Recording of my NTS Live mini-mix for NTS Fridays aired on September 22, 2023.

It's giving percussion and heavy groove with a sprinkle of a conversation, and my version of slowed-down hardcore, but all v much made for you to shake ass. It's funky and from the heart, enjoy x

Find my tracklist here: https://bitly.ws/VCf7

softchaos x NTS 1 - Platos Combinados | SEPTEMBER 2023

@despina - Fire from Heat
Label: Infinite Machine
CAT#: IM105
Format: Digital
Release: October 20th, 2023

Despina was trying to write a follow-up to their 2022 record ‘Gravity Games’ on Kindergarten Records as they fell into a deep depression, during a harsh New York winter and against a backdrop of escalating legislative attacks on trans people in the USA. In the struggle to express themselves through music while maintaining their usual exuberant voice, they found a darker musical path, and ‘Fire From Heat’ is the result of exploring this path.

The title ‘Fire From Heat’ comes from the expression “heat from fire, fire from heat,” an expression that is used by the trans community in voice training and that was popularized by YouTuber Z from TransVoiceLessons. At the same time as Despina searched for their voice as a trans, non-binary person in a country continuously stripping the rights of their trans siblings, they found an alternate, musical voice through the extensive use of human and non-human voices. This dichotomy and the interplay of both voices became a conceptual thread that runs through the entire record. These voices are countered by rhythmic constraints, undulating cyclical grooves, sinister basslines, and interruptive structures that create a delicate interplay between the imagined speaker and an idealized dancer.

Artwork by Benfika
Mastered by Fausto Mercier

Despina - Lo Tech Hi Life (WTCHCRFT Remix)

LE CHOCOLAT NOIR - bRave DJ at Surogar ZG 21022025

F1_Irakli - Customer Journey

My set from opening The Steam Room at FOLD in London for UNFOLD on a beautiful afternoon in March 2025. It's a little sloppier than I usually like to post but I'm just going to deal with it. 
Enjoy!

Live DJ Set @ UNFOLD, FOLD London Mar 16th '25

No primeiro episódio do programa PERCUSSODELIA, recebemos BRUNOSSA. Nosso convidado é o próprio curador do programa, que faz a estreia do mesmo. BRUNOSSA, nascido no Rio de Janeiro, é um talento original e força em ascensão na cena underground brasileira. O DJ é especialista em criar sets que mesclam techno, ritmos originários do Brasil, sons naturais e hipnóticos, grooves percussivos e ricas referências do jazz e house, resultando em uma sonoridade vanguardista que imerge a pista numa sensação de leveza e liberdade. Como produtor musical, desenvolve uma sonoridade única que funde sonoridades e instrumentos brasileiros com o techno. Suas faixas já circulam por festas e rádios ao redor do mundo, com lançamentos previstos para 2025 em selos nacionais e internacionais.

BRUNOSSA | PERCUSSODELIA - EP.1 @FunctionFM 03.05.2025

The second volume of the series, curated by Helsinki-Brooklyn based label "Feral". AMFLIMP Vol. 2  showcases artists from Berlin, New York & Boston. 

Bandcamp

Dynamic Range - Never Givin' Anybody My All

trakklist:

Buddy Wynkoop - Dissociate Manager
Carl Finlow - Undercover
Jennifer Loveless - Pleasure (tINI Booty Remix)
Drama.efx ft. Arthur Quadros - UNRELEASED
Posthuman - Jupiter Jaxx
Matt Whitehead - Crosstalk
Volt Mix Sample 
Drama.efx - UNRELEASED
Volruptus & Jensen Interceptor - Everything 
Addison Groove - Cus’L Vuct It
Boo Williams - Cum’On
DMX Krew - Pro One Ascending 
Pearson Sound - Cobwebs
Six Foe - Sittin’ Pretty 
Anz - Gary Mission
Zoe Beats - Na Frente é Rajada
Cliente 03 - Interest Reset
Drama.efx ft. PiNKE - Intro Baile do Drama 1

Venomous 008 w/ Drama.efx

I Want To Believe Part 2 (Hurukan )

Buy on bandcamp

Red Richards & Maximilian Beck - I Want To Believe Part 2 (Hurukan )

Buy on Bandcamp

Stereoimagery - Hood Cracked

Kevin Call To the Edge, with remixes from A.Paul and DKult

Kevin Call - Spectrum (DKult Redub) Music Tools Recordinds

softchaos is an artist traversing the intersections of popular music and performance art. 

Both thoughtful and commanding, softchaos’ sets are watermarked by their meticulous pairing of groove-driven music along with aggressive percussive tracks in unison with far-reaching electronic sound.

Harnessing their punk ethos, and referencing classic landscapes of New York City and Detroit, their selection of techno, breaks, and rebellious sounds offer a transcontinental call and response and an offering to dancefloors everywhere. 

Embracing this practice, their sound embodies reverence to techno while staying locked into the new turn in electronic music, blending with finesse. 

They hold a residency on Oroko Radio, and host Black Rhizome, a show that platforms multidisciplinary artists across diaspora.

For bookings and other inquiries please email softchaosletters@gmail.com