NYD 2022

Otherly Love #1 - Tovar

you hold me dearly
a blushing child, pure joy
house is a feeling

Otherly Love #1 - Tovar

Otherly Love #2

Rest, Reflect, Reject.

Inspired by Chicago house, Japanese house, and other dancefloor friendly sounds.

Otherly Love #2 - Tovar

Happy Halloween from Other Love <3

In this edition of Otherly Love we highlight the LA-based Rojo for an hour of cinematic horror disco sounds for your listening pleasure.  Recorded live 10/28/22 @Plata Lounge. 

Shout out to horror disco maestros at Giallo Disco Recordings. giallodiscorecords.bandcamp.com/music

Track List:

- The Lonesome Death of Death Of Jordy Verill - John Harrison
- Mancante - Gnomus
- Penombra Oscura pt ll: Panico Crescente
- Main Title of "The Shining" - Wendy Carols & Rachel Elkind
- Family (ft. Alessandro Cassini) - Repeated Viewing
- Welcome to the Creepshow (Prolouge) - John Harrison
- Love Theme - Vangelis
- Alfred Hitchcock Presents: The Jar
- The Dead Suite - John Harrison
- Rooftop Surveillance - Tom Guycot
- DETRESFA - Tom Guycot
- Prisoner Nightdrive - Antoni Maiovvi
- Sleepless Nights - Pablo Bozzi
- Not Tonight, I've Got A Headache - Harry Manfredini
- 40 Love - DJ Koze
- The Unexpected Guest - Akufen
- I'm Watching You (Antoni Maiovvi's Hello NSA Mix) - DKMD
- Deranged Fan - Tom Guycot

Otherly Love #3 - Rojo

Summer starts at Otherly Love<3

After a somber year of loss and uncomfortable reflection, Tovar returns to remind us how to let go of traumas. Method of choice? The comforting power of funky, booty shakin’ grooves. Here’s an hour of irresistible and nostalgic classic house that’ll keep you up at night. In a good way.

Track List:

-	Houston We Have a Problem – Genius of Time
-	Lazer Street Dub – DJ Honesty
-	Piano Man – Javonntte
-	Watch Them Come – Men From The Nile
-	El Ritmo – Louie Vega, Romero
-	Reel Deep (Distant Music Mix) – Jon Cutler, DJ Romain, Sue Avenue
-	The Love Below – Byron the Aquarius
-	On My Way – Kerri Chandler
-	Back in the dark – Dj Deep & Jovonn
-	On Sunset – Dj Steaw
-	I Surrender – Nikko Marks fear. Eddie Fowlkes

Otherly Love #4 - Tovar

Summer ends at Otherly Love </3

Like signs of the approaching sunset, enjoy this tender goodbye to summer with breezy, soothing sounds from masters of Detroit and Chicago house. Lean into the peach-colored light and embrace your cooling skin.
 'Do you hear your heartbeat yet?

Come in and say goodbye to summer with a spin, swing, and weep.

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Track List:

- Cirque de Soul - Kenny Larkin

- Dj Deon - Slippery ( Note: R.I.P., uncle. We're going to miss you and your jacking, heartfelt sounds <3 )

- The Journey (Journey Beats) - Scott Grooves

- The Akan - Caiiro

- Tie It Up - Dj Spinna

- Air - Janeret

- Santa Barbara - Claude Young

- Allison’s Lair - Callisto

- Know I Can Make It (Mix 1) - Montana Heights

- Black Woman Cry - Osunlade

- Nothing - Nutty Nys

- Hawai Rain - Lose Endz

- El Camino pt 2 - Shazz
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Released September 22, 2023

Art - @dominic.a.tovar

Mastered by: Adam Colcord aka djsleeponthecouch; soundcloud.com/djsleeponthecouch

Otherly Love