Name: et muse by MEZ
Duration: 44 min 10 s
Description: Haven't shared a mix in almost a year.. here's a snippet of a recording that my perfectionist brain will allow me to release. Recorded live from the Red Cube @ Savage Club, Vietnam

Available on Audio Cassette and digital download directly from the label’s Bandcamp @ https://djbeige.bandcamp.com/album/amen-vol-1

T4T LUV NRG is proud to present “Amen! Vol. 1”, a breathtaking DJ mix tape conceived and blended by Detroit’s DeeJay Beige. “Amen! Vol. 1” is a singular presentation of a sound developed by Beige that is very personal and deeply connected to their history. Beige’s mix is an amalgam of ecclesiastical breaks and gospel house delivered with intensity and soul power like only they can do. Prepare to be enthralled with one of the most exciting DJs currently burning their way through the American underground. From the Holy Ghost TO YOU, this is Beige! Be not afraid…

ARTIST STATEMENT:
In the strictest sense, Amen! Vol. 1 is the result of more than a year’s worth of obsessive brainstorming, digging, planning, arranging, re-arranging, and countless discarded takes. And in another sense, this mixtape has been in the works for the six years since I started DJing, the ten years since my baptism as a teenage club rat, and for my entire life, which for better or for worse has been shaped by The Church and church music since birth. 

My mother was a promiscuously Christian divinity school dropout who pushed my family through a run of increasingly conservative churches: Unitarian, Episcopal, Baptist, Presbytarian, Charismatic-Evangelical, and probably a few others I forget. My fathers family on the other hand were career scientists and committed atheists who also all happened to sing in church choirs for fun. I cannot remember a time when Beethoven, Bach, folk hymns, old negro spirituals and gospel were not playing in my house, day in and day out. 

Cutting ties with both family and organized religion in my early teens left a void of community and belonging that wouldn’t start to be filled until my first experiences with clubbing (sometimes with drugs, sometimes without) years later. And when I started collecting records years after that, I gravitated heavily towards any music incorporating the familiar imagery, themes, musical motifs and language of church (especially Liberation Theology) which remained kind of bittersweetly comforting long after I stopped trying to believe. This might sound heretical, but over the last several years “gospel” has become much more of a feeling to me than a genre or even a sound. As far as I’m concerned, the rave, the club, the congregation, the choir, are only different ways to experience a many-sided mystery. 

For this project, I wanted to challenge myself to imagine going beyond just using a little soulful house to end the night or the mix on an uplifting note, and instead program a fantasy “gospel rave” for a thousand of my closest friends dancing in a field on a moonless night. How would I do my best to deliver a powerful, meaningful, salvatory collective experience from midnight until sunrise? Amen Vol. 1 is a snapshot of that imaginary night. 

The need to use contrasting peaks and troughs to create a sense of narrative for your audience includes emotional or spiritual contrast just as much as it does changes in BPM or a kick pattern.  So, it was important for me to try exceeding simply the emotions associated with “praise” music (like joy) because encountering the truly divine should also inspire fear and awe. Disregarding genre as much as possible, each piece of music was chosen for the sensation or sentimental meaning it inspires for me personally: you probably wouldn’t call most of them “rave tracks”, and plenty aren’t explicitly religious at all. Finally, of course I had to make sure that Detroit and Chicago were properly (but not exclusively, that’s for another mix) represented in the tracklist. Where I’ve ended up, grounded by a repeating classic “anchor track” for each side, is an attempt to simulate Genesis and Revelation, the Good News and the Flood, the dark night of the soul and the moment of salvation–whatever those might mean for you. Can I get a witness?

Beige - AMEN! Vol. 1

SERVITO X NITA UNTER HIGH TEA 2022

Live At Apotheke in LA 6.26.22

@shaunjwright closed Hemlock Hole on Friday afternoon in a way that only he can!  His set effortlessly switching between stomping house music and pulsing, bassy rhythms.

Campout Mix Series: Shaun J. Wright

Everything's more beautiful in hindsight. 
IDK why that is.
 Here's something to mark 2022, to archive where I'm at on this hybrid- digital meets vinyl sound journey. 

Sometimes you listen to the recording and it reveals you had a real squeeze on the room and the vibes reflected are a pleasant surprise. As always listening back was a reckoning with my fIaws forcing me to deep listen and switch on some self acceptance til my mistakes become poetic mishaps meant to coax the message thru. I was touched seeing the divine feminine magnetizing in my sound and bringing the gurlz to the front of the dancing crowd at the Great Northern in San Francisco where this was recorded live - post-thanksgiving weekend in Nov 2022. Jazzy, sexy, manic, strange, grown, and very much me. Enjoy it!

