Brume [Minimal Groove Concept]

Dwell [Minimal Groove Concept]

Swathe [Minimal Groove Concept]

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

LA-based composer and vocalist Julianna Barwick gathers a soothing selection of tracks to float downstream to this Sunday.

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Sunday Mix: Julianna Barwick

Beyond / Below B2 by @carl-420. Received May 2020.
Artwork by Carly Barton

"Fan Club is an intimate community-focused celebration recurring quarterly on the solstices and equinoxes of each season. To usher in the new Spring (2019), we gathered in a modest structure in the forest near Silver Falls (Oregon). The fusion of energy provided by the fresh snow and impending Spring resulted in a night of mystical improvisation, becoming more hypnotic as the dark transformed into morning. This mix is a section of a near 4-hour recording using cdjs and turntables— diving into a fungi fueled trance that collages questionable tempos into new ‘scapes."

TRACK / ARTIST / ALBUM / LABEL [YEAR]
Psidium Guajava / Ibu Selva / Esquizogonia / Tropical Twista Records [2018]
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Staying For Winter / Cleared / Cleared / Immune [2011]
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Burn Up In Half / We™ / Decentertainment / Home Entertainment [2000]
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Untitled / Thomas Brinkmann / Studio 1 - Variationen (CD Version) / Profan [1997]
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Sergio Leone’s Wet Dream / David Moufang / Solitaire / Fax +49-69/450464 [1995]
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People of the Wind Pt. 2 / Borden, Ferraro, Godin, Halo, & Lopatin / FRKWYS 7 / Rvng Intl. [2011]
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Calene / Process / Shape-Space / Fat Cat Records [2000]
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Lovebeat / Yoshinori Sunahara / Lovebeat / Ki/oon [2001]
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Dona J Haraway / NSDOS / Female Guest List E.P. / ClekClekBoom Recordings [2015]
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Trial Dub / Dean DeCosta / Theorie E.P / Lo-Fi Stereo [2000]
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Data Haiku / Datacide / Datacide II / Fax +49-69/450464 [1994]
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Follow Me Home / Chessie / Meet / Drop Beat Records [1999]
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Streamline / Jet Chamber / Jet Chamber / Fax +49-69/450464 [1995]
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Resonant Orbit / Seabat / Scattered Disc / Goltimers Tapes [2013]
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Over 6633 / Ametsub / All Is Silence / Nothings66 [2012]
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Urania / Frank Bretschneider / Komet / Shitkatapult [2011]
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Baud / Biosphere / Stator / Touch [2015]
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Semiramis / Monoceros / Imaginary EP / Imaginary Nonexistent Records [2006]
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Elevation II (Original) / Vainqueur / Elevations / Chain Reaction [1997]
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Epa D’autore / Arg / iXem / iXem [2003]
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Etra / Manta / Etra / Where To Now? [2015]
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Abaddon’s Cave / Carly Barton / Unreleased [2019]
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Char / Carly Barton / Interludes / Self-Released [2019]
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Plant Charmer / David Edren / Music for Mimosa Pudica & Codariocalyx / Self-Released [2015]
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Mold / Carly Barton / Interludes / Self-Released [2015]
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Toyo Vinyl / DJ Nobu / Toyo Vinyl / INDUSTRIAL JP [2018]
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Shimmer / Heiko Laux / Fernweh / Kanzleramt [2014]
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Mushroom Maze / Carly Barton / Vidya World 12 / Self-Released [2018]
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5 (Spectre) / Moritz Von Oswald Trio / Sounding Lines / Honest Jon’s Records [2015]
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Many Blades of Grass Ago / Fenton / Pup / Plop [2005]

B2. Carly Barton

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

For Walking & Falling October's installment, we bring you a mix from Brooklyn-based DJ Lychee. This recording is a set they performed at Nowadays :)

A DJ, writer, and event organizer, Lychee (they/them) runs Spontaneous Affinity, a monthly mix and interview series, annual zine, and occasional event platform focused on how dancefloors have shaped artists. Most recently, they released a zine, "Behind the Party", focusing on the experience of workers in the dance music industry during the COVID-19 pandemic.

With a very slow build of industrial and ambient tones, Lychee weaves their way through tunes effortlessly. By the second half they pick up the pace, having us longing for the dance floor with bouncy techno grooves. It's a collage of sounds that we hope you all will dig!

W&F 025: LYCHEE

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

@taylorbratches

Introduce yourself? Preferred pronouns? Where do you currently reside? 1 fun fact about yourself?

