it's birds! I recorded this yesterday and I would like to make it free for content creators. CC0 license for simplicity but I would appreciate it if you leave a link to the sound and my name - Sequoia Alexander - in your video description. Thank you!

Birdsong from a farm with light background sound (copyright free - sounds for content creators)

Live @ Nowadays Nonstop - Jan. 20, 2024

This is a wild, unapologetic, barnstorming ride recorded between 1:00-4:00 on a throbbing dancefloor during the first leg of Nowadays Nonstop on the night of Jan 20. This was a romp of delivering my intentions passionately and precisely, playing many of my favorites, and operating at my very best across genres, traveling through a tunnel of engulfing psychedelic darkness, bass weight, shifting tempos, and beat structures into celebratory light. 

As an artist/DJ, these are some of the moments one lives for. It’s certainly something I’ve dreamed about for years. The opportunity to play in one of the rave’s hallowed halls - one of the most esteemed clubs and my own very favorite - was a dream come true and has been a quiet moment of apotheosis and vindication of years of dedicated, focused work. 

There are many nods and treats in this set: tracks shown to me by friends, absolute hypnotizing favorites and gems I’ve held onto, the voice of my true love, and (for those following my lore closely) the magic of opening with Phil Elverum’s work. Tracklist below:

[artist - track title]

Mount Eerie - Mouth of Sky (Wolves in the Throne Room remix)
Dawn Razor - Scary Movies
Eric Fetcher - Balter
Secus - Time Dilation
Antigone - Artefakt
Teno - Cyclamen (Polygonia remix)
Goyle - Immaterial Expansion
ORBE - Nepo
Erika - Wandering Mountain (Mike Parker remix)
Cirkle - Cygnus
JX-216 - Yuba
Furtive - Body and Mind (feat Emme) (Vocal Version)
stndrd - Trichophyton
George Effe - Metronomic Chemotherapy
Crøwn - Impulsive Decomposition (Begin Repaint)
Klara - Trajectory Bound
Denise Rabe - Don’t Leave
NØ Shelter - Steel Under Skin
JUDAΣ - Anathema III
Robert Hoff - Boderline (DJ Sodeyama remix)
Ritaffein - Tension 05
Fixon - Star Signs
Reeko - Habitación 877
Stndrd - Transmissions (T Kode Remix)
Kavari - Attachment Style
Red Army - Yergacheffe VIP
Blood Trust - Carboot
Homemade Weapons - Vexagon
RDG & Gaze III - Fracas
Bereneces - Rain
Shiken Hanzo - The Reaping VIP
Rhythm Assembler - Geometric (Conrad Van Orton Amen edit)
Verdae - San Caravan
Fetus, Itti - Mayflies
Rask - Artificial Intellingence (Seul Ensemble remix)
Aloka - Granulate
Porter Brooker - Present Tense
Shai FM - Bounce
Trois-Quarts Taxi System - Rat
Intellagama - Tellurian Gait
Kick21 - Hollister model type beat
JC Laurent - Nothing But An Illusion
A Strange Wedding - Temples of Quantum (Straigth Backward mix)
ULV - My Sofa Turns into a Desert
Spekki Webu - Elevation
DJ G2G & Marilao - Swift
KayTV - Fancy Shamancy
DJ Bondefar - Ice Worm
Dejan SE - Mytomani (Juan Trujillo remix 1)
Terminus - Green Mirror
Kyle Geiger - Slingshot Orbit (Stripped Edit)
Benales - Grip
Kuba Sojka - Basic Form
Baugruppe90 - Destiny
Edvvin - Do The Damn Thing (William Arist remix)
Murat - Missing
Johnny from Space - sinimiedo
D Stone - Something is Coming
CRYME - MIND UR BODY (DJ Emerson remix)
n_o - You Deserve Beauty and Spa Juice
Rene Wise - Fuego    
MNLR - Arsenic Mind
Vohkinne - Velocity (Vegin Repaint)
Reeko, Jonas Kopp - Introducción Gradual de la Tiranía
Kastil - Submissive
Ritaffein - Tension 02
Prior & Al Wooton - Leniency
Attenuator - Wyrd
k2dj - Peroxic (with Stella)
Sangam & Kid Smpl - Found Wings

Nowadays Nonstop January 20, 2024

Furtive live at Nowadays Nonstop Jan. 20, 2024

*** You can buy the CD mix at my bandcamp ***
https://octoocta.bandcamp.com/merch/groovy-girl-bang-the-drum-cd-mix

Hiii, Octo Octa here! I'm sharing a new mix series I'm doing under the name "Groovy Girl" and the first entry is "Bang The Drum" <3 

It is a house and acid percussive groover of a mix that will hopefully have you raving where ever you are. Mixed on two Technics 1210 M5Gs and a Pioneer A9 Mixer, plus some overdubs on the recording. 

