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IEL / LUZ : residency for Crack Magazine

Room 4 Resistance Radio / Rádio Quântica

Hey all,

Here’s the recording of the 3,5hrs+ opening set i've played at Globus (Tresor)on September 24th, 2022.

It's by no means a perfect mix, but it was a vibe! I hadn't played in Berlin for a few years due to the pandemic and it was a special moment with friends so it feels right to share it :)

The set goes in different corners of music i've enjoyed playing these past years, even brought back some older deep house records which i hadn't played in a long time, music from friends and artists i love, and some old, new and still unreleased tracks at the time.

Hope you'll enjoy 😊

luz @ Globus (Tresor) Berlin - 24.09.2022

"Room 4 Resistance returns to Globus (Tresor) on Sunday 15 January, 2023 (16:00 - 04:00).
As a pre-party warm up and for our second show at Refuge, R4R invites dear friend & special guest CCL to join our resident luz, while tobha shares some details about our upcoming event. Tune in for hiiiints, goofs in the booth and track IDs! 💚
If you’re in the neighbourhood, come by Oona bar & join us for a drink, ask us about the line-up if you dare! 😝" >> https://refugeworldwide.com/radio/room-4-resistance-luz-and-ccl-13-jan-2023

Room 4 Resistance at Refuge Worldwide #2 with luz & CCL - 13.01.2023

Room 4 Resistance is back on Refuge Worldwide for a special International Women's Day 4hrs takeover with brilliant guests Dis Fig, BEIGE and ariesfallenangel, hosted by luz and tobha.

First hour by luz 

Tracklist:
Lyra Pramuk "New Moon"
Grand River "Ecouri"
Susu Laroche "Heaven"
Kae Tempest "Nothing To Prove"
Kelela "Let It Go"
Surgeons Girl "Sever"
Lala &ce "Parapluie"
Grand River "Secondaria"
8ulentina "Running Towards the Horizon"
Bored Lord "One in a Milli0n"
Flore "Disruption"
Badsista "Soca Sem Parar ft MC. Morena"
Missy Elliott "Cool Off"
Zoë Mc Pherson "Potential"
Sister Zo "Don't Test Me"
Jay Duncan "Klyro"
Kelela "Contact"

Links shared in the chat during the show:

Support Sourour Abouda's family:
https://www.leetchi.com/c/soutien-a-allan-abouda-et-sa-famille

https://www.opendemocracy.net/en/5050/sourour-abouda-racism-police-violence-belgium-tunisia/

https://www.instagram.com/soumayapheline/

Room 4 Resistance IWD Takeover at Refuge Worldwide #3 with luz - 08.03.2023

Room 4 Resistance is welcoming spring at Refuge Worldwide with another 4 hours takeover, this time with special guests Deena Abdelwahed, Rama & Oldyunmayn, hosted by luz & Doc Sleep.

Tune-in for a stellar music program, goofs in the booth, and some updates on what R4R is cooking for you in the coming months!

Room 4 Resistance at Refuge Worldwide #4 with luz & Doc Sleep - 05.05.2023

Here's the recording of my opening set at Tresor (Globus) on August 5th 2023.  
Far from a perfect mix, a couple of trainwrecks, but a lot of fun was had and joy has to be shared! 
Hope you enjoy it too!  :)

