The MoMA invited The Lot Radio to setup camp in the Sculpture Garden every first Friday of the month from 4pm to 8pm for the UNIQLO NYC Nights.

UNIQLO NYC Nights @ MoMA

A soulful return to house, this mix is for Fokus Global, fats, femmes & those who love us. <3

Apply Pressure

Mez for Underground & Black w/ Ash Lauryn on NTS

his week on There Is No Planet Earth Radio I’m excited to welcome guest DJ Michael Magnan

Michael Magnan is a DJ, artist, and guncle celebrating 21 years of dj’ing and planting seeds in NYC. Michael is 1/2 of production duo Fatherhood who have releases on Study Records, Batty Bass, Clubwerks, and a compilation project for Nervous Records. He has solo tracks featured on compilations released by TRAX, Sweat Equity and Get Up Recordings.

Michael is currently a resident dj at Nowadays in nyc and formerly 11:11, Holy Mountain, and Slurp with Linda Simpson and Telfar.

Michael is also a fierce designer doing club flyers & t-shirts for parties around nyc.

Episode 21 w/ Michael Magnan

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

JADALAREIGN Refuge Worldwide Guest Mix

@analogsoul_nyc dazzled and amazed at The Grove on Friday night. They kept the energy high, weaving between joyful house music and driving, late night techno.

Campout Mix Series: Analog Soul

MoMA NIGHTS with DJ Tara 11 - 04 - 2022

JWords @ MoMa Nights 12 - 02 - 2022

Musclecars @ MoMa Nights 12 - 02 - 2022

a recent addition to the Carry fam, @sisterzo has already made quite a splash, landing deep in our hearts and down on the floors of NYC and beyond!

CARRY BLOWOUT BLITZ: SISTER ZO

MoMA Nights with Felipe from BK 02-03-2023

MoMA Nights with JADALAREIGN 02-03-2023

https://soundcloud.com/alexiscurshe

An Atlanta-based DJ and Deep South resident, Alexis Curshé, kicks off Black History Month with a mix honoring the roots of how it all started. A blend of early '90s and early '00s house and techno mixed with recent releases by black powerhouse DJs.

Rich Medina Accapella
Mike Huckaby - Radiance
Octal Industries - When It Rains It Pours (Mike Huckaby RMX)
Raze - Break 4 Love (Original Mix)
Mr. Fingers - Dead End Alley
DJ Pierre & Marshall Jefferson - House Music
Thompson & Lenoir - Can't Stop The House (Basement Mix)
Frankie Knuckles - Workout (1992 Vocal Mix) feat. Roberta Gilliam
Terrence Parker - We Need Somebody
Orlando Voorn - Teaser
K-Hand - Got To Love
Orlando Voorn & Juan Atkins - Beyond the Beyond
Chez Damier & Ron Trent - Sometimes I Feel Like
DJ Pierre - MuSiQ

Deep South Black History Month Podcast - 112 - Alexis Curshé

MoMA Nights with Kilopatrah Jones  @ The Lot Radio 04-07-2023

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

FOr the 114th entry in the Honcho Podcast Series, we welcome Detroit's, @etta_sound. An Ohio-born, Detroit-based DJ, writer, and self described technomusicologist, DJ Etta occupies most of her time scheming with her crew Blueprint, curating mixes for Moods, working as a tour guide at Exhibit 3000, or documenting the impact of black women in dance music. Her sets take a free form approach, basking in unabashed joyfulness untethered to genre. 

Her selections range from naughty boogie disco to enveloping house to classic, golden era hip-hop, mixed with a cohesive grace and effortless musicality. Enjoy DJ Etta's hour long mix of smooth, joyous house music.

MoMA Nights with Kilopatrah Jones @ The Lot Radio 04-07-2023

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