This compilation is a collection of work submitted by people who undertook the MESS Professional Development program in 2022. All tracks are self-produced by the artists. MESS and its programs and projects are supported by the Australia Council for the Arts, the Victorian Government through Creative Victoria, City of Melbourne and the Meat Market Studio Program. LP artwork by bright garbage.

Capacitor III

@livwutang


Introduce yourself? Preferred pronouns? Where do you currently reside? 1 fun fact about yourself? 

Helloo, I'm Liv, she/her, living in Seattle. I’ve had 7 pet rabbits growing up (Timmy, Stella, Max, Chloe, Hillary, Flower, and Cinnabun).

How is everything going with you right now?

I’m honestly quite overwhelmed between work, creative projects, big life changes, and the return to more IRL interactions but I’m feeling inspired n positive in spite of the anxiety of it all :)

How did you get your DJ name?

In high school, we had a group project in history and this girl was writing our names in the top corner of the paper and asked me my last name, which is Klutse, but she heard Wu-Tang and wrote Liv Wu-Tang. It’s been my nickname and handle ever since & when I started DJing I was just going under my IG alias and never changed it, lol.

What advice do you have to other DJs to keep sane in the DJ world? 

Have a giggle filled b2b with your besties at least 2x a month to maintain your playfulness ~

What change do we need in the dance scene post pandemic?

All white lineups 🥴 Also speaking to the PNW regional scene in particular here – prioritizing booking locals to headline & bolstering our community instead of the biggest and best names in Europe with the same 5 locals on rotation as support.

Who currently inspires your music-wise?

Dana Kelley, Gemini, Maurice Fulton, and Larry Heard tracks are endless wells of cosmic inspiration to me and I turn to them in a rut, every time! 

DJ-wise, in no particular order, I’ve been especially inspired in the last year by Wonja, Kia, Kiernan Laveaux, LT, Ron Like Hell, CCL, Peer Review, Powder, Analog Soul, ADAB, NAP, Razrbark :)

What is your most recent favorite DJ mix and why?

https://soundcloud.com/down-2-earth/dj-trystero Subtle ear caress with that enviable breezy effortless style & flow that I can’t get enough of 

What was your first gig? How did it go? 

It was in my friend’s attic I was sitting down playing Kaytranada edits off of a Traktor controller and I don’t think one person listened to my set LOL

Describe your favorite thing to drink and how it makes you feel?

Rose or lavender kombucha because I feel happy knowing I’m tending to my gut health lol

Why do you think it's important to share music?

Because some things you can just say better with a melody:)

Where do you see yourself in 2060? ;) 

As part of my best friend’s commune, splitting my time between shared intergenerational homes with big wide porches on every continent 

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

Deeper investments into local scenes, communal care and increased harm reduction, more + diversified (i.e. across platforms) archiving of dance music history <3 

------> For extended interview & OG pi track game please visit our website pipipi.life <----------

livwutang - 64˚

https://soundcloud.com/serotoninmusek
https://www.instagram.com/sk.now_

sknow - step under thunder

https://www.instagram.com/zoltanfecso/
https://www.zoltanfecso.com/
https://zoltanfecso.bandcamp.com/

Zoltan Fecso - Tapestry

Larissa Agosti - Suburban Dusk

Kuya Neil - Y-8000

https://www.instagram.com/camillarosesullivan

Camilla Rose Sullivan - Afterimage

Luke Pierre - (ideas) Made From The Kindness Of Others

60 minutes of trypnotic beats for Noods Radio

TRACKLIST

Stina Nordenstam - Now When I See You
We™ - Hang/On
Roza Terenzi - Vape City
Deus Ex Machina - Chaos-mos
Yunie - I Can See For Miles (Astral Mix)
Perfume Tree - Both Oceans (Ian Mac Science Mix)
Untitled Project - Room to Breathe (Demo)
Tipple - Hope (Konflict Remix)
Kapta - Everything Changes
Silverbeam - Seed
My Scarlet Life - Garden of Love

Noods Radio - Mike Midnight - 23.06.23

Reposting my mix for SLINK's NTS residency.

100% original productions, all unreleased... a lot of WIPs, things in raw form, jumping from zone to zone :)

SLINK @ NTS - 100% K WATA

¡NES 07!

