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

✨ 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

Sculpture-like sound resonate through the space.

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Saturday 3 February 2024
CTM 2024 – Sustain
RSO.Berlin

Like a blossoming mind-fungus, the microtextual world of upsammy hums with the uncanny seepage of the organic. Effortlessly blending translucent tones and funky rhythms, the Amsterdam artist creates a natural groove that flows through different speeds of spatial vibes and dreamy soundscapes. Collaborating with visual artist Jonathan Castro in many of her live shows, they craft psyched-out landscapes, playing with contradictions of comfort and solitude. These are beautiful companion pieces to her ephemerally-hitting DJ sets, drawing from trippy experimental DnB and offbeat techno.

@upsammy

CTM 2024: upsammy at RSO.Berlin

9th June 2023, the incredible @kiernanlaveaux live at Mansions, NYC. A 2 hour snippet of a 6 hour set. <3

Artwork by her partner Malzof with a photo from this Mansions set

"The shape design is from Wind Chorus by Pauline Oliveros - which I also have the design of on some custom slipmats that are also visible in the photo ;)"

<3

ani/live Forty: Kiernan Laveaux @ Mansions

𝔀𝓱𝓪𝓽 𝓲𝓯 𝔀𝓮 𝓽𝓻𝓮𝓪𝓽𝓮𝓭 𝓶𝓾𝓼𝓲𝓬 𝔀𝓲𝓽𝓱 𝓽𝓱𝓮 𝓿𝓪𝓵𝓾𝓮 𝓲𝓽 𝓭𝓮𝓼𝓮𝓻𝓿𝓮𝓼?

@morelian

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 • MOR ELIAN.wav

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

Image by CCL

𝙡𝙞𝙦𝙪𝙞𝙙𝙩𝙞𝙢𝙚 w CCL #11 Rock Pools @refugeworldwide

Juanita's Mix 100 with Ciel @ciel_dj

Q. How would you describe yourself?
A. a music maker with too much sincerity and a passion for sampling, film, and leftist politics

Q. What drew you to the music scene in the beginning and where do you hope to see it in the future?
A. Looking back at my life, I think everything from my birth led me on this path towards music. It was my first love. But as an only child, my experience with music growing up was always very solitary. I yearned to be part of a community radio station with Iikeminded music nerds, and it was working for a radio station eventually during my undergraduate that brought me toward DJing and rave culture. Back then I never thought I could do this full time, but once I got the chance to make a living doing this, I realized the scene was far from perfect, in fact it's very exploitative. I hope in the future we can find a way to fairly compensate music makers for the incredible gift of music they bestow upon the world, without becoming beholden to corrupt corporate & military interests. Artists can be hyper individualistic and self-interested, and I hope we can get better at looking out for each other instead of just our own paycheques.

Q. Tell us a little bit about this mix.
A. I wanted to present a different side of myself to international audiences on such a wonderful mix platform. Perhaps people outside of my home city of Toronto are less familiar with my downtempo sets, but it's been a significant part of my wheelhouse for years, and have gained even wider affection from me since I started doing a downtempo party in Toronto last year. Like I always say, 80-100bpm is the most natural tempo for extended human body movements. I also liked the idea of doing a mix that doesn't build in a predictable way, instead it waxes and wanes like the natural rhythm of life. So many of my favourite mixes build and release tension in a way that's very satisfying to listen to, the sounds intensify to a frenzy before disintegrating into nothingness. I wanted to play with that rise and fall and mix downtempo and dub with double time d&b in a non-linear way that is evocative of our most precious memories and tells stories we've only seen in dreams. Downtempo and dub also seemed like the perfect genres to play in the 100th mix for Juanita's, and in the lead up to my fav April holiday. :) I hope the listeners enjoy it.

Juanita's Mix 100: Ciel

Prior to her gig at Nowadays upsammy presents an hour of trippy electronics, the experimental side of DnB and oddball techno.

https://www.instagram.com/upsammy_

upsammy @ The Lot Radio 03-30-2024

In very loose terms, James K's (@jamesk_1 music operates at the fringes of the pop world. It is experimental and industrial, packed with hooks and riddled with dreamy textures that show off her mastery of synths. She has released it in album form with Dial and Incenso, dropped EPs on AD 93 and collaborated with the likes of Drew McDowall and Stefan Maie, and always manages to imbue her adventurous arrangements with real-world emotions and anxieties. This year she will join us at Dekmantel Festival but not before serving up this week's podcast.

It's the sort of rhythmically thrilling workout that has always stood James apart: jittery drum patterns and kinetic grooves that unfold at 100 miles an hour as a barrage of caustic motifs, hypnagogic melodies and hyper-real colours all bounce about the mix. There is an ever-present sense of tension in the way things are assembled - it's as if they might implode or explode at any minute, and it all sounds fantastically futuristic.

Dekmantel Podcast 460 - James K

Here's the recording of my set at Nowadays Nonstop on Feb 12th, 3-6am

endless gratitude to DJ Voices https://soundcloud.com/latenitesbookclub for the opportunity to do my thing in total freedom

upsammy @ The Lot Radio 03-30-2024

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