For American artist @nick-klein, music is a gateway deep into our collective and individual psyches. He explores loudness as a form and "the sociology and ideology that presents in self-identifying music subcultures." He does this with his own @psychicliberation label, we all as with music on the likes of L.I.E.s and Viewlaxx. Next up for this prolific producer is a forthcoming double album - roughly his 15th overall - on IDEAL that will continue to explore the fringes of electronic sound with a bank of trusted modulated synths. 

Of this week's mix, Nick says, "Happy Valentine's Day! The hour of material here is a collage of releases that have come out in the previous three years on my label Psychic Liberation, or the collaborative installment of releases between Enmossed and Psychic Liberation known as ENXPL. Here you have layers of material that map the cloud of my music listening consciousness. The interior includes artists who have participated on PL since the 2013 inception. Artists like Berlin's Wilted Woman, ENXPL artists Bridget Ferrill or Rene Nunez's Horoscope project, the PL Seoul based crew of Yeong Die, Jiyoung Wi, and Joyul, prolific Iranian brother band powerhouse of Saint Abdullah, and founder of the Enmossed label Glyn Maier are found braided through each other sonically.

"While a lot of the work here isn't directly oriented towards the club setting, it could be congruous as an epilogue to an evening's more psychedelic potential. It is interesting to see how broadly sonic aesthetics in electronic music have shifted in the absence of major clubs operating at capacity, if at all. I am pleased to share pieces of what has been in my head as an obsessive listening journey and the process of documentation throughout that time. Thanks to Dekmantel.”

Dekmantel Podcast

Tracklist

Dekmantel Podcast 372 - Nick Klein

47.628854, -122.367127

Slippery and devious cuts coalesce with ease, a magnetic pulse emanating from molten layers of aura. @succubass leads us through a slick and chic hour of cleverly bridged oddball gems.

d o w n 2 e a r t h 42 - Succubass

It's winter, a time of turning your oven on to heat the kitchen, of cats crawling into your sweater, of branches bare & reaching out to an ever dark sky. For some, deep winter brings feelings of coziness, spending time with loved ones, etc. For me and others, it's a time to put your head down and dig deeper, the best time of the year to do all the soul rending and research and plumbing of the depths that's impossible in the gaze of the sun. I spend winters bundled up in various rooms throughout the city, windowless or barely windowed at all, somehow letting the passage of the year escape me until, blinking, bewildered, I step outside to visit the cherry blossoms. This mix is a quick tour through that headspace; a meandering stroll along the lake in the deep of night, of lingering loss and anguish and care, to be paired with the complete cooking process. The pie is simple, yet hearty – may it provide some emotional aftercare during these dark days.


KEMC'S WINTER ROOT PIE


INGREDIENTS

- 1 Sweet Potato, diced
- Pearl/Broiler Onions (1 box/bag)
- Splish of olive oil or an amount of butter
- Pinch or two of salt
- 1-5 Garlic Cloves (go nuts if yr feeling it)
- 2-3 Red or Yukon Gold Potatoes, diced
- 2 Parsnips, chopped
- Handful of favorite mushrooms, destemmed and sliced (Shiitake is a good general purpose 'shroom, but if you come across lobster mushrooms………)
- Half a fist or so of flour
- Yr Fav Canned Soup (Lentil Veg is the best but you do you)
- Puff Pastry sheet (you could make your own but the store bought

Optional Additions:
- shallot – onion but different and smaller. Nice sometimes but also slightly redundant
- Handful of Walnuts – crush them in your perfect hand & toss them in towards the end of the stove cooking
- Spices ETC – I usually go for Cayenne, Rosemary, more salt, sometimes fennel. You can go wild and throw in some crushed up cloves.
- Meat/Subs – soyrizo is pretty good – dunno about real meat but I think Hard Meats would probbo work better than like, fish
- Formerly dried pasta (as in you cook it first and then add) is a weird but ok choice
- Cheese – slap it on (or under the crust) after it comes out of the oven for a lil bit of extra richness. Goat is cool.

It's your pie now bby

METHOD

1. Set your oven for 375 and take the puff pastry sheet out of the freezer.
2.  Bring a sizable pot of water to boil. It's gotta be big enough to hold all your veggies (aka the filling). Toss in onions and sweet potato, and cook for 10 min.
3. Dump out the water but retain the pot – leave in the sweet potato, take the onions out to peel them and then put them back in.
4. Add the cooking medium (oil or butter) to the pot. Low and slow (but in the higher end of low) is the name of the game. Add potatoes, garlic, shallot and parsnips. Drop some salt in and cover the pot with a lid.
5. Cook for 20-30 minutes. You can flip shit around if so inclined. I like to add spices, mushrooms, walnuts, and whatever else i'm feeling at this point.
6. Once everything is more or less cooked, throw in your fistful of flour. You want everything to be coated in it.
7. Pour in the can of soup and mix well. This is the glue that holds your filling together. Cook for a few more minutes to thicken everything up.
8. Pour the filling into a 9” pie pan. Metal, glass, whatever. No need to grease, the crust only goes on top.
9. Cover the mixture with the puff pastry sheet, and press it against the pan to create a seal. You might need to do a lil knifework to get everything lined up ok; I sometimes make a FaNcY decoration out of excess sheeting. Cut an x in the center to act as a steam vent.
10. Place pie on top rack in the oven and bake until puff pastry is both PUFFED and GOLDEN, about 25-30 minutes.
11. Let cool so you don't burn your mouth like a big freaking idiot.