Playlist:
Otta - Cousin		
Sacral Dub - Ronan				   
To - Katatonic Silentio	
Echoes In The Night - Taylor Aaron 
Vardae - Kaipo				
On2	- Cousin	
Double Jointed Sex Freak - Levon Vincent			
Finally - Ploy	
Rave - Hunter Starkings	
Sense Inversion (Facta & K-Lone Remix) - Hodge	
Muscle Memory - Drumskull	
OakCliff - PanicMan	
Sry I‘m Dazed AF - Peletronic	
Clearly Rushing - Anz			
The Hole Got Deeper - Bluetoof	
Room 1 - Wallace		
Deep Inside - Introspekt	
Breaking Up - Wallace	
Light Groove (Drum Dub) - Leonce	
Rosa Rugosa	- Olof Dreijer			
Hole Away - Pangaea	
Walk & Serve (Dream Mix) - Introspekt	
To ‘Da Rhythm 2023 - DJ Booman			
SÓ ME CHAMA SE FOR HOUSE - Badsista	
Sexy Thing - Soul Mass Transit System & Introspekt		
Luv Thang(2023 mix)	- Escaflowne			
Changing Channels - Pangaea	
Party Time - X-Coast			
Satisfy(2023 mix)- Escaflowne	
In A Daze - Ladymonix	
Tiger Force - OMAAR	
Nadie lo puede parar - Bitter Babe			
Nettle Dweller - Teqmun(Pariah Remix)			
Still Flowing Water - Pangaea			
Gatherer	- Leonce		
El Camarón - Matias Aguayo(Nick León 2023 Murky Remix)			
Xtasis - Nick León Feat. DJ Babatr			
 Birdy Bell - SUCHI(Nick León Remix)			
Installation - Pangaea			
My Light, My World - Ryan Clover

luz @ Globus (Tresor) Berlin - 05.08.2023

Room 4 Resistance is back for their bi-monthly residency on Refuge Worldwide, with its residents and hosts luz & tobha.

Room 4 Resistance at Refuge Worldwide #6 with luz - 14.10.2023

Here is the last part of my opening set at Tresor (Globus) on monday night for House of Waxx.  Enjoy !

Luz (Room 4 Resistance) @ House of Waxx - Globus Tresor Berlin - 20.11.2017

Guest mix recorded live at Rinse France 
Paris May 18th 2018

Rinse France Podcast

Rinse France guest mix

Crack Mix 222 – Luz

More info here: https://crackm.ag/2vaPlbA

Crack Magazine 

Crack Mix 222 – Luz

Set recorded live at Red Light Radio on September 28th 2018 before Room 4 Resistance's showcase at De School.

Tracklist:

1. Shocking Loss of Empathy - Bergsonist (Self-released)
2. Footprints in Solid Rock (Beatrice Dillon Remix) - Ploy (Timedance)
3. Luminescent Organism - Morphology (Abstract Forms)
4. Hypnotik Psykotik - Reptant (Salt Mines)
5. Resus - Koova (brokntoys)
6. Grand Style - Byetone (Raster-Noton)
7. Electrox - Venechor, Freddy Fresh (Analog Records USA )
8. Wages of Sin - Morphology (Cultivated Electronics)
9. Mass Drive - Defekt (Earwiggle)
10. Point Blank - Walton (Tectonic)
11. Systems Encoder - Lärry (Uncertainty Principle)
12. Sci Si - Mor Elian (K7)
13. Quantum Eraser - Obergman (brokntoys)
14. Work It - Marie Davidson (Ninja Tune)
15. Tool Matter - XY0815 (brokntoys)
16. Sendak - Asusu (Livity Sound)
17. Almaty (Photonz Remix) - Gennaro (Naive)

Room 4 Resistance w/ Luz @ Red Light Radio (28.09.2018)

ON THE FLOOR: Luz at Red Bull Music Festival Berlin

The Berlin-based DJ, promoter and local hero delivers an hour of deliciously off-kilter electronic beats.

Luz is a DJ and promoter who is as generous behind the decks as she is within the city’s club scene. She’s the cofounder and resident at Room 4 Resistance, a queer-forward collective that throws regular club nights in Berlin aimed at providing secure spaces for marginalised communities and highlighting underrepresented artists. In this session, she performs at No Room 4 Shade, the collaborative party between Room 4 Resistance and fellow Berlin collective No Shade.

Recorded live at Griessmuehle - 21 Sep 2018 - Berlin, Germany.

ON THE FLOOR: Luz (recorded live) at Red Bull Music Festival Berlin

Guest mix recorded live at Kiosk Radio in Brussels for "Soumaya et les copains' show on May 4th, 2019.

Video live stream available here: https://www.facebook.com/soumayapheline/videos/348123582719219/

Luz @ Kiosk Radio, Brussels - 04.05.2019

San Francisco’s experimental / dance music scene has many freaks. The Creatrix is one of them. She packs out sex parties at the local leather bar and plays to her friends on a Monday night. She has DJ’d NY, Shanghai, Japan and remains committed to the underground. 

