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A sublime hour of music with beloved resident of Tel Aviv's infamous 'The Block' club and one half of the 'Clouds Collective' trio - Adar Cohen.

Adar Cohen:
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Afterhours.

Afterhours 115: Adar Cohen ☁

Nick Boyd (@nickboydnyc) is a dancefloor staple in NYC, and there's good reason for his omnipresence: everything he does, he explains, is centered around the dancefloor and the dancers who spend time there. Whether he's running @sorry-records, DJing at beloved local haunts like The Lot Radio, Bossa Nova Civic Club, and Nowadays (where this mix was recorded), or giving advice to friends, his ethos always comes back to the dancefloor. Grounded by an encyclopedic knowledge of dance music history and generous sharing of that knowledge, Nick and Sorry Records are beacons of integrity and openness in today's dance music community. 

This is part 1 of a 2 part mini-series with Sorry Records.

Read the interview + see a tracklist:
https://spontaneous.zone/047-nick-boyd

Mix mastered by @drvmmy.

"This mix is a recording of my first time playing at Nowadays, a club that has been incredibly influential and important to my life and my friends' lives. When I first started deejaying, my only goals really were to play on The Lot Radio and play Nowadays.

When they asked me, I was very surprised, legit like fall on my bathroom floor crying type situation 😂 😭. I’m a sappy nerd and had loads of nerves but I was lucky to be able to do it for the first time alongside my friend and collaborator Khadijah/DJ Delish and also have the time to just completely over-prepare for like three months ahead of time.

I spent a lot of time thinking about what I wanted to do with the space, both extensively over the years keeping a running “Nowadays Wishlist” playlist and in the three months leading up to the party. I eventually came to the conclusion that I wanted to tell a story with what I played, in the tradition dictated by the New York dancefloor. A story about myself and my friends and the scene here as I’ve seen it both good and bad. A story about the Nowadays dancefloor itself and what that space means to me, but in turn also what dance music spaces and community mean period; how they function and the double-edged sword of trying to be good when it comes to those things.

I also wanted to play tracks by my friends that I knew were going to be there. The people I love who I dance alongside there frequently. I wanted to play tracks that were silly too! Tried to give a sense of levity to a pretty emotional thing. I mean, I got into dance music in large part because of the work that Justin (Carter) and Eamon (Harkin) had done through Mister Sunday into Nowadays, and I'd been going to the space since before it was open indoors. I’m there most every week and have put a lot on that floor…

In the weeks following, I finally got myself to listen to it. At first, I was like, there's so many bits in here where I remember not being able to hear myself or hear the cue. It's my first time playing in a big loud club besides like, Bossa. I considered making all these edits to it…

But then kinda just got to the point where I was like — look at the process of the mix, the ethos behind it… it's more about letting go and natural joy and glee than it is about anything else. So I decided to share it unedited, except for a little audio sample I added at the beginning that I didn't get on the recording. There’s a lot of other very concrete lyrical content included — always with purpose and intention but not always lyrics that I believe in personally."

@nickboydnyc / @sorry-records

Interview + Tracklist

Spontaneous Affinity #047: Nick Boyd

For the 111th entry in the Honcho Podcast series, we welcome Brooklyn's Nick Boyd (@nickboydnyc)! Hopeless devotee and passionate fixture of New York City rave underground, Nick Boyd  runs Sorry Records (@sorry-records); the prolific Brooklyn based DIY label that been putting out well loved releases from a wide variety of stand out US-based dance music freaks for more than half a decade now.

Nick is also a resident on The Lot Radio in Greenpoint, occasionally writes about music/interviews musicians for places like Love Injection, Crack Magazine, The Fader, and Bolting Bits,.
this mix is dedicated to lexi, sé, boxofbox, sister zo, & james preston !!

this mix is inspired by carlos souffront, spencer kincy, the loft, octo octa, geoffrey larue, eris drew, junior vasquez, ron like hell, and livwutang !!!!

photo by danny roche (https://www.dannyroche.com/)

mastered with love by drummy

Honcho Podcast Series 111: Nick Boyd

petre inspirescu & tulbure @ sw17

Tonights Somersault mix is brought to us by Nick Boyd & boxofbox!
@nickboydnyc @boxofbox @sorry-records

