@kiernan-laveaux
Kiernan Laveaux comes in here, with her exciting take on what we could call ‘making full use of our mixing gear’. Keeping the spirit alive of Ron Hardy in the few interviews she did, it really makes sense in regards of the mutual playfulness in the art of DJing. 
The character of this mix bright and weird, something that gains feelings of hope and liberation. A trip that pulsates and stretches with loopy looping, that makes it breath & constrict at times. Kiernan guides us so smooth and kindly through many different cosmic passages. Wavy landscapes without losing any of warmth or euphoria.
Kiernan is from Cleveland, an affiliate of the T4T LUV NRG label & a part of Sweet Abyss - where this mix was recorded live, amidst various gay psychedelic vibes. Thanks Kiernan!
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“This mix is 70 minutes transmitted live & direct from my brain at one of the transgender dance music focused Sweet Abyss events I helped to create in 2023, opening for my lovely friend Tabasheer. Recommended listening on a walk by yourself, in a room with strange lighting, or riding up & down life’s escalators”

Image by @malzof /Jules Malice Art

Knekelhuis # 108 - Kiernan Laveaux

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Sultry low-end grooves from a rising house enchantress.

"What kind of music do I actually want to play?" Every artist asks themselves this at some point in their career. What is a sound? And why do we personally identify with it? For Lea Lang, AKA dj sweet6teen, this question is the guiding force behind her RA Mix.

Born in Aachen, a German spa city close to the border with Belgium, Lang found her musical feet in the vibrant student hub of Cologne. It was while studying social work at the Technische Hochschule that she fell into the nightlife scene. 

Finding her sound wasn't an instant process. Lang cut her teeth on breaks-heavy house and prog (think Angel D'Lite), traces of which you can hear peppered across RA.1004. But as she explains in this week's Q&A, the pandemic years were, musically, a turning point. 

"High BPMs and short-lived trends became very dominant and I realised I couldn't stand the pace anymore," she writes. "That's when my sound naturally shifted into something more minimalist and timeless."

Nowadays, you'll find Lang in Berlin during the week, and on weekends… well, take your pick. A busy touring schedule means she's on the road almost constantly —this summer she's debuted at Horst Arts & Music, Butik, Dimensions and Panorama Bar (to name just a few). 

And her RA Mix? It oozes charm from the jump. Buoyant with gyrating low-end, it's hard to think her sound was ever anything else: vocals twirl around analogue basslines, material à la Eddie Richards and Terry Francis's historic Wiggle parties, as well as the kind of bongo action that wouldn't feel out of place in an Apollonia session. Call it waft, wiggle, smooch house—whatever it is, we like it.

@djsweet6teen 
Find the tracklist and interview at https://ra.co/podcast/1022

RA.1004 dj sweet6teen

DJ Brisket [@miles-bloom] organically serves up a savory 121-min mix, blending seasoned favorites with rich new discoveries unfolding in real time, moment by moment.

Miles shares some post-recording thoughts on the mix below:

"This mix was inspired by a 5-hour hang and mixing session with Jon [@ITXPO] who got me playing a lot of stuff I don't normally play out. Playing with Jon is really nice because there's really no expectation of what to play next while still maintaining cohesive musical ideas. It was very calming and started budding some ideas in my head. I woke up a day or two later feeling emotional and still thinking about music a lot and just dove into recording something which ended up being two hours of some really treasured music. The tracks include favorites from artists who have been really important to my love of music like Pat Metheny, My Bloody Valentine, Move D, Dj Sprinkles, Swayzak, Scott Grooves, Shinichi Atobe and others. The mix ended up being mostly vinyl with some digital as well."

DJ Brisket - Skyline

https://superfluxnyc.bandcamp.com/album/superflux-vol-1

https://soundcloud.com/miles-bloom/superflux-vol-1-previews

https://soundcloud.com/miles-bloom

PREMIERE: Daniel Chavez - Slow String [Superflux]

Feel My Love - Laurice Henderson 
Candidate For Love - T.S. Monk
Dancin & Prancin - Candido 
A Mix - Marcellus Pittman
Your Love - Frankie Knuckles (feat. Jamie Principal)
This Time Baby - Jackie Moore
Give Me Your Love- Jamie 3:26
Cosmic Cars - Cybotron 
Essence of Life (Afterhours mix) - Mark Grusane
Don’t take it (Thomos edit) - Armando, Sharvette
Special Creme (Rub it mixx) - Marcus Mixx
On & On (Rahaan Remix) - Rahaan 
When You Touch Me - Taana Gardner 
Don’t You Want My Love - Debbie Jacobs
Lust (Disco remix) - Rinder & Lewis
Acid Over (Piano mix) - Tyree
Searchin’ Hard (Mike Dunn’s AC mix) - Da Posse, Martell, Mike Dunn 
My City Life (Playin’ 4 the City Meets the Deep) - Playin’ 4 The City, The Deep 
Jack Shit - Arsene

Gianna Guerino -Nuit Noire on Piñata Radio - 14.10.25

Records from the City of Angels
Connecting the dots from West Coast ambient, funk to Belgian New Beat, rare groove, Latin Hip-House progressive biz & Johnny Gill slow jams~

Sound of Los Angeles

Jupiter Disco

After The Dance Phone Home

Scott Grooves - Indiara

Mix of Italian ambient/minimalist/avant-garde music, mostly emanating from institutions supporting the visual arts in cities like Milan and Rome: theatre production soundtracks, video installations and architectural studies. Ethnographic plunderphonics, post-Battiato spiritual minimalism and hypnotic FM patterns, flowing with Mediterranean fourth world currents throughout.

tracklist:
Daniel Bacalov ‎– “Africa L’Animali” Il Ladro Di Anime
O.A.S.I. ‎– “Il Gioco Dei Sogni” Il Cavaliere Azzurro
Roberto Musci / Giovanni Venosta – “Nexus On The Beach” Water Messages On Desert Sand
Piero Milesi / Daniel Bacalov ‎– “Camera 2° Parte” La Camera Astratta
Riccardo Sinigaglia ‎– “Attraverso (excerpt)” Riflessi
Elicoide – “Mitochondria (excerpt)” Elicoide
The Doubling Riders ‎– “Chinese Comedy” Doublings & Silences Vol. II
Roberto Laneri ‎– “Animalia” from Anadyomene
Goffredo Haus ‎– “Cielo” Musiche Per Poche Parti
Francesco Messina ‎– “Comunicazioni Interne” Medio Occidente
Roberto Donnini ‎– “T 2 A (excerpt)” Tunedless
Mario Piacentini / Roberto Bonati / Anthony Moreno – “Sealed in a Transparent Cube” Frozen Pool
Magazzini Criminali / Jon Hassell – “Camminavo Nella Sera Piena Di Lilla” Sulla Strada
Vincenzo Zitello “Arilels” Et Vice-Versa
Roberto Mazza “Stanze Parallele” Scoprire Le Orme
Raffaele Serra – “Maldoror Theme” Kodak Ghost Poems
Giovanni Venosta ‎– “Woman In Late” Olympic Signals
Andreolina ‎– “Music In A Small Room” An Island In The Moon
Piero Milesi (w/Riccardo Sinigaglia) ‎– “The Presence Of The City” The Nuclear Observatory Of Mr. Nanof

Cover image: Munari Apartment Venice, Sottsass/Cibic.

more info here: http://rootstrata.com/rootblog/?p=8801

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