Bringing you a mix from @blew-velvet, who we have known for a number of years now and is a close friend of the Chicago queer club community. Singer, producer, DJ, and looks queen are on their CV, and let us tell you, this mix will give you so much life! It feels as if we're traveling from party to party with an ever changing crowd of friends and no end to dancing in sight. 

Some words from Blew about this mix:

"It’s me trying to illustrate, musically, my anxieties about too much happening in a weekend these days. An ode to the infinite categories and niche groups of dancers and DJs assembling at whatever club or house is available to provoke some rave catharsis in each other, to carry the hardest,  or to pull the biggest stunt on the CDJs. It’s a belt perforated with notches for every type of function that might happen in a 48 hour time slot in queer nightlife now that the we’ve returned to it."

@blew-velvet

•Tchaikovsky - Russian Dance (Swan Lake)
•Torus - Descend in Chains/Say My Name
•COLLO - Bantu Nilote
•DJ Sneak & Armand Van Heiden - Futuristic Cypher
•Avangart Taldbot - Baladi 
•Tecmania Rebel - Circus Beat (2013 Tee-Fix)
•Not Your Shadow - Low Budget Bass Trash (W.A.S.H. Remix)
•Blew Velvet - It’s Not Enough (Odd Oswald Remix)
•Break2Break - Talking To U 
•Zuzuka Poderosa - Seda (Jubilee & Burt Fox Remix)
•Tetsuya Tamura - Just Not Satisfied (SERi [JP] Remix)
•Oceantied - Astromechanical Juke
•X-Coast - Bailando
•Klubbheads - The Ultimate Seduction (Remix)
•DJ David Goblin & The Horde - Tera Octe: Blazin’ [Bom Bom Bom]
•MCM-13 - Big Fat Juicy Booty (Marc V. & Poochie Bear Remix)
•Vengaboys - We Like to Party (Roland Kulé x Lincoln Park blend)
•VTSS - Borderline Tenderness
•River Moon - HARD
•Count Baldor - Podracing
•Killjoy - Brass Nux
•Dmitra - Baby Let Me Come Again
•Entropia - Fica Ligeiro
•Twang - There’s No If (Crash or Beat Version)
•The Wasp - Shooders
•RESLA - MUSIC
•Ittoku - SOPHIE x Nicki Minaj - Super Bass (but it’s Immaterial) 
•Lady Gaga - Judas (Andreo Remix)
•Ancient Deep - Panty Blaster (Lauren Flax Remix)
•El Pelele - MUÑECO
•Pedro Basico - Venus Energy (Azealia Banks, Bananarama, Björk, Lady Gaga)

Rumors Mix Series #074- Blew Velvet

A rising star in NYC's rave scene, @morenxxx delivers a blistering percussive set for @communitybread's 17th mix. They also joined our roster for CB x @beatport ReConnect fundraiser benefiting Ukraine, which raised over $100,000 for @chooselove, an org providing shelter and safety for the LGBTQ+ community fleeing the war. Listen here: tinyurl.com/morenxxx-bp

Check out our interview with MORENXXX:

What would you like ppl to know about you?

I'm also an exhibiting visual artist! Whose art practice is deeply intertwined with their DJ practice.

Tell us about this mix and what you want listeners to get from it.

Whenever I put out a mix or get ready to make a mix, I organize a collection of images that help me develop its sonic aesthetic. With this mix I was more so thinking about it as an archipelago, a group of islands that amalgamate to a larger nexus of localities. With that in mind, the majority of the songs I selected have these really entrancing percussive patterns that I gravitate to at large, but also placing emphasis on Caribbean, African and Black American producers. It was easy to find my footings as those connections seem to form organically. This mix is definitely more on the techno side, with many moments of melodic rapture. But overall, I want listeners to sojourn through a transformative journey that explores the entanglement of terror and enjoyment, ecstasy and remedy, death and transformation. A group of islands converging, collapsing and developing one another in their difference. A dancefloor of relation, with explosions of jubilance <3

When did you first take an interest in music?

