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🌻SKANKSTASY HOUR on Refuge Worldwide🌻

💦 ON THE DANCEFLOOR 💦

Segment of my UKG/Bassline breakfast served in the Räuber*innenhöhle steam hut on a crisp Sunday morning.

Tracklist:

Let's Push Things Forward — Garage Remake
Has It Come to This — Bullet Tooth Bootleg
Spliff Dug — Zombie (Rustie Remix)
Gunman — 187 Lockdown (GOD Remix)
The Sampler — Nathan B-Line & S1
It's Poppin — Julian Viali
Heat It Up — Okura
Better Run — Smokey Bubblin B
Rihanna — OJ's Speed Garage Remix
Ghosting in the Rave — Main Phase
Shut Everything Down — Mosca
WARPER — I Jordan
Killa 2 — Skeptic
Where's Your Head At — Interplanetary Criminal & DJ Cosworth
Duppy — Skepta (Jamie Duggan Remix)
Kickin Back — Harvey Lowe
Installation — Pangaea
Set the Roof — Hudson Mohawke & Nikki Nair

Skankstasy @ Räuber*innenhöhle / Fusion Festival 2023

SKANKSTASY (LECKEN)
RECORDED LIVE AT WHOLE
SAT, JULY 29, 2023
20:00
ARENA STAGE 
@skankstasy @leckenberlin

SKANKSTASY

JUNKIE DRIVES is out now! My Masters' thesis about a Lacanian psychoanalysis of drug consumption, written in accessible language, for clinical or personal use, looks at what non-normativing psychoanalysis can teach us about the enjoyment of drugs, the human struggle with pleasure, and what it might mean to live well with drugs, meaning, self-determined, desirous, and multi-faceted lives where we don’t hand over more agency to drugs than we’d like to. I talk about it on the inaugural episode of "Skanstasy Hour" with my bestie and psychoanalytic mentor, @sweetapple-807106846. Follow @wandagaimes on IG or write me an email to find out how to get a digital or physical copy of the essay.

Skankstasy Hour I | Junkie Drives

Tracklist:

aya :: Emley lights us moor (feat. Iceboy Violet)
Flying Lotus :: Yellow Belly (feat. Tierra Whack)
Lex Amor & Bel Cobain :: At the Bay
Midnight Nostalgia :: Untitled
Ocean Wisdom :: Perspectives 
Phaeleh :: Lament
Gayngs :: The Gaudy Side of Town 
A Little Seal :: Foca Loca
Horace Andy :: Rock to Sleep
OBF :: Danger Riddim
Pugilist :: Premonitions
Damian Marley :: There for You
groundsound :: Put on an Iron Shirt w/ KAT7
Hak Baker :: Venezuela Riddim
Mimoza :: Asa a fost sa fie
James Blake :: Life Round Here (Gisaza Remix)
Nine Horses :: Wonderful World (Burnt Friedman Remix)
Young Jeter :: Penn vs Hughes feat. Con$piracy 
Pink Floyd :: Us and Them (6Blocc Alpha Wave Remix)

Skankstasy Hour II | Dub's Got the Blues

Skankstasy (aka Wanda Gaimes) is a long-time member of the Berlin undercommons, known as a tireless rave agitator for @lllecken, the queer-feminist party series she co-founded in 2016, writer, curator, and more recently, DJ. Skankstasy is moved by everything that grooves, from grime to juke groove, as we see on this mix she's prepared for us. 

Raised in a post-socialist country starved for Western cultural goods, where every mixed tape had to be cherished like a treasure, she grew up in a household that listened to funk, soul and blues. Later, when she emigrated, her heart started beating for trip hop, hip hop and dub and only started raving to 4-to-the-floor beats much later in life. Behind the decks (or on the radio waves), Skankstasy likes to surf the sweet spot between different rhythms and grooves with an ambition to conjure "a future queer skank floor" and a deep appreciation for the diasporic roots of dance music. To sample some of her versatile range, you can also head to her Refuge Worldwide residency show, Skankstasy Hour.

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Skankstasy Hour III | A State of Garage Flow

Skankstasy is a bass and polyrhythm enthusiast. Moved by everything that grooves, she likes to stitch together different rhythms and soundscapes with an aspiration to bring the dance one step closer to an anarcho-queer skanking floor with a deeper appreciation for the sonic roots that make bodies move. 

