MIXES / SETS

WKDU's 18th annual Electronic Music Marathon was held at our home base(ment) for the first time in three years and broadcasted 84 hours of funk, soul, house, techno, DnB, grime, juke, and more non-stop on the Philly airwaves! Local DJs, producers, and listeners like you raised over $13k for Project SAFE, Abortion Liberation Fund of PA, and WKDU. To learn more, visit https://emm.wkdu.org .

Thanks for tuning in to your local college radio station!
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2022EMM Nail Salon

Youtube Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o9B8BfK-ESo

ID - ID
Nikki Nair - The Analyst
DJ Di'jital - Armada Bass
Shawescape Renegade - Neuron Galaxy
ZDBT & SMP ft Prado - ELASTIC (Isabella Lovestory Extended Remix)
Shawescape Renegade - Reconstruct (K1 Remix)
Regal86 - Scratch Memplo Club
Club Cab - Aww Shh
7th Gate - Gravitation / Flow Motion
Deetron - Uncutfunk
DJ Rolando - Knights of the Jaguar (Original Mix)
Robert Armani - Let Me Hit That
Orlando Voorn - Flash
Bastiengoat - Tell me if you like it
Q-tip - Breath & Stop (Z. James Remix)
DJ Technics - Party People
Drumskull - Negative 7
Private Caller - Want Me
Samurai Breaks - Putting In Werk
M.I.A. - Bucky Done Gun
Borai/Denham Audio - Skrrrt
Private Caller - Let Me Know
Robert Hood - Analog Track (Ghost)
Huey Mnemonic - Transmutation

~Switch to second rotation~

Regal86 - White Pro Club & Black Dickies & AF1 Black
Regal86 - El mundo es un barrio
Octave One - Untold
Jammin' Gerald - Pump That Shit Up
Tagi - Pimp Tha Pen
Samurai Breaks - Pump Up The Volumne
Slick Shoota and DJ Earl - Sick Shyt
SlowRolla - OCTANE
BONE BOX - Boy Bye
Heavee - Watch Yo Step (Feeling Myself)
INVT - WORK (Feat. DJ Earl)
MoonDoctoR - NO WORKZ
EQ Why - Lil Ma
DJ Manny - ID
Traxman - Geto DJz
Traxman - Just Go RMX
Traxman - BEATWORK
Bastiengoat - Underground
Bastiengoat - Warm
DJ Rashad - Oh No it Wasn't
Bastiengoat - Run to Em
BroDawg ManDude - J1T SHIT
SlowRolla - BASS CREEPER
Please - Lean Back
PLAYBOI CARTI - BROKE BOI (DJ FLP EDIT)

flyer by @onna_mule

Bass Down Low 1/20/23

Philadelphia-based filmmaker, deejay, and host of The Beauty Parlor nail salon (@nailsalon) threads sounds from his everyday across songs that offer a moment of respite against the banal corporate grind. A format well loved by Moods where artists take a time or moment as a point of departure (see: Anne Lacy, Icarus Redux, Jasen Loveland), nail salon fills critical caps across our sonic catalogue from rap to ambient to left field. To read the full interview, head here: https://moods.substack.com/p/moods-63-nail-salon

Moods is community-curated and community-supported. By helping us out, you're directly supporting artist commissions, curator fees, merchandise, and materials for parties. Consider subscribing to our Substack (https://moods.substack.com/), or give us a buck, four, or more a month directly: danielsharp.cargo.site/Moods

We’ve paired nail salon's mix with an org chart work by Simon Denny, the legendary artist whose practice takes the material (or debris) of corporations to point out hypocrisies, redundancies, and the failure of business to meet the demands of today’s world. It’s a clean, neat match for a mix that considers just the same.

