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In the fabric of New York's club scene, Kristin Malossi – @latenitesbookclub – is a crucial thread. As DJ Voices, her sets favour "energy and drama over genre". As one of the bookers at underground institution Nowadays, she champions artists who imbue their selections with authenticity and adventure. Alongside her 90-minute Recognise mix, she tells Eoin Murray how a devotion to community and integrity informs everything she does

Interview & tracklist: https://djmag.com/features/recognise-dj-voices-interview-nowadays-new-york

Tracklist & interview

Recognise: DJ Voices

@ccl-url blasted us all into space in their closing set atThe Grove on Saturday night.

Campout Mix Series: CCL

Ariel Zetina is as charming as she is talented—one of the many reasons she was named "Chicagoan of the Year for Pop Music" by the Chicago Tribune last month. A straight shooter with strong principles, her witty personality shines through on social media and in person. She radiates both best friend and boss energy.

Musically, she wears her heart on her sleeve, infusing her personality into her DJing and production. Her sets and mixes are adventurous, moving from hard to soft to playful with precision. From producing theatre shows and opening for Beyoncé to releasing her RA-recommended debut album on Local Action in 2022, the smartbar resident approaches each venture with meaning and depth. That LP explored the complex experience of being a Belizean-American trans woman, using fiery house and techno to express vulnerability and triumph. 

Ariel Zetina's multifaceted personality is on full display in her RA podcast. There's baile funk-infused techno, crisp drum & bass and plenty of tracks from queer producers from all sorts of scenes, including Michael Cignarale, StrikeStone! and Perfect Lovers. It's a grand statement of power, flow and seriously good taste.

@arielzetina

Read more at https://ra.co/podcast/919

RA podcast

RA.919 Ariel Zetina

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

Download:
https://corenews.me/dj-python-essential-mix-2024-01-20/?utm_source=soundcloud
Tracklist:
https://tracklists.thomaslaupstad.com/dj-python-essential-mix-2024-01-20-tracklist/?utm_source=soundcloud

Core News - https://corenews.me/

DJ Python - Essential Mix 2024-01-20

Name: Kristina McCormick
Alias: DIET CLINIC (@diet-clinic)
Pronouns: she/they 
Location: London, UK

Influences: afterparties, my friends: past, present and future, the global connectivity of music, Gen, indistinct chatter, stillness with strangers, lock-picking, infrastructure, the eternal experience, love of fast minds and rhythmic bodies +++

Affiliations/Residencies/Projects: I am co-founder of @Klarity_Clinic alongside my collaborator and fellow artist Ruin Klarity (@ruin_klarity). It is a mix series of sounds & narratives made for SW|ers, bodywork s€ssion$, NRG workers & touch therapists. In 2023, I directed the short film Wishlist’ via Nowness (https://www.nowness.com/story/wishlist)
'Kristina McCormick and performer Ruin Klarity explore the inner world of $€x w|orkers, and the ethical underpinnings that destabilise their access to protections.'

Favorite Quote:  It’s all on it’s way

Advice for the DJs, producers and artists of our community: Always follow your intuition, it is correct.

Don’t be afraid to break cycles - mentally, physically, creatively- dismantle in order to rebuild - you have all the tools within you.

With this mix DIET CLINIC asks for you to please learn more about and consider donating to:
❁ $€X W|orkers Union UK (also check out other SW|er unions or action groups in your area :)) (https://www.instagram.com/swunion_uk)
❁ Centre for Human Rights Iran – Jin, Jiyan, Azadi (https://iranhumanrights.org/)
❁ Berlin Collective Action Emergency Fund (https://www.berlincollectiveaction.com/)
❁ from: Iran (https://www.instagram.com/from____iran/)

Read more at - https://thedaisychain.club/2024/01/23/daisychain-314-diet-clinic/

Daisychain

Daisychain 314 - DIET CLINIC

Recorded live at Nowadays in Queens, NY on Friday, January 5, 2024.

JADALAREIGN Residency w/ Hieroglyphic Being ✰

Paurro - Live @Nowadays NYC Nonstop

My set in full from New Year's Nonstop 2024. Image credit to Amar Patel. Mastering detail by @milesmercer.

Dedicated to the people of Palestine
& all Nowadays staff.

🇵🇸💙

Live @ Nowadays // New Year's Nonstop - Jan 1 2024

If Bitter Babe was a perfume, her scent would be animalic—heavy musk, bergamot, worn leather and burnt spices. The Bogotá-born, Miami-bred and now Berlin-based artist has a heady, ultra-rhythmic sound that feels made for sweltering summer nights and feral fantasies. Combining pan-Latin styles with hard drum and industrial touches, she's crafted a singular mood that defines her DJing and production: hazy, high-energy and sensual.

Bitter Babe's ascent on the international circuit has been tied to her role in Miami's electronic renaissance. Whether it's proto-reggaeton, dense ambient or guaracha, her sets and productions are characterised by evocative low-end, darting synths and distorted frequencies that exude drama. With releases on TraTraTrax, Air Texture and SVBKVLT, she's cemented her position as an experimentalist, leaving the door open for more deconstruction and abstraction.

As cofounder of multidisciplinary project LATITUDES, Bitter Babe seeks to unify Latin America's electronic music communities. Her mixes are a great source for discovering under-the-radar acts from Peru, Brazil and beyond, some of whom are featured on her RA podcast. Starting with subby downtempo before moving onto swampy baile funk, technoid mutations of dembow and cheeky UKG, it showcases her expertise for trippy yet deeply kinetic grooves. 

@bitterbabe

Read more at https://ra.co/podcast/924

RA.924 Bitter Babe

OK WILLIAMS @ADONIS NYD 2024

Mexican DJ and producer Paulina Rodriguez aka Paurro. 

 Bookings US/EU: xan@surefireagency.com / joe@surefireagency.com 
- Bookings MX: contacto@realdeal.com.mx
- Bookings EU: james@3feethi.com

Paurro - Live @Nowadays NYC Nonstop

PAURRO

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