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A live recording of a set I played at the music & arts, festival Firefly in June 2022. Recorded from woods of southern VT at 3am, I channeled carnal ecstatic energy for a psychedelic break-beat experience. Please enjoy : )

Firefly Festival Set | June 2022 | Melters n Belters

Live recording from my stream on ultrawizardsword.net the other week, I always have so much fun playing for these streams and really happy with how this recording turned out. Got to explore my more techno side which I haven't done in a while and had a ton of fun doing it. Hope you enjoy!

Chad Beisner on Ultrawizardsword 1.27.23

the bedtime story version of this post: https://thecomedown.substack.com/p/the-politics-of-hello-or-not

backing track: Monobox - The Construct (https://logistic-records.bandcamp.com/album/molecule-ep)

( the comedown )

the politics of hello (...or not)

Martha is a DJ and broadcaster from South London with roots in community radio and documentary making. Each of Martha’s thoughtfully curated radio shows navigate the fringes of electronic music, with a clear narrative that is grounded in community and storytelling.

https://www.nts.live/shows/martha/episodes/martha-2nd-june-2023

Martha w/ Keplrr 020623

Transilience w/ @dj-anarres on Great Circles Radio. The function of rhythm that makes being. Listen live 3rd Mondays, 4-6PM ET on www.greatcircles.net.

~Tracklist~
Donna Summer - Spring Affair (Moodymann Edit)
Dajae - U Got Me Up (Cajmere's Underground Goodies Mix)
DJ John Collins - Yeah (Skurge Edit)
Patrice Scott - Let's Dance
A. Garcia - Tweeter Eater
El Coyote - Dream Dealer
Patrice Scott - Beyond Deep
The Acid Jakal - Leaders That Are Quitters In Disguise
UR - Illuminator
Suburban Knight - Midnight Sunshine
Suburban Knight - Nocturbulous
MGUN - Wide Eye
Drexciya - Fusion Flats (Octave One Remix)
UR - Find Your Friends
Isaac Prieto - Go For It (ft. Loren)
A. Garcia - Stop, Look, Listen
Patrick Sjeren - Trashd Funk
044 - Hardlife (Aaron Carl Remix)
Butterbandz w Ob Ignitt - Anarchy
UR - Electronic Emotions
Mad Mike - Inspiration
Isaac Prieto & Javonntte - One Take
Isaac Prieto & Javonntte - Imperfections 
J Garcia - Lost
Rick Wilhite & Kyle Hall - Catapillar
Moodymann - Untitled D1
Cloudmaster Weed ft Goddess Stephanie - Sweet & Delicious
Patrice Scott - Feels So Good
A. Garcia - Brian Wilson Rides Again
A. Garcia - Beetlebutt
Norm Talley - Le Beaubienare
Reggie Dokes - Mother's Child?
East Village Edits - All U Need Is Music

Transilience

Transilience w/ DJ Anarres - 18Jun2023

Deep techno zones with NO DAWN resident threehz.

https://www.instagram.com/threehz
http://www.instagram.com/no_dawn_bk

NO DAWN with THREEHZ @ The Lot Radio 06-29-2023

Body and Mind (feat emme) - Furtive
Noodle Girl (remix) - Kudeki
Shadow Entity - Umwelt
Spectral Abduction - Farceb
Some - Psyk
WET NURSE - WEIßER JUNGLE  SCHWARZER MUKCLUB PT3 - ALTERED NATIVES
Love From Above - Sputnik One
Bactria - Tommy Four Seven
Bridge Away - Paul Fleetwood
waka - Tommy Lewis
Man Cry - Persona RS
O-Ton Reassembled 3 - Luke Slater / Virginia
Black Bubblegum - Kudeki
Into the Darkness -  Claire
Take My Soul - System 01
Gut Instinct - HALV DRøM 
Temporal Distortion - Andy Toth
Discharge - Softlock
Shattering - Answer Code Request 
Spacion - Oscean
Balance - Wata Igarashi
Flickering Neon - Plant43
Provide the Future - Thomas P. Heckmann
Dark Matter - Ayesha
Work - Privacy
Marlene - Joshua James
ESC w. Jasnau - Lauer
The Universe is Indifferent - Amarcord
Are Friends Electric feat Lokier - Djedjotronic

emilyinamillion at Newtown Radio July 2023

It’s the summer and everyone’s been having a hard time. Let’s talk about it and take some time for ourselves to reflect.

https://www.instagram.com/russellelbutler

Deep Exposure with Russell E.L. Butler @ The Lot Radio 07-27-2023

JADALAREIGN @ The Lot Radio 07-27-2023

https://www.instagram.com/aj_xo
https://www.instagram.com/threehz

NO DAWN with THREEHZ @ The Lot Radio 07-27-2023

Room 4 Resistance's monthly appointment is back for a brand new year on Rádio Quântica !

