2021

TRACK 2 – Control Override

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If you've been a livestream regular, you'll almost certainly recognize @boxofbox as the chatroom participant with the encyclopedic memory for track IDs. With a meticulous methodology for seeking out and organizing tracks, this Durham, North Carolina-based DJ and bioengineer brings a taste for the sweaty and psychedelic to the decks. His mix for Spontaneous Affinity is an emotive listen, traversing everything from the euphoric to the pensive.

Read the full interview and see a tracklist:
spontaneous.zone/029-boxofbox.html

"Given that we’re entering month 9 of the Covid19 pandemic in the US, I wanted to snapshot how it feels for me to be playing/experiencing music at this moment. The goal here was to make a deliberately eclectic mix representative of my moods lately: hopeful, unsettled, wistful, a bit dark, dreaming, playful, melancholic, erratic, with some fleeting moments of tenderness and euphoria.

I went through several folders of stuff I’ve been itching to play, including some recent acquisitions, and landed on the Glacci, the Barker, and the Dadub/Retina.it tracks as the primary ones that would guidepost the flow of the mix. I knew I wanted to have the Barker track near the end, because it's got this sweetness yet it's still kind of thoughtful and longing–a nice, complex mood to leave a listener with during a lockdown.

From there I started seeding a playlist and loosely sorting by 'energy' to connect the feel of the three tracks in a form that I hope is interesting for y'all. I recorded the mix live into Logic via a Xone:96 using 3 XDJ-1000Mk2's and an Eventide H9 (this time just for a little reverb)."

@boxofbox

Interview + Tracklist

Spontaneous Affinity #029: boxofbox

"This No Way Back stream was the first time I’ve performed a set from my home studio. When I was first planning this set, before the pandemic really hit hard, I had kind of a different idea in mind. I was planning something more sample-driven, less melodic. And although I would’ve deeply preferred to be in Detroit for No Way Back in-person under normal circumstances, the fact that I ended up performing from my studio meant I had all of my synthesizers there to use, including the larger ones that I don’t normally have in my live rig like the Prophet-6. I decided to take advantage of that, and the resulting set took kind of a different turn. This set includes some of the music that’s coming out later this year on my album with Mysteries of the Deep. I hope you enjoy."
— Christina Chatfield @anitserk

video: https://youtu.be/jBYVmPUo7Bo

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IT.podcast.s10e01: Christina Chatfield at No Way Back Streaming From Beyond 2020

@otodojo's work as a producer, DJ, and visual artist always feels like going somewhere, which makes sense, since his moniker is a play on words amounting to "a sound place for learning". And whether traveling through time or space, there's always a hint of magic, an intuitive sense of when to push the listener and when to give them room to breathe or a playful release. Based in Ithaca, NY, otodojo is an affiliate of Microtones and Acid Camp.

Read the full interview and see a tracklist:
spontaneous.zone/031-otodojo.html

"With this mix I wanted to invoke states of awareness I had when listening to sources of inspiration for music while growing up. I picked a few tracks that I wanted to highlight that aided my foray into electronic music - songs that I went to for a variety of emotional conditions. I then explored connections between those moments and searched for ways to combine them with modern energy. Being fully in Ableton for this mix I found myself reworking many parts, particularly the intro, to match ideas / messages I wanted to convey, the main one being to process inhibitions and trauma by means of sound and movement.

The mix takes some unexpected turns and has an air of inherent silliness to it that I think stems from my desire to be and not be taken seriously, simultaneously. It’s loaded with unreleased material - including a pulsing groove from Ali Berger - ‘Soft Drama’, and an ethereal breaks track from Tenkai Kariya - ‘desert5’, both of which are forthcoming on an audio-visual wave~seed compilation supporting indigenous communities in Ecuador.

Through this process I found that I still feel fresh to many concepts in DJing, and am relearning the sheer creative joy that it holds as a medium for self-expression. For example, this was one of the first times that I made edits specific for this mix, and I thank CCL’s mix for Juanita’s for that inspiration. I learned a lot through this experience and I really appreciate Spontaneous Affinity for having me be a part of this. This mix was a healing process for me and I hope it can be for you as well."

@otodojo / @microtones-ith / @acidcamp

Spontaneous Affinity #031: otodojo

Follow @lycheefrut & @spontaneousaffinity

A DJ, writer, and event organizer, Lychee runs Spontaneous Affinity, a monthly mix and interview series, annual zine, and occasional event platform focused on how dancefloors have shaped artists. With sets focused on psychedelic and corporeal techno and adjacent sounds, they are also a monthly resident at Distrikt1 at Bossa Nova Civic Club in Brooklyn, exploring the harder edges of the genre.

