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Can The Past Be Cleaned By A Storm?

In June 2023, tobha covered the Fictions show for Nono Gigsta on Cashmere radio, exploring music through the lens of the 4 elements.

Appearing several times in this Elements special: By Canoe to Loon Lake, Hiking Over The Highlands, and Sailing To A Hidden Cove from Dan Gibsons, as well as The Promise of Arrival from Lawrence English

01. In The Rain Hirotaka Shirotsubaki
02. Waterfall (Flute) - Hans Berg
03. I Was Born By The Sea [Original + Morgane Polanski Remix | tobha Edit] - Richie Culver
04. Framing The Ocean Waves - Reece Thomas
05. Northern Lights - Cobblestone Jazz
06. Star Seed - Otik
07. Don't Drink the Water - Hiro Kone
08. Breathe - Untold
09. Mirage Of Night Sky - Yasuo Sato
10. The Birds After The Storm Passed - seventhgaze
11. Rivers Edge - Overlook
12. Deep Breathing - Black Rave Culture
13. Lightning - bonebrokk
14. Breathless - Wordcolour
15. What Birds Sing - David Rothenberg
16. Beloved - Laraaji
17. Central Mongolian High Mountain Range Habitat - Patrick Franke
18. Sky And Sand - Sam Goku
19. Sun in C - rRoxymore

Fictions on Cashmere

Fictions Presents tobha 22.06.2023 - The Element Special

Dance The Pain Away E.P. (mp3)

05. My Happiness Is Not Your Due

04. Dance The Pain Away

03. Who Killed The Radio Star

02. Beau lead

01. Sound Of Happiness

My closing set at Globus for Tresor Anniversary—Bass with a twist! When a set is extended for an extra hour, it always makes me happy!

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PLAYLIST:

01. Pierre Henry - Apocalypse de Jean Les ames crient
02. Angel Hunt & Lou Venturini - UtiliTotality
03. HVL - Night Of The Hunter
04. Elliot Adamson  - I'm So Sad
05. Moktar - Drip
06. Anunaku - Nascent
07. Deadbeat - Horns of Jericho
08. A Made Up Sound - Take the Plunge (Beat Mix)
09. Chungo - O O O
10. G3 - La Fanfare
11. Blackstone - Samba Oscura
12. Martyn - Seventy Four (Redshape Mix)
13. General Ludd - Wigu Hill
14. Surusinghe - Bad Girls
15. Ricardo Tobar - Evade
16. Renaissance Man - Journey
17. Roy Of The Ravers - Emotinium
18. Bamao Yendé	- PERCOLATE 07AM
19. Orion Agassi - El Sonido
20. Special Request - Fahrenheit 451
21. Bambounou - Splaz
22. Cruel Boyz- Umeqo Emagqomini (dub mix)
23. Bepotel - +Quarry/S
24. Controlled Weirdness - Agents Everywhere
25. Shlomi Aber & Kenny Larkin - Sketches (Kenny Larkin Version)
26. Martyn & The Spaceape - Is This Insanity? (Ben Klock Mix)
27. Asusu - Sendak
28. Boddika - Acid Battery
29. Julio Bashmore - Battle For Middle You (Pj Bridger Refix)
30. Herman - Rain Dance (CAIN Remix)
31. The Mole - Lockdown Party (DJ Sprinkles Crossfaderama)
32. Bjork & Anohni - The Dull Flame Of Desire (Modeselektor Remix For Girls)
33. Air Max '97 - Myokymia
34. A-Sim - Dub Bells
35. DJ Lag - Drumming	
36. Voiron - De l'acid (Acid Burger)

Tresor Anniversary | Globus Closing | 06:30-09:30

From Sabreen’s Song for Childhood and a queer interpretation of Ya Zareef Attoul, to the queer love stories of Bashar Murad and Darbet Shams, dancing in between to some electronic beats from AASAS and rRoxymore or Zenobia, this episode humbly presents a fragment of the rich Palestinian musical culture.

Even if it's always a very strange way to justify colonialism—there is actually no way to justify it—, colonialist forces try to make us think that LGBTQI+ individuals are not and cannot be fully part of the Palestinian reality. To prove them wrong, the show is filled with many songs celebrating queer identities from within the Palestinian society. Many of these tracks are extracted from the album “Singing Sexuality” edited by AlQaws.

Here is the playlist, which only represents a small part of the rich diversity one can find in the Palestinian musical heritage and culture.