This release is a Mix CD tracked so you can jump back over and over to your favorite part. The CD insert has photos of all of the records I used for the mix in order.

I hope you enjoy this as much as I enjoyed making it. Can't wait to get started on the next in the series!!

*** You can buy a digital version of the mix on Nina ***
https://www.ninaprotocol.com/releases/groovy-girl-bang-the-drum

xoxo Maya

Groovy Girl - Bang The Drum Mix

A day to remember. Hope you will enjoy this 2 hour set taken from a 4 hour journey of one of my most memorable shows to date. Sailing the Hudson river, watching the sunset, enjoying the skyline of New York whilst playing my favorite music of that moment. Goosebumps all over.

Chris Stussy @ Teksupport, New York 02.09.2024

The in-demand US DJ unfurls dubby, dance floor poetry.

Where does sentimentality fit on the dance floor? For Liv Klutse, AKA livwutang, the answer is everywhere. The New York-based DJ is guided by a deep desire to stir connection, finding themes and points of correspondence across an impressively broad range of sounds, tempos and eras. 

This emotional intuition lends Klutse's sets a depth few others can match. Her selections can seem unpredictable, rooted in an appreciation for feeling over genre—hard and soft sounds are carefully balanced with surrealism and bursts of nostalgia (for instance, the Lazy Dog bootleg edit of Everything But The Girl's "Tracey In My Room"). But as versatile as she is, a few signature traits colour her style, such as a love for dubwise music and rhythms from across the Black diaspora, alongside a refreshingly introspective energy that invites dancers to find moments of meditation—even during peak time. 

A former staffer at our New York office, Klutse has long merited an RA Podcast. Her slow-burning blends and mystical selections have graced near-enough every major festival and club out there, from Dekmantel and Sustain-Release to Nowadays, where she's been a resident since 2022. Despite this cross-continental touring schedule, she still plays plenty of grassroots venues—testament to her days with TUF collective and Orphan Radio in Seattle, as well as her enduring belief in the power of DIY, community-orientated dance music. 

"How did you come down off life?" James Massiah asks at the beginning of RA.975. Across nearly 90 minutes, Klutse's downright beautiful mix seeks answers to this question, reflecting on hedonism in times of political decay. She's in full-on dub mode, moving through meditative bassweight, glitchy house and flat-out weirdo techno with a deftness we've come to expect from one of the most promising, singular voices in dance music right now. She's got there all on her own terms—and we couldn't be prouder.

@livwutang

Read more and find the tracklist ra.co/podcast/975

RA.975 livwutang

My set of Weekend 2 at Coachella, enjoy <3

Chris Stussy @ Coachella 18.04.2025

mxmouse @ Oasis Nightclub

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[05] Schmutz - Carp
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[15] Four Tet - Into Dust (Still Falling) (Extended Mix) [XL]
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[24] Tony Romera - Boiling Room
[29] Four Tet - Baby [Text]
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[44] Groove P - Are They Real
[47] ?
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[51] Four Tet - Daydream Repeat
[57] Dubfire & Oliver Huntemann - Fuego (Julian Jeweil Remix) [Senso Sounds]
[61] Autechre - Eutow [Warp]
[64] KH - Only Human
[67] ?
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[70] Four Tet - Lahaina Noon [Text]
[76] Anthony Naples - Night
[79] Aril Brikha - Groove La Chord [Art Of Vengeance]

Four Tet - Live set (Sónar 2025 LIVE ARTE Concert)

My set at Paradise City on Friday the 27th of June 2025. Really enjoyed playing a bit deeper during this set. 

Enjoy the 2 hour ride. 

Chris Stussy @ Paradise City, Brussels 27.06.2025

The essence of psychedelia is disrupting expectations and altering perspectives - what better place to do so than in the vortex of the rave? 

It was an incredible honor to be a part of the inaugural edition of System Activate. The entire weekender campout rave was an exercise in intentionality, a generous labor of love with visionary execution. Anchored by a single stage with a pristine sound system, brought to life by a seasoned, die-hard-DIY team, and animated with an incredibly unpretentious, open-minded, and imaginative crowd of ravers, System Active was truly a novel, eye-opening adventure that struck real sparks of psychedelic inspiration. 

I believe this is one of the finest sets that I have played to date. Completely at ease in the booth, I played fervently and completely from the heart. This is a totally honest and unrestrained rendition of my creative screwball sensibilities as a DJ, conjuring a propulsive rhythmic tunnel and peeling away into moments of whiplash slack-jawed surprises. Rooted in wormhole-traversing techno but stretching well into psychedelic sludge, shameless sentimentality, poignant lessons, heaving bass-weight, and references to formative personally-precious material, this is a completely earnest translation of my psyche that also incorporates the work of friends and peers. 