The 13rd episode features a guest mix by Discwoman affiliated artist Akua with some slow jams played in the first hour by R4R residents Luz and Doc Sleep !

Akua (pronounced “ah-kwee-yah”) is a Ghanaian-American DJ raised in Los Angeles, currently based in Brooklyn. Akua quickly developed a following for her confrontational, high-octane style of DJing. She finds inspiration in the roots of North American techno with a particular focus on the harder, more direct and freakish strains of ’90s Midwest and New York rave music. Akua’s DJing is an exercise in controlled chaos, traversing from wonky acid techno, to frenetic and funky hardcore, to hypnotic and sublime trance and beyond. Through DJing, Akua aims to helps others connect to their inner narratives and find clarity by harnessing their personal power and channeling it into the power of dance.

Room 4 Resistance 13 W/ Akua - Rádio Quântica (03.01.2019)

San Francisco’s experimental / dance music scene has many freaks. The Creatrix is one of them. She packs out sex parties at the local leather bar and plays to her friends on a Monday night. She has DJ’d NY, Shanghai, Japan and remains committed to the underground. 

The Creatrix is 1/3 of T.V.O.D. with Nihar Bhatt and Jason Polastri, their new passion project to bring the world’s techno mutants to the bay area. She is equal parts selectress, producer, sound artist, community activist and fan girl on the dance floor. 

The Creatrix is the guest of Room 4 Resistance for their 19th episode on Radio Quântica with an excerpt of an opening set for Via App on March 16th at Counterpulse in San Francisco.

Luz hosts and opens the first hour (which sadly ended up being 30 min due to technical issues) with a short excerpt of their set at Bristol's Dialogue 2nd anniversary party in May 2019.

Hope you enjoy the show !

Room 4 Resistance 19 W/ The Creatrix - Rádio Quântica (20.06.2019)

Piano Rain (Alexandrea Maria Archuleta) is a sound artist, producer, DJ and quilter born of Colorado soil, currently flourishing under the San Francisco Sun and Moon. With a background in technical theater she weaves together sounds and textures, as a healing medium, into a garden of memory, connecting the past through the present and into the future.  Her soundworks, like her quilt works, hold the intention of transmitting the nurturing warmth of human touch and memory activation, delivering messages beyond space to withstand the test of time.

https://soundcloud.com/ajavision

Room 4 Resistance 20 W/ Piano Rain - Rádio Quântica (18.07.2019)

Constant search, trouble with meaning, deconstruction, demanding interpretation. An attempt to translate sounds into human language and adapting to human experience. Those attempts and searches are what @karolinakobielusz, known as Hermeneia, founder of Polish music site called @progrefonik, still debuts with.

The show is hosted by R4R residents https://soundcloud.com/r4r_luz and https://soundcloud.com/docsleep.

Room 4 Resistance 21 W/ Hermeneia - Rádio Quântica (15.08.2019)

“Working under the moniker Makimakkuk (“makkuk” meaning “space shuttle” in Arabic), Ramallah-based musician, producer, MC, vocalist, and DJ.....It is through these adventures, that as a listener, we too get to travel the many dimensions of Makimakkuk’s sound, as she continues to develop it. Whether she is working as a producer, on her own tracks, or an MC on someone else’s, the vessel of music she has created thus far shows something about rap and the way rappers in Ramallah continue to push the Arabic hip-hop game forward, and beyond.” 
Maha ElNabawi,  Madamasr 2019

