2022

This is House music from west coast brought to you by Mez and House music from an east coast darling like Dee Diggs. Come listen to them build a sonic bridge & meet somewhere beautiful in the middle. 

IG- @dee.diggs , @mezmonty

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Dee Diggs & MEZ @ The Lot Radio 08 - 14 - 2021 - Audio

Sit back, and enjoy these energetic, dubbed-out grooves by the one and only, Schumi, Co-Founder of the cherished ATOM collective. ATOM has graced the Forest Lounge with perfection in the past, and this mix brings back surreal memories from a time not so long ago. 

Happy Weekend friends.

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Smalltown Beat 001: ATOM ft. Schumi [The Other Radio]

Social Studies Boston turns 10 years old, so they've come to NY to celebrate with a fan & graduate of the party you could say. Dee Diggs, in her Boston days, was an attendee of this legendary club night that warmly hosted her and many others giving us exposure to an excellent curation of legendary DJs. Now, with her own platform, House of Diggs, she continues the legacy.

 @dee.diggs , @azz_ela , @alfredo_socialstudies

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House Of Diggs meets Social Studies Boston @ The Lot Radio 10 - 15 - 2021

"This mix is an ode to nyc, my home and all the lovely chosen family I’ve shared space & danced with. I got into djing thru break-dancing and this was a ode to dancing and feeling the music in your soul." - @kilopatrah-jones

q&a and tracklist: http://discwoman.com/mixes/kilopatrah-jones/

DISCWOMAN 106 x Kilopatrah Jones

@dee_diggs, the queen of Brooklyn, closed out Hemlock Hole with a bangin', soulful house set.  'A selectress with no inhibitions', Dee gave her heart and soul to the crowd and the dancers gave it all right back.

Campout Series:  Dee Diggs

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>> https://buymusic.club/list/midland-hnypot-400

Honey Soundsystem Potcast

HNYPOT 400: Midland's Everything Comes Back To You Mix

Glasgow's Huntleys + Palmers invited Daisychain to curate a special showcase on Rinse FM.

Octo Octa pieced together a sonic love letter to her 13 year old self, the year she first discovered drum 'n' bass.

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✿ Closet Yi ~ www.soundcloud.com/daisychain_podcast/closet-yi-rinse-fm-huntleys-palmers-invites-daisychain
✿ Leesh ~ www.soundcloud.com/daisychain_podcast/leesh-rinse-fm-huntleys-palmers-invites-daisychain
✿ Octo Octa

Octo Octa ~ Rinse FM ~ Huntleys + Palmers invites Daisychain

This is me warming up the room... thus is why you’ll hear me play long drawn out tracks & some throwbacks in the first 25 or so minutes. I wanted to set a sensual, warm, welcoming tone for the rest of the night. 

I saved all the bangers for when the floor was starting to get packed. Funny enough my recorder’s battery died after the Hex Hector Whitney Houston remix I played. There is another 32 minutes of the set lost to our memories, but the recorder’s timing literally makes my intuition tingle. Maybe we did conjure and dance with the most legendary of angels that night. 

Enjoy the archived feelings and rhythms of this night I will never forget.

Track list to come!

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Let me set the scene:

This set was my last live performance of 2021. This set in the main room of the Knockdown Center (my first time playing that side of things) was my victory lap on my home turf. Many shows in town had cancelled that night because of the endless virus surges, but some of us really needed this. So I showed up to play my part. 

After a year like 2021, when my DJ career snapped back like a rubber band and picked me up out of very pessimistic place, I needed this.

I am so grateful that I got to play this show with Ash Lauryn and Honey Diijon. Two djs I really admire and look up to! 

Ash said something to me back stage that illuminated how legendary this lineup was simply because of who we are: 3 generations of black women DJ’s carrying a very holy torch of love, light, & musical legacy by way of house music. :')

Full Fantasy NYC - Opening Set ~ 88 minutes of black.gurl.bliss

We're taking over Alimentari Aurora once again for an evening of wine and snacks featuring music from Abby Imperial, Osebo, Rhomas, and Onemohit.

