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Newly minted label Psychic Relief poses up and flexes shamelessly with its inaugural release Muscles Hug Your Bones, a brawny EP of swirling technoid psychedelia, muscular bass-weight, and unabashed sentimentality by Philadelphia-based rave rascal Furtive.

The plodding, gently propulsive drums and sliding bass of Intrepid Smiles [Golden] could easily have gotten bogged down in the oozing, crepuscular sentimentality of its soaring, romantic synths, but instead this EP wraps with a certain cinematic spark, perfect for both dancing in lockstep and weepy embraces.

Buy: https://furtivetrax.bandcamp.com/album/muscles-hug-your-bones

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PREMIRE: Furtive - Intrepid Smiles (Golden)[Psychic Relief]

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Psychic Relief (PSYCH001) - 12" EP
Release date May 12th

Presale: https://furtivetrax.bandcamp.com/album/muscles-hug-your-bones

Track Listings

EP:
A1: Convoke
A2: Muscles Hug Your Bones
B1: I Alway Try To Be This Gentle
B2: Intrepid Smiles [Golden}

Digital Bonus:
Hedera
Leafy Spinach
Wet Glass

Newly minted label Psychic Relief poses up and flexes shamelessly with its inaugural release Muscles Hug Your Bones, a brawny EP of swirling technoid psychedelia, muscular bass-weight, and unabashed sentimentality by Philadelphia-based rave rascal Furtive. 

Bringing things into motion is Convoke, an impellant, rippling track opening with a stalwart kick and shifting, auroric sheets of harmonics. This densely textured wormhole slinker isn’t ostentatious, but its unrelenting progression and deliberate percussive maneuvers will command feet to move, summoning dancefloor supplicants toward pulsing speaker stacks.   

The EP’s title track punches in with a crunchy, energizing bounce - primed to bring packed rooms into full, rocking swing. The immediacy of its peppy, rambunctious groove and rolling, skittering percussion is bound to start frothing things up… and the acid line hasn’t even come in! Once that rippling squelch starts bubbling up, the frenzy of this sweaty, muscular weapon simply has to be felt - it’s a proper belter, while also perfectly arranged for slick and easy playback. Muscles has been play-tested in many packed rooms, and it always does the trick! 

Flipped over to the over side is the crooked drum and bass roller I Always Try To Be This Gentle. Rising out of a gauzy synth sweep come rattling, low-slung bass movements. With precise, tickling percussive hits draped in shifting, foggy textural shrouds, this trippy, higher-tempo track toes the line between enticement and unease with uncanny confidence. 

Closing out the EP is a warmly glowing, meandering, wide-eyed paean to a certain romantic audacity. The plodding, gently propulsive drums and sliding bass of Intrepid Smiles [Golden] could easily have gotten bogged down in the oozing, crepuscular sentimentality of its soaring, romantic synths, but instead this EP wraps with a certain cinematic spark, perfect for both dancing in lockstep and weepy embraces. 

Three digital tracks supplement the vinyl release. With Hedera, Furtive conjures another billowing textural wash of staggered, thumping psychedelic techno, steadily mounting into a cresting wave of rippling oscillations. Leafy Spinach is a salad of dreamy bouncing, of twinkling and winding bubbles, a track that would be outright goofy if it wasn’t for the seriousness of the bass punches. Wet Glass is a romantic, cinematic dreamscape - a warm, glowering collage of snippets of field recordings with uplifting, ghostly story-time synths and spectral piano plinking.

