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Interview:  http://truantsblog.com/2021/truancy-volume-275-aaron-j/ ‎

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Aaron J

Truancy Volume 275: Aaron J

Aaron J ( @arn_j ) is a Boston based DJ and label head, running the @sure_thing imprint. The talented DJ has become known through Sure Thing's exciting bill of events, mixes & releases, with an unwaveringly genuine commitment to music and the bright community that surrounds it in the US and abroad. 

As a DJ, Aaron has become known for his taste for deep & dark, yet somehow always whimsical and warm music, having pulled together beautiful musical narratives for a range of notable mix series - this mix is no exception. I'm so happy to have him as part of the series - and can't wait to meet someday in the (hopefully) not too distant future on a dance floor :-)

You can check out Sure Thing here -- https://surethingrec.bandcamp.com

Thanks again Aaron! 

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Animix Forty Six: Aaron J

The guest of today’s mix is an American DJ and a founder of Sure Thing, Aaron J. 
Sure Thing is Aaron's project that you might know for multiple great podcasts. It is also an established label with four releases. As he revealed to us, the next album (MIST005) on the imprint will be from Polygonia (including Forest Drive West remix) in the spring. Besides that, Sure Thing is a platfrom for organising parties across the US. At this moment, Aaron is moving to the NYC. We wish him all the best for his new start! 

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Harmony Rec. podcast | Aaron J

Lychee (@lycheefrut) & I had a lovely time joining May's Nowadays Nonstop with an extended back-to-back, and I'm glad we're able to revisit the moment.

We wanted this set to be as fun as possible while distinctly ourselves, and I love that you can hear a bit of both of us in the recording, dancing side-by-side in one of our favorite venues and building steadily toward a euphoria of our own.

Recorded live at Nowadays (@nowadaysnyc), 28 May 2022, 10PM - 2AM. With much love & thanks to the Nowadays staff and all the dancers. Illustration by Sofia Hjortberg.

Lychee & Aaron J - Live at Nowadays, May '22

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FIT SIEGEL - DJ @ SURE THING, SAN FRANCISCO 6.5.15

Aaron Jen has been an rising promoter among of the California party scene. Staying busy hosting Sure Thing in both San Francisco and Los Angeles and running his own podcast series under the same name. I'm pleased to share a mix representing his darker techno side.

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Acid Camp Vol. 38 - Aaron J

This week we have resident DJ and owner of 'Sure Thing' events in SF, he has been a rising promoter in the West Coast for his obsession to the underground. 

Accept the dark. 

Tracklist:
Nautil - Galdae
Elle - Akuj
CO/R - Bells, walking
Korridor - Binocular Observer (Ness Remix)
Nobody Home - Speglar
Neinzer - The Beacon
Acronym - Mimers Brunn
1800HaightStreet - Georhythms *Forthcoming Pacific Command
Fugal - New Autonomy *Forthcoming Secondnature
Samuli Kemppi - Founders
Tensal - Forma 3
Oscar Mulero - Common Frequencies
NX1 - NX1_Black_B04
Randomer and Hodge - Second Freeze *Forthcoming Dnuos Ytivil
I/Y - Bellwether
Iori - Maya
Tripeo - Raz
Boston 168 - Seven Heads
Deniro - The Penal Colony 3
Perm - Untitled
Takaaki Itoh - Heighter
Wrong Assessment - Answers
Answer Code Request - Meta
Reeko - The Day After 3
UVB - Ero
VSK - From A Distance
Juho Kusti - In Dreams We Swim In Fountains
Ritzi Lee - Black Star Ritual (Ben Sims Remix)
Simon Haydo - Contortions (Jonas Kopp Remix)
Skirt - Tumulto (Yuji Kondo Remix)
Planetary Assault Systems - Pull
DJ Deep - Stressed
Abayomi - Blu Sun
SHDW & Obscure Shape - Wenn Die Masken Fallen
Rennie Foster - Switch Stance
Boris Divider - Shut Down The System
Samo DJ - LKF
Lost Trax - Flatliner
Umwelt - Destruction Liberatrice
Vapauteen - 16 Psyche (Life in Debtor's Prison)
Randomer and Hodge - Simple As *Forthcoming Dnuos Ytivil
Inigo Kennedy - NGC6826 (Blinking Eye)
Remote_ - Echo Of You

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Cultivated Sound Sessions - CSS033: Aaron J

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Sometimes a mix just comes to us, we try to be selective in our POTCAST series but then sometimes we just get lucky. Although it may be summer temperatures in the rest of the world, we've been in typical SF June, waiting for someone to turn on the techno electronic-blanket and toss it over our comforter. Cue Aaron J, the former San Franciscan selector and nightlife curator from the Sure Thing crew. He dropped us this 80+ min mix compelled by his Haight Street honed intuition to read us a technicolor story involving light-showers, hand-gliding the heavens, and meditating on a bed of shiny chrome nails. A tarot card reading of a mix, what it reveals is never meant to harm you, just give you a peek into the science working on your past, present, and future. We encourage you to listen to this whenever, however this mix begs to be played on your highest-fidelity option. Hertz cotoure, these tracks shimmer, rumble, and sway in impeccably modern ways and demand some proper cones for display. Just be warned: if you have somewhere to be set an alarm because this mix hypnotizes the time away...

