These are just some of my favorite mixes. They make me go WOOWWWW, make me feel good and inspire me. But damn there's so many more mixes that I have not added to this list and are just up in my "likes". Enjoy!

Image Credit: Pumping Blood, 2018, Julie Mallis

a selection of gorgeous mixes

MIXES

Inciting bright companion clouds and dark vortices in our beloved Detroit during Movement 2019

Featuring @csouffront, @adab, @dj_leesh and @taylorbratches

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Neptunian Influence Detroit Brunch 2019

holiday

So pleased to welcome Pittsburgh based artist ADAB to the series with their second installment of "Dub Transmissions" ~ some words from them on the mix>>

"I wanted this mix to sound like it was coming from the deepest regions of space. A literal transmission (opposed to Vol. 1's more figurative name) from some far off starship where my black being is unbothered by Earth, it's bounds, and time. I selected tracks that I felt when sequenced together evoked the feeling of catching a chance radio burst from an unreachable place light years away that could break off into static and disappear back into the void forever. Everything in here for the most part sounds like it's coming apart at the seams a little bit, leaving you anticipating if this mix will fully disintegrate or evolve into something else..."

https://soundcloud.com/adab

Motion Cast Vol. 71: ADAB - "Dub Transmissions Vol. 2"

@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

10 years ago Carlos declared that there must be truth in advertising and pushed the original leaky warehouse No Way Back til 5 PM the next day. He has constantly evolved as a DJ, he always plays with great gravitas to whatever the given context. Here we find Carlos Souffront in his indigenous habitat - at No Way Back 2016 in the Ballroom of the Tangent Gallery, playing after Patrick Russell and before Derek Plaslaiko.

Interdimensional Transmissions Podcast

IT.podcast.s06e01: Carlos Souffront @ No Way Back, Tangent 2016

An experimental mix exploring the folk music of different regions of Iran
interview about the mix here: http://truantsblog.com/2018/interview-maral/

Voices from the Land of Iran

@adab


*** This mix is dedicated to the loving memory of Kendra Willis

Honey Soundsystem Potcast

HNYPOT 260: أدب‎'s Ancestor Syndrome

RA will return to host the GAIN stage at DGTL Amsterdam at the end of March.

13 acts will perform at GAIN BY RA across the two days. On Saturday, CC:DISCO! joins Honey Dijon, Mano Le Tough, Oceanic, Philou Louzolo and Australian house sensation Mall Grab, who'll go back-to-back with rising UK artist Or:la. The Sunday is similarly loaded with house and disco acts, as Phonox resident HAAi lines up alongside Oberman, Man Power, Nathan Fake (who will play live), Nightmares On Wax and Tom Trago (who'll play a disco set).

Ahead of his set for RA, Dutch selector Oceanic treats us to a mix that explores the full range of his repertoire.

RA / DGTL Amsterdam: Oceanic

HNYPOT 262: Kiernan Laveaux's Estrogenal Dissonance

Name: Miah Benton
Alias: أدب ADAB (@adab) 
Pronouns: they/them (gender neutral) 
Location: Cleveland

Influences: My ancestors, peers, and observation of the natural elements that surround us.

Affiliations/Residencies/Projects: Heaven is in You (co-founder), In Training (Resident), Disco Paradiso (Resident), Midwest Fresh (affiliate)

Favorite Quote: “Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced.” - James Baldwin

Advice for the DJs, producers and artists of our community: Community is key both to create anew and to deconstruct/change toxic systemic problems. Don’t let the politics that people try to apply to you along your journey deter you from having a communal being.

Daisychain

Daisychain 015 - أدب (ADAB)

The depth and breadth of Oakland-based DJ and producer Wonja's music collection is seemingly infinite. Both her solo mixes and her weekly b2bs as half of Herzog Hideout are tied together by a sense of playfulness and honesty, drifting seamlessly between dancefloor heaters and ambient soundscapes. For this mix, she's got plenty of tricks up her sleeve.