I think my interest in music or specifically dance music began with Dance Dance Revolution and video games in general. I remember growing up playing dance dance revolution with my cousin and siblings, we even had a metal mat at home- that's how serious we were about it. I'm not the best at it, but I think that definitely began my interest in electronic dance music. My cousin, the one who actually owned the game, took me to my first rave when I was 12 or 13. And obviously being exposed to that at such an impressionable age, I took to that quite quickly Then later on moving to Chicago, and finding home and family in the community there that had already been so invested in a long-standing nightlife tradition - its exalted a profound respect and devotion to House and Techno at large. I've had the most cathartic, healing, and transformative experiences on the dancefloor, and truly believe these spaces are so incredibly spiritual. 

What have been some of your fav gigs and what made them so memorable?

My favorite gig would have to be Honcho Summer 2021. We were all so invested...the whole excursion is this sort of agreement, that I think only a weekend in the middle of the woods with no access to the internet can conjure. Like my eyes still roll back thinking about my experience there, there's something really magical about that experience that I'm still unraveling. Aside from being showered with love and appreciation after my set, and honestly one of the few times where I have felt truly celebrated and held. I was committed, I remember there were times we would be on the dancefloors for hours, going and losing ourselves, everyone began to become nobody and everyone all at once, in the blur of it all. I will never forget my time there. 

How do you think we can make the underground clubbing community better?

I would like to see more thoughtful organizing, a lot of parties post-quarantine have been so maximalist and devoid of intention. We don't need 10 DJs in one night (unless there are multiple floors), we don't need a sampler portion of a DJ set. With the recent destruction of our spaces specifically in Brooklyn, we have fewer options, there's 'scarcity' to it. But there is so much room for potential! I want to see more insurgent, spontaneous, and imaginative organizing

MORENXXX | CB MIX 017

Had the pleasure of making a mix for KEXP Black History is Now broadcast curated by the incredible SHARLESE.

KEXP | MORENXXX | Black History is Now Mix

Track List:
Ducky - Open Yourself up and Let Her Pour Out
DJ Python - uwu
DNGDNGDNG & Prisma - Grietas
David Attenborough's Mistakes
Mariah Carey - Fly Away (Butterfly Reprise)
My Little Pony Tales Theme Song
Laid Back - White Horse
Earth Trax - Today
Fever Ray - When I grow up
Enayet - Khali
Abssys - Wild Thoughtz (ft. JLZ)
DJ Raff - Que LLueva
Shakira - Shewolf (Acapella)
TV on the Radio - Wolf LIke Me (Innstrumental)
Miike Snow - Animal
Bored Lord - heart shaped boxxx
Beyoncé - Kitty Kat
animal bin laden collective - my girls x totototototo (blend del Tercer World)
Acemo - Audity Jam

Collina Strada AW 2023 - Pre-show Soundscape

Rumors Mix Series #113: Mx. Toto

SO SHALL YOU REAP

LSDXOXO is our August cover star, and this is his full-throttle cover mix. Recorded live at the eye-wateringly stacked CSD Berlin edition of Floorgasm in July 2023.

Read the LSDXOXO cover story: https://crackm.ag/lsdxoxo 
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Issue 146 Cover Mix: LSDXOXO

DJ: Male Merge
Date: 8.25.2023
Location: Newtown Radio, Brooklyn NY
Attributes: Lush, Textured, Fresh

Navel Gaze Radio: Male Merge

In Unit 11.8

Presenting episode 5 of Radio Samt! Last one for 2023 and this month features one of my favorite people in Mexico City: @Kodemul

This mix builds loose narratives as you listen. Long, stretching, tightening, and shortening waves build the pulse throughout in different forms; water lapping, screeches and wails - all eventually buried by by percussion, by familiar melodies, gated into obscurity. Occasional vocal sections ground it back down to human earth.
-and that's just the first half!

I'm very lucky to present this as the last Radio Samt of 2023, and what a lovely way to say goodbye to this year.

--

Kodemul is a multitalented producer and music collector appreciated internationally for his charisma, taste, and community building. One of my first friends in CDMX, and a genius who pays attention to all parts of music - no genre left unturned. 

"Kodemul is the musical alter ego of Arturo Mejía, recognized mainly as a producer, promoter, DJ and audiovisual artist. Born in CDMX,
he is co-founder of Por Detroit, an itinerant party in CDMX and Los Angeles with a focus on dissent, and SED, a multi-format party that looks to generate links before the dance floor through different activities."

Radio Samt [5] - Kodemul - "Inestabilidad Domesticada"

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The Beginning.

for booking, requests, collaboration or remix maydaymaydaynyc@gmail.com

'Crime is Punishment (sade remix)

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