Born by the California beachside, Kir began making music at a young age. First, they experimented with pop and hip-hop, and eventually -- after relocating to Arizona for high school, where they attended their first desert raves and were introduced to genres like Hardstyle and Happy Hardcore -- they began experimenting with hardware production, analog synthesis, and manifesting the sounds of the ocean through dance music. Kir's hardware sets contain compositions performed live on two vintage Korg Electribes (MX), energetically mixing techno with their gritty, old-school, breaks-centric rave productions in a fashion similar to DJing. With a deep love for shuffled beats and syncopated rhythms, Kir’s DJ sets span a similar range, and explore the bounds of minimal, UKG, Electro, Breakbeat Techno, and Drum & Bass.

Featuring house, minimal, breaks, and even some hard techno, this two-hour mix never sits in one mood for too long; instead, it weaves between differing, underground sonic scapes that aim to both hypnotize and embody a peak-time vibe. 

Genres: Minimal, House, Electronic, Breaks, Breakbeat Techno, Techno

Quantum Botanics w/ Kir ~ 131223

originally premiered the first two hours of this mix on August 4, 2021 on @coopersaver's Far Away radio show on Dublab. Re-uploaded to my profile after the Far Away project went dormant.

What does it mean to relive uncut human experience? Not just a memory, not just a dream, but something more. The past inside the present.

In his seminal “In/Flux”, the EP from which Mixmag dubbed the term “trip-hop”, DJ Shadow opens with a narcotic vocal sample, “It's a song about life, death, love, hate, wealth, poverty, racism...Just a few things been running through my head...” That quote, along with the souls of a whole host of talented musicians and DJs, both living and dead, inform the work you’re about to hear.

Later, in Endtroducing, Shadow uses his “Transmission” interludes as a sort of frame story, suggesting that his album is being beamed to the subconscious of his listener from the future. This mix operates in a similar way, and has its own interludes, though from the past, a wiretrip, a blackjack clip à la Strange Days. Because this is a story about Minneapolis, about the Twin Cities community of activists and ravers, about me, living breathing sleeping shitting pissing doping our way from January 2020 to the Derek Chauvin trial. It is a chronological mix, though there are tributes sprinkled in to the dearly departed. There is George Floyd, there is Philando Castile, there is MF DOOM Andrew Weatherall Phil Asher and DMX, there is dodging rubber bullets and tear gas and flashbangs and kettles and watching a precinct burn. There is mutual aid. There is the despair and desperation of it all, as incremental reform takes over anarchic energy. There is a retreat to chemicals and its fallout. There is the strange, ambiguous sense of relief at some measure of justice, and there is anger at seeing new administrations retreat to the clinical and brutal doublespeak of late capitalism. It’s all there, if you hear it with the right set of ears.

tracklist: https://imgur.com/a/yzdZjDE

Far Away Guest Mix (2021)

Appreciation mix in memory of the late and great Christine Vaccine, gone one year ago today. Genre defining pioneering producer in multiple dimensions - leftfield, saccharine and dreamlike productions with razor sharp clarity and soaked in reverb.

Went with one track from each release - nice n easy mellow vibes for focusing, porching out and the cooldown as the sun comes up and the world awakens.

One of my absolute all time favorites, rest in power. Your music is immortal.

Vaccine - Atrium [Mary Anne Hobbs Free DL]
ASC - The Touch (Vaccine Remix Feat. Riya) [Auxiliary]
Portishead - Strangers [Vaccine RMX] [White Label]
Vaccine - Fever (High Grade Mix) [Vaccine Recordings]
Vaccine - Wishful Thinking (VIP Mix) [Hotflush Recordings]
Vaccine - Breathless [Hotflush Recordings]
Vaccine - Bad Habit [Auxiliary Transmissions]
Sub - Skadi (Vaccine Dubstep Remix) [Subtle Audio Recordings]
By Proxy - 68 (Vaccine Remix) [Car Crash Set]
Vaccine - Signal to Noise [Hotflush Recordings]
Vaccine - Anaesthetic [Hotflush Recordings]
Vaccine - Radiate [Offshore Recordings]
Vaccine - Irradiate [Veil]
Vaccine - Ochre [Nonplus Records]
Badawi - The Axiom (Vaccine Remix) [theAgriculture]
Vaccine - Oubliette [White Label]

All Vaccine Mix

Hey music lovers! This is the variFocast autumn edition by our good friend https://soundcloud.com/kometenschmidt, Enjoy and stay glitchy!  🍂

