DJ Mixes

A blistering transmission of chaos and catharsis from the newly founded House of Vemanei Soundsystem.

https://www.factmag.com/2021/11/15/fact-mix-834-skyshaker/

Fact Mixes

Fact Mix 834: Skyshaker (Nov '21)

HD146 is a turbulent love letter from Bronx-bred Skyshaker

Hard Dance 146: Skyshaker

🎧 PELIGRO RADIO #05 🎧
 
Situado artísticamente entre Bronx (NY) y Guadalajara (MX), el compositor y activista Sky Vemanei nos presenta el proyecto Skyshaker, uno de sus varios alias que retratan este sonido primitivo pero onírico.
Conocido por sus remixes transversales a Kelela, Evanescence, Janet Jackson, Cardi B, entre muchos otros. El sonido Skyshaker ha atravesado ondas  internacionales, escenarios de festivales, pasarelas de diferentes FashionWeeks y mainfloors de las principales discotecas desde 2011. Ha musicalizado videojuegos como Fortnite y películas como “Soft”, que se estrenó en el Festival Internacional de Cine de Toronto de 2022. 
Sky es ahora el fundador de sus propios sellos Vemanei Soundsystem y Xemveda con lanzamientos próximos en 2023.
Más allá de la vida nocturna, Sky es una activista de derechos humanos que lucha por la prosperidad de las trabajadoras sexuales y personas transgénero de color. Además, desde 2021, es fundador del proyecto @houseofvemanei, una comunidad dedicada a la salud mental y el apoyo a artistas queer dentro de la industria musical.

▶ PELIGRO CLUB ◀
- Instagram: www.instagram.com/peligroclub/
- Soundcloud: @peligroclub

▶ SKYSHAKER ◀
- Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/skyshakerlife/
- Soundcloud: https://soundcloud.com/skylaurr_rauthkeaux/

PELIGRO RADIO #05 | SKYSHAKER

"This mix is about focusing in the midst of systemic disorientation, It’s also a series of narrow efforts in resisting the bloodlust of revenge — while recovering from a burnout I didn’t realize I was experiencing until it was too late. While it is never too late to recognize new limits, over-apologizing for them is something I continue to unlearn during recovery.

If nothing else, I hope to fill the space left by those over-apologies with calls to action that result in compassion and reclamation. Those who care know whats up, and those who say they care have some work yet to do. Choosing to reposition ourselves in response is not a crime. I have learned a lot, and refuse to ever be this tired again at the hands of cis dudes and the capitalism that enables them."

Skyshaker is one of several aliases portraying the primal yet dreamlike sound of composer and activist Sky Vemanei. They are most widely known for their shapeshifting remixes of Kelela, Evanescence, Janet Jackson, Cardi B, and the artist formerly known as Le1f. The Skyshaker sound has traversed international airwaves, festival stages, Fashion Week runways, and main floors of nightlife institutions since 2011. It has soundtracked video games such as Fortnite and scored films such as “Soft”, which premiered at the 2022 Toronto International Film Festival. Sky is now head of their own imprints Vemanei Soundsystem and Xemseya Drive with releases forthcoming in 2023.

Beyond nightlife, Sky is a human rights activist fighting for the prosperity of sex workers and transgender people of color. In early 2016, Sky helped establish the international Latin American ballroom community as part of the kiki house of Old Navy and former member of the Houses of Amazon and La’Beija. Upon opening their own house of Vemanei in 2021, Sky continues to pay their experience forward as founder of queer mental health organization Reiout Intergalactic and progenitor of the anticapitalist Xemvedan community. They currently teach online while splitting their time between Guadalajara, Mexico, and Bronx, New York.

https://soundcloud.com/skylaurr_rauthkeaux
https://www.liinks.co/skyshakerlife

Tracklist: instagram.com/femmedecks

FemmeDecks 075. x Skyshaker

Xemrecs is a sonic archive chronicling the efforts of queer souls building the worlds in which they fit.

The first offering from Xemrecs comes from Sky Vemanei, whose mix was used by video game developers to create a music game that reacts to DJs in real time. Aiming to be a spiritual successor to the BEMANI rhythm games of the 2000s, the game will announce their first funding request at the end of 2023. 

As the foundational inspiration for them to become a DJ, Sky's mix is an homage to their favorite genres within the beatmaniaIIDX series, using bleeding edge techno currently tearing through festival speakers worldwide.

IN SKYSHAKER'S OWN WORDS--------

Over the last several months, I’ve been working on a video game that allows AI to react to DJ sets in real time. For all the fear surrounding the future, this is one aspect of AI in music that took me back to when i was first introduced to the BEMANI series in 1999. 

