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Juanita's Mix 046 with Michael Magnan @fatherhood-1

Q. How would you describe yourself? 
A. A little ray of fucking sunshine.

Q. How long have you been a part of the NYC music scene? 
A. I moved here in 2000 and haven’t really slept since that first night on the town. But professionally speaking I’ve been active since 2004. 

Q. Tell us a little bit about this mix.
A. It’s a slow burning sativa dom hybrid especially good for the afters.

Juanita's Mix 046: Michael Magnan

opening of main stage Thursday night 9pm-12:30am
eternal love to Aurora Halal & the S-R crew <3

Ron Like Hell @ Sustain - Release Year 7 - 2021

Available on Audio Cassette and digital download directly from the label’s Bandcamp @ https://djbeige.bandcamp.com/album/amen-vol-1

T4T LUV NRG is proud to present “Amen! Vol. 1”, a breathtaking DJ mix tape conceived and blended by Detroit’s DeeJay Beige. “Amen! Vol. 1” is a singular presentation of a sound developed by Beige that is very personal and deeply connected to their history. Beige’s mix is an amalgam of ecclesiastical breaks and gospel house delivered with intensity and soul power like only they can do. Prepare to be enthralled with one of the most exciting DJs currently burning their way through the American underground. From the Holy Ghost TO YOU, this is Beige! Be not afraid…

ARTIST STATEMENT:
In the strictest sense, Amen! Vol. 1 is the result of more than a year’s worth of obsessive brainstorming, digging, planning, arranging, re-arranging, and countless discarded takes. And in another sense, this mixtape has been in the works for the six years since I started DJing, the ten years since my baptism as a teenage club rat, and for my entire life, which for better or for worse has been shaped by The Church and church music since birth. 

My mother was a promiscuously Christian divinity school dropout who pushed my family through a run of increasingly conservative churches: Unitarian, Episcopal, Baptist, Presbytarian, Charismatic-Evangelical, and probably a few others I forget. My fathers family on the other hand were career scientists and committed atheists who also all happened to sing in church choirs for fun. I cannot remember a time when Beethoven, Bach, folk hymns, old negro spirituals and gospel were not playing in my house, day in and day out. 

Cutting ties with both family and organized religion in my early teens left a void of community and belonging that wouldn’t start to be filled until my first experiences with clubbing (sometimes with drugs, sometimes without) years later. And when I started collecting records years after that, I gravitated heavily towards any music incorporating the familiar imagery, themes, musical motifs and language of church (especially Liberation Theology) which remained kind of bittersweetly comforting long after I stopped trying to believe. This might sound heretical, but over the last several years “gospel” has become much more of a feeling to me than a genre or even a sound. As far as I’m concerned, the rave, the club, the congregation, the choir, are only different ways to experience a many-sided mystery. 

For this project, I wanted to challenge myself to imagine going beyond just using a little soulful house to end the night or the mix on an uplifting note, and instead program a fantasy “gospel rave” for a thousand of my closest friends dancing in a field on a moonless night. How would I do my best to deliver a powerful, meaningful, salvatory collective experience from midnight until sunrise? Amen Vol. 1 is a snapshot of that imaginary night. 

The need to use contrasting peaks and troughs to create a sense of narrative for your audience includes emotional or spiritual contrast just as much as it does changes in BPM or a kick pattern.  So, it was important for me to try exceeding simply the emotions associated with “praise” music (like joy) because encountering the truly divine should also inspire fear and awe. Disregarding genre as much as possible, each piece of music was chosen for the sensation or sentimental meaning it inspires for me personally: you probably wouldn’t call most of them “rave tracks”, and plenty aren’t explicitly religious at all. Finally, of course I had to make sure that Detroit and Chicago were properly (but not exclusively, that’s for another mix) represented in the tracklist. Where I’ve ended up, grounded by a repeating classic “anchor track” for each side, is an attempt to simulate Genesis and Revelation, the Good News and the Flood, the dark night of the soul and the moment of salvation–whatever those might mean for you. Can I get a witness?

Beige - AMEN! Vol. 1

This is a booth recording of Huck playing the headline slot of the September 2015 edition of Midwest Fresh held at MINT Gallery in Columbus, OH.  Midwest Fresh was a series of warehouse parties thrown by a changing cast of Columbus DJ's and promoters including Jed Fenton, Kevin Brugger, Tony Fairchild, Alexi Vlaar, Brian Cheng, Titonton Duvante and Mike Amerine.  It ran from August 2014 - October 2019.

