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And now for something completely different...

It is an obvious thing for me to state that I have a big heart for all things techno. It has been the genre which, over the years, has allowed me to express many things and to explore various regions, both artistic and geographically. However, it is by far the only genre which can count on my continued attention. When it comes to dancing and experiencing music on a dancefloor I find that, alongside techno, drum and bass is the one for me. The inherent energy and rhytmic structures of this style are what I appreciate the most. I've spent many nights in various venues listening to sets of high-octane breaks, with as a highlight a visit to London's legendary The End club, which used to be a true haven of drum and bass on Friday nights.

This month's Patreon mix is titled Memorandum, of which I have posted this excerpt on Soundcloud. It is my tribute to drum and bass, not via a selection of classic tracks but through a observation of contemporary breakbeat science. I used to dj drum and bass for a while and have kept those records safe, but I felt as if an exploration of today's sounds was more appropriate. There is a lot of creative music out there, invoking amazing sonic landscapes. A lot of drum and bass producers are very talented sound designers, and true experts at creating a landscape which in my opinion can be both alienating and extremely danceable. Please enjoy.

The full mix and track list can be found at https://www.patreon.com/posts/61896061 - alongside many other exclusive mixes and music recommendations. Have a look :)

Memorandum - Excerpt: Patreon mix for January 2022

“The 2021 NWB stream was much different than the year before. For me, it felt like we were getting closer to reopening, all of us so ready for the party, and being honored with the opportunity to compose a 5-hour narrative meant I needed to reflect that energy and represent the dance floor we all love so much. I wanted to keep it heady like 2020 but focus more on what it would feel like to play that long at Tangent, returning to my roots and playing numerous eternal cuts from Chicago, Detroit, Berlin, Cologne, Rotterdam, Helsinki, and beyond. Praise the acid...enjoy!”
— Patrick Russell @ptrckrssll

video: https://youtu.be/I4ur9DEd3g4

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IT.podcast.s11e03: Patrick Russell at No Way Back Streaming From Beyond 2021

Great Beyond 2024 MN River Valley Sanctuary
Kajunga Stage 11:30pm 6.27.24

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(0:00 - 0:31)

Ice thaws, sun’s warm glow
Creatures stir as water flows
Spring blooms, life feels whole.

(0:32 - 1:04)

Once green, now ablaze
Bugs hum in thick Summer haze
Finally, evening.

(1:05 - 1:36)

Light fades, dark awaits
Fiery hues swirl and sway
Dancing in decay.

(1:37 - 2:06)

Winter’s bitter breath
Arrives later and later
Earth’s rhythm: off beat.

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Tracklist:

La douce du Leirnuksgvur - Catartsis & Ida
Shout Sister (Tosca Mirage Ambient Version) - Tosca
Bioluminescent Field - Wata Igarashi
Crepuscular Ray - agraybé
Dragonfly Fountain - Polygonia
Stranger Than Tomorrow - Unjin
Around the pond (Laima Adelaide Remix) - Adhémar
Pink Slip - Alicia Hush
Inner Pain - Biocym
Where Is Elle - Elle
Jade - Rod Modell
An Ardent Heart - Stefan Goldmann
Centroide I - Formant Value
Equilibrium - Thomas Hayes
Outsider (verbose mix) - ESB
Holidays Everywhere - Leif Müller
D Spirit - Brian Kage & Delano Smith
Block - SIT : Cristi Cons & Vlad Caia
Plumes (Priori Remix) - Keplrr
Gong - Bumho
37 Min To 7 - Margaret Dygas
Silent - Laima Adelaide
Chi-fe - Shoal
The Watcher - Kato De Vidts
Increased Mutualism (Varuna Remix) - Christian Coiffure
QNS#4 - QNS
Round The Bend - Brendon Moeller
Wa'ya - Octo Åeterna
Bad Minds - Vardae
Djúpavog - Catartsis & Ida
Glass Museum - Skee Mask
Reroute - endash

Great Beyond 2024 | agraybé @ Kajunga World

Filling in for my November show is Agraybe a Los Angeles-based, Cleveland-rooted, groove scientist and sound emoter. Enjoy : )

@agraybe

LGR - agraybé - Nov 24th 2024

Body Tools Sessions: 018 w/ Guest: agraybé - Live on VPN Radio (02/01/25)

About the Mix:
“Flutter in a collage of buoyant and airy selections inspired by metamorphosis 🐛🦋 Encased in a cocoon, a caterpillar now formless. Structures disintegrate and then rebuild. A butterfly emerges. Released from limitations, flying free ^_^ Thanks again to DJ Economy and Body Tools International for having me over to spin in their beautiful studio! 🩵 ” - agraybé