Production and Mix: Furtive
Mastered & Lacquer Cutting: Marco at Analog Cut
Art: Furtive
Graphic design: CM-Dp
Distribution: Rubadub
A&R: Bailey Rogers
Descriptive novelization: Furtive

[PSYCH001] Furtive - Muscles Hug Your Bones - Vinyl/Digital EP (SNIPPETS)

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Taken from "Furtive - Muscles Hug Your Bones EP (Psychic Relief Records)". Out May 12th 2023. Buy here : https://furtivetrax.bandcamp.com/album/muscles-hug-your-bones

Newly minted label Psychic Relief poses up and flexes shamelessly with its inaugural release Muscles Hug Your Bones, a brawny EP of swirling technoid psychedelia, muscular bass-weight, and unabashed sentimentality by Philadelphia-based rave rascal Furtive.
Bringing things into motion is Convoke, an impellant, rippling track opening with a stalwart kick and shifting, auroric sheets of harmonics. This densely textured wormhole slinker isn’t ostentatious, but its unrelenting progression and deliberate percussive maneuvers will command feet to move, summoning dancefloor supplicants toward pulsing speaker stacks.
The EP’s title track punches in with a crunchy, energizing bounce - primed to bring packed rooms into full, rocking swing. The immediacy of its peppy, rambunctious groove and rolling, skittering percussion is bound to start frothing things up… and the acid line hasn’t even come in! Once that rippling squelch starts bubbling up, the frenzy of this sweaty, muscular weapon simply has to be felt - it’s a proper belter, while also perfectly arranged for slick and easy playback. Muscles has been play-tested in many packed rooms, and it always does the trick!
Flipped over to the over side is the crooked drum and bass roller I Always Try To Be This Gentle. Rising out of a gauzy synth sweep come rattling, low-slung bass movements. With precise, tickling percussive hits draped in shifting, foggy textural shrouds, this trippy, higher-tempo track toes the line between enticement and unease with uncanny confidence.
Closing out the EP is a warmly glowing, meandering, wide-eyed paean to a certain romantic audacity. The plodding, gently propulsive drums and sliding bass of Intrepid Smiles [Golden] could easily have gotten bogged down in the oozing, crepuscular sentimentality of its soaring, romantic synths, but instead this EP wraps with a certain cinematic spark, perfect for both dancing in lockstep and weepy embraces.
Three digital tracks supplement the vinyl release. With Hedera, Furtive conjures another billowing textural wash of staggered, thumping psychedelic techno, steadily mounting into a cresting wave of rippling oscillations. Leafy Spinach is a salad of dreamy bouncing, of twinkling and winding bubbles, a track that would be outright goofy if it wasn’t for the seriousness of the bass punches. Wet Glass is a romantic, cinematic dreamscape - a warm, glowering collage of snippets of field recordings with uplifting, ghostly story-time synths and spectral piano plinking. 

Label social media :

https://soundcloud.com/psychic-relief

Muscles Hug Your Bones

Hedera

PREMIERE : Furtive - Hedera (Psychic Relief Records)

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Newly minted label Psychic Relief poses up and flexes shamelessly with its inaugural release Muscles Hug Your Bones, a brawny EP of swirling technoid psychedelia, muscular bass-weight, and unabashed sentimentality by Philadelphia-based rave rascal Furtive. 

Bringing things into motion is Convoke, an impellant, rippling track opening with a stalwart kick and shifting, auroric sheets of harmonics. This densely textured wormhole slinker isn’t ostentatious, but its unrelenting progression and deliberate percussive maneuvers will command feet to move, summoning dancefloor supplicants toward pulsing speaker stacks.   

The EP’s title track punches in with a crunchy, energizing bounce - primed to bring packed rooms into full, rocking swing. The immediacy of its peppy, rambunctious groove and rolling, skittering percussion is bound to start frothing things up… and the acid line hasn’t even come in! Once that rippling squelch starts bubbling up, the frenzy of this sweaty, muscular weapon simply has to be felt - it’s a proper belter, while also perfectly arranged for slick and easy playback. Muscles has been play-tested in many packed rooms, and it always does the trick! 

Three digital tracks supplement the vinyl release. With Hedera, Furtive conjures another billowing textural wash of staggered, thumping psychedelic techno, steadily mounting into a cresting wave of rippling oscillations. Leafy Spinach is a salad of dreamy bouncing, of twinkling and winding bubbles, a track that would be outright goofy if it wasn’t for the seriousness of the bass punches. Wet Glass is a romantic, cinematic dreamscape - a warm, glowering collage of snippets of field recordings with uplifting, ghostly story-time synths and spectral piano plinking. 

