyage from the Kennedy Space Centre. Unbeknownst to NASA and the crew, somehow a CD copy of Pinch’s landmark Dubstep masterpiece found its way aboard.

While the CD itself survived the journey into space physically unaltered the music contained within morphed and warped in its new zero gravity environment, Underwater Dancehall had become Dancehall in Outer Space. The weighty throb of the original floated away to leave a lean and spacious soundtrack for a new kind weighless wineing.

Whether through alien interference or some other miracle the CD started to play all by itself just as the Shuttle docked with the International Space Station. Beyond their control the crew found their bodies begin to contort into odd shapes as their muscles spasmed, seemingly in time to the beat. What follows is a recording of that moment from the Space Shuttle Atlantis sensors."

@sam_pv / @pumpingvelvet
IG: @sampv____ / @pumpingvelvetldn

Sam is the founder and a resident at Pumping Velvet, a London-based Queer dance party, and regularly plays at queer parties across the UK alongside a US tour and other international gigs including Planeta Manas (Lisbon), Savage (Hanoi), Kockiri (Seoul) and (Re)treat Festival (Vietnam).

Sam grew up in London, his tastes moulded by the city’s diverse dance music scenes: from childhood trips to Notting Hill Carnival, to formative dancefloor experiences at nights like FWD, Trash and Süd Electronic. He brings these influences to his DJing in sets that span a broad gamut of genres, tied together by a love for big drums, pop melodies and sleaze.   

Frustrated by the lack of queer spaces where you could hear both a Svek record and Kylie in the same night, Sam founded Pumping Velvet in 2018, driven by the firm belief that any barriers erected between pop and ‘serious’ dance music are entirely artificial and that there’s no such thing as a guilty pleasure. It’s this same ethos and disregard for boundaries that makes his DJ so thrilling.

Tracklist:
DJ Giant - Something Bady
Schuttle - Junkman
Joe - MPH
Leo - Jade Floors
Malcolm - Damâa
Brenda - Masato!
Kaval - Druid Potion
Product Toss - Willow
Yuseemi - Roll With It
Xzavier Stone, DJ Plead & Phillip Jondo - Bellydance
Plus One - Zero Chance
DJ Pausas & DJ Fofuxo - Tarracho Exxelentt  
Ayesha - Roll
Wes Lee - Gates
DJ Pitch - Juan Mecanico

Distant Signals 075: Sam PV

capsule 2-8-2025 (vinyl set)

Snap shot of a recent club warmup - from empty room to half full 

Nick Kagame 04/04/25

Project Reality w/ Deejay Energy - 230425

A clinic in minimal from the elusive Acting Press boss. 

Why do certain sounds cultivate a cult following? Simply put, it's often because they resist easy consumption. PLO Man and his imprint Acting Press lean into this. 

Searching for the Berlin-based DJ and producer, you won’t find much online presence, interviews or conventional PR. What you will find, if you look hard enough, is a catalogue of records and mixes with a kind of tape hiss charm (a spiritual successor to Basic Channel and Chain Reaction, but scuzzier and lighter on its feet).

Founded in 2015, Acting Press once seemed to belong to the short-lived "outsider house" trend, but is now synonymous with a certain strain of modern minimal, one that is analogue, spacious and pointedly opaque. PLO Man's output is equally sparse by design: this week, he joins the RA Podcast with a characteristically elusive style, accompanying the near two-hour mix is a one-answer Q&A that gives almost nothing away.

Stripped-back, ever-so-slightly sleazy and coated in dust, PLO Man's RA Podcast continues that lineage in style. Opening with the featherlight microhouse of Margaret Dygas, RA.988 unfolds into a carefully curated spectrum of minimal, dub and deep techno. Among familiar names—look out for the blinding Rhythm & Sound and Moodymann blend—are deep cuts and left turns alongside the odd outlier, like lovers' rock pioneer Gregory Isaacs.

Like the best of his forebears, PLO Man wants RA.988 to take time for you to settle in. But once you do, you won’t want to leave. 

@p_el_oh

Find the tracklist and interview at ra.co/podcast/988

RA.988 PLO Man

https://callshopradio.com/shows/objet-personnel

Objet Personnel w/ softburn (Klympt) 13.05.25

My set (with crowd noise) from the Grove Saturday Night 1-3am, after Djrum, before Identified Patient. 

Out to all the sexy witches of the forest, thank you to everytone there + entire crew @sustain-release-nyc :)

<3 Mastered by the best @wordcolour

CCL @ Sustain-Release Year Ten

CZ Wang

Based in New York, CZ Wang is a DJ, producer, and engineer with deep ties to Vancouver’s influential Mood Hut collective. Over the past decade, he has played a pivotal role in shaping underground sounds, both as a selector and behind the scenes, contributing his skills to collaborations with artists like Huerco S, Nick Len, Okay Kaya, Daniela Lalita, DJ Python, Ana Roxanne, Jack J, and untitled (halo).

He holds residencies at Public Records and Eavesdrop, and regularly performs at renowned festivals like Sustain-Release and Warm Up MoMa PS1. His sets can also be heard at iconic clubs including Nowadays, Bar Part Time, Sunday Sunday, and Renate.


CZ Wang 是一位駐紐約的 DJ、製作人與工程師，擁有深厚的 Mood Hut 廣受讚譽的溫哥華音樂集體背景。在過去十年中，他作為選曲人和音效工程師，對地下音樂場景產生了深遠的影響，並參與了 Huerco S、Nick Len、Okay Kaya、Daniela Lalita、DJ Python、Ana Roxanne、Jack J 和 untitled (halo) 等藝術家的合作。

他目前在 Public Records 和 Eavesdrop 擁有駐場 DJ 位置，並在 Sustain-Release、Warm Up MoMa PS1 等音樂節上演出，此外，還常常出現在 Nowadays、Bar Part Time、Sunday Sunday 和 Renate 等知名俱樂部。

CZ Wang @TOHA Radio 2025.04.29

20 Minute mix recorded for Martha on NTS Radio May 2025

https://www.nts.live/shows/martha/episodes/martha-23rd-may-2025

@martharadio

2025 Part II

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