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friday at sustain-release 2021, 12-2am. thank you karen nicole for the photo :)

thank you @sustain-release-nyc

livwutang @ Sustain-Release Year 7

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IBU 600 from Imaginary Friend crew - very special guest mix and refuge debut. check out more bits here: https://soundcloud.com/user-785368649

PLO_radio // drizle.FM - Ep:003 PLO man, IBU 600 - 13.12.23

Live recording of Dj set - opening back up the grove stage 8pm-10pm on the 2nd night. Thank u SR team x

https://soundcloud.com/secondcousins

Cousin @ Sustain Release Year 10

livwutang - BFC ADE 2024: Trouble² at Tilla Tec

The third offering in our mix series is a live recording of Priori and Cousin's dj set at Sustain Release 2024. Recorded on the last morning between 6am and 1pm on what was meant to be an ambient stage, it featured everything a 3 day festival closing set should. Eclectic picks, strange and emotional sounds, dubious transitions and a few feigned endings. Massive thanks to all the dancers, the Sustain staff (Aurora, Ash and everybody else who put their blood, sweat and tears into this), the music makers, the birds, the stars. 

Much love,

P & C

@secondcousins x @priori-ties

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naffcast003 ⦾ Cousin & Priori ༻ Sustain Release 2024 Bossa Nova Stage closing set ༺ ❁

@earthdog_jek live at @sustain-release-nyc

ED038: Jek at Sustain-Release 2024

*recorded live in Field, ON at Best Out of Town Year 4 (09/01/24)

Ciel was gracious with her eight hours on the beach, offering an extended trip through house and techno’s touchpoints before dropping it down and bringing the whole festival together for a downtempo singalong. In truth, we’ve come to expect this fidelity and care from Cindy. Memories of old Geary Ave, 500 Keele, the grotto, and community radio rebound through these blends, solidifying her place as one of the Toronto underground’s biggest exports of the past half decade-plus. Take a listen and enjoy the ride.

@ciel_dj

Ciel // Best Out of Town Year 4 (09/01/2024)

Australian producer Cousin warms up for his performance at Horst Festival's Moon Ra stage.

Cousin @ Kiosk Radio 29.04.2025

CZ Wang

Based in New York, CZ Wang is a DJ, producer, and engineer with deep ties to Vancouver’s influential Mood Hut collective. Over the past decade, he has played a pivotal role in shaping underground sounds, both as a selector and behind the scenes, contributing his skills to collaborations with artists like Huerco S, Nick Len, Okay Kaya, Daniela Lalita, DJ Python, Ana Roxanne, Jack J, and untitled (halo).

He holds residencies at Public Records and Eavesdrop, and regularly performs at renowned festivals like Sustain-Release and Warm Up MoMa PS1. His sets can also be heard at iconic clubs including Nowadays, Bar Part Time, Sunday Sunday, and Renate.


CZ Wang 是一位駐紐約的 DJ、製作人與工程師，擁有深厚的 Mood Hut 廣受讚譽的溫哥華音樂集體背景。在過去十年中，他作為選曲人和音效工程師，對地下音樂場景產生了深遠的影響，並參與了 Huerco S、Nick Len、Okay Kaya、Daniela Lalita、DJ Python、Ana Roxanne、Jack J 和 untitled (halo) 等藝術家的合作。

他目前在 Public Records 和 Eavesdrop 擁有駐場 DJ 位置，並在 Sustain-Release、Warm Up MoMa PS1 等音樂節上演出，此外，還常常出現在 Nowadays、Bar Part Time、Sunday Sunday 和 Renate 等知名俱樂部。

CZ Wang @TOHA Radio 2025.04.29

A rare club mix from the ever-evolving artist, with 90 minutes of shadowy, atmospheric pressure.

Music's therapeutic value is often linked to relaxation—gongs, singing bowls and the like. Dense passages of foggy droning and eerie static aren't traditionally considered restorative, but Laurel Halo makes a pretty good case for it.

The Detroit-born, Los Angeles-based musician's abstract, often improvised productions are heavy on sound design and emotional climax. Driven by atmosphere rather than rhythm, they push listeners to grapple with their innermost insecurities, fears and dreams. "I'm lucky my music has helped people through crises," Halo once told Discwoman. It's easy to see why.

Since her 2010 debut King Felix, Halo has built a stunningly diverse catalogue of classically-informed records. A multi-instrumentalist—piano, violin, guitar, keys—her sharpest instrument is arrangement. Inspired by the surrealism of Italo Calvino and Apichatpong Weerasethakul, her releases, from Atlas to Behind The Green Door, unfold with slow-burning narrative and dense emotional weight. Her soundworlds are layered and labyrinthine—an architectonic space where self-reflection happens almost by force.

