A mix series, presented by Neonlichter. 
Sounds, with no regard to age or style. 
Some of the guests may not even be producers or DJs.

Days Of Steam

Slow-fast-slow / fast-slow-fast rhythms from @techniquenado's first time back in the studio in a few months. When I heard it, it sounded like I was watching Koyaanisqatsi backwards on half speed, if that explains anything. No tracklisting for this one - spotters, do your thing.

"This mix is inspired by unbearable, heavy heat - the one you can’t escape // Ce mixe est inspiré par la chaleur insoutenable et lourde - celle dont on ne peut se sauver."

Days Of Steam 009: Technique Nado

Friend / bandmate / composer / Tehrantologist @mahmoodschricker (@linkmusiclab, Toronto) presents an hour of deep jazz cuts, postmodern classical, his recent soundtrack work for "Fremont", and other musics of the Persian diaspora.

VHM Projekt - The Second One (In Four Movements) [Self-released, 2016]
Emahoy Tsegué-Maryam Guèbrou - Der Heimatlose Wanderer [Unknown, 1963]
Alice Coltrane / Pharoah Sanders / Joe Henderson - Ptah, The El-Daoud [Impulse, 1970]
nour - Never Saw Me Smile [Self-released, 2022]
Shaho Andalibi / Aria Rostami / Naghmeh Farahmand - Beshno Az Nay [Link Music Lab, 2020]
Mahmood Schricker - Globe Scene [Fremont, 2023]
Alireza Mortazavi & Carson Teal - Underground Flights [Link Music Lab, 2023]
Soft Verdict - Gorf [Les Disques Du Crépuscule, 1982]
Lera Lynn - My Least Favourite Life [Harvest, 2015]
Negar Bouban - The Last Turn [Self-released, 2011]
Elsa Maurus - Auf Dem Wasser Zu Singen [Sony Classical, 1996]
Laurie Anderson - Washington Street [Nonesuch, 2001]

Days Of Steam 010: Mahmood Schricker

Intense introspections from beau mensch of many hats Simon St-Louis (Système (Loose Screws x Air Supply) x Moab x Necklace) - restrained guitars and drum machines crawl inexorably along the Bowery, plaintive abstractions for the soul, suffocating Southern ambience, inverted psychedelia, staring at the horizon a la récherche du temps perdu

Jackie-O Motherfucker - The Cage [2000, Ecstatic Peace!]
Troth - Kind Of Cure [2021, Digital Regress]
Hysterical Love Project - Glass (I Want More) [2021, Self-released]
Joanne Robertson & Sidsel Meineche Hansen - Doll [2021, Tenderbook]
Megabasse - Dark [2023, All Night Flight]
Ben Bondy - Pool [2023, Good Morning Tapes]
Niecy Blues - The Nite B4 [2023, Kranky]
Rat Heart Ensemble - Liar’s Eye [2023, Shotta Tapes]
A Bad Diana - Chant d’Amour/Da Mort [2007, United Jnana]
Unknown Artist - Unknown Track [Unknown Year]
Mark Fry - Rehtorb Ym No Hcram [1972, IT Records]
Hizumi Hirakawa - 太陽の彼方* (Movin’) [2021, Pink Layke]
 * taiyō no kanata (au-delà du soleil)

Days Of Steam 011: Faux Sommets

A "c80 drunken stumble taking the wrong shortcut back to a flat full of odd convos and good mixers" from Rye Wax doyen / one half of @fyichris Nowt (aka Watson). 

post-punk poetry / slovene tape sculptures / synth clouds / sermons / brass reconstructions / house classics / Baltimore club deconstructions / proto-everything / non-euclidian transitions 

