For CoziMix 21 we welcome Brooklyn based DJ, Maharam. Maharam is an American DJ and co-organizer of Final Passage, a Brooklyn-based event series emphasizing leftfield curation across both club and deep listening environments. Maharam's affinity for deeper sound is rooted in the melancholic landscapes of his Pacific Northwest upbringing, as well as his background as a guitarist and jazz vocalist. After moving to New York seven years ago, Brooklyn's rich DIY scene has been central to his life, acting as a constant source of inspiration and connection. During this mix he takes us on an atmospheric journey which he recorded spontaneously at 6am on a snowy Sunday dawn at his friend's apartment in the lower east side. 'I wanted to play in my collection of emotive moody trip hop, ambient, and dubby sounds for the cold season.'

CoziMix Questions : 

1. How and why did you get into dj’ing?
Living in Brooklyn, I feel very spoiled by the talent that comes through the city, and I've been very fortunate to have friends with great taste that have led me to some beautiful events. I had been going out for many years before I ever considered DJing, and picking it up after so long was very natural. I had set aside a lot of my musical life after moving to NY in 2018, but rediscovering it through DJing in the context of the scene has been very inspiring. 

2. Who, What/where was your most coziest gig you've been to or experienced and why?
I went to an event at one of my favorite DIY spaces in the fall of 2024 put on by Ballet (shoutout 320 and Blessing). It was a cozy deep listening vibe, where people were lying on mats on the floor. I was really blown away by Significant Other, who played a set spanning shoegaze, folk, and dub, but with a feeling of tender loneliness that left some of the audience in tears. Its not often I experience sets that hold you in the way that one did. 

3. Do you consider yourself an introvert or extrovert in the scene?
I'm probably more of an extrovert, I really enjoy being out and running into people that I've been connected with through music.

4. If you had to choose 1 track to vibe out too forever, what would it be?
Takeo.K - 時々

5. What is your routine when preparing for a gig? Do you have any special remedies/ mental/physical prep/ places to go to? :)
I usually just spend time at home digging, mixing, and playing around in rekordbox, regardless of whether I have a gig or not. I have a pretty intense organizational system that I rely on quite a bit. I've also put a lot of work into my apartment lately, so I enjoy spending a lot of time at home :) 



CoziMix 21 : Maharam

For the newest instalment, i'm really happy to welcome the incredible Brussels-based AliA (@aliamusicc). The local mainstay is a regular on Kiosk radio and runs her own label - @artisjokrecords. Alyah, better known as AliA,  has an exciting & unique approach to dj'ing. She is known for her blend of contemporary club music with jazz, classical and experimental sounds. 

I find AliA's musical outputs incredibly refreshing - the kind of artist who reminds you what a really good DJ can do - they can present genres & sounds to you that you'd otherwise maybe not typically explore, in a new and exciting way. For her Animix, Alyah has gone for an intensely chill blend of ambient & immersive music, with minimal, glitchy, dub techno, jazz, classical sounds and more.

Thank you so much for the mix Alyah <3 

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Animix One Hundred & Seventy Seven: AliA

Playful sound explorations by Weird Science crew & guests.

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WEIRD SCIENCE with Shawn O'Sullivan @ The Lot Radio 07-31-2025

Palm Reader 12: agraybé 
“before, after, anthropocene”

Aired on VPN Radio on 08.21.25 
Revisited recording from our Palm Reader in-person night in June
Tracklist below
@agraybe
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Ariana's comment on her approach to the mix, and her accompanying photo  which is up on our IG [at] new.palm :

“This is a picture I snapped on a recent hike (very close but lucky safe from the Altadena wildfire destruction zone). The tangly dense vines hugging around a grove of trees symbolize to me an ecosystem free from the stains of humankind. In this set, I imagined the sounds of before, during, and after the Anthropocene. This set was cathartic because, in the process of layering these sounds, I reflected on feelings of climate grief and solastalgia. I hope you are able to listen on a walk or somewhere quiet 🍃”

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TRACKLIST
Enord – Refracted 
Intervalo Extensivo – Tuber
Ein Hauch einer Gartensitzung – Unjin
Part One – Pianeti Sintetici
Northern Atmosphere Ode To The Sea – Unjin
Solastalgia – agraybé
Aqui – Rambadu
Humid Zone – Acronym
Amphibious Spirits – Otodojo
Into The Void Where Things Grow – Samuel Rohrer
Areal 14 – Tobias, Doltz
Les chemins de l'inconnu – Katatonic Silentio
Liquid Tryptamine – Spekki Webu
Ambient Recorded Parts – Nathan Surreal
Explorations of Mouth – otodojo
Outro – Perko
Observatory – Monolake
The Surface Shines – Adhémar
Kalis At Love – Farron Damaad
Trace Unfold – Alka_Rex
Aux pieds du glacier – Catartsis & Ida
Watching Clouds – Monolake
Off Course – Sebastian Mullaert & Henrik Frendin
Inner Peace – BLNDFLD
Ballo Of Fire (object blue version) – Object Blue, Michal Turtle
Crystal – Sabla
NREM 1 – Void
Vast – Nikolay Kozlov

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~ experimental ambient for wayfinding in stillness ~

🤲

Palm Reader 12: agraybé

forwards and backwards through bits of a [mostly] electronic music timeline. reverence for BCR. records i’ve played forever and new records i’ve just found. boil it down. one z in drizle. 
Find the full tracklist and related episodes on NTS: https://www.nts.live/shows/drizlefm-w-plo-man/episodes/drizlefm-w-plo-man-21st-august-2025

drizle.FM w/ PLO MAN & Kudzu Audio 210825

Fav Midgar's ambient selector Lilli Zylka https://soundcloud.com/lilli-zylka opening the outdoor stage at our last summer open air, in collaboration with the French crew of Useless Seconds https://soundcloud.com/useless-seconds, taking place at Backsteinboot in Berlin Spandau.

Lilli Zylka at Midgar x Useless Seconds - Backsteinboot, Berlin 5th July 2025

the next mix in the series is pure dubwise profundity coming from @edenaurelius and @milliamusic

Some words from the artists :

“This mix is a live recording taken from Nowadays in April of this year for livwutang’s recidency, where we were invited to open for Deepchord as a part of a dub techno focused event here in New York. 

The three hour mix is the culmination of our shared inspirations - contemporary and classic, and our own interpretations of the genre itself.

We have b2b’ed many times over the past 10 years, and we feel this may be our favorite set so far - we hope you enjoy”

Art by Jesse Osborne-Lanthier

naffcast012 ⦾ ﮩ٨ـﮩﮩ٨ـ ✹ Eden Aurelius b2b Millia ✹ Nowadays (4.18.25) ✹  ﮩ٨ـﮩﮩ٨ـ

Marathon Man @ Annex / Open Ground 20th Sept 2025 (excerpt)

'Cosmic Veena' hums across the void like starlight turned to sound. Its strings shimmer between galaxies, weaving melody and silence into one breath. A meditation beyond time, where creation itself seems to listen.

Palm Reader 12: agraybé

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