Vancouver's @djhockey brings a sense of playfulness, groove, and emotion to a realm of psychedelic, twisted techno that can often take itself too seriously. He regularly appears at Vancouver venues like Dolly and recently played at the inaugural Osmosis in the Trees festival in Oregon. In addition to DJing, he co-runs record label and mix series @pprzrecords alongside Adam 2, uplifting emerging artists from across the underground and most recently releasing his own latest EP, Celestial Pursuit.

Read the interview and see a tracklist:
spontaneous.zone/053-dj-hockey

"This mix combined parts of various gigs I was working on that fell through. The gigs had quite differing musical lineups and set times, which I combined with some tracks that had been sitting in my wishlist on Bandcamp but never seen a fit for a particular project as of yet. It quickly turned into my favourite mix I’ve created thus far, as I feel it closely represents my favourite aspects of dance music all in one.

I have been working on trying to incorporate a wider range of my style into my podcasts so that each one doesn’t get tunnel vision, while still telling a slow burning story. I’ve also been pushing myself to make each individual blend something unique. Lots of tracks work well together, but is it something special and new? These are questions I have been asking myself more lately. I like the playfulness of this mix, but it also has moments where you may question what emotion you’re feeling."

@djhockey @pprzrecords

Interview + Tracklist

Spontaneous Affinity #053: DJ Hockey

Back at it again, Weird Science crew bringing you some downtempo, electronica, synthy moods.
Dont miss our next event: https://ra.co/events/1716816

http://www.instagram.com/weird.science.nyc

Weird Science with Amourette and Teeyam @ The Lot Radio 06-08-2023

Amber Gillen (IT / WCBN) meditates on craft, American music history, and the roots of funk right before Samhain. 

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For her first mix released in over a decade, Amber Gillen (immersive installation artist and visual artistic director for Interdimensional Transmissions) takes us on a journey through time—and ultimately ourselves. It’s also Samhain: the end of October where the boundary between the past, present, and future feels thin and energy flows thick. It reminds us of Keith Moxey’s suggestion that time might not “run at the same speed and density” in all places. Either way (or any way), it’s the right time to have Gillen take us through her sonic past across ambient, rock, and funk.

Read her interview, tracklist, and more on Substack: https://moods.substack.com/p/moods-62-amber-gillen

We’ve paired Gillen’s mix with a piece from Berlin-based, Sulaymaniyah-born Hiwa K. Hiwa, while originally a realist painter, now crafts sculptures, videos, and sounds that  “aim [not] for an accurate depiction of a reality that could be, but reinvent and transform the reality at hand.” Work such as Blind as the Mother Tongue unspool the debris of capitalism to better see how social structures like borders and time zones are reinforced. “The work I do is very much about reminding how many fingerprints we have onto each other,” Hiwa mentions, “[and] how much we are embedded into each other.”

For more on Hiwa, we recommend reading about his exhibition at the New Museum in 2018: https://brooklynrail.org/2018/11/artseen/Hiwa-K-Blind-as-the-Mother-Tongue

For keep up to date on Amber Gillen’s work, head here: https://www.instagram.com/amber.gillen/

For the interview, tracklist, and more, read on our Substack: https://moods.substack.com/p/moods-62-amber-gillen

Moods 62: Amber Gillen

Bristol-based producer, DJ and musician @iambruce, or Larry, is the first guest to send selections up to space to teach aliens about life on this planet. 

Larry is a musician who constantly explores and tests the boundaries of what is possible with sound, most recently exploring using shimmering vocals on his recent @timedance project.

Touching on the soundscapes of his breakthrough @hessleaudio production from as far back as 2014, and recent singing production, Larry sends tracks into the cosmos from school days and university afterparty anthems that have soundtracked his life. We get into discovering an ear for sound, the concept of authenticity, how music soothes cruelty and the power of vocal expression alongside playing records.

Bruce's Cosmic Transmissions:

'INXS - Need You Tonight' (1987)
'Louis Prima - Just A Gigolo / I Ain't Got Nobody' (1956)
'Reuben - We’re All Going Home in an Ambulance' (2007)
'Spor - Valentine' (2007)
'Lusine - Gravity' (2009)

Cosmic Cassette 001: Bruce

recorded at @Hot-Mass, Pittsburgh (9/30/23)

Paul Fleetwood @ Hot Mass - September 2023 (excerpt)

DIAMIN - MUTANT BIRTHDAY GATHERING [28.10.2023]

Beta Librae @ The Lot Radio 11-07-2023

brainwave research center plays an hour of what they’ve been listening to lately.

brainwave research center [18.11.2023]

SONS OF TRADERS INVITE - Alex Price & Paul Fleetwood [01.12.2023]

The man behind Tokyo's revered Organic Music record store takes to the airwaves for a monthly 120 minute journey through his extensive collection... 
https://www.nts.live/shows/organic-music/episodes/organic-music-6th-december-2023

SONS OF TRADERS INVITE - Alex Price & Paul Fleetwood [01.12.2023]

Mutant Radio