Makimakkuk’s guest mix starts from 
TRACKLIST:
1- Interface & Minus - Hardwork
2- Sinistarr - H3xx
3- Wiley - Morgue (Danny Scrilla Remix)
4- Simpig - Z3R0GR4V1TY
5- DJ Rashad - Feelin (feat. Spinn & Taso)
6- Moresounds - The Rules
7- Swisha - Ay What’s Yo Numba?
8- DJ Spinn - 2020
9- DJ Rashad - Don’t Drop It
10- Danny Scrilla - Magellanic
11- Slick Shoota - Rasta
12- Boyfriend & Zebra katz - Winter Titty (Lenkemz Remix)
13- Chrissy Murderbot - Braaain
14- DJ Spinn - She Turnt up
15- Jo Deff - Butta love
16- Sndwvs - Bells
17- Qbig, Zenith B - Narc
18- Itoa - Top Deck (Moresounds Remix)
19- Chimpo - Bedsprings Riddim
20- Makimakkuk - Kilo Dahab (distorted, unreleased)
21- Makimakkuk - Mish Ma’ Enno (2019)

The show is hosted in the first hour by R4R residents @r4r_luz and @docsleep.

Room 4 Resistance 25 W/ Makimakkuk - Rádio Quântica (05.12.2019)

The show is hosted by R4R resident @docsleep with a special guest mix from @adab in the second hour.

As half of Cleveland party Heaven is in You, Miah Benton (adab) puts heavy emphasis on translating the unifying elements between us through djing. Characterized often by their palette of sounds, they made a niche for themselves in Cleveland, Ohio spinning a variety of sounds and venues alike. Having started djing dance music, primarily, as a result of finding Cleveland's queer techno party In Training and being a non binary black youth raised across a few states in the Rustbelt, adab seeks to unabashedly present refreshing perspectives and dialogues for both themself and others.

أدب

“Adab, Islāmic concept that became a literary genre distinguished by its broad humanitarian concerns; it developed during the brilliant height of ʿAbbāsid culture in the 9th century and continued through the Muslim Middle Ages.
The original sense of the word was simply “norm of conduct,” or “custom,” derived in ancient Arabia from ancestors revered as models. As such practice was deemed praiseworthy in the medieval Muslim world, adab acquired a further connotion of good breeding, courtesy, and urbanity.
Parallel to and growing out of this expanded social meaning of adab there appeared an intellectual aspect. Adab became the knowledge of poetry, oratory, ancient Arab tribal history, rhetoric, grammar, philology, and non-Arab civilizations that qualified a man to be called well-bred, or adīb.” - Encyclopædia Britannica on “Adab”

"Reverend mothers have many memories from previous lives in their brains. When one of these memories pushes itself to be paid attention to, that is adab..." - Frank Herbert (DUNE)

Room 4 Resistance 22 W/ ADAB - Rádio Quântica (12.09.2019)

Booking enquiries:
lluz@riseup.net

------ UPCOMING ----
[2024] 
06.04:  Globus (Tresor), Berlin
10.05: Ecology of Care, Nuits Sonores, Lyon
5-7.07: Freerotation Festival, Wales

----- PAST -----
[2023] 
15.01: R4R @ Globus (Tresor), Berlin
24.02: DECADANS, Bucharest
08.03: Refuge Worldwide, Berlin
05.05: Refuge Worldwide, Berlin
26.05: mina x R4R, Lisbon
21.06: *Room 2 Glow*, Refuge Worldwide
07.07: *Room 2 Glow*, Berlin
29.07: Whole Festival, Ferropolis
05.08: Globus (Tresor), Berlin
01.10: Unsound Festival, Krakow
14.10: Refuge Worldwide, Berlin

[2022] 
20.11: R4R @ Globus (Tresor), Berlin
25.09: Party Office, Kassel
24.09: Globus / Tresor, Berlin
03.09: Field Maneuvers, UK
14.08: documenta 15, Kassel

2021 (selected)
10.09: Horst Arts & Music Festival, Brussels
13-18.10: Ecology of Care, Unsound, Krakow
06.11: Ankali, Prague

[2020 postponed gigs]
02.04: Kantine Am Berghain, Berlin
10.04: TBA, Amman
16.04: TBA, Ramallah
24.04: Pawnshop, Taipai
01.05: Mihn, Hong-Kong
07.05: Loopy Loopy, Hangzhou
15.05: Savage, Hanoi
23.05: R4R, Berlin
27.06: Nowadays, NYC
03.07: TBA, Berlin
29.10 - 05.11: TBA, Ramallah