About our Guest:
Ariana Gray Bé, aka agraybé, is an artist, scientist, and environmentalist. On the dance floor, she brings this unique perspective to invigorate the soul and senses. Born and raised in Cleveland, Ohio, Ariana spent formative years across the Great Lakes Rust Belt before calling the West Coast home. Her sets express equal parts mind and heart, often interweaving environmental inspirations with deep grooves grounded in Midwest dance music. Within the LA community, Ariana founded and co-organizes Anemone, is a resident for Made to Move and New Palm, and hosts her mix series, Cloud Studies. Ariana has been honored to share her flavor the last few years at Great Beyond and Gradient campouts, in addition to playing alongside artists such as Patrick Russell, Diskonnected, Colored Craig, Umfang, Aurora Halal, John Tejada, Stefan Ringer, Zernell, Scott Zacharias, Father Dukes, Jake Muir, KiNK, and more. Recent endeavors into the world of production have landed her as the opening contributor to Acid Camp’s 10 year anniversary compilation.

About the Show:
Body Tools Sessions is a live audio video broadcast that happens on the First Saturday of every month from 1pm to 4pm PST on the VPN network. Each episode features a mix by a Body Tools resident on the first hour and a half, and then a special guest mix is featured on the second hour and a half. Once the stream is finished we always post the videos and audio the following week to our archive on SoundCloud, YouTube, & Vimeo.

Links:
Website: www.bodytoolsinternational.com
Bandcamp: www.BodyToolsInternational.bandcamp.com
Instagram: www.instagram.com/body_tools_international
VPN: www.virtualpublic.net

Recorded live at the Body Tools studio in Highland Park, CA.

Video Versions:
YouTube: https://youtu.be/9yS3aJoDE04 
Vimeo: https://vimeo.com/1054872858 

Tracklist for Episode 018 (February 1st 2025):

OHM ALONE - COUSIN

EMERSIONE - NATURAL/ELECTRONIC.SYSTEM.

NLL561606934 - ALEKSI PERÄLÄ

INTO A DANCE OF THE EARLY MORNING FOG - WA WU WE

2.1 - GABRIEL ANANDA

TIDES - /DL/MS/ > VC-118A

MATAHARI I SEMBILAN - JOCELYN

C - KENYA KANAZAWA

CLOUDLESS RAINDROPS - SYLVE

MONKEY BLOW - FIELD

GENTLE NIGHT - COSMO

TEMPLE RUN - SAPHILEAUM

Body Tools Sessions: 018 w/ Guest: agraybé - Live on VPN Radio (02/01/25)

“I really love to do the opening set. It's a special responsibility to take an empty room and build the vibe, to prepare the audience for the night to come, to leave them wanting more. For this edition of Samhain, I began beatless and worked through organic creepers into techno slow jams, setting up BMG to shepherd us into the psychedelic techno assault to be wrought by Wata Igarashi.” — Erika @erikadotnet


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IT.podcast.s14e01: Erika opening Samhain XXIV

Hex P joins us for our 35th entry into our PPRZ Podcast series, delivering deep and complex rhythms perfectly tuned to what we are all about here at PPRZ. Dive in! Follow Hex P here: @harmonyexpress

Hex P is a Montreal-based DJ inspired by the power of music to unite, arouse, and transport dancers. She is the host of Harmony Express on CKUT radio and a co-organizer of the Hijinx party series. You can often find her at sunrise, front left on the dancefloor, after a nap of course.

Tracklist
Antenes - The Track Of A Storm
Foreign Material - Into The Gleams Of Forgetfulness (Patrick Russell Remix)
Seph - Geomancer
Claudio PRC - Latent
Feral & Luigi Tozzi - Third Eye
Floating Machine - Sulco
Flore - Congos (LCY Remix)
Dorisburg & Arkajuo - Void Pyramid
Helena Hauff - Break Force
Rude 66 - Out in Style
Skee Mask - Dial 274
Atrice - Multiplex
Ciarra Black - By Design
Steve Poindexter - Rise
Robert Hood - Spirit Levels
Peter Van Hoesen - 10000 Nodes
Bluetoof - Jinx
Mike Parker - Resonator One
Enayet - Hathi
A Strange Wedding - Quadra Morphing
Atrice - Broke
Siete Quatorce - Embers
Glok - Dreams
Greazus - Sophia
Orphx - What Will Burn
Cio D´Or & Donato Dozzy - Menta

Enjoy!

PPRZ Podcast 35 - Hex P

Do you feel it? The blues are getting lighter and brighter each day that passes this season. To curate, Otherly Love invites fellow house head agraybé to help us spring our limbs and help us soak up this seasonal shift with an hour of soul and disco - reborn.

