kaydi mixes

March 2024

Cache Mix Series

Twist is an NYC based party which pushes bass heavy, breaks forward and UKG adjacent sounds

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TWIST with DON-RI and POISONFROG @ The Lot Radio 12-15-2023

Our next mixtape comes courtesy of Puglia born London based Niche founder, 	𝐈𝐤ä𝐯ä 𝐏𝐢𝐢.

A high energy hour of weird swampy sounds, eery melodies & intricate detail, put together with so much love and care it feels like one full track. 

Sometimes you listen to a mix & it feels like a true expression of someones personality, and that’s how we feel with this one. Thank you so much Giacomo <3

@ikavapii

𝐧𝐚𝐦𝐞 / 𝐩𝐫𝐨𝐧𝐨𝐮𝐧𝐬 / 𝐰𝐡𝐞𝐫𝐞 𝐝𝐨 𝐮 𝐥𝐢𝐯𝐞
Giacomo, Ikävä Pii / he, they / Hackney Wick

𝐭𝐞𝐥𝐥 𝐮𝐬 𝐚𝐛𝐨𝐮𝐭 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐜𝐨𝐧𝐜𝐞𝐩𝐭 𝐨𝐟 𝐭𝐡𝐢𝐬 𝐦𝐢𝐱
Weirdness and detail. This is all I want as a listener and a dancer, and what I want to convey as Ikävä Pii. In this mix I’ve explored slowfast ambiguity, music for ponds and futuristic punk, pairing Italian Sunitty with warped UK techno, with a couple of WTF turns.

For the most part, it is extremely detailed music. It’s abstract and rich. I don’t like the definition of “sound design” anymore: it sounds “functional”, as if the goal was creating a product. These producers are (like me), instead, trying to spawn detailed worlds.

𝐡𝐨𝐰 𝐡𝐚𝐬 𝐲𝐨𝐮𝐫 𝐞𝐧𝐯𝐢𝐫𝐨𝐧𝐦𝐞𝐧𝐭 𝐩𝐚𝐬𝐭 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐩𝐫𝐞𝐬𝐞𝐧𝐭 𝐢𝐧𝐟𝐥𝐮𝐞𝐧𝐜𝐞𝐝 𝐲𝐨𝐮𝐫 𝐬𝐨𝐮𝐧𝐝 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐚𝐩𝐩𝐫𝐨𝐚𝐜𝐡 𝐭𝐨 𝐦𝐮𝐬𝐢𝐜?
I’ve started making music with a punk band in Puglia. I picked up a guitar because my father and all his brothers played. Family gatherings were beautifully loud. Puglia was still a poor and tough place when I was a kid, so my love for international music was a form of escapism. I was (like many others) online a lot and in touch with musicians from all over the world. I started dreaming of London listening to The Clash at maybe 12yo? London has truly shaped me, I was radicalised here. Politically and artistically. And here’s where I embraced my queerness.

I think, in many instances, it was here that I was exposed to some really fringe stuff, and that’s how I realised I loved everything that was genuinely weird or boundaries-pushing. Furthermore, I believe that Hackney Wick makes my life as an artist easier. Cheap rent, community and proximity: it’s a 5 mins walk from the warehouse to the studio and the venue, and sometimes special things only happen thanks to the support of other locals. You know who you are! <3

𝐭𝐞𝐥𝐥 𝐮𝐬 𝐦𝐨𝐫𝐞 𝐚𝐛𝐨𝐮𝐭 𝐧𝐢𝐜𝐡𝐞, 𝐰𝐡𝐞𝐧 & 𝐰𝐡𝐲 𝐝𝐢𝐝 𝐲𝐨𝐮 𝐬𝐭𝐚𝐫𝐭 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐞𝐯𝐞𝐧𝐭 𝐬𝐞𝐫𝐢𝐞𝐬 & 𝐰𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐢𝐬 𝐲𝐨𝐮𝐫 𝐚𝐩𝐩𝐫𝐨𝐚𝐜𝐡 𝐭𝐨 𝐜𝐮𝐫𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧?
Niche started in April 2023 as a monthly sonic hangout; noisy jams, open decks, and improvised sets. Now it’s a full-scale event, with performances by some of the best artists we know. It started out of necessity: an accessible space to experiment with fellow noisemakers. 
My relationship with the venue was crucial; I’ve been a resident at The Bath House for 2 years now, and Niche can only happen because my studio is there.

