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SEASON 2 ◎ CENTER BOOTH

techno 2

best mixes #6

the perfect soundtrack for your next joyride

https://soundcloud.com/roses-od
https://soundcloud.com/radio80000

TASCAM DR-05X

hundert x Radio 80000 - Roses OD

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@wordofcommand
brooklyn, US

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Recorded from DRIF Radio Reykjavík on 14/02/24
https://drif.live/ 

Ocean – Zenith
Pulse – Dave NA feat. freq444
Organic Rubble – Jardinage
Ískaldur Veruleikinn – Kuldaboli
Waterproof – Zzino vs. Accelerator
SHEzA – META ANGEL aka CRISPY SO$KA
Galvanizer – Mate
Burning Knuckle – Sonia
Tonight I Don't Drink Wine – Ufo95
For Hildegard – KABLAM
Alita – Lao
Smoker – Poisonfrog
Elevation – Dave NA
Alienated – LaFontaine
Yblsky – Xr/spool: 
Send – EOD
Endgame – Raël
Karvel – Björk
Jance – DEV X Raban

𝘿𝙍𝙄𝙁 – Word of Command 14.02.24

This month Abena's joined by FKA Boursin for an hour of music to help loosen your joints and hot takes.

 
Find the full tracklist and related episodes on NTS: https://www.nts.live/shows/abena/episodes/abena-17th-august-2024

ABENA w/ FKA Boursin 170824

@wordofcommand at Herrensauna Pride Fest XXL

27.07.24–29.07.24: RSO Berlin

instagram.com/herrensauna.official
www.herrensauna.net

WORD OF COMMAND | Herrensauna Pride Fest ’24

Founder of international party series FIST - Word Of Command joined us from NYC to deliver a pumping, one-of-a-kind experience on the dancefloor.

001: Word of Command | DJ Set @ KOR 09/28/24

hundert w/ Laetizia (25/03/25)

Dusty loops and crushed grooves. 

https://www.instagram.com/frog_acolytes 
https://www.soundcloud.com/djfrogunit

 

Dj Frog @ The Lot Radio 05-09-2025

Kue - Festa No Alto @ Formosa, São Paulo - SP (16.05.25)

@djjsaliva

Kicking off a stacked CENTER BOOTH Season 2 is the Porto-raised, Berlin-based Mauro Ventura, better known to techno fans as DJ Saliva. Founder of the long-running Porto queer-centered party series Arena Spa Superiora, Ventura is also a resident DJ and label manager at Herrensauna and an accomplished visual artist whose work spans painting, sculpture, installation and performance. He has played at world-leading venues and festivals including BASEMENT, Tresor, Nuits Sonores, Body Movements, Bassiani and RSO Berlin, sometimes B2Bing with crew mates such as CEM and Salome with electrifying results. We’re thrilled to have him grace CENTER BOOTH with this enigmatic, eclectic set brimming with energy and texture. 

Across 65 compelling minutes, DJ Saliva dips in and out of genres and styles including gothy, plangent techno, subterranean acid, wiggly tech-house, psychedelic IDM, and Carribean rhythms. The mixing is mostly fast, loose, and unsuspecting, whether he’s dropping dancehall into springy, electrifying techno, chasing Karenn’s gnarly “Crush The Mushrooms” with glowy braindance, or breaking up Latin percussion with ravey psytrance. There are moments of tension throughout, an admirable amount of risk-taking, and an experimental quality to the set that makes it feel as though DJ Saliva is taking the trip alongside you, guided by his fervent curiousity, and always landing somewhere slick (the electro-grunge Garbage closer is chef’s kiss). 

Lock in for a lively, daring journey from an artist unafraid to paint outside the lines.

https://youtu.be/iQqpiBy1Wjk?si=cmONTOu-R0D35mWH
https://www.lettonne.dance/

LETTONNE

DJ Saliva – Center Booth ◎ S2E01

@dreaminslow

Stepping up for the second installment of CENTER BOOTH Season 2 is rising New York talent DREAM, an enigmatic DJ who eschews the cold austerity of traditional techno in favor of more colorful, celebratory sounds. Growing up in Miami on a diet of bass, electro and Latin groove clearly made its mark on DREAM, whose spicy techno sets mimic the thrilling unpredictability of a great night out. 
 
After high school, DREAM moved to New York to pursue a career as a model, a job that has taken him all over the world working for high-profile clients such as Off-White, UNKNWN and Another Man. In recent years, however, he’s been leaning into his long-held passion for electronic music, picking up DJing in 2021 at the encouragement of his friend and mentor Ultrathem, a trailblazer in the queer Miami techno scene. Within a few months, DREAM had been booked to play Stamina at Art Basel with the likes of DVS1, Freddy K and Volvox, then began to take New York by storm, playing everywhere from Bossa Nova Civic Club, H0L0 and Mood Ring to Paragon and Elsewhere. 
 