Special thanks to @polyglamorous-club

I got the stuff that you want, the thang that u need.
More than enough to make you drop to your knees - Whitney Houston

TRACKLIST BELOW:

1. The Boss (Eric Kupper Extended Remix) - Donna Summer
2. Shelter (Ron Trent Remix) - musclecars
3. Gypsy Woman (Kaytronik Remix Extended Version) - Karizma, Nicholas Ryan Gant
4. Stop Playing With My Mind (feat. Darryl D'Bonneau) [Whiplash And Turner Vocal Mix] - Barbara Tucker
5. Sandman OG - Blue Boy 
6. (VINYL) Throb David Morales legendary club Mix - Janet Jackson 
7. Another Sleepless Night [David Morales Redzone Mix] - Mike 'Hitman' Wilson ft. Shawn
8. Do Ya (Sure Is Pure Remix) - Inner City
9. (VINYL) Hot Shot '97 (Da Techno Bohemian Hot Vocal Mix) - Karen Young 
10. Stolen Frequency - Nativesun
11. Motor City Madness (Underground Resistance Remix) (Edit) - Waajeed
12. Work (Extended Mix) - Honey Dijon featuring Dave Giles II, Cor.Ece & Mike Dunn
13. Desire (Fabrice Africa Pain) - Aural 
14. Work SOHA (DJ Gregory) Work the Walk Mix - Masters At Work Feat. Puppah Nas-T & Denise
15. Can We Live (Farley & Heller Roach Motel dub) - Jestofunk
16. (VINYL) Supernature (Danny Tenaglia's Twilo Club Mix) - Cerrone 
17.  Midnight Mouse (Revised) - Mighty Mouse
18. Reach (Basement Jaxx Firecracker Mix) - Lil' Mo' Yin Yang
19. (VINYL)  Last Rhythm  (Cammellato Mix) - Last Rhythm 
20. (VINYL) Losing My Religion (Apollo 440 House Remix) - Rozalla
21. It's A Raid ! (Original Mix) - Deep Elementz aka Dj Elementz
22. Sex Machine DJ Mix  - 20 Fingers feat. Katrina
23. Space Bass - Slick 
24. Peaches & Prunes (Ron Hardy Re-edit) - Nightlife Unlimited
25. Relight My Fire (ft. Loleatta Holloway) (Dimitri From Paris Remix) - Dan Hartman
26. My All [Morales "My" Club Mix] - Mariah Carey
27. Let’s Dance - Cajmere & Russoul
28. Hot In Herre Edit - Arma
29. I Hear The Music (Mondo Grosso Re-Edit) - Ralphi Rosario & Linda Clifford
30. (VINYL) Needed U Stereo Dub - David Morales
31. Ancestors (Deep Mix) - Delano Smith
32. Big Beat - LADYMONIX
33. Summertime (Kelvin's Summertime Afro Dub Mix) - Brutha Basil, Sacha Williamson, Kelvin Sylvester
34. Future Sonic (Original Mix) - Trinidadian Deep
35. (VINYL) Deep - Creation feat Fantasy & X-man
36. Couldnt Love Your Bounce - Sade Vs Todd Terry
37. Queen Of The Night (Cj's Master Mix)  - Whitney Houston

Poly Glam Live SF Recording - End Of 2022 Mix

Kodemul, one of the shining stars from Mexico City's vibrant music scene........ live from Somos Festival 2023

Kodemul - Live From Somos Festival 2023

Outer Heaven Presents:
Planetary Radio Broadcast
@mikeservito
Recorded Live 4.27.23
www.outerheaven.nyc

[017] Mike Servito [4.27.23]

Haven't shared a mix in almost a year.. here's a snippet of a recording that my perfectionist brain will allow me to release. Recorded live from the Red Cube @ Savage Club, Vietnam

et muse

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ANY029: SPRKLBB
SPRKLBB
he/him
@sprklbb 
instagram.com/sprklbb

WHAT IS ALWAYS?
Now

WHEN WOULD YOU NEVER?
Yesterday

TELL ME ABOUT YESTERDAY
Never! :]

WHATS SOMETHING WE SHOULD KNOW ABOUT YOU?
Do you have a bigger card?...

from @teakup: WHAT IS A MEMORABLE/INFLUENTIAL CATCH-22 YOU HAVE COME ACROSS OR EXPERIENCED?
Life!

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et muse

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