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Nowadays Live And Direct

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Here we are with a recording from the first (but certainly not last) time Kiernan Laveaux graced the decks at Nowadays back in September of 2021. In it you’ll find so much of what we’ve come to love about the T4T LUV NRG affiliate: swarming percussion, freaky and frenetic psychedelia, otherworldly groove, a captivating sense of narrative, and so much more. 

This mix is a two and a half hour segment from her closing set, after DJ Voices and Azu Tiwaline earlier in the night. Packed to the brim with moments of tension and release, it makes for one truly wild and mesmerizing ride. The home listener is likely to find it just as enchanting as the dancers did. 

Big thanks to our staff and all those in attendance on this night <3

Nowadays Live and Direct 014 - Kiernan Laveaux

Carlos Souffront @ Plunge 9-14-13. Edited excerpt due to recording issues.

Derek Plaslaiko Interview of Souffront: http://tinyurl.com/k36o8hu

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AYLI Podcast #30 - Carlos Souffront

We’re very excited to present the first Live & Direct of 2023, courtesy of our Pittsburgh-based residents Honcho. 

This one was recorded live at Nowadays on the first weekend of January, to a room of smiling faces for whom the festive nature of the new year had clearly not worn off. It's two hours of the crew in pure form, with all three DJs locked into the same irresistible groove. George, Aaron and Clark have a knack for uniting their own unique styles to present a cohesive vision of chugging, sexy house music, and here it is on full display. Big thanks to Honcho for letting us share this with the world!

In addition to the killer music from both Honcho and Father Dukes, this night was especially memorable thanks to everyone in attendance contributing to the friendly and joyful vibe, from the dancers to the staff and everyone in between. A big thanks is due to you all as well!

Nowadays Live and Direct 015: Honcho

For years now, an old recording of Jeffrey Sfire at Cocktail D'Amore's one and only cosmic hole was one of the highest references for us in terms of downtempo Italo sleaze - an almost 6 hours recording serving more like a PhD aural dissertation specialized in some of the most remarkable dancefloor digs (mainly Europe) had to offer in the 80s at under 115BPM. To be able to share it publicly on the HAND Mix Series as we reach number 50 is a huge honor and we're greatly thankful to Giacomo and Giovanni, the two cuties behind Discodromo that made this possible. We hope you can appreciate it as much as we have over these past years. Here it is HAND #50 featuring the unique sleazy wizardry of Jeffrey Sfire captured in a special moment in time during the moist and lubricated atmospheres of Cocktail, now online - listen carefully! Big thanks to Jeffrey for all the amazing research and excellence in cosmic Jockeymanship ❤️❤️❤️

H.A.N.D. MIX 050 Jeffrey Sfire

There’s 8,000 miles between the Midwest and Somaliland but if you close your eyes, for a moment, you can feel the bumps of the taxi on unpaved road traveling between Hargeisa to Gashamo, the lyrical Somali language passing around the cabin. Minnesotan Somali-American DJ and founder of UNBOTHERED, a party magnifying the best in the underground, YASMEENAH paints a colorful image in 63 minutes.

To read the full interview, head to our Substack: https://moods.substack.com/p/moods-66-yasmeenah

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We paired YASMEENAH's mix with Marie Watt's Skywalker/Skyscraper (Axis Mundi). 

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Moods 66: Yasmeenah

Available on Audio Cassette and digital download directly from the label’s Bandcamp: https://cclurl.bandcamp.com/album/a-night-in-the-skull-discotheque

Side A: Bass is Eternal
Side B: 2-step Mutual Dream

A Night in the Skull Discotheque by the beloved underground selector CCL is the latest offering in the T4T LUV NRG label’s highly limited DJ mix series of cassettes. This immersive journey through a wonderland of proto-dubstep sounds from the late 1970s through the year 2000 is a sonic sibling to CCL’s acclaimed 2018 mix Ode to Queer Steppas.