It is a lovely ecosystem of musicians, DJs, listeners and dwellers. We are trying to bridge the gap between the bedroom and the venue, offering a space for people to try new things out and take risks, playing for the most understanding audience. In terms of curation, I am looking for the most daring acts out there - no genre limitations, but definitely priority to live shows, and musicians in particular. 
Alongside artists I know and/or follow, we met incredibly talented people through the open calls, or other nice folks who just jumped on the groupchat and asked to play! Keeping it as open and diverse as possible is at the core of our practice. We only have one resident at the moment - the amazing Queenie.

𝐬𝐮𝐦𝐦𝐚𝐫𝐢𝐬𝐞 𝐭𝐡𝐢𝐬 𝐦𝐢𝐱 𝐢𝐧 𝐭𝐡𝐫𝐞𝐞 𝐰𝐨𝐫𝐝𝐬
slowfast, weird, detailed

interview continued via substack - https://allmovingobjects.substack.com

𝐌𝐚𝐲 𝟏𝟕𝐭𝐡 𝐚𝐭 𝐎𝐫𝐦𝐬𝐢𝐝𝐞 𝐏𝐫𝐨𝐣𝐞𝐜𝐭𝐬 𝐰𝐢𝐭𝐡 𝐒𝐭𝐫𝐮𝐜𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 [𝐈𝐥𝐢𝐚𝐧 𝐓𝐚𝐩𝐞], 𝐉𝐮𝐫𝐚𝐧𝐠𝐨, 𝐃𝐣 𝐰𝐢𝐠𝐠𝐥𝐞𝐬 & 𝐑𝐲𝐨 𝐊𝐮𝐫𝐚𝐬𝐡𝐢𝐧𝐚 https://ra.co/events/1883623

kinetic mix 027: Ikävä Pii "weird details"

Spring has arrived and here's a soundtrack for it 🌸 
This mix is a bright, bubbly, cheerful, delicate, euphoric, textured. It starts off by slowly waking you up from winter and welcoming longer days with chirping birds. Early days of the season also call for occasional cloudbursts (track @ 12:45 titled 'Rain Again' by @nadia-khan-10, remixed by @ccl-url) followed by some balmy spring days ('springtime flows in three ways' by @parris_dj @ 22:00). Around the 40 min mark, things get really playful and bubbly ('Fusing Bubbles' by @samgoku). Day turns to night filled with dance and festivity around 1 hour into the mix ('Feels So Good 2Nite') before euphoria sets in and catches us in the moment, in the midst of nature among little bugs and insects (@piezopz – 'oh man, there was a lot of tiny weird animals'). This spring celebration ends with the words "feel the heat... I feel the heat... the heat is on... I want you here tonight" echoing repeatedly ☀️🦋🌼

Mood Pairing Suggestions:
★ Waking up on a weekend morning 
★ Tired after a long day/week and you need a lift-me-up
★ Getting ready for a party 
★ Out at a barbecue, picnic, or a pool
★ Soaking in the sun, taking a nature walk, or lazing on a hammock
★ Bidding farewell to summer and welcoming fall (for those of you down south) 🍂
★ [Add your own mood suggestion in the comments] 

Gear: CDJ-2000nxs2, CDJ-2000nexus, DJM-750mk2.
Recorded with the DJM-REC iPhone app.