Even in the club, the sought-after composer excels in immersion. Her sets extend the expressionist palette of her records, trading traditional rhythm for tension, space and surprise. It’s no wonder she takes a genre-agnostic approach to the dance floor—her deep roots in freeform radio began at WCBN-FM in Michigan, followed by Berlin Community Radio, Rinse FM, and now a regular show on NTS.

RA.992 stitches foggy ambient loops, propulsive techno, mutant percussion and heady left turns with care. Tracks from DJ Rush, Octave One and Eddie Fowlkes nod to her Midwestern heritage, balanced out by deeper, psychedelic fare from the likes of Polygonia and Cousin. It's the mark of an artist revealing both deep curiosity and a precise hand as a selector. Rare, indeed.

@laurelhalo

Find the full interview at ra.co/podcast/992

RA.992 Laurel Halo

Despierta 20.08

The recording is from a night at Ohm back in March put on by Kontinuum and New World Dysorder. I remember feeling so comfortable with the space and the crowd who were up for good sound system pushing fun going freely through everything from d&b and elektro to freetek and jungle. Also shoutout to Ohm for always providing a solid vinyl setup!
---- @abnama

subglow/Live 5: Abnama @ Ohm

the 11th entry in our series come from a dear friend and label regular, Toronto based musician and DJ - @ciel_dj

Words from the artist :

"little sounds in huge expansive spaces"

This mix was my musical extrapolation of this quote. As I put together the tracks in the mix, the idea of small sounds in big spaces became more metaphysical, as a metaphor for memory and nostalgia. Small, seemingly insignificant events in our past can expand in significance over time, informed by our experiences later on in life, and with our emotions acting as a tool of reverberation, extending their presence in our lives far past their time of occurrence. What begun as a process of selecting tracks that quite literally feature "small sounds in big spaces" soon morphed into a dig into my distant past, to nearly 20 years ago when I first started learning to DJ. I pulled from the mnml tracks that had an important influence on my formative years, their impact can still be heard in the contemporary tracks I play today, all of them bouncing next to each other in this nearly 2hr musical collage.

naffcast011 ⦾  *̣̥☆·͙̥‧‧̩̥·‧•̥̩̥͙‧·‧̩̥˟͙ Ciel ˟͙‧̩̥·‧•̥̩̥͙‧·‧̩̥‧·͙̥̣☆*̣̥

3 hour set opening The Grove on Saturday night at Sustain-Release Year Eleven. thank you for listening :) 


tracklist:
Gigi - Abay
Translippers - Sun Temple
Blu - Midnight Bazaar
SUBSET - Decoded
Burland - Me So Love Ya (feat. Adotey Johnson)
African Head Charge - Hold Some More
Kondi Band - Yeanoh (Powe'hande Binga'dbe)
No Sir - Even The Flowers
Afrobuddha - Zone (drum mix)
Powder - Busy Port (Original Mix)
5ive - Planet Be
Daniel Haaksman, Paul St.Hilaire, Mad Professor - City Life  (Mad Professor Dub)
Sub Basics - Fluctuate (Original Mix)
Nga Tae - Whanau Puhi (Paddy Free Dub)
deep fried dub - Crispy Circuits
Sard & Anabasine - Frank Jasmine (unreleased)
Katiusha - The Sellout
DJ Hedoni$t - Untitled #5
Tamburi Neri, Off The Meds - Bolle di Dolore (Off The Meds remix)
Lurka - Signal
Appleblim - Wah Tin
KROTONE - Mr Law Man
Bandulu - Jahquarius
Deep Fried Dub - Tectonic Dubplate
Dapashu? - smokebreak (unreleased)
Instinct - Apache (x 0113)
breakcheck - Bicycle Kick
Kreggo - Bass Finger Villain
Mantra - Locked In, Locked On
DJ Distance - Dark Crystal
RSD - Recall
Sub Basics - Lift Off
deep fried dub - Subterranean Kastles
Commodo x Gantz - 89! Gloom
indigenous resistance - Free west Papua / Two Thousand Seasons Dub
IR: Indigenous Resistance & UR Underground Resistance - Krikati: Power Outage
Gary Martin - Mambo Elektro
Oprofessionell - Pull Up (bound 2 meet the taxman mix)
Bakongo + Scuba - Over Again (Hassan Abou Alam Percussive Tool)
Sputnik One, EMBY, Honeydrip - Sputnik One & EMBY - Supa Natural (Honeydrip & Spud Breaks Mix)
Om Unit - Righteousness (Original Mix)
Earl Grey - Wiretap
Breaka - Solaria
Lewis James - Kit 5000
Train To Eltanin + Dj Iodosan - F1 - 4 * Use Only
Austen - Medulla
Trancemaster - Blue Shost
Schacke - Paraphilic Love Map
Andy Martin - Codex Borgues
Katiusha - Intend
Adiel & Tamburi Neri - Silenzio
Dubrunner - Destination Unknown

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