Inspired in part by Eris Drew’s use of “old records to create new styles out of fragments” on her Raving Disco Breaks Vol. 1 mixtape (T4T LUV NRG, 2019), CCL approached this recording with a parallel frame of mind. Created with 3 CDJs, one Turntable, and a Boss Digital Delay 200, the tracks included in the mix are deconstructed from their whole, and constituent parts are intertwined, sampled, and dubbed out while being further stretched beyond their physical limits. CCL mixed many tracks at the 'wrong speed', pitched beyond their original recognizable tone; others are recontextualized through imaginative layering.

With a solid nod to seminal mixtapes of the early 90s, CCL references the namesake for Side A, Bass Is Eternal, an unreleased 1992 mixtape by influential Bristolian producers Smith & Mighty, an important sonic fulcrum amongst the musical tributaries of the hardcore continuum that continues to reverberate to this day. CCL experienced the after-effects of this ‘proto’ sound genesis in 2008, while living in Bristol, by which point its emergent whispers had coalesced into what became known as dubstep. Tracing a rich history of reference through the samples, basslines, moods, and drum patterns emanating from Bass Is Eternal while looking for connections that predate it became a long-term fascination for CCL. The result is a DJ mix that connects the oft-forgotten dots between proto eras and modern developments in bass and dubstep.

For the resulting sonic ride on A Night in the Skull Discotheque, CCL leads us to a fantastical place of timeless surreality – a majestic haunted dancehall soundtracked by a giddy rush of steppers and dubbed-out delights. Subs rattle through syncopated percs, and moody synths glisten in macabre glory. Fantastical dancers wriggle in wispy eternity, liberated from their corporeal forms in all their greatest spiritual wonder. Both extravagant and dusky, A Night in the Skull Discotheque is a world of seductive in-betweens, a place caught between the moodiest depths and the highest exuberance – A love letter to one of the most impactful formative sounds of the last decades.


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A portion for the proceeds from this release will go to fundraiser "SUPPORT PALESTINIAN SOLIDARITY IN EUROPE!". You can also directly donate via:
https://www.gofundme.com/f/support-palestinian-solidarity-in-europe
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Tape design: Nina Muro
Mastering: TJ Hertz
Additional tape mastering: Eris Drew
Photography: CCL 
Linear notes: Nevan Jio

A Night in the Skull Discotheque [T4T015]

CCL - A Night in the Skull Discotheque

Veronica Vasicka presents a monthly 2-hour show featuring the lost synth-wave treasures she has archived from the late 70s and early 80s, along with other iconic underground electronic music drawn from over four decades. Expect to hear exclusive tracks from releases on her seminal Minimal Wave and Cititrax labels plus cassette-only and private press rarities. 
https://www.nts.live/shows/veronica-vasicka/episodes/veronica-vasicka-23rd-january-2024

Minimal Wave w/ Veronica Vasicka - Silent Servant Tribute 230124

This is Part 2 of my Mystery of the Motherbeat series of DJ mixes. I’ve wanted to record this mix for a long time as a follow-up to my 2018 mix by the same name. Both are a fusion of styles used to build a psychedelic hypnotic soundscape for deep listening and personal synchronization with the heart of Motherbeat. No big hands in the air moments to speak of here, just deep mixing and some of the most beautiful records in my collection. My Journal of the Motherbeat Substack explores the selections and intentions behind this 2 hour and 19 minute mix: https://journalofthemotherbeat.substack.com/p/notes-on-a-dj-mix. The track list is below.