"Durham, NC based “artist/scientist/engineer working on cutting-edge digital signal processing and the fundamental physics of rump-shaking” boxofbox and Sorry Records founder Nick Boyd are two muppet brain music freaks who love each other very much. Despite years of friendship and a number of collaborations from boxofbox’s historic 6 hour SORRYMIX to his appearances at Sorry Records parties at Good Room and Glen Falls House and a wacked out joint appearance on Boo Lean’s Lot Radio show, this recording finds box and Boyd playing together for a dancefloor for the very first time. Recorded live and direct from a particularly sweaty sunday evening Sorry Records party at Bossa Nova Civic Club in Brooklyn, Somersault 297 finds the Statler and Waldorf of the rave underground both opening up and closing down the party with a profound display of just the kind of wonked out genre soup glee that these two revel in. 10+ minute long Shep Pettibone megamixes? ✓ Beatport Florida Breaks?  ✓ Sung Tongs era Animal Collective blended over corrupted hardgroove soulseek mp3s?  ✓ Herbie Hancock????  ✓  ✓  ✓  ✓  ✓

Thank you for listening, we hope you enjoy.

Somersault 297 (boxofbox b2b Nick Boyd) "Open the Boydbox! Close the Boydbox!"

The seed will unfurl is a play on the process of gardening, and the way in which it reflects how optimism and patience shows up through an unpredictable climate. A seed is the very beginning, whereas the unfurling shows the result of weeks, maybe months of work by a living thing. What happens between it all? How does it unfurl, and do we stop to consider that process?

The result of something transformative and seemingly satisfactory comes from a lot of support, nurturing and experimenting. I think to understand and accept this process is to make peace with the process of change in our larger environment. The journey is very difficult for these living organisms and most of the work cannot be seen at the surface. 

This mix reflects a similar process. It begins at a slow pace, with deep grit and almost a dragging groove…but something is happening. It goes on to include rhythms and breaks that could resemble a plateau in the process or growth of an idea, until it becomes a more conceptualized, conceivable version of what has happened. By the end we can marvel, relax and perhaps in the work that has been endured.

I encourage listeners to do something that involves a long process while engaging with this mix.

@niyah-west

Niyah West - The Seed Will Unfurl

‘We Fight Because We Like It’

By Janus Rose – after Jacques Lusseyran, Refaat Alareer, Anonymous


We fight because we like it

It’s not about how we win

but how we choose to live

There’s no paradise waiting

at the end of the queer rainbow

There is no trans utopia

that has yet to be won

There is only here and now

and our collective refusal

to stop breathing

•

There is only this world

and we shape it with our bare hands

We inhale the ashes of burning books,

smuggling all the names 

and histories inside our bodies

before they float into the night sky

We call upon Silvia, upon Marsha 

We see Refaat’s kite, flying high

We write letters to our siblings

who’ve been locked in cages

and called “criminals”

We destroy old statues

and dance with joyful

flowing motions in the wreckage

•

We fight because we like it

Because one day

everything will be dust

and no one will remember why

they didn’t want us to exist.

We’ll just sit around 

and tell stories

about how we lived  

by any means necessary.

Jacques Lusseyran: https://itsgoingdown.org/we-fight-because-we-like-it-maintaining-our-morale-against-seemingly-insurmountable-odds/

Refaat Alareer: https://ifimustdie.net/

@janusrose

By the People, For the People

JANUS ROSE - We Fight Because We Like It

TRACK LIST
A Place Called Heaven(Downtown Vibe Mix) - Tension 
Love Is The Message(For Those Who Didn't Hear It - Ani
Exotic Guide - SAUVEUR MALLIA 
Clairvoyant - Terr & Daniel Watts 
Hafi Deo - Tabu Ley Rochereau
Teach Me, Keep Me - Chez Damier 
Midfully - Alfonzo Bottone 
Good News - Gasho & Maxi Raffone 
Go Deep(Extended Mix) - Dee Diggs
I Feel Him Moving - Floorplan 
Revolution(Deep In Jersey Extender Mix) - Harry Romero 
Space & Time(Unreleased Edit) - Heaven & Earth 
The Resistance - Scan 7
I Deserve to Breath(feat. Adeva) - Louie Vega 
Beliefs(Patryk Molinari remix) - Peppou 
Let the Acid Take Control(Upper Mix) - Fast Eddie
Revolution Of The Cuics - Imada
Peace Makers(Extended Mix) - Scan 7 
Sunbeam - Anderson 
Rain(DjTray Remix) - SWV