The coolest thing is that it will recognize genres and reconfigures the steps accordingly if you have correct metadata. The biggest limitation is you currently must stick to one BPM, which is doable but boring for my taste. It also currently works best with 4x4 beats. If you know my sound, it’s clear I rarely stick to one genre. So, I’m extra proud of this mix and equally happy to share some the energies I’m navigating for my next body of work. 

This mix is also very similar to what I played at the first anniversary of Pandemic Sessions in Guadalajara — so I thought it was as good a time as any to share the mix today. I’ve also decided to make the mix the first offering from Xemrecs, a resurrected project I’ll be re-introducing very soon.

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Xemrecs - 0-A

Xemseya label boss Sky Vemanei announces the first of three contributions to Berlin's ABCDLFG mix series with "Smiles From The Sunken Place", an hour of catharsis from the harder edges of industrial techno.

In their own words: 

"Its been a while since I made a mix of only one genre. Which genre feels the most honest right now? Techno concerned with the issues of the future. My music is getting angrier, as fascism grows more inescapable. How will you turn your own anger into agitation, education, or organization?"

TRACKLIST:

LɅVΣN - HERE 
HATELOVE - JACK KETCH 
ROT - LAST WISH OF AN IRON SMITH
OGMAH - NO FEELINGS PURE WRATH
BUNKERTERROR - MUTEFISH
HEL.IV - BRAVE AND THICK
MANNI DEE - PIVOTAL SUMMER 
GRACE DAHL - STEP INTO YOUR MIND
CLERIC - DARK DAYS
HADONE - YOU WANT SOME MORE
MARTINA S - KARMA REVENGE
FALSE WITNESS AND LEDEF - ARM THE DOLLS
FLORIAN MEINDL - ALL THOSE MOMENTS
SKIRRA - ALIVE
SKYSHAKER - REWRITTEN
KONTAIN - BREATHE
REMON VERHOEVE - BRING IT
EIRAN - TIRED OF THIS
KRAMPF - LSD XTC
XINA MORA AND SHLOMO AND PELIGRE - 444 LA SENAL
AYAKO MORI - TWO LOTUSES IN GEGEN
STRANGE ARRIVAL - DRAW DISTANCE

June 14, 2024

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Smiles From The Sunken Place (June 2024)

Skyshaker and Rafa Cuevas go B2B as a celebration of "Saunter", their joint collaboration EP across fashion and music. Created in less than 1 week, "Saunter" represents Skyshaker's formal return to music after a prolonged hiatus.

Tracklist:

Skyshaker feat. Rafa Cuevas - Wear This
My Chemical Romance - Romance
Luca Agnelli - Blow (Skyshaker Saved By Air Edition)
Skyshaker feat. Rafa Cuevas - Instead
Kat Nzingha - Antinomianism
Arca - Riquiquí(xxxiii33);Bronze-Instance
Debby Friday - Amor Fati
Coucou Chloe - Halo
Skyshaker feat. Rafa Cuevas - And You Will
Strange Arrival - Draw Distance
Aneed - Music For Sad People
HEALTH - Of All Else
Skyshaker feat. Rafa Cuevas - You May Be Right
Skyshaker feat. Rafa Cuevas - Read It Twice
SKD - Serpents of The Snake Pit
Ayako Mori - Two Lotuses In Gegen
Skyshaker feat. Rafa Cuevas - Baobab Return
Thom Yorke - Harrowdown Hill (The Bug Remix)
Lokua - Nettles
Skyshaker feat. Rafa Cuevas - Unto Us

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SAUNTER is available now across all platforms.
Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/album/5oUNuC1bumkJHU2Rnk1DQQ
Apple Music: https://music.apple.com/us/album/saunter/1749471738

Skyshaker B2B Rafa Cuevas - Saunterstyle (June 2024)

Techno is part of my ballroom origin story. Here's 90 mins as an attempt to recreate a heartbeat, responding in kind to a heartless world order.  Daily reminder that Techno is Black, Queer, and Political By Design.