John Cooper Clarke - Nothing [1979, Epic]
Keller - Tom Jones Bones [1986, FV Založba]
Patrick Cowley - Mechanical Fantasy Box [2019, Dark Entries]
S/Z - Who Is The Author? [1985, Touch]
Gossiwor - Domestic Saga #2 (All is Lost) [2019, 5 Gate Temple]
Nocturnal Emissions - Bowl Dance [1991, Earthly Delights]
Ra.H & Dynamo Dreesen - Spacepops (Donato Dozzy Remix) [2010, Morphine]
K-S.H.E - Hobo Train = 浮浪者 [2006, Comatonse]
Da Posse feat. Martell - Searchin' Hard (Mike Dunn's AC mix) [1989, Dance Mania]
Andreas Gehm - Fucking Face [2017, Solar One Music]
Masters at Work - The Ha Dance (Ken/Lou Mixx) [1991, Cutting Records]
DJ Class - Roldatshit [1995, Hardhead Records]
Marlon D - Dance 2 Da Dub [2007, Strictly Rhythm]
Mr. G - JB's [2010, Bass Culture Records]
KOOLMFL - atonbow (ft. Ken Nordine) [2024, Thinner Groove]
Nick Holder - Erotic Illusions [1994, DNH Records]
Diamond K - Dance Like A Freak [2008, Baltimore Club Classics]
KW Griff - Rock Wid It [1995, Hardhead Records]
Oliver Ho - Heart of Darkness [2005, Meta]
Loefah - Life Dub [2004, Big Apple]

Days Of Steam 012: Nowt

First installment > Only Judge Can God Me @ Oroko Radio. This one is house / clubby. 

Tracks by: Padre Himalaye, River Moon, Shai FM, Oyubi, DJ Durban, Jay Duncan, Jasper James, Nathan Melja, Scarse, Ruber AIO, Flore, Ayesha & Ultra Harmonizer

OJCGM #1 @ Oroko Radio - 14.03.24

Awe is something you feel when confronted with forces beyond your control: nature, the cosmos, chaos, human error, hallucinations. 
Find the full tracklist and related episodes on NTS: https://www.nts.live/shows/laurel-halo/episodes/laurel-halo-26th-march-2024

Awe w/ Akira Rebelais 260324

CXTENE °live set° at Lunatica_meditative breakfast_ @GiriBerlino

Semi regular sessions from the Well Street Records Crew. Broken beats from the London underground.

Artwork by [@bloody_bishop](https://www.instagram.com/bloody_bishop/). 
Find the full tracklist and related episodes on NTS: https://www.nts.live/shows/well-street-records/episodes/well-street-records-robert-fleck-scar-4th-april-2024

Well Street Records w/ Robert Fleck & Scar 040424

This last episode of “Chien de Temps” revolves around a tormented and nostalgic plot which sometimes breaks up on experimental motifs with rough and shattered contours which aspire to be close to the celestial light.
More Info here : https://lyl.live/show/chien-de-temps

CHIEN DE TEMPS #15 w/ Why Pink? - LYL Radio (29/03/23)

Guest mix by @anasisana

More @marwabelhajyoussef: http://www.stegi.radio/podcasts/marwa-belhaj-youssef

Guest Mix by Anasisana w/ Marwa Belhaj Youssef (04.04.2024)

“people drink sweat as if it’s normal, don’t really understand the concept but I accept the situation
face squeezed like zesty lemon, eyes puffed like cream cake
clouds seem like paused explosions
muffled sounds play in the background
reminds me of a song my dad used to sing to me as a kid
the new job asks us to wear sailor shirts as uniforms, couldn’t be bothered to wear this so I decide to quit” 
Live recording at Hey Stranger! Concert series at Badaboum


Poterne des Peupliers w/ Elvira (16/04/24)

3rd Monday of the month on Netil Radio, from 7 to 9 pm, NICHE is a space to explore recent and forthcoming releases: slowfast, abstract, quasi-danceable music from the fringes, played by local and translocal heroes 🍄

This time in the booth after Ikävä Pii's 1st half, the 2 heads behind Baroque Sunburst - @big-hands-1 and @soreabuk, who went b2b with their unique blend of bassy, deep and weird club-adjacent music, stacking and layering records for an hour.

Tracklist up when they're done fighting with each other!

NICHE w/ Ikävä Pii & Baroque Sunburst (Big Hands + Soreab)

Soft Focus w/ yōsukeDj [ @yosukedj ] on Great Circles Radio. A variety of sounds, gleaned and blended together by Yōsuke and sometimes their friends. Listen live - 1st Tuesdays, 6-8PM ET on www.greatcircles.net

Soft Focus

Soft Focus w/yōsukeDj - 04Apr2024

Transilience is the function of Rhythm that makes Being. Access to the Rhythm allows the individual to participate in Eternity & Ubiquity.

