Refraction Festival NYC: The Lot Radio Takeover (June 23 2022)

Refraction Festival Berlin at Panke Culture (April 29-30 2022)

Refraction Festival São Paulo x MAGMA at The Force (June 4-5 2022)

For this season’s Minted Chaos theme, Refraction asked four DJs who have a creative relationship to chaos to explore the full spectrum in their mix — both from a selection and technique standpoint — and to reflect on how it relates to their practice.

Featuring mixes by Bergsonist, Leevisa, quest?onmarq, Pure Rave.

Editorial:
https://www.refractionfestival.com/editorial/minted-chaos-mix-bergsonist
https://www.refractionfestival.com/editorial/chaotic-mix-leevisa
https://www.refractionfestival.com/editorial/chaotic-mix-quest-onmarq
https://www.refractionfestival.com/editorial/chaotic-mix-pure-rave

Chaotic Mix Series

For this two-hour journey through creative techno and pumping trance, Ciel is joined by her long-time collaborator Sandro S. Petrillo, an underrated staple of the Toronto scene.

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Ciel (Toronto / Peach Discs, Coastal Haze, Thanks For Enlightening Me) / Sandro S. Petrillo (Toronto / Sergio SP)

Over the years, Toronto's Cindy Li has grown from a tireless community supporter—first as a radio DJ in college and with Work In Progress, her women-only radio show, then as a promoter putting on weekly and monthly parties—into a bona fide dance music star. Her music, which has come out on labels like Peach Discs, Spectral Sound and Coastal Haze, is an idiosyncratic blend of electro, breakbeat, progressive house and trance, with a penchant for Chinese melodic scales and a featherweight touch. Her music is tough but graceful, floating above the dance floor like a perfumed cloud. And with mixes and residencies for pretty much every series and radio station you could think of, Li has defined herself as an adventurous and knowledgeable DJ, whether she's dropping '90s drum & bass or nouveau trance.

Sandro S. Petrillo, sometimes known as Sergio Levels or Sergio SP, is a veteran of Canada's electronic music scene, having moved from Calgary to Toronto and worked with many festivals, groups and artists. He's a techno producer, Ableton teacher, photographer and visual artist who takes a deep understanding of electronic music to everything he does.

Ciel - Refraction 2020

D Tiffany and Roza Terenzi come together for a back-to-back performance featuring sounds and visuals in the retrofuturistic Planet Euphorique style that both have become known for.

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D. Tiffany & Roza Terenzi (Berlin/Vancouver/Melbourne / Planet Euphorique, Dekmantel, Pacific Rhythm)

D. Tiffany rose from a drummer in Vancouver's indie rock scene to one of the most prominent producers in the house revival that swept the city and, eventually, the rest of the world. Since then, she's established a razor-sharp sound with one foot in vintage dance music and the other in the future, using her Planet Euphorique label to release music that traffics in trance, breakbeat, vintage IDM and electro. She's found a kindred spirit in Australian producer Roza Terenzi, who dazzled the Melbourne scene with her sound rooted in bleep techno, electro and trance, putting out records for labels like Good Company, Butter Sessions and Dekmantel, eventually joining forces with D. Tiffany on Planet Euphorique, where she just released her debut album Modern Bliss.

D Tiffany x Roza Terenzi - Refraction 2020

Marcellus Pittman (Detroit / Unirhythm, Sound Signature)

Marcellus Pittman is the epitome of Detroit dance music. Raised on a mixture of rap, soul, funk, house, techno and disco, his DJ sets are just varied as that sounds, with the kind of turntable skills that come from his roots as a hip-hop DJ. He cut his teeth on Theo Parrish's label and started one of the Motor City's most renowned projects, Three Chairs—with Parrish, Moodymann and Rick Wilhite—alongside running Unirhythm, one of Detroit's most underrated imprints. But maybe the thing that defines Pittman most is his love of unquantized rhythms, and the way he mixes them.

Marcellus Pittman - Refraction 2020

Séance Centre (Toronto)

Séance Centre is the label from Torontonian Brandon Hocura, who is a DJ, archivist, filmmaker and writer. Since launching in 2017, the label has highlighted several dance subgenres from across Africa—including kwaito, pantsula and gwo ka—and notably reissued the work of Canadian artist Glenn Beverly-Copeland, about whom Hocura made a film called The Lake Sutra in 2017. Séance Centre's newest imprint, Mixed Signals, showcases underexposed dance music, including private press records and archival material from around the world.