DJ Name: Skankstasy
Pronouns: she/her

Who’s your favourite DJ? There's so many UK-based garage dons that I love but only ever heard online that I feel like I'm in a long distance relationship with my favorite sound. As far as Berlin goes, I'm a big fan of Objekt & CCL. 

What's your Death Row meal? I'll never refuse a pistachio ice cream. 

What’s your favourite garage track? Something like Main Phase's "Copenhagen Big Murderah Dub" that combines sped-up ragga vocals with a thumping bassline, and which I tried to pack lots of in this mix, is really what I live (and die for) on the dance floor.  

What’s important to you at a party? My ideal parties are wild, unruly unfoldings of difference. How to achieve a plurality of joy and a respectful coexistence of difference all in one night is really the art of good rave-making in my eyes.

HARD13

Garage Girls FM - Skankstasy - 005

In conversation with Christopher Sweetapple about Islamophobia or anti-Muslim racism as an era-defining mode of oppression and tool of coloniality in the service of liberal Empire.

Mullah Said

Skankstasy Hour IV | Islamophobia Unpacked w/ C. Sweetapple

Bass & polyrhythm afficionado and Lecken co-conspirator Skankstasy keeping our dancefloor hot, wobbly & breaky at our 30.3 edition at LARK. Order up!!

Paticake

Skankstasy | BIG love 30.03.24 @ LARK Berlin

Soup*42 (@forewardslash) takes over Skankstasy Hour with a captivating mix of voices from UK rap to Afro Trap and Dub.

***Tracklist***

With Balance - Metronomy
The Takeover - LSK
Jahara - Teebs
Palestine Will Be Free - Sorah
Book Of Photos ft Ramisha Rafique - Cappo & Kong The Artisan
Salam - Fawzi سلام ع الأمة
Vanilla Skies - Che noir
Better ft Cuco - LAVA LA RUE
 Nah It Aint The Same - Greentea Peng
Mondeo ft PLK - Doums
Max Elliot -Nines ft Big Narstie & M Dot R
We Run E Grung - Nadg ( Ms Banks remix)
Marathon Continues - Skrapz ft Kano
Encore - MHD
Mbona Ft Thayu Mwas & Asum Garvey - Nah Eeto 
Globo - Ele A
 Non Stop - Sneazzy 
Comfy ft Moonchild Sanelly & Trillary Banks - Jelani Blackman
Daruma - Nepal 
Wenn Du Weinst - BABYJOY
Collatoral Damage - BXKS
 Palestina - LaBlackie
Cant give up - Dj Cuddles
Cassie - Me & U (Kursa's Moderately Suggestive  Vibey Bootleg )-Kursa
Sheikh Jarrah الشيخ جراح - Daboor         
Kiboh -CA$TLE
In My Mind - Cheetah

Skankstasy Hour V | Soup*42 Guest Hour

Skansktasy is a Berlin-based artist and curator, who helped co-found the queer sx-positive rave, Lecken, that serves as a platform for feminist pleasure activism, artistic and cultural adventure, and radical political education. 

After cutting her teeth as a booker for Lecken, she started collecting and selecting music for dance floors. A lover of groove and polyrhythms in their multiworld guises, Skankstasy's mission is—as her moniker suggests—to summon an ecstatic skanky/ing floor that supports the liberation of the mind and the behind. When she's not being nocturnal, Wanda also works as a discourse curator for several platforms, including the WHOLE Talks program, her own Refuge Worldwide residency and the @td4p_berlin platform.

@skankstasy

HOMODROP Podcast 027 - SKANKSTASY

Tracklist:

Dominique Fils-Aimé — Good Feeling (Atjazz & D-Malice Vocal Dub)
Marcus Joseph — What If? (Soulful Session Remix)
musclecars — Don't Go feat. Brandon Markell Holmes
Tribe — Livin' In A New Day (C2 Remix)
Quango ft Eska — Rock It Tonight (NameBrandSound Remix)
DJ Jazzy Jeff Ft. Erro — Rock Wit U (yoruba Soul Mix)
musclecars — Shelter (Ron Trent Remix)
Reel People feat. Jag — Second Guess (Grant Nelson Remix)
Barry Can't Swim — Layali
Santiago Salazar — Hey Life
Malik Hendricks — Wanna Love
Afrodiziaks — Cry 4 U
OVEOUS x Don Kamares — Legacy
Demuir — Don't Drink The KoolAid
Kenlou — Moonshine (Masters At Work Remix)

