This month is a special one, and our first ever tandem interview — joining me for a Freerotation special are the festival’s founders @Steevio and @Suzybee. 

Influenced by the free festival movement around the UK in the 1990s, Steevio and Suzy created Freerotation, an annual gathering of music and arts which now takes place in Baskerville Hall, Wales, and has, since its inception in the mid 2000s, become one of the scene’s best loved festivals. Kept relatively small and amongst friends and friends of friends, Freerotation is known for its thoughtful curation of both DJs, live acts, and VJs, and its intimate, familial setting. 

In this conversation, Steevio, Suzy and I get into the festival’s early days and its direction and curation today, plus their own personal histories in art and music, and their distinctive creative philosophies.

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MUSIC:

Steevio - "Candescent" (2022)
Steevio - "Y Llifogydd" (2022)
Steevio - "Passive Resistance" (2022)

Purchase part one of Steevio's Dod yn ôl at fy nghoed here: https://steevio.bandcamp.com/album/dod-yn-l-at-fy-nghoed-part-1

AIR 046 / Steevio & Suzybee

John Raffaele @ Making Time 09-22-2023

@bouffant-bouffant

o•rbyss aims to help soothe the queer spectrum and focus on the well-being of the community. Queer DJs are invited to submit a mix to showcase an alternative side to their music library outside of a rave and take us on a meditative journey. ✨

Notes on the mix:

“I listen to alot of ambient, jazz, shoegaze, non-dance music to soundtrack my daily life, turning my design work, long walks, bike rides, chores and meditation into a sort of cinematic beauty. These songs and albums become very personal to me for this reason. Whenever I'm asked to share this music, whether as a DJ set or as a recorded mix it becomes a loaded exchange for me. I worked on compiling this music and recording the mix the week leading up to the total eclipse in my home in Mid City New Orleans. This process proved to be very psychedelic and introspective and the result feels like an important timeline marker in this stage of my life that I will be transported back to anytime I revisit the mix. I hope that in sharing this sonic tapestry, the listener  is able to close their eyes and take a psychedelic carpet ride, a journey inward, riding the sound waves, and allowing them to evoke emotion, thought, and introspection.”

Bouffant Bouffant is a DJ, Producer, and party starter from New Orleans, Louisiana. He cut his teeth in local sex clubs, warehouses, and dive bars but has become a major player on the bubbling American Queer Underground nightlife circuit as well as International jaunts to play for the likes of Cocktail d’Amore, Buttons Berlin, Mustang Paris, and Savage Hanoi. His monthly party Gimme A Reason has been fostering space for queer nightlife in New Orleans for over 9 years and has become known for it's wild and rawkus, no rules policy. In recent years he has delved into the arena of ambient music creating mixes and DJing listening bars like Kwia Berlin.

o•rbyss - Bouffant Bouffant

Cauana is a Brazilian DJ, producer, and researcher beyond the obvious.

Pitaya Sound System invite Cauana - 1er Mai 2024

The closing set happened @ Beursschouwburg in Brussels the 04.05.24

No brake slamming for this absolute steamroller of a b2b. @adipurplepitch and @k-atou came, saw, and delivered a magnificent set full of heavy kicks, electrifying synths and razor sharp rhythms

___𝙁𝙧𝙤𝙢 𝘼𝙩𝙝𝙚𝙣𝙨 𝙩𝙤 𝘽𝙧𝙪𝙨𝙨𝙚𝙡𝙨 𝙬𝙞𝙩𝙝 𝙡𝙤𝙫𝙚 ♡ is a party and city link project. A dynamic platform between Athens and Brussels and their relevant connections, facilitating music & dance floor activities and encouraging connection, self-expression and artistic exploration.

Check IG ---> bit.ly/FROMATHTOBRU19

Art/Designer by pametjenny www.pametjenny.be/ ♡

Big thank to Beursschouwburg for the invite ♡ & Céline Ottenburg for the edit

From Athens to Brussels with love ♡ Beurrschouwburg Mix #16 w/ Adi B2B K.atou 04.05.24

Karview - message me when you land.