His edgy, flair-filled CENTER BOOTH entry is an exercise in controlled chaos, regularly teasing tracks and genres before taking off in an entirely different direction. The warmup section sets the mood, a mercurial twenty minutes of chilly, slowed-down trance, futuristic techno, Eurodance, chopped up vocal house and tweaked club classics. Thereafter, energy levels are kept at a constant high as DREAM cycles through dirty electro, propulsive, driving techno and raunchy club cuts, serving up an upbeat, hedonistic assortment of sounds that plays perfectly as we descend into a steamy summer.  

https://youtu.be/BUEfDcxFpWY?si=3l5hfQDCt7lH8WvY
https://www.lettonne.dance/

DREAM – Center Booth ◎ S2E02

@kyruhx

Continuing this season of white-hot CENTER BOOTH sets is Brooklyn's own KYRUH, a much-loved local talent with an ever-growing international fanbase.

Four years into her DJ career, KYRUH’s development as an artist is palpable. These days, the New York native commands crowds across North America and Europe with considerable confidence, in part from the myriad of experiences and opportunities that have come her way. She even got tapped to do a Kelela remix! 

Whether she's DJing at Brooklyn clubs such as Paragon (RIP), Bossa Nova Civic Club, Nowadays or BASEMENT (where she's practically a resident), further afield at RSO Berlin, Thuishaven, Renate and Khidi, sharing the decks with regular collaborator WTCHCRFT as Madness Of, or supporting the biggest names in techno including Jeff Mills, DJ Stingray 313, DJ Pierre and DVS1, KYRUH leaves a memorable impression with her distinctive and increasingly sophisticated style. She tends to play stormy and speedy, but with a fondness for groove and long blends, aiming to move hips and rinse minds at the same time.

Her CENTER BOOTH set exhibits all the markers of her growth, opening with a disorienting passage that sounds like a malfunctioning machine while keeping time with the beat. Next comes a rush of noteworthy transitions as tribal drumming gives way to hypnotic loops into horn-led beats. It's a mostly smooth but always compelling ride from there on in, dark but nimble, paced to perfection, and effectively designed to induce a trance-like state. Hit the link in bio for another standout set from one of techno's brightest talents.

https://youtu.be/se-yZfbuTwo?si=MjagQflKurYdBhxk
https://www.lettonne.dance/

KYRUH – Center Booth ◎ S2E03

@kxah

Brooklyn’s KXAH steps up for the 4th episode of our second series, delivering one of the most stylistically cohesive sets to grace the Lettonne stage yet. Born in St. Petersburg, with roots in Ukraine, KXAH cut her teeth with Boston’s Infra collective, quickly settling into a style that prioritises textures, distortion, prickly ambience and brain-rinsing percussion, a sound which is perfectly at home in New York.

In 2022 she co-founded the Boston-based Aversion record label and party series, a genreless exploration of sensory focused music and events, like the experimental rave held in a fighting gym called "Fighters Not Lovers". A trained dancer, KXAH’s finely tuned instinct for what makes bodies move has endeared her to crowds all over New York, including at Basement, Paragon, Bossa Nova Civic Club, and H0l0, as well as Leland City Club in Detroit and Domicile in Miami, just to name a few.

The intensity level in KXAH’s CENTER BOOTH set is a touch different from what we’re used to hearing her play in those dark, sweaty rooms. A slow-building journey from the start, her dense rhythms are stitched together so neatly that the set seems to unspool as if it's one long track. Its energy gradually becomes more urgent, with layers of synths that spring forth like rubber bands and literal bells and whistles, fomenting images of cars being assembled on the factory line. When shimmering synths appear and then multiply mid-set, the effect is of a single star tracing the night sky, and then; constellations. Towards the end, crunchy ribbons of percussion conjur crushed soda cans under heavy boots before breakbeats and ethereal vocals finally bring the set to a close.

https://youtu.be/ulSzDiT_WsM?si=hIxyi6DxvTmS4ln4
https://www.lettonne.dance/

KXAH – Center Booth ◎ S2E04

@concretehusband

For the fifth instalment of CENTER BOOTH’s second series, Brooklyn techno darling Concrete Husband extracts the communally felt frustration with modern society’s various ills and distills them into a purgative blend of fury and release.

The artist born Carlos Aguilar is a conservatory trained musician and composer whose credits include touring with Eartheater (as a flutist), scoring Dion Lee’s Shanghai Fashion Week show and providing the flute music for the A24 Ari Aster film Beau Is Afraid. He only turned to DJing and techno production during the pandemic, but five years later he became one of the most beloved figures in the New York scene; a BASEMENT and Bossa Nova Civic Club fixture and regular booking at forward-thinking parties such as MERGE and OOZE. In the same period, he’s also managed to put out a steady stream of atypical, highly refined productions, culminating in the release of his debut experimental/techno album Piel last year.