Honey Soundsystem Potcast

HNYPOT 230: Aaron J's Transmural Gradient

Live recording from the Sure Thing event that was held in San Francisco in Bay area the night of May 13.

Fun facts: Instrumets used, Kilpatrick Phenol, Orgon Systems Enigiser, Volca FM, Korg SQ-1 and Laptop

_for live act booking please contact_ fabian.kempe@gmail.com
_why not paypal something if you vibe with it_ ultraformmusic@hotmail.com

Little film from the event: https://www.facebook.com/fabian.kempe/posts/10154841174933271

Korridor Live PA @ Sure Thing, San Francisco, USA 2017

For this episode we are happy to invite one of America's true underground warriors. As founder of the sure thing event series he is one of the most important figures of the uprising avant-garde techno movement in the US. When he is not busy connecting the dots between the american, asian and european techno scene, he spreading his sophisticated taste and wide ranging knowledge through his amazing DJ-Sets, ranging from the deepest ambient and most abstract experimental electronica, to the most forward thinking techno and IDM.

We hope you enjoy those carefully crafted 60minutes by Aaron J.

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R-Imprint Podcast 040 | Aaron J

Celebrating 4 years of Sure Thing.
Mixed by Aaron J (@arn_j).
Thank you for your continued love and support. 

Artwork by Clara Cortés Garcia
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Sure Thing 4 Year Anniversary Mix: Aaron J

Tribal sounds and captivating, hypnotic rhythms by Boston-based Aaron J in this week's podcast. 

Read more: https://mnmt.no/blog/mnmt-187-tribal-sounds-and-hypnotic-rhythms-by-aaron-j/

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MNMT 187: Aaron J

The second week of January. 2019.
Oslated Mix Episode 135 - Aaron J

Sure Thing
Boston
USA

Aaron J is the founder of the Sure Thing event and podcast series, which has played a key role in developing the audience for experimental and boundary-pushing electronic music throughout the US.

As a performer, Aaron draws from years of experience as both curator and DJ to weave together hypnotic journeys through new sounds in techno and beyond. His style focuses on delicate layering and patient, detailed mixing to fully absorb the listener, and allow them to fade completely into the music.

Aaron J 는 실험적이고 경계를 허무는 전자음악의 청중들을 이끌어내는데에 미국에서 중요한 역할을 수행하는 Sure Thing 의 설립자이다.

Aaron 은 큐레이터와 DJ로서 테크노와 그 너머의 새로운 사운드를 통한 최면적인 서사를 구성하는 수년간의 실험으로 정의된다. 
그의 스타일은 여린 레이어링과 차분하고 섬세한 믹싱으로 리스너들을 빠지게 만드는데에 집중하고, 그들이 완벽히 음악에 녹아들도록 한다.

- Translated by Taegyun Yoon

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Oslated Mix Episode 135 - Aaron J

From across the sea
We found each other 
And he
Took me back to where I belong
And gave me a new color to my song

Aaron Jen is the founder of Sure Thing, San Francisco and he took me there and in that way made a dream come true to me.

Love Ida

<3

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MondayOff Podcast Series 026 | Aaron J

We are thrilled to present to you the recording of Aaron J’s set on the second night of Izvir ~ Formaviva 2019 . Enjoy.

Read more: https://mnmt.no/blog/2019/09/23/mnmt-recordings-aaron-j-izvir-formaviva-2019/

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MNMT Recordings: Aaron J – Izvir ~ Formaviva 2019

Sun is in the leaves again.
I think I see you in the wind
but then I think I see the wind.

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Thomas Köner ‎- 31° 46' N 35° 13' E Hour Ten - Fario, 2009
Urenga - Laurasia (Warmth Remix) - Echo Disciplines, 2016
Kit Clayton - Ikar - ~scape, 1999
Rambadu - Mescam - Rambadu, 2019
DJ Deep & Traumer - Streets At Night Pt. 1 - Possible Futures, 2018
Claudio PRC - The Water (Vox Ver.) - TGP, 2018
Laurine Frost - Marionette Manifesto - Marionette, 2015
Deadbeat - Teach The Devil's Son - Echocord Colour, 2009
Tyler Friedman - Tyler's Dream (Jonsson/Alter Remix) - Kontra-Musik, 2012
Haruka - 106 (Zadig Remix) - Butter Sessions, 2019
Nax_Acid - Synthetic Nature - Aconito, 2009
Orbe - A Fright On The Ground While You Sleep - Be As One, 2016
Carlo Zanelli - Delphinus - Eleusina Recreations, 2015
Salah - Ethno Glide - Aarden, 2019
Rossella - Burning - Aimersse, 2011
Maurizio Cascella - Black of Mars - Wonder Wet, 2014
Arc of Doves - Megalopolis - ROH²S!, 2010
Albrecht La'Brooy ‎– Healesville - Apollo, 2019

Words from "Prime" by Malachi Black.

