Tzusing Dj Mixes

PART 2a: starting from around midnight

Last month I played an all-night set at Nowadays in NY, which I’ve described to many friends since as probably the best DJing experience of my life. 

As a DJ you’re constantly seeking a connection with those you play to, and sometimes it’s there, sometimes not. But I have never felt so intimately close to, and in tune with, an audience – whose faces I could barely even see – for the entire duration of a night. 

I’d slept for 2 hours, was jetlagged to the point of delirium and woefully underprepared for a 9-hour set. By the last hour and a half I had a crippling stomach cramp and was falling asleep on my feet. But by some cosmic rave miracle I had somehow slipped into a groove from the beginning and found myself tracing an arc that felt like it was drawing itself, as if all I had to do was relax and watch my own hands play the music. There were moments of intensity and euphoria and nostalgia and energetic catharsis, but throughout the entire set I felt fully empowered to meander in deep, subtle and confounding directions, somehow confident that wherever I went, the dancefloor would follow. 

The final stretch descended into a nostalgic parade of old and poignant favourites which, coming out of a recent period of personal upheaval, kinda knocked me sideways and left me frequently close to tears. I was a physical and emotional wreck by the time I finished. But it was a completely magical experience from beginning to end, which felt shared in a very genuine way by everyone in the room, and honestly I don’t care if anyone would listen to a 9-hour recording these days because I just want there to be a document of the night in its entirety out there for posterity. 

So here you go – a four part recording of the whole set, hopefully conveying at least some of the joy I felt on the night. Heartfelt thanks to Nowadays and to every person who was there. ♥️

Objekt @ Nowadays 23 October 2021

All night @ Nowadays [23/10/2021] – Part 2a – 12am

@zvrra is an avant-garde artist by anyone's standards. Her background as a video game developer has a clear influence on the music she makes. That can be anything from industrial to techno, witch house to hip hop, but most often her sounds exist in the intricate spaces in between all that. Her perfectly entitled November album Bizarroland on Avian was a fine example of that, and one united by an eerie darkness that kept you looking over your shoulder.

But this week's mix is full steam ahead through a shadowy world of grit and grime. It's a one-hour techno excursion that explores myriad different rhythms from flat-footed to floating, broken to brutal. It is unrelenting from start to finish, building the tension through a mix of texture and tempo, pulling back then going again just when it matters. It speaks of DJ with a unique sense of control and mastery of darkness. 

To learn about what inspired the mix, how it was put together, the influence of video games on Zvrra's music and about her recent EP, head over to our website to read a quick interview with the artist herself: https://dekmantel.com/editorial/dekmantel-podcast-363-zvrra

Dekmantel Podcast

Short Q&A

Dekmantel Podcast 363 - Zvrra

Yazzus is one of the most exciting DJs out of the UK right now. But she doesn't play the usual UK stuff. Instead, her work—her productions and her DJing—is both a historiography and a dialogue of the Black Atlantic connection, taking in dance music genres from both sides of the pond. Her work, encompassing techno, electro and sometimes house, is an Afrofuturist project that combines past, present and future. Her recent EP, Black Metropolis, accomplishes this with a genuinely innovative take on '90s Black dance music that uses a vintage template to do something fresh.

She calls her RA Podcast a "Black excellence" mix, traveling between eras and places, featuring artists like Skin On Skin, Paul Johnson, Drexciya and Huey Mnemonic. It's part of her mission to highlight (and remind people) about the Black origins of dance music, and also the vitality of today's Black dance music. This mix is a history lesson, a narrative and a rave all in one, something we're proud to host from an exciting young mind in the electronic music scene.

@yazzus-1

Read more at https://ra.co/podcast/862

RA podcast

RA.862 Yazzus

A journey at light speed through the universe of Akua, focusing on old school techno from the ’90s and early 2000s.

More info and tracklist here: https://www.factmag.com/2023/01/10/akua-fact-mix/

Fact Mixes

Fact Mix 890: Akua (Jan '23)

One of my fave sets this year so far. Recorded live at Nowadays, Brooklyn 20th May 2023

Rhyw at Nowadays May 2023 - DJ SET

A luminary of Detroit's electronic music scene, the balaclava-bearing master brought his trademark sounds to the Warehouse at our Halloween party last October for 3 fist-thumping hours. Running between electro and techno, DJ Stingray 313 delivered a killer set, with his dynamic performances and futuristic productions proving why he's seen as a legend around the globe.