Read the full interview and see a tracklist:
spontaneous.zone/007-wonja.html

"I'm still learning how to mix live, so this took a few takes and rearranging the order to get right, but I really enjoyed the process. I wanted to challenge myself a bit by mixing more rhythmically complex tracks and tracks with syncopation or swing. Overall I wanted to convey a sense of fun and energy with the mix. Every track has a playful element, like a tricky little irregular sound or vocal samples.

I recorded the mix in my home studio where Dan (DJML) and I stream weekly as Herzog Hideout on chew.tv."

@wonj

Interview

Spontaneous Affinity #007: Wonja

It only takes one listen to a mix from Cleveland's @adab to sense that there's something special brimming beneath the surface. That something is embedded right in the moniker, a promise of sorts to focus on generating collective positivity: "adab by its definition is highlighted by using individual expression to enrich the infrastructure of community." As a co-founder of Cleveland's Heaven Is In You party, a resident of In Training, and a traveler gracing the decks of many of our favorite U.S. underground queer parties, ADAB strives to embody just that.

Read the full interview and see a tracklist:
spontaneous.zone/016-adab.html

"The idea for this mix started with me wanting to focus on filtering some of the current societal/existential anxiety I feel as a black non binary amab individual into an ecstatic, drummy set of tracks. I start with a clip from the film “12 Years a Slave” of a spiritual being sung called “Roll, Jordan, Roll”. In this scene the main character, enslaved after being born free, is focused on in the cinematography as he clearly accepts the reality of possibly never escaping while singing this song. This spiritual was historically adopted by enslaved African Americans as a coded message for escape. This is the guide post of the mix and I hope it aligns the orbits of the tracks that follow to display a sincerely black sonic narrative.

As far as Gear, I recorded with a pair of CDJ 900’s and a DJM 850 Mixer in my basement between two monitors and a sub."

@adab / @heavenisinyou / @in-training

Spontaneous Affinity #016: ADAB

Neptunian Influence Podcast, Twenty-Five | Featuring @taylorbratches

In anticipation of the third annual Neptunian Influence party during Movement in Detroit, we are delighted to present a mix by one of the DJs who will be serving up your musical brunch! Feast your ears on this Detroit-inspired soundscape for which Taylor Bratches says she put her "best electro foot forward."

A lifelong poet and dancer, her relationship to rhythm is intimate and ever-evolving. By creating dynamic sets that range from breakbeat, electro, IDM and leftfield techno to more polyrhythmic and arhythmic varieties of dance music, she seeks to curate an experience for the mover that is both embodied and transcendent, terrestrial and extraterrestrial. She curates the podcast Walking and Falling, an extension of the Chicago-based / Smartbar-affiliated collective and mentorship program for female-identifying and non-binary DJs.

Catch her at our party in Detroit this Saturday, May 25 alongside Carlos Souffront, ADAB and Leesh. On June 14, she'll debut at Smartbar alongside Powder, Kiddo & Sassmouth for Walking and Falling. 

Taylor and I met at the Walking and Falling mentorship program in October 2017 and we've been friends ever since. Cheers to our friendship and musical bond! 

| Tracklist | 
Arpanet - Gravitational Lens
Simo Cell - Storm Seven
Lithium Parasites - Sadomasochism
Versalife - Normal Behavior?
London Modular Alliance - Brockie Dek
Anthony Rother - Hacker
Andrea Parker - Invasion
Detroit in Effect - Work It
Kris Wadsworth - Infiltrator
Illektrolab - Amnesia Hazed
Pip Williams - Outer Limits
214 - Windeye
London Modular Alliance - Advance and Proceed
Skee Mask - Junt
Versalife - Q/AD
214 - Potential Events
Main Engine - Aes Khana

Meet you in the Great Dark Spot <3

NIP 25 | Taylor Bratches

San Francisco based since 2011, Carlos Souffront has been wowing crowds with his profound love of music, adventurous selections and creative and thoughtful approach to DJing since the mid 1990s. Renowned as a DJs DJ Souffront gained his first residency in ‘95 at Zoot’s Coffeehouse in Detroit and has gone on to be closely associated with a number of legendary US parties including Interdimensional Transmissions’ infamous No Way Back events, The Bunker in New York and San Francisco’s Honey Soundsystem. Proclamations visible on The Internet name Souffront as possessing the greatest collection of acid records on the planet whilst The Bunker’s Derek Plaslaiko states that Souffrant is the greatest DJ in the solar system. So, for our latest podcast we’re undoubtedly in very good hands indeed. We managed to share some words with Carlos about his current modus operandi, his style of DJing and how he’s managed to keep it fresh from those first humble beginnings in Detroit city through to today.

