Name: Sol León
Alias: aka-Sol (@acaciabaila)
Pronouns: They/Them
Location: Ridgewood, NY

Influences: Meridian Brothers, Can, Dj Pierre, Pauline Oliveros, Mark Van Hoen, Lee Scratch Perry, Beatriz Ferreryra, Kiernan Laveux, Nema Hän, Objekt, Lena Willikens. 

Affiliations/Residencies/Projects: Running Acacia Baila label, Part of the Dripping collective with Daniel Martin McCormick and Leo Miller, Mansions Bar resident. 

Favorite Quote: "To survive the Borderlands you must live sin fronteras [without borders], be a crossroads." -Gloria Anzaldúa 

Advice for the DJs, producers and artists of our community: Find your own voice and trust your instincts. It sounds easy and the logical thing to do but in a world that is bombarding us with information it's easier to get lost in the sauce and follow trends and paths that are not necessarily ours. Open mindness and lots of experimentation would help with this quest. Go with the overcharging flow of the universe and you will unlock powerful ways of expanding your practice and share it to the world.

With this mix aka-Sol asks for you to please learn more about and consider donating to:
❁ I would like to highlight Doctors without Borders (https://donate.doctorswithoutborders.org/)

Read more and tracklist at - https://thedaisychain.club/2023/10/24/daisychain-301-aka-sol/

Daisychain

Daisychain 301 - aka-Sol

Live recording from Nark taken at Massive Club in Seattle, Pride weekend 2024.

Tracklist
Laura Branigan - Self Control (Alinka Edit)
D. Tiffany - Bass But Cute
Cromby - Acid Trifle
MoMA Ready - Pleasure
Tatie Dee - OMZ
Alfa Cornae - TF75
M.I.T.A. - Life You Just Dont Care
Cucarafa - Music Make Me
Zisko - We are the new generation
Alfa Cornae - Beat Goes
Cerrone - Standing in the Rain
Fear-E - Party Crew go Wild
Freudenthaler - Jungle Rumble
Fear-E - Tier 4 Rave Tool
Laudrup - El Batan
Nark - Love at First Creep

Massive Club Radio

Massive Club Radio 007 :: Nark

Sets recorded from the Bottom Forty Campout 2024 at Forest Creek in Washington state.

Bottom Forty Campout 2024

Nark Live at Bottom Forty Campout, Friday (Techno/House)

B. Violaceus Live at Bottom Forty Campout - Friday (Techno/Queer Chaos)

Recorded live at Massive Club in Seattle, Washington.

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Thomass Jackson - Space 4 - USA Edit
Radio Slave - Mouth to Mouth (CASSIMM Remix)
Thomass Jackson - Space 1 - Germany Edit
DJ Haus - Operate It, Press Play
Liquid earth - Bang It
Luiah Francs & Emiliano - Violet Eyes
Fimiani & Angeleri - SessoSpaghetti
Loods - Image Nation
Maryag, Moodena - Free
Complex Phantasy - The Brain
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Decius - Dearly Be Lovers (Vinyl Edit)
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Massive Club Radio 010 : Nark

Recorded live at Massive Club in Seattle, Washington, featuring Nark.

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Varhat - Engage

Massive Club Radio 011 - Nark

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Bassiani 9 hours 😱 live mix to kick off 2o25 💕💕

I’m releasing a ‘shorter’ version inc. room recording out of my 11h set from the legendary Horoom. For so many reasons it was one of my most joyful / meaningful sets I played in 2024. It was a Hydrash collective queer celebration started with a ball, a freestyle voguing dance session and a performance that led to my all-night-long set. For the entire 11h there was a true sense of togetherness and the energy was beautiful. I hope this energy comes through in the recording 👂✨ 

With a bitter taste, it all happened under the shadow of a new anti-LGBTQIA laws which a right-wing government had been preparing and fully enacted just two months later. These laws effectively criminalize being openly gay and label anything related to LGBTQIA+ identities as propaganda. The government as well prevents the freedom of the Georgian people to join the EU and using unlawful tactics to control the population will, including aggression and arresting of protestors. 

Tbilisi’s dance music scene has long been a powerful driver of change. Today, the club community is taking a stand, going on strike, and protesting in the streets. How can we support them? Please consider donating to @bassiani and other clubs, enabling them to continue their vital cultural and political work. I’ll share a link to the GoFundMe that @basementnewyork initiated + a direct donation link in my stories (and save them later to highlights).

