Ashland Mines, AKA Total Freedom, AKA Big Gay Idiot DJ, AKA Bobby Beethoven, is one of the best and most influential DJs of the 21st century. Starting out at pioneering parties like Mustache Mondays and Wildness (which he cofounded with Wu Tsang)—and a regular at GHE20G0TH1K—Mines helped to define the style that would become known, however cringe-inducingly, as experimental club or deconstructed club, directly inspiring fellow visionaries like Arca. 

Like some of the best DJs before him, Mines uses the CDJs as an instrument, but that doesn't mean just fancy tricks and looping. Instead, he artfully throws together clashing sounds—effects, samples, monologues, pop and R&B acapellas, and beats that run the gamut from dancehall to kuduro to breaks and techno. He's not afraid of the grotesquerie of human life and movement (just check out the monologue at the beginning of this mix), and he likes to push buttons. Once he put on a party where dancing wasn't allowed. Some of his sets are intentionally anxiety-inducing, evoking horror movies and modern classical composers like Penderecki, while others are bouncy and ebullient, weaving between genres and tempos like an old-school platformer. The best are both.

On Mines's RA Podcast—a milestone 900th in the series—he shows off this inimitable style, sharpened and reinforced over a decade-and-a-half of playing some of the world's best parties, fashion shows, you name it. He's the kind of DJ who creates his own music as he goes along. He makes you hear old tracks—especially pop music and R&B—in a whole new way. Titled "Cursed Piercing," this is a near-hour of controlled chaos that'll confound you at one moment and deeply move you the next.

Read more at https://ra.co/podcast/900

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RA.900 Bobby Beethoven (FKA Total Freedom)

https://www.nts.live/shows/guests/episodes/mobilegirl-15th-february-2024

Tracklist:

Ouri - Boucles
Arca - Manners
Entrañas - Fisura
Destiny’s Child  - Through With Love (mobilegirl edit)
Toma Kami - Mzecal
DJ Pitch - Genelle
Suda - Inner Monologue
Ca$h Bandicoot - N.C.
bambinodj - Stick Shift (pt II)
Firaas Beats ft (Kareem Lotfy) - AVG
DJ Manny - I Can Luv U
M.I.A. - Capslock (mobilegirl edit)
Koji Kondo - Great Fairy Fountain (Pakun Jaran Jersey Flip)
Toma Kami - Ritmo Actual
Amor Satyr - Quer Dancar
Disaffected - Can’t Compare
OSSX - Blast Baile
Lemon D - Going Gets Tough
Kelela x Janet Jackson - Would You Mind Sorbet (mobilegirl edit)
Soichi Terada - Shiko Stepper Rumblin
DJ Swisha  - Mind Went Blank (RIP Screw)
Tirzah -  Gladly (mobilegirl edit)
Rye Rye - Art School Boys
Low Jack - Grqss 29
Shay - Ich liebe dich
Kaval - Free Doggos
DJ Alfredo - Kumbia Retro
Adam F - Circles
Jurango - Before Meander
Akash91 - Dahi Caught Out Here
Dj Cirofox - Moments
Tinashe - Talk To Me Nice A Capella 
DJ Playero - Beat #14
Neana - Crop Top Drums
Eris Drew - Hold Me Synthapella
Wisin Y Yandel - Pampam Instrumental
Ikonika - Kicks Count
Ultra Naté - Free
Dj Narciso & Endgame - Sem Limites (Severin Glance Remix)

NTS - mobilegirl 15th February 2024

IDM meets the rougher edges of club music in the distinctive sound world of US-born producer Osheyack. An integral member of Shanghai’s burgeoning electronic music scene that centres around ALL Club, Osheyack is a shining example of the new hybrid form of club music, hailing from pioneering labels like SVBKVLT. His intense electronic music fuses techno, gabber, ambient, and drone, and combines perplexing sound design with destabilising percussion and tectonic bass. The result seems to capture the confusing state of being terminally online – as demonstrated on his recent album Intimate Publics (2022) – and the desire to break free from bodily and societal constraints. There’s a merciless intensity to Osheyack’s music, but listen closely through the chaos and noise and you can feel the urgency and immediacy that radiates from his revelatory dance music.