1. LaTour - Blue (XX Records, 1992)
2. @geotaguchi - Deep Blue  (Coymix, 2023) 
3. Caldera - 30 Friends (Freude Am Tanzen, 2022)
4. Y.M.C. - Subway (Yoshitoshi Recordings, 1998) 
5. Brian Tanseau - Relativity (Carl Craig Urban Affair Dub, 1993)
6. @satoshi_tomiie - Un Peu (Abstract Architecture, 2023)
7. @edmondsonandon - On & On (Lissoms, 2023) 
8. Cris. P - Lemon (Psy Section, 2021)
9. @dreamcycleuk - All the Things (Idle Hands, 2021) 
10. Yaw Evans - Only Spirit (GD4YA, 2022) 
11. Todd Edwards - Winter Behavior (i Records, 1995)
12. Toka Project - One Day (Filter Flow, 1999)
13. Brian Eno - Fractal Zoom  (Mary’s Birthday Mix) (Opal Records, 1992)
14. Thurlow Joyce - Varial (NAFF, 2023)
15. Hoodwink  - Trip From The Hip (Mute, 1997)
16. The Heavyweight Kru  =  The Drea-mm (Not On Label, 1999)
17. @perkopair - Prang (Numbers, 2023)
18. Way Out West - The Gift (album version) (Deconstruction, 1997)
19. Anunaku @gu_tsvi - Celeste (WHYT, 2023)
20. Head High - Break Away (Power House, 2023)
21. Kenny Dope - Tom Beat (Dopewax, 2005)
22. S.R. - Dosemeter (Ruffset Records, 2022)
23. Knopha - Corundrum (Mood Hut, 2023)
24. Molen - Molecular Machine (Flight Mode, 2023)
25. Satoshi Tomiie - Proody-106 (Phonogramme, 2023)
26. DJ Tonka - Radical Noise (Force Inc., 1995)
27. Ruffneck Revival - My Knight VI (Not on Label, 1999)
28. Ruffneck Revival - My Knight VII (Not on Label, 1999)
29. Transformer 2  - Fruit of Love (Profile, 1992)
30. American Freedom Train - Cab Ride (Soundbird, 1975)
31. Way Out West  - Earth (Deconstruction, 1997)

Eris Drew’s Mystery of the Motherbeat Part 2

Nowadays Live and Direct returns after a long hiatus with a 5-hour recording from Carlos Souffront (@csouffront), recorded from 10 am - 3 pm at our Halloween Nonstop party on October 29, 2022. Carlos returns to Nowadays for another Nonstop set this weekend, playing from 3 pm to 6 pm Sunday afternoon.

A regular at Interdimensional Transmissions' No Way Back parties in Detroit and beyond, Carlos Souffront brings a brilliant sense of creative alchemy to the decks, combining years of experience and digging with a sensibility like no other. Abstract rhythms meld together into inexplicable chaos magic. Dark, shadowy selves emerge, ready to be explored with a sense of mischief and playfulness, carried through by an acid bassline or cheeky vocal.

For this extended Halloween set during the real witching hours, Carlos summoned all of the party gremlins, goblins, and ghouls to the Nowadays dancefloor for the ultimate seance.

Nonstop: 3/9-3/10

Nowadays Live and Direct 016: Carlos Souffront

This installment of Live & Direct features the opening segment of a set that Russell E.L. Butler (@russellelbutler), played alongside NIKS on June 2, 2023.

"Reggae music is a teacher. I’ve learned about spaces between short moments through this music. I’ve learned to listen through this music. I’ve learned how to connect with others through love and consideration through this music. I’ve learned that every moment is the beginning and the end and how to listen for the space in between. I’ve learned that no matter how far away home is, you can always find a way back." — @russellelbutler

Russell E.L. Butler returns to Nowadays for an all-night set this Friday, April 19, 2024.

All Night: 4/19

Nowadays Live and Direct 017: Russell E.L. Butler

This installment of Live & Direct features a portion of a set from Donis (@donis-bk), played at their residency on December 13, 2024, opening the night which also featured special guest Kai Alcé.

Anyone who’s been to one of Donis’s residency nights can tell you that the expressive, energetic style of house dancing emblematic of New York’s house music heyday is not yet a lost art, even if dance battles and baby powder are no longer a common sight on today’s dancefloors. A Dominican DJ and producer born and raised in Brooklyn, Donis equally embraces tradition and innovation in their approach to house, techno, and beyond.

“I think there is a huge lack of actual dance culture specifically within the younger generation of club-goers. A big goal of mine with the residency is to cultivate space for that. I see parties as conversations between DJ and dancer, one-sided conversations are never fun.” – Donis, from an email interview in September 2023

This coming Friday, January 17, Donis returns to the club alongside Baltimore’s Karizma. 

1/17: Donis & Karizma

Nowadays Live and Direct 018: Donis

Chicago native Justin Long asked me not to write a description for his mix here, but if we didn't it would do him somewhat of a disservice, so we'll try to keep it short and sweet.

