@adab arrived at a love of electronic music on the dance floor of queer-run techno party In Training in their native Cleveland. Before long, they went on to established themselves as a DJ who plays electric sets of house, techno and club beats as part of a constant quest to "seek the unifying elements in the world and themselves." The Pittsburgh resident and radio regular is now half of Cleveland party Heaven is in You and has an international profile that is only set to grow as they continue to confound expectations with each new set. 

That starts with this week's mix, which is an other-worldly trip into genre-less electronics. Dense and cinematic ambiance and sound design set the opening scene - it's a world of searching synths and shadowy alien life forms in which a skeletal rhythm eventually appears. Deconstructed dub, club and jungle flavour the ensuing grooves which are heads down and dark. They evoke all manner of dystopian futures and make for a brilliantly unconventional ride.

Dekmantel Podcast

Dekmantel Podcast 375 - ADAB

Perhaps best known for his association with beloved dance music blog Truants, @riccardovillella is also one of our favorite DJs—with a streak of mixes that always feel like instant classics—and a staple of the broader dance music scene in his own right. Villella's penchant for community began on early dance music forums and extends into today's social media networks and elevating others through mixes and in-depth interviews on @truants. His mix for us, inspired by timeless mix CDs like those of Fabric and a 'spiritual successor' to his mix for our friends at @sure_thing, is also a vivid memory of teenage bike rides along the beach in 2006.

Read the interview and see a tracklist:
spontaneous.zone/051-villella

"For the last 11 years I’d been living in London and for a long time, I had no desire really to leave. People say you can call somewhere 'home' after living there for a duration of seven years, so I was well past and on my way. The last three years though, I had really burnt out quite hard creatively, and was kind of just trudging along. It took me a while to realize that I’d maybe needed a break away from London and the constant living for the weekend parties. Work had gone remote, so the option of moving back home to Brighton on the seafront for a temporary reset and to save some money seemed like the logical next step.

I was quite excited about moving back, as one of my friends Bobby had moved back home from London a year prior to also work remote, my friend Sean was still down there and had been making some really cool art recently so we’d been reconnecting, and my friend Sam who moved to Australia 10 years ago was going to be back for a short trip in Brighton this year for a couple weeks. This felt kind of important to me as, as we’d all be in the same city for the first time in a very long time, and these were people that made up my favourite summer ever - the year 10 one in 2006.

... We spent most of that summer going on these really long bike rides from Shoreham-by-Sea, past the cement factory before reaching Brighton beach, and just cycle as far as we could until the sun went down. Me and Bobby would pack our little MP3 players (think I had a Creative Zen Touch then) the night before with as much ‘feels’ music as we’d like to call it, anything that would make our cycles feel like an extended Michael Mann movie, or "LA Action" we’d say. There was just something quite life-affirming as a 16 year old, headphones in, cycling back as the sun sets after exploring some beach cave and you’ve got either of Fila Brazillia - "Subtle Body", Groove Armada - "Paris", or DJ Shadow - "Blood On The Motorway" playing in the background. It was all very Stand By Me in the most musically liberating way possible. I’ve caught myself thinking of those times a lot lately.

I’ve tried to channel a lot of those feelings quite subtly into my studio mixes over the years—hopeless nostalgia, bittersweetness, a sad euphoria—more so on ones where I’m trying to achieve something other than a club-mix. The Sure Thing mix comes to mind especially, but that was also very influenced by the techno aspect of the series and certain life events. Whilst this feels very much like a spiritual successor to that mix, I didn’t want to be so subtle with this one. It’s a straight ode to a single perfect 24 hours that summer, and all the tunes that I was listening to back then, plus some that capture that perfect world-at-your-feet, carefree, teen vibe for me. It covers many moods and feelings of a hot day down at the beach and the transition as the sun sets and you’re getting ready to dance the night away.

I’ve wanted to record something like this for a long time, something that kind of felt like a timeless mix CD, and think you gave me the best opportunity and timing in wanting to put it together, especially as I’ve been doing that same cycle route every other weekend whilst down here."

