There is no way to neatly sum up what @kush_jones does. Part of that is because the Bronx native is so relentless. Part of it is because he makes music purely for himself, self-releases most of it and therefore depends on no one. This year alone he's put out at least five releases. There have been footwork singles, house and breaks EPs, electro tunes and the 13th installment in his tool-y compilation series, Strictly 4 My CDJZ. He is just as flexible as a DJ, threading together Black music from across a global spectrum that can take in the sounds of Baltimore, Detroit and Jersey in the same set.

This is exactly what happens in this week's mix. The tempo is high throughout, but that never restricts what Jones can do. He is still able to explore plenty of nuances and shift the mood and groove while racing along at speed. Super sweet and soulful juke melts away into a flurry of jungle drums. Blistering warehouse techno builds to breaking point then club music takes over. It makes for a breathless but beautiful 65 minutes.

Tracklist

Dekmantel Podcast 344 - Kush Jones

Shyboi, closing The Barn at Dripping 2023

@djshyboi

Shyboi at Dripping 2023

my set from the woodshop stage at the 10th annual fourth world nyc dance music celebration :) recreated in my studio in ridgewood, queens. this was one of the most emotionally gratifying sets i've ever played - biggest love to the front rows packed with many of my best pals and favorite nyc dancers !!!!

ㅤ~ ~ tracklist below ~~~

delay grounds + worldcolour - crash bash party at bufo's
kassian - yena
oliver-ho presents birdland - can u dance to my edit?
peder mannerfelt - pumping plastics
tsvi + dj babatr - hhg
belk - xtd
burna - crushed
georg-i - ???????
hassan abou alam - ma3arash
oyubi + fetus - earnin it
teqmun - slug no escargot
kramphaft - perfect gain structure
tmsv - prism
carre - soft fascination
von riu - psykoz
sister zo + sam binga - smells like
justice - let there be light (dj funk "bounce that ass" remix)
itoa - turbo sideman
burna - danman
aya - delishus (96 back's had a redbull edit)
fonzo - lethargy
spooky-j - ft.wnk
d'angelo - left + right (james blake harmonimix)
piezo - diamonds

live @ 10 years of fourth world, 07.06.24

Magic 8 Episode 117 - 12/14/2024

sola system helps run the label, collective, and party Slick Down, plus HYPNOSIS, plus ABEG, plus hosts constellations on 8 Ball Radio.

Recreational DJ eases into the first hour and picks up the pace with bass and techno. sola system takes over for the second hour, keeping the intensity high and the tunes grooving.

Magic 8 Episode 117 with sola system

DJ Nigga Fox masterfully bridges Europe, Africa, and South America with subtle Middle Eastern influences in this stunning exploration of global sonic textures. Blending research with creativity, he crafts a lesson in ethnomusicology through tribal, indigenous, and primordial sounds. This set links international heritages, geographies, and cultures, all converging on the dancefloor as a pulsating nerve center. Expect a rhythmic and dynamic mix of dark, percussive club beats and atmospheric melodic crescendos, interspersed with raw, syncopated rhythms. Whether vocal or instrumental, the performance is a unique fusion of African and Angolan roots with cutting-edge contemporary electronics.

DJ Nigga Fox - Climate of Fear - October '24

my first recorded downtempo/experimental/ambient-adjacent set on Mengze's radio show cloud nine on 8 Ball Radio. so grateful for this opportunity 💜

listen when you need a moment of rest/reset 🌬️ 

guest set: sola system on cloud nine with Mengze on 8 Ball Radio

A BOYDZONE transmission with guest DJ and Miami legend SEL.6 (@sel_6) !!!

You can watch this episode on YouTube here:
https://youtu.be/z4vQiElUerM

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THE WORST SHOW ON RADIO with @nickboydnyc
🥸 Zone Transmissions at a seemingly random clip on https://8ballradio.nyc/ 
...... reliably unreliable BOYDZONE archive is available here 🔜  https://soundcloud.com/sorry-records/sets/boydzone

https://www.instagram.com/sel.6/
https://sel6.bandcamp.com/
https://soundcloud.com/nickboydnyc

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BOYDZONE with SEL.6 b2b Nick Boyd

TYGAPAW LIVE at Nocturnal Emissions 01/11/25, in Brooklyn, New York. TYGAPAW unleashed a beautifully relentless peak hour set at Nocturnal Emissions on 01/11/25, seamlessly blending the percussive power of dancehall with their signature emotional, driving techno. Pulsing with urgency and defiance, this set is a kinetic journey through sound, resistance, and release. Listen to more on TYGAPAW's SoundCloud https://soundcloud.com/tygapaw

TYGAPAW grew up as Dion McKenzie in Mandeville, Jamaica. Today, the Artist, producer, DJ and label owner resides in Brooklyn, New York, where they have spent the better part of a decade uplifting frequencies representative of the Black electronic music diaspora. Their sonic palette—informed by the dancehall of their hometown as much as it is the techno emanating from the warehouses of Detroit—has made them an indispensable figure in Brooklyn's electronic music scene.