Read the interview, full tracklist and more info at home: https://digital-tsunami.org/music/dt/167-carlos-souffront

Digital Tsunami 167

Digital Tsunami 167 - Carlos Souffront

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

Read our interview with @d-tiffany and check out this mix's track list here: bit.ly/TiffPod

Groove Podcast 216

Groove Podcast 216 - D. Tiffany

Soft contours and loose grooves.

Read more here: https://www.residentadvisor.net/podcast-episode.aspx?id=686

@russellelbutler

Resident Advisor podcast

RA.686 Russell E.L. Butler

Thanks to all the listeners over the past 20 years and 1000 shows!! 
Tonights show was all about playing some of the BIS favorites from 1999 to
2019. special thanks to everyone that called into the BIS Hotline (646-481-8189) and left a message: Pablo Castoldi, Achim/Prosumer, Jennifer Cardini, Saheer & Asya, Jex, Will & Nichole Geddes, Alex From Russia, Alex From Florida, Andrew from Madison/Wisconsin, Greg Oreck, Derek De, Justin Van Der Volgen, John Sweeney, Snuffo, Jacek Jan, Chen Mosco, Zoe Nightingale, Jimmy B in SF, DJ Jack, Nick in Sydney, G'day from other Aus person, Andre in SF, Paul from Philly, Augustus in Bristol, Julie in Germany, Kyle in Hawaii, Albert in DC, Billy, Ruby, Mexico City listener, guy who heard the show at NYU from his professor, whoever left that message at the start of the show... Shadi for the photos! Eug, Shuhei, Max Pask, Yibing Guo for stopping by....  See you next Tuesday.