01. Sabreen - A Song for Childhood
02. Minkom O Feekom - Ya Zareef Attoul
03. Nai Barghouti - Rajeen
04. Mina - Betti Sahrana
05. Darbet Shams – “Let Your Love Choose » (خلي حبك يختار)
06. Jame3 Taksir and Rola Azzar - B7ebbik
07. Maya Al Khaldi الضوء - Al Daw' (Nothing Comes Back the Same)
08. Sarouna - Ya Halali
09. ASAAS أساس & rRoxymore - Tarwida
10. Muqata'a - Ikhtirak
11. Saint Levant - On This Land (feat SOL Band)
12. Daboor - Sheikh Jarrah
13. DAM - HA'E'E KFAYE - (حقيقي كفاية)
14. Julmud (جُلْمود) - Taghyeer Thabet (تغير ثابت)
15. Yusor Hamed x Maysa Daw - Tuffah
16. Zenobia - Funky Egal
17. 47SOUL - Dabke System (السبعة و أربعين - دبكة سيستم)
18. Bashar Murad - Maskhara (بشار مراد مسخرة)
19. Maysa Daw X Jebus - Hura Bi Hali (ميسا ضو × جيبوس - حرة بحالي)
20. Terez Sliman - Shahrazad
21. Raymond Haddad - Everything Changed

Fictions presents tobha pt 2 – Palestine Special

On August 16, 2024, i was back on the Globus floor of Tresor for the closing (set-time: 05:30 - 07:30). It felt very important for me because luz (who opened the night) and Willis are friends and people i admire quite much.

So i think i needed a bit of time to get into the groove this time (always impressing to play after friends) but i had a lot of fun in the booth! Seeing some people coming from downstairs out of curiosity at the beginning of my set and staying on the dancefloor until closing was a real blessing. I'm really grateful for the dancers who made the floor quite magical on that night. I also feel blessed for my friends who either joined me for the first part of the night or who woke up specially for my set!

The selection is a big mix between new tracks, old things, and big classics (edits). I also had a lot of fun cultivating moments of silence and low volume. Most probably what i love most on a dancefloor.

The big mixing soups around 01h18 and 01h34 (i guess i was a bit tired at that point—oopsie) made me a bit hesitant about publishing the set. But in the end, i found it cute (might delete later).
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01. Lewis Lowe - Toto's Cave
02. Justin Jay, DJ Buster G - Ballz
03. Kahn - TEHRAN 
04. Otik - Angel Farm
05. Mr. Mitch - Trusss
06. Corticyte - Horn 
07. Nicola Cruz - Se pone caliente
08. General Ludd - Wigu Hill
09. Hassan Abou Alam - Kesibt Ft. SHBL-LBSH
10. Breaka - Icy Grills
11. Loleatta Holloway - Stand Up (Pangaea's mix)
12. Switch - A Bit Patchy (Kenny Dope Mix)
13. Almaty - Sonic Signature
14. Special Request - Redrum
15. Violet - Abyss
16. Beneath - The Passage
17. Bruce - Tilikum (Hodge remix)
18. Joshua James - Love To Do It
19. Shcuro - Afterlife (featuring ELLES)
20. Paul Johnson - Get Get Down (Pj Bridger Refix)
21. Akito - Metamessage (Alternate Mix)
22. DJ Cuddles - Rhythm of the Night
23. Scaarlet - You Feel Me
24. Lukas Wigflex and Son Of Philip - Curtains Nine Tales
25. Renaissance Man - Kama (Dance With Me)
26. Soreab - Cave Walk
27. Chungo - Duvrow Hill
28. Fixate - G Reg Metro

Tresor 16.08.2024 | Globus Closing | 05:30 - 07:30

I recently had the chance to be part of an amazing line-up curated by Ben UFO. I had an amazing moment opening The Swirl dancefloor on Sunday February 9th, before Le Motel, re:lax, and Ben UFO.

With the audience, we embarked on a journey starting on a highly political note (how could I have done it differently?) and slowly moving towards half-step corners and later to d&b highs.

Before playing i asked myself many times how I could make it without melting on stage as i felt very small on the line up Ben put together. Thanks again for the chance you gave me, Ben!