This is a home mix inspired by travel, hopefully being your companion..

Karview . message me when you land .

1800 Play W. Data Flow - 7 August 2024

@allenhz is a member of the Minneapolis based DJ collective/record label: PIVOT. "This all-vinyl mix was recorded at the Freak of the Week record swap in May 2024. It features some of my favorite current house music producers as well as a few old school tech house grails sprinkled in." 
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Dave - Tropic
Duowe - Sandy's Sway
Sheethanger - For You Alone (Spin Cycle's 'Hangin' It Out To Dry' Remix)
Trevor Deep Jr.- Come Alive Feat Niko Marks (Brawther Dub)
Klarky Kat - Custard Gannet
Cpen - Pirates Life
Abacus - Flight Master
Cityboy - Chillin Witda T
Liquid Earth - Transcedenton
John Manhard - Tickle My Pickle
Ron Obvious - Private Image
DJ Rouge - Uplift Feat. Dunique (South Shore Garage Remix)
T. Jacques - Drop Zone
James Andrew - Klarky Kat
Sweely - Its Discow Time
John Manhard - Facist Dictators Throw Good Parties (Huerta Rework)
New Air Pigments - Telewhirl
Tiago Walter - You Better Don't Stop
Ron Obvious - Foreground
Brawther - Sundials Ft Nathan Haines

Allen Hz | The Spinzone #113

The Oklahoma City-based label @fixedrhythms’ motto is “electronic music curated by intuition and love,” which is one way to make it clear that it is not a by-the-books techno imprint. The label, which Taylor McKenzie and Stewart Whitmarsh started in 2018, is a thoughtful collection of electronic music that spans multiple styles. And Fixed Rhythms uses their middle American location as an asset, not a liability—from their OKC perch, they can make moves that sidestep (or not) big city conversations around genre conventions in underground music. 

Collect the mix for free on Nina: https://www.ninaprotocol.com/releases/fixed-rhythms-nina-label-mix-022

Fixed Rhythms - Label Mix 022

Fixed Rhythms - Nina Label Mix 022

The sixth Foresight Mix has been taken care of by lovely human and artist Andy. You could know Andy from her Breezing and Surging show at Radio Radio, her multidisciplinary collective POS, or one of her exhilarating sets in, around, and beyond Amsterdam. 

In this vibrant and eclectic mix, Andy went all out within the scope of an hour, starting with warm and soothing 120 bpm house and ending with 150 bpm contemporary tracks.

Trust us, this trip is worth your time ;)

Andy | FORESIGHT MIX006

Out in all good record junkie stores in a week or two

The second highest Welsh peak above 3000ft is CRIB Y DDYSGL at 3495ft (1065m). Gelert is sure to have roamed these mountainous regions with his master Prince Llewellyn in his hunting prime… More mysterious sounds connecting the nippiest of mountain peaks. 

3000.2 is a Yolky coloured vinyl using mustard tones into white.  Part of a collectable 15 pack to mark each peak above the 3000ft mark. This is 3000.2 Plus bonus tracks available to download with photographic proof of purchase. Apply within.


1.  Turner			Stranger		
2.  Turner		    	Stranger (Bobs Nippy Reprise)
3.  Crisp    			Venus Bongo	
4.  Laffer	 		These Flying Things 
5. Acquaintance		Parallelogram


3000.2

Blind Jacks Journey . Cocktail D'amore . Crow Castle Cuts . Freerange . Gottwax . Housewax .  Invisible Inc . Legend Of Gelert . Moon Rock . Needa . Panta Rhie . Phonica . Rawax . Skylax . Throne Of Blood . Tsuba . Uncharted Audio . Vibrations . Vitalik . We Play House . YCO .
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58%RABBIT / 16.1%HEDGEHOG / 4%SQUIRREL / 3.7%FOX / 3.4%BADGER / 1.6%RAT / 1%DEER / 1%STOAT,WEASEL,POLECAT,MINK / 11.2%UNKNOWN

keep it NiPPi y'all

3000.2

LUV*JAM