Séance Centre - Refraction 2020

Yu Su invites us into her studio to watch her create one of her signature meditative, slowly unfurling soundscapes.

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Yu Su (Vancouver / Technicolour, Music From Memory)

Balancing dub, ambient, jazz and house, the Kaifeng-born, Vancouver-based Yu Su has become one of the city's most distinctive electronic musicians. Over releases for labels like People's Potential Unlimited, Music From Memory's Second Circle and Ninja Tune's Technicolour subsidiary, she's outlined a deeply personal sound that mixes influences from her childhood piano training, Chinese opera and the dance music she discovered in Canada. With her solo work and as a founding member of the band You're Me, Yu Su is becoming one of the most prominent modern disciples of Jon Hassell's Fourth World, exploring and creating new musical realms with each new release.

Yu Su - Refraction 2020

Mathew Jonson performs a live set from his studio in Berlin, with accompanying visuals from Genki Nishida.  Known globally for his distinct sound and live performances, Mathew does a special set inside the entire studio, making use of equipment and techniques not normally available for his live performances.

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Mathew Jonson (Berlin / Wagon Repair, Crosstown Rebels)

Mathew Jonson is one of the pioneers of electronic music live performance as we know it today. The Canadian artist takes influence from house, techno, electro and drum & bass, and he has a deep catalogue of tracks, including the seminal track Marionette, released through the Wagon Repair label he cofounded—as well as other projects through Crosstown Rebels, Kompakt, Hypercolour and m_nus. His history with classical piano and jazz drumming lends his tracks a distinct musicality that comes to life in his live performances, an improvisatory flair that he explores even further in side projects and collaborations like Cobblestone Jazz, The Modern Deep Left Quartet, Midnight Operator and, more recently, Sebastian Mullaert's Circle Of Live project. Most recently, Jonson debuted the Freedom Engine alias for an acclaimed album on Dekmantel, showing that almost 20 years into his career, Jonson remains at the top of his game.

Mathew Jonson - Refraction 2020

dreamcastmoe w/ care of tyrous morris (Washington DC / Future Times, Specials, People's Potential Unlimited)

A producer, MC, singer, songwriter, DJ drummer and photographer (and chef), Davon Bryant-Mason is one of DC's most vibrant musical personalities. His live performances are electric, soulful and unpredictable, an energy that carries over into his records, which vary from sultry deep house to old-school boogie, R&B and hip-hop. He's appeared on record labels like Future Times, People's Potential Unlimited and Specials, with a polymath approach to genre that makes his appeal wide, whether we're talking rap kids or dance music diggers.

dreamcastmoe - Refraction 2020

Refraction Festival NYC- Russell E.L. Butler @ The Lot Radio (June 23 2022)

Refraction Festival NYC- DJ Wawa @ The Lot Radio (June 23 2022)

Refraction Festival NYC- musclecars @ The Lot Radio (June 23 2022)

Refraction Festival NYC- Kilopatrah Jones @ The Lot Radio (June 23 2022)

Uninamise, Epic B, Hitmakerchinx b2b recorded live on March 17 2022 at Public Records (NYC) in partnership with Carnegie Hall's Afrofuturism Festival.

Uninamise, Epic B, Hitmakerchinx @ Public Records (March 17 2022)

Toribio @ Public Records (March 24 2022)

JADALAREIGN @ Public Records (March 24 2022)

Ron Trent @ Public Records (March 24 2022)

Tracklist:
Space Ghost - New World Energy (Sunset Mix)
Local Artist - Dancer
Will DiMaggio - Yep Yep (Beat)
Universal Principles - Inspiration & Light
Rhythm of Paradise - Paradise
Baia Club - Shine On (House Mix)
Marma Boog - Hypnotizing A Kookaburra
Unknown Artist - Sharon (Florence Records Edit)
Rhode & Brown / Benjamin Fröhlich - Days Of Innocence (Dream Mix)
JEX - Zone Phased
Alex Kassian - Oolong Trance (Paradise Mix)

Teen Daze - Refraction Radio Mix

Prefuse 73 @ ZeroSpace (June 22 2022)

Amelia Holt & Yumi, Sel.6, Danny Daze, recorded live on March 19 2022 at The Boombox in Miami.