https://www.instagram.com/dj_anarres

Transilience with DJ Anarres @ The Lot Radio 05-04-2024

I first encounter Stefan though through Casa Del Popolo, the Main’s main den of épatering the bourgeoisie since the 90s, when they booked me for what was only the second Days of Steam night after the first at Rye Wax. The old booth was set up like you were in a chapel, dim as hell for me but enough of a remove from the audience without being too removed. They’re a longtime organizer in Montréal activist circles, the mind of @freecityradio, with a CV too long to summarize here but one that shows genuine belief and investment in the causes he champions. I’d seen them years back before we knew each other, as part of the city’s experimental undercurrents, with releases of introspective piano for Howl Arts alongside local luminaries Sam Shalabi and Peter Burton and mainstays d’la marge like Aural Canyon and Beacon Sound. Tapestries of field recordings and plunderphonics, part of a long tradition of musique actuelle in the city without intentionally trying to be so. The mix he sent over is almost entirely as of writing recent pieces, with compositions (what they all feel like more than ‘pieces’ or ‘tracks’) from Berkeley, Brooklyn, Brazil, Houston, Jaffa, Milan, Montréal - the sound of the uncertainty and rage of the now, but never restoring to despondency, moreso righteousness.

"It is my pleasure to share these tracks with you. On a basic level these tracks were shared mostly by friends in the context of exchanges and ongoing collaborations with folks in cities all over the place, around creating content for Radio AlHara in Palestine and beyond. I love that this mix jumps between vibes and styles. I also included a couple of tracks from recent releases that I worked on. I hope you enjoy the mix. – Stefan."

Notnef Greco - Scooter Riding in Bombay [2024, Sublamental]
Grimório de Abril - A Torre Poligonal do Astrólogo Caldeu [2024, Subliminal K7]
Matteo Uggeri - ...for You Bleeding Goddess [2024, 13 Records]
Totenbaum Träger - Fleur de néon VI [2023, Cuchabata]
Stefan Christoff - Guitar in Griffintown [2024, Cuchabata]
Matteo Uggeri - ...for Daughters and Sons [2024, 13 Records]
Stefan Christoff - Chalga Remixed [2024, Samizdat]
Grimório de Abril - The River Used to be a Signal  [2024, Municipal K7]
Stefan Christoff - In Burgas [2024, Samizdat]
Azraq - Baby Please Don't Go [2021, self-released]
Badawi - A Curse on All Murderers (Extended Dub) (excerpt) [2024, self-released]

Days Of Steam 013: Stefan Christoff

@n10-as 6 pm every 1st Wednesday of the month
« DAYS OF STEAM » released every now and then
Turntables + textures in Dastgamachine
neonlichter.dj@gmail.com  // NYC + MTL

[formerly known as Bonaventure 2007-2016]

2024
04.28 Sounds Good (Toronto)
04.27 Standard Time (Toronto)
02.17 Heatsync (New Haven)
01.18 Tapestry (Toronto)

2023
12.21 Tapestry (Toronto)
12.14 Système (Montréal)
11.28 The Lot Radio (NYC)
10.19 Tapestry (Toronto)
09.30 Casa del Popolo (Montréal)
09.24 The Little Jerry (Toronto)
09.21 Tapestry (Toronto)
09.15 Nouvel Établissement (Montréal) 
08.10 Sans Soleil (Montréal)
07.14 Revival (Toronto)
06.07 Système (Montréal)
01.19 Sans Soleil (Montréal)

2022
10.25 Système (Montréal)
09.24 Casa del Popolo (Montréal)
08.27 Nouvel Établissement (Montréal)
04.29 Bambi's (Toronto)
03.24 Houndstooth (Toronto)
03.16 The Little Jerry (Toronto) 

2021
12.11 Le Mal Necessaire (Montréal)
09.05 The Little Jerry (Toronto)

2020
03.14 Bambi’s (Toronto)

2019
12.09 Casa del Popolo (Montréal)
05.27 Giant Steps (London)
05.25 Ransom Note (London) 
05.23 Rye Wax (London)
03.01 El Rey Theater (Los Angeles)
02.28 Mezzanine (San Francisco)
02.23 Neumos (Seattle)
02.22 Doug Fir Lounge (Portland)
02.21 Imperial (Vancouver)
02.16 Bottom Lounge (Chicago)
02.15 El Club (Detroit)
02.14 Mod Club (Toronto)
02.13 Théâtre Corona (Montréal)
02.10 Elsewhere (NYC)
02.09 Union Stage (Washington DC)
02.08 Elsewhere (NYC)
02.07 Brighton Music Hall (Boston)

2018
05.12 Brilliant Corners (London)

Days Of Steam 012: Nowt

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