Freaky fun stuff to close out 2022. Thanks to everyone who's tuned in and a big big shoutout to Lower Grand Radio for hosting Club Freak On. 

I am so honored to share the last show of the year with a DJ who can weave magic out of anything they touch — someone who's shown me how conventions can be flipped on their heads and completely re-engineered, and a DJ that teaches me something new about what music can be every time I hear them spin. This mix is a magical soup of tricks, musical refrains weaving in and out, and utter and complete deconstruction/reconstruction by the brilliant Kiernan Laveaux.

First hour is Kiernan Laveaux, and second hour is wngdu. Goodbye 2022!

Club Freak On 12/23/22 — Kiernan Laveaux & wngdu

As Moods 56, Max Watts @limitednetwork takes us back two generations in his family's history. Consider this a prologue in the Max Watts book of Funk. For Max, funk runs in the family and there is no shame in embracing that which he knows from his father Eli and his Grandfather Marzette. 

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1) Where did you grow up? Was it a single place or many places? How did this influence the songs you listened to?

I grew up in Nashville, TN where my Grandfather died. My Dad was living with him at the time, and decided that it would be a good place to raise a kid. That same neighborhood is where I spent my childhood. 

2) Can you pick one song in the mix and explain where you first listened to it

The first two tracks played in the mix are from my Grandfather Marzette in his self-titled Free Jazz record, Marzette And Company. I remember having to write a paper on it in high school and fully listening to it. But my pops definitely played it around us when we were younger.

3) Who “introduced” you to these songs? Was it a person, a radio station, a CD, or something else?

My dad introduced me to early hip hop and other electronic sounds really young with films like Beat Street and records from Kraftwerk, Yellow Magic Orchestra, Funkadelic, etc. He also introduced me to jazz artists like Don Cherry, The Pat Metheny Group, and some of Miles Davis’ fusion recordings. While I was younger, He was in a funk band growing up called Small Axe. This band was formed from the equipment Marzette had left when he passed away in the late 90s. The band eventually parted ways and my pops was working on his own productions, but I remember hearing those sounds from our smoky garage. Those were the first electronic sounds I heard. That was in 2008 when he started using Logic Pro. He later gave me his and his dad’s record collection along with all the production notes from Marzette’s studio days. My pops definitely made sure in passing down a diverse range of music in our family growing up.

4) Where and when did you first hear techno? What drew you to it? Who did it sound like it was for?

When I first heard techno around 2018, it must have been a mix from The Wizard - his Essential Mix on BBC Radio from 1998. I had no idea this music came from Detroit, but it made sense and aligned with my musical background growing up. It was different from anything I had heard. I visited Detroit while I was in school at MTSU in 2020. Went to 3000 and Mike told me to come move out here. And here we are now. 

5) You’ve got the microphone. What do you want to say to the techno community?

To the techno community, keep your head down, stay underground, and focus on the music. Peace.

Marzette Watts - Backdrop For Urban Revolution
Marzette Watts - Geno 
Don Cherry - Brown Rice
Miles Davis - Tutu
Don Cherry - Degi-Degi 
Galaxy 2 Galaxy - Metamorphosis
Funkadelic - March to the Witch's Castle
??? - black label 
Max Watts - Car Show [LN007]
Max Watts - Dimensions [LN007]
Max Watts - Cherry [LN007]
New Order - Blue Monday 
Nitzer Ebb - Join in the Chant
Traxx - Tuning Circuits For A Revolution
Underground Resistance - Codebreaker B2

We’ve paired Max Watt’s mix with an installation from Paul Druecke, a Milwaukee-based visual artist whose work considers text, time, and gatherings as sites of growth and accountability. The 2017 piece, Shoreline Repast, reframes a “typical” historic landmark post for the Great Lakes as a malleable, melting poem that passes down both its English and Anishinaabe heritage. We feel Paul’s piece and Max’s mix both consider similar questions of how culture becomes tangible from one generation to the next. For more on Paul, head to: https://www.pauldruecke.com/

Moods 56: Max Watts

"When I imagined the interception of this mix by a sentient intergalactic being, I wondered - how do we decipher the language of music? Would the sound of a human voice be perceived as the voice of the dominant species. Or, perhaps, would the sounds of the drum machine be interpreted as the “voice?” What does voice and language mean when spoken through music? 

While there are major differences in the style and teachings of musical traditions around the world, the use of voice and rhythmic percussion is present across cultures and throughout history. In this context, is rhythm truly the universal language? 

I have always been interested in the use of voice in dance music - the way it brings an organic familiarity to a technical genre. For this mix, drew from various sources and genres - both voice-centric and rhythm-centric to weave a melodic, deep, and genre-twisted story. I recently discovered konnokal, the south Indian art of performing percussion syllables vocally, which really inspired the concept and helped me think about rhythm in a new way. The mix opens with a reverbed out recording of Sheila Chandra, an English pop star of Indian descent, performing konnokal. The mix is rhythmic, yet meant for listening and the experimental nature of this project encouraged me to use 3 CDJs and run a delay pedal through my mixer for the first time. I hope you enjoy it!"

@seleneseattle

Selene (fka Aos) is a DJ, producer, and event organizer from Seattle. They are affiliated with the collective, secondnature, and have worked on a breadth of projects ranging from underground parties, to community-centered events, and educational workshops. Musically, they are drawn to texture, melody, and voice and the ways in which these things are expressed through technology-driven genres with a focus in techno, breaks, and ambient/experimental. Their DJ and live sets are playful, genre-bending, and expressive.

https://secondnatureseattle.com/
https://secondnature.bandcamp.com/album/the-secret-garden-is-in-your-mind
https://soundcloud.com/seleneseattle

Distant Signals 012: Selene

Live set from our midweek series at @nowadaysnyc 2.9.2023

@jakemuir

Jake Muir live from Dripping @ Nowadays

Prescribe yourself a genre-free, highly emotional course of Physical Therapy.

https://www.nts.live/shows/physical-therapy/episodes/physical-therapy-9th-march-2023

Physical Therapy - Slow Acid Special 090323

Dripping with Baby Leo and Akanbi @ The Lot Radio 04-08-2023

Interview: https://truantsblog.com/2023/truancy-volume-305-2lanes

Soundcloud: @2lanes

Access the download and tracklist (Confirmed, and added) on our Patreon. Your support helps cover all our costs and allows Truants to continue running as a non-profit and ad-free platform. patreon.com/truants

http://truantsblog.com

2Lanes

Truancy Volume 305: 2Lanes

I'm really moved by how @xnyhne described their Koreanness, in part, as "a willpower to preserve". In this sense, their mix evokes in me the same kinds of tensions I feel between the necessary pain of remembering and the compulsory mania of transmuting that pain into an unknown forward. It takes us backwards into ancestral history, through brooding, distorted soundscapes, and then towards a future where high-octane, han-releasing rhythms abound.
-hyeonje

***
Nyhne is a bloodstained poem in an ornate frame. It is the sonic moniker of Nancy Kim, a queer Korean-American interdisciplinary artist, whose work navigates across sculpture, sound, design, and architecture. Their projects consider both time and “waste” as physical materials that transmute into portals to hidden stories. As Nyhne, their music explores feedback, drone, experimental noise, found sounds, ritual, and spoken word, often forming textural landscapes for catharsis.

Tracklist:
Echium - Glacial Rust
Arne Deforce & Mika Vainio - Hephaestus - section 4 Styx (river of rage)
Flora Yin Wong - Diyu
Silent Servant - The Strange Attractor
Diane Labrosse, Ikue Mori, Martin Tétreault - Belli machina
Autechre - Second Scepe
Adam X - Trope vs. X-Crash - The Morgue
Regis - Gymnastics 69 (Substance Mix)
Drew McDowall & Hiro Kone - Dreaming is Nursed in Darkness
Emma DJ & Ishaq - Emma DJ - Stratocaster
Lee Gamble - Motor System
Peder Mannerfelt - Lucid in the Sky
Regis / Female - Washing My Hands

Going Clear EP

006 - Nyhne - Becoming

With this mix for the Ever Afters 2023 campout, I wanted to help set the stage (literally) for the lineup that Envelope booked for the Yurt. This took three forms: lesbian soundsystem music to establish dancing in that room as a norm (prog); dark and percussive and carnal tracks to open the gates for wider tempos and sonic palettes (dnb); and experimentally-focused pieces to acknowledge the history of the Yurt as a site of primarily ambient casting (experimental ambient). It works best I think if you imagine yourself in the depths of the California midlands, huddled under swerving UFO lights as the hours from 3-5am careen by 🖤

Track list

#	Artist - 					Track Title					[Year]
1	Adam Pits - 				Cosmic Confession			[2022]
2	Cass - 					Kenjin (Cass Mix)				[2003]
3	Sleepfreaks -				Distant Mellow				[2001]
4	Bipath - 					Paranoize (Flip-Path)			[2001]
5	Tata Box Inhibitors - 		Plasmids (Placid Mix)			[1994]
6	Roza Terenzi & D. Tiffany -	Gravity Bongo				[2022]
7	Subtone Trio -				Load (Chab Remix)			[2001]
8	DJ Nukem - 				Secrets (Deep Mix)			[2002]
9	Chab -					Get My Love (Moogwai Mix)	[2000]
10	Spray -					Ratenplan					[2022]
11	Leama -					Melodica (Humate Mix)		[2002]
12	Thing - 					Raw Space Work				[2015]
13	Gesloten Cirkel -			Submit-X					[2014]
14	Andy Toth - 				Subspace					[2022]
15	Maara - 					Rude, Crude & Out Of Control	[2022]
16	Max Watts -				Queue & Throw It				[2020]
17	Spray - 					Puk Codes					[2022]
18	Roza Terenzi & D. Tiffany - 	Lil’ Drummer Boi				[2022]	
19	Clarity - 					Kaitain						[2014]
20	Homemade Weapons -		Lamia (feat. Torn)				[2019]
21	Torn - 						The Fear						[2022]
22	Clarity - 					Inclination					[2014]
23	WDDS - 					Slow Burner					[2022]
24	Homemade Weapons - 		Third Rail					[2016]
25	Venom -                                  Torn Fury                                        [1997]
26	Syzygy - 					Luminous (4AM Mix)			[2021]
27	Skream - 	  			Ain’t It Cold?					[2005]
28	Holloway - 					Dust 2 Dust					[2023]
29	Overmono - 				iii’s Front						[2018]
30	Second Woman - 			700358Bc5					[2016]
31	Second Woman - 			/							[2017]
32	Rhyw - 					Aversion Two					[2017]
33	Torn - 						Disolcations					[2022]
34	Orbital - 					Halcyon (On and on)			[1993]

Faited @ Ever Afters 2023

Get the party started with DJ Wawa & Clay Wilson's Hit Factory Records.

https://www.nts.live/shows/hit-factory/episodes/hit-factory-8th-june-2023

Hit Factory w/ 2Lanes 080623

@2lanes

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

Hi my name is Joey.  My hometown is Birmingham, MI.  I currently live in Hamtramck, a small city within the city of Detroit. One fun fact is that I never went to Senior Prom!


If you could place a dj booth anywhere in the world… where would it be & what would you play?

On a blimp and I would fly it around blasting beats


Favorite collective/scene at the moment?

Lately ive been even more in love with Detroit and all the artists that live here.... Could write a book on it! But elsewhere I love everything Mdo/Sample Park/Terry Radio/West Mineral/Kansas people are doing - love the sound the aesthetic and the energy.  Seems like cool stuff is going on in Toronto, Montreal, Pittsburgh, and Philadelphia. Also love the Base Camp Beta podcasts - hearing a lot of great people discuss the contemporary scene/industry/landscape. 


Earliest musical memory?

Singing & dancing to my parents Was Not Was/Sade/Steely Dan records with one of those big bright plastic kiddie microphones.


Favorite mix series?

C- 


Listen to 11:11 in your mix… what color do you see?

Rusty Orange


Favorite movie rave scene?

Matrix Reloaded Cave Rave 


Favorite decade for music and why?

70’s & 95-05.  So much amazing music came out in the 70’s, and then from 95-05 so much amazing music was made by sampling all of that amazing music.


How do you hydrate at a gig?

Drink water, then drink MORE water


Dream b2b?

GiGi Martin


Let’s play a pipipi game… I give you a situation and you give me a track (youtube links)

Walking down an endless spiral staircase
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0LICyYUJZ9w&frags=pl%2Cwn

b2b with an actual alien from space
https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=7&v=JfqA1xENneE

Rave at your local suburban mall
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TPwyvZa0AZk

In a green house with your BFF
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6a32Fcc3SZc


Favorite late night snack? 

Sweet Sapphire Grapes aka Witches Fingers


Advice to beginning dj’s?

Learn the rules then break them. Don’t be so serious. Always be a student. All genres and all bpms are valid and have a time + place. Be yourself. 


Secret weapon track?  

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1NB35dyAjFY


DJ Pet Peeves?

People who stand behind you while Djing when you did not allow them to


Where do you want to be flown out to play in the future?

Toronto or Montreal (bus works too!!), Tblisi, Mexico City 


Where do you see your rave self in 30 years from now?  

Living in a forest compound in northern Michigan - gear/DJ set up in a dome - forest raves.


Most underrated artist at the moment?

RAWAAT 


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

Less hot takes, more deep debates

2Lanes - 102 ˚ of Leather, Sweat & Chrome

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Moods (2017-ongoing) is a community of nightlife workers, techno fans, and artists that platforms music outside of techno. We explore our community’s roots and origins to understand how music migrates from one geography and generation to another. We do this through monthly mixes, merchandise, and low-capacity events.

You're welcome to help pay and pave the way by giving $1, $4, or $20 a month here to support the project. Each Moods Mixer gets paid $50 for their mix—or we donate it to a cause or charity of their choice. The rest of the money fronts costs for merch, a Soundcloud or Substack subscription, and archive maintenance. To do so, head here: https://danielsharp.cargo.site/Moods

Season Seven (2024) is co-organized by, in alphabetical order:
Miguel Cisne, he/they (@miguelcisne)
Crystal Gause, she/her (@etta_sound)
Daniel Sharp, they/he/she (@endash)

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