Nick León is part of a newer generation of Miami producers who infuse modern-day club music with sounds from around the region, everything from Miami bass to reggaeton. In León's case, his most recent—and most exciting—music has focused on beats inspired by reggaeton and its sub-genre perreo, but with a musical palette that speaks to a love of electronic music from Aphex Twin to Burial to music on labels like NAAFI and TraTraTrax. (This is a predilection he shares with DJ Python, whom León just launched a new party with.) 

It's on the latter label he released the Rompediscoteka EP, one of the canniest genre fusions he's done yet, meant to hark back to the feeling he had when he first discovered reggaeton. (It came with eye-opening remixes from Maral, Kelman Duran and Henzo, producers whose personal-but-global approach mirrors León's own.) He also head a head-turning EP on Future Times, which threw Miami-style electro into the mix, with an ambient touch.

Like his productions, the young Miami DJ's sets can range from slow and low to high and tight, and his RA Podcast captures León in peak-time mode. It's a Latin-spin on everything from techno to tech house to cool-kid club music, with selections from Nico, Simisea, Siete Catorce, Ricardo Villalobos and MM adding up to a vibrant and rhythmically restless hour that soars across genres and scenes.

Read more: https://ra.co/podcast/833

@NICKLEON

RA podcast

RA.833 Nick León

Recording of DJ Python's set at Lente Kabinet Festival 2022.

Lente Kabinet Festival 2022

DJ Python at Lente Kabinet Festival 2022

On Friday night, @simisea detfly took Hemlock Hole into his zone of deep bass and slippery club rhythms. 'Equal parts booty and brain',  Simisea displayed a beautifully wide range of club sounds, The DJ Gregory into  'MOTOMAMI' by ROSALÍA moment being a huge highlight.

Campout Mix Series: Simisea

With his lengthy, freewheeling sets, spanning everything from dancehall to new wave and IDM, Tom Boogizm is gaining recognition as Manchester's best DJ, playing sets that are eclectic not as a flex but as a necessity. He appeared at the Unsound 2022 opening party at 89, the former strip club beneath Hotel Forum, and delivered one of the festival's highlights - which you can now experience as an Unsound podcast.

Heading up the Shotta Tapes label, Boogizm has also developed a reputation for his unclassifiable productions under the Rat Heart moniker, where he's able to lurch into polar zones just as easily as he does in his DJ sets, flickering from deranged lo-fi disco into melancholy blues without missing a beat. It's Northern British eccentricity at its most blunted.

Unsound Podcast 84: Tom Boogizm

The second entry in a series of living documents of momentum

Manifested live at Nowadays in New York City from 3am-6am the morning of June 27 2022

Euphoric kinetic connection embraces disorder inside the void, as we smile & dance toward anamnesis together

Destroy what destroys you & never stop loving one another

Natural's the way you should love
Feel the joy, elevate
It's the way we sway, riding waves eternally
Elevating me, through sky and sea
It's the calming breeze, whispering through the trees
Feel it push you, releasing love from every view
It's the way we sway in elemental harmony
Serenading me
Move so naturally
The moon, the stars
The sky & the sea
Why don't you follow me?
To a place
Where we can be free again
Natural, where I want to be

Thanks to Nowadays staff & everyone who danced & did their thing! This was a special moment in time & has brought me a lot of joy to listen back to since then. I hope it can do the same for any of you who listen.

Artwork by @malzof + KL in collaboration with the universe
Mastered by @claywilson

ENCAPSULATED JOY 002: LIVE @ NOWADAYS PRIDE NONSTOP 6/26/22

Juanita's Mix 082 with 8ULENTINA @8ULENTINA

Q. How would you describe yourself?
Big chill interdisciplinary brain

Q. How long have you been a part of the NY music scene?
I moved here in July 2021, so about a year and a half.

Q. Tell us a little bit about this mix.
This mix reminds me of zoning out and looking out of the window on the bus and other rare moments when transportation feels cinematic / romantic. It starts out slow and ambient and gains energy towards the end.

Juanita's Mix 082: 8ULENTINA

@kiernan-laveaux records a mix of psychedelic rave magic for the Fresh Kicks series.

