For the 95th entry in the Honcho Podcast Series, we welcome @livwutang! Denver-raised, Seattle-honed, DJ livwutang stews together atmospheric soundscapes and bubbly instrumentation that could soundtrack a smoke-filled lounge, or a walk home under the cover of night.

After getting her start spinning on pirate radio, livwutang has been a regular curator and feature at local parties in her area. Her prolific grind and playful mixes earned her a spot as a resident of a room in one of Seattle's premier clubs.

Honcho Podcast Series 95: livwutang

@midland

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Honey Soundsystem Potcast

HNYPOT 400: Midland's Everything Comes Back To You Mix

Available on Audio Cassette and digital download directly from the label’s Bandcamp @ https://djbeige.bandcamp.com/album/amen-vol-1

T4T LUV NRG is proud to present “Amen! Vol. 1”, a breathtaking DJ mix tape conceived and blended by Detroit’s DeeJay Beige. “Amen! Vol. 1” is a singular presentation of a sound developed by Beige that is very personal and deeply connected to their history. Beige’s mix is an amalgam of ecclesiastical breaks and gospel house delivered with intensity and soul power like only they can do. Prepare to be enthralled with one of the most exciting DJs currently burning their way through the American underground. From the Holy Ghost TO YOU, this is Beige! Be not afraid…

ARTIST STATEMENT:
In the strictest sense, Amen! Vol. 1 is the result of more than a year’s worth of obsessive brainstorming, digging, planning, arranging, re-arranging, and countless discarded takes. And in another sense, this mixtape has been in the works for the six years since I started DJing, the ten years since my baptism as a teenage club rat, and for my entire life, which for better or for worse has been shaped by The Church and church music since birth. 

My mother was a promiscuously Christian divinity school dropout who pushed my family through a run of increasingly conservative churches: Unitarian, Episcopal, Baptist, Presbytarian, Charismatic-Evangelical, and probably a few others I forget. My fathers family on the other hand were career scientists and committed atheists who also all happened to sing in church choirs for fun. I cannot remember a time when Beethoven, Bach, folk hymns, old negro spirituals and gospel were not playing in my house, day in and day out. 

Cutting ties with both family and organized religion in my early teens left a void of community and belonging that wouldn’t start to be filled until my first experiences with clubbing (sometimes with drugs, sometimes without) years later. And when I started collecting records years after that, I gravitated heavily towards any music incorporating the familiar imagery, themes, musical motifs and language of church (especially Liberation Theology) which remained kind of bittersweetly comforting long after I stopped trying to believe. This might sound heretical, but over the last several years “gospel” has become much more of a feeling to me than a genre or even a sound. As far as I’m concerned, the rave, the club, the congregation, the choir, are only different ways to experience a many-sided mystery. 

For this project, I wanted to challenge myself to imagine going beyond just using a little soulful house to end the night or the mix on an uplifting note, and instead program a fantasy “gospel rave” for a thousand of my closest friends dancing in a field on a moonless night. How would I do my best to deliver a powerful, meaningful, salvatory collective experience from midnight until sunrise? Amen Vol. 1 is a snapshot of that imaginary night. 

The need to use contrasting peaks and troughs to create a sense of narrative for your audience includes emotional or spiritual contrast just as much as it does changes in BPM or a kick pattern.  So, it was important for me to try exceeding simply the emotions associated with “praise” music (like joy) because encountering the truly divine should also inspire fear and awe. Disregarding genre as much as possible, each piece of music was chosen for the sensation or sentimental meaning it inspires for me personally: you probably wouldn’t call most of them “rave tracks”, and plenty aren’t explicitly religious at all. Finally, of course I had to make sure that Detroit and Chicago were properly (but not exclusively, that’s for another mix) represented in the tracklist. Where I’ve ended up, grounded by a repeating classic “anchor track” for each side, is an attempt to simulate Genesis and Revelation, the Good News and the Flood, the dark night of the soul and the moment of salvation–whatever those might mean for you. Can I get a witness?

