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Willee for number 6! 

So excited to share a beautifully selected mix by a very talented artist. Willee has put together a smooth trip through moody rhythms, hitting that sweet spot somewhere in the middle of house, techno and electro. Digger alerrrttt :o 

Thank you for such a special mix Will! You always inspire me, keep me on my toes and you are my favourite person to listen to and play music with. <3

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006. Maybe with Willee

A Psychotronic Score of Frights, Delights, and More!

Terror! on Cooper Ave

"After Ecstasy, the Laundry"

This mix was recorded using digital and vinyl at home in Echo Park, Los Angeles during the height of a lockdown in 2021. It’s very special to me because I challenged myself to explore a downtempo aesthetic in my selections while still applying my usual affinity for solid foundational grooves fused with deep emotional textures. The title of the mix is ‘After Ecstasy, The Laundry’ – originally the title of a book by Western buddhist philosopher Jack Kornfield, the phrase alludes to that feeling after a particularly uplifting and transcendent experience when you are forced to face that all good things must end. With this mix I hoped to encapsulate that feeling but with a light, uplifting, and more positive essence, reflecting my own drive not to focus on the fact that these ecstatic moments have ended, but allowing them to enrich your life and cultivate the future.

Image credit: Center of the Earth by Fay Sciarra, acrylic on canvas

VPN Radio: Surrealchemistry 2/15/22 w/ SAMWISE

@Toniyotzi sifted through her collection of 2021 releases to mix for us her dance music favourites of the year. The result is a seamless blend of broken beat techno and bass music, underwritten with that distinctive UK sound she has been known to blast on sound systems across Australia.

Stick around for the interview after the mix, in which we spoke with Toni about her DJing mindset, her musical evolution, the pros and cons of DJing in a smaller town versus a bigger town, and more.

Read more: https://beat.com.au/beats-by-beat-toni-yotzi-offers-a-best-of-2021-mix-for-all-the-parties-that-could-have-been/

Beats by Beat #32: Toni Yotzi Mix and Interview

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Mor Elian with Jessica - 01 March 2022

Lena Willikens joined us in the arcade for a one-off show. 60 minutes of hypnotic bass, techno and breaks from the likes of Batu, Pugilist and Anunaku.

Lena Willikens - March 2022

Kiosk Radio is an online community radio streaming 24/7 from a wooden shack in the heart of Brussels’ historic “Parc Royal”.
More info and music: https://kioskradio.com

Listen Festival w/ Call Super @ Kiosk Radio 03.04.2022

@edavd is the project of multidisciplinary artist Emmanuel David Monteiro. A deep thinker, E Davd brings a theoretical and conceptual lens to his work - if you listen deeply and with intent, you can begin to understand some of the complex ideas that underscore his music. Process driven and creative, E Davd is not bound by genre, rather working with different patterns, rhythms and approaches to sound to explore his connection to, and barriers to ancestry and heritage. Starting out age nine on the congas, playing Cape Verdean and afro music in his dad’s band, E Davd now uses electronic music to explore his own ideas about black music. Now, he uses techno as a mechanism to explore complex themes such as the nexus of nature and technology, Indigenous technologies and afrofuturism. His radio show and soon to be record label ‘Visions of Utopia’ on Nomad Radio also encapsulate these themes, looking toward a utopian society that is not only equal and free from racial violence, but one in which blackness is privileged.  E Davd uses his guest mix on Passing Notes to present a deep excavation into the internet, himself and afrofuturism - expect a sound collage of original works - finished and ‘unfinished’, samples and snippets from afrofuturism documentary ‘The Last Angel of History’. I had a wonderful time talking with E Davd about afrofuturism, ancestry, blackness, black music and more.

E Davd - PN 162

Follow @dj_samwise

Samwise is an LA-based selector / DJ and eternal raver. Known as A&R for Diplo and the force behind his multifaceted house-focused imprint Higher Ground, he is also co-founder and resident at Fast At Work, a forward thinking party series that champions fast – but not necessarily hard – electronic music. While his sets are diverse and unapologetically raw, his sound cohesively elevates strong foundational grooves with deep emotional textures.

Acid Camp Vol. 139 — Samwise

Sam is resident and runs with the awesome Fast at Work party in LA and is known for playing a wide range of genres and tempo's, as we hear in the 10th space•cast. Sam is one of those DJ's who's tunes and sets reflect their personality - pure vibes from start to finish. Enjoy! 

Check more of Sam out here:
https://soundcloud.com/dj_samwise
https://www.instagram.com/salmon247/
https://www.instagram.com/fastatwork/

space•cast 10 - Samwise

@dj_samwise

For extended Q&A... please visit our website ----> pipipi.life <----

Introduce yourself? Pronouns? Where do you currently reside? 

Hi! My name is Sam aka Samwise. I’m a selector/DJ, A&R, curator, promoter, and eternal raver. My pronouns are He/Him. I’m currently based in Los Angeles, but spend a considerable amount of time in London as well.

Describe your DJ set up in full detail?

My home setup consists of 2x Technics 1200 MKII turntables (internally grounded) as I like to have the freedom to play both vinyl and digital records, an Allen & Heath XONE 92 mixer (sorry to my V10 bbs but team XONE 100p), and 2x Pioneer XDJ-700 cdjs (I prefer having older CDJs for my home setup because they do nothing for you (technically speaking) and force you to play by ear. Ideal for practicing + warm ups.

3 adjectives that start with the same letter to describe your vibe?

Serendipitous
Sanguine
Sassy

Favorite movie and why? 