Danny Daze @ The Boombox (March 19 2022)

Byron The Aquarius - Refraction Radio Mix

https://soundcloud.com/lucimuz
https://www.instagram.com/lucimuz/
https://lucimuz.com

ЛЮСІ / Luci @ Panke Culture (April 29 2022)

aemlx is a music project by Polish artist Emilia Kurylowicz, blending melodies and processed chants with textures, recycled sounds, landing somewhere at a soft/aggressive spot between post-club and songwriting. Their practice spans various interdisciplinary projects such as R&D-a genre-bending feminist experimental-pop/spoken word-performance-duo, TENDERRIPPLEFLUX, a show on Cashmere Radio dedicated to sonic expressions of intimacy, they are also a member of the Boiling Room initiative, a cooking show combining music performance, readings, interviews and providing meals and safe space for people escaping the war.

aemlx @ Panke Culture (April 29 2022)

Berlin-based artist, The Allegorist, has been meandering through stories with her purposeful and introspective take on electronic music. Each release explores themes that require joint participation from the listener as they look to flood your mind with images of fabled characters and places through her artistic soundscapes. Her carefully built worlds that straddle sci-fi and fantasy, feeding off of the light and dark dualism are the perfect blend of reflective contemplation and storytelling.

The Allegorist @ Panke Culture (April 29 2022)

Particle K is the electronic persona of composer Kaan Bulak, born in the digital world.
Immersed in pulsating beats and rough moments, the self is reduced to a single letter, to its particle level. Nothing is composed here, expressions get amplified until distortion. It's all about leaving the framework of expectations and finding a mirror reflecting your inner self.

Particle K @ Panke Culture (April 29 2022)

Bungalovv is the electronic alternative music project headed by Pablo Betas, a core member of the internationally acclaimed label Infinite Machine and also founder of Trrueno.
The project was born in Buenos Aires, Argentina but he is now based in Berlin, Germany.
His sound is the anchorage of middle eastern rhythms, wild percussions, pre-columbian instruments and latin american shades. All these elements are articulated around an experimental ecosystem where nocturnal, robotic and mechanical faunas coexist.

Bungalovv @ Panke Culture (April 29 2022)

https://www.instagram.com/kontronatura
https://twitter.com/kontronatura
https://soundcloud.com/kontronatura

Refraction x MAGMA - Kontronatura

https://www.eeepxxx.club/
https://www.instagram.com/epx.club/
https://twitter.com/piningaff
https://mambarec.bandcamp.com/track/bate-mais-pininga-remix
https://soundcloud.com/pininga

Refraction x MAGMA - EPX

https://www.instagram.com/d3lcu/
https://twitter.com/d3lcu
https://soundcloud.com/d3lcu
https://delcu.bandcamp.com/

Refraction x MAGMA - Delcu

I was inspired by the idea of chaos as complete disorder and confusion when I selected the tracks I worked with. However, the actual performance of the mix was deterministic as I was constrained by the initial conditions which illustrates well the physics of chaos.

Tracklist:
Mark Fell - Intra-8
Bjnilsen - Rough  Grazing
El Hachmi El Houari -  Track 1 (Fes Maatic)
CVN - Snippets of heaven
Notte Infinita - I lost all My data
Boy Harsher - Yr Body Is nothing
Terrence Parker - Love’s Got me high ( Tribute Mix)
Dave ‘Rockin’ Duke - Dat Colita (Original Mix)
Corrupted Cru feat. MC Neat - G.A.R.A.G.E
The Dub Monsters - Sweet Thang
DKMA - Creepin
Guem et Zaka - Liberte
DJ Co.kr - Samulnor.E
DJ Yumyum - Decisions
Rochelle Jordan - Got them
Broosnica - masterminds
Digitalis - Osho Drums
AbAdir - Kabbut ft ZULI & 3Phaz
John Object - Drake/Future
Dj /rupture - Nass El Ghiwane - Qandile M’Daoui
Dabrye - Game Over: instrumental
Orange - Aem Rhythm
Daft Punk - One More Time (Romanthony Edit)

https://www.refractionfestival.com/editorial/minted-chaos-mix-bergsonist
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Bio:
Selwa Abd (Bergsonist) is a New York-based artist and musician originally from Morocco. She hosts a monthly show on NTS Radio & is the founder of the community resource Pick Up The Flow.
 