K-HAND - Global Warning
Jeff Mills - Medians
Drexciya - Beyond The Abyss
Skyshaker pres. Airiswyn - ID
Lydo and Tomas Urquieta - Overture
Augusto Taito - Forma Praedicta
Kabay - Breakdown Ritual
Lydo and Tomas Urquieta - Hand Of God
BW - Punza
Stephen Disario - 6AM
DJ Stingray 313 - Remote Viewing
Alexander Kowalski - Synaptic Sirens (Ricardo Garduno Remix)
Denise Rabe - Phoenix’s Ash (Reeko Remix)
Unperson - Steel Wound
Lautaro Xavier - Junji
Matt Altman - Accept Judgement
Andy Martin - Badman Sound
Joton - Zeroeux
Secus - Rats!
Ricardo Garduno - Trust In Dirt
Sira - At The 22nd
Skyshaker pres. Airiswyn - Day 45
Stephen Disario - Serotonin
UFO 95 and Rodhad - Lavande 01
Shlomi Aber and Kashpitzky - Rhythm Parade
Ecilo - Stripped and Trip
Zvrra - Society
Kashpitzky - Run To Atonal
Plastikman - Spastik
Dave Clarke - Wisdom To The Wise (Robert Hood Remix)
UFO 95 - Cogitor
Balrog - Taking Back Control
Blake Baxter - I Like (Black Planet Instrumental)
Hioll - Area X
Dictent Vroom - Digital Divination
James Harbrecht - Imagine That
Dave Wincent - My Diary 04
Lumertz - First Club Experience
A.30 - 69 (Dustin Zahn Remix)
Xris Vavrzhina - P
Skyshaker pres. Airiswyn - Intent

You may have noticed I've been sharing more traditional music lately. I will now channel this energy under an alias I haven't used since my Chicago days in 2011 -- Airiswyn. Thank you for allowing me to reintroduce it here on this profile. 

More vogue is on the way, now that I remember who the fuck I am.

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Sirens From A Quieter Place (Sept 2024)

A course correction, or course affirmation? The message in this mix is one of pain into purpose in the face of genocide, a refusal to give in to despair, and a redirection towards decolonial joy with the dancefloor as a tool. Stay the course.

I continue to embrace my shapeshifting sonic profile as a DJ and producer in 2025, choosing to own my multitudes instead of apologizing for them. Only then can I make myself useful in the efforts against empire. What kind of agitation, education, and organization is your own artistry inspiring?

Tracklist at @skyshakerlife on instagram

The Day After December (Dec 2024)

Class consciousness returns to club culture. Better late than never. On which side of the line do you stand now? Berghain, Boiler Room, HOR, most of your favorite festivals......How much longer can you "dance away" complicity until the blood dripping off your hands soaks through your shoes? Asking for a martyr. Asking for a murderer.

SKYSHAKER X AL JAZEERA X KAVARI X HEALTH - SECOND LAST WISH OF A ZIONIST
ESA FEAT. PENDO ZAWOSE - BLAST (SKYSHAKER RADIO SIZE)
SANTA SEDE - CULO (YELRAM SELECTAH REMIX)
YAJAIRA LA BEYACA X GENOSIDRA - DIAVLA
HAYDEN TROTTER - DRIFT
WULFFLUW XCIV - SELFIE
3.OH - DELI RHYTHM
SKEPTA - THAT'S NOT ME (DISSO EDIT)
BIANCA OBLIVION FEAT. REDDERS - LAVISH
LSDXOXO - SATISFY [FEAT. SHYGIRL] (INTOXXY GHETTOTECH FLIP)
SAVAGE RYTHM - KERIA
BABY OLIV AND CABU - HARLEM FUNK NA BUDOTS (BABY OLIV, CABU EDIT)
KELELA - MISSED CALL (KYRUH REMIX)
LYDO AND TOMAS URQUIETA - COIL
POLYGONIA - SOUL REFLECTIONS
FJAAK AND MODESELEKTOR - HORSEPOWER
LUKE SLATER - REASSEMBLED 6
WULFFLUW XCIV - XINGAMENTO
YAJAIRA LA BEYACA X GENOSIDRA - QK
WHILEMINA - SPEAKING IN TONGUES
RICHI - EASTSIDE (SSSLEAZE ED1T)
EXPLOITED BODY - UNRAVEL
SABBER - DURO (ORIGINAL MIX)
MORE JAKKIE - SLOW WINE
EVIL YORDAN (XNYWOLF EDIT)
DOECHII - SPOOKY COOCHIE (CASEMENT REMIX)
DJ POWERADE - UNDERTOW
RAT SECTION - 2004
SAUSHA - REDUX OF DESPAIR
LAG SWITCH - MALEDICT
REFILLED X LALIT - LEMBRA DE KUTHU (SKYSHAKER FUSION)
YAKA - BIG WORLD DIES SLOWLY
PAURRO - JINGŪ KOGO - EMPERATRIZ JINGŪ
ESTOC AND VIOLENCE - BONES BROKEN MANY THINGS LEFT UNSAID
KAVARI X YAKA - BIG WORLD DIES SLOWLY X2

A Line In The Soil (June 2025)

"Do you believe in life after Escos...?" - Cher, 2015

REST IN PEACE ESCUELITA 1996 - 2016

Time to educate yourself.