It was a deep joy to be in the company of so many brilliant and clever dancefloor scramblers and dear friends as I landed us in dawn's first light. I am deeply grateful for this experience, and excited to share this transmission from the vortex.

TRACKLIST
[artist - track title]

ENTRANCE - Winterlude
Ryuichi Sakamoto - fullmoon
Rose Monica - Be Your Better Self
Plead Slyngshot Neewt - Studio Pressure
Forest on Stasys - Torre De Alquimia
Brnches - Weird Bells
Callum Plant - Nothing More
Marteka Fair - Lucid Thinking
Ω - 99HMI
Perc & Passarella Death Squad - Temperature’s Rising (2025 mix)
Âsan - Reason
Jonas Kopp - Ocher System #1
Max Cantrell - Temporal Shave (Hpin Remix)
Verschwender - Anxiety, Always Haunting Me
Allana Letm - Tempos Múltiplos (Centrific Dump A Puddle In My Hand Remix)
Vertical Spectrum - Oko bez sowy
ANFS - Gesha
Orbe - Jaxa
Goyle - Notice
Blawan - Slow Mick
Zagc - SwampWorld dance dance 500
Concept of Thrill - Cert
LaWhat - Trippy Widow
Kalocain - OBE
Simic - Valley
Joshua James - Coarse (Justin Cudmore Remix)
Richard Holhburn - Better Not Look Too Close
Torvvo - Relay
Astral Renegades - Pluto FM
Switch & Erol Allan - A Sydney Jook (Bok Bok Remix)
The Books - I Am Who I Am
Answer Friend Request - Behringerbandpass (V2)
Erol Alkan - Spectrum (Special Request Kaleidoscopic Mix)
Simic - Orbetello
U - Ascension Hymn
A Strange Wedding - Les Ké de la Daurade
Strapontin & Zillas On Acid - What Worse?
Sextile - 99 Bongos
Slowglide - Solstice (Stonehenge mix)
Arthur Johnson - On The Request Line
Radart - Welcome
Dido - Here With Me
Bruno Sanchez & The Next - Born Hip
Hysterical Love Project - Psychic Nausea
Sideral Tapes - Sideral Tapes #4B
James Begley - Distance
Now Always Fades - Into The Doldrums
APRS - I Was Still Awake
Mint Julep - Aviary
Miles J Paralysis - Still Waiting
Deep Dark Blue - Reincarnation (Otodojo Remix)
DJ Frog and SnP 500 - Cali
Yeyo - feel it
Chelsea Wolfe - Dusk

Furtive live at System Activate 2025

BIG UP !!!! NOW OPEN FOR FREE DOWNLOAD 
Massive shout to everyone out there that follows the music that we all make its a really amazing thing to see a movement grow so big ! So here's a collection of my tunes mixed with some amazing colabs and tracks from others on the label and our friends .

Thanks 
Mandidextrous 

1 Dance hall Queen (Mandidextrous) 
2 Dangerous (Mandidextrous) 
3 Hot Hot Hot (Wicked Squad FT General Levy Mandidextrous RMX)
4 We do the killin (T-Menace & Skinbad) 
5 Badder dan dem (Mandidextrous)
6 Lion Or Die (Mandidextrous & Heatzy)
7 Smokin my herbs (T-Menace & Vandal) 
8 Money are dem god (Mandidextrous) 
9 Gals dem sugar (Mandidextrous & Vandal) 
10 Doing Doing Doing (Heatzy)
11 More Fire (Vandal)(Kaotik Records) 
12 Unitek (MikkiM, Mandidextrous,T-Menace Ft MC Turner)
13 Boom shot dis (T-Menace Ft Cheshire Cat) 
14 All over me (Mandidextrous & T-Menace)
15 R.A.V.E In session (Mandidextrous & Stivs Jungletekmafia mix)
16 Dance & Give it up (Mandidextrous) 
17 Ruff & Tuff (Mandidextrous)
18 Whats Rollin ! (T-Menace & Thrackh) LEMTEK RECORDS
19 Bad Man (T-Menace & General Waste) 
20 Day Walker (Mandidextrous ft D.S.C) 
21 Musically Dope (mandidextrous) 
22 Murda was Tek Bass (Mandidextrous & Matt:Scratch) 
23 Speed Dust (Mandidextrous & Matt:Scratch) 
24 Screamer RMX (Mandidextrous) 

ARTIST CREDITS 
@T-Menace 
@si-vandal-kaotik 
@matt-scratch
@general-waste
@Skinbad 
@Stivs 
@heatzy-tekk 
@Thrackh
@WickedSquad 

Catch me at the following festivals this year 
Balter Festival 
Symmetry Festival 
Glastonbury Festival (Salon Carousel Unfairground) 
Tramun Fest Spain 
Boomtown Festival 
Hidden Village Festival 
Elements Festival Austria 
Illusive Festival 
BIG UP !!!