Links:
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/bergsonist/
Twitter: https://twitter.com/bergsonist
Bandcamp: https://bergsonist.bandcamp.com
Store: https://bergsonist.com

Chaotic Mix - Bergsonist

Does chaos mean disorder? If you think so, wouldn't it be close to your socially accepted moral values? Even if the concept of being is neutral, its value changes according to the way it is perceived. That is why in a highly developing technological society, users are responsible for the consequences of its consumption. We are living in a battlefield to take power, and chaos is just the process of forming a new order. In the following hour-long mix, there are quite a few moments where the tracks are mixed in a flash without a mashup, so I hope you can feel the narrative in which chaos becomes cosmos.

Tracklist:
Inga Copeland - Obsession 2
Gimisum Family - Skit
Tommy Wright III & Princess Loko - Street Shit
SOPHIE - BIPP
SCRAAATCH - FIRST FUCK EDIT
Youngnam Song - Re See
Stainus - Euphoria
Daniel Rossen - Saint Nothing
E+E - The Totaled Angelica
Amy Winehouse - Rehab
Leevisa - Crush
Robert Wyatt - At Last I Am Free
Deli Spice - Chau Chau
Yung Lean - Ginseng Strip 2002 (Prod. Yung Gud)
Duval Timothy - Slave (feat. Twin Shadow)
Joel Eel - Love Infinity (Feat. Leevisa)
Salem - Frost
Leevisa - ???
Celestial Trax - Total Capitulation (Feat. Dis Fig)
Hiroshi Yoshimura - Ka Wa Mo
spekkio - celestial
33EMYBW - 冬虫夏草
Meth Math - Tambaleo (Machine Girl Remix)
FKOFF1963 - DO IT
rkss - house, electro house, club house (Produced by Hyder & Ribo)
Jockstrap - Concrete Over Water
Lotic - FORMATION (AMERICA IS OVER DECLARATION)
Bald Terror - Hardcore
7 Year Bitch - Kiss My Ass Goodbye

https://www.refractionfestival.com/editorial/chaotic-mix-leevisa
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Bio:
“I think that if you are an artist, you should let them escape from living according to their inertia, even for a moment.” is how Seoul based DJ, producer and composer, Leevisa translates the prepositions of an artist.
 
Her compositions are diversified outside the context of club culture, and described as a Lost in translation moment, trainwrecking head first into an after hours rave. Her recent contributions span from: an exclusive mix for Apple music, a remix for PZWorld Book (Published by IDEA), composing music for Kimmy.j FW19 Seoul Fashion Week runway and breaking into the world of film as a music composer. Bridging the world of music & fashion, as one of the rising female musicians of Seoul's underground scene via i-D magazine and DJing/modeling for notably rising fashion brand Hyein Seo. Leevisa has toured throughout the world playing for Unsound, CTM, Elsewhere, HKCR, NTS Radio, and performs frequently at Seoul’s renown club Cakeshop and Seoul Community Radio.
 
Links:
https://leevisa.kr
https://leevisa.bandcamp.com
https://www.instagram.com/leevisa
https://twitter.com/leevisa_

Chaotic Mix - Leevisa

controlled chaos is a key element in my practice. in this mix, things get dialed up a notch. while spiraling, time seemed to go much slower while recording!
making use of intuitive, rapid mixing and flexible shifts in tempo and genre.
the sounds in my minted chaos mix explore the complete spectrum of chaotic good, neutral and evil - illustrated through the selections and their handling.
recorded on a pioneer xdj-rx controller, and madly manipulating just a few parameters.. tracks are handled with an appropriate level of recklessness in each section.
tightly contracting and rapidly accelerating tracks seemed to unleash their most chaotic inertial potential.