Beige - AMEN! Vol. 1

Father Dukes 1 hr. mix as a part of the Underground Music Academy Juneteenth Fundraiser on Rinse FM x Rinse France

Underground Music Academy Mix - Rinse FM 06/19/22

Sam Shepherd a.k.a Floating Points barely needs introduction. Cataloguing depths uncharted to expose some of the best jazz, soul, rare groove and disco around.

https://www.nts.live/shows/floating-points/episodes/floating-points-13th-february-2023

Floating Points 130223

LA-based Canadian artist Jessy Lanza has brought dance and pop music together and elevated both art forms in the process. At the heart of her work are her own sensual vocals. They bring human warmth and emotion to vibrant and uptempo grooves and result in music that is both energetic and accessible yet personal and honest. Next to critically acclaimed studio albums for Hyperdub, she has made a fine entry into the DJ-kicks mix series and toured solo from Asia to Australia. Europe to North America. Her latest album is her broadcast and boldest yet - Love Hallucination features work from producers such as Pearson Sound, Jacques Greene, Tensnake, Paul White, and Jeremy Greenspan and conforms Lanza to be out in a class of her own. 

Lanza brings her feel-good vibes to the podcast series this week, not least with a couple of her own exclusive new cuts as well as one mysterious known gem early on. They add up to a perfect representation of her sound - the first half is a feel-good mix of retro-future boogie, glossy 80s r&b, party-starting funk bombs and many more irresistible moments of pure heat from Brenda and The Big Dudes, Debbe and The Code and Gino Soccio. Things then turn more towards the dance floor with deep house from Frankie Knuckles, bass-heavy rhythms from Addison Groove and a piano banger from Mall Grab. It's just the sort of happy, sunny mix you will be coming back to all summer long.

Dekmantel Podcast

Dekmantel Podcast 434 - Jessy Lanza

Connections in electronic music: the history of house and techno as presented to you by the wonderful Olly Chubb. 
https://www.nts.live/shows/circuits/episodes/circuits-10th-october-2023

Circuits w/ Olly Chubb: The Completely Definitive List Of The Absolutely Greatest Detroit... 101023

All vinyl mix of disco originals and edits to promote my 2016 Summer tour of Berlin & Norway  Mixed live at home in one take.

Ron Like Hell - Disco Summer Sampler 2016

Tajh Morris, AKA Turtle Bugg, dips into The Thing's sprawling collection in this special mix for RA. In his own words: "I picked out sum random rekkids, gave em a run thru n then we proceeded to blaze ourselves stoopid. Sumwhere inbetween that I scratched one of the records (had to be taken out) and found the Melvin Sparks (RIP) skit. This is the end result, skips, warped media and all."

Read the feature: https://www.residentadvisor.net/features/2846

Turtle Bugg - The Thing mix

"This mix is a recording from the Polyglamorous 3 year anniversary party in San Francisco that I played last weekend. It was an incredibly fun night and probably the first time I DJed without shoes because I was wearing heeled boots that killed my feet the night before." - @octoocta

Full Q&A: http://discwoman.com/mixes/octo-octa

DISCWOMAN 40 x Octo Octa (Polyglamorous Year 3)

http://blowinguptheworkshop.com/project/12--galcher-lustwerk/

100% GALCHER

'Some tracks and stems from 2012 compiled into a promomix. Hope you enjoy! -GL'

STEM
PARLAY
PUT ON
OUTSIDE THE CLUB
I NEVA SEEN
STEM
ENTERPRISE
STEM
KAINT
EVERYBODY IN THE PLACE 2012
STEM
CRICKET'S THEME
FIFTY
DOCKSIDE
LIL' BIT OF CHOCOLIT
100% PAIN

ART BY KURT SEPARATELY.
http://falsekurt.tumblr.com/

Turtle Bugg - The Thing mix

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