My name is Taylor and my preferred pronouns are they and she. I live in Brooklyn! Fun fact about myself… I used to teach hip hop dance in the early 2000’s. 

How is everything going with you right now?

It’s going pretty well despite the circumstances, which of course are not ideal. Been navigating a lot of personal challenges lately, from a break-up to family drama, but strangely I feel ok, like all is looking up….something in my attitude has shifted

What are you missing from pre-covid life?

Dancing. With people. More than anything.

Any fun goals for winter time?

3rd installment of Dance Floor Epiphanies for Resident Advisor is happening, and I also have an ambient release coming out for the boutique cassette label, Enmossed. And I want to finish my memoir! (maybe it will actually happen this time). 

Who currently inspires you music-wise?
ASC (always). Europa. Ma Sha Ru. May Vary. Abby Echiverri. E.C.C.O. Pugilist. Air Max ‘97. Eris Drew and Octo Octa. Datach’i. H.E.R. Noumen. And I’ve been kind of obsessed with heavy bass music lately like Ternion Sound and TMSV. those lower chakra vibes


4 djs you would want to see on a lineup for the first party post covid asap?

Oh god this is hard. Umm… I’m thinking about the DJs whose sets just tether me to the floor and make me really fucking jump-up-and-down happy:

Erika
Danny Daze
Ben UFO
Eris Drew

What other activities have you dipped into with a break from djing?

Writing and Spiritual Channeling / Energy Work. Deepening into both of those practices.. 
 
Let’s play a pipipi game… I give you a situation & you give me a track (youtube links plz)

** 1 track for the insect world
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=30stBhRAnmA
OR
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pcZZR49OQ_4


** pool party for the older generation of club kids?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QnHXnyLtGhk


** b2b with Claude Young
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EkQVO4NRAUI


Favorite weird drug experience?

The very first time I took acid I accidentally took too much and merged with the soul of another human until we no longer could distinguish ourselves from one another. I saw his third eye blinking on his forehead, as real as an actual eye, and then we became telepathic, and then we astral projected as one entity into the godhead. It was cool.

Why do you think it's important to share music?

I believe it’s the most unifying force in the world. It’s the most human language, and gives us access to our emotions in a way that brings joy. And it connects us beyond the mind… it connects us through the body, and through the heart. 

What would you like to see in the future for the dance community?

Cohesion & Unification. A return to how things used to be, without trying to emulate the past too much. Meaning, a sense of PLUR that permeates not only the dance floor but the social spaces, online and physical.

Taylor Bratches - 111˚F

trying to write a lil blurb about josh is an unjust task. this person is so many things for so many people in so many ways... truly a renaissance girl, here's someone whose generosity can only be rivalled by their incredible, unmatched sensibility for music old and new - and his patience to track down artists and convince them to release or re-issue their stuff on his label. diggers love to brag, but they impress little when standing next to giant like this: a lover who does it for the sharing, for the stories, to keep the myriad legacies alive and ready to inspire futures. i don't know how on earth and the cosmos i was lucky enough to be introduced to this bb, but i thank the great magicianess every day for this friendship. whenever we get to spend time together everything feels right. like the great tapestry makes more sense and comes full circle. whether we laugh or we cry or (likely) eat, it just reminds me that ugh, yes, despite all the pain and the dire prices to pay, it's worth it to live because of shared moments like this.

of course josh, in true self-depricating genius fashion, said this when delivering this beautiful mix: 'here is my mix. it's only songs from 2020 lol i am a dork'. well, it had to be released today cause we all deserve to have this on our players to help us elevate into a (hopefully shinier) 2021 while being thankful for the silver linings 2020 had - music does save. especially music that comes from a heart like josh's.

tracklist:
Justin Cudmore - Realize
Each Other - Six Weeks
Rodion - Fetanfetamine
Piezo - Castrol
DJ Minx feat. E-Man - Blind Amerikkka
DJ Holographic & Alex Wilcox - Parallel Shifting
Boys' Shorts - Poor Connection (Love Letters Remix)
Bézier & Vin Sol - K-Noise
Eris Drew - Reactiv-8
The Soft Pink Truth - We
Xyla feat. Oso Feo - Cold
K' Alexi - Hotel Wet
Jasmine Infiniti - Demonhole
FAUZIA - boy is mine edit
Parris - Harajuku Girls
Stefan Ringer - Me ft. Ash Lauryn

follow @darkentriesrecords if you don't yet

naivetape #59 - Josh Cheon

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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.