@riccardovillella / @truants

Spontaneous Affinity

Interview + Tracklist

Spontaneous Affinity #051: Villella

Amelia Holt | HÖR - Feb 28 / 2023

Connections in electronic music: the history of house and techno as presented to you by the wonderful Olly Chubb.

https://www.nts.live/shows/circuits/episodes/circuits-28th-march-2023

Circuits w/ Olly Chubb: Basic Channel Special 280323

@jockey_jay for our Double Trouble Takeover!

MSJY for Double Trouble on Refuge Worldwide

this 3 hours and 45 minute selection showcases 
musical blueprints of all rare Chicago and New York 
like the days of old mostly from the radio shows 
with disc jocks playing music mixes.

the 1st chapter is from the definitive days of 
house music from Traxx playing from the 
early 80s,90s and today from vintage and 
out of print  record labels trax, jes say and 
dancemania to multiple boyd jarvis and
timmy regisford productions but also 
material from Delroy Edwards, Steve Summers,
Modern Analysis and new material.

many thought this type of sound would never 
come again but we’ve been giving hints over 
the years that we hope this will give people 
the chance to listen to music many may have 
never heard on this side of sound that provides 
a provocative and thoughtful musical workout 
in your mind..

this musical timeline is literally all over the 
rhythm 🎵 scales ⚖️ with vinyl turntables.
a vintage mix console.effects box and cd players.

****more chapters to come in due time*****

{Traxx} Presents- The Definitive Articles of House Music Chapter 1

Recorded live @ Mansions 5/11. thanks to @threehz for inviting me out to open ahead of him & Clarisa @kimskii and to all the friends that showed out early on a Thursday for my New York debut :) 

Cover photo by JB
Mastered by @arn_j

Tracklist:
1. @hydrangeamusic - Mirror Fragment [@semantica-records]
2. @r-a-g-1 - Why Does It Hurt [@mosrecordings]
3. @Cyspe - Morning Revelations [@Lowless-Music]
4. Abby @Echiverri - Varzea [@MysteriesOfTheDeep]
5. @Bas-Dobbelaer & @Vand-music - Transit (@Donato-Dozzy Into Green remix) [Something Happening Somewhere @SoHaSo]
6. @Further-Reductions - Array [@knekelhuis]
7. @rRoxymore - Forward Flamingo [@DontBeAfraid]
8. @Agonis-amenthia - Spacejam (@ValentinoMora Deep Blue Rephase) [@Amenthia-Recordings]
9. Levon Vincent - Double Jointed Sex Freak [Novel Sound]
10. @iori927 - Acid Float [@Sungate-Records]
11. @BirdsOvParadise - Jet [@Hypnus Records]
12. @Cio-d-Or - Ur (Salz Remix)[@telrae]
13. Arling - Lateral Fold Embrace [@spontaneousaffinity]
14. Idra - @naturalelectronicsystem [@Midgar_Records]
15. @cowboyrhythmbox - 6AM Cowboy (@SharifLaffrey Deviation) [@PhantasySound]
16. @PeterVanHoesen - Coast to Coast [Time To Express]
17. PRG/M (@progra_m)- Lenta Ginestra (@4cr0nym Remix) [@sure_thing]
18. Guilt Attendant (@nathanielyoung )- Architecture of Suppression (@PPRZRecords)
19. @MikeHuckaby - The Tresor Track (@TresorBerlin)
20. Archivist (now known as half of @sageseattle) - Pathfinder (Eric @Cloutier Remix)
21. @Atom_TM - Canidrome 
22. @KondukuKonduku - Antippen [@NousklaerAudio]
23. RAC - Raindancer [@Warp-Records]

Live @ Dream/Self

Back on Refuge Worlwide, this time with CCL and R4R's tobha & luz celebrating the launch of Room 2 Glow, our upcoming collision with Subglow on July 7th and 8th in Berlin. 
Expect the cutest vibes and an extra stacked line-up!

