Jake Muir is a Berlin based sound artist, DJ and field recordist. He approaches his practice as a listener first, carefully curating, layering and processing sounds that help him deconstruct and contextualize his lived experiences and influences. Using investigative software methodologies, DJ techniques and engineering dexterity, Muir makes deeply personal sonic art that fluidly traverses genre membranes, encouraging reflection and sometimes prompting psychedelic states.
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This mix is essentially a studio distillation of the two DJ sets I played during bathing hours at Washington Baths in Portland, Maine last year, for @poolemusicltd. Beyond the aquatic aesthetics tying back to saunas and my time spent living in California and Seattle, it is also inspired by an essay I discovered while trying to find cover art for Bathhouse Blues. “Spiritual dimensions of self-transformation in Sydney’s gay bathhouses”, by Jason Prior and Carole Cusack, explores how gay bathhouses were viewed as places of worship by the patrons and what transpired there as being “rituals”. Given this backdrop, there are various references in the mix, both literal and figurative, to said dimensions associated with rituals and spirituality.

IG: @muirjake
SC: @jakemuir

03 - Jake Muir

An early spring collection by Latvian producer mu tate. 

"Music like a breath of fresh air and with the drive of all growing and sprouting young life pearcing through the ground. This is how we urge the sun!"

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Outsiders: Recovery Channel w/ mu tate @ Kiosk Radio 18.03.2025

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instagram : https://www.instagram.com/jo.nnnah/

Alliance Club invites Jonnnah @ GIMIC - 29 March 2025

Lexcd is a Pittsburgh based DJ and organizer whose focus in music curation shifts between personal and communal forms of archival, connection, and experimentation. They are currently most interested in creating and supporting spaces/ events that are providing healthier shared sonic experiences and offering alternatives to standard nightlife practices. They have experimented with events at tea shops or saunas, and they have also worked on food-focused art/ sound events pushing for these alternatives. They are associated with Transit, Foodprep, and Bad Sauna's Sounds at the Sauna series. They work in the field of activism/ philanthropy.
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My mix was made intuitively & luckily recorded in one take after I finished working the run-time & track arrangement :) Rather than focusing on specific tracks I wanted to share or any big picture concepts, I focused on a mood & track-to-track flow. I feel that this mix winds up diving into a sort of dreamy hazy nostalgia very reflective of the headspace I was in at the time of making it.

IG: @f00dprep
SC: @lexcd

04 - Lexcd

New releases and current inspirations from your hosts Jonnine Standish and Nigel Yang aka HTRK. 
Find the full tracklist and related episodes on NTS: https://www.nts.live/shows/htrk/episodes/htrk-12th-april-2025

HTRK w/ Anuraag 020425

Tracklist:
Lia T - Kester
pretty sneaky - B2
Digidub - Dark Breath
J-Green - Wavin' The 44
Azu Tiwaline - Amen Dub
pretty sneaky - A
Pugilist & Pod - Crisps
Mulholland - 442 Wenger
Terra Utopia - Likwid Mindz
Plebeian - Panic (Kincaid Remix)
Clemency - Testimony (Perko Remix)
Hooverian Blur - Hypnotizer
Autogenesis x cusoon dj x Simone Bauer - Chimera
Plebeian - Star Anise (Tammo Hesselink Remix)
Forest On Stasys - Natura Geometrica
Nicolò - Drydrums (Formant Value Remix)
Sha Ru - Iva
exael - Papillion
Dorothy Carlos - Balm
MinaeMinae - orientieren

james K - Trip Lick - NTS April 2025

Car Culture, the not-dance-music alias of long-time NTS resident Physical Therapy, collages fuzzy folktronics, found sounds and unexpected edits into foot-gazing soundscapes.   
Find the full tracklist and related episodes on NTS: https://www.nts.live/shows/car-culture/episodes/car-culture-23rd-april-2025

CAR CULTURE 230425

M5 // JS (FBi 94.5)

@llllllllloyd
1 – tim kinsella – some ways/one more dream of dying  
2 – commodo – cclarity  
3 – tibslc – fool me (loop°)µ 宴  
4 – shinetiac – crisis angel w/ goo age (spotify version)  
5 – roomer – i guess  
6 – akwaaba – rolande zephone  
7 – seafoam – spinning heads  
8 – protozoa project – love potion  
9 – commodo – fear loop  
10 – psyco on da bus – many questions  
11 – cogendshe – rinju - funckarma remix /co-production  
12 – owls – what whorse you wrote id on  
13 – xploding plastix – 6-hours starlight  
14 – lemon jelly – kneel before your god  
15 – storm and stress – the 1st. our lady of burning thorns  
16 – grain – untitled (5)  
17 – miguel graca – rollin  
18 – kv5 – so far  
19 – bebel gilberto – tanto tempo (chari chari remix)  
20 – castor & pollux – serenity (jf sebastian’s don’t be afraid)  
21 – sanguine – good weather for sheep  
22 – caspa, the others – bushido (caspa remix)  
23 – sad souls – turning into gold

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Celestial Trax returns with new work of tonal-textural explorations.
On 'Lifecodes' the producer born Joni Judén weaves together a dense quilt of sound, shimmering and surging as it unfolds in free-time. Judén invites the listener down a luminous, harmonically adventurous path, where sound takes creaturely dimensions. The songs blossom and wilt, at times floating in states of ambivalence, at others washing over the listener like waves, bathing them in heavy light.

'Lifecodes' was created in the small village of Pynnölä, Joutsa in central Finland, where Celestial Trax has been living and working since 2020.

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Music by Celestial Trax, recorded and mixed at TUO TUO
Album art and visual concept by Robert Ra linktr.ee/RobertRa



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