@alienDan

Introduce yourself? Hometown? Where do you currently reside? 1 fun fact about yourself?

Hi! I’m Dan, born and raised in Buffalo, NY but I’ve lived here in NYC for almost 10 years now. I throw parties and put out records with my label Sweat Equity and I have a crucial predilection for Karaoke.  

Top 3 tunes: 
Tom Jones - It’s Not Unusual
Sixpence None The Richer - Kiss Me
Linkin Park - In the End

Describe the vibe of your ideal party? Space? Smell? Drinks? Anything you can think of ;)

Minimal lighting, lots of water, smiling, laughing faces.  The best parties are ones where people bring a little bit of themselves and a lot of joy.
 
Dream b2b? 

Honestly anyone in this mix series (I’m a fan first and foremost!)

Guilty pleasure track?

https://youtu.be/8Gy_zq_YuQQ

Why do you think it's important to DJ? And/of why have you chosen to become a DJ? How long do you think you will keep it up?

Sometimes it feels like it chose me!  DJing can work as an exercise in self-reflection, a way to step outside myself and look back in on some part of my brain (soul?) that language can’t quite reach.  It helps me understand myself in some small, intimate way a bit better. I feel a similar way about DJing your friends’ tracks, it’s a way of accessing some unspoken aspect of your relationship you get to share in that moment.  I’ll probably just do it until it stops doing that for me.  


Let’s play a pipipi game… I give you a situation & you give me a track 

** in a wormhole--- like literally in a hole for worms

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YWV9Dz60Ujs
Went with the squelchiest thing I could think of

** wearing all your moms fur her closet

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=chexxflqHRM

** endless tunnel with a bright light at the end of it

https://youtu.be/hZihAcwaDvQ

** on your balcony trying to soothe the world

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E7RLvQvVBzY

Advice to beginning djs?

All those spur of the moment selections and wild blends you try when you’re starting out might be the bedrock of what makes your voice unique. Don’t lose touch with those as you improve “technique.” Which is a long way of saying “always have fun.”  

Describe the best dj/live set you have seen this year? 

If I can go back a bit to November it’s maybe Ben Bondy’s set at our party with Terry Radio crew.  Shredding viola over woozy downtempo cuts so beautifully it made Klauss tear up a bit.  

Most underrated artist at the moment?

Producer: Plebeian (https://soundcloud.com/plebeiann)
DJ: St. Mozelle (https://soundcloud.com/sweat-equity/st-mozelle-sweat-mix) 

What do you miss most about clubbing? 

I miss that last track… 7am light pouring in and the smiling faces of the folks you made it through the night with. The best!

Describe the vibe of your first DJ set?

Oh damn…
I think it was in Portland. I was touring a live set and got asked to DJ a couple lil things. The really memorable one was for the Spoiler Room crew. I nerfed almost every blend while Sean Pierce made everyone crepes. I don’t think I could have asked for a better first go.

#1 stoner slammer 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=stWSxmTIGnU

Describe what you would want your rider to look like as a DJ all star playing Ibiza…

Clean socks, a nice wine and a big paella for the homies.

Describe the first moment where you had an epiphany about your love for music?

The first day I got Napster I must have made 6 mix CDs. I was showing my dad all these songs from when he was like 17 and it dawned on me that I already was wayyyyy more invested in music than he ever was.

Favorite weird drug experience? 

I have on multiple occasions started watering the plants at Nowadays.

What would you like to see in the future for the dance community?

Universal Healthcare and more snacks at parties.

Venmo or contact info to support a local club who is undergoing hardship...