The Ohio-born, Pittsburgh-based rhythm alchemist speaks to Eoin Murray about Cleveland’s queer clubbing community, T4T LUV NRG, empowering others through music, and being a ‘house is a feeling’ DJ above all

Interview & tracklist: https://djmag.com/features/fresh-kicks-194-kiernan-laveaux

Fresh Kicks 194: Kiernan Laveaux

Name: tom
Alias: sobolik (@tomsobolikmusic)
Pronouns: they/them
Location: brooklyn, ny

Influences:
producers who use their DAW to spawn and grow inconceivable organisms, or build and sculpt vast architectures. artists whose music helps you engage with your body with pure openness. artists who make music to excavate things out of themselves. artists who write music that reflects their world (inside or outside) at you. music that carries memories and sensations with me that would be otherwise lost. working musicians who break the borders between practices, cultures, and industries. people who invent new genres by djing, throwing parties, and starting labels. djs who understand how rhythm affects the body. djs who throw away established definitions about music and come up with their own. ravers who throw away their pretensions, exercise care and show love to their peers, and put unbridled energy into the music.

my heroes, friends, and comrades -- SOPHIE, aya, martyn, flying lotus, lychee, t.wan, pent, cades, no sir, CCL, sister zo, uyu, grymynk/peripheral pups crew, ma sha and ru, nic & emma, laced, symposium records crew, ema, ophelie, msjy, dileta, zi!, anabasine, ron like hell, dj voices, dj noir, dj pitch & simkin, alec pace, ari, anna, rahul, joanne, frankie weiner, nick boyd & tony g, dj healthy, dj temporary, akanbi, k wata, big room boogie crew, tristan arp, nopeakhours, escaflowne, karlala, rose kourts, boxofbox, mckenzie wark, kodwo eshun, third self, big j, laenz, lithe, lara david, caterina barbieri, kiernan laveaux, physical therapy, davis galvin, adab, 30000ad, cay horiuchi, total freedom, steve rachmad, ayesha, charles mingus, duke ellington, mica levi, more eaze, ulla, oli xl, j dilla, minor science, peverelist, dj fart in the club, jam city, frank ocean, ...

Affiliations/Residencies/Projects:
trax via Kindergarten, All Centre, early reflex, Woozy, Cloudcore, 3024, Sorry Records, Audio Bambino
parties with the Antidote collective -- Lychee, T.Wan, Nutrition Facts (djs), Glimmer (lighting), Yaya (yoga instruction)
co-running the All Centre label with DJ Pitch and Simkin
in 2022 i ran a party series at Jupiter Disco called Inside Voices. new iterations are in the works, now with No Sir copiloting.

Favorite Quote:
a wise man carrying a comically oversized mug once told me, "this community will give you everything, but eventually you have to give it all back."

Advice for the DJs, producers and artists of our community:
take the time to think about what you really want to do with your work, and pursue it unapologetically. but as you get more and more from the community, think about what you're doing to pay it back by supporting and uplifting others. try to learn when to make sacrifices in your commitments/presence in the community for your artmaking, homemaking, and personal wellness. try to learn when to do the opposite. show up for your friends and the people who inspire you. it's never the wrong time to take a beat, consider how you're taking up space, and consider the effect you have/could have on the people around you. if you don't get booked too often, always show up early and stay late when you do. whatever you do, hold yourself accountable to push your craft as far as you possibly can - all of us doing that is what keeps the community alive.

With this mix sobolik asks to please learn more about and consider donating to: 
trans people are under an unprecedented attack in the US national/state legislatures. help orgs fighting this legislation in your state, and help orgs that work to help trans people survive and thrive amid a deeply violent social and political reality.
(www.srlp.org)
(www.glitsinc.org)
(www.lambdalegal.org/know-your-rights/trans-nationwide-resources)

Tracklist and more - https://thedaisychain.club/2023/03/14/daisychain-269-sobolik/

Daisychain

Daisychain 269 - Sobolik

SLINK (@simisea, @turiyarrao, @itsenayet, and @kwatakwata) went b4b all night at our favorite club Nowadays on Jan 21st. Without a doubt, one of the most fun sets we've ever played and the dancers were riding the wave with us the entire night.

This is us in peak party mode! We couldn't figure out where to start and stop this recording, and ultimately decided, let's just post the whole thing :)

With love,
Simisea, rrao, K Wata, Enayet

SLINK All Night @ Nowadays - Jan 21st 2023

Prescribe yourself a genre-free, highly emotional course of Physical Therapy.

https://www.nts.live/shows/physical-therapy/episodes/physical-therapy-9th-march-2023

Physical Therapy - Slow Acid Special 090323

Another run in with DJ Python, this time handling breakfast duty solo.

https://www.nts.live/shows/breakfast/episodes/breakfast-dj-python-gala-colivet-dennison-12th-april-2023

Juanita's Mix 082: 8ULENTINA

JUANITA'S NYC

Recent comments

anhel;

Devoye

DISASSOC8

DISASSOC8

Related tracks