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Ariana Gray Bé, aka agraybé (@agraybe), brings her unique perspectives as an artist, scientist, and environmentalist to the dance floor. Her sets invigorate the soul and the senses with selections that meld ecological influences with deep grooves grounded in Midwest dance music. Born and raised in Cleveland, Ohio, Ariana spent her formative years across the Great Lakes Rust Belt before relocating to the West Coast. She is now deeply rooted in the LA ecosystem as a resident for Made to Move and @newpalm. She is also the founder / co-organizer of the Anemone events and hosts her mix diary, Cloud Studies.

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Track list:

Life 4 Living - USG feat. Monica Elam

Strollin thru Barcelona - Kai Alcé

Working Nights - Trus'me

Sweet Potatoes - Blaze

Moonwalk - Funky People

Lotrama (Delano Smith Remix) - Traumer

Illusion - John Jastszebski

Gotta Work - Robert Owens

Hott - Scott Grooves feat. Alton Miller

Marimba Disco (Kai Alcé's NDATL Interpretation) - George Davis

Listen To This Drum (Turbojazz & Sean McCabe Remix) - Ursula Rucker

Gloria’s Muse (The Yoga Song) (Karizma’s Drum-N-Base Mix) - Blaze

A Soft Drink - Glenn Underground

Living In The Future - Hardrive 2000

Better Days - Blaze

You're A Star - Aquarian Dream

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Released March 23, 2025

Art - @dominic.a.tovar

Otherly Love #9 - agraybé

We are so lucky to release this mix for our 37th entry, recorded live at SmartBar (Chicago) by our friend and excellent DJ Shanti!

From the artist:
I am so grateful to be able to share this mix with you all through PPRZ! This is a mix that was recorded at Smartbar in Chicago when I opened for Lady Starlight as part of Justin Aulis Long's series, Flowers of Romance. It was a 3-hour long set from 10pm-1am on a Pioneer V10 Mixer with 3-4 CDJ 3000s. 

What I love about opening sets is having the ability to set the tone for the night as people are arriving and making the transition from wherever they came from to the communal embodiment of dancing. The other fascinating element about an opening set is the dramatic contrast between the beginning and end as one first experiences an empty dance floor and sees the gradual process of it growing with energy and feeling even though I can really only see beautiful silhouettes moving in the darkness. I take an opening set to be about the gradual cultivation of energy but also an opportunity for creative tension and exercising restraint for the headliner and rest of the night.

Bio:
Shanti is a Chicago-based DJ who explores philosophical themes of existential angst and ambiguity through surreal, foreboding, and atmospheric soundscapes. Her sets weave a story of the simultaneous despair and yearning that are intertwined with the human condition. 

While she is thoughtful about curating multifaceted energy and emotion within her sets, she also co-curates events such as Otherworldly Ambiguity as Evanti, a conceptual experience centered around the phenomenon of hybridity, occupying the spaces in between and outside of pre-existing concepts and rigid categories. She is also a part of Chicago-based DJ collective and label, Research & Development which is a mix series and curator of multifaceted music-centered experiences. 

Mix mastered by: Umair Chachar

Tracklist:
Part 1:
Lemna - Memories
Lemna - Hallucination 
Voices from the Lake - Mika 
Donato Dozzy - Aquatica
SHXCXCHCXSH - A Sunny Day in Ostrogothia 
Dan B. Hood - Ode to Drome
BMG & Derek Plaslaiko - Ghost Ship 
Rrose - Signs 
Alexskyspirit - The Travelers (Polygonia remix)
Etapp Kyle - Source 
Mike Parker - Heat Inducer 
Love Letters - Morse (BMG mix) 
Club Drippy - Crashed
Ryogo Yamamori- Zw
Marcel Dettman - Rush (Deep Release mix)
Pause - Crater  
SHXCXCHCXSH  - HHHHHHHGGKS 
Part 2:
Rrose - Solaris 
Lonefront - Stera
Modes - M52 
NØRBAK - Luyr 
Allana Letm - Tempos Multiplos (Centrific Remix)
Nubbles - Reflect 2 
Maedon-X - Caged Animal 
Perc - Milk Snatchers Return
Ritaffein - Laiva
Regis - Body Unknown 
Jamaica Suk - Tes Levrés
British Murder Boys - We Will Show You 
Uun - Junkspace 
Kanding Ray - Dark Barker 
Peter Van Hoesen - Vola Flash 
Surgeon - The Golden Sea 
Alexskyspirit- SNCTR2 
Decoder - Falling Flat 
Part 3:
Quelza - Plastic Waves 
Neel - A Thought without Time 
Oscar Mulero - Tormenta 
Regis - The Theme from Street Walker
DASH3D - Neuropulmonar
CRØG - Fire 
Oblivion & Uranya - Bassa Marea 
Sorcery - Dark Scan
GiGi FM - Amadamushies
Neel- Riflesso 
Quelza - We’ll Never Be Friends Again 
J. Blofeld - Uranus 
Cej- Itchy 
Char - Free 
Psyk & Orbe - Tunnel Diode
Surgeon - Convenience Trap Pt.2

Donations if you enjoyed this mix from Shanti's recommended organization: https://www.newrootsinstitute.org/ - creating a just and sustainable food system for all through education.

