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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

“No Way Back is a very meaningful event to us and we were humbled at the chance to be a part of it. Playing virtually, it was most important to us to keep the feeling of being in Tangent Gallery in mind. NWB conjures a deeply contemplative mindset that we tried to channel. The quintessential experience for us is leaving our bodies through sound in the Outer Space room — given the controls temporarily, we played with us lying on that floor in mind.” 
— Farplane (sold & Hi-Vis)

video: https://youtu.be/vs6qo1dtDL8

Susumu Yokota - The Art of Contemplation (Lo Recordings)
Robert Turman - F-berg (Cejero/Actual)
Xth Réflexion - 10 (Aught/Chained Library)
Christoph De Babalon - Opium (Digital Hardcore Recordings)
Xth Réflexion - 08 (Aught/Chained Library)
Echium - Adaptive Senses (Sferic)
Vladislav Delay - Six (Detroit Underground)
Low Flung - Oud Clay (Time Dub) (Bandcamp self-released)
Boreal Massif - Weather in August (Pessimist Productions)
Bookworms - nguished (full version) (Bandcamp self-released)
LXV - Tunneling (Bandcamp self-released)
Mura Oka - Log In Oct 13 (Latency)
Best Available Technology - Spectra (Slumdiscs)
Dots - Dense (Ambient Abstract/AtomTM_Audio_Archive)
Mosam Howieson - Spiral 7 (Further Records)
Chaperone - Zen Hangover 1 (Always Human Tapes)
Seraphim Rytm - Andromeda 3 (Bandcamp self-released)
Experimental Audio Research - All Things Being Equal (Dekorder)
Shuttle358 - field (12k)
Aleksi Perälä - Level 12_060 (Colundi)
Emeralds - Planetarium II (Tapeworm Tapes/Bandcamp remastered)
Rrose - Undergrowth (Eaux)
Sendai - Apopads (Editions Mego)
Jon Hassell - Picnic (Ndeya)
Jake Muir - Silent Sailing (Sferic)
Steve Roach - The Future Flows From Here (Projekt)
juneunit - ntr (Jacktone)
Yugen Disciple - First Sighting (YOUTH)
Forest Management - Ripple Effect (Boudoir)
Bellows - E128 Untitled 1 (Entr'acte) 
Donato Dozzy - 12H.12 (Presto!?)

Interdimensional Transmissions Podcast

IT.podcast.s09e09: Farplane at No Way Back Streaming From Beyond 2020

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 week’s Rhythmic Culture podcast is all about deep grooves and pumping rhythms, as Melbourne’s Toni Yotzi is in charge of what’s happening for 66 minutes. Toni has played a crucial role in developing Perth into a thriving club metropolis, programming Deep Doogs’ sunrise rave, co-hosting Full Frequency on RTR FM and presenting parties for Kenji Takimi, Bell Towers and DJ Nozaki. Now based in Melbourne, she’s established herself as one of the most open minded DJs on the local circuit, immortalised by a legendary Inner Varnika and Golden Plains set's that saw her fearlessly transition from Jon Hassell to italo disco, memphis rap and Bristol bass and UK techno.

In her mix she’s features mostly Australian artists and labels. Feast your ears with cuts from Pugilist, LOIF, Coldpast, Hed Ardennes and many more.

@toniyotzi

Tracklist

RC:043 Toni Yotzi

The club lockdown has elicited a range of reactions from DJs—with some moving toward more ambient-leaning sounds, or finding it much harder to release mixes or sets at all. Bay Area-based DJ likeholywine [@matthew-lindgren] has been one of the DJs continuing to carry the torch for a raucous, queer dancefloor from home, steadily releasing mixes that make us miss the smell of fog and sweat.

Read the full interview and see a tracklist:
spontaneous.zone/030-likeholywine.html

"I miss the dance floor. Like any citizen of The Club, I’ve had to shift to experiencing dance music from the comfort of my own home/rave cave; it’s definitely not the same, but it opens up new possibilities at the same time. Club music is rooted in heavy beats that get the floor moving, and while we may not be sharing the same space, we now have a unique opportunity to enjoy music with people across the world through streams and chat rooms.

My DJ mantras are “any music can be club music” and “I’m going to play whatever the hell I want,” so adapting how I play for at-home-raving has been a fun challenge. This mix is almost exclusively made up of new releases that have come out post-COVID, because I wanted it to be a pulse check on dance music and how producers are interpreting it with all that’s going on in 2020. I turned the lights down in my studio, turned the sound up way too loud, and transported myself to a booth playing to a dance floor that’s sweaty, packed, and ecstatic."

@matthew-lindgren

Spontaneous Affinity #030: likeholywine

Can't believe Animix is already at it's twentieth mix! I am delighted that no.20 comes from @kikimolina, all the way from Santiago, Chile. Kiki has been a drummer/percussionist their whole life, and works as an anthropologist, recently focusing on pre-Columbian American music and instruments. With mixes, Kiki aims to create a ritual and lasting space, long, languid ideas, and an essence of calm... 

Gracefully done, this mix is just that. An other-wordly float through electronica, ambient & beyond.

Thank you so much for your contribution to the series Kiki <3

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Animix Twenty: Kiki Molina

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Michael Upson presents Queer Ears with Carlos Souffront - 21 January 2021

audio from Stream Informer livestream event 01.29.2021. Mixed live on camera featuring music by friends & people close to my inner network. For this occasion I asked for personal donations and/or to send funds to https://bedstuystrong.com/

Ron Like Hell live stream January 2021

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monthly mix + interview series
annual zine
sometimes events

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newsletter:
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year two zine + comp:
https://spontaneousaffinity.bandcamp.com/merch/spontaneous-affinity-year-2-zine-plus-compilation

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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.

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