I’ll definitely continue to cherish dancefloors as sacred spaces, not only for some escapism (this is the least we can do there) but even more as places to resist, cultivate our shared differences, and regain forces before we go back to the streets. See you there and let’s get stronger together! ❤️

PLAYLIST:

01. Bishop Mariann Edgar Budde pleads with Trump to have mercy on LGBTQ immigrants
02. Billy Bultheel- Snows of Venice
03. NikNak - Ikigai (Live)
04. Ibukun Sunday - Nightmare Of My Choice
05. NKA - Frozen
06. Fever Ray - Concrete Walls
07. Alex Under - BOLA3
08. Marjolein van der Meer & Big Hands - Kitty Jackson
09. ML - Cashmere Trancer
10. Greetje Bijma & Oceanic - Syzygy
11. The Untouchables - Terrigen Mist
12. Soreab - Specchio
13. Blurred Boy - SEN TOKU CLASS MEGA SUB
14. Simo Cell -  A Wink Gone Wrong
15. Bartellow San Ground San - Heza
16. Gent1e $oul	- Geomagnetic Reversal
17. Cabasa - Algo Mod Arp
18. Sylvere - Work My Body
19. Missy Elliott - Get Ur Freak On
20. Doctor Jeep	- Unreal (Rohaan Remix)
21. Rohaan - Naananaana
22. La Dame - Panacea
23. Analias - Outcast
24. Mathis Ruffing - Intra Spectral (Curve mix)
25. Fixate - Down ft. DRS
26. Afriqua - Aeiou
27. Khansa x mozahzah - Khayef
28. A1E5 - ESC
29. Clarity - Tendrils
30. CCL - Drum On
31. Corporeal Face - What A Trip
32. Dead Man's Chest - Tears (Fantazia Version)
33. City Kudu - Pala
34. Damian's Ghost - Look at the Lights
35. Ruti - Lungs (Calibre Remix)

Horst Club Curated By Ben UFO - Sunday Opening Swirl - 2 to 4:30 pm

Tracklist : 

﻿01. Carl Craig feat Francesco Tristano, Les Siècle & François Xavier-Roth - Darkness (Beatrice Dillon Remix)

02. Nico Purman - Infinite

03. foi oi oi - Wrek Dat Shii

04. Basic Rhythm & Parris - Feel Me (Parris Remix)

05. Cowper - Slug

06. Facta - Sick Pup

07. Soreab - Maschera

08. Nicola Cruz Feat. Isabella Lovestory - O sea, sí te quiero

09. Salamanda - Coconut Warrior

10. Nikki Nair - Its NP Complicated (Slow Mix)

11. Charlotte Adigéry & Bolis Pupul - HAHA

12. NAR - Guava Jelly (Anna Morgan Remix)

13. EYRA - Gyre

14. Coffintexts - SUCIA ANTHEM

15. Happa - Satisfactory Sirens (feat. Benny Benassi & Dizzee Rascal)



Human Disease Network invite Tobha - 21 Mars 2025

PUZZLE WITH TOBHA & GUESTS — #3 w/ sinny

On March 7th 2025, i got invited to open Globus at Tresor before my friends rRoxymore and Dj Plead.

Not only do i always feel impressed when it comes to play before or after some friends, i also always feel impressed by warm-ups. This one got me even more as it was a 3.5 hours warm-up

Therefore, i decided to start slow and let the set evolve as the audience would guide me. This is why the recording starts at 90 BPM and finishes around 135. No big jump, only a progressive transition.

I hope you'll enjoy listening to this set as much as i enjoyed playing it.

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TRACKLIST:

01. Duval Timothy - Alone
02. Daphne X - Unlearning Apathy
03. NKA - Umbrella [Cover]
04. CCL - Tachyon Frog
05. Herrmann Kristoffersen - Gone Gold
06. Alex Under - BOLA7
07. upsammy - Embrytone
08. Nerds With Acid - Doe 't nou
09. downstairs J - Lab Rat Boogie
10. Il Quadro di Troisi - Non ricordi (Front de Cadeaux Remix)
11. Sagat - Danse Nocturne Pour Sourour
12. Maggie Tra - Em Come Home
13. 16bit Lover Boy - Wonder Beagle
14. Zenobia - Halak Halak
15. Rose Again - I Can't Lose You
16. Doctor Jeep & Grove - Deep Red
17. Sylvere - Work My Body
18. Gent1e $oul - Sober Ears
19. Naone - Spaceduck
20. qwqwqwqwa - S-Low
21. Blâme - Berçeuse (Piezo Remix)
22. Zakmina - Church Of Madness (Gnork’s Ezoteric Breakdance Remix)
23. MOY - Alpha Decay
24. Sylvere - Rez Drums
25. Jasen Loveland as The Lone Flanger - The Shape Of Time
26. Afriqua - Concomitance
27. Voiron - Jewharp Voiron (Ed Isar club edit)
28. Client_03 - Corruption Tracker
29. Manni Dee - Loop84
30. Batu - Eraser
31. Stratowerx & Matt Walsh - No Function (Scott Fraser Surface Pressure Mix)
32. Black Cadmium - Stairway
33. Violet - Togetherness
34. Aaliyah - Try Again (STEDIT)
35. Ilana Bryne - Exclusive Shit Holds No Weight 
36. The Palmer Initiative - Terra	Terra
37. Cyan85 - Bass in my Mind (Original Mix)
38. Ciel - Hearing Voices (Club Mix)
39. Maude Vôs - Hunnï
40. Djrum - Showreel Pt2
41. Samrai - End the Occupation Now
42. Swoose - Breathe (Kessler Remix)
43. Badista - COSMOVISION BASS
44. Toumba - Hazzeh
45. Adam Curtain - UFO
46. Surusinghe - Good Girls
47. Cameo Blush - Fantasy