Tracklist:
Emeka Ogboh & Ilpo – Lagos Drift
tondiue – Lilypad Part 1
Mogambo – जीना
Purelink – Fine Pink Mist
Ciel & Morgan Wright – Halls of Voices
K-LONE – The Falls
Nadia Khan – Rain Again (CCL Remix)
Roza Terenzi – Spiral
RAMZi – Coucou Mon Ami
Parris – springtime flows in three ways
Adam Pits – Push Around
Ilpo – Azurean
Olof Dreijer – Echoes From Maori
Facta – Mirage
Sam Goku – Fusing Bubbles
Flora FM – Wave Station
Yushh – Same Same
Call Super – Sapling (Doves of Discipline Mix)
Beta Librae – Red Herring
Fantastic Man – Alltogethernow
Emma – Light Bounce
Addvibe – Feels So Good 2Nite (Main Mix)
Baalti – Kirpa (Seb Wildblood Remix)
Peverelist – Undulate
Oceanic – Green-Blue
Hodge – 03 Lanacut (Shanti Celeste Remix)
µ-Ziq – Twangle Frent
Pepe – From Seed
Piezo – oh man, there was a lot of tiny weird animals
Soichi Terada – Epoxy Lamp
FCL – Its You (San Sodas Panoramabar Acca Version)

Cache 008: Spring In Your Step

Rinse FM Podcasts

C to the Power Of X with Bake and Gazzi - 25 March 2024

DJ and producer Yushh transports us to her formative years with the latest Off-Kilter submission. 

Featuring a collection of reflective tracks from 2008-2012, this collage is an insight into her delicate and emotive sound palette - intricate drum workouts, blissed out dub grooves, dream like vocals and emotive melodies phase through bass driven frequencies. 

Here, she tells a tale of what came before, a story of memory and influence, timeless and honest; it’s quintessentially Yushh in the rawest of forms.

//

@yushh

OK023 - Yushh

Carrier - Pre Millennium Witchcraft (1995 - 1998)

As summer approaches, for this mix, I wanted to channel the energy and moods of an outdoor rave... somewhere in a forest, a sandy beach/desert, the mountains, on a boat, or in your very own backyard 🌵 Cache 009 is an all-vinyl mix that takes you on a psychedelic, hypnotic, euphoric trip through space and time with flavors of acid, electro, house, techno, trance, breaks, and everything rave to keep you dancing 👣 
Stay till the end, I promise it'll be good 🦉

Mood Pairing Suggestions:
★ Getting it started at the pre-party 
★ Continuing the rave... the other one ended too soon
★ Skipped the festival but still want the feels
★ Working hard or hardly working on a Friday afternoon
★ Having your own li'l party at the pool or in your living room
★ Need to let off some steam with a musical stress-buster
★ Just want to vibe out to something upbeat

If you want any track IDs, just leave a comment and I'll get it for you 💿

Gear: 2x Technics SL-1200MK5, Xone-96. 
Recorded with a Tascam DR-40X.

Tracklist:
eXquisite CORpsE – Outlandis (Deep Anatolian Mix) 
Hame DJ – Nightlife
Jurango – This Better Worth
A.S.O – Go On (Lew E Mix)
Reba – Azimuth Circle
eXquisite CORpsE – Calling The Quarters (Beauty Below Mix)
Acid Synthesis – Rhythm of Life
Jeku – Astral Dream
Kosh - Despair
Paolo Mosca – Acqua
Spray – OT Rails
Data Memory Access – Euphoria
Theo Kottis – Lighthouse
Moisk – Deoxyribose
Zuul – Nieur Acid
Cromie – All in the Mind
S.O.N.S – Snow White And The Seven Mushrooms
Naone – Perfectly Harmless
Opium Den – Opium Den
Om Unit – Prophecy
Paz Pooba – Feeling

Cache 009: Rave the Night [Vinyl Only]

We're switching things up for the 10th installment in the Cache series: coming in HOT, we have a very special guest mix by our bass-brother familymart (@familymart_dj) 🍦

✤ What was the inspiration behind this mix? 
This mix is an exploration of psybient and acidic textures prevalent in the proggy realm of dance music. Incorporating still fresh sounding tracks from as far back as 1993 to new releases as recent as this month, the mix is equally geared towards the dance floor and for headphone listening.