The Creatrix is 1/3 of T.V.O.D. with Nihar Bhatt and Jason Polastri, their new passion project to bring the world’s techno mutants to the bay area. She is equal parts selectress, producer, sound artist, community activist and fan girl on the dance floor. 

The Creatrix is the guest of Room 4 Resistance for their 19th episode on Radio Quântica with an excerpt of an opening set for Via App on March 16th at Counterpulse in San Francisco.

Luz hosts and opens the first hour (which sadly ended up being 30 min due to technical issues) with a short excerpt of their set at Bristol's Dialogue 2nd anniversary party in May 2019.

Hope you enjoy the show !

Room 4 Resistance 19 W/ The Creatrix - Rádio Quântica (20.06.2019)

More info via: https://crackm.ag/LUZ

Follow Luz here: https://soundcloud.com/r4r_luz

IEL / LUZ #1

Piano Rain (Alexandrea Maria Archuleta) is a sound artist, producer, DJ and quilter born of Colorado soil, currently flourishing under the San Francisco Sun and Moon. With a background in technical theater she weaves together sounds and textures, as a healing medium, into a garden of memory, connecting the past through the present and into the future.  Her soundworks, like her quilt works, hold the intention of transmitting the nurturing warmth of human touch and memory activation, delivering messages beyond space to withstand the test of time.

https://soundcloud.com/ajavision

Room 4 Resistance 20 W/ Piano Rain - Rádio Quântica (18.07.2019)

Room 4 Resistance founder and resident Luz returns for another journey into the curious depths of their mind. 

See the tracklist here → https://crackm.ag/2mmVtMY

Photograph by Kasia Zacharko

IEL / LUZ #2

Room 4 Resistance founder and resident Luz returns for another journey.

More info here → https://crackm.ag/2PwRFnt

IEL / LUZ #3

Constant search, trouble with meaning, deconstruction, demanding interpretation. An attempt to translate sounds into human language and adapting to human experience. Those attempts and searches are what @karolinakobielusz, known as Hermeneia, founder of Polish music site called @progrefonik, still debuts with.

The show is hosted by R4R residents https://soundcloud.com/r4r_luz and https://soundcloud.com/docsleep.

Room 4 Resistance 21 W/ Hermeneia - Rádio Quântica (15.08.2019)

“Working under the moniker Makimakkuk (“makkuk” meaning “space shuttle” in Arabic), Ramallah-based musician, producer, MC, vocalist, and DJ.....It is through these adventures, that as a listener, we too get to travel the many dimensions of Makimakkuk’s sound, as she continues to develop it. Whether she is working as a producer, on her own tracks, or an MC on someone else’s, the vessel of music she has created thus far shows something about rap and the way rappers in Ramallah continue to push the Arabic hip-hop game forward, and beyond.” 
Maha ElNabawi,  Madamasr 2019

Makimakkuk’s guest mix starts from 
TRACKLIST:
1- Interface & Minus - Hardwork
2- Sinistarr - H3xx
3- Wiley - Morgue (Danny Scrilla Remix)
4- Simpig - Z3R0GR4V1TY
5- DJ Rashad - Feelin (feat. Spinn & Taso)
6- Moresounds - The Rules
7- Swisha - Ay What’s Yo Numba?
8- DJ Spinn - 2020
9- DJ Rashad - Don’t Drop It
10- Danny Scrilla - Magellanic
11- Slick Shoota - Rasta
12- Boyfriend & Zebra katz - Winter Titty (Lenkemz Remix)
13- Chrissy Murderbot - Braaain
14- DJ Spinn - She Turnt up
15- Jo Deff - Butta love
16- Sndwvs - Bells
17- Qbig, Zenith B - Narc
18- Itoa - Top Deck (Moresounds Remix)
19- Chimpo - Bedsprings Riddim
20- Makimakkuk - Kilo Dahab (distorted, unreleased)
21- Makimakkuk - Mish Ma’ Enno (2019)

The show is hosted in the first hour by R4R residents @r4r_luz and @docsleep.

