chad, I will return to this mix often. it was so great! 

this is sooooooo pretty! wonderfully mixed

Artist: Endemica 
Format: Digital
Title: Exclusive single
Released: August 15, 2025

@endemicamusic

Premiere: Endemica - Machine

Now based in the Bay Area, @sisgirlpgh has become a staple of the US queer underground via the close-knit and musically multifaceted Pittsburgh dance music community and through unforgettable sets at festivals like Gays Hate Techno and Honcho Campout. A co-founder of Pittsburgh's MESH, alongside ChadKid and newly minted resident Calin, and a resident of Kosmetik in San Francisco, their sets traverse many tempos within a dreamy, bassy, and effervescent palette. Their mix is a perfect backdrop as we lament the absence of those queer summer moments in the woods due to the COVID-19 pandemic, bouncing between melancholic reflection and joyful reminiscence.

Read the full interview and see a tracklist:
spontaneous.zone/027-sis-girl.html

"The tracks I put into this mix have been some I have been sitting on for a while and wanted to put together. When quarantine because of COVID started I wanted to create something with energy but still something on a tempo that wouldn’t necessarily be played on a dance floor.

The mix is recorded all around 100 BPM but still brings energy so it’s great for a mellow time or something different. The tracks are new plus some that I’ve had tucked away for a time like this. It’s one of my favorite things I’ve put together and I hope it brings people a lot of comfort and happiness during this time."

Sis Girl's fee for this mix was donated to SisTers PGH, a transgender centered drop-in space, resource provider, and shelter transitioning program based in Pittsburgh, PA.  https://www.sisterspgh.org

@sisgirlpgh / @meshparty

Interview + Tracklist

Spontaneous Affinity #027: Sis Girl

Two hours of rolling techno and house grooves from Oakland's Russell E.L. Butler.

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Our month with the co-founders of MESH continues with lifetime Pittsburgh resident @chadkid. With ChadKid, Sis Girl, and newly minted resident Calin, MESH has booked a broad range of up-and-coming queer underground talent to play to an open-minded, intimate dancefloor. Individually, ChadKid has played both queer party staples like Honcho's annual campout and Gays Hate Techno, and intimate local events like In Training (Cleveland/PGH), Kosmetik (San Francisco), and Only Friends (Boston). Their mix strikes a perfect balance between dancefloor nostalgia and home-listenability, and will brush across you like a fresh summer breeze wherever you take it in.

Read the full interview and see a tracklist:
spontaneous.zone/028-chadkid.html

"For this mix I wanted to create something both uplifting and refreshing while keeping an easygoing palatable sound. Given the state of the world and the lack of nightlife in all of our lives, I  have found that listening to dance music aimed more for club use has not been my vibe lately. I still wanted the mix to be danceable though, so I ended up going with a breezy but still groovy sound in the tracks I pulled. I wanted this to feel like being at an outdoor dance floor when a refreshing gust of wind hits perfectly in time with the music."

ChadKid's fee for this mix was donated to SisTers PGH, a transgender centered drop-in space, resource provider, and shelter transitioning program based in Pittsburgh, PA. www.sisterspgh.org

@chadkid / @meshparty

Spontaneous Affinity #028: ChadKid

We are pleased to host a mix by one of our favourite creatives in berlin who mesmerises with a mix that touches every corner with heart and uniqueness .

NM DJ is a recording and printing artist based in Berlin. Her vocal practice developed out of writing and reciting poetry at readings organized by TABLOID Press – a publishing house she co-founded with Zoe Darsee in 2014. She has collaborated as a vocalist with musical artists such as Perila, Special Guest DJ, Soho Rezanejad, and Ulla Straus, and in November 2019 performed a live set with exael on Berlin’s HÖR radio. As a designer, she has produced album graphics for labels including wood//work, Experiences Ltd., Uzuri, and Lillerne Tapes. 
NM kindly provided us with a tracklist below . hope the mix brings as much enjoyment to you as it did to us x

Tracklist
LA River Practice - Alex Zhang Hungtai

Itay Rain Moment - NM

Dials - Cocteau Twins

City Bar Reopen "Live" Dancing - Rick The Godson Wilhite

Revelation JS1C - Polido

Tryin' Times - Roberta Flack

Paradise Regained - USG

Ponderosa [Dobie's Rub Pt. 1] - Tricky

Flyswatter - Anthony Shake Shakir

Dancing and Slaving - Ike Yard

Beyond the Abyss - Drexciya

Crucified (Vocal) - Aaron Carl

Get It Together - Slum Village

Black Night (Dub Version) - Yasushi Ide feat. James Chance and DJ Krush

Crest (feat. Fanny Pankara Chuquimia) - Elysia Crampton

Thru The Skies (Main Mix) - Kenlou

On This Vibe (P. Scott sistrum remix) - Fred P.

Seventh Heaven - Gwen Guthrie

Torqued Light - Arad Acid

Red (Remix) - DJ SS

10 de Copas (Knowledge Dub) - Polido feat. NM

Deep Down - Paul Groove

He Did It (Troublemen Remix) feat. Dawn Tallman - Harley & Muscle

NM Uzuri Mix

NM DJ- Uzuri Mix

Electronic Beats

Blitz x Electronic Beats — CCL [12.09.20]

Radio 80000 x Blitz Take Over — ADAB [19.09.20]

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Ciel - 19 October 2020

Name: Niamh
Alias: Sióg (@sssiog)
Pronouns: She/her
Location: Berlin

Influences: My incredible friends, and the constantly shape-shifting and developing queer music community in Berlin.

Affiliations/Residencies/Projects: SWOON (@eternalswoon)

Favorite Quote: “They [friends] also, and this is really my point, can swim in each other’s imaginations. Neither one imitating the other, but bathing in the other’s words they return back to the shore, to the work, shaped by the beloved’s waters."
—Imani Perry on James Baldwin and Lorraine Hansberry’s friendship in Looking for Lorraine

Advice for the DJs, producers and artists of our community: Move towards things that amplify your energy, away from those that drain you.

With this mix Sióg asks to please learn more about and consider supporting:
-Casa Kuà: (www.casa-kua.com) Trans* Inter* Queer* Community & Health Centre based in Berlin. “Casa Kuà is especially meant for the marginalized in the health system and in society, and who are disadvantaged due to discrimination, sexism, homo, trans* or inter* hostility.” 
(www.gofundme.com/f/casa-kua)
-Clean Scene: Berlin-based climate action collective exploring alternative futures for the dance music community, and aiming to shift perspectives and rethink our scene’s impact on the planet.
(www.cleanscene.club)

Tracklist - http://bit.ly/SiogTrax

Daisychain

Daisychain 146 - Sióg

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

Spontaneous Affinity #029: boxofbox

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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.

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