A mix of tunes I gathered for my set at Silk, @1111_hz's FLINTA lesbian club night at Système back in October. Volume 2 on the way, maybe.

Dregs - Swampy
Archive - All Time
Lamb - Trans Fatty Acid
Tricky - Overcome
Terranova - Midnight Melodic (Chase the Blues)
Neneh Cherry - Shot Gun Shack
Massive Attack - Black Milk
Scala - Honey Like
Crustation - Down Down
Martina Topley-Bird - Sandpaper Kisses
Waldeck - Fallen Angel
Bowery Electric - Passages
Portishead - Sheared Times / C’hantal - The Realm (Acapella)
Unkle - Bloodstain
Swandive - Demunication 
Everything but the Girl - Before Today
Aromabar - Winter Pageant
Love Spirals Downwards - Ring

Thirst Tracks Vol. 1

Études Mix N°65 by DJ Plead @1djplead
IG:@djplead
Curated by Aimée @am-agency

A few words from the artist:
1/ How would you describe your personal connection to music and how it influences your creative process?
My personal connection to music is constantly evolving and occasionally complicated. At times I'll feel so tired by it and at other times I'm addicted to it. My creative process requires me to have some time-off from music. Mainly time off from DJing, actually. When I'm surrounded by lots of functional music designed for night clubs, it's hard for me to truly feel creative and have the energy to make new music. 

2/ As an artist, how do you see the intersection between fashion and music? 
I'd like to be more involved with the intersection of fashion and music! It feels like it would be an exciting estuary. 

3/ What particularly interested you in collaborating with Études to make this mix?
I like Études! I've been a fan since before I was releasing music. I was interested in a particular artist called Colin Snapp and bought his book that Études had published. The Études tumblr was also a very frequent source of inspiration for me. It feels weird and exciting to do something for a brand I've been following for a long time. 

4/ How did you curate this musical sequence/audio journey?
I tried to think about it being autumn going into winter over in europe and chose a few tracks that felt a bit like they were slowing down. I'm currently back in Australia so the opposite seasonal change is occurring, so I still have some slightly more spring-oriented tracks in there. 

5/ Three words to define your mix for Études?
Groovy, Deaky, Sloppy

Tracklist:
pHactory / Ancient Paths (Beatless Mix)
Razoof / Atuko
Various Artists / Forte – Hats and Toms
Golden Teacher Meets Dennis Bovell / Like A Hawk (D.B Version)
Phil Stroud / The Forest
Bartellow / SABA
Razoof / Sura Nzuri
Batida apresenta IKOQWE / Falta Muito? Feat. Spoek Mathambo
Mbizo / Bullet
soso tharpa / Serpentine
Kevin Murf / Bagombo
OCP / Raise Your Legs
Wladimir M / Evil
Dj Raw / Tech Dreams
Chiapet / Westworld (Medieval Funk Mix)
Levon Vincent / CONCRETE JUNGLE TRACKS 2 (NOVEL SOUND #38)
Clay Wilson / Rough Ends
Knopha / Off-Peak Season Tourists

DJ Plead Mix N°65

Live for No System takeover at Drama Radio Bar CDMX.12.15.2024
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EtZofjwk-Y0

NAP @ DramaRadio// No System Take Over

Available on Audio Cassette and digital download directly from the label’s Bandcamp: https://cclurl.bandcamp.com/album/a-night-in-the-skull-discotheque

Side A: Bass is Eternal
Side B: 2-step Mutual Dream

A Night in the Skull Discotheque by the beloved underground selector CCL is the latest offering in the T4T LUV NRG label’s highly limited DJ mix series of cassettes. This immersive journey through a wonderland of proto-dubstep sounds from the late 1970s through the year 2000 is a sonic sibling to CCL’s acclaimed 2018 mix Ode to Queer Steppas.

Inspired in part by Eris Drew’s use of “old records to create new styles out of fragments” on her Raving Disco Breaks Vol. 1 mixtape (T4T LUV NRG, 2019), CCL approached this recording with a parallel frame of mind. Created with 3 CDJs, one Turntable, and a Boss Digital Delay 200, the tracks included in the mix are deconstructed from their whole, and constituent parts are intertwined, sampled, and dubbed out while being further stretched beyond their physical limits. CCL mixed many tracks at the 'wrong speed', pitched beyond their original recognizable tone; others are recontextualized through imaginative layering.

With a solid nod to seminal mixtapes of the early 90s, CCL references the namesake for Side A, Bass Is Eternal, an unreleased 1992 mixtape by influential Bristolian producers Smith & Mighty, an important sonic fulcrum amongst the musical tributaries of the hardcore continuum that continues to reverberate to this day. CCL experienced the after-effects of this ‘proto’ sound genesis in 2008, while living in Bristol, by which point its emergent whispers had coalesced into what became known as dubstep. Tracing a rich history of reference through the samples, basslines, moods, and drum patterns emanating from Bass Is Eternal while looking for connections that predate it became a long-term fascination for CCL. The result is a DJ mix that connects the oft-forgotten dots between proto eras and modern developments in bass and dubstep.