Nowadays!
https://www.patreon.com/nowadaysnyc

Alien D- 57˚F

hyper dubs, mothers know, murky (air) textures, automated drumming, dance floor racers

w/ @jasminhoek + @valclipp

initially aired via https://offcenter.online

Community Podcast #14 w/ Jasmín

CKUT

IRL & Choozey - Enough Is More Than A File

Occitan Twilight Pyre - Logos
Ultraviolence - Mars89
??? - ???
Neutronit - Ø
The Recurrence of Infection (Flora Yin-Wong Remix) - bod [包家巷]
Snowy Blumau Denoised - Richard Eigner
Below the Clavicle - Eartheater
Seeds of Discontent - Rrose & Lucy
Insane - Lewis Fautzi
12 Masks - Steve Hauschildt
Shackles - Ossia & Chester Giles
Samsara - Matthias von Imhoof
Angel of Dub - Boreal Massif
Call It - DJ Die Soon
Sometimes I Love You Forever - Carmen Villain
Rewound - Lotic
Fortnight - Chevel
House - Ulla Straus
Hermanas Y Hermanos - Resina
Before You Sleep - Bruce
Shevil - Von Tesla 
??? - ???
??? - ???

Touch

Texts cited:

Small, Christopher. Musicking: The Meanings of Performing and Listening. Hanover: University Press of New England, 1998. Print.

Barthes, R., & Howard, R. (1991). The responsibility of forms : critical essays on music, art, and representation. Berkeley (Calif.): University of California press.

Meyer. Emotion and meaning in music : by Leonard B. Meyer. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1961, c1956.

Buckland, Fiona. Impossible Dance: Club Culture and Queer World-Making. Wesleyan University Press, 2002.

Reynolds, Simon. Energy Flash: A Journey through rave music and Dance Culture. Softskull press 2012.

https://www.patreon.com/seeyoumonday

SEE YOU MONDAY 001: Transformative Spaces

Available via my bandcamp:

https://daniel58.bandcamp.com/album/pygmy-forest

Chrispie Spaytion

K Means has been bending the rules of UK bass music for the past few years, via her broadcasts for Noods Radio and Netil Radio, and residencies for Bristol's Psychotherapy Sessions and her own Expansion Pak club nite. Her sets alongside the likes of Anz and Quest?onmarc have sent parties across the UK into an absolute frenzy, with a signature mix of headspinning bass, slapping club edits, wild footwork and mutant dancehall. She gets supernatural for an hour.

Vic Bang - Rim [Kit Records]
Flatpack & Dudeman - On The Tools [Pressure Dome]
Sputnik One - Shader [First Second Label]
N/OBE - Cistern [Flex]
Endless Mow - Fey Dor [All Centre]
Yushh - Team Boot [Woozy]
MoMA Ready - Deep Enough [Self]
Superabundance - Antimatter Circus [Future Times]
DJ Slugo - I’m Higher Than A M.F. [WIDE]
Nikki Nair - One And Only [Shubzin]
Filter Dread - Beyond Saturn [TV Showw]
East Man & Walton - Gunshot [Hi Tek Sounds]
Ice_Eyes - Dirt [ANBA]
Pinch - All Man Got (ft Trim) [Tectonic]
Cartridge - Trippy Mane [CNCPT Collective]
Cimm - Endless Sky [Sentry Records]
DJ Girl - Psychosis [Worst Behaviour Recs]
Traxman - WAP Juked Out [Self]
Cesrv - WATCH YO SLANG [Beatwise]
Kush Jones - SYSTEMS [Self]
DJ Manny - Fluorescent [Self]
DJ ojo - ??? [??]
Bastiengoat - Slurpee [Worst Behaviour Recs]

Ep 215 pt.1 w/ k means

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Sluice With Laenz And Sin-Pit @ The Lot Radio 09 - 25 - 2020

Capturing the spirit of the Steel City he grew up in, Manchester-based artist 96 Back is up next in our series. 