one of the transitory points between themes are marked by flowing water. these are recordings from years back.. i swear in that moment i was fascinated by the chaotic potential of water.. here recognizing its potential as an instrument. (i'd eventually make a whole 'liquindi-techno' track which did not make it into the mix)
water is the key of life but under the right set of influences can destroy cities.
drawn to ebb and flow by the moon.. when i felt myself get too calm as a lake i'd take the mix in the direction to be wild as a river.
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Tracklist:

Chaotic Good:
“Geni Tirta” - Will Guthrie
“Wrath Sabbath” - Energie Noire
“exp_fold” - pent
“Lemon Day” - Nils Frahm
“Science of Dust” - HHY and The Kampala Unit
“Neurasthenia” - B E N N
“Take Me Up Remix” - DJ Phantasy & Aphrodite
“Tokyo Dawn” - Doc Scott
“Atlantis” - LTJ Bukem
“take u there” - Bell Curve

Chaotic Neutral:
“Bujang Ganong” - Raja Kirik
“Spiral” - Artilect
“Sakata” - Authentically Plastic
“Unsuccessful attempt at tryin 3” - Anthems for Unsuccessful Winners
“Soft Injection” - Avbvrn
“Rising” - Ruins
“Pyroclasts C#” - Sunn O)))
“365” - Bloodz Boi 血男孩, Quit Life
“River Sounds (Yosemite 2017)” - Field Recording
“River Sounds (Yosemite 2017)” - Field Recording
“Presence” - ???

Chaotic Evil:
“Church of Herrmann” - The Lord
“Dis” - Avbvrn
“Automaton Clock” - Torn
“Drum Track” - Arnaud Krakowka
“Orthodox Caveman” - Sunn O)))
“Aghartha (quest?onmarq Remix)” - Sunn O)))
“Ixoshi” - Slikback x Exploited Body
“Tanah Prahara” - Raja Kirik
“Skin Tight” - Slikback x Van Boom
“Kerokerosene” - Vibrisse
“To Fall Into The Pit” - Teya Logos
“Walk With Me In Hell” - Klereherriekrew
“Drag” - Civilian Camo
“Lionsblood” - Duma

https://www.refractionfestival.com/editorial/chaotic-mix-quest-onmarq
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Bio:
Amorphous and adaptable, quest?onmarq is a sonic and physical shapeshifter channeling sounds from all corners of the global underground.
When guiding the vibration of the room, the ‘spiral effect’ takes place — a collective state of inhibitory submission by way of frequency manipulation often in the form of genre defiant DJ set performances that incorporate turntablism, sharp technical prowess and their own productions and remixes. They can be heard monthly as a bi-monthly fixture presenting mixes and guest features on Paris’ arm of Rinse.FM as well as a monthly resident, producing audio-visual mixes on New York’s The Lot Radio.
 
Links:
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/callmequestion
Bandcamp: https://questionmarcdj.bandcamp.com
SoundCloud: http://soundcloud.com/iamquestionmarc

Chaotic Mix - quest?onmarq

This mix was recorded using 4 browser windows of Looptube.io and a microphone.  Some of the source material was planned, most was come upon by chance.

Pure Rave is a project born out of embracing chaos musically, the term "chance dance" is what we've been using to describe a rhythm-forward indeterminacy. The outcomes are as fun to play as they are to listen. The threshold of which something can become agreeable musically is constantly ridden. This is fragile music in that its semblance of musical relatability is subjective. We drift in and out of this composition being considered music listening. BPM seems irrelevant yet somewhat intact. 

Chaos is fun! Pure Rave is fun! We are serious about having fun! It's fun to zone out on some bizarre hypnotic indeterminate repetition continually staggered by imprecise mechanics and technological glitches. 

When you mash a handful of numbers together into the youtube search bar, you get a bunch of videos that come up with little to no views - forgotten to the cloud never to be heard from again.... until now, when chaos brings these digital artifacts to the shore and we use a split second of their content to create a percussive element. Interjecting a familiar sound into the mix brings this arrangement back into a context. I'd recognize the first second of Waveform Transmission anywhere.