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WHY BE on NTS 23.09.24

Bobby Beethoven b2b CRYSTALLMESS at Draaimolen Festival 2024

JAMES DASHOW - OEDIPUS ORCA
@FLAERMUSIC - FOLLOW
STEVE REICH - MUSIC FOR 18 MUSICIANS - PULSES
@LARAAJI - THE DANCE #2
GIOVANNI VENOSTA - FIVE, SWEET 5
@MAYA-SHENFELD - VOYAGER
@FLORAYTW - BITTERNESS
@IRENAANDVOJTECHHAVLOVI - VANITY OF WINGS
@CATERINABARBIERI - FANTAS
@OHLIVEOSUN - SNOWING!
@PAULINEOLIVEROS - BYE BYE BUTTERFLY
@VIDNAOBMANAOFFICIAL - NIGHT-BLOOMING
@LYRA_SONGS - WITNESS
NOT WAVING & ROMANCE - TROPIC OF DESIRE
@MSMSMSM - IS IT COLD IN THE WATER?
@VIAAPP7 - FATAL ERROR
@DIEGOVNAVARRO - PROMETHEUS
@RICHARDDJAMES - 4X ATLANTIS TAKE1
@SKY_H1 - BLUE
@JULIANAHUXTABLE - WORLDSTAR MUSIC 2
@KIDSMPL - RIVEN
@GEDIMINASZYGUS - SPIRIT
TONGUE IN THE MIND - PLASMATIC YEARNING (FOR THE HORIZON'S KISS GOODNIGHT)
COH + COSEY FANNI TUTTI - MAD
ROBERTO MUSCI - WATER MUSIC
SUGAI KEN - MUKASHI
@KAMARUJOSEPH & @AHOSSAN - RESURGENCE
@CHINOAMOBI & @EMBACI - HARD STACCATO (FOR ELYSIA AND BOYCHILD)
@MHYSA301 - DIAMOND (LOVELY FREESTYLE)
@TERRY-RILEY-OFFICIAL - HAPPY ENDING
@DREWMCDOWALL - AGALMA VI
@ABYSSXXX - HUMILIATION
@GABBERELEGANZA - JUNONICA
@SENNILORENZO - DIGITAL TZUNAMI
JAMES DASHOW - SEQUENZA BOSCO
OLIVER COATES & JOHAN NILSSON - SCORCH GRASS
@SONMI451 - PROBE
@R-I-P-DJ - SYN STAIR (NO FOUNTAIN)
@BENDIKGISKE - CRACKS
@LARAAJI - THE DANCE #2
@AYYA14 - SECOND MISTAKE
WHITE NOISE - LOVE WITHOUT SOUND

nor love without sound (WIRE FESTIVAL AMBIENT 2024)

In view of his latest EP, Frolic, Bristol-based producer and visual artist Mun Sing creates an exclusive mix that bridges euphoric club sonics with the ‘more sad emo stuff’ 

Dazed Mix: Mun Sing

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For this week’s episode of CENTER BOOTH we’re delighted to share a start-to-finish thrill ride from one of the most exciting artists working today: estoc. The Philadelphia-based DJ and producer is well known for her dazzling, highly inventive sets, intricate, compelling releases spanning the gamut of genres, startling, often hilarious mash-ups and edits, and uncompromising politics that are the lifeblood of her art. 

Her visceral, take no prisoners approach to DJing has seen her summoned to play transgressive techno parties all over the US, Europe, the UK, Asia and Australia, while her latest LP, Are We Doomed To Bow Down To The Stupid And Cruel? is a growling, guttural response to fascism, colonization and other craven ideologies.

Her CENTER BOOTH set, which plays in a live and compositional fashion, comes from that same place of staunch resistance, both a source of release and fuel for the ongoing fight. It’s hypnotic not in its repetition but in its restlessness, a disorienting rollercoaster of cacophony, distortion and aggressive melodies.

The effect is something like strapping in for a full throttle VR experience, a quest soundtracked by creeping pads, all manner of belligerent percussion, itchy snares and the full kitchen sink of FX. Featured artists include DJ Plead, WTCHCRFT, Dave Quam, estoc herself on remix duties, and the Prodigy, overlaid with extra thundering drums. We’d call it a masterclass but estoc is an artist who simply can’t be imitated. 

https://www.lettonne.dance/

estoc – Center Booth ◎ S2E09

The Pattern Sound - Buster Pattern (Samay Records)

Tribal dance

Stress Pill

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