Since 2014, McKenzie has been carving spaces in New York for queer people of color through their queer club night, and now label, Fake Accent. The platform is part of their broader mission to forge liberating spaces for marginalized people, particularly Black, queer and trans people, an agenda embedded in the various layers of the artist's work. Early records like the breakthrough EP Handle With Care (2019), Ode To Black Trans Lives (2020) and their debut album, Get Free (2020) established McKenzie not only as a skillful producer, but further as an emotive storyteller. Through their production, they are known to weave together stories of queer immigrant life, radical self-preservation and Black communal joy.

Their music, much like New York, is a cultural stew made vibrant by influences as local as New York's ballroom community and as distant as Berlin's hard techno circuit. In 2021, one of techno's most vital institutions, the Berlin venue and record label Tresor, enlisted MacKkenzie to contribute to their 30th anniversary compilation, where the musician was in the company of techno luminaries like fellow contributors Juan Atkins, K-HAND and Robert Hood. In 2022, McKenzie brought their visionary take on techno to life with a three-part techno opera, Devil Woman (Obeah Woman)—the first iteration of which premiered at New York's The Chocolate Factory Theater, and Queens Museum before the project traveled to Berlin.

2023, TYGAPAW's second album love has never been a popular movement, was released on fabric Originals in the spring. This album is a special one for several reasons: It's the first album the musician produced with hardware rather than Ableton, their first record that features their vocals prominently and it also sees McKenzie try their hand at songwriting. In eight tracks that hopscotch across atmospheric techno and East Coast club, love has never been a popular movement addresses, with unshakable confidence, fierce self-love and TYGAPAW's journey as a Jamaican reckoning with their trans identity.

NOCTURNAL EMISSIONS is a trippy mix-mash of house, techno and trance with Latin / tribal influence; a distorted, sound-bending, mind-fuck that will leave you suspended with the vibrations of the night. bit.ly/nocturnalnyc for next events and more info. Live set mastered by @djjohnnyi

Nocturnal Sessions 027: TYGAPAW (LIVE)

Relentless rhythms and Latin dance history, courtesy of the TraTraTrax innovator.

Percussion is, at the root, a conversation. It's about different instruments meeting each other, and interacting to form something bigger than the sum of its parts. 

Few engage in this dialogue as boldly as Pablo De Vargas, AKA Uruguayan experimentalist Lechuga Zafiro, who draws from tradition, to make sounds like candombe and clave feel, well, completely new.

De Vargas' music reaches outward, building bridges between Montevideo and Bogotá, Tijuana, Berlin and beyond. He's a key figure in the hybridisation of Latin American club music, with releases on labels like NAAFI and an album on TraTraTrax.

His RA Podcast plays like a manifesto in motion. RA.985 opens with a recording of Jorginho Gularte, a Uruguayan composer, playing a jazz rhythm, from there, it expands: cuban guaguancó, Venezuelan drums, batida, tribal, techno—it's all here, stitched together with precision and intention.

De Vargas is also, crucially, reckoning with these roots. His 2018 EP Testigo confronted the colonial violence embedded in the history of the Río de la Plata. His sets are similarly alive with memory—asking, without nostalgia: what does it mean to inherit rhythm? Who gets to carry it forward?

He's also just a killer DJ, one of those rare artists who uses CDJs like an instrument. His sets are full of hot cues, delay FX and left turns. It's technical, but never cold. It’s, in a word, funky.

@lechugazafiro
Find the interview and tracklist at ra.co/podcast/985

RA.985 Lechuga Zafiro

Sequenced, performed, mixed, and mastered live and freestyle @ The Dead House Studio using -

Elektron Digitakt II
Elektron Syntakt
Elektron Analog Heat II
Roland Tr8S
Roland Tr6S
Roland Sh4D
ASM Hydrasynth
Novation Peak
Novation BassStation
Novation AFXStation
Access Virus A
Access Virus Ti
Access Virus Ti2
Nord Rack
Nord Wave
DSI X4 Morpho
Akai MPC Live
NI Maschine+
Nanobox Fireball

A plethora of distortion, fuzz and overdrive pedals and a mix of other effect chains and sonic oddities.

Various Eurorack sound sources, utilities and effect modules.

Digital & vinyl dj booth for scratching, experimental looping and record sampling.

Mixed down and performed using -

Presonus StudioLive32Sx
2 x Roland Mx-1
MacbookPro
Ableton
APC40
APC64
MPK25

BandMütt

My Family Will Pay Qash

Another crazy collab with @Apocalypz༜ 

https://blazinbomzai.bandcamp.com/

Bandcamp

Apocalypz & Blazin' Bomzai - Oida

NYC

Upcoming dates:
6/8 - Pianos
6/12 - Dead Letter No. 9

Instagram: @vastafazooool

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