Darron Aronofsky’s Requiem for a Dream. I love bold, esoteric, analytical films with a dark and preferably psychological tinge. Aronofsky is the best of the best at this in my view, and this film remains his most poignant work. 


Listen to the moment at 45 min mark in your PI mix… describe how it makes you feel? 

This moment makes me feel solid, rooted, and hopeful. For me, recording mixes is a cathartic and therapeutic process that largely reflects an experience that I’ve gone through. This particular mix is really important to me on a personal level because I recorded it shortly after I uncovered a deeply rooted childhood trauma. The progression of the mix echoes the process of integrating this trauma into my life – in other words, realizing the way this has informed my way of living/behaving and how to move forward with the knowledge that it happened. The 45 min mark is the point at which I am able to shift away from being introspective and somber, and towards a newfound ability to be hopeful and rooted again.

What would you like to see in the future for the dance community? 

I’d love to see more musical diversity and openness from DJs, promoters, and attendees alike. I think we made a lot of progress breaking down musical boundaries post-Covid, but we still have a long way towards destroying musical pretentiousness. Dance music is about connection and togetherness in all forms, period!

Samwise - -247˚

Undeniably demanding, occasionally straining, but often rewarding and invariably reassuring. In nuce, this is the existential rollercoaster rode by anyone willing to partake in this world of merry music we all strive to keep in motion and feed with emotion for the sole purpose of creating some magic moments that, if not wholly life changing, can be vastly mind altering and deeply heartwarming. However, as far as descriptions go and as honest and earnest as these are, descriptions rarely do justice to the most precious aspects of what is involved here. And this engulfs quite a lot of efforts carried out through manifold fronts that happen to find an outlet in this special space that serves as much more than a place for the meeting of forces, it is a catalyst for possibilities, allowing for the collision of intentions and the fusion of visions. Each episode aims at presenting the results of these encounters, all of them widely varied in terms of the rhythms they include and wildly vivid in the scenes they introduce. So, when we have a guest whose artistic presence is as multifarious as Samwise's, the potential for greatness is enhanced. As a gifted selector, he can be heard sharing his musical knowledge and taste at some of the finest festive initiatives around the globe, as well as helming his own Fast At Work events. His contribution to the series is a mind-opening and world-revealing trip across eclectic and ecstatic soundscapes.

Gop Tun 130 - Samwise

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Be with me - Sahara Dreams - ISSAX

Hell Yeah's lovingly curated Buena Onda series is back with a new edition that focuses on Adriatic Beats & Beyond. It has been assembled by label head Marco Gallerani and features four exclusive new tunes that reflect his summer residences at a cosy beach bar on Italy's Eastern and Adriatic coast.

Marco moved back to his hometown of Ferrara after the pandemic and began spending more time at the local seaside, the famous Lidi Ferraresi. It's there, at Lido di Spina, that a friend runs Kai Beach Bar, a small spot where, every Thursday throughout August for the last three years, he has soundtracked afternoons and sunsets under the Buena Onda banner, more than a decade after the party first started in Berlin.

"The beat has become less Balearic, more Adriatic," he explains of the sounds that can be heard up and down the coastline. "There’s no sunset culture yet, but they like a groove for aperitivo. This selection reflects the music I propose there, a kinda sunrise to sunset trip."

The 13-track selection includes four exclusives: the first is Blende's 'Amor,' which is forthcoming on the label. Johan Blende is a Swedish producer, songwriter and DJ who weaves together modern dance with retro sounds of the 70s and 80s and debuts on the label this summer with his Recess EP. 'Amor' is a bubbly groove with a New Age wash and lo-fi pads full of charm.

Hell Yeah regular and Italian magic man Walter Del Vecchio aka Quiroga also offers a new Baia Club Ambient Version of 'French Kiss' which has a lazy acid line worming its way through dubby kicks and tabla drums, and his dreamy electro soother 'Cala Ventosa' also features. Secret Soul Society, aka South Wales's Cal Gibson, also tests a new EP with his 'Orange Surprise' blending off-balance rhythmic shuffles with starry cosmic melodies. The final exclusive is from Balearic Gabba Sound System, who flip The Vendetta Suite aka the legendary Gary Irwin's 'Della Notte' into a quietly epic cinematic closer with icy analogue beats and a warped bassline for dubbed out late night escape. His 'Island Hill Microdot' also offers some warped cosmic ambient house introspection.

Elsewhere, Michele Mininni features twice - once with Gallo's Tropical Hinterhof Remix of the suspensory ambient lushness pop 'Carousel of Tears' and once with the original percussive pressure and hip-house fusion of 'Urban Voodoo' from his Pop Archetypes LP. Buena Onda veteran Feel Fly comes through with an Estatico Danzante Remix of Pedro Bertho's 'Tornei' feat Mariana Gehring and takes us to the stars on twinkling keys, dusty breakbeats and steamy vocals that glow as warm as a setting sun.

Add in further groovy gems such as Bonnie and Klein's synth and vibes laced 'Horizon Avenue,' dreamy, breaks-driven downtempo brilliance from pub wave innovator Dawn Again, hints of Ibiza cool from Willie Graff's remix of Aura Safari & Jimi Tenor and some upbeat synth-laced house from label stalwart Luminodisco and you have a faultless collection of grooves for grown up dance floors. 

Compiled by Marco Gallerani
Artwork by Matteo Gallerani

Thanks to Everyone at Kai Beach Bar - Lido di Spina (FE)

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Quiroga - French Kiss (Baia Club Ambient Version Instrumental)

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VPN Radio: Surrealchemistry 2/15/22 w/ SAMWISE

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