We're thrilled to host the multi-talented Aguilar at CENTER BOOTH, where a snippet from a James Baldwin speech about Western greed sets the tone for the full mind-and-body cleanse that follows. Early on, an excerpt from an ambient score that Aguilar composed for a friend’s short horror film reflects the unease currently felt by so many of us, an emotion sustained throughout the set as Aguilar oscillates between confronting our shared anxieties and providing intense somatic and cerebral respite. Tones are dissonant, melodies are off-kilter and the energy is unrelentingly dark and oppressive, qualities that direct the listener inwards to achieve deep, holistic catharsis. Strap in for a set that plays out like a psychological thriller, where narrative ebbs and flows are heightened by a delicious, knife’s-edge tension and the promise of a visceral payoff.

https://youtu.be/CFFhQqCue1Q?si=a53mQ6TFeF_qpgph
https://www.lettonne.dance/

Concrete Husband – Center Booth ◎ S2E05

@wordofcommand

Daniel Leyva, better known as Word of Command, has spent almost a decade building out one of NYC’s most beloved techno nights, FIST (Fun Is Still Transgressive). Having just celebrated its 9th birthday at BASEMENT last month (where the party has held a residency since 2019), FIST’s longevity is due in no small part to Leyva’s commitment to fostering a space for queer-oriented techno in New York to flourish, long before the approach rose to such prominence in the city.

Since 2021, Leyva has helmed a monthly radio slot on NTS, all the while collecting bookings across New York, the US, and, as FIST and its founder attract increasing attention overseas, at some of the world’s leading clubs including Razzamatazz, Tresor and RSO.BERLIN. The Cuban-American Leyva, who recently moved from Brooklyn to Paris, recorded his CENTER BOOTH set while back in New York for FIST’s birthday bash three weeks ago. Accustomed to taking the opening slot at his own parties, Leyva took the opportunity to play harder and faster than he typically might, peppering his set with left-field bangers and stylistic curveballs designed to shock the listener out of the standard 4/4 experience. Expect choppy drum & bass/psytrance hybrids, rave incantations in foreign languages, hardcore/trance freakouts, brain-melting amelodic techno and other unexpected delights. Included are two tracks from the just-released debut FIST compilation: krow’s “Tilt”, a tough, crunchy percussive tool, and Hugo Mesi’s aptly titled “Distended Mindbender”. Fun, perfectly paced and brimming with bold selections, Leyva's CENTER BOOTH recreates the sweaty energy of a peak-time pummelling at FIST.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=McgUTb2IjsY
https://www.lettonne.dance/

Word of Command – Center Booth ◎ S2E08

Avalon Emerson live at The Loop, Dekmantel Festival 2025

Read our interview with @avalonemerson and check out this podcast's tracklist here: bit.ly/AvaPod

Tracklist

Groove Podcast 52 - Avalon Emerson

LIVE FROM THE BOARD + CROWD MIC RECORDED MARCH 4TH 2017 FOR THE HYDRA LONDON

Avalon Emerson Live at Printworks London 2017

My Essential Mix for BBC Radio 1, originally aired Aug 2018. Here it is without the radio drops.

I’m usually not much of a preplanned mix person, I massively prefer playing to a crowd and interacting with the atmosphere. Combine that with the extremely not insignificant fact that this is one of the most important and longest running mix series around, this was quite a challenge!

I spent a long time gathering these 40 songs and playing with the arrangement (even made a couple new edits). I included songs that have been staples in my sets, plus old favorites from before I was a DJ. Eternal shouts to Nathan Micay, Aurora Halal, Overmono, E-Talking and Koehler for letting me include your dope as hell unreleased new music (plus two unreleased songs from myself). 

The last song is by Oakland band Them Are Us Too and this mix is dedicated to those who lost their lives in a diy music space a year and a half ago. Your music and love lives on. FUCK technocrat capitalist greed in the bay. One of Ghost Ship’s spiritual predecessors, Ghost Town in Oakland, was one of the first gigs I ever played, back in 2011 right around the time when I was realizing that I loved making music and DJing. 

If someone told me then that I’d eventually make an Essential Mix and be touring around the world, I’d be incredulously curious to see just how that would unfold. It’s been wild. Thank you to everyone who has listened and danced with me since then. 

recorded on two cdjs and an xdj, xone 92 & extra help from the teil1 delay and blue sky reverb

Avalon Emerson Essential Mix

Live from the board plus crowd mic on Saturday November 24, 2018. Thank you to Mutek and everyone in attendance.

Partial BMC tracklist of music available on bandcamp:
https://buymusic.club/list/avalon-emerson-mutek-mexico

Live at Mutek Mexico

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