Great mixtape with bangin' music on both sides. Thank you!

Darwin (@darwinspec) juggles many different roles in dance music as well as she juggles her records in the DJ booth. The Canadian-born, Berlin-based artist runs her own REEF parties at Berghain, and has nurtured a wealth of emerging talents on her SPE:C label. She is also the founder of Clean Scene, a climate action collective that wants to explore a more sustainable future for dance music. They recently authored a stark report about the industry's carbon footprint, which you can read through cleanscene.club/report.pdf. 

Darwin's sound is rooted in various UK styles, from bass to dubstep, garage to breakbeat. That is evident in the 100-minute mix she lays down for us this week. It opens with thoughts about environmentalism and some indigenous jungle recordings before grinding through chunky Afro drum patterns and supersized bass. The pressure builds throughout, the cavernous rhythms grow ever more muscular as the urge to snake your body becomes overwhelming. It's a perfectly balanced, well-controlled mix that showcases the irresistible power of heavyweight bass music.

Dekmantel Podcast 

Dekmantel Podcast 351 - Darwin

Glasgow's Huntleys + Palmers invited Daisychain to curate a special showcase on Rinse FM.

Octo Octa pieced together a sonic love letter to her 13 year old self, the year she first discovered drum 'n' bass.

@octoocta
@huntleyspalmers
@rinsefm

✿ Closet Yi ~ www.soundcloud.com/daisychain_podcast/closet-yi-rinse-fm-huntleys-palmers-invites-daisychain
✿ Leesh ~ www.soundcloud.com/daisychain_podcast/leesh-rinse-fm-huntleys-palmers-invites-daisychain
✿ Octo Octa

Octo Octa ~ Rinse FM ~ Huntleys + Palmers invites Daisychain

Recording of Call Super's set at Dekmantel Festival 2022.

"Thank you for letting me do this, and much love to those who joined me. This set is dedicated to the memory of Steve Bronski."

Call Super at Dekmantel Festival 2022

Tracklist + Q&A: https://bit.ly/3Ut9Hav

@jadalareign is a dynamic force in the American underground's Black music renaissance

"This mix is a snapshot of my signature sound, including some of my most favorite records from my collection. It encompasses my passion for classic American house and techno spanning my home in New York, the East Coast and Midwest. It’s a love letter to obscure cuts, ravey synths and acid basslines, queer themes, expressive vocals, and getting free on the dancefloor."

Tracklist + Q&A

Impact: JADALAREIGN

The Lot Radio Stage at Making Time ∞ Fort Mifflin 2022

ACEMO @ MAKING TIME ∞

Tracklist: https://bit.ly/3W7zFB9
Read the cover feature: https://bit.ly/peachmxmg

“With this mix, I've been very inspired by a specific uplifting yet rolling sound that I've only been able to categorize in my efforts of organization as "forward feeling". Its a sound and a feeling that has always been a feature in my sets, and doesn't necessarily feel tied to a genre. Recently I've been digging for it more and finding a lot of fun and happiness when I play it out. It feels like the moment of when you're surrounded by friends and locked into a groove and the crowd is dancing together as one. Diving deeper into this sound has been a process that I've really enjoyed and this mix captures some of my favourites of this sound to play in a club at the moment. Hope you enjoy x.” @ohpeach

The Cover Mix: Peach

Rinse FM Podcast

C to the Power of X feat. Bake & Ben UFO at the Sub Club, Glasglow - 29 December 2022

"I'm usually the first person to label Valentine's Day a commercial scam," says Kikelomo in the interview below, "however I recently realised that sharing music and connecting with people through sound is one of the ultimate expressions of love for me." When the Berlin-based DJ sent in her mix to RA, she subtitled it "All about love." It's nearly two hours of dance music that radiates warmth, positive energy and compassion, expressed through the wide, almost kaleidoscopic genre lens that Kikelomo has made her own. House, jungle, electro, hip-hop, you name it. The mix is even split into two distinct sides, like an old-school cassette mixtape.

In addition to being a great and adventurous DJ, Kikelomo also started @orokoradio, a station based in Accra, that connects the Ghanaian capital—and other African cities—with the usual electronic music hotspots, and showcases homegrown talent and sounds through a platform of their own making. It's all part of her mission as a DJ to not only share music and love, but also to connect, uplift and create real community, as she also discusses below. It's not just a buzzword for Kikelomo, but a mission.

@kikelomooo

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RA.871 Kikelomo

Name: Wawa
Alias: DJ Wawa (@djwawabk)
Pronouns: They/Them
Location: NYC

Influences: Cherushii, DJ Rashad, Octo Octa, Larry Heard

Affiliations/Residencies/Projects: Hit Factory, Lot Radio and NTS

Favorite Quote: If you have a plan B you’ll never do plan A

Advice for the DJs, producers and artists of our community: the best DJ’s I know are music historians, musicologist, music nerds and music freaks. Love the music. Find the music that you connect to and translate that. let that love run through you.

With this mix DJ Wawa asks to please learn more about and consider donating to: 
Kurdish Red Moon - Kurdistan Earthquake Relief (https://www.heyvasor.com/en/banga-alikariya-lezgin-ji-bo-mexduren-erdheje/)
(https://t.co/4d45DKMIjM) 

Tracklist  - https://thedaisychain.club/2023/02/21/daisychain-266-dj-wawa/

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Daisychain 266 - DJ Wawa

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