Justin has been playing around Chicago for a long ass time and has seen clubs like Medusa's and countless others come and go. He has been influenced by that lineage of great djs in the city coming up in the 80s, has taken his cues, and expanded on them developing his own unique and amazingly dynamic style of playing records in a club. He's held a resident slot at Chicago's Smartbar for 10 years plus (right?) and his Hugo Ball party is one of the only events bringing in true cutting edge djs and producers, from the U.S. to play. So without further talk we let Justin's mix speak for itself...hear this veteran do his thing...

L.I.E.S. podcast-026 Justin Long, July 2015

Carlos Souffront - Live at Honey Soundsystem [12-11-2011]

Welcome to a new episode of SlamRadio! This week we welcome Techno producer and CLR boss's Chris Liebing with a special set recorded live at our Pressure night in Glasgow. Enjoy it!

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#SlamRadio - 234 - Chris Liebing (Pressure, Mar2017)

2017 is going to be a pivotal year for P.E.A.R.L. with the release of his first album 'Temptation through Impatience' to be in all stores this spring on his very own Falling Ethics and his addition to the PoleGroup family. Highly recommended, interesting and solid, powerful music. One to watch.

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P.E.A.R.L.

#SlamRadio - 238 - P.E.A.R.L.

Oscar Mulero is a techno producer and DJ from Madrid, in charge of successful record labels Pole Recordings and Warm Up Recordings. He began his career as a DJ at the end of the 80’s in Madrid, in the most experimental clubs of the city and soon ended up playing at the legendary Spanish club New World. In 1996, as a part of famous Sonar festival, the name of Oscar Mulero appeared among the list of international underground djs such as Richie Hawtin, Laurent Garnier and Jeff Mills. Since 1998, Oscar Mulero has released four studio albums and over 30 EPs on the labels like Tresor, Token, Semantica and his very own Warm Up and Pole Recordings. Beside this, he has developed a fully audiovisual experience with his “Light & Dark AV Set”, tested live in some of the best festivals around. His alter ego,Dr. Smoke also gained strength during this period as a showcase of Oscar’s open and eclectic vision as a music selector, moving deep into territories such as electro, dub and IDM.

His picks for Bassiani Podcast are pretty much what you might expect from the techno heavyweight, such as Oscar Mulero - an atmospheric, dynamic and moody compositions that keep the hype and energy from the beginning till the very end. Following an intense first 30 minutes, the latter half sinks into even more noisy and aggressive staff capturing Mulero’s special approach to techno aesthetic.

ესპანელი პროდიუსერი და DJ, მადრიდის ტექნო სცენის ერთ-ერთი ყველაზე მნიშვნელოვანი წარმომადგენელი. დაკვრა 80-იანების დასასრულს, მშობლიურ ქალაქში დაიწყო, ძირითადად ექსპერიმენტულ კლუბებში ერთმანეთისგან განსხვავებული ჟანრის მუსიკას უკრავდა, შემდეგი ნაბიჯი კი მადრიდის ლეგენდარული კლუბი New World აღმოჩნდა. Oscar-ის კარიერის ყველაზე საინტერესო ეტაპის დასაწყისი 1996 წელს და ფესტივალ Sónar Festival-ს უკავშირდება, როდესაც მისი სეტი Jeff Mills, Laurent Garnier და Richie Hawtin-ის გვერდით გაჟღერდა, მისი უნიკალური ტექნიკა და სელექცია კი მსოფლიო მაშტაბით გახდა ცნობილი. 1998 წელს პირველი ჩანაწერი/მიქსი, About Discipline And Education გამოსცა, რომელშიც შესული იყო: Jeff Mills, Surgeon, Luke Slater Joey Beltram, Regis და სხვა ცნობილი არტისტების ტრეკები. გამოშვებული აქვს 4 ალბომი და 40-მდე EP, ისეთ ლეიბლებზე, როგორიც არის მისივე დაარსებული Pole Recordings (2004) და Warm Up Recordings(2000), ასევე DETROIT UNDERGROUND,Tresor, Token Records, Semantica Records, Modularz, Mord Records და ა.შ. აღსანიშნავია მისი DJ სეტების სერია Light & Dark AV Set, რომელიც აუდიოვიზუალურ გამოცდილებას ქმნიდა. Oscar Mulero (oficial)-ს ალტერ ეგოს მისი პროექტი Dr.Smoke წარმოადგენს, რომელიც ძირითადად ელექტრონიკაზე, დაბზე და IDM-ზე არის ორიენტირებული.