Acid Camp Vol. 128 — Lychee

10am ~ Chicago, IL
a special NBFC morning set for Virtual Industry Brunch on 12.19.2020
a collection of sounds from my typical Saturday mornings spent stretching, sipping coffee and taking care of my plants.

"do you believe in Ecstasy? do you believe in hygiene?"

Virtual Industry Brunch @ Club Bubble 1

12/31/20 = Warning Series 15 - mixed by Abayomi

Our New Year's Eve installment to Warning Series comes to you from San Francisco's own Abayomi! A talented DJ who's creative style of mixing blur the lines of house, techno, acid, rhythm, and electro to bring you a pulsing sound to ring in the New Year! We hope you enjoy this mix! 

Support Abayomi in the links below! 
@abayomisworld
https://www.instagram.com/abdoulie_/

Please like and follow our page for updates on new mixes --- @warningseries

Warning Series 15 - Abayomi

For the 89th entry in the Honcho Podcast Series, we welcome Sis Girl (@sisgirlpgh). Currently based in San Francisco, Sis Girl is building a queer underground sound through a focus on integrating multiple genres. Minimal, house, breaks, and acids inform their sound, bound by bass, streaked with lush textures and psychedelic influences. 

Originally from Pittsburgh, they are also involved with  MESH, an underground party focused on uplifting queer and marginalized voices. After their move to the bay they got involved with Kosmetik which was a weekly party at the infamous Stud bar.

Honcho Podcast Series 89: Sis Girl

@p_areidolia has been posted up by your favorite front left speaker for years. Despite a deep catalogue and knowledge of music and a well-loved stint of parties in San Francisco as @noctuarysf (alongside @kudeki), she held off on DJing herself, keeping her focus on elevating the gender-marginalized artists around her. Over the last year, she's started investing more of her energy into ambient sets with an immersive, underwater quality reminiscent of our favorite ambient rooms.

Read the full interview and see a tracklist:
spontaneous.zone/032-pareidolia.html

"This was recorded on a Pioneer XDJ RR at an annual gathering of a small group of friends, where we hike approximately 10 miles and bring sound to the 5,000’ summit of a mountain above Los Angeles overnight.

I had never used this controller before - I have a much simpler one at home, but it went fairly well after one practice session beforehand. The small group involved with this fully commits to pitching in to make it happen, leaving no trace (with some added extra precautions this year given the circumstances), and really being fully invested in the experience.

I had not socialized IRL with more than a couple of people since the beginning of March outside of protesting and wanted to create a gently joyful and psychedelic experience under the stars, as well as play music in a way that made sense between the friends who played before and after me. Nearly everyone in the group is a DJ, producer, or at least a self-confessed music nerd, so it’s both thrilling and terrifying to play for them in such a small and deeply intentional group.

It is easily one of the most physically taxing things I’ve ever been involved in, but also one of the most rewarding. I say every time, “I’m not sure I can do this again” and keep coming back for a little suffering with my ambient music....seeing the endless glittering lights of the city below, near-complete silence in high desert nature, and the sun rise through a colorful layer of smog, smoke particles, and thin air makes it thoroughly worthwhile."

@p_areidolia / @noctuarysf

Spontaneous Affinity #032: Pareidolia

"Although time is an abstract concept that has little to no bearing on the events that take place, I know we share some relief that we are turning the page on definitively the most bizarre and rough years in recent history. While the collective livelihood of those who share a passion for music hangs in the balance going into 2021, I would like to express a bit of optimism and a modicum of gratitude for the coming year with my contribution here for Super Tuff. With this, I’ve imbued my hope that we will all soon be (safely) dancing together again. Thanks to ST for having me!" -@ikerelease

Tracklist:
Hucle - Sui (Lillerne Tapes)
Surgeons Girl - Clouded Temper | Small Steps (Livity Sound)
Parris - Soft Rocks With Socks (Wisdom Teeth)
D.K. - Take Me Higher
E-Unity - Inner Osc (Temet)
D. Tiffany & DJ Zozi - You Bring Me (Planet Euphorique)
Ballet Mechanique - Evolutionary Entities (Delsin)
Konduku - Devre (Nous'klaer Audio)
Dorisburg - House Organ For The Lonely (Phonica)
Luke Hess & Jeff Hess - Most High (DeepLabs)
Taupe - 9.7A1: Vortex (Colours)
Human Space Machine - Distance (De Lichting)
Call Super and Parris - Design of a Lost Sublime (Can You Feel The Sun)
Facta - Doves (Wisdom Teeth)
Bakongo - Grainy (Livity Sound)
Parris - Sabor a Ceniza (Wisdom Teeth)
Konduku - Ayva  (Nous'klaer Audio)
Dorisburg - Rhythm Paint (Phonica)
Ambien Baby - Mindkiss (Naff)
E-Unity - Duo Road (Temet)
rRoxymore - Forward Flamingo (DJ Plead Remix) (Don't Be Afraid)

