Smartmix 83: Aguila

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Monolithic / Lounge 2 Function @ The Lot Radio 05-20-2024

"this is a mix to get ready to.. a cute and c*nty mix to get you in the mood for a fab night out" 
– Angel D'lite

STORE MIX 109 - ANGEL D'LITE

Deep house with heaps of soul to guide spring into summer.

"House music to me is about emotion… it's about how it moves you," says Suze Phaff, better known as Suze Ijó. Emerging from a thriving Dutch scene, Ijó belongs to a generation of DJs reshaping dance culture from the ground up, restoring soul and musicality to the centre of house music. It's a conversation happening not just in her home town of Rotterdam, but globally, among kindred spirits like MUSCLECARS and Dee Diggs in New York, Errol and Alex Rita of Touching Bass in London, and OMOLOKO in Belo Horizonte.

You could call Ijó a deep house DJ, but it's much deeper than that. Her sets embody house music in its most musical sense, rich in nimble percussion, woodwinds, calypso drums, gospel vocals, and romantic string sections. They channel the jazz-inflected heartbeat of the East Coast, the breeze of Balearic shores, and the light-footed rhythms of the Caribbean.

As Ijó explains in her Q&A, her RA Podcast "hopefully feels like a loving embrace." Opening with Key Trunks Ensemble's "Calypso of House (Paradise Mix)," she sets a buoyant, life-affirming tone that carries through the next 90 minutes. As the mix unfolds, her affinity for timelessness is clear, with selections that hark back to the golden age of house, from Lonesome Echo Production's "Sweet Dream (Shrine Sweet Mix)" to the euphoric swell of Blaze's "Klubtrance."

Listening to RA.986, it's no surprise that The Loft—David Mancuso's legendary, much-missed New York party—serves as a key influence for Ijó. "He wasn't confined to just one genre but would just play 'good music' in the right context," she explains. "He allowed the music to breathe."

If ambient music is defined by its ability to breathe in and reflect its surroundings, then Ijó's RA Podcast is ambient in the truest, most human sense: a deep, enveloping soundscape that feels like sunrise, like community, like home—wherever you may choose to listen.

@suze_ijo

Find the tracklist and interview at ra.co/podcast/986

RA.986 Suze Ijó

Chaos In The CBD - Downtempo Special | RA Greenhouse Sessions

Starting the count on our 𝑮𝒂𝒕𝒆𝒑𝒍𝒂𝒚 series is Blu:sh. Recored live from the festival, delve into the fun, ravey, trancey selections from the French maestro at the Crescent stage as the sun set on our first year.

@benoitb

Gateplay 001 - Blu:sh (live from Gateway 2024)

Sherelle recorded live from the Derren Smart stage at Houghton 2024.

Recorded at Houghton - Sherelle (2024)

That classic 90s house sound is one that modern producers have constantly tried to emulate over the past two decades; however, few have truly mastered the feeling quite like UK producer @bragacircuit.

Real name Joseph Burrows, the mysterious artist doesn’t have too many appearances in the form of the press. Still, his signature, vocal-infused tracks have been celebrated by the likes of Ben UFO, Moxie, and more.
His style is quintessentially British, mixing breakbeat, downtempo, deep house, and UKG elements into rave-ready records that would perfectly soundtrack a Friday night basement rave in Hackney.

Whilst being active from around 2016, BC started to gain momentum around 2018-2020 with tracks like Cloudburst and his remix of Ssin’s 2020 track Love Affair finding their way onto NTS radio and theBasement Discos label respectively. From there, the Margate resident has amassed an impressive discography, which includes five long-form albums that have been either self-released or released on labels such as Air Miles, Axe on Wax, and Sour Edits.

His journey into electronic music has been an organic one. His tutelage has come from the friends closest to him, like Loed & DECED, who have also gone on to make names for themselves within their own right. To sum it up, Braga Circuit is a forward-thinking artist who represents the very best of the underground UK scene (in our humble opinion). For our thirteenth edition of //SNCMIX, Mr Burrows takes us through an hour of 90s/early 2000s deep house, shares his origins, and the tracks that shaped him.

Full Interview: https://www.sncmag.co.uk/music/sm-013-braga-circuit/

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Tracklist:

Axone / X_1 - Happy, Hippie, Hifi
Gumbo - Klarky Cat
Familia Loca - Sliced
Drivetrain - Just a Little Bit
Nail - Clear My Mind
Itamar Sagi - One Million Oaks (Funk D'Void Remix)
Vince Watson - Beneath The Sound
Michael Lange - The Only Way Is Up Feat. Ron Carroll (Oliver $ Dub)
Len - Steal My Sunshine (Bougie Soliterre Remix)
Delano Smith featuring Diamond Dancer - A Message For The DJ (Jimpster Red Light Remix)
Putch 2 - A
Braga Circuit - Right When I Told You
Anthony Naples - Lifetimes
Malin Genie & Frits Wentink - Fuzzy Dunlop
ZZ BANKS - Comet (Deep Mix)
Swoose - Sly Toot
Marius Acke - Realuv
Edu Reig - My Heart Beats
PARSA - Sometimes
Ploy - I Need You
Braga Circuit - Dance With Me
Rico Scott & Leigh Hunt - Node 01
Power In The Groove featuring Kemeisha Holmes - It's Automatic (Solid Groove Dub Mix)
Azaad - Torn
Architectural - Love Drums Massacre
Braga Circuit - Break It Down