ოსკარ მულეროს  სელექცია Bassiani Podcast-სთვის ზუსტად ისეთია, როგორსაც შეიძლება ესპანელი ტექნო ლეგენდისგან ველოდოთ - ატმოსფერული და კინემატიკური ჟღერადობის კომპოზიციები მიქსს თავის დინამიკას ბოლომდე უნარჩუნებენ. მიუხედავად იმისა, რომ სეტის პირველი ნაწილი საკმაოდ ენერგიული და ინტენსიურია, მეორე ნაწილში ესპანელი არტისტი  კიდევ უფრო აგრესიულ, ინდუსტრიული ჟღერადობის ტრეკებს გვთავაზობს, რითაც კიდევ ერთხელ უსვამს ხაზს თავის მუსიკალურ გემოვნებას.

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BASSIANI PODCAST SERIES

Bassiani invites Oscar Mulero / Podcast #27

We welcome Raffaele Attanasio for a podcast today. Pianist, arranger, producer and live set veteran: At the moment he's working on a new project called “ LʼEstasi dellʼOdio “, a project based on soundtracks, with this project it will be an album and a special Live set in a theater, he's also working on other EPʼs for Krill Music as X501 in August, and will start his album “ Everything “ due out the next year on his own label “Letters From Jerusalem “

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#SlamRadio - 254 - Raffaele Attanasio

Read our interview with Pär @grindvik and check out this mix's track list here: bit.ly/PaerPod

Groove Podcast 138

Tracklist

Groove Podcast 138 - Pär Grindvik

Name: Glenna Fitch
Alias: sold (@soldchicago)
Pronouns: they/them
Location: Chicago

Influences: Eris Drew, Bill Converse, Carlos Souffront, Antenes, Kiernan Laveaux, Justin Long, Hi-Vis, my brother Ian

Affiliations/Residencies/Projects: Hugo Ball and Houspit-Chi, Gramaphone, Neon Falls, Relate

Favorite Quote: "Listening is a spiritual path. The more you listen, the more you learn" Pauline Oliveros

Advice for the DJs, producers and artists of our community: Find veterans to help you by going to their parties and volunteering to work for them. Once you're established, use your position to help others.

Tracklist - https://www.facebook.com/DaisychainPodcast/posts/412447812512829

Daisychain

Daisychain 012 - SOLD

The ever-evolving artist shows yet another side of his sound. 

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@keinobjekt

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RA.650 Objekt

A lesson in ambient DJing.

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RA.689 sold

Skee Mask - ISS004

A1. Juug
A2. Slow Music
B1. RZZ
B2. Play Ha
B3. Sphere In Total

Unstoppable Fruity Brain Benders

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ISS004 SKEE MASK - ISS004

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Carlos Souffront at AYLI: Made In Detroit 09.14.12

25th of January 2003 at Fink Club -
http://www.substancenights.com/
Next Stop:
http://holywater.wordpress.com/next-holy/
pt.2 :
http://soundcloud.com/hunee/carlos-souffront-at-substance-nights-pt-2


Carlos Souffront visits Substance Nights. pt 1

We have Carlos Souffront, perhaps the true lord of acid returning from the depraved depths of the San Francisco underground to unleash his unique moody vision, killing it in his closing set for IT's Come Feel The Acid party on March, 3, 2013 (3/03). His first set warming up for Tin Man was also stellar, but that pure late night intensity really shines through on this mix. His first song is Hieroglyphic Being's "The Lost Transmission", mixing out of BMG playing Erika's "Tow Ride (Marcellus Pittman Remix)."

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IT.podcast.s02e06: Carlos Souffront @ Come Feel The Acid (3-03-13) set 2

Live recordings from the Nowadays dancefloor in Ridgewood, New York City.