MENACE TO SOCIETY FT ZERO

"Man’s search for meaning in the universe; what can be said of it! Having lived for a time disguising myself as one, I am only vaguely qualified to comment. But young adulthood working as a volunteer Field Investigator for the Mutual UFO Network. MUFON is a worldwide non-profit that tracks UFO sightings, looking for a signal in the noise.

Most of the reports left much to be desired – vague reporting that lacked any detail to strike my intuition as proof of life. But there was one person whom I encountered that gave me pause, and still does as I write this now. A humble blue-collar man from the town of Rotterdam, not twenty miles from my own home. I’ve always had a failproof intuition about people & their intentions, and I felt from the moment he opened his mouth that this man was telling the truth about his sighting. He also had actual footage: a pale orange light, slowly gliding across the sky. The light passes behind a church steeple in the foreground, and then appears on the other side, moving on into the horizon. Remember reader, that this was prior to the days of smartphone video and its editability – this was VHS tape! 

In the days that followed talking with him I noted an icy, dreadful feeling growing inside of me. It culminated not long after, when I attended a regression hypnotherapist’s presentation at the New York State MUFON Chapter Annual conference. As the good doctor recanted his portfolio of abductee clients and the strange experiences they reported, I became quite nauseous and my body went into an extreme state of shock. I excused myself from the conference, and later that night, I found myself in a state of nervous breakdown. Was *I* an abductee? Had I been a passenger inside of that pale orange light in the videocassette? I don’t know the answer, but a lifelong obsession about the travails of space travel has followed.

What would it actually be like to be inside of an extraterrestrial spacecraft. Cold and sterile? Cozy and warm? Would you feel inertia, or would you feel stasis? I continue to ruminate on the topic to this day. Here is a DJ mix that explores the matter. Of course, the only important part of a DJ mix is if it has groove, but I hope it also opens up strange new worlds to you!"

@scotia-xo
IG: @scotia_the_real_human_scotia

https://hunterstarkingsrhythms.bandcamp.com/album/earthlings-4-palestine-in-solidarity-with-gaza

Scotia is a DJ & producer from upstate New York. She is co-resident of the Hudson Valley collective Community Rave Network, and has mixed records for platforms like Rinse, The Lot, The Bunker, and Mutant Radio. Her first original track appeared on the “Earthlings 4 Palestine” compilation last year, and she looks forward to a number of compilation releases and a solo EP later this year.

Tracklist:
Scotia - Procyon + On + On (2024)
Aroy Dee - The Planets (M>O>S, 2009)
Photek - Glamourama (Science, 2000)
Fast Ram - Haganol (Gyration Station, 2023)
Otodojo - Going Back (Acid Camp, 2019)
Fuckthegovernment - C’mon (Skylax, 2018)
LA-4A - Ignis Fatuus (Delft, 2023)
Boddika - Caterpillar (Nonplus, 2023)
Adam 2 - Dyad (Amphiboly, 2022)
Syz - Mindforms (Control Freak Recordings, 2023)
Pearson Sound - Freeze Cycle (Thaw001, 2015)
Decoder - Non Dualistic (Fixed Rhythms, 2024)
Mike Parker - Shakuhachi (The Lost Dubplate Mix) (Geophone, 2016)
The People In Fog - Deep Sea Dog (Sound of Vast, 2014)
Wata Igarishi - Arachnoid (Counter Pulse, 2013)
Pervocet - PH1 (Interdimensional Transmissions, 2019)
Juana - 1E Strategy (Trax Only, 2021)
Ulysses - No Matter How Many Hastags You Use You'll Still Die Alone (The Bunker New York, 2018)
Allen - Reagent (Codec, 2024)
Seck - Do It Yourself (One Sun, 2023)
Genius of Time - 909 Day (Aniara, 2023)
SND & RTN - Unknown Depths (Planet Rhythm, 2023)
Roger 23 - Deep, Deeper & Deeper (Bio Rhythm, 2023)
TM404 - Rysa (Acid Test, 2021)
Tadeo - S07 (Semantica, 2013)
Bileebob - The Mood (2022)
Scotia - Babe Skit (2024)

Distant Signals 047: Scotia

trakklist:
Otodojo - Stairs Techno
Forever x Yushh - Passing Notes
Dylan Dylan - 5AM Breakup (Qant Remix)
DJ Gerard - What You Talk About
Polygonia - Never Have I Seen...
Mossambi - EBreakingSystem
LA-4A - Smoke Tree
Om Unit - London Stock
Farsight - Limbo District (Original Mix)
Reptant - Lizard Eyes
C Powers - Sky Hammer
Xetyka - Bezink
Sard - L-Type
Baka - Acid Bath
Tigerhead - Lethal Combination (Matrixxman Darkside Remix)
Saigg - Sistema Maria
Holandês - Umbrella
Guillermlo Lucena - Balada Lenta
Sweat Your Prayers - Byron Yeates
Dauwd - The Yuzer (Dauwd Deep Dub Mix)
Evelyn - Ore

Earthlings 004 w/ Scotia

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PRODUCED WRITTEN RECORDED PERFORMED MIXED BY GRACIE LINEHAM


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The mastermind behind Basic Channel, Hard Wax and Rhythm & Sound doesn't do mixes. For RA.1000, he made an exception.

Trace Mark Ernestus's path, and you trace the evolution of electronic sound itself. The timeline of contemporary Berlin is unimaginable without him. At first, that meant Hard Wax, the crucial hub that shaped the early era of the city's techno revolution. Carl Craig once said it plainly: "Mark was ground zero."

From there, Ernestus never stopped. There's the birth of dub techno and the near-flawless catalogue that followed through Basic Channel and Rhythm & Sound. There's his immersion in Senegalese mbalax with Ndagga Rhythm Force. Lately, that means Open Ground the Wuppertal bunker that's letting people hear music as never before.

As part three of RA.1000, Ernestus has kindly supplied his first studio DJ mix. As you might expect, it's technically immaculate, but more than that, it feels like a substantial and generous conduit to one of the world's most vital genres.

Amapiano remains underexplored in music media. Publications like our own are still learning to keep pace with the South African sound's global pull, animating millions across the globe. 

You'll hear the range and richness of the genre across the near two-hour mix, from the gothic, percussive stomp of Caltetonic's "Bambela"  to the devotional glow of GemValleyMusiq's "Something Spiritual."

Through all of this, Ernestus has remained understated. He lets the music speak for him, with a quiet honesty that lies in decades of opening doors—creating the conditions for new sounds and scenes to flourish and carry the culture forward.

@opengroundclub @hardwax 

Find the tracklist and interview at ra.co/podcast/1011. Listen to all RA.1000 mixes, as well as the complete history of the RA Podcast, at https://1000.ra.co

Fwd.fm Mix!!!

dj mercy!!!

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