Room 4 Resistance 25 W/ Makimakkuk - Rádio Quântica (05.12.2019)

The show is hosted by R4R resident @docsleep with a special guest mix from @adab in the second hour.

As half of Cleveland party Heaven is in You, Miah Benton (adab) puts heavy emphasis on translating the unifying elements between us through djing. Characterized often by their palette of sounds, they made a niche for themselves in Cleveland, Ohio spinning a variety of sounds and venues alike. Having started djing dance music, primarily, as a result of finding Cleveland's queer techno party In Training and being a non binary black youth raised across a few states in the Rustbelt, adab seeks to unabashedly present refreshing perspectives and dialogues for both themself and others.

أدب

“Adab, Islāmic concept that became a literary genre distinguished by its broad humanitarian concerns; it developed during the brilliant height of ʿAbbāsid culture in the 9th century and continued through the Muslim Middle Ages.
The original sense of the word was simply “norm of conduct,” or “custom,” derived in ancient Arabia from ancestors revered as models. As such practice was deemed praiseworthy in the medieval Muslim world, adab acquired a further connotion of good breeding, courtesy, and urbanity.
Parallel to and growing out of this expanded social meaning of adab there appeared an intellectual aspect. Adab became the knowledge of poetry, oratory, ancient Arab tribal history, rhetoric, grammar, philology, and non-Arab civilizations that qualified a man to be called well-bred, or adīb.” - Encyclopædia Britannica on “Adab”

"Reverend mothers have many memories from previous lives in their brains. When one of these memories pushes itself to be paid attention to, that is adab..." - Frank Herbert (DUNE)

Room 4 Resistance 22 W/ ADAB - Rádio Quântica (12.09.2019)

Our ‘Streaming From Isolation’ series is fundraising for The Global FoodBanking Network - whose work providing emergency support to people locked in poverty is crucial at this time.

As part of the series, our long standing partner Ballantine's has committed a fund in the form of 20 grants to be distributed to community-driven collectives around the world. These grants will be given to each collective to distribute as they feel best to support under threat artists and those most in need within their immediate community. This support is critical over the coming months whilst COVID-19 restrictions are in place and impacting many artists’ ability to do what they love and to make a living.

Weekly takeover days of Boiler Room’s channels will feature performances and sets programmed by these collectives from isolation. Broadcast to the world from artists’ homes and private spaces, these transmissions are a way to stay connected while apart.

Luz | Boiler Room: Streaming From Isolation with Room 4 Resistance

Booking enquiries:
lluz@riseup.net

------ UPCOMING ----
[2024] 
5-7.07: Freerotation Festival, Wales
16.08: Globus (Tresor), Berlin

----- PAST -----
[2024] 
06.04:  Globus (Tresor), Berlin
10.05: Ecology of Care, Nuits Sonores, Lyon

[2023] 
15.01: R4R @ Globus (Tresor), Berlin
24.02: DECADANS, Bucharest
08.03: Refuge Worldwide, Berlin
05.05: Refuge Worldwide, Berlin
26.05: mina x R4R, Lisbon
21.06: *Room 2 Glow*, Refuge Worldwide
07.07: *Room 2 Glow*, Berlin
29.07: Whole Festival, Ferropolis
05.08: Globus (Tresor), Berlin
01.10: Unsound Festival, Krakow
14.10: Refuge Worldwide, Berlin

[2022] 
20.11: R4R @ Globus (Tresor), Berlin
25.09: Party Office, Kassel
24.09: Globus / Tresor, Berlin
03.09: Field Maneuvers, UK
14.08: documenta 15, Kassel

2021 (selected)
10.09: Horst Arts & Music Festival, Brussels
13-18.10: Ecology of Care, Unsound, Krakow
06.11: Ankali, Prague

[2020 postponed gigs]
02.04: Kantine Am Berghain, Berlin
10.04: TBA, Amman
16.04: TBA, Ramallah
24.04: Pawnshop, Taipai
01.05: Mihn, Hong-Kong
07.05: Loopy Loopy, Hangzhou
15.05: Savage, Hanoi
23.05: R4R, Berlin
27.06: Nowadays, NYC
03.07: TBA, Berlin
29.10 - 05.11: TBA, Ramallah