@user-821602187

DJ Stingray 313 — Live From The Cause (HALLOWEEN — OCT '23)

PURE Guest.075 Yazzus

Interview: https://truantsblog.com/2025/truancy-volume-346-dj-spit/

Soundcloud: @djspit030

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DJ Spit

Truancy Volume 346: DJ Spit

Piezo at The Swirl, Horst Arts & Music 2025

Eine ziemlich wilde Mischung aus lauter geilen Sounds, in leicht Psy-Trance angehauchten Style! Verrückt, aber ... leider geil, wie ich finde.  Wann hört man schon die Gitarre von Pink Floyd mit fetten Beats untermauert und dann noch mit allem zusammen gemixt, was man am wenigsten erwartet…? Eben – nur bei mir!

Viel Spaß beim hören,

Kiauri

Big 5 Mix 2025

Mix made for the CAV EMPT SHORT TERM RETAIL EXPERIMENT ［C.E］
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Download Mirror: http://tzusing.com/music/Tzusing_CEmix.mp3

Cav Empt Mixtape

TZUSING

Recording of Tzusing's set at Lente Kabinet Festival 2018.

Tzusing at Lente Kabinet Festival 2018

PAN w/ TZUSING & M.E.S.H. - 28th January 2019
https://www.nts.live/shows/pan/episodes/pan-28th-january-2019

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@tzusing
@m-e-s-h

IMMORTAL TECHNIQUE feat. POISON PEN, STYLES P, VINNIE PAZ - Black Vikings
YENNU ARIENDRA & J "MO'ONG" SANTOSO PRIBADI - Alas Tyang Pinggir (The Outcast Forest)
DIAMANDA GALÁS - This Is The Law Of The Plague
THREE 6 MAFIA feat. EIGHTBALL & MJG, YOUNG BUCK - Stay Fly
DOWNSTATE - Scissors
T.O.P - Doom Dada
CRAVE - 16
6IX9INE, BOBBY SHMURDA - Stoopid
DJ HVAD - ANGST (EP VERSION)
DANNY BROWN - When It Rain
ABYSS X - Humiliation
FALCON KID - Basketball
JK FLESH - Nothing Is Free
ZALIVA-D - Born Dead
NEANA ON THE TRAK - Lilin
DEEVEN - Bion Lithe Remix
石野 卓球 - Ghost In The Shell
SAINT ABDULLAH - Let Me Sing
WRACK - Chou Ha
CAPTAIN AHAB - I Don't Have A Dick
CEVIN KEY - 15th Shade
DEENA ABDELWAHED - Tawa (M.E.S.H. Remix)
FRAXINUS - Overland V16
REALITYCHECK - The Signal (VIP Dub)
INGRATE - Hoax
STANLEY SCHMIDT - Brutal Ornament
SPLASH PATTERN - Up Next New Season
CARRETTA, WORKERPOOR - Subtle Knife
LIKE A TIM - Beats Djax Up
ISOMOV - Wavelet
HMURD - Clip That [Clubmix]
M.E.S.H. - Ten Alarm
DAFT PUNK - Technologic Peace Field Edit
M.E.S.H. - Festival Circuit
NICO - Unwhole
MAAYAN NIDAM - News From East
JASMINE INFINITI - Flight At O'Hare
JOCK CLUB - Grave Yard
HARAVOT - Unreleased 1
AIR MAX '97 - Soft Body
NUNU (FT. DJH) - SCUM 6
NA DJ - Rave Slaps Xtarri
M.E.S.H. - Atemlos
COSMIN TRG - Upscale Scalability, Implemented

PAN w/ TZUSING & M.E.S.H. - 28th January 2019

Chinese born Tzusing has spent time in Chicago, Singapore and Taiwan and “this condition of dislocation” is what informs his music. It is a brash mix of industrial textures, harsh broken techno and subversive pop, trap and rap that is all blurred into one borderless offering that mirrors his own personal intersections. That music has come on LIES since 2011 and has given rise to standout LP 東方不敗 in 2017 that lead to shows on Boiler Room, Dommune and at Berghain. 

He was quiet on the release front in 2018, but has started this year with a new split EP on Pan, and now offers us a musical catch up ahead of him playing at Dekmantel Festival later in the year. Over the course of seventy minutes he jumps around restlessly, but somehow his sounds remain united by shiny metallic surfaces whether he’s mixing in Asian pop, whirring computer sounds in meltdown or horror-core. To us, it sounds like a futuristic soundtrack to some hyper urban metropolis that’s on the brink of collapse, and it’s genuinely compelling.

Dekmantel Podcast 224 - Tzusing

Recording of Tzusing's set at Dekmantel Festival 2019.

Dekmantel Festival 2019

Tzusing at Dekmantel Festival 2019

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