Furtive is a full-gonzo rave conjurer and relentless creative tinkerer, intractably committed to the rave as a producer, DJ, underground event organizer, and dancer. Furtive brings a scintillating and sentimental touch to their many polished and focused genre-spanning productions, informed by over a decade of experience in the studio and yielding a rich selection of self-released tracks, contributions to VA comps, and recent vinyl pressings.

A veritable product of the contemporary American underground, Furtive cut their teeth as a DJ and DIY event organizer in Washington, DC’s warehouses, where they played a turnkey role in putting on some of the District’s zaniest techno parties. Furtive now co-runs an intimate, blossoming off-the-books venue in Philadelphia. As a DJ, Furtive has supported internationally celebrated, no-nonsense acts and held court in dingy local watering holes with eclectic selections and a steadfast focus on pacing and dynamics, regularly jumping genres to build moving and impactful sets. Beyond the fog and speaker stacks, Furtive creates art in a variety of mediums.

Furtive - Muscles Hug Your Bones EP

PREMIERE: Furtive - Muscles Hug Your Bones

@psychic-relief
@Furtivetrax
A veritable product of the contemporary American underground, Furtive cut their teeth as a DJ and DIY event organizer in Washington, DC’s warehouses, where they played a turnkey role in putting on some of the District’s zaniest techno parties. Furtive now co-runs an intimate, blossoming off-the-books venue in Philadelphia. As a DJ, Furtive has supported internationally celebrated, no-nonsense acts and held court in dingy local watering holes with eclectic selections and a steadfast focus on pacing and dynamics, regularly jumping genres to build moving and impactful sets. Beyond the fog and speaker stacks, Furtive creates art in a variety of mediums.
Flipped over to the over side is the crooked drum and bass roller I Always Try To Be This Gentle. Rising out of a gauzy synth
sweep come rattling, low-slung bass movements. With precise, tickling percussive hits draped in shifting, foggy textural
shrouds, this trippy, higher-tempo track toes the line between enticement and unease with uncanny confidence.

*PREMIERE* Furtive - I Always Try to Be This Gentle

my set from the woodshop stage at the 10th annual fourth world nyc dance music celebration :) recreated in my studio in ridgewood, queens. this was one of the most emotionally gratifying sets i've ever played - biggest love to the front rows packed with many of my best pals and favorite nyc dancers !!!!

ㅤ~ ~ tracklist below ~~~

delay grounds + worldcolour - crash bash party at bufo's
kassian - yena
oliver-ho presents birdland - can u dance to my edit?
peder mannerfelt - pumping plastics
tsvi + dj babatr - hhg
belk - xtd
burna - crushed
georg-i - ???????
hassan abou alam - ma3arash
oyubi + fetus - earnin it
teqmun - slug no escargot
kramphaft - perfect gain structure
tmsv - prism
carre - soft fascination
von riu - psykoz
sister zo + sam binga - smells like
justice - let there be light (dj funk "bounce that ass" remix)
itoa - turbo sideman
burna - danman
aya - delishus (96 back's had a redbull edit)
fonzo - lethargy
spooky-j - ft.wnk
d'angelo - left + right (james blake harmonimix)
piezo - diamonds

live @ 10 years of fourth world, 07.06.24

Our latest SORRYMIX finds our old friend and Sorry alum Darian (@darianmusic) absolutely demolishing an extended opening set at our party this month at Bossa Nova Civic Club with Oklahoma City DIY label Fixed Rhythms 🎶

Hearing Darian play this set is a real highlight of our Bossa residency so far. Track after track they were just giving it to us… pure techno/house music love was on display and they got the party up and dancing quickly. Wngdu was unfortunately late due to flight issues but Darian just kept killing it… Everyone from friends to strangers to Ed who manages Bossa were asking “who is this DJ??" "They are killing it!!!"