PPRZ Podcast 37 - Shanti live at SmartBar Chicago

Primal Colors Presents Hex Code #FFFFFF by Agraybé...

Step through the serpent’s portal—Spring is here. 🐍 @agraybe conjures a soundscape where deep, rolling basslines and shimmering textures blur the line between the organic and the mechanical. Rooted in the rhythms of the Midwest and flourishing in LA’s underground, she brings a perspective shaped by art, science, and ecology. As a resident of @MadeToMove_LA and @NewPalm, and the force behind Anemone and Cloud Studies, agraybé curates sets that feel both instinctual and intentional, fluid yet deeply grounded.

This mix sways between hypnotic, spaced-out grooves and crisp, old-school techno sensibilities, moving like a slow exhale into the warmth of a new season. Change is in the air—let it pull you in. 🌿✨

Artwork by @Otodojo 

#Techno #LosAngeles #Detroit #PrimalColors


Hex Code #6AFEFA by Agraybé

Ahead of the work we are doing with Detroit veteran Craig Gonzalez this year, here is a mix he’s done exploring new rhythms and soundscapes. We thought it would be prudent to share a mix of one of his many fresh perspectives, where he explores something we at IT find very compelling — new juxtapositions of polyrhythms and drum and bass within a deeply hypnotic techno context. 

"I’ve really been enjoying exploring the sonic space between techno and drum and bass. What excites me about this fusion is how it challenges both myself and fans of these genres, as it often defies the expectations of each. The introduction of polyrhythms takes it even further, pushing the boundaries and making the music feel truly genre-agnostic. In this space, the emphasis shifts away from traditional structures, focusing more on rhythm and context than on genre conventions.

This mix is a studio recording rather than a live set from an IT event because I feel that this style of music requires a more intentional approach to the context of an event. It hasn’t quite aligned with the atmosphere of my time slots—at least, not for now." — Craig Gonzalez @craig-gonzalez

Sam KDC - The Messenger
Minù Jr - TSS
Ying Yang Audio - The Mystics
Verdae | Estrato Aurora - Khori
Aerae - Exsilio
AH&N - Aporia
Archypness - Stong - Pa
Sciama - Emergent Forms
ʀaäʀ  - K Simplex
Sciama - Unreleased
Tampo - Enki
Forest on Stasys - Alternated Mindset
Konsudd - Heilen
Lemna - Hide and Seek
Konduku - Karınca
Human Space Machine - Nagra
Sindh - Massane
Reeko - Urmah 3


IT.podcast.s14e02: Craig Gonzalez

A clinic in minimal from the elusive Acting Press boss. 

Why do certain sounds cultivate a cult following? Simply put, it's often because they resist easy consumption. PLO Man and his imprint Acting Press lean into this. 

Searching for the Berlin-based DJ and producer, you won’t find much online presence, interviews or conventional PR. What you will find, if you look hard enough, is a catalogue of records and mixes with a kind of tape hiss charm (a spiritual successor to Basic Channel and Chain Reaction, but scuzzier and lighter on its feet).

Founded in 2015, Acting Press once seemed to belong to the short-lived "outsider house" trend, but is now synonymous with a certain strain of modern minimal, one that is analogue, spacious and pointedly opaque. PLO Man's output is equally sparse by design: this week, he joins the RA Podcast with a characteristically elusive style, accompanying the near two-hour mix is a one-answer Q&A that gives almost nothing away.

Stripped-back, ever-so-slightly sleazy and coated in dust, PLO Man's RA Podcast continues that lineage in style. Opening with the featherlight microhouse of Margaret Dygas, RA.988 unfolds into a carefully curated spectrum of minimal, dub and deep techno. Among familiar names—look out for the blinding Rhythm & Sound and Moodymann blend—are deep cuts and left turns alongside the odd outlier, like lovers' rock pioneer Gregory Isaacs.

Like the best of his forebears, PLO Man wants RA.988 to take time for you to settle in. But once you do, you won’t want to leave. 

@p_el_oh

Find the tracklist and interview at ra.co/podcast/988

RA.988 PLO Man

Somango

Somango (Joey Flame Remix)

Mike Rabbit - Portal (Extended Mix)

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Painting the sounds between midwestern and global club music.

Los Angeles-based, Cleveland-rooted 
groove scientist and sound emoter (^*^)~

Bookings/inquiries: agraybe@gmail.com

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