Massive Mix Series

aunteejoan is Massive - Mix 004

𝔀𝓱𝓪𝓽 𝓲𝓯 𝔀𝓮 𝓽𝓻𝓮𝓪𝓽𝓮𝓭 𝓶𝓾𝓼𝓲𝓬 𝔀𝓲𝓽𝓱 𝓽𝓱𝓮 𝓿𝓪𝓵𝓾𝓮 𝓲𝓽 𝓭𝓮𝓼𝓮𝓻𝓿𝓮𝓼?

interview live on –>–>–> www.wav.world/ –>–>–> @

wav.world emerged out of a long-running chat exchange of mixes, tracks, and some playful speculation: If you were going to make a platform for DJ mixes in 2024, what would it look like?

Mixes are a unique type of musical expression. They capture a specific moment in time, determined by the knowledge and style of the artist. A mix is as important a creative statement as an album, remix or EP. One mix can change an artist’s career, one mix can open a listener’s mind to something completely new.

𝔂𝓸𝓾𝓻 𝓯𝓪𝓿𝓸𝓻𝓲𝓽𝓮 𝓶𝓲𝔁𝓮𝓼 𝓪𝓻𝓮 𝓽𝓲𝓶𝓮𝓵𝓮𝓼𝓼.

We miss the importance that mixes used to have. So, we made a platform for mixes.

Each wav.world mix gives one artist the time and resources to create whatever kind of mix they want, to share something sonic about who they are and what they love.

Every wav.world mix will feature a longform interview with the artist which gets to the heart of what moves them—in music and in life—through text, video and image. Each edition of wav.world will feature the commissioned work of music journalists, visual artists and graphic artists.

𝔀𝓮𝓵𝓬𝓸𝓶𝓮 𝓽𝓸 𝔀𝓪𝓿.𝔀𝓸𝓻𝓵𝓭

∿∿∿ WAV•WORLD • AKANBI.wav

Streaming from Het Meterhuis @ Westerpark in Amsterdam: this is RRFM.NL w/ @cinnaman

RRFM • Visible Spectrum w/ Cinnaman • 18-08-24

After guesting at the Fast Castle night in Berlin, Tano returns the favor and hosts label head Gent1e $oul for two ours of deep bass explorations!

http://www.instagram.com/gent1esoulofficial
http://www.instagram.com/fastcastle_
http://www.instagram.com/tanonyc

@fastcastle, @tanodj

In Armatura meets Fast Castle: Tano and Gent1e $oul @ The Lot Radio 10-02-2024

Yr Boo returns to the booth solo for the monthly installment, taking dives, catching ones, and sloshing around.

http://www.instagram.com/boo__lean

@boo-lean

A SOUND PLACE: Muddling Through with Boo Lean @ The Lot Radio 10-06-2024

𝐏𝐑𝐄𝐌𝐈𝐄𝐑𝐄: Mira Evans - Vajrasattva [Tibetania Orient]

Buy on Beatport
https://www.beatport.com/release/vajrasattva/5168603

𝐏𝐑𝐄𝐌𝐈𝐄𝐑𝐄: Mira Evans - Vajrasattva [Tibetania Orient]

Eugen Grieg & Nebruk-Wavefolder (jE jE Music Recordings)

Taruun & Orika-Ground-(Mellon Place Records)

@justbeige

Introduce yourself? Hometown? Where do you currently reside? 1 fun fact about yourself

I’m originally from the SF Bay Area, CA (Silicon Valley--the worst part) but have been mostly nomadic since I was about 15. I’ve lived in New England, Texas and Australia but Detroit has been home for almost four years, and this is where I’m putting down roots. My fun fact is that I dropped out of high school/never got my diploma but finessed a college degree anyway. 

Favorite collective/scene at the moment?

GFX in Pittsburgh recently brought me out to play one of their events at Hot Mass and I had the absolute best time. For such a small city PGH has a super-thriving scene and heaps of homegrown Midwest talent--Davis Galvin, Tabasheer, Sis Girl, to name a few. Detroit recently lost Ali Berger to PGH, and I’m pretty sure the entire In Training crew just moved there too from Cleveland so it’s definitely a place to watch! Close second goes to Philadelphia and their radio-based warehouse rave scene: shoutout Chris B, WKDU and Terry Radio. 

Favorite mix series?

I’m biased because they commissioned the first mix I ever put out, but I think Daisychain has been doing incredible work elevating the profile of literally dozens (it’s weekly!!) of women/femme, and non-binary/non-conforming DJs since they launched not too long ago. It’s also a great resource to debunk the usual excuses promoters give for not booking gender-diverse lineups, when they supposedly “can’t find” anyone but cis dudes with talent, taste, and technical chops. 

Favorite late night snack? 

Flaming Hot Cheetos (even though it gives me heartburn) 

Advice to beginning dj’s?

Make sure you are really clear on *why* you want to play music for other people and what about it feels good or necessary to you about it regardless of external validation. If your motivations revolve at all around an arbitrary number of bookings or standard of success, you’re gonna have a bad time. Checking your own ego will help you retain your beginner’s joy, curiosity, and drive to improve while avoiding burnout. 

Secret weapon track? 

I don’t know if I would call it a secret but this track has never not killed: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k30MSgY1brg

Where do you see your rave self in 30 years from now?  

I’ll probably be dead in a climate disaster but if not I’d like to be an Old Head showing the youngins how it’s done and cultivating joyful intergenerational spaces. I have lots of great role models for that in Detroit. 

What would you like to see in the future for the dance community?

I would really like to see more people (artists and dancers) understand the political *potential* of rave as well as its political past. Communal experiences of celebration aren’t frivolous, they’re actually a necessary part of any struggle to make the world better. Fighting for change without making room for fun is unsustainably exhausting, and pure hedonistic indulgence without a sense of purpose is super alienating. Understanding rave culture as a form of “pleasure activism” helps to bridge that gap. That’s why it’s so important to make sure that party spaces (in and outside of the DJ booth) are accessible to the most marginalized, who might need that relief to make it through the next day. On that note, when I say that dance music is “healing” I don’t mean it in an abstract way--I’ve had some of my most lasting, personally transformative epiphanies on the dance floor, and now as a DJ, playing music for other people is an important way for me to keep social anxiety and depression at bay. I want that for more people. With that said I also think we could all stand to take ourselves and the “techno game” a little less seriously in some ways!! This is supposed to be about having fun and connecting through music, not fighting to the death over clout!

Beige - 108˚

A Tokyo mainstay for almost a decade now, Sapphire Slows is a producer, DJ, vocalist, synthesiser and keyboard player @sapphire-slows - we sadly have yet to meet IRL but we already share a really strong connection our beautiful friend and agent avril at futura. For the thirty-eigth naivetape she delivers a mix that blends modern twists on acid with dreamy psychedelic rollers, mystey-drenched drum-led tracks, italo offshoots and the good kind of deranged synths that we've been obsessing over for long too - an hour and a half of sensibility + an incredibly unique ear to timeless tracks that make us daydream (or close our eyes and dream-dream on the dancefloor).

naivetape #38 - Sapphire Slows

Live recorded the 20th of May 2013 from NTS radio in London with Brian Not Brian (Uk's Going Good) & DJ Sotofett (Norway's Sex Tags Mania). This is a better recording than the official NTS one. Solid-True-Dimensional. Always Original!

A SOUND PLACE: Muddling Through with Boo Lean @ The Lot Radio 10-06-2024

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