The river is rising
There’s a hole in my boat!
Can’t see the horizon
I’m bailing like crazy, crazy
Trying to keep this old boat afloat

Time keeps on passing
See nothing but smoke!
The temperature is rising
I’m bailing like crazy, crazy
Trying to keep this old boat afloat

Old Boat Afloat

20241013

A little optional note for those that find this mix:

I recently realized I haven't released a proper 'mixed' set in years - mostly due to having a lack of easy access to equipment & studio spaces over the last 4 years + also just zero m0tivation to even DJ sometimes.

I don't record my live sets because I don't know, it feels like those experiences should be for that moment. I am lovingggg playing music again and have been inspired, so I decided to record something close to how I've been feeling. 

Thought I'd make a little thing of hints of what I play. There are lots of little blends that might not make sense - I considered editing them but decided to leave it raw because I was probs having fun messing around (: 

♥

Enjoy x

Those Are My Feelings (unfiltered)

opening the night for @ivylab 's infinite falling ground part ii tour when it touched down in vancouver. nods to @oakkmusic and gov, lakehills, oliver.

i was asked to play a chill opening set and this is what i came thru with. listening back to this mix actually brings me back a bit to the beginnings of how & why i got into djing in the first place. it feels like a more classic style where you can really hear the layering and what's going on. a bit more straight up and simple.

some brand new tunes mixed with some familiar vibes from over the past decade and a bit. cycling thru the feels. hope you enjoy!

tracks ->
Pontiac Streator - Red Kings
Hashman Deejay - XBsubAM
Dubplanet X - TAKT
Angel 1 - Apple-tini
ASC - Fourier System
Damé - Slow Down
Ranma Entero - Burundanga
Bimbotronic - Flower
Scatta - Joyce Wrice - Blurred Lines (Scatta's Break Edit)
Sango & Rochelle Jordan - Show
Natureboy Flako - Silver Forest Spirits
Singularis - Sexual Strings
Neekeetone - Coco Bryce 'My Bae Be Luv'  Dub
Eujin - Duro
Lewis James, Kid drama, Alia fresco - Flawless
DJ Ojo - Skip Top
OthaSoul - Platform
Yushh - Look Mum No Hands
Coco Bryce - Aegis Essentials
LeFtO Early Bird - One Day You Smile, One Day You Cry (ft Pierre Spataro)
Aunty Rayzor - Tobaya
DJ Double Oh! - Canto Viejo
Iamdoechii - Wat U Sed
Lapalux - We Lost

IvyLab's 'Infinite Falling Ground Part II' YVR Opening DJ Set

I’m feeling frosty mornings
I know the summer’s gone
I’m seeing subtle warnings
These days can’t last too long
Living on borrowed time

I’m down to ones and zeros
I’m thinking nothing’s real
Some days are cold and lonely
Some days are so surreal
Living on borrowed time

The moon and stars are crying
We’ve seen this film before
Why are these people lying?
We’ve had enough of war.
Living on borrowed time

Don’t look to me for answers
Can’t tell you how to cope
Some days are filled with sorrow
Some days are filled with smoke.
Living on borrowed time

Borrowed Time

I saw your mugshot and I
Love you more than ever
You are everything I hoped for and
I’ll love you now forever
It don’t matter where you lead us
How you bleed us, cause you need us!

You are the answer to the
Things I’ve been afraid of
We agree and fit together like a
Clenched fist in an iron glove
I’m so happy that you found us and
Surround us as you pound us to dust

We will miss you when you're long gone
Your stench reminds us that there’s something awfully wrong
You’ve been singing us the wrong song
If you want to know the TRUTH
It’s right there for us to see
In your mugshot!

Your name is famous from the tundra to the tropics
You don't care what they are saying just as long as you're the topic
You're no Hannibal, just a cannibal, and you'll die in your own Xanadu
It is the saddest thing I think that I have ever heard

Mugshot

Kimchi Cha Cha Cha

My phone rang — I got a call
My Barbie Doll said
I’m coming right over now

She rode in — on a butterfly
Looked me dead in the eye
She smiled, and told me

I didn’t come to make friends
I’m not here to offer amends
And I don’t care about trends
I ain’t here to make friends

Mondays — Back on the job
It’s dog eat dog
Working to get ahead

Hung over — got weekend fog
Thinking Oh My God!
Did you hear what that guy said?

I didn’t come to make friends
I’m not here to offer amends
And I don’t care about trends
I ain’t here to make friends

I'm Not Here to Make Friends

When you look like that
Can’t resist you
When you laugh like that it’s like a slap
I gotta kiss you

Things get mixed up
And are hard to explain
I’ll listen to you — Don’t complain
Just do your thing, I’ll stay in my lane

You gotta take me back
You know I really miss you
I’m out of whack - flat on my back
I never should have risked you

Things get mixed up
And are hard to explain
I’ll listen to you — Don’t complain
Just do your thing, I’ll stay in my lane

Well I never ever ever should have let you go
I can’t function now I’m broken down my motor’s cold
Give me one last chance to try to make this thing a go
We’ll use alchemy to turn your broken heart to gold

Things get mixed up
And are hard to explain
I’ll listen to you — Don’t complain
Just do your thing, I’ll stay in my lane

Don’t be mean — calling up your old boyfriend
I had a bad dream - I could scream!
Chasing down another dead end

Well I never ever ever should have let you go
I can’t function now I’m broken down my motor’s cold
Give me one last chance to try to make this thing a go
We’ll use alchemy to turn your broken heart to gold

Alchemy

A small slice of what's floating around in my head 

jonforgothismeds

vancouver-based music producer, composer, curator and DJ

releases with: mood hut, hotham sound, isla, xpq?, new kanada, modern math, mutek_rec, subtempo, debacle, beacon sound, babel, dsms, south fork sound, king deluxe, low indigo, chapel sound, ..

label & events & studio lead for: @low-indigo
active project w/ @ultimaesuna : Oro Azul
active project w/ @napmusick : LA FE
active collaboration w/ @tsimka
ambient alias: @souns-3
@bass-c0ast music festival resident
boilerroom 2019: https://youtu.be/6KGQi6NBxJ8

founder of @lightasound
project w/ gabrial saloman: @chambers-theta
+10 years former collaborator w/ @tanya-tagaq
+10 years former curator for @newformsfestival

major influences include: dub music, soundsystem culture & origins, all nature & the natural world, water, bird songs, the unseen world, transcendence, evolution, movements towards balance & harmony, resonance, collaboration, transformation

A lifer who fell into the world of madness, developed the black tar addiction, watched it go digital, watched it go virtual, gorged on the proliferation of limitless creativity and trying to find a path in this new world order.

Dirty Gems

record collector / selector 

just another music lover <3

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