This mix is shared publicly for the first time as part of a series of interviews paying tribute to Huck and his legacy.  The first edition of this multi-part tribute will be published December, 7 2022 at https://presstest.substack.com/.

Note: The sound can be a little hot in the beginning but things level out after a bit.

Mike Huckaby Live @ Midwest Fresh September 2015

The 'cause it' queens:
@bouffant-bouffant
@jacob-meehan

Recorded live on a September morning, as the sunlight poured in through the orange-tinted windows along the river Spree; Fitzroy, Berlin.

Radio Buttons #118 - Longitude

https://soundcloud.com/houseof_chuckg


“My latest mix for Deep South takes you into a wormhole of acid, groove, and jazz. Opening with my signature intergalactic minimal sound, it then traverses into heady moods and peak-time energies, before settling back in with the familiar. This mix opens a portal into a dance floor on the other side of the universe, where neo-tribal rhythms rattle through wriggling bodies. Grab a drink with the machine elves and see you on the other side!

Sending lots of gratitude to Vicki Powell and the entire Deep South crew for inviting me to contribute to this iconic mix series.”

More about Chuck:

San Francisco transplant by-way of Los Angeles, Chuck Gunn is a co-founder and resident of QAOTIQ, a queer rave based in California's Bay Area that aims to uplift and champion BIPOC/Trans artists. His fresh and spacey take on house and techno is shaped by the acid, dub and microhouse movements that grew out of 90's minimal techno. Chuck moves through various textures, from rugged terrain, spaced out atmospheres, dub rhythms, all balled up in a bounce & grace that smacks the dance floor again and again, relentless you might say. For many this kind of built pressure can take decades in the DJ booth to develop. Gunn's range and skill can hold down any underground dance floor and it's obvious that we're not the only ones that have taken notice as Chuck plays up and down the West Coast at clubs & festivals alike.

Deep South Podcast - 111 - Chuck Gunn

Beige @ The Lot Radio 01-27-2023

A portion of @sprklbb's closing set recorded at H0L0 in Ridgewood, Queens, NYC.

November 12th, 2022

Favorite Flavor: Coffee

MS 07 - SPRKLBB at Mizz Softee 12 November 2022

Name: Wawa
Alias: DJ Wawa (@djwawabk)
Pronouns: They/Them
Location: NYC

Influences: Cherushii, DJ Rashad, Octo Octa, Larry Heard

Affiliations/Residencies/Projects: Hit Factory, Lot Radio and NTS

Favorite Quote: If you have a plan B you’ll never do plan A

Advice for the DJs, producers and artists of our community: the best DJ’s I know are music historians, musicologist, music nerds and music freaks. Love the music. Find the music that you connect to and translate that. let that love run through you.

With this mix DJ Wawa asks to please learn more about and consider donating to: 
Kurdish Red Moon - Kurdistan Earthquake Relief (https://www.heyvasor.com/en/banga-alikariya-lezgin-ji-bo-mexduren-erdheje/)
(https://t.co/4d45DKMIjM) 

Tracklist  - https://thedaisychain.club/2023/02/21/daisychain-266-dj-wawa/

Daisychain

Daisychain 266 - DJ Wawa

smart mix 73: @clubchow

club chow has been a burgeoning star in chicago's lgbtq dj scene with residencies at steamworks and berlin nightclub. here club chow takes us on a housey journey guaranteed to make you move.

check out club chow's foundations of choice and consider donating!
www.aclu-tn.org / www.transformationsproject.org / www.tnep.org / www.lifeiswork.org

Smart Mix 73: Club Chow

ANY028: .dmp
Drake Pfeiffer
he/him
Seattle, WA
@drakempfeiffer
instagram.com/drake_pfeiffer

WHAT IS ALWAYS?
Chaos
Love
Growth

WHEN WOULD YOU NEVER?
When I'm dead, hunny

TELL ME ABOUT YESTERDAY
Sex
Naps
Korean fried chicken
Bandcamp

WHAT'S SOMETHING WE SHOULD KNOW ABOUT YOU?
I'm America's sweetheart <3

Beige @ The Lot Radio 01-27-2023

The Lot Radio

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