Bringing in Tapes #86 is Violet. In her home city Lisbon, Violet is contributing to her local scene from different angles. She’s co-founder of online radio station Rádio Quântica and also resident at mina – a queer rave in unexpected venues. This work permeates Violet’s work as an artist, as she thoughtfully expresses the political history of dance music through her voice and her music.

As a producer, she has released music on One Eyed Jacks and Love On The Rocks, self-released collaborations with artists likes Elles, DEBONAIR and Nightwave for International Women’s Day, remixed on Cómeme and established her own label – Naive. The first self-released EP on it, “Togetherness” resonated widely, using the sound of familiar breaks and twisting them into new contexts with dub-inspired bass, brass flourishes and dreamy chords. 

Violet incorporates similar sounds from her production process into her DJing, melding breaks, extraterrestrial jacking rhythms, imaginative techno, acid house and more in a way that feels natural and challenging all at once.

Follow Violet —
instagram.com/violetakaviolet
soundcloud.com/violet

Origins Tapes 086 - Violet

Deep Exposure with Russell E.L. Butler, a journey into Deep Listening and the roots of cultural practices around music. This months guest is the incredible DJ Kiernan Laveaux.

Deep Exposure with Russell E.L. Butler and Kiernan Laveaux @ The Lot Radio 02 - 09 - 2023

https://www.instagram.com/_love__letters_
https://www.instagram.com/mikeservito

.Freq with Love Letters and Mike Servito @ The Lot Radio 02-14-2023

smart mix 70: @dj_leesh

recorded live in smartbar, chicago's leesh delivers over 90 minutes of groovey vibes. leesh is perhaps best known for starting up the daisychain podcast back in 2018, a groundbreaking weekly mix series highlighting trans, nonbinary and femme djs around the globe. they can be found djing around chicago, the usa and over the airwaves.

check out leesh's foundation of choice, beagle freedom project, and consider donating: https://bfp.org/

Smart Mix 70: Leesh

A pleasure to be joined my good friend and the superstar Rose Kourts for an afternoon of lovely music

http://www.instagram.com/gregorywawa
http://www.instagram.com/rosekourtd

DJ Wawa b2b Rose Kourts @ The Lot Radio 02-22-2023

Name: Cristian Ybarra
Alias: BYZARRA (@cristian-ybarra-635514574)
Pronouns: They/Them She/Her
Location: Minneapolis, MN

Influences: Radical black & brown creatives / organizers, queer run underground spaces, The occult/paranormal, Late 90’s / early 2000’s pop culture. 

Affiliations/Residencies/Projects: 
Acme Collective, Gothess MPLS
(as DIE/ASPORA)

Favorite Quote:
“The most powerful art is to make pain a healing talisman.” - Frida Kahlo

Advice for the DJs, producers and artists of our community: Don’t dilute yourself / artistry down to fit into spaces that can’t handle or accept you at your full concentrate. 

With this mix BYZARRA asks to please learn more about and consider donating to:
❁ National Queer & Trans Therapists of Color Network: NQTTCN sits at the intersection of the mental health field and movements for social justice. (https://nqttcn.com/en/)
❁ Black Trans Travel Fund: The Black Trans Travel Fund is a grassroots, Black Trans led Collective, providing Black Transgender Women with financial and material resources needed to remove barriers to self-determining and
accessing safer travel options. (https://www.blacktranstravelfund.com)

Tracklist and more - https://thedaisychain.club/2023/04/04/daisychain-272-byzarra/

Daisychain

Daisychain 272 - BYZARRA

I went to Ibiza in 2008.  This is a mix dedicated to that feeling. The Ibiza feeling.

Uncle Dev - Ibiza 2008

Rinse FM Podcast

rRoxymore with Cay Horiuchi - 05 August 2023

God's Mercy

Boba - Gods Mercy (Kolasau Remix)

90's Bitch .m4a

Artist: @maa-17

NOISEFIELD is an electronic album built around analog noise structures and exclusive live instruments. From the wind instruments in “9 April” to the bass line played on Paul Gray’s (Slipknot) Ibanez PGB1 bass guitar in the finale — every element here is unique and one-of-a-kind. The dynamics unfold as a complete journey: an atmospheric opening, the urban groove of an evening city, techno hypnosis in tandem with the 808 bass, and an unexpected trigger-driven finale that transitions into the documentary scale of “Next One.” This is an album that fully immerses the listener into its own world, where rhythm, noise, and live performance merge into a single sonic dramaturgy.

Noisefield

W0005

MAAT - March 13

::welcome home::
✺ the proof is on the dancefloor
✺ celebrating the underground for over 40 years