Secret Sauce 12 - KEMC

this mix series was imagined as a creative plan for recovery after bottom surgery. i love to dance. and i obviously can't go to the club for awhile so... i'm making my living room my dancefloor! hopefully you will too. i hope you enjoy this series of weekly dance mixes <3 i also am out a job for 2 (perhaps even 3 months) so if you enjoy and you're able to donate my venmo is @alana_maenad.

track list:
joey beltram - jazz 3303
jdubzmusic - steel drumz
mike nasty - underground flower
sister zo - don't test me
heiko laux - earthbouncing part 2
kitten & the hacker - ostbahnhof
davis galvin - klatec
dan curtin - kraftwerk am strand
heiko laux - mirabella
hardrive - deep inside
LADYMONIX - track 39 (feat. rashida)
loffe beats - work this pussy
ciel & ali berger - damn skippy!
introspekt - lick it
regal86 - callejon
ciel, kilig - southern clouds
mor elian - diva test (cicada mix)
salute - white ferrari (salute edit)

pussybeats no. 01

Oscilla Sound on Noods Radio w/ Notte Infinita - 01.12.22

Juanita's Mix 85 with livwutang @livwutang

Q. How would you describe yourself?
A. Aspiring multi-hyphenate : )

Q. How long have you been a part of the NY music scene?
A. I moved to NY in September of 2021. I had started to meet the seedlings of my now friends and budding community when I played here earlier in the summer of 2021 and before that, when I went to Sustain in 2019.

Q. Tell us a little bit about this mix.
A. This mix is:

1/2 the sequel to my beloved Honcho dubstep mix from 2021
1/2 a mix of music I would have shown to my baby stoner self in high school, instead of the carefully curated Majestic Casual-ridden playlists she was dutifully crafting at the time to accompany her equally intricate apple pipes.

Juanita's Mix 085: livwutang

“For this mix I kinda wanted to make something that felt reminiscent of how I open and close out dj sets at a club. The tracks that have been speaking to me the most all like in a 90-110 BPM range which I think kinda can be played at any point of the night. I appreciate drake’s patience on this since I made like 2 ambient mixes and 3 super-fast techno mixes before just saying “fuck it” and doing a single take here that felt a bit more reminiscent of what I actually prefer to hear when im in a club. Hopefully this mix takes you to a place that is not too far from here 😊”

@havingsex
IG: @dj_having_sex

Tracklist:
Personals - John Hassell and Blue Screen
Cotorra - Simisea
Dame Más - D. Juan León
Nice Girl - Unacknowledged Star Nose
Heatwave Riddim - Stacktrace
Crooked Teeth - Kaval
Headbangers Ball - Jetty
Rethink Your Reality - Heap
Es-Matrix - Piezo
Inside - Kincaid & J. Caeser
Raw Riddim - PPC
Boy Baby - Bob Traxx
Lekki Aiah Freeway - Emeka Ogboh
Y2038 - Vina Konda
F E E L I N G  T H I S - aya

Distant Signals 016: DJ Having Sex

Prescribe yourself a genre-free, highly emotional course of Physical Therapy.

https://www.nts.live/shows/physical-therapy/episodes/physical-therapy-9th-march-2023

Physical Therapy - Slow Acid Special 090323

At Unsound 2022, Bored Lord from LA and Ariel Zetina from Chicago - each other's biggest fans - teamed up for their first-ever European b2b set. The two artists masterfully fused together queer club sounds with '90s hardcore breaks, trance, and house, resulting in a hard-hitting combo that kept the audience on their toes throughout. Once again we hit the record button, and the ripping result is Unsound Podcast 89!

📸 @multipolar

Unsound Podcast 89: Bored Lord b2b Ariel Zetina

Bill Kouligas is the mind behind one of modern electronic music's greatest and most innovative labels, PAN. His remarkable ear for music meant that he released some of the earliest records from luminaries like Yves Tumor, Helena Hauff and Eartheater, helping to jumpstart several remarkable careers. And each PAN release is lovingly and lavishly packaged like an art object in itself, an approach you can read more about in this month's feature-length cover story.

The Berlin artist's RA Podcast is an audio companion to that cover story, and it underlines not only Kouligas's range as a label A&R but also as a DJ. Reflecting the label's evolution from straight-up noise to musique concréte to leftfield dance music and then avant-pop, the mix cycles through stages of strange, staggered beats, almost celestial ambient music, passages of overwhelming noise and sound that sublimate into floating clouds before solidifying back into club music, and a couple engaging spoken word passages and endless manipulations of the human voice. In other words, it sounds a lot like PAN.

@pan_hq

Read more at https://ra.co/podcast/880

RA podcast

RA.880 Bill Kouligas

End-of-days club music.

Read more here: https://www.residentadvisor.net/podcast-episode.aspx?id=718

@low-jack

Resident Advisor podcast

RA.718 Low Jack

Secret Sauce is a mix series to cook and eat to. Curated by music and food lovers alike, these mixes are meant to comfort and excite, just like a delicious meal. 

Secret Sauce is also meant to be a resource for restaurants, who (like DJs) strive to provide a curated and seamless experience. Too often a restaurant meal is accompanied by a haphazard or algorithmically corporatized soundtrack and hopefully this mix series can provide musical options, uplift independent musical artists, and allow for a more unique and satisfying dining experience.

Secret Sauce 12 - KEMC

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