Tracklist:
Pure Rave - Looptube Set 8-31-22
Vladislav Delay - Untitled Loops, Take 2
Hoon - CBL
Pansonic - Koilinen
Shigaeki Saegusa - ME
Kinesthsia - Triachus
Jeff Mills - Phase 4

https://www.refractionfestival.com/editorial/chaotic-mix-pure-rave
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Bio:
Pure Rave is a collective based in Detroit, Michigan and an ongoing experiment in "chance dance". Using various prepared turntables, "damaged" records, the occasional drum machine, rudimentary CDDJ loops, and 133.33 bpm loops. The effect is an indeterminate arrangement of patterns and rhythmic sonic collage. Real-time experimentation with the goal of hitting your pleasure center for whatever your brain thinks is interesting.

Links:
Instagram: https://instagram.com/pure__rave
SoundCloud: https://soundcloud.com/purerave
Bandcamp: https://purerave.bandcamp.com/
Nina Hub: https://hubs.ninaprotocol.com/pure-rave
Twitch: https://www.twitch.tv/purerave2000

Chaotic Mix - Pure Rave

Refraction teamed up with acclaimed illustrator AbuQadim Haqq to drop four original pages from his seminal graphic novel, “The Book of Drexciya, Vol. 1”. Given his creative legacy and resonant impact on Detroit electronic music aesthetics, we are humbled to play a part in bringing this drop to life.

Haqq and media theorist DeForrest Brown, Jr. joined a Twitter Space to paint a complete picture of the origin and gravity of this work. They discussed Detroit’s artistic lineage, various influential cultural figures, AbuQadim’s inspirations, and much more. The entire conversation can be heard and shared here.

The public sale for this drop is now live; head over to our drop site to mint one of these remaining, historical editions: https://www.refractionfestival.com/the-book-of-drexciya

The Book of Drexciya: AbuQadim Haqq + DeForrest Brown, Jr. In Conversation

This mix was created to amplify and celebrate the releases under Perpetual Care’s catalogue. In addition, we’ve added music from friends and previous demos received in the past. Our intention was to make a harmonious mix —to shape a hasher palette of sounds to feel more at ease. We hope that this prospective illuminates sonic diversity and what’s to come for the world outside.

Tracklist
01. 266sx - Tecumseh
02. Kayla Domenica - Portise
03. Joel Eel - Screen Resolution (Feat. Kayla Domenica)[Extended Mix]
04. Dan Only - b flat be real may 12 v.1
05. Leevisa - Three Shifts
06. Jacinth - Ancient Something
07. Nautiluss - I GUESS THIS IS GOODBYE
08. Jing - 我早就全都忘記
09. Joel Eel - Sweat (feat. Ausschuss)
10. Orchestroll - Dirge
11. TYVYT|IYTYI - To Learn
12. TYVYT|IYTYI - The Crushing Force Of Reality
13. Ausschuss - Silk Law
14. Kloxii - DEPECHE MODE I WANT IT ALL
15. Joel Eel - Hybrid Human I & II
16. Multiple Select - Cultural Transmissions
17. 266sx - death in supercut iii - i
18. Suk Hong - ???
19. Jacinth - Stupor

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About Perpetual Care
Perpetual Care is an electronic dance label based in Toronto, bridging a gap between Korean and North America underground dance music.

As an early adopter in creating unconventional physical and digital products, the label desires an evolving ecosystem influenced by belief systems. Perpetual Care offers a digital afterlife, re-defining “tangibility,” through disparate music configurations, a balance between intellectual + visceral approaches in sculpting modern day artifacts.

Originally conceived by industrial music, the label’s sonic spectrum seeks to explore deeper —to capture the undefined genres of traditional: breaks, techno, ambient, dnb, left field pop in means to test mainstream ideology.

TY for your faith

Links
http://perpetualcare.club
https://www.instagram.com/perpetualcare.club 
https://www.twitter.com/perpetual_care
https://perpetualcare.bandcamp.com/
https://soundcloud.com/perpetualcareclub

Perpetual Care - Refraction Mix

Functional Music 4 Dysfunctional Mind. Techless, Heartless, Brainless but full of emotions. Half for boys, Half for girls. Half for love, Half for hate. Like having experienced the best of life and only left repeating & getting old.