Tuffmix 09: Ike Release

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Taylor Bratches (she/they) seeks to explore and transmit an emotional experience through sound. Her sets aim to fuse genres and find hybrid spaces, by blending acid, electro, DnB, jungle, broken techno, IDM, bass and more. She aims to move people physically and spiritually, creating a dance floor experience that is both terrestrial and extraterrestrial. 

This mix, recorded for the most recent Acid Camp live stream, came out of a need to express and experience catharsis, and to connect with the body. They used this opportunity to showcase their current obsessions, leaning heavily into leftfield spaces, dubstep and various styles of bass music.

Acid Camp Vol. 130 — Taylor Bratches

“Being asked to do sets for occasions like Samhain is like being asked what do I want for my birthday; it's a gift to have full reign on dread. I honestly couldn't say why I love dread in a lot of the music I play, maybe years of living with intense anxiety have made it feel more like a home than anything. So it was a real treat to revel in that sound for this set, while having some moments of groove and off kilter movement. If music is sound architecture, then this is the foyer to that creepy abandoned house everyone says is haunted.” 
— @soldchicago

video: https://youtu.be/dEtLFp7CVIw

Tracklist:

Miki Yui - Breathing (buds) [Aperio!]
Robert Aiki Aubrey Lowe - L’appel du Vide [La Dialectique Peut-Elle Casser]
Eliane Radigue - Kyema [Trilogy de la Mort]
Bookworms - floating on air / hanging by a thread
JASSS - Cotton for Lunch [Weightless]
Sara Zalek & Norman W Long - Love Ship Unfolding Threshold Terrain [Steelworkers’ Drone]
Bill Converse - take 2 [Ways to Learn]
Gael Segalen - Montagne Ouest [Sofia Says]
Hiro Kone x Roxy Farman - MVMNT i [MVMNTS]
Nisennenmondai - #6 [#6]
DJ Earl - Inevitable Shift! > Fear [Inevitable Shift! > Fear]
rRoxymore - Safe (Space) [Where Do We Go From Here]
Andrea Parker - Frogspawn [Here’s One I Made Earlier Part One]
Nervous Operator - Nightspore [Incoherent Reflections]
CS + Kreme - Blue Flu [Snoopy]
Bill Converse - Exporter [Life/Time]
Crushing Union - She Gave Me a Fake Smile [Crushing Union III]
Prior - Indium [Still Strange]
Hieroglyphic Being And The Configurative Or Modular Me Trio - A Genre Sonique [The Seer Of Cosmic Visions]
Chris and Cosey - Cowboys in Cuba [Trance]
DJ Spooky - Anansi's Gambit (DJ Spooky's On the Island of the Lost Souls Mix) [Incursions in Illbient]
Afrikan Sciences - Il,Det [Photon Wizard]
Jay Glass Dubs - Temple Dub [Plegnic]

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IT.podcast.s10e06: sold at Samhain XX

Oakland based DJ transporting thru portals of sound since 2017 ☻ Formerly Jessica S

www.spontaneous.zone
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SPONTANEOUS AFFINITY is about the communal nature of the dancefloor. It's about communication and feedback. Spontaneous Affinity isn't for the isolated bedroom producer, although we love them, too—it is for those of us who understand music and dance as one of the most powerful sources of personal growth and interpersonal empathy, who are driven by the need to support and elevate one another, and as a result experience the evolution of our creative and connective selves.

Spontaneous Affinity isn't about ego, knowledge, paraphernalia, or exclusivity of any kind. It's about PURE SENSATION. It's about losing track of yourself and merging with a moment. It's about temporary autonomous zones and ephemeral connections. It's about forgetting to Shazam that track or fix your hair. It's about the hours far past dawn when everyone left on the dancefloor has laid their soul bare but still looks beautiful under the harshness of sunlight.

Spontaneous Affinity is NOT A UTOPIAN VISION. It's about understanding how to let go. How to let go of a person. How to let go of a place. How to break a routine even if it hurts. How to appreciate a feeling that can't last forever as if it were eternal, and how to appreciate challenging moments—and challenging sounds—as catalysts for growth.

Spontaneous Affinity #031: otodojo

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