ABOUT THE MIX
When the work is never finished, how do we sustain? How do we grow from the concrete and rubble? Fluidly. Cyclical. . . taking inspiration from ant colonies and mycelium, great & sustaining activists and anarchists, practitioners of healing and pleasure, the freaks of the night. . . in seek of the treasure of movement, release, liberation, communion. We(The Underground, The Faggots, Dykes and Their Friends)Resist.(make)rythm.rest.rejoyce

@vitigrrl

VITIGRRL- Resist.(make)rythm.rest.rejoyce

In my DJ sets I love exploring different genres of electronic music which is something you can hear whenever I play out. I wanted to take a step back with this mix and RETURN to my dance roots, where this all started for me..... HOUSE music. This mix is also dedicated to one of my heroes and DC house legends that passed away right before the pandemic Sam “The Man” Burns. Whenever I play house music I think of him. He had a residency at a legendary DC club called “18 St Lounge” every Sunday where he would literally take you on a house journey. Bringing generations together and sweating out the night, Sam had a way of hooking you in and leaving you speechless through his House sets. This mix is an offering to him, a continuation of my gratitude.

R.I.P SAM

@dj-nativesun

Nativesun - Returned

The phrase “collective dreaming” floated into my mind as I began to fall asleep one night, and I jotted it down before slipping into the arms of Morpheus. I later researched the term and stumbled across the article “Dreaming together: Artists mobilizing collective dreaming methods for the radical imagination (Capacious)” by Max Haiven. This writing summarized my thoughts on collective dreaming and became the inspiration for my sonic dream, an auditory communal place for healing which mobilizes dreaming as a methodology for fostering radical imagination within collective practice. As Haiven states, the radical imagination is key to the vitality of social movements and transformation of society. This is a mix to accompany and color your radical dreams - in sleep, in travel, at rest, in movement, at home, in public, alone, and with others, “where dreaming is conceived in some sense as a commons: a shared 'resource' for meaning making, discovery and, potentially, resistance.”
https://maxhaiven.com/dreamingtogether/
⊹˚₊𖦹 tracklist 𖦹₊˚⊹
Fools - Versitide
mu tate - they’re with you always 
Maara - Awaken, Plum Plum
Ishome - Adam
mu tate - me when u
nthng - courtesy - night journeys II (nthng’s)
Sega Bodega - Dirt
Bored Lord - Believe
Torus - Sound of the Drums VIP
Evian Christ - The Beach
death’s dynamic shroud - Generate Utopia
Maara - Sip From My Chalice
Marie Davidson - La chambre intérieure
TWEAKS - Essentia
Priori/Sabola - Learn to Fly
Malibu - Iliad

@dearmpthy

mpthy - collective dreaming

The last six months have found me seriously reconsidering my relationship to the dance floors I've grown up on, processing regret, guilt and shame for whatever part I've played in upholding the institutions that are holding us all back. Stark-realizations-I’ve-been-ignoring-for-literal-years type beats. 

This is a recording of me closing out our first weekend Sorry Records party at Nowadays from 3:30am to just after 5am on April 5th 2024. I must admit I kinda blacked out for this set and at first I felt as if I didn't exactly achieve what I set out to do. I love closing parties but must admit I found it particularly tough to DJ the way I want to and find a truly joyful and natural improvisational flow when I’m hosting the party and have been on my feet being social for 7+ hours.

Just like my first set at the club (which is archived as my Spontaneous Affinity mix), I aimed for this set to speak on my personal relationship to this music and the spaces that form around it. While that first set was about looking back, this one found me trying to address the present moment as well as express a genuine hope for the future. 