Tracklist:
Blood To Blood - Don't Ask Don't Get
Baxter - FUCKBOY
RUN FOR COVER, Lucas Boston - Havoc
CRUSH3d - whowantsmoke
HARLEM O (HYU EDIT)
Dizzie (3AM Edit)
Wiley - One Step Further (Beyond Ü Edit) 
GES - Hit List
Skepta - GREAZE MODE (HYU EDIT)
Charlie Sparks - Welcome To London
Pink - Get The Party Started (Versus EDIT)
Ciara - 1, 2 Step (DJ Heartstring Edit)
Baby One More Time (Belljack Trance Edit)
Automates - Meta
MRD - Save Me Another Time
Max Durham - I'LL B FKD UP (SOFTER SYNTH)
xo tour life

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Bio:
Kilo Vee is best known as a co-founder of Genome 6.66 Mbp, the Shanghai-based net label known for pushing the city’s sound forward, in addition to challenging contemporary club culture. 
As a resident of the Genome 6.66 Mbp nights at famed Shanghai club ALL, Kilo Vee has welcomed and played alongside artists such as Rabit, Why Be, object blue, and NAKED.
Alongside Tavi Lee, Kilo Vee curates the label’s releases. Genome 6.66 Mbp first emerged with a compilation featuring Dirty K and Hyph11e, among others. They’ve since established themselves as one of the online underground’s foremost labels, and gone on to share music from the likes of Golin, Atrosuka, Organ Tapes, and Rui Ho. 

K6V is Kilo-Vee's alter ego for the dance floor, a chaotic hybrid of Cheesy Pop and Deep Thoughts. Compared with the radical and experimental sound on his label Genome 6.66 Mbp, K6V prefers to play  high-energy dance music and pop edits to poke fun at the serious elite music aesthetic. His goal is to push everyone's emotions to the extreme, excitement or anger, to escape the boring reality of life. Hard Techno, Neo-Rave, Gabber, Donk, these tags can give you a quick preliminary or incorrect understanding of K6V. Hard Music for Fantastic Babies, K6V and XDD together also manage the cute rave party - RUI 惢.

Links:
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/kilo666vee
Soundcloud: https://soundcloud.com/kilovee

K6V - Refraction Mix

A HIGH ENERGY AND PERCUSSIVE MIX WITH MULTIPLE AFRO-DIASPORIC RHYTHMS THRU AMERICA

Tracklist
RHR - UNRELEASED
EVEHIVE - UNRELEASED
CIRCUITE 900 - HALITE
INVT - KILOTON
PLOY - RAYHANA
SHYBOI - RAVE DOWN BABYLON
AVERNIAN - MAADI
LITHE - ONE FOR THE RUSS (DOUBT REMIX)
BADSISTA - TESÃO
REGAL86 - MASSIVE CHORD
NAFFFTERO - VAMO'HACERLO
INVT - FOGOSO
NARA VAEZ - REFLEXXXX
DE SCHUURMAN - NU GA JE DANSEN HARD
BITTER BABE & NICK LEÓN - GØCE
CRRDR - 2 1 5
EL IRREAL VEINTEUNO - TL-DM
FIELDS - SYLVERE
SPEEDY SKANK - BURNA

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Bio:
Kontronatura is the Club Music project started in 2019 by Achille, DJ and producer from São Paulo, resident of the Mamba Negra.

He started his career in the Escuro collective, which explored black and Afro-diasporic identities, where the curatorial proposal was exclusively focused on black producers. His trajectory began with the influences of disco, soul and house, before delving into more experimental paths of music. As a DJ, Kontronatura's sound moves between dense and percussive rhythms, like Jungle and Footwork, with classic beats from Techno, Baltimore, Vogue and Jersey Club.

Achille liked to break expectations and mess with the listener's imagination, believing that the dancing body is free and sees the dance floor as a power to purge colonial violence.

With 2 years of experience, it has already conquered its space and gained national and international attention with its sets in partys in latin america like ODD, KODE, Mamba Negra, Hiedrah, Batekoo and his mixes aired on notable platforms such as Resident Advisor, Boiler Room, Mutant Radio and on Radio Veneno by Tijolo Records and Raio Show accompanied by Jensen Interceptor.