Tresor 07.03.2025 | Globus Opening | 00:00 - 03:30

PUZZLE WITH TOBHA & GUESTS — #4

Joyfully queer, unapologetically non-binary, and proudly smiling on pictures, tobha is a neuro-atypical dj, producer, label manager, curator, and moderator. Sometimes full of energy, sometimes inviting you to rest, sometimes bubbly, sometimes dark, their music is always a way to resonate with their deepest feelings.

Maloca Records w/ Tobha @ Kiosk Radio 07.05.2025

Tobha live from the Microwave studio at JAM Hotel, Brussels.

Microwave is a community-based, audiovisual webradio. We aim to provide a platform for a wide variety of upcoming artists through digital and real-life media.

Tune in at microwave.live.


18.05.2025 Tobha | Microwave Studio

For this 4th episode of Puzzle, tobha has invited Alex Sourbis, a long time active member of the Brussels electronic music scene. For this episode, the puzzle is a bit more "classic", the first hour focussing on ambient tunes selected by tobha.

For the second hour, Alex started from a "chill D&B" playlist he’d been building over the past year. In his own words: "Although most tracks are around 170 BPM, I chose to focus on musical keys and harmonic progressions, shifting the emphasis away from groove. Unsurprisingly, the result is a strong sense of storytelling, with the narrative unfolding through changes in intensity and emotion depending on the harmonies. Alternating between 85 and 170 BPM also adds to the shifts in tone and colour. 
I recorded the mix in one take, moving into more intense IDM-style drums and classic jungle. The goal of that "chill D&B" playlist was to prove to some of my friends that intensity isn’t defined by speed or rhythmic drive. I think I managed to show that by focusing on gentler textures and melodic elements. Of course, I couldn’t resist going harder at times — but I always found my way back to calm and harmony."

tobha's pieces:

Ö  - I Am You	
A Space for Sound x Llamb - Mountain Time
$afia Bahmed-Schwartz - Inter Styx
cadeu - TOM'S DÖNER
Heathered Pearls - Utica
Lamin Fofana - Here Lies Universality Redux
Barno - A Lifetime
Loraine James ft Theo - Sensual	
claire rousay - Parkowa 2
Masayoshi Fujita - Yodaka
Fink - Pilgrim (Paula Temple Remix - Ambient Time)
Lightbath - Holding a Feather
ISKELETOR - Gallows

Alex Sourbis' pieces

Noorj – flameflowers
Npoint_O – Guardian
Hoover1 – HOOVER1 A
Lewis James – Triangle
Freeman RCH – Nodule
Ben Bondy – trauma bonding
Jonnnah – Big Apple Under Water
Blocks & Escher – Something Borrowed, Something Blue
Slowdive – In Mind (Reload mix)
Zara – The Balance
Steffi – Lasting Lovers
DJ Sports – Data Implant
FAUZIA – berceuse
Dillinja – The Angels Fell
Genus Aix – Quicksilver Tooth
Caroline Polachek – Fly To You (feat. Grimes & Dido)

PUZZLE WITH TOBHA & GUESTS — #5 w/ Alex Sourbis

For Puzzle #6, Casper is tobha’s guest. Another episode, another ambient intro by tobha. Including some natural sounds, answering Machine Listening’s latest piece entitled Environments 12: new concepts in acoustic enrichment.