Thank you for your trust and the hard work Bassiani. A Happy New Year to y’all and may 2025 bring brighter days ahead ✊❤️

Roi Perez 9h @Horoom Bassiani · Sept 2024, Tbilisi

Recorded live at Massive Club on July 25th, 2025 for Dark Room

Nark - Live at Dark Room, Massive Club

Andrew Weatherall's first official posthumous mix. The only b2b DJ Harvey ever agreed to. Six hours at Trouw. Full send — this one's special.

Gabriel Szatan, Editor (RA): When mulling which direction to go in for RA's 1000th mix celebrations, many options came to mind. Some shadowy character 2-stepping around the fringe of our collective consciousness? An impossible-level IDM icon?

All tempting. But, ultimately, we are a DJ-forward publication and this is a DJ mix series. It felt truer to the history of the RA Podcast to release deep vault material from a time when the world of niche records felt different, tighter, more discrete.

The fourth-longest mix in the series' history is an unrepeatable marathon set recorded in 2012 at a superclub that no longer exists. 2012, incidentally, is farther away from 2025 than 2012 was from 2000... if we have to clock it, so do you.

It's the coming together of one British icon who passed away in 2020, and another whose time on the road has scaled back considerably as of late. DJ Harvey agreed to exactly one b2b set in his life: this one, with Andrew Weatherall.

The night took place at Trouw, an Amsterdam club already considered legendary before it shuttered its doors in the opening hours of 2015, as part of an RA series anchored around start-to-close combinations. Harvey was at the peak of an irresistible career second act, which dovetailed with a disco revival that dominated clubs for years. Weatherall, with infinite brownie points stockpiled from the '90s, remained everyone's favourite debonair psychonaut. 

What follows is 385 minutes of arpeggiated chug and slow-cresting climaxes, chronicling a moment when the resting heart rate of dance floors plunged lower than potentially any comparable point in the 21st century.

If you've got time to spare, a fun side game is sussing out who plays what. A disco-dub cover of Echo & the Bunnymen? Smart money's on Weatherall. Exuberant EQ'ing of The Isley Brothers? Gotta be Harvey. As for the low 'n slow, lightly spangled house that was all the rage in the early 2010s (think Maxxi Soundsystem, Disco Bloodbath, Rub & Tug, C.O.M.B.I. and Full Pupp), it's anyone's guess. 127 BPM feels practically like a racecar.

When we kicked off our RA.1000 campaign, we outlined a few goals: tick off a handful of long-awaited dream guests, honour architects who shaped the world around us and deliver recordings you truly can't hear anywhere else. We sought to render an accurate picture of DJ culture in 2025 for the longhaul.

DJing and the mythmaking around it has undergone a quantum leap since 2012, let alone 2006, 1996 or 1989. For those of us who were kicking around in the former, there's a creeping melancholy that our prime is fast becoming a matter of historical record. The killing moon really did come too soon. 

Where will electronic music, DJ sets or any of this be in 2044? Hard to say. Best not to overthink that one. Instead, we want to say thanks to all contributors on the series so far. Now enjoy luxuriating in the company of two of the greatest to ever do it, together, for the first and last time.⁠

@andrew-weatherall

Read the interview with DJ Harvey and Andrew Weatherall's family at https://ra.co/podcast/1016. Listen to all RA.1000 mixes, as well as the complete history of the RA Podcast, at 1000.ra.co

RA.1000 DJ Harvey & Andrew Weatherall

Set opening up for @courtesy707 for @secondnatureseattle , recorded in a dark hazy basement on 11.16.18.

Nark Sets

Live at secondnature 11.16.18

My rework of Bebu Silvetti's classic "Spring Rain", originally released in 1976 on Salsoul Records

Spring Rain (Vaudafunk Rework 2019)

Bebu Silvetti - Spring Rain (Vaudafunk Rework 2019) [BUY = FREE DOWNLOAD]

Co-Owner and booker of Massive Club (Seattle), head of Bottom Forty Records, clumsy smooth brain

Nark // acid queen
aka Young Hearts // disco queen

Young Hearts, a trans-galactic cross-generational discotheque residing monthly in San Francisco.

Desertopia, an alternative pride and memorial day weekend festival in Palm Springs in co-horts with Victor Rodriguez, Perfect Lovers and Anthony John.

Bottom Forty, a record label, queer collective and driving force behind the underground queer music scene of Seattle.

Massive, a futurist gay club in Seattle opened in 2023 by Nark featuring a diverse array of queer talent.

Label Releases: NEIN, 2MR, MR INTL, Get Up, Bottom Forty, Soul Clap, Acid Camp

Booking/Contact: kevin@narkmagazine.com
Bottom Forty Records : @bottomforty