Out in March, 2025

Get it through Safe Distribution (www.safedist.ro)
or your favourite record store

NES07 Preview. Track & Trace - All of Us

Special guest shows from around the world. 
Find the full tracklist and related episodes on NTS: https://www.nts.live/shows/guests/episodes/the-dubstep---tech-house-connection-ft-appleblim-12th-march-2025

The Dubstep - Tech House Connection w/ Beatrice M. (ft. Appleblim) 120325

A clinic in minimal from the elusive Acting Press boss. 

Why do certain sounds cultivate a cult following? Simply put, it's often because they resist easy consumption. PLO Man and his imprint Acting Press lean into this. 

Searching for the Berlin-based DJ and producer, you won’t find much online presence, interviews or conventional PR. What you will find, if you look hard enough, is a catalogue of records and mixes with a kind of tape hiss charm (a spiritual successor to Basic Channel and Chain Reaction, but scuzzier and lighter on its feet).

Founded in 2015, Acting Press once seemed to belong to the short-lived "outsider house" trend, but is now synonymous with a certain strain of modern minimal, one that is analogue, spacious and pointedly opaque. PLO Man's output is equally sparse by design: this week, he joins the RA Podcast with a characteristically elusive style, accompanying the near two-hour mix is a one-answer Q&A that gives almost nothing away.

Stripped-back, ever-so-slightly sleazy and coated in dust, PLO Man's RA Podcast continues that lineage in style. Opening with the featherlight microhouse of Margaret Dygas, RA.988 unfolds into a carefully curated spectrum of minimal, dub and deep techno. Among familiar names—look out for the blinding Rhythm & Sound and Moodymann blend—are deep cuts and left turns alongside the odd outlier, like lovers' rock pioneer Gregory Isaacs.

Like the best of his forebears, PLO Man wants RA.988 to take time for you to settle in. But once you do, you won’t want to leave. 

@p_el_oh

Find the tracklist and interview at ra.co/podcast/988

RA.988 PLO Man

twisted afternoon b2b, low & slow...

https://www.instagram.com/deep_creep
https://www.instagram.com/mikemidnight_



pi pi pi with deep creep b2b Mike Midnight @ The Lot Radio 05-19-2025

https://www.instagram.com/fysicaltherapy


PLO Man and Physical Therapy @ The Lot Radio 07-16-2025

JON K @ ORMSIDE PROJECTS 19.11.21

you know when you’re underwater, and you can hear your own heartbeat play through the wall of liquid?
driving to the beat of your body’s tempo, filling out the bathwater until it’s sloshing over the edge of the tub and rippling through the cracks of the tiled floor.
leaking through the soundproofing of your chest, a heartbeat playing like a funktion-one to an crowd of toothpastes and dressing gowns and collapsing candles.
a heartbeat spreading all over the floor. skipping and stopping and stretching and expanding and seething.

- yeah, that. to me, are the sounds for this episode. not gonna lie I really let rip on this radio instalment > a bit of a trip and a skit and a bit.

tracklist :

Natural Wonder Beauty Concept / Wicked Game 
Doc Scott / Far Away (Fourteen Flavours of Funk) 
DJ Plead / Shush (Overdubbed with an excerpt of Werner Herzog Interview From Les Blank’s documentary Burden of Dreams 1982)
Badmarsh & Shri / Lament 
Salmonella Dub / Drifting 
Nelly Furtado / I’m A Bird (Nelly vs Asha Remix) 
Groove Theory / Tell Me 
DJ Python & Isabella Lovestory / Besos Robados
‘rraine & edna / Joy Orbison 
Octo Octa / My Body is Powerful 
Torch Song / Blue Night 
Soulwax & Chloë Sevigny / Heaven Scent (Deeweedub) 
Marie Davidson & L’OEil Nu / My Love (Young Marco Remix)  
Oklou & Casey MQ / Lurk 
Calm & Jimi Tenor / Big City Takes (Tapes Remix 5) 
Vegyn / B…Arp Forever V3 (109.613BPM) 
System Olympia / 6am Romance 
James Blake & Normani / Tantrums 
ASA Moto & Aleksandir / Yamaha (Asa Moto Remix) 
Riton & Kah-Lo / Rinse & Repeat 
Cousin / B Moon
Little Dragon / Twice 
Off The Meds / Karlaplan 
ANSZA & Minny Juno / Some Kind of Blue
Flight Facilities & Emma Louise / Two Bodies (Lido Remix) 
Fergus Jones / Heima 
Kelsey Lu / I’m Not In Love

Zoltan Fecso - Tapestry

MESS Ltd.

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