Buttons resident @jacob-meehan 
Opening intro featuring Precious Brady-Davis

Recorded live Oct 3, 2021 in Berlin on Tag der Clubkultur, a day inaugurated last year by the city's Club Commission, in the height of the pandemic, as a way to draw attention to the importance of nightlife artists & spaces, and a way to disperse some much needed grant money.   We so appreciate living in a city that values our importance, creating initiatives like this.  

October 3rd is Germany's reunification day.  The reunification of east and west brought together a generation that was able to start healing themselves to the fresh soundtrack of electronic music.  We are proud to call this place our home, as it is still a magnetic place that draws many from all over the globe, pilgrims of the mother beat.

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Logo by Nicola Napoli

Radio Buttons #106 - Jacob Meehan

For the 106th entry in the Honcho Podcast series, we welcome Chicago's @clubchow! Club Chow is a Taiwanese-American DJ and rave enthusiast currently based in Chicago. With a few different residencies, he delights in soundtracking a broad range of LGBTQ scenarios, from daytime events (Dim sum & drag, Mom Jeans), cruisey evenings at Steamworks Baths, to late nights at Berlin Nightclub or the occasional DIY function

A word about the mix:

With the long Chicago winter drawing to a close, I wanted to make a mix with a more distinct sense of transition as opposed to riding a particular vibe. It starts with a psychedelic spoken word track, builds with some tropical imagery and 2000s-era trippy tech, and ends somewhere else… hopefully joyous?

Honcho Podcast Series 106: Club Chow

Freq With Love Letters & Mike Servito @ The Lot Radio 08 - 02 - 2022

Jacob Meehan & Father Figure are in town to play the new room Studio at Basement for Wrecked.  Meehan joins us from Berlin, where he organizes WHOLE Festival & Buttons.  Mark Louque is also a long time event organizer, throwing Fagbash in Provincetown and Trap Only in New Orleans.  During the pandemic these two started Nightshade, a radio program on Cape Cod Public Radio.

@jdmeehan @whole.festival @buttonsberlin @thefatherfigure @missfagbash @traxonly

Jacob Meehan & Father Figure @ The Lot Radio 09 - 16 - 2022

.Freq With Mike Servito @ The Lot Radio 09 - 27 - 2022

With roots in Pittsburgh and a recent stint in Denver, Paul Fleetwood @fleet412 is both a beacon and a connector within the North American dance music community. A co-founder of Hot Mass with hands in events such as Honcho Campout, Lot Mass, VIA Festival, the Great American Techno Festival, and Humanaut, his DJ sets and productions blend a classic, grounded Midwest techno sensibility with a modern edge, always infused with emotion and sincerity. In 2021, Fleetwood launched his own label, Perimeter Junk, which has already cemented itself as a forerunner in predicting the next wave of dancefloor heaters for kind-hearted weirdos.

Read the interview and see a tracklist:
spontaneous.zone/050-paul-fleetwood

"I knew I wanted a mix that featured mostly four-on-the-floor music, upbeat but smooth and not too aggressive. I imagined a much deeper and more emotive mix than what I originally intended but that didn’t make me any less happy with how it turned out.

This was recorded Saturday, October 8th, 2022 at my apartment in Denver, CO. I used two XDJ-700s and a A&H Xone:92 rotary mixer. I compiled a playlist of roughly nine hours of music from which to choose. Experimenting from that list, it took around seven takes to nail a flow that felt right.

The interview questions brought Molly Nilsson’s 'Never Coming Home' to mind so I decided to include it. I couldn't come up with a smarter way other than to place it as an encore so there ya go, my creative apex at work."

@fleet412

Interview + Tracklist

Spontaneous Affinity #050: Paul Fleetwood

A portion of @sprklbb's closing set recorded at H0L0 in Ridgewood, Queens, NYC.

November 12th, 2022

Favorite Flavor: Coffee

MS 07 - SPRKLBB at Mizz Softee 12 November 2022

Nuestra última colaboración junto a Eze Drill ya está disponible en todas las plataformas como parte del VA 5º Aniversario (Javi Colina Present) del gran sello español F*cking Sound Inside. Esperamos lo bailen y lo disfruten🦬🔥!!

Our latest collab with Eze Drill is now available on all platforms as a part of the VA 5º Aniversario (Javi Colina Present) from F*cking Sound Inside, big spanish label.  Hope you like it! Enjoy

Gracias siempre por el apoyo//Big Thanks for your support🙏🏻❤️

Bufalo GoLD, Eze Drill - Gotta Let It Go (Original Mix)

“This mix is for all my hopeless romantics in heat as the weather cools down. 
This is your mix to unravel your tenderness to, however, you feel is fit for the occasion.

This is for the mornings when your body can not stop dancing, only moving & flowing slower & slower,
melting into deep gentle drumming sped up to a passionate pacing, where songs collide like waves crashing, you find yourself drifting off to some sensual ballad with no words, and your ears hanging onto the sweet nothings in the lyrical odes to love.

I quote one of the songs I pulled for this mix from the birthday mixtape my lovely girlfriend made for me:

‘As I feel my levels rise, we create energy, we’re changing the frequency,
tuning into our biology as we take each other higher and higher. No rush. No rush.’

Just the grooviest kind of love.” - Dee Diggs

https://soundcloud.com/dee_diggs

Deep South Podcast 047 - Dee Diggs

Shaun J. Wright (@shaunjwright) is an underground staple in their hometown of Chicago who has more recently been found DJing around the world. With over a decade as a creator, musician and artist, Wright came to prominence through their work with Hercules and Love Affair and via the label Twirl they run today with Alinka.  Shaun is a champion of queer identity within dance music and outside of it. Traditionally a house DJ, Shaun recently played 2 unannounced techno sets at Buttons in Berlin to high acclaim, and their set at Basement was no different.  They kicked off an amazing 1st night for Balance playing 10pm-2am.

This is the complete 4 hour recording of Shaun's set on Sept 7, 2019.  
xoxoxo