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

Tunnel Vision Records flyerman is back on @lyl_radio for his ninth season on the web.

Land with us on a new Planète Noire odyssey with a new kind of sounds generated from our nevrotic minds.

Some souvenirs from earth, some souvenirs from space.. Don't
be afraid to step in a new black hole with us : Take your brainticket for 2 hours of transcendental orgasm.

Welcoming one the first hour a deep tunnel digger by the name of @caim1987 :

The Dutch native has been making waves with both his characterful DJ sets and elegant productions. Resident at Amsterdams infamous Breakfast Club and label boss at Lonely Planets Rec, he's becoming a large figure in the Dutch underground.

For this mix, he's going under the radar with craftily woven  groovy prog and dark trance tribalings. 

@stakhan is taking part of the second hour with a tribalistic dub trance odyssey.

Brace yourself & enjoy the ride.

See you on the other side. 🌚💫🌚

Recorded in April 2024 at LYL Radio studio in Lyon, France.

LYL Radio - Planète Noire - Caim & Stakhan (18.04.24)

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

Pitaya Sound System invite Cauana - 1er Mai 2024

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

Pique-nique invites Lollise to celebrate the release of her debut album "I hit the water" out on September 6

http://www.instagram.com/piqueniquerecordings 
http://www.instagram.com/iamloum 
http://www.instagram.com/lollise
http://www.instagram.com/modrums.music

Pique-nique A.M. with Lollise and Modrums @ The Lot Radio 08-21-2024

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

2 x secret filth bombs somewhere from outta nowhere.
Error404+Oddnipp=ThrobBobWeave

BLND 10.3 Polar Nip 10" EP

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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keep it NiPPi y'all

BLND 10.3 Polar Nip 10" EP

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