So happy to share this recording with y'all -- book Darian! 

Artwork by Setareh Jalali - https://www.instagram.com/set.jal/?__d=11

Follow Darian - https://linktr.ee/darianmusic 

𝙎𝙤𝙢𝙚 𝙩𝙝𝙤𝙪𝙜𝙝𝙩𝙨 𝙤𝙣 𝙩𝙝𝙞𝙨 𝙨𝙚𝙩 𝙛𝙧𝙤𝙢 𝘿𝙖𝙧𝙞𝙖𝙣...

Since i haven’t been djing as much in 2024, my sets have often become compilations of all my favorite tracks i have on my USB. This recording is very much one of those as i played a total of like 7 Thomas bangalter/daft punk tracks throughout the night lol (some were played before started recording). I also haven’t been djing solo much at all this year so it took a lil bit to clean off the rust and get comfortable again behind the decks. Luckily as time passed i really got into a zone and you can hear it through the mix with how fast i start blowing through tracks lolll. The night was a ton of fun and im always grateful to be able to play at Bossa. One of the easiest places to let loose and really have fun with the tracks! - @darianmusic

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A NYC-based DJ/producer we’ve loved for years, Darian is an immensely talented, multi-faceted artist who is no stranger to rocking Bossa. You might know them through their work with TRANSITION — the immediate techno crew they formed alongside Linda and Julien Passajou who have appeared at parties from Lifesavers, LA party crew Gyration Station for their NYC debut, as well as at Nowadays’ Focus: Techno Origins night alongside 1morning and Detroit’s Limited Network crew. Maybe you’ve come across their collaborations with Tomu DJ or productions on V/As from Rare Frequency Transmissions, Juke Bounce Werk, or on the DJ Manny and SUCIA! curated FML Mixtape Vol. 1. Darian’s debut Surprised Emoji EP came out on Sorry Records back in 2020 and they’ve got a hotly anticipated 12” coming soon from Fixed Rhythms as well!

Recorded live at Bossa Nova Civic Club in Brooklyn from 10:10pm to 2:20am or something on August 4th 2024

SORRYMIX ARCHIVE: bit.ly/SORRYMIX

SORRYMIX ARCHIVES

SORRYMIX34: Darian @ Bossa Nova Civic Club for Fixed Rhythms + Sorry Records

💥Recorded live at Bounce House on 11/16/24 between 12-6am💥

Timetable:
nail salon 12-2
Miguel Cisne 2-4
Miguel Cisne b2b nail salon 4-6

A meeting of minds, muscles, and music: we're pleased to put on an absolutely no-nonsense lineup of serious techno-heads. Coming up on midwestern musical sensibilities,  we have two serious students of the history and politic of dance music, enthusiasts of gritty machine-funk, hands-on gear-turners in their respective scenes, and good friends of many years. It's a pleasure to present a longer form exploration of techno's transistor rhythm and semiconductor soul from these two: Detroit's Miguel Cisne and Bounce House resident Nail Salon. 

Miguel is dedicated to the craft, technology, lifestyle, and working culture of techno. Living, working, and playing in Detroit, he is involved in all facets of the groundwork of techno, from heady, serious, DJing to event production. He is out and about working sound in Detroit, notably recently helping speaker designer and workshop Bing Audio deploy the pristine, powerful, point-source stacks at events like Return To The Source. Part of the Moods collective, Miguel has a mind for the expansive sensibilities beyond any given selector's dancefloor lay-ups. Never afraid to roll up a Carhartt-clad sleeve and get involved, we've even had Miggy hop onto our lighting controller during a foggy moment years ago. It's a pleasure to welcome the musical school of Detroit!