2020 (selected)
01.01: Lecken, Berlin
02.02: 5 Miles, London

2019 (Selected)
03.01: Rádio Quântica
31.01: Rádio Quântica 
02.02: Polychrome, Station Gare Des Mines, Paris
28.02: Rádio Quântica
07.03: NTS Radio
15.03: King's Bunker, Cambridge
16.03: R4R, Trauma Bar & Kino, Berlin
18.04: R4R, Trauma, Berlin
25.04: Ràdio Quântica
04.05: C12, Brussels
23.05: Ràdio Quântica
24.05: Dialogue, Bristol
08.06: R4R, Trauma Bar, Berlin
15.06: WHOLE Festival, Ferropolis
20.06: Ràdio Quântica
18.07: Ràdio Quântica 
15.07: Horst Arts & Music Festival, Brussels
26.07: CSD Reclaim: R4R x Lecken x mina, Berlin
08.09: Nyege Nyege Festival, Jinja 
21.09: NVA, Montreal
28.09: R4R x Motherbeat, Berlin
09.10: Unsound Solidarity, Szpitalna 1, Krakow
25.10: RIOT, Berlin
02.11: Inkonst, Malmö
08.11 - 09.11: Exist Festival, Ramallah
16.11: Pink Night, Brussels
30.11:  R4R, Berlin
14.12: Pornceptual, Berlin
20.12: Beurs, Brussels
28.12: Ustanova, Ljubljana

2018 (Selected)
01.01: Sylvester, ://about blank, Berlin
02.02: CTM Festival, Panorama Bar, Berlin
09.03: Rye Wax, London
10.03: Beursschouwburg, Brussels
24.03: Golden Pudel, Hamburg
29.03: R4R, Berlin
14.04: NTS x R4R, Berlin
21.04: Et Andet Sted, Copenhagen
12.05: R4R, Berlin
18.05: Rinse France, Paris
21.06: Brutaz, Warsaw
29.06: R4R, Berlin
13.07: The Pickle Factory, London
28.07: R4R, Berlin
03.08: Kaiku, Helsinki
25.08: Station Gare Des Mines, Paris
08.09: Chouftouhona Festival, Tunis
15.09: R4R x Comeme, Berlin
21.09: Griessmuehle, Berlin
28.09: Red Light Radio, Amsterdam
28.09: De School, Amsterdam
17.11: Tashweesh, Beirut
29.11:  Easterndaze, Ohm, Berlin
01.12: Trauma Bar & Kino, Berlin
21.12: Lärm, Budapest
29.12: Trauma Bar & Kino, Berlin

Club Music artist luz (they/them) is a neuroqueer DJ, promoter, curator, radio-host, and community organizer. Co-founder of Berlin-based queer collective Room 4 Resistance, they’re also a member of Ecology of Care and Unsound Festival’s Mutual Respect team.

Their practice of nightlife is anchored in queer feminist spaces, grassroots organizing, community care, harm reduction and experimentation. As a DJ, their ever-evolving sound is at the crossroads of different Club Music styles and influences: UK, bass, breaks, experimental, polyrhythmic, leftfield, D’n’B, House, deep techno, Detroit electro, and more. They enjoy building narratives across genres and eras that resonate with their present moods and feelings. Their favorite dancefloors are intimate, healing, sweaty, filled with queer joy, cute weirdos and misfits from all paths of life.   

Over the years, luz has performed at countless international venues and festivals, highlights include Panorama Bar and Tresor (Berlin), De School (Amsterdam), Et Andet Sted (Copenhagen), Hot Mass (Pittsburgh), Movement’s Industry Brunch (Detroit), La Station Gare Des Mines (Paris), C12 (Brussels), 5 Miles (London) as well as Festivals such as Nyege Nyege (Jinja, Uganda), Unsound (Krakow), CTM (Berlin) and Horst (Brussels).

Uplifting dancefloor experience for the misfits.

Contact: hello@room4resistance.net
To book a R4R showcase in your city, write us at booking@room4resistance.net

UPCOMING:

2023
14.10: Refuge Worldwide, Berlin

PAST:

2023
13.01: Refuge Worldwide, Berlin
15.01: Globus / Tresor, Berlin
08.03: Refuge Worldwide, Berlin
05.05: Refuge Worldwide, Berlin
26.05: mina 4 resistance, Lisbon
21.06: Refuge Worldwide, Berlin
07-08.07: Room 2 Glow, Berlin
29.07: Whole Festival, Ferropolis
18.08: Refuge Worldwide, Berlin

2022
16.11: Refuge Worldwide, Berlin
20.11: Globus / Tresor, Berlin
13-14.08: Documenta 15, Kassel
28.08: Whole Festival, Germany
03.09: Field Maneuvers, UK

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