For more on Simon, we recommend this interview with Duncan Ballantyne-Way: https://fineartmultiple.com/blog/simon-denny-artist-interview/

For more on nail salon, keep up on his Soundcloud: https://soundcloud.com/nailsalon

Moods 63: nail salon

WKDU's 20th annual Electronic Music Marathon welcomed over 90 DJs to our home base(ment) and broadcasted 84 hours of funk, soul, house, techno, DnB, grime, jungle, gabber, and more non-stop on the Philly airwaves! Local DJs, producers, and listeners like you raised over $13k for WKDU to help improve our FM signal. This money will help fund our efforts to keep Philadelphia dancing to WKDU on the FM dial for many years to come! To learn more, visit emm.wkdu.org.
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2023EMM Bass Down Low

Philly scene stalwart @nailsalon hops in the mix. Kris is a real head and a student of the art of DJing. If you dig the vibe, check out his Beauty Parlor show on Great Circles radio and his work as part of the larger Bass Down Low collective.

cc.mix.08 - Nail Salon

Pol Haus Guest Mix - Nail Salon

In the city, Kris brings in a familiar, yet old-school blend of tracks that’ll have you explore around the set. Expect the unexpected!! Kris runs a monthly show on Great Circles, fittingly named Beauty Parlor (@thebeautyparlor.kr), as well as driving a third of the Bass Down Low crew (@b4ssdownlow).

Pol Haus | Nail Salon | 4-18-2024

nail salon @ Fountain Green 6/13/24

Artist - Track Title
Reese - Rhythm Track 2
Grind Mode - I'm so High
C.V.O. - Bonus
Dez/Andres - Tonights Function
Emerson - Sending All My Love Out
DJ Gant-Man - Juke Dat Girl
Model 500 - No U.F.Os (inst.)
DJ Funk - House The Groove
Rachmad Project - A Lot Of Love
Andres - Untitled B1 off GTFlip313-001
Larry Heard - The Sun Can't Compare (Long Version)
Andres - Reality
Paul Johnson - The Groove Goes On
Green Velvet - Flash (Paul Johnson Mix)
Ontoni - Badd Minded (For the Box Mix)
Unknown D.J. - Basstronic (Instrumental)
Joe Smooth - Promised Land
Hercules & Love Affair - Blind (Frankie Knuckles remix)

thanks to stu, justin, cal, and everyone else who helped out

nail salon @ Cat Park Block Party 7/4/24

💥Recorded live at Bounce House on 3/2/24 between 4-5am💥

We're absolutely delighted to have this bill rounded out by our newest resident and team member, Nail Salon. Nail Salon has stepped up at Bounce House as a solo artist and as part of Bass Down Low, and is a no-nonsense student of the history and craft of music and DJing. Coupled with his confident but laid-back manner, focus on pursuing and creating opportunities, hands-on approach to making things happen, measured ego, and impeccable dedication to recording and documentation, we are thrilled to have Kris on board.

@nailsalon

nail salon - Live at Bounce House 3/2/24

💥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

WKDU's 21st annual Electronic Music Marathon welcomed over 90 DJs to our home studio and across the city, broadcasting 87 hours of funk, soul, house, techno, DnB, grime, jungle, gabber, and more non-stop on the Philly airwaves! Local DJs, producers, and listeners like you raised $15k for WKDU and the Philly Unknown Project. This money will help their workplace engagement program at Community Thrift where returning citizens can get back on their feet and gain access to computers, resume-building assistance, and help secure stable long-term employment. To learn more, visit emm.wkdu.org.
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2024EMM Bass Down Low

Tracklist: https://wkdu.org/playlist/65790

tracklist

Freak Flag | nail salon B2B PetaL | 2024-11-27

Feral Sound with Low Iron and Nail Salon on Sub FM 6th December 2024 - https://www.sub.fm

Feral Sound with Low Iron and Nail Salon - 06 Dec 2024

💥Recorded live at Bounce House on 1/1/25 between 4:30-6am💥

It's a real joy to be able to say, at the end of each year, something to the effect of "wow, that was a wild ride!" and reflect on a roller coaster of highs and lows, new insights, perspectives, constellations, and lessons learned. And indeed, 2024 has been a joyous adventure of bright triumphs to celebrate and knotted gnarls to untangle. There's a quiet sense of precarity simmering under all things when one operates in the cutty twilight zone of the barely-legitimate real-deal underground, so it's always truly precious when we have a chance to notch one more soaring night together and to celebrate a big loop through time, despite the feeling that the clock is ticking. So after the last grains of temporal sand have slipped out of the hourglass of 2024, join us to flip the whole thing over, inside, and out, and take the first steps into 2025. 