For the second hour, Casper comes in. In her own words « This mix was made during my performance at Tbilisi club Leftbank. It captures emotions—rage and sadness. It was the last day I saw my close friends, my flava, and I don’t know when we’ll see each other again. This is an immigrant’s poem and my intimate message to everyone who has left their home to build a new life in another country, but always returns to their roots, no matter what. »
The track listing will remain a ghost mystery for now.

tobha's pieces:
Dan Gibson - Introduction
Dan Gibson - Yellowstone National Park
Machine Listening - But They Weren't Perfect
Machine Listening - Round And Round
Machine Listening - Dream Chord-Be In
Pierre Henry - Sequence 6-Les Âmes Crient
Glaesha - Qawasqar
Irving Solomon Teibel - Alpine Blizzard
Suzanne Ciani - Jungle VINT
Sote - Brass Tracks
Maya Al Khaldi - الضوء-Al Daw' (Nothing Comes Back the Same)
Natalie Bridez - Swinglow
Mettani - Lilith (Omar Aloulou rework)
Casper & LHU - Half
Philip Gorbachev - I Am Saved (Barnt Forever)

Casper's pieces:
LeftBank, left blank

PUZZLE WITH TOBHA & GUESTS — #6 w/ Casper

For this 7th and first episode of the season, Puzzle doesn't invite any 
guest on Studio Néau. But as the situation in Palestine has constantly 
been worsening for the past few weeks, both in Gaza (with the 
aggravation of the current genocide and the validated invasion of Gaza 
City by the colonial forces of Israël) and in the West Bank (with the 
Knesset approving a recent motion on West Bank annexation), i've been 
again questionning my own relationship with entertainment and music.

After many discussions i had with Palestinian friends and relatives, it 
appeared clear to me that culture can be a way to write and preserve a 
common story for a population under the threat of genocide. Let it be 
through food shared with loved ones; memories depicted in pictures, 
movies, or paintings; stories told while singing—the list goes on.

I believe our duty is to dive into Palestinian culture, listening to the 
voices who tell us what their story is about. This way, we can help to 
preserve, without appropriation nor white heroism, the rich culture 
Palestinians have to share.

This is why this episode of Puzzle will be dedicated to Palestinian 
music.

I mostly got inspired by the article "Ley Lines: Palestine" written by 
James Gui: https://daily.bandcamp.com/ley-lines/ley-lines-palestine

Buying music to Palestinian artists might be a good place to start…

01 .a body in post trauma. ركائز مؤقتة - Dakn داكنْ
02 Under the Waves - Ed Dowie | Refaat Alareer ft. Maraea Rakuraku, 
Selma Dabbagh, Tomás Ó Loingsigh, Weaver
03. Atf - Adel Poursamadi & Tegh
04 By Numbers بقلم - Maya Al Khaldix
05. New Day Same Dream - Akram Abdulfattah
06. Samai Saba Nano - Gazelleband
07. Song Without Words - Nizar Rohana
08. Ya Halali    Sabreen    - Death Of The Prophet
09. I Am An Arab - Zeinab Shaath
10. Live My Life أعيش حياتي - Jowan Safadi جوان صفدي
11. TOYOUR طيور - Rasha Nahas
12. Simya' سِيميَاء - Muqata'a
13. 01011 - UmKuBu & Firas Shehadeh
14. EMTA NJAWZAK YAMMA - DAM
15. Habal Ft. Jurum (Prod. Julmud) - Baraari
16. XMAS ASWAD    Bashar Murad
17. Tartaqa (Original Mix) - Makimakkuk
18. Said Guevara - سعيد غفارا - Checkpoint 303
19. Shmaali شمالي Tarweeda (Nicolas Jaar Remix) - Yasmine Hamdan
20. El3ab El3ab - Zenobia
21. Meddi Dayyatik - Etyen & Salwa Jaradat
22. Inn Ann (Fhazal Remix) - Daboor & Shabjdeed
23. Wazira (Fhazal Remix) - Saint Levant
24. Ard Areek  ارض عريق - Sarv & Monixa
25. Sumud - Lara Sheehi x tobha x Cxtene

PUZZLE WITH TOBHA & GUESTS — #7 Palestine Special

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Booking: tobha (at) tobha (dot) net

Joyfully queer, unapologetically non-binary, and proudly smiling on pictures, tobha is a neuro-diverse dj, producer, label manager, curator, and moderator. Sometimes full of energy, sometimes inviting you to rest, sometimes bubbly, sometimes dark, their music is always a way to resonate with their deepest feelings.

Co-runs @nosuitrecords
Member of @iamscaarlet
Member of @room4resistance

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