2020 (selected)
01.01: Lecken, Berlin
02.02: 5 Miles, London

2019 (Selected)
03.01: Rádio Quântica
31.01: Rádio Quântica 
02.02: Polychrome, Station Gare Des Mines, Paris
28.02: Rádio Quântica
07.03: NTS Radio
15.03: King's Bunker, Cambridge
16.03: R4R, Trauma Bar & Kino, Berlin
18.04: R4R, Trauma, Berlin
25.04: Ràdio Quântica
04.05: C12, Brussels
23.05: Ràdio Quântica
24.05: Dialogue, Bristol
08.06: R4R, Trauma Bar, Berlin
15.06: WHOLE Festival, Ferropolis
20.06: Ràdio Quântica
18.07: Ràdio Quântica 
15.07: Horst Arts & Music Festival, Brussels
26.07: CSD Reclaim: R4R x Lecken x mina, Berlin
08.09: Nyege Nyege Festival, Jinja 
21.09: NVA, Montreal
28.09: R4R x Motherbeat, Berlin
09.10: Unsound Solidarity, Szpitalna 1, Krakow
25.10: RIOT, Berlin
02.11: Inkonst, Malmö
08.11 - 09.11: Exist Festival, Ramallah
16.11: Pink Night, Brussels
30.11:  R4R, Berlin
14.12: Pornceptual, Berlin
20.12: Beurs, Brussels
28.12: Ustanova, Ljubljana

2018 (Selected)
01.01: Sylvester, ://about blank, Berlin
02.02: CTM Festival, Panorama Bar, Berlin
09.03: Rye Wax, London
10.03: Beursschouwburg, Brussels
24.03: Golden Pudel, Hamburg
29.03: R4R, Berlin
14.04: NTS x R4R, Berlin
21.04: Et Andet Sted, Copenhagen
12.05: R4R, Berlin
18.05: Rinse France, Paris
21.06: Brutaz, Warsaw
29.06: R4R, Berlin
13.07: The Pickle Factory, London
28.07: R4R, Berlin
03.08: Kaiku, Helsinki
25.08: Station Gare Des Mines, Paris
08.09: Chouftouhona Festival, Tunis
15.09: R4R x Comeme, Berlin
21.09: Griessmuehle, Berlin
28.09: Red Light Radio, Amsterdam
28.09: De School, Amsterdam
17.11: Tashweesh, Beirut
29.11:  Easterndaze, Ohm, Berlin
01.12: Trauma Bar & Kino, Berlin
21.12: Lärm, Budapest
29.12: Trauma Bar & Kino, Berlin

Club Music artist luz (they/them) is a neuroqueer DJ, promoter, curator, radio-host, and community organizer. Co-founder of Berlin-based queer collective Room 4 Resistance, they’re also a member of Ecology of Care and Unsound Festival’s Mutual Respect team.

Their practice of nightlife is anchored in queer feminist spaces, grassroots organizing, community care, harm reduction and experimentation. As a DJ, their ever-evolving sound is at the crossroads of different Club Music styles and influences: UK, bass, breaks, experimental, polyrhythmic, leftfield, D’n’B, House, deep techno, Detroit electro, and more. They enjoy building narratives across genres and eras that resonate with their present moods and feelings. Their favorite dancefloors are intimate, healing, sweaty, filled with queer joy, cute weirdos and misfits from all paths of life.   

Over the years, luz has performed at countless international venues and festivals, highlights include Panorama Bar and Tresor (Berlin), De School (Amsterdam), Et Andet Sted (Copenhagen), Hot Mass (Pittsburgh), Movement’s Industry Brunch (Detroit), La Station Gare Des Mines (Paris), C12 (Brussels), 5 Miles (London) as well as Festivals such as Nyege Nyege (Jinja, Uganda), Unsound (Krakow), CTM (Berlin) and Horst (Brussels).

Luz

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