Room 2 Glow at Refuge Worldwide with tobha & CCL - 21.06.2023

Techno Ruined My Life: The Hostile Ambient Takeover Mix (Excerpt)

Neptunian Influence Podcast, Twenty-Six | Featuring @adab

"3000 AD...

The Pan African Liberation Movement (P.A.L.M), having long since established a deep space orbital platform for Earth separatists in a dark region not too distant from Neptune, sends a recovery team to their deep space reliquary, “Osiris” on Neptune’s moon Larissa. It contains a multitude of PALM’s ancestral earth tribe’s sacred (and most secret) relics...

The shamanic council of elders foresaw that Larissa, on a slow spiraling orbit towards Neptune, would eventually start to shatter into a ring around the icy hot liquid giant...

The cataclysmic events have started, the operation is underway...

Extraction operators encounter a myriad of bizarre visual and auditory hallucinations during the mission as the moon slowly disintegrates into Neptune's noxious atmosphere of hydrogen, helium, and methane...

This is one." ~ADAB 

| Tracklist |
Logout Praises (Urawa x African Headcharge edit)
Da Boo - Spark this
Ambien Baby - Mari Posa
XCOR - Adelaar
Szare - It Was Sent To A Vault...
DJ JM - No Days Off
SYZ & LKY - Turbulence 
Zenker Brothers - Innef Ruins
Sister Zo (Unreleased)
Dorisburg - 135
TSVI - The Healer
Al Wootton - Omega
Shackleton - Let Go
Moving Ninja - Witchdokta
Pugilist - Syncopate
Kode9 & Daddi Gee - Stalker
Daniel Stefanik - Dambala Experience Pt.2
Timeblind - Extracate
Archetype - Roots Of The Rights
Black One - Digital Percussion Part 2
Sadesper Record - Nestic (Awakening)
Air Liquide - Antidrum
Subtonal - Harc

Note from Whipnotiq: One of my favorite things about this mix series are the stories that are cultivated from exploring Neptune's influence. I am elated to invite you on this journey, for which ADAB has exemplified the beauty and vastness of Neptune's impact. ADAB, affiliated with Cleveland's @heavenisinyou and @in-training parties, DJ'd at our third annual brunch during Movement Detroit this past May, and we are pleased to feature them in this capacity now. Meet you in the Great Dark Spot <3

MEDIA | https://www.factmag.com/2019/12/23/the-best-mixes-of-2019/?fbclid=IwAR0CEJPZ63BDrxco4TcXN-QPRDrKzjK2gyzmntRjn55JkIvCoQNtEgfTZZ4
https://www.theguardian.com/music/2019/jul/31/the-months-best-mixes-adab-russell-el-butler?fbclid=IwAR0zFM-0dzyMel7lqZAMm0MTr0ZFSu-1uQymuyB6sTaS1PLNdBxtoQAVyMg

NIP 26 | ADAB

Juanita's Mix 29 with deep creep @deepcreep88

Q. How would you describe yourself?
A. Slippery 90s trance enthusiast from the TX suburbs who likes to cook & doesn't drink coffee lol

Q. How long have you been a part of the NYC music scene?
A. So far 3 sweet years & hoping for at least 3 more-- I have been missing dancefloors & the homies who frequent them lately. It's really hard to imagine what winter in NYC will be like without a warm club to escape to.

Q. Tell us about this mix.
A. Delirious fucked up dub & slug club inspired by recent mix sessions with my bests (shoutout Cole, Kristin & Peter) over the summer.

Juanita's Mix 029: deep creep

bright companion clouds and dark vortices | curated by https://soundcloud.com/whipnotiq

neptunianinfluence@gmail.com 

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*TBA | Neptunian Influence in the Park, LBC

Is it reality or is it an illusion? With Neptune, it is hard to tell. Neptune's influence reaches further than the ordinary senses, so there may be aspects of extrasensory perception at work. Illusion, fantasy and dreams are the playing field here, and the spirit is the primary force. Leading to all things mysterious, Neptune's watery depths are associated with dreams, visions, and the imagination.

NIP 26 | ADAB

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