TITAN A.E. (After Escos)

"LEARN YA PLACE. EARN YA SPOT" - MC DEBRA

____a real legend can vogue to anything.

http://www.radarradio.com/podcasts/qween-beat-w-skyshaker-youbi-sba-19th-oct

Radar Radio LDN pres. Qween Beat with Skyshaker Feat. Youji Bodega [RIP]

Make sci-fi black again.
An arrival, and a return.
Make sci-fi kunt again.

As heard on 99cent Trax's October 2017 Edition - https://soundcloud.com/99centtrax/base-fm-10th-october-2017-w-skyshaker

停戦～Prologue [Instrumental]

JEROME Mixfile #243-Skyshaker(Air Rarefier)


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JEROME Mixfile #243-Skyshaker(Air Rarefier)

The Qween Beat 'baby beatmakah azzshakah' @Skyshaker implores you to groove.

DDI 003 [Skyshaker - The Reverie (Kaeru Newsam Instrumental)]

Remastered and available for download <3

THE KUNT FEELING has spread to all corners of the world after being born in New York. Speaking for myself, KUNT is only one form of confidence. Vogue is only one form of honest self expression. There are countless ways one can exude both. You don't have to vogue to feel KUNT. Individuality is most important and must be at the forefront, respected as is. Feeling KUNT and feeling like voguing are not mutually exclusive emotions, yet there is a time and place for everything. Beware of creating emotional dissonance by putting ha crashes over songs that don't require them. Educate yourself to know the intention of the music you play and listen to. The songs may work the floor, but realize you may cause more problems than you solve when choosing the vibe of a song over its message. -- SKYSHAKER LABEIJA

MHYSA - JEZEBEL
BATUCADA HANDS FEAT ALASKA
111X – AGGRESSIONS
LOTIC - CARRIED (ANGEL-HO RUNWAY FUR ONLY REMIX)
IDA DILLAN AND SVANI – ICY FORES
BEEK – NAKED
LAO - FRANKA POLARI
ASE MANUAL – TRAP DOOR (BYRELL THE GREAT REMIX)
?? - DRIVE U HA
ASH B – FLEEK
RIZZLA – AIRLOCK
DJ BADKIDS – SWITCHBLADE
TOXE – LET ME THRU
ANGEL-HO – GREY AREA
SLEEPYHEAD – GROWING UP
DIVOLI SVERE FEAT NICKI MINAJ – PUSSY PLAYTIME
ANGEL-HO – INSIDE THE FLUX OF MIND
?? - UMBRA
DIVOLI SVERE FEAT. MIKEQ – SHE WANTS
BOEYSTRAAT – LONGSTREET (ZORA JONES REMIX)
KEVIN AVIANCE – DIN DA DA
SKYSHAKER – SHMURDA HA
ANGEL-HO – AUTO SHADE
MISTER WALLACE – THIS IS MISTER WALLACE CALLING
DIVOLI SVERE FEAT. DAWN – SWIM FREE
ZEBRA KATZ – LST CTRL
KALI MUTSA – EL CUERPO (IMAABS REMIX)
ANMOL MALIK – NAGIN DANCE
ANGEL-HO – YAH CUNT
BEEK – PUSSY LIKE
RIZZLA – SUPER TWISTER
IAMQUESTIONMARC – HAUNTED FLUTE
SECRET (DIVOLI SVERE REMIX)
CIARA – DANCE LIKE WE'RE MAKING LOVE (DIVOLI SVERE REMIX)
JOEY LABEIJA – PA QUE RETOZEN
ASH B – GET LIKE ME
LOVE IS THE MESSAGE SO SAYETH MISS COOKIE TOOKIE

SOMEWHERE IN THE WORLD, SOMEBODY IS FEELING KUNT TO THESE SONGS. ALL SOUNDS USED TO CREATE THIS MIX COME FROM TRACKS THAT MAKE THE GIRLS FEEL IT. AS LISTED BELOW, MANY PARTS HAVE BEEN CHOPPED, PROCESSED AND PLACED THROUGHOUT THE MIX. 

"VALUE THE FEELING ABOVE THE TECHNIQUE" - VENUS X

"YOU HAVE SPACE TO DO ALL THAT YOU INTEND TO" - JUNIOR LABEIJA

"TREAT OTHERS THE WAY YOU WOULD LIKE TO BE TREATED" - LIFE

"THINK BEFORE YOU SPEAK. THINK BEFORE YOU ACT" - LIFE

PAIN INTO PURPOSE. PURPOSE INTO PATIENCE. PATIENCE INTO POWER. POWER INTO PROSPERITY. - AIRISWYN

https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/ez77qp/skyshakers-new-mix-on-non-records-will-make-you-reassess-how-you-think-about-voguing

http://www.papermag.com/listen-to-the-brogue-wars-a-powerful-mix-reclaiming-vogue-for-those-wh-1639688901.html

The Brogue Wars [2015] [Remastered]

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