You know Nail Salon by now to keep this note brief, but we're excited to have a longer window for Kris to work his magic. Hungry for a wide range of music, constantly exploring, studying, and learning, Nail Salon's DJ flow is informed by a heady focus, sincere dedication to the craft, and frothing up many of Philly's rambunctious dancefloors both solo and as part of bellicose trio Bass Down Low, including a recent Halloween-adjacent appearance at burgeoning pop-up party High Beam.

@miguelcisne
@nailsalon

Miguel Cisne & nail salon - Live at Bounce House 11/16/24

Live at Tossd 003 - DJ DEADNAME

MIKEVINNYPAULY cupids community hole

Dive into our resident @arielzetina ’s last set from the garden party at OXI—a nonstop rush of energy that fuses the raw drive of techno with the warm pulse of Chicago house. She channels the spirit of the global queer club scene in every track, threading in unexpected twists that keep the crowd locked in the groove. Have fun listening! 

Recorded at our last party at OXI, Sep 2024

DISSIDENT #015 Ariel Zetina Live

Live reconstruction of my peak time set at Bossa back in March. Here I've cultivated a variety of soulful slappers, elucidating atmospheres, and tri-deck jellers  for what I hope to be an energetic, abrasive, euphoric occasion.

Cover made from a mix of generative visual synthesis and Photoshop post-processing

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Sterling Juan Diaz Live @ Faggots Are Women: Feminización Americana Worldwide (Opening Set)

Mi Gente! Presento mi live opening set recorded at FAW: Feminización Americana Worldwide back in March

Shoutout to mi comadres esa noche—Paurro, Cashu, Abe Duque—and ofc Kay Gabriel for building this world that is chaotic, intentional, and completely unserious/serious in the best way. FAWtina was everything y más. A fever dream, a protesta, a putivuelta through genres y genderos

Best party in NYC, hands down 

If you were there: u already know
If you weren’t: press play, y maybe bring a muñeca just in case

ra.co/events/2109660

Tracklist:

Ariel Zetina - Putamaria w MORENXXX
Keys N Krates - Samba Surprise
Jimmy Somerville - Heartbeat (Armand's Cardiac Mix)
Charlie - Spacer Woman (Vocal)
DJ Lucho Presents. La Cubanita - Toca Me (Latin Mix)
Coffintexts - Todo Mi Cuerpo
Fierce Ruling Diva - Woman Like Man
Abe Duque - Love To Ya (Original Mix)
Chico Bembé - The Pipe (Chico Bembé Edit)
Jacob Meehan - Old Reliable
Michael Magnan - Alright Um
131bpm - Want More?
Super Drama - Mwah (feat. Chi Chi Darling)
Thomas Garcia - El Carpintero (Extended Mix)
Ander P - Putas Finas
Orion Agassi - Lil' Yolanda - Dame Tu Amor (Orion Agassi Edit)
Savvas - Unlimited (Chris Cowie Remix)
Soulwax/Nancy Whang - NY Lipps (Kawazaki Dub)
INVT - TOBOGÁN
The Martinez Brothers - Move Ya Body (TMB Edit)
Chris Cowie - Suspect Manouver
Joey Beltram - Pulse
Green Velvet - Dank / Why Try?
Confidential Recipe - I Don't Need You (Tool Mix)
Love Letters - Tore
Sister Zo - Root of Desire
Maara - The M Word (Coffintexts remix)
Prizefight & Trustee - Centipede
Florentino - Fuego (Bitter Babe & Nick León Remix)
Sueno Latino Pres Valeria Vix - Viciosa (In-Progress Mix)
KOOXLA - REBELION
Armand Van Helden - Entra Mi Casa
Sinistermind - The Klock
1OO1O - ARRIBA ARRIBA (feat. Dj Fucci)
Regal86 - You say guns, I say pistolas (Shut up mix)
WOST - CALENTURA VAGINAL (HARD DRUM EDIT)
POSSESSION TECNHO - Toro (I HATE MODELS Remix)
Pelada - Habla Tu Verdad
Chloé Robinson - 0121 Do One (Coffintexts Remix)
Furacão 2000 - Techno Boxe
Imaabs - Alien Posse
C & C Music Factory - Acid Life (Nachos' 909 Remix)
Meilgaarden - Not Giving Up (Original Mix)
DJ Rush - I believe (pussy RMX) - Russian Roulette
ERIK TRAVIS - TECHNO DRIVERS 2023
Angels Gun Club - BIGROOM B
Moonwalkers feat. Ultra Nate - 10,000 Screaming Faggots (Armand's Banji Mix)
JSPRV35 - Varya
HMR - Vínculos
OSSX - 2 FOR THE PRICE OF 1
Longeez - Less Ordinary
Zombies in Miami - Mi Gente Latinx
DBBD - Muschi Muschi
DBBD - Ride That Beat
Ariel Zetina - Diva Down (feat. Glamour Cadaver)
ZDBT/Prado/Slim Media Player/Isabella LoveStory - ELASTIC (Extended Remix)
Danny Wabbit - The Man With the Sauce
Miriam Cruz - La Loba (DJ Pablocontrol 2k17 Smooth Intro Outro Edit)
Truncate - Dust 1 (Kai Van Dongen Remix)