Gemini - New Style Of
DJ Romain - Opposite (Original Mix)
Kenny "Dope" Gonzalez - Sounds In Da Air 
Roxy Breaks - Blaster Breaks
Ace Of Base - All That She Wants (Axel Boman X Off The Meds Extended Remix)
Exodus - Together Forever (Acapella Dub)
Blackfeet - Dubcat
Laid Back - White Horse (U.S. Edit)
Deborah Cox - Who Do U Love (David Morales Down Low Dub)
Willie Ninja - Hot (Murk Mix)
Knowing Looks - Nosferatu's Christmas (Original Mix)
DJ Samples - _Look at the flow _ immediate fatality_ dude
TikTok - DONT POUR ACID DIRECTLY INTO YOUR MOUTH
George Morel - Like This [1993 Strictly Rhythm]
Gemini - Pieces[1996 Belgium]
Chicken - Downtown
DJ Skull, Ron Maney - First Sight (Original Mix)
Donna Allen - Real (The Resurrection Part 1)
TikTok - Water Backseat Prank s_a_m_m_y_33 
Scuba - So You Think You're Special (Joe Remix)
DJ Plead / T. Morimoto - CCGC60
Attilio Mineo - Man in Space With Sounds (2)
The Contours - Do You Love Me (Acapella)
A.B.T. - Back To Tha Underground (Extended Mix)
DJ Samples - Train driver listing anime
Hugh Masekela - Don't Go Lose It Baby (Version Dub)
Unique 3 - Weight For The Bass (3 Ton Mix)
DJ Samples - Train driver listing anime
Paul McCartney - Ou Est Le Soleil? (Tub Dub Mix) 
SGH - Losing You (Classic Mix)
Bobby Konders - The Head
YouTube - Hang The DJ (Beatles  DJs quot 
The Iron Glove - The Steve Miller Band "Macho City" | T.I.G. Back-To-Front Instrumental Version 
TikTok - FIXED - Beatboxers and Their Special Sounds
Blackbyrds - Rock Creek Park
TikTok - FIXED - Beatboxers and Their Special Sounds
Clarence Carter - Strokin' (Long And Dirty)
Davis Galvin - Interface Bonus Beats
Boof - In the Building
Clarence Carter - Strokin' (Long And Dirty)
TRAXMAN - ANOTHER ONE BITES THE DUST (corkys funkbombin rework)
The Trammps - What Happened To The Music (Dub)
The Flying Lizards - Money (12'' Version)
Jamie Lee Curtis talking about how much she loves James Corden

@nickboydnyc

Nick Boyd - What Happened To The Music (Dub) / Real (The Resurrection, Part 1)

Recorded live at The Office on 07/05/2024
@nickboydnyc

Tracklist:
T. Tauri - Joy To The World (Pancakes For Everyone)
Eddie Harris - Bold and Black (DJ Nu-Mark Remix)
The Clash - The Magnificent Dance
Sagat - Luvstuff (Maxi Edit)
Kitachi - Heavyweight (Knock Out Dub)
Piezo - TB2 (w/ K-LONE)
DJ Jnett - Bubbles Away
The It - Donnie (Acapella)
Deep Six - We're Going Deep (Vocal)
Syt - Mind Melt
Psychotropic - Only For The Headstrong
DJ Duke - Shadows (Stripped Down Bonus Mix)
Houz' Neegroz - I Wanna Say (Da Da Da Dah)
Groove Patrol - Lost In The Groove (Deal Mix)
States Of Mind - Audio Q-5A
Soul Rebellion - Simple Rhythm (Let Me See You Shake Version)
Gemini - Substance Groove
DJs Pareja & Lupe - Verano Lejano (Nikki Nair Remix)
Krimp - In The Spirit (The Perk-us-on Mix)
Benji Candelario, Wayne Rollin - Paradise (Kenny Dope Mix)
Ali Berger - The Stew (No Organ Dub)
Affinity - Don't Go Away (Acapella)
DJ Slym Fas - Hula Hoop Dance (T.P.'s Groovestrumental)
Tears Of Velva - The Way I Feel (Terrence Parker Deeep Detroit Heat Re-Edit 4 Daye Club)
Anorak Trax - Swing Yer Pants
Mutiny - Secrets (Rhythm Masters Club Vocal Mix)
Serious Intention - You Don’t Know (Acapella)
Razor N Guido - Sleepless - Good Time (Guido's Sound Factory Mix)
Paul Johnson - Hour Glass Figure
N-Sync - Found Love (Dub 1)
CultureClash - Mystic (House Dub)
Mr. K - Clap Your Hands, Stomp Your Feet
Model 500 - Milky Way
808 State - Cubik (Kings County Perspective)
Spandrel - Night Winds Eternal
The Deacon - Multi-Dimensional Drama
The Believers - Essence of Life (Stompin' Darkside Mix)
2 Men From Jersey - Untitled

Nick Boyd at Cause & Effect - July 2024

Recorded live at The Yard 07.06.2019, The Block, Tel-Aviv.

Yard Stories #004 - Mihigh

Live-recording of Ion Ludwig's debut live-set preformance at SW19, 2 may 2016.

Ion Ludwig Live @ Sunwaves19

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