this is a really chill mix, super creative

Leila Youssefi is an LA-based visual artist and DJ currently working under the moniker “@lvlupkid”. Approaching music as narrative, her sound often interlays personal audio recordings with a wide variety of genres spanning downtempo jazz to hip hop to breakbeat. Her Femme Sessions mix takes this approach in breaching the topic of quarantine and all of its nuanced sensations. As a team player of Space Milk collective, Leila cares to foster inclusive community spaces where all feel comfortable to tune in, switch off, and have a good-old-fashion boogie with one another.

The story behind her Guest Mix ~

"Six months into the Covid-19 lockdown, I did an experimental livestream exploring the millennial desire to “escape” - escape quarantine, escape the worrying state of the world, escape presence. Now that another 6 months have passed, the state of the pandemic only recently looking up, I’m more interested in what it means to turn inward and be present in this bizarre space. 

This mix is a reflection on our #stayathome lives;  full of fear, frustration, relaxation, potato chips, confusion, antagonizing brain-loops, cabin-fever, isolation, the eclipse of the bra & the dawn of the sweats, America’s Next Top Model binges, and of course - the strange sensation of feeling like you should be doing something productive with all the xtra time, but just not being able to 🙃

After many moments of struggle and many moments of joy, I realize that lockdown isn’t innately bad. It just is. For the sake of keeping others & ourselves healthy, we are still, even one year later, here. Whether it be the overlap of my family members simultaneously taking meetings from home, continuously rewatching scenes from movies for the odd stability they provide in a less than static world, or the dead-end unemployment line (if you know, you know lol) - it is my current reality. In conversation with this, please enjoy some jazz, feel-good dub, sad piano, and select home-bound recordings as a soundtrack to this wormhole of a moment in time."

Track List:

[1] Ruf Dug - Opening Ceremony 
[2] Smith & Mighty - Anyone (Mellow Mix) 
​[3] Leafar Legov - Abbas 
[4] Soulstatejazz - The Uncanny Valley 
​[5] Tom Ellis - Missed It 
[6] Galcher Lustwerk - Blue Lotus 
[7] Michael J. Collins - You Lose (Interlude)
[8] Four Tet - Glue of the World 
[9] Theo Parish, Andrew Ashong - Flowers 
[10] HNNY - Sunday 
[11] LL Cool J - Around The Way Girl
[12] Freddie Cruger - Boogie Down Hagsätra 
[13] K.M.D. - Peachfuzz
[14] Dorothy Ashby - Essence of Sapphire
[15] Axel Boman​ - Europa 
[16] Calibre -  Five Minute Flame 
[17] Vanilla - Past, Present & Future (Intro)
[18] HNNY - Rue de Bagnolet 
[19] h hunt - nice arp 
[20] Herbert - About This Time Each Day 
[21] Kelly Lee Owens - Flow
[22] Sonny Okosun - Highlife (Dub Version) 
[23] Møzaika - Drive feat. Sui Zhen (Dub Mix)
[24] Dollkraut - Bruce Wayne 
[25] New Look - Teen Need 
[26] Pupkulies & Rebekah - Hold Me Tight (Shaun Reeves & Guti Remix) 
[27] Ruf Dug - Fruity Dance 
[28] Soulstatejazz - Rebels on the Way 
[29] Galcher Lustwerk - Life 
[30] John FM - Forever

Femme Sessions Vol. 001: LvL Up Kid

https://soundcloud.com/johannaknutsson

https://www.retreatradio.net/somnis-vius

Somnis Vius #4 w/ Johanna Knutsson (09/05/22)

Live recording at Radio Tempo Não Pára (18.11.2022)

Artist: @caspertielrooij-1

Casper Tielrooij @ Radio TNP 19.11.2022

Back on LYL Radio with the first Tiella Sound show of 2023. Incl. tracks by Donato Dozzy, Kenny Larkin, Ilija Rudman, Yu Su and many more.

Tracklist available at this link ---> lyl.live/episode/tiella-sound-10

RADIO SHOW ARCHIVE

Tiella Sound @ LYL Radio, 19.01.2023 (feat. Luca Bigote)

The Apron Records boss takes his anything goes approach to an continually surprising hour of radio every month, featuring everything from dusty leftfield house to energetic jazz, and anything else that he's feeling.

https://www.nts.live/shows/funkineven/episodes/funkineven-19th-april-2023

Steven Julien Presents: The Apron Show 190423

Stepping up to the decks this month for the latest addition to the Phonica Mix Series is Melbourne's Bell Towers. We were first introduced to Rohan's records back in 2013 when he released 'Tonight I'm Flying' for Prins Thomas' Full Pup sub-label. Since then he's become one of Public Possession's most prolific producers. Before relocating to London he cut his teeth throwing the infamous Bamboo Musik parties that were legendary for their elaborate themes and hedonistic atmosphere and now Rohan seems to bring the Bamboo vibe with everywhere he plays. Earlier this year the Phonica crew were lucky enough to catch him playing for ReviveHER and his set is still fresh in our minds for the good-time vibes, daring track selection and bold dance moves. From that night forward we knew we had to get him on-board. Listen to the mix and check out the mini-interview and the full tracklist  on the blog ---> j.mp/PhonicaMixSeries28


Phonica Mix Series

Phonica Mix Series 28: Bell Towers

Australian house whiz András took us through the paces during his late night Canadian debut back in November. This is an excerpt from a 3-hour closing set.

NVA Live: András

Antinote founder Zaltan Antinote joins us mid party at Nuits Sonores for a welcome return to the BR decks

Zaltan | Boiler Room x Nuits Sonores

in anticipation of R_R_ 's wonderful album called Train Of Thought - coming out on Growing Bin Records this spring - Reinis recorded this fragile and beautiful mix. It'll make you see the bursting of buds by the seaside! https://soundcloud.com/rr_audio

R R  - Sound Notes II, a Very Fragile Mixtape (Guest Mix, 2020)

@candombl est un label de Düsseldorf qui propose musiques et fringues avec une sensibilité propre à eux. Pour ce mix, @aki-aki et @djungell, deux figures de la bande, joignent leurs univers respectifs et mêlent à loisir rythmes rituels et instant de transe, des élans multi-tempo et ambiances acides, aux accents souvent tendus et proches parfois de la rave à l’ancienne, toujours prêts à faire danser en somme.
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candomblé is a label from Düsseldorf that offers music and clothes with a sensibility of their own.  For this mix, Aki Aki and DJ Ungel, two figures of the band, join their respective universes and mix at leisure ritual rhythms and moments of trance, multi-tempo impulses and acid ambiences, with often tense accents and sometimes close to the old-fashioned rave, always ready to make people dance.

tplt podcast ~ Candomblé (Aki Aki & DJ Ungel)

babyschön with an hour of soft, sweet and steamy sounds 🧖🏽‍♀️ ... lap it up x

Hot Love w/ babyschön

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