Sterling Juan Diaz Live @ FAW: Feminización Americana Worldwide 03-15-2025 (Opening Set)

Live at Tossd 004 - Sevyn Love

Live @ ZERO CHILL, 4-7 AM 
April 13, 2025

ZERO CHILL 2025  (ELECTRICAL SURGERY)

Producer/DJ/Promoter/Organizer/bonehead/etc - [Bounce House] -  they/them - PHL @bounce-house-phl
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For booking, production, remix work, promos, or any other inquiries, please write to: furtivetrax@gmail.com
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Upcoming Dates:
5/31 - DC, TBA
7/25 - The Great Beyond, MN
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Furtive is a full-gonzo rave conjurer and relentless creative tinkerer, intractably committed to the rave as a Philadelphia-based producer, DJ, underground event organizer, and dancer. A shifting sonic chameleon, Furtive brings a scintillating, sentimental, and psychedelic touch to their artistry, rooted in wormhole-traversing technoid propulsion and dependably delivering riotous, slack-jawed whiplash moments of the delightfully unexpected. Their many polished and focused genre-spanning productions are informed by over thirteen years of experience in the studio, yielding a rich selection of tracks across their self-released discography, vinyl pressings, and contributions to compilations. A veritable product of the contemporary American underground, Furtive cut their teeth as a DJ and DIY event organizer in Washington, DC’s warehouses, where they once played a variety of turnkey roles in putting on some of the District’s more proper techno parties. Furtive co-founded and co-runs Bounce House, an intimate, blossoming off-the-books venue in Philly where they regularly hold court as a resident. Furtive is on broadcast monthly through Ashen Vanity, a radio residency at Philadelphia’s indispensable cultural mainstay Great Circles. As a DJ, Furtive has played hallowed halls (recently rampaging at Nowadays and Basement), dingy holes, roaring renegades, broadcast booths, and festivals (The Great Beyond 2023 and 2024, Honcho Campout 2024) - always with eclectic selections and a steadfast focus on pacing and dynamics while regularly jumping genres to build moving and impactful sets, often alongside internationally celebrated, no-nonsense acts. Beyond the fog and speaker stacks, Furtive creates art in a variety of mediums. They're as unapologetic in their sincerity and flair as they are in being a die-hard True Believer in the rave.
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Learn more here: https://www.attackmagazine.com/features/introducing/furtive-the-astronaut-in-a-pool-of-mermaids/
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As a closing note: the journey can be summarized in their own words (or, a cheeky amalgamated existential portmanteau): “I aim for the stars, but sometimes I land in a pool of mermaids.”

https://furtivetrax.bandcamp.com/
https://soundcloud.com/furtivetrax
https://www.instagram.com/furtive.sasha/
https://ra.co/dj/furtive

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