Skankstasy Hour VI | Honeycomb House

Tracklist:

Lean Back —LV & Joshua Idehen
Warrior Chant — Sticky Dub
Vibbaz — Brighter Days Family, Dochii, Ramonie
Trample the Beast — Sticky Dub
Yes Iyah —Sticky Dub
Free Ur Mind — Sticky Dub
Stretch for the Stars — Joshua Idehen, K-Lone
Marnin — IZCO, Osquello
Take My Time — Gil Sm, Hilts, Nina Hudson
Feel Like Making Love — Gil Sm
Didn't I — Gil Sm
Beauty Inside — IZCO, P Wavey
Hey Girl — Ear Dis
Step Heady — Sticky Dub
Bruk Trigga — Sticky Dub
Win Life Szn — IZCO, Capo Lee, Reek0
Plandemic — Sticky Dub
For Ma Love — P Wavey, SamTheMan
Shoot Day — Reek0, SamTheMan, IZCO
emotional track — ???

Skankstasy Hour VII | Lean Back Funk

Skankstasy (she/her)

Skankstasy (aka @wandagaimes) is a music collector and selector moved by anything that jacks and grooves. After sharpening her ear while booking acts for her alma mater, Lecken, she began sharpening her own bootylicious sound. Whether as a dancer or a selector, Skankstasy's love for House gravitates towards the jazzy, funky, shuffle and swing corners of the tradition, which she serves with equal reverence for its US and UK legacies. 

Notes on the Mix /// "Simply put, I wanted to record a house mix for jazz lovers. I started collecting and playing more house music recently, mostly influenced by my foray into house dance. I had always been a fan of polyrhythms and syncopation but I only started understanding their somatic significance once I started dancing house. All of sudden you inhabit the beat and the space between beats with an entirely new awareness and you begin to understand that jack and flow on the dance floor require funk, soul, syncopation, and swing, not the mechanics of 4x4. It's not always easy to make space for this kind of house sound on the club floor, especially in places like Berlin. That's why I wanted to record a mix that's entrenched in the historic and somatic roots of the genre and the rich cultures of beat resistance that house music draws upon as a way to challenge the short attention spans and flattening of sound (and movement) at work in global club culture. Hope it grooves you."

SOCIALS
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https://www.instagram.com/wandagaimes/

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The Breakfast Show - Skankstasy - 13 Jun 2025

Tracklist:

Angel Lee : What's Your Name (MJ Cole Master Mix)
Akumen : Keep the Vibe
Liot : Warlord's Daughta 135
MPH : Over This
Kensaye : Gazole
Shermonology, Champion : Badder
LWRNCE & CONNMAC : Rubadub
IsGwan : Dressed
Notion : Miss White Dub
Macca and the Badger : Dum Dum
Special Request : Pull Up
Soul Mass Transit System : Jump
Nikki Nair & Sam Binga : My Life Dextrous
Sister Zo : Let's Giggle
DJ JM feat. TSVI : Sygnal
Sam Binga & Redders : Top Wina
Lu.Re : It Girl Dub
Effy : CLUBGRLS
v1fro : Corneta
RONI : amethyst
Akumen : Funk That
Rattlesnake : Lines of White
Floorplan : Like Dat
Prude Polly : Double Dutchin
Dj Babatr : In the Groove
ATRIP : ORB
Client_03 : Decommission Me (x Shinra)
Jacotanu : Roughing Up the Rink
An Avrin : Platypus
Ehua : Aria
Metafloor Mashup : Rules of the Flight
Soul Mass Transit : King of the Dancehall edit
THIRTZY : These Streets Bootleg
Wax Thief : Turn Up the Sound
MPH : Soul to Kill
Interplanetary Criminal : Manchester
jishi : Mums the Cops Are Outside
Lodig & Dibek : Lap.AM

Skankstasy @ Triebwerke / Fusion Festival 2025

Part of Skankstasy's dynamic opening set at the Sauna in May 2025

PDC Live - Skankstasy at PDC @ Kreuzwerk May 2025

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"Beneath the skanky facade lies an incurable romantic. Especially at home, my listening habits can get really soulful, which is where this playlist is best savoured. It gathers some of my most cherished artists, vocalists, and singer-songwriters that have accompanied me through the years. Implicitly, it is also a nod to my musical godfathers, Carmen 16, Sweetapple, Soup*42, and of course, my father, whose mixed tapes, ripped CDs, and playlist exchanges fundamentally shaped the music I love and play today."


