Juanita's Mix 059 with Lychee @Lycheefrut

Q. How would you describe yourself?
A. Born again dance music enthusiast - I've been trying in the post-lockdown era to refocus on being a dancer and a fan and exposing myself to serendipity and the things that made me fall in love with dance music in the first place. A bigger scene like NYC can make you jaded fast if you don't protect and cultivate those parts of yourself, I think.  

Q. How long have you been a part of the NY music scene?
A. I first started coming to NYC from Boston for more dubstep/bass-oriented events around 2011 - some standouts: Joker, Skream, Benga at Terminal 5; Caspa and Rusko at Webster Hall (lol); acts like Kuedo and Zomby at Glasslands Gallery, an electroclash rave in Chinatown that I have no idea who was DJing or promoting. At that time I wouldn't say I was part of any kind of community here, I usually rode the Chinatown bus or Bolt Bus (RIP) down for a night and took another bus back early in the morning so I wouldn't have to find lodging. 

I think I started finding community here back around 2015 or 2016 at clubs like Bossa and raves like Groovy Groovy where I'd see the same people again and again. Fourth World 2017 was the party that really made me decide I had to live here eventually. I moved to Brooklyn at the beginning of 2018, and in many ways I only really feel like I've begun to find my place here now.

Q. Tell us a little bit about this mix.
A. I had a general idea in mind for this mix that I wanted it to be romantic, but weird. I was thinking about things like friendships with romantic elements; weird sex or cuddling on psychedelics when you're not actually sure if you have a body; unrequited forbidden crushes; flirty dancing around someone for an entire night without needing it to become anything more. I recorded it shortly after the Halloween weekend daytime moment with Todd Edwards playing at Nowadays Nonstop, which I found so fun and romantic with diffused pink lighting that made it feel like the sunrise never ended, so I think that moment influenced this mix as well.

Juanita's Mix 059: Lychee

With roots in Pittsburgh and a recent stint in Denver, Paul Fleetwood @fleet412 is both a beacon and a connector within the North American dance music community. A co-founder of Hot Mass with hands in events such as Honcho Campout, Lot Mass, VIA Festival, the Great American Techno Festival, and Humanaut, his DJ sets and productions blend a classic, grounded Midwest techno sensibility with a modern edge, always infused with emotion and sincerity. In 2021, Fleetwood launched his own label, Perimeter Junk, which has already cemented itself as a forerunner in predicting the next wave of dancefloor heaters for kind-hearted weirdos.

Read the interview and see a tracklist:
spontaneous.zone/050-paul-fleetwood

"I knew I wanted a mix that featured mostly four-on-the-floor music, upbeat but smooth and not too aggressive. I imagined a much deeper and more emotive mix than what I originally intended but that didn’t make me any less happy with how it turned out.

This was recorded Saturday, October 8th, 2022 at my apartment in Denver, CO. I used two XDJ-700s and a A&H Xone:92 rotary mixer. I compiled a playlist of roughly nine hours of music from which to choose. Experimenting from that list, it took around seven takes to nail a flow that felt right.

The interview questions brought Molly Nilsson’s 'Never Coming Home' to mind so I decided to include it. I couldn't come up with a smarter way other than to place it as an encore so there ya go, my creative apex at work."

@fleet412

Interview + Tracklist

Spontaneous Affinity #050: Paul Fleetwood

"This mix is a love letter to the emotion-driven, vulnerable, and melancholy side of my sound -- one I have not tapped into for quite some time-- in the form of weightless jungle and ambient. Through the process of creating this mix, I wished to reconnect with myself as an artist at this moment without the influence of a dance-floor, tuning into the self-reflective spirit of the winter."

The Bay Area dance music scene formed Eugenia's roots as a DJ, where she cut her teeth playing underground clubs and organizing DIY raves. Her energetic mixing style can be defined as bright, tender, and highly dynamic, jumping across many genres of dance music wrapped in a lush atmosphere -- always with her signature touch of sass. While Eugenia grew up between the Bay Area and northern Italy, she is currently based in Boston where she plays with local queer collective Enter the Boudoir. Fresh from her sets at HOR Berlin, Fast at Work in Los Angeles, Boiler Room in Boston, and Sound Gymnastics in Brooklyn, she continues to blossom further and curate her own sound. 

Outside of performing, Eugenia is a practicing poet and host of a genre-non conforming, ambient-inspired mix series called "The Shape of Memory," as a part of experimental label Ghunghru, where she asks each artist to express a memory through the arc of a mix. The spirit of this series is to re-imagine memory as a breathing, living being, one that influences our feelings and sense of self.

https://soundcloud.com/eugeniadj
instagram.com/___.eugenia/

FemmeDecks 067. x Eugenia

Live recording from a 3-hour set I played in Seattle for @researchsea. Big thanks to @ncarr0ll for capturing this night, to @samshin-1 and @sisgirlpgh for playing with me, and to @jasoncode for the lighting ambiance.

T.Wan Live @ Research (Seattle 1.20.23)

https://www.instagram.com/_love__letters_
https://www.instagram.com/mikeservito

.Freq with Love Letters and Mike Servito @ The Lot Radio 02-14-2023

Gremlin b2b Gremlin with Faited (Envelope Soundsystem, Oakland) and Lychee (NYC)

https://www.instagram.com/faited.fdotf 
https://www.instagram.com/lycheefrut

Faited b2b Lychee @ The Lot Radio 02 - 19 - 2023

banging good mix from @thelevelparty bossman Andrew Devlin!! lock in doggos <3

Earth Dog Radio 020: Andrew Devlin

also as a movie on youtube:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0HPKp82a9dE

previously available only on the club’s patreon, this is now public for everyone to enjoy. created for Virtually Nowadays at the beginning of the shutdown in April 2020 the movie was created by Jay Ivan as we drove through the empty streets of the NYC area, he filmed with a handheld DSLR and then aligned the audio after editing. 
programming this mix was emotional..i did my best to hopefully help people process positively while enjoying a "dance music mix" during a time of overwhelming uncertainty.

love and respect to Nowadays, Kristin (DJ Voices) for inviting me to participate in their livestreams, to my husband Jay Ivan for his patience and support for my professional goals and to you for your attention and kind appreciation 💜

RON LIKE HELL VIRTUALLY NOWADAYS MIX from 2020

Tranquilamente wavey with a mix of ambient dance, balearic house and breezy downtempo before the tide goes up. 

 https://www.instagram.com/yowaitup

Tranquilamente Radio with Yibing @ The Lot Radio 03-18-2023

Interview:  https://truantsblog.com/2023/truancy-volume-312-sami/ ‎

Soundcloud: @sami_yenigun @1432-r

Access the download and full tracklist (Confirmed, added) on our Patreon. Your support helps cover all our costs and allows Truants to continue running as a non-profit and ad-free platform. patreon.com/truants

http://truantsblog.com

Sami

Truancy Volume 312: Sami

A new guest mix from Houston's own modern-day cowboy Morgan Morgan @last1st_name(Open Source). Listen Digest Enjoy. Cheers.

Morgan Morgan (Open Source)-TYFS Guest Mix

Thank You For Dancing, Thank You For Sweating™

send demos/inquires - thankyouforsweating@gmail.com

Morgan Morgan (Open Source)-TYFS Guest Mix

TYFS (Thank You For Sweating)™