Sure Thing Mix 87: Aaron J

Founder of Sure Thing, a label, event, and mix series dedicated to developing the audience for experimental and boundary-pushing electronic music throughout the US. As a performer, Aaron is inspired by the complex conversations that occur between music and emotion on the dance floor, and the way we experience these interactions together. Reflecting upon memories of these conversations, each set leaps between delicately layered moments that are at times expansile, blissful, and propulsive toward an energetic infinity.

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SCOPÁVIK 128 | Aaron J

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I feel far away from everything and everybody, ever
so far away, and I feel as if all the adventures which
succeed one another incessantly were unfolding
themselves like a play in a theatre⁠—and I, miles and
miles away, watching. For a long time tonight I have
stood absolutely still, lost in an odd introspection,
watching with an inward eye the progress of these
years in our life.
Anaïs Nin

Cover design by Rutger Paulusse.

Aaron J _ TSS podcast 002

Campfire Stories 98 (Consequence) by Aaron J (@arn_j)

~ About The Story ~

Whatever plows our dreams is ours to give:
The threshold rises and changes.
I give, I perceive;
Here are the gifts of day risen at last;
Blood of desire, the rising of belief
Beyond our fury and our silences.
- Muriel Rukeyser

~ Chapters ~

Roy Mattson - Dilating Moon - Self-Released, 2015
Sync24 - Walk on Spheres - Ultimae, 2007
Arc of Doves - Word of Mouth - Quietus, 2009
Celia Green - In The Extreme - em:t, 1995
Andrew Lahiff - Absence from the Conscious World - Relaxed Machinery, 2014
Tomaga - Memory of In Vivo Exposure Pt. 2 - Hands in the Dark, 2017
Kevin Keller - Anicca - Hypnos, 1999
Frank Bretschneider - Night Broadcast - 12k, 2004
Kajsa Lindgren - Melodies - Warm Winters Ltd., 2019
Aythar - Universe Pt. 2 - ...txt, 2016
Voice of Eye - Drifting - Cyclotron Industries, 1994
Evan Caminiti - Revealer (Reduction) - Make Noise, 2019
Mnemonic45 - Amara (for Tihomir) - Post Global, 2014
Cymphonic - Panorama - Databloem, 2013
Koyil - Pier.salut - c minus, 2019
Wil Bolton - Falling Away - Hibernate, 2010
Maju - Point - Extreme, 2008
Strië - 87 Billion Suns - Serein, 2016
Aseptic Stir - Next Sharp Breath - Klammklang Tapes, 2019
Relmic Statute - A Test for Tapes & Memories - Hibernate, 2010
O Yuki Conjugate - Black Magic Box - Auf Abwegen, 2019
Temps Perdu? - Spiral - Amplexus, 2000
Grit - Drifting From The Bay - Meanwhile, 2017
Lucette Bourdin & Phillip Wilkerson - Miles to Go - Earth Mantra, 2011
Aires - Your Breathing As ASMR - Eastern Nurseries, 2020
Amir Baghiri - Galileo's Dream - Arya, 1998
Steve Roach - The Ritual Continues - Fortuna, 1992
Jeff Greinke - Falling Away - Silent, 1992
Rapoon - Shakkirah - Soleilmoon, 1996
Spielerei - Exit - Databloem, 2005
Deutsch Nepal - The Fire Within My Cold Heart - Cold Meat Industry, 1993
X.Y.R. - Aguirre Song - 12th Isle, 2018
Tuu - Stone to Sand - Fathom, 1997
Celer - Australis & A Buoyant Object, That Rests and Moves in Such a Way - Slow Flow Rec, 2009
Barefoot - Collapse - Groundwork, 2020
Murkok - Down the Rabbit Hole - Self Released, 2016
Stephan Mathieu & Ekkehard Ehlers - Blue Baby 2 - Staalplaat, 2003
Landing - Blue - Music Fellowship, 1999

~ Notes ~

Campfire Stories is a mix series by friends of Silent Season. The focus of the series is on storytelling through deeper electronic music. Artists weave together narratives using the emotional characteristics of ambient and techno music.

Thanks to all the artists and labels whose sounds help tell the story.

Thank you for listening.

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Photo: Sergey Norkov

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