Now based in Manchester, 96 Back has been surrounded by Bleep legends his whole life so it’s no surprise that he has become one of the most exciting producers in the UK. At 18 years old he released his first EP on CPU Records and was quickly followed by his debut DJ set at the Boiler Room label showcase. In 2019, he put out his debut album ‘Excitable, Girl’ which was highly acclaimed across the board, it was one of my favourite LPs to have been released that year, and made him a one to watch. Following releases on Hypercolour, Happy Skull and Fever AM, the UK’s underground gem returns with his first release for local label Local Action ‘Sugilite’ - out now. 

Buy here: https://96back1.bandcamp.com/album/sugilite

@96-back
@localactionrecords

Tracklist:
FFT - Six
Shabason/Gunning - Bois Blanc
Coppé - I Lick My Brain In Silence
Sensational - Stylin Stylin
SDEM - PSKWDIM
REQ & SMUDGE - Smudge’s Coffee (The Fear Ratio Remix)
FFT - Sacrifice (The Truth Mix)
Sobotka - Overstand
96 Back - Gobsmack (unreleased)
Tom & Jerry - Original Wicked Machine
Unknown Artist - ???
Sileni - Pressing Buttons
Joe - Claptrap
William Fields- Concerto for 7 Instances of Kontakt (Voter Remix)
Yves De May - Double Slit
Shcuro - Can’t Let Go
A1 Project - Phraid
Tristan Arp - Pipeline (Machine Woman Remix)
Bjork - All is Full of Love (Funkstorung remix)
Farben - Stuck
Autechre - Garbagemx36
96 Back - Glisten, You (unreleased)

Untitled 909 Podcast 055: 96 Back

Tracklist:

Micko vs. Si Begg - Tigons and Ligers (Si Begg Remix)
Crystal Distortion - Cheeky Groover
David Arnold & Kevin Kiner - Facility Action 
Rip Van Hippy - Cut Lunch 
Dendron - Absinthe
Ubar Tmar - Eternal Return (Quirk Remix)
Bus - North by North West (Top Deck Mix)
Weirdo Beardo - Bleeps Sweeps & Creeps  
Antediluvian Rocking Horse - Rigorous Doughnut
Cosmoon - Damnation Generation
Synchro - Kitchen Sync
Bonky - There Coming
Rip Van Hippy - When Bernie Was A Tree
MK Ultra - Organized Energy
Vytear - Exit Extinction
Matmos - Enigma Machine for Alan Turing
Jason Forrest - Ceci N’est Pas Du Disco
Mochipet - Backyard Wrestling (Doormouse Cock Asian Invasion Mix)
!luuli - Quality Time
720 Degrees - Cookie Tyler
PeLinPaLa - Jazz Cabalero
Amon Tobin - Escape
End - World Went Down
Toecutter - Mass Grave Ritual
Skatter - Please Take My Head Out Of This Bucket Of Ice

Schumacher Vol.7 with Thick Owens

Hawkeye - Money Haffi Make (Lewi Boome edit) [Self Released]
Low Khey - Homos Festivus [Comic Sans Records]
Yilan - Static Void [infinite Machine]
Jurango - Thankek [[re]sources]
Swordman Kitala - Kimbalagala (pq rewonk) [Blip Discs]
Dome Zero - What Does it Mean to Temper Steel? [Shubzin]
Amor Satyr & Siu Mata - Nah [Nostro Hood System]
Warzou - Untitled [Unreleased]
NVST - Hypocrisis Theroy (Tite Version) - [Unreleased]
Second. - The Beach [Out soon on Big Science]
Fareed - Untitled [Unreleased]
Tite - Untitled [Unreleased]
Maquis Son Sistèm - Untitled [Unreleased]
Fareed - Ruins [Still Available on Big Science]
Tite - Untitled [Unreleased]
NVST - Request for Quantity (Everworkedonanarchy Mix) [Unreleased]
Warzou & Tite - Untitled [Unreleased]

Motion Sickness w/ Warzou & Junior

@pain-mgmt

https://significantother.club/

Booking/Licensing:
significantutha@gmail.com

Currently based in Berlin.

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