Rhomas Ormsby | Fault Radio DJ Set at Alimentari Aurora (February 12, 2022)

Demonslayer aka Dan Nguyen is a multi-disciplinary artist, creative director, producer / DJ, and subculture historian. Listen in as he discusses and shares obscure Vietnamese New Wave made in California from the mid 80s - 90s, gems unearthed over a 12+ years of digging.

IG @demonslayer__

https://www.nts.live/shows/guests/episodes/demonslayer-22nd-february-2022

Demonslayer - Vwave: Rare Vietnamese New Wave From the 1980s - 220222

Bored Lord drops us right in the middle of the party we all desperately want to be at in this week's Fact mix

https://www.factmag.com/2022/02/28/

Fact Mixes

Fact Mix 848: Bored Lord (Feb '22)

NTS - Abby Imperial - February 15, 2022

For the 106th entry in the Honcho Podcast series, we welcome Chicago's @clubchow! Club Chow is a Taiwanese-American DJ and rave enthusiast currently based in Chicago. With a few different residencies, he delights in soundtracking a broad range of LGBTQ scenarios, from daytime events (Dim sum & drag, Mom Jeans), cruisey evenings at Steamworks Baths, to late nights at Berlin Nightclub or the occasional DIY function

A word about the mix:

With the long Chicago winter drawing to a close, I wanted to make a mix with a more distinct sense of transition as opposed to riding a particular vibe. It starts with a psychedelic spoken word track, builds with some tropical imagery and 2000s-era trippy tech, and ends somewhere else… hopefully joyous?

Honcho Podcast Series 106: Club Chow

Smalltown Beat and Not Sorry Club hosts Mandy Alexander, on The Other Radio. Enjoy

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Smalltown Beat 013: Not Sorry Club ft. Mandy Alexander

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 thr 107th entry in the Honcho Podcast Series, we welcome, @boredlord! Based out of Oakland, Bored Lord’s sounds move through joyfully bouncy pop rave edits, ecstatic breakbeat euphoria, and cutting hardware jams. Her productions and mixes attempt to translate the incredible power of love between queer and trans people. 

Tracklist:
DJ Duke & The Breaking Crew - Tripping On Sunshine
DJ Homer - Orlando
Bok Bok & Tom Trago - Lil Ma Bonus Beat
The Unknown DJ - Basstronic
Victoria's Secret - ????
Deborah Wilson - Free (Disco 70's Version)
Dave Carlucci & Junior Sanchez - Can't Stop The Feeling
Full On Sound - Mayhem (Doin' The Apocalypso)
Slo Moshun - Bells of N.Y. (Xen Mantra's Beefy Bells Mix)
Shut Up And Dance - Raving I'm Raving (Remix) feat Peter Bouncer
Rennie Pilgrem - Westway Westway
Mark Ambrose & Alexander Purkat - I Need A Fix
Eggfooyoung - Pop And Lock
???? - Busta & Janet

Honcho Podcast Series 107: Bored Lord

Sunset set at Lightining in A Bottle Roller Skating Rink <3

Lightning in A Bottle Rink-A-Dink Roller Rink 5/28/22

Happy Pride ya'll. For the 108th entry in the Honcho Podcast Series, @kilopatrah-jones   has recorded a special pride mix to honor the community and this month of celebration. This mix is pure joy!!! 

Kilopatrah Jones is a Haitian dj born and raised In Queens, NYC. Kilo weaves house, techno and jungle together to lose or find yourself on the dance floor.They use djing as a way to translate technology from beats to rhythm & grooves to empower the black and brown queer community both locally & around the world! Keep a close eye, Kilopatrah plays tracks to make a dancer out of everyone.

Enjoy!

Honcho Podcast Series 108: Kilopatrah Jones

Hiroko Yamamura -2019 ES techno mix

Remastered and uploaded in memory of Kemistry (R.I.P.) who was sadly taken from us 14 years ago today (25.04.99)






Kemistry & Storm & Goldie - Metalheadz (Brighton) 1996

Oakland based DJ transporting thru portals of sound since 2017 ☻ Formerly Jessica S

2022

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