https://beatsinspace.net/playlists/1000/
http://www.patreon.com/beatsinspace

1. The Juan Maclean - Human Disaster - DFA Records
2. Quiet Village - Pillow Talk - Whatever We Want Records
3. Cassius - 20 Years (Do You See Me Now) - Virgin
4. DJ Nature - Destiny Reprise - Golf Channel Recordings
5. Metro Area - Piña - Environ
6. KZA - Le Troublant Acid (Original Mix) - Endless Flight
7. Dølle Jølle - Balearic Incarnation - Permanent Vacation
8. Bryan Ferry - Midnight Train (Idjut Boys House Mix) - BMG
9. E.D. - Counterfeit Paradise (Mark E Doomsday Transition) - MERC
10. Padded Cell - Unknown Zone - DC Recordings
11. Mim Suleiman - Maso Maso - BubbleTease Communications
12. Mickey Moonlight - Interplanetary Music (Dub) - Multi Culti
13. The Laughing Light Of Plenty - The Rose - Whatever We Want Records
14. Man Tear - Outside Amore - DFA Records
15. Invisible Conga People - Cable Dazed - Italians Do It Better
16. Sascha Funke - Purple Hill - Endless Flight
17. Shit Robot feat Saheer Umar - I Got A Feeling (Original Mix) - DFA Records
18. Parple - Sacred - Hivern Discs
19. Simple Symmetry - Voodoo Your Ex - Disco Halal
20. K.I.M. - Kim Kong - Tigersushi
21. Tornado Wallace - Zorn Gottes - Animals Dancing
22. Gatto Fritto - The Curse - International Feel Recordings
23. Sidwho? - Violet Run (Jamie Paton Edit) - Utopian State
24. Hercules & Love Affair - You Belong (Sweeney Edit)
25. Kelley Polar - Ashamed of Myself - Environ Records
26. King So So - Disco in the Sky - Hippie Dance
27. Ess O Ess - Cantillate (Suzanne Kraft Remix) - Not An Animal Records
28. Lauer - HR Boss - Live at Robert Johnson
29. Sfire - Sfire 3 (John Talabot's Tribalist Remix) - CockTail D'Amore
30. Mike Simonetti - Release Your Body to the Best - 2MR
31. Jex Opolis - Studio E - Good Timin'
32. Levon Vincent - Woman is an Angel - Novel Sound
33. Omar S - Heard'Chew - FXHE Records
34. Theo Parrish - Synthetic Flemm - Sound Signature
35. Moodymann - I'll Provide - KDJ
36. Steffi - Yours feat. Virginia - Ostgut Ton
37. J.T.C. - Beats in Space - Shaddock Records ‎
38. Abe Duque - What Happened? - Abe Duque Records
39. Matias Aguayo - Walter Neff - Kompakt
40. Lipelis - Children Song - Animals Dancing
41. The Lift Boys - Anarchy Way (Original Mix) - Smalltown Supersound
42. Mu - Let's Get Sick - Output
43. Barnt - Ariola Cologne Megamix - Comeme
44. Permanent Vacartion - Zuckerhut (TBD Remix) - Permanent Vacation 
45. Sharif Laffrey - Always - Discos Capablanca
46. Anthony Naples - OTT - ANS
47. Justin Van Der Volgen - Sketch 2 - My Rules
48. Prosumer & Murat Tepeli - Makes Me Wanna Dance - Ostgut Ton
49. Superpitcher vs The Congosound - Say I'm Your Number One (Superpitcher Remix) - Kompakt Pop
50. Roman Flügel - Sliced Africa - Dial Records
51. Axel Boman - Nokturn (Grand Finale) - Pampa Records
52. Efdemin - Parallaxis (Traumprinz Over 2 The End Remix) - Dial Records
53. The Creams - Let's (Justin Van Der Volgen Dub) - My Rules
54. Sfire feat Marcella - Sfire 1 Tape Edit - Sfire
55. Pachanga Boys - Fiesta Forever Street Marimbas - Hippie Dance

beatsinspace.net

BIS Playlist

BIS Radio Show #1000 with Tim Sweeney

Full tracklisting available here: link.bleep.com/Bleep-Mix-71-Logos

Logos has been releasing some of the most engaging leftfield dance music to come out over the last few years. His Different Circles label that he runs with longtime collaborator Mumdance has been consistently unique and has provided a platform for other artists operating in a similar sphere such as Chevel, Szare and Raime.

For his Bleep mix Logos provides a varied and eclectic take on the current state of electronic music and gives us an insight into the sounds that make him tick.

@logos262

Full Tracklist

Bleep Mix #71 - Logos

Juanita's Mix 018 with ADAB @ADAB

Q. How would you describe yourself? (DJ, producer, artist, etc.)
A. I think ADAB is definitely more of an intention to be conjured then a singular moniker for a person. It’s an instance of exploring self/collective through an array of sounds from or influenced by cultures of color and the worlds they influence at large (which are quiet a few). It's also intended to be a direct expression of afrofuturism. A humble attempt to make sets and mixes made for emboldening and envisioning future instances of pan african and POC beauty in dance music.


Q. Any memorable club nights in NY? 
A. My latest memorable club night in NYC is also the last one I was able to spin live before everything shut down. I played Public Records alongside my dear friend CCL and it was a much needed gig/trip. We played a lot of drummy stuff we both love throughout the night and eventually ended on a Jungle/DnB note which was a dream to do with them. The crowd was super into it, outwardly showed love the entire time, and danced their asses off the whole time. It was a blast!


Q. Tell us a little bit about this mix.
A. I decided to finally explore a lot of my 90-100 bpm percussive stuff that I’ve accumulated over time for this one. Up until now almost all my mixes have been above or around 130 bpm so it was nice to slow it down and mess around with this section of my collection. Definitely intended to be a psychedelic hip churner! There's also a few dear homies like CCL, Flora FM, Ali Berger, & Russell E. L. Butler in here as well so big shouts to them for some of these lovely tracks <3 Enjoy!

Juanita's Mix 018: ADAB

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

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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.