01 GAS – Zauberberg 1 [Kompakt]
02 Endlos – Zartbitter [One.Bit Wonder]
03 Engine 7 – Your Name On A Grain Of Sand [Touched Music]
04 Endlos – Ich bin Dur (Martin am Saxophon) [One.Bit Wonder]
05 Clicks And Errors – Memory Falls [Phonocake]
06 Map.ache – Jahreskarte [Giegling]
07 Endlos – Die andere Seite (Martin am Saxophon) [One.Bit Wonder]
08 Video Burnout – Lincoln Towncar [Samples From Mars]
09 Studio Noir – Our Little Hearts Like Saturn [Ziklibrenbib]
10 Pixelord – Quartz Boy (Coco Bryce Hangover Remix) [Error Broadcast]
11 Sun Glitters – Justified (Feat. Nadine Carina) [DXFXWXU Collective]
12 Funkstörung – Try Dried Frogs [Studio!K7]
13 Varmund – Sleep [-]
14 Koloto – Foxtales [Abandon Building Records]
15 Juno6 – Into The Wind Stranded [One.Bit Wonder]
16 Funkstörung – Appetite For Destruction [Studio!K7]
17 Niteffect – Destination Unknown [-]
18 Juno6 – 100 [One.Bit Wonder]
19 Robag Wruhme & Wighnomy Brothers – Spekk-Drumm [Musik Krause]
20 Juno6 – Inside The Blue [One.Bit Wonder]
21 Map.ache – Ulfito (Version) [Giegling]
22 A Beautiful Burning World – Mimeomia III [-]

variFocus Mixes

variFocast #14 – Kometenschmidt

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Rinse France Podcast

Mattias Mimoun présente Croque-Monsieur - 07 Novembre 2024

SWU FM Podcast

Ste Roberts with Ryan Hope (Gabriels) - 16 November 2024

The latest episode of the radio show which I host every Sunday night from 9 to 11pm on Select Radio. Expect a live mix of upfront contemporary music, ranging from nu jazz and classical, to innovative electronica, underground house and techno, and joining the dots in between. Starting slow and deep and upping the pace into heavier sounds as the show progresses.

Featuring new music by Medasin, Ben Klock, Coco Bryce, MPU101, Aphex Twin, SSIEGE, Frank & Tony, Viken Armen, Not Even Noticed, ERP, Struction and Sheherazaad.

Departures 05/01/25

~ deep, percussive, bass driven, psychedelic.

Dates >>>
21/06/25 - Sumor
25/05/25 - Strikefest @ VenueMOT
23/05/25 - NT's
17/05/25 - Netil 360
26/04/25 - Next Door Records
12/04/25 - SPCLB 
14/03/25 - Hausu
07/03/25 - All Night Long @ Grow Hackney
28/02/25 - Friday Flow @ Om Being
15/02/25 - Medina @ SVA
18/01/25 - Deep Listening Lounge @ Om Being
11/01/25 - All Night Long @ Grow Hackney
28/12/24 - NTs Loft
29/11/24 - Om Night @ The Waiting Room
23/11/24 - Roy Aroop All Night Long @ Night Tales
26/10/24 - Soulfuel @ NT's Loft
4-11/09/24 - ION Festival @ Dhërmi, Albania
22-25/08/24 - Lost Village
31/07/24 - Creative Flow @ om_being
25/07/24 - Insomnia @ Corsica Studios
20/07/24 - Swirl @ The Social
30/06/24 - From the Lips to the Moon @ Southbank Centre
28/06/24 - Percolate x Origins: Nicola Cruz @ Night Tales
20-24/06/24 - Sumor
14/06/24 - Parasang @ Grow Hackney 
31/05/24 - Majical @ NT's Loft
25/05/24 - Paraiso @ Night Tales
04/04/24 - cafe1001 b2b Megan Leo 
31/03/24 - DeepDig @ Grow Hackney
23/03/24 - Soulfuel @ NT's Loft
16/03/24 - STFD @ Brixtonjamm
15/03/24 - Mission
29/02/24 - Voices Takeover @ Two Tribes
17/02/24 - Unawa @ Kiss the Sky
17/02/24 - Swirl @ The Social
09/02/24 - om_being-radio
02/02/24 - cafe1001-radio
14/01/24 - My Analog Journal
13/01/24 - Soulfuel @ NT's Loft
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10/12/23 - Grow Hackney
26/11/23 - cafe1001 
01/10/23 - Signature Brewery - FEMMESTIVAL
26/08/23 - Lost Village 
14/03/23 - The Social
25/02/23 - Grow Hackney

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Booking and other inquiries: moontalkmusik@gmail.com

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