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This mix is for non-profit, educational & artistic purposes only.  All rights belong to the original artists and labels.

ATA040 with Skankstasy: music to tenderize the soul

Felt groovy... might delete later

Left field boom-bap flow and jazz-soaked loops to suit a quivering mood. Music for itinerant souls.

Tracklist:

Moodrich  — Avian 
Sonnyjim & Morriarchi — Gone Fishing 
Billy Woods & Kenny Segal — Rapper Weed
Joe the Crow — Wifi Draft 3 (unreleased) 
White Girl Wasted feat MF DOOM — Barz Simpson 
Mac Wetha feat Lava la Rue — Spit in Your Face B
Bruiser Wolf — Use Me (I’m Dope) 
Bruiser Wolf — Dope Game $tupid
Hemlock Ernst & Kenny Segal — Down 
JUS & Squadda B —  Don’t Do Drugs
Rejjie Snow & Cam o‘bi — Shooting Star 
Doechii — BOOM BAP
Action Bronson — Terry 
Quelle Chris — Popeye 
Open Eagle Mike — Contraband
Dev — Caricatures on a Pier
Open Eagle Mike — Big Pretty Bridges
ZEKEULTRA — The Rapture 
Brother Ali — Sing Myself Whole
Moodrich — Bandawg

Skankstasy Hour VIII / Rap's Got the Blues

We All Stand Together

Excerpt from "Geyger Girls", a 2-woman show about everyday solidarity, urban precarity and feminist sass that premiered at Ponderosa, Brandenburg in August 2018 

Text: Wanda Gaimes & Heather Purcell 
Music: https://soundcloud.com/forewardslash

THE pARTY  [FREE DWNLD]

Groove as consciousness; skanking as liberation of the mind and the behind.

rave agitator for @leckenberlin
@refugeworldwide resident

bookings: wandavra [at] gmail.com

coming up:

01.01.2026 | Power Dance Club @ Kreuzwerk
30.01.2026 | TBA
27.02.2026 | TBA

recent past: 

17.08.2025 | Lecken @ OXI
27.07.2025 | Riot @ LARK
18.07.2025 | WHOLE Festival @ Ferropolis
29.06.2025 | Fusion Festival
21.06.2025 | Leck My Buttons @ OXI
31.05.2025 | Power Dance Club @ Kreuzwerk
24.05.2025 | Garage Girls @ OHM
25.04.2025 | Bird House @ Kater Blau 
18.04.2025 | Lecken @ Kreuzwerk
21.03.2025 | Palestine Fundraiser @ Crack Bellmar
08.03.2025 | IWD Lecken Showcase @ Renate
22.02.2025 | Pinky Promise @ OST
09.02.2025 | Between Us @ Möbel Olfe (b2b sweetapple)
07.02.2025 | Skankstasy Hour @ Refuge Worldwide
01.01.2025 | secret New Year's rave, Berlin  
20.12.2024 | "Office Xmass Party," Toronto
16.12.2024 | Skankstasy Hour @ Refuge Worldwide
12.12.2024 | Queer Mama Fundraiser @ LARK
06.12.2024 | Groove Service @ Privatclub
29.11.2024 | Lecken Reloaded @ Kreuzwerk

previously skanked at: RSO, ÆDEN, Renate Club, Club OST, OXI, Kreuzwerk, Mensch Meier, Fiese Remise, Refuge Worldwide, Fitzroy, LARK, Kake / Ziegrastr. 11, Radialsystem, Christa Kupfer, Untertage, Ficken3000, ELSE Club, Blue Velvet, Crack Bellmar, Trashera, Lecken, Buttons, GEGEN, Power Dance Club, Royal Highness, RIOT, Big Luv, WHOLE Festival, Fusion Festival, Volksbühne, Sophiensaele Theater, Berliner Festspiele, Hošek Contemporary, mina/Planeta Manas (Lisbon), Forum (Bielefeld), Queerpool / Südpol (Hamburg).

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