Achille, who is a transmasculine person, understands that his body has a political role in response to the lack of representation in the scene, in which transvestite bodies have little or no access. He takes back to himself the raw material of his existence as the greatest tool to position himself as an artist, being one of the representatives of the transmasculine community in electronic music.

Links:
https://soundcloud.com/kontronatura
https://ra.co/dj/kontronatura
https://www.instagram.com/kontronatura/
https://havona.art/artistas/kontronatura/

Artwork by Eric Chen - https://ericlchen.com/

Kontronatura - Refraction Mix

A blend of songs I had on loop while grieving and being in my creative process while producing my debut album "Mascarade". Including some unreleased original productions.

Tracklist:
Break Your Down - Georgia Anne Muldrow
Fail - Jon Bap
God Said it's Okay to Fall - Matt Martians
Forbidden Forest - Gayance & Gene Tellem feat. Laroie, Edward Reilly (unreleased)
Lord Have Mercy - Gayance feat. Judith Little D & Raveen (unreleased)
That - Jerome Thomas
Duet - Gonjasufi
Gran Mèt - Manno Charlemagne
Don't Run Into The Dark so Quick - Jon Bap
Song 33 - Noname
Find You (New Jerusalem) - Peter CottonTale
Sirens - Gayance feat. KALLITECHNIS & Dapapa
Legba Mia Mia - Les Grandes Vissages de Cyvadier
Moon Rising (10 Years) - Gayance feat. Judith Little D (unreleased)
How Bad I Want Ya - Mr. Bobbyjazz, Soulement, Peven Everettt
Shore Apart - Gayance feat. Raveen (unreleased)
Do You Know ? - Donnie

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Bio:
Gayance (real name Aïsha Vertus) takes her alias from the Haitian creole word for joyfulness. She started as a DJ in 2013, collecting vinyl from afro-Latin jazz, vintage Caribbean sounds, West African, and black electronic music from both sides of the Atlantic. But her musical roots can be traced back even further. Her Grandfather, who was playing Haitian-influenced gospels in church, showed her how music can be used to touch and uplift people. A gift she’s taken with her wherever she goes.

Born and raised in Montreal-Nord, Gayance has been tearing down venues in Paris, Amsterdam, Brooklyn, Marrakech, Berlin, São Paulo, and more. Her own production is influenced by UK Garage and broken beat, and the Detroit and New York house scene, with nods to the vivid, sun-soaked colors of Latin America.

Aïsha’s first project came in 2021, an entirely independent release that features Montreal native, KAYTA. ‘Kinda Strange’ is an ode to underground UK Garage with soulful melodies from KAYTA, accompanied by gospel-style backing vocals as Gayance reaches back to her Grandfather’s roots.

This was quickly followed up by the EP, ‘No Toning Down’, where Aïsha explores her global influences. She cites artists like Betty Davis, Andre 3000, Caetano Veloso, and Timbaland as well as her contemporaries, Liv.e, Nick Hakim, Viktor Duplaix, Solange, IG Culture, and Little Dragon. The track ‘Meu Sol’ takes the listener to Brazil, where she teams up with Maleika Tidjani and Dapapa on this Dilla-inspired instrumental, full of summery chords and intricate melodies. By the end of the project, ‘All My Friends Are Triggered’, we hear Gayance in a darker cadence. Burial-esque, glitchy drums skip along below a solemn chord progression and robotic vocal chops.

Following her impressive catalog of self-releases, Gayance will be putting out her first full-length album on Rhythm Section in 2023. ‘Mascarade’ is a collection of dancey rhythms with melodies that appear in the form of hauntingly soulful hooks, or bright outpours of joy and celebration. Her list of collaborators will also feature some of her friends from underground Montreal. This record gives light to Aïsha’s talents, not only as a producer but as a vocalist and lyricist who shows us a great capacity for different emotions, styles, and languages to arise in her songs.

Links:
www.bygayance.club
www.gayance.bandcamp.com
www.soundcloud.com/gayance
www.instagram.com/gayance
https://open.spotify.com/artist/6HkmFbqw9k63LmmlBlCQic?si=5vI4rkkqRLulmW9sZ5FPrQ
https://music.apple.com/us/artist/gayance/1556200586

Artwork by Eric Chen - ericlchen.com

Gayance - Refraction Mix

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