For the resulting sonic ride on A Night in the Skull Discotheque, CCL leads us to a fantastical place of timeless surreality – a majestic haunted dancehall soundtracked by a giddy rush of steppers and dubbed-out delights. Subs rattle through syncopated percs, and moody synths glisten in macabre glory. Fantastical dancers wriggle in wispy eternity, liberated from their corporeal forms in all their greatest spiritual wonder. Both extravagant and dusky, A Night in the Skull Discotheque is a world of seductive in-betweens, a place caught between the moodiest depths and the highest exuberance – A love letter to one of the most impactful formative sounds of the last decades.


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A portion for the proceeds from this release will go to fundraiser "SUPPORT PALESTINIAN SOLIDARITY IN EUROPE!". You can also directly donate via:
https://www.gofundme.com/f/support-palestinian-solidarity-in-europe
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Tape design: Nina Muro
Mastering: TJ Hertz
Additional tape mastering: Eris Drew
Photography: CCL 
Linear notes: Nevan Jio

A Night in the Skull Discotheque [T4T015]

CCL - A Night in the Skull Discotheque

Juanita's Mix 098 with Escaflowne @escaflowne-iii

Q. How would you describe yourself?
A. I'm just a big nerd. A Music nerd first and foremost.

Q. How long have you been a part of the NY music scene?
A. Since 2019

Q. Tell us a little bit about this mix.
A. This mix centered around playing slower stuff that I Love to play, but rarely get a chance to in a live/club setting. Lots of trip hop, downtempo stuff, trax played 30-60 bpms slower and etc...

Juanita's Mix 098: Escaflowne

✨ 𝓈𝑜𝓊𝓃𝒹𝓈 𝑜𝒻 𝒽𝑒𝒶𝓁𝒾𝓃𝑔 𝓋𝑜𝓁. 𝟧  ✨

I started listening to ambient music properly during lockdown as a way of trying to heal from heartbreak as well as a coping mechanism to deal with what was going on around the world. I was pulling together playlists of tracks that made my heart sing or weep, to soundtrack my daily walks around the canals of berlin or the quiet residential area where i grew up and ended up moving back to. These playlists were the start of the sounds of healing series and my journey of digging deeper into ambient soundscapes via my refuge worldwide residency. It’s a genre that I probably would say I have the biggest emotional connection to right now, in the way that it has helped me through some really difficult times in the last four years. So it was an honour to bring this to the club space for the first time for playbody 002, a party run by some of my wonderful  friends. Sounds of healing vol. 5 is a glimpse of what I played during that after hours set, in what became one of the most beautiful settings with the lights dimmed, a candlelight by the decks, people curled up with each other on various platforms, kissing, or deep in conversation. It was touching to witness people have the same emotional reaction to the music as me; people coming up and saying how a track or artist had saved their life or that they just wanted to have this personal moment with the music, away from the conversation. It was deeply vulnerable to play some of these tracks to a group of people, some being strangers but it very much aligns with the journey I’ve been on recently. And with this mix, I’m not only sharing that moment with you but I’m bottling up this feeling and keeping it close to me forever. 

taylor e burch - you gotta start somewhere 
jonny from space - slip 
pugilist - alignment 
hysterical love project - i hope i see some of my haters out tonight 
command d & gi - bleary
purelink - stadium drive 
jonny from space - hearing colors
astrid sonne - say you love me 
erika de casier - the flow 
hyperdawn - maybe 
pontiac streator - time flies (shena’s loop edit) 
nala sinephro - space 1
kelela - far away 
davis galvin - loved 
anthony naples - orb two 
the durutti column - requiem again 
ml buch - high speed calm air tonight 
ot to, not to - new york city 
laila sakini - that wave, that line 
command d & gi - align 
spooky - the river (ambient) 
donato dozzy - vaporware 07 
secede - foliage pathway 
julianna barwick - pyrrhic 
takashi kokubo, andrea esperti - gaia’s love theme 
foam and sand/robot koch/delhia de france - circle 27 
coral morphologic - endless love 
nick león - dolphin 
soria - mary madrugada
julianna barwick - labyrinthine 
rosalía - sakura 
jake muir - tonic 
special guest dj - panoramic deep love story 
mu tate - me when u 
mazzy star - fade into you

sounds of healing vol. 5

pi/live: kohwi b2b llloyd in SF at Ruby Wine

Jaywalking with Yumi @ The Lot Radio 02-19-2024

opening set for nowies ~
dub tech / perc rollers / jungle grooves + more 
pls enjoy <3

Millia @ Nowadays Nonstop (2.10.24)

Complete opening set before the legend that is Radioactive Man. Big love to Keith, Nowadays staff & all the dancers <3

Live @ Nowadays // Opening before Radioactive Man - Jan 26 2024

Recorded for @Refugeworldwide. Inspired by how water interacts with solid structures. 

Image by CCL

Jaywalking with Yumi @ The Lot Radio 02-19-2024

The Lot Radio

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