✤ What situation, mood, or state of mind would you say it is best suited for? 
Picnic blanket hang with lovers and friends 🌱🌸 Drink fizzys 

✤ Describe the mix in 3 words? 
Tript; Rollie; Punchy

Love to the homies that we hung out with under a Japanese maple 🫰🏽

Tracklist:
Ivna Ji – Waiting Times
Freaky Chakra – Goodbye
trickpony – Room To Breathe
Sepehr – Diaspora Cocktail
Vani-T & DJ GIRL – Found U (Pent Up Rework)
Suki – Watkins Street Finale
Inner Flight – Explorer 3000
Essa 3 – Coalesce
Psychick Warriors Ov Gaia – Obsidian
Dorisburg & Efraim Kent – Data Smuggler
Na Nich x Vera Logdanidi – Journey (Original Mix)
Yu Su – Melaleuca
Seph – OBI
nthng – 1 2 Butterfly
Rudolf C – Forrest Dweller
JCow – Pay no mind
Dukwa – Time Out
Or:la – Wendy Wild
Carré – Cute Mad
Attraktta – Closer
Dauwd – Jean Rouch
Girada Unlimited – Reserval
Ulo S. – It's Phizzy in Here
Roza Terenzi – Elevate
Big Ever – Hollywood
Makesome Breaksome – Bong
KMA Productions – Phantasy Trip
Jump Source – Radiant Shift
Fantastic Man – Sparticle Boom!
Kosh – Break It Until You Make It
Danvers – Broken Machine

Cache 010: familymart guest mix

This mix is a live recording of my set from the Routine party at Substation Seattle on 5th July, 2024. I opened the night ahead of @yungsingh35ol and @thesilkroad with this 90 minute long multi-genre journey. Following the 4th of July celebrations in the US juxtaposed against the current state of the country and world, I tried to tell a story that spans themes of struggle, despair, fight, war, anger, hope, battle, and victory. 

The first "act" develops conflict and tension across themes such as capitalism "Act II Caveat Emptor" by good friend @lilbabylonia), religious & political tension ("Bombay Theme" by A.R. Rahman and "A Coin in Nine Hands" by Nicolas Jaar), war & genocide ("from the river to the sea" by @miellllllll, "Freedom for Everybody" by @jaymiesilk, "Evil" by Wladimir M). The mood changes around the 34-minute mark and we move into act two with “Freedom Music” (by @san-soda feat. Sean Haefeli & Mculo) and with @eris-drew delivering “The Message / Ride Free”. Feelings of loss & despair are replaced with sounds of hope and positivity over the next 25-odd minutes. @dj-pierre-official asks us to “Meet Hate With Love” and @supreems delivers an emotional tearjerker with “Us 2Gether”. The final act is a combination of celebration and high-energy release of emotions, but also a reminder at the same time that we have to keep fighting and persevering to keep what we cherish. We end with Dub FX telling us "Don’t give up, we're gonna make it in the end" 🕊️

Gear: 3 x CDJ-2000nxs2, DJM-900nxs2.
Recorded with the DJM-REC iPhone app.

Tracklist:
Lil Babel – Act II Caveat Emptor
A.R. Rahman – Bombay Theme (Bombay / Soundtrack Version)
Utility – Flooot (DJ Plead Rework)
Awo Ojiji – Glyph
mi-el – from the river to the sea
dBridge/Forest Drive West – Spiteful Lips
Nicolas Jaar – A Coin in Nine Hands
Tammo Hesselink – Don't Forget
Jaymie Silk – Freedom For Everybody
Toumba – Duel
Wladimir M – Evil
Bolam – Indescipherable
San Soda Ft. Sean Haefeli & Mculo – Freedom Music
Eris Drew – The Message / Ride Free
Type B. – Peach Juice
Cashper - Face The World
DJ Pierre feat. Ann Nesby – Meet Hate With Love
Supreems – Us 2Gether
Mantra – Embers
Eris Drew – Trans Love Vibration (Eris Goes to Church)
Luca Lozano – The Path of Most Resistance
SHFT - Temple of the Serpent
Moisk – Maybe
GAUSS – Escape the Swamp
Viikatory & Manao – XOXO (Viika's Cut)
Pearson Sound – Hornet
Maude Vôs – Hunnï
Zequenx – Grievances
KETTALYNNE & Yazzus - Tefla
Gemmy – Irreversible Culture
Lata Mangeshkar/M.G. Sreekumar – Jiya Jale (kaydi edit)
BunZer0 – Loyalty
Dub FX – Don't Give Up (RSD Remix)

Routine Opening Set (5 July 2024)

Cache 011 is an exploration into deep, psychedelic, and hypnotic techno, interwoven with ambient and IDM soundscapes. It draws energy and inspiration from this year's Monument festival, nestled in the Norwegian woods, and channels the interplay between the fast & the slow, the light & the dark, in sounds that I've been loving 🌲🛖☀️

Gear: CDJ-2000nxs2, CDJ-2000nexus, Xone:96, Eventide Timefactor.
Recorded with a Tascam DR-40X.

Cache 011: Deep (Techno) in the Woods

Bass music is back, and it's big & bad ♨︎
Cache 012 is an explosive expedition across bass-centric music: shake up the low end with some broken beats, dubstep, leftfield techno, and drum & bass 👾
Lots of new/unreleased tunes as well as some older ones in this one ⚛︎

Cache 012: Big Bad Bass

Dinner is cancelled but JODI are here to cook 🌶️🌶️
Cache 013 introduces the world to your flight attendant’s least favorite duo: JODI = Jordan aka DJ MoM (@jordan-bellman-441504977) and kaydi aka MoM’s cave dweller get together to try and out-dubstep each other in this debut mix! During this unplanned single-take b2b, we go one-on-one-off to play tunes we love across several genres.. rap, bass, broken beats, hip-hop, acid, IDM.. it’s got it all!
This one is extra-special because it’s DJ MoM’s final exam after a month-long crash course in nocturnal mixology 🎛️🎚️🎛️ Did she pass with flying colors? — You tell me!

Cache 013: The JODI Debut

a hot summer night, a dripping basement, dancing away to sultry downtempo bangers. tell me when too much is enough.

Reviving the "Unfinished Business" series for this 1-hour mix that I had recorded last summer. It was originally meant to be a submission to NTS for their "Supporter Radio" series, with the theme this time being "heatwave". Kelly Lee Owen's version of Aaliyah's "More than a Woman" is a cornerstone tune in this mix, and it inspired the mood and flow. Shout out to my partner in rhyme "hot Jordan" aka DJ MoM (@jordan-bellman-441504977) for the inspiration. 

Full Tracklist:
Yushh (@yushh) – Look Mum No Hands
Freedom Engine (@freedom-engine) – Oriental Dragon feat. Magda
Pearson Sound (@pearsonsound) – Earwig
FCL (@fcl-official) – It's You (San Soda's Panoramabar Acca Version)
Jabu (@j-a-b-u) – Us Alone (Time Cow remix)
Anatolian Weapons (@anatolianweapons) – Only Harmony Seeds (AASKA Remix)
Kelly Lee Owens (@kellyleeowens) – More Than a Woman
Phran/Ribes (@phran) – Aprieta
Pearson Sound x Clara! – Mi Cuerpo (DJ Python Remix) (@worldwideunlimited)
Atrice (@atricemiras) – Aracaea
Surusinghe (@surusinghe) – Get Flutey (Dub)
Manjeet Kondal, Turbotito & Ragz – Pyaar (Lovey Dubby Dub) (@mr-scruff)
Doctor Jeep (@drjeep) – QTE
Nelly (@nelly-official) – Hot In Here (Lules & Naken Edit)
Reptant (@reptant_the_lizard) – A Realist's Realistic Reality (Roza's Realism Remix)
Kiana & His Legion Ft. Kate Dilemma (@thomasneyens) – Deep In The Night
DJ Pitch & MLE (@all-centre-504822953) – Drum Trak 101
Pépe (@ae_pepe) - Hard
Klarius (@inunctmusic) – Distopic
Link – Arcadian
DJ Crisps (@djcrisps) – Make you sweat
Coubo feat. Ylemm (@coubo) – To Shine
Lata Mangeshkar & M.G. Sreekumar – Jiya Jale (kaydi edit)
Bitter Babe & Nick León (@bitterbabe @nickleon) – Ecotone
rRoxymore (@rroxymore) – Priendly Freshur

Unfinished Business 002: tell me when too much is enough

journeys over genres, bends over blends 🪁