Alternatively, if you're not into the foofy auspicious stuff like spiritually traversing the sand of time, and tracing meaning and destiny through solar and sidereal time and blablablabla, just come through to shake your ass, pop some bottles, hoot and holler, get a sloppy post-midnight new year's kiss, and kick off 2025 with fun and flair.... so come n' get it!!! We're thrilled to celebrate another HAPPY NEW YEAR with you!!!

We'll have Bounce House's reliable, adventurous residents taking us into dawn - familiar faces and seasoned selectors with the right sensibilities for surprise and celebration: that's Furtive, DJ Anarres, and Nail Salon, getting your asses moving across a free-form timetable, and Emme and Masina keeping those rowdy asses managed.

@nailsalon

nail salon - Live at Bounce House 1/1/25

Concrète x Bounce House was an unreal, riotous ride of elation and revelry, the crest of a wild wave, an astonishing achievement of muscle, love, community, and die-hard DIY real-deal True Believer rave shit. It was an honor to work together with Yōsuke - the legend who launched the pier jawns in the first place - to manifest this magic with a team of the nearest and dearest. … as the pier always is, this was the most chaotic carnival of humanity, bringing in the delightfully deranged for a romp across shattered glass, weathered concrete, burning shopping carts, and whoknowswhatelse straight through into shimmering, smiling dawn. 

The August 10 collaboration was the second and final edition of Concrète in the wild summer of 2024. 

This romp really had it all, from close calls to magical moments. Yōsuke b2b Wrench opened the night with funky drum machine flow, Nail Salon pushed the machines further with classic percussive techno motion, DJ Anarres picked up with that soulful spirit of sincere techno they love, and Furtive flew into dawn from pulsing darkness into scintillating daybreak trance. From there, Yōsuke, Nail Salon, DJ Anarres, and Furtive go round-robin b2b until the amps gave out and the generator choked. An adventure of laughter, tears, genuine elation, and true friendship. 

Yōsuke had some nice things to say regarding this arrangement. We’re posting this here for posterity:   “Bounce House has been a stronghold venue in philly for 2 years now, holding a musical & community ethos close to its chest resulting in the most consistently well curated and safest space to lose oneself in the city. As they’re on hiatus through the brutal heat of the summer, the dj’s of the collective ~Furtive, DJ Anarres, Nail Salon ~ will be let loose into the open air to present their each individually unique and wide spanning takes on banging it out for you. Yes indeed!!  Wrench is a bit of a mystery to me. I was actually out of the country on vacation hearing his live guest mix on Vicenta’s radio show while getting ready to go out and thought, yes. Absolutely yes … you can see a real crate digger and lover of the music. With that, I asked Wrench to b2b with me to kick this night off. Looking forward to our literal & musical meeting and what chaos might ensue!!!”

Enjoy revisiting this summertime highlight.

@yosukedj @furtivetrax @dj-anarres @nailsalon @wrenchfromit

nail salon - Live at Concrete 8/10/24

Lifesavers w/ Nail Salon: 12th February '25

HHH RADIO Nail Salon

Nail Salon {Philly} (8.16.25)

Tracklist: https://wkdu.org/playlist/69315

Freak Flag | nail salon B2B PetaL | 2025-11-26

Dub techno, minimal and bleep ahead of DBD02 @ Bossa on Sunday Dec 14! 

https://www.instagram.com/__k_wata 
https://www.instagram.com/eden.aurelius 
https://www.instagram.com/kristian_cho 
https://www.instagram.com/spiraleddie



DBD02 K Wata, Eden Aurelius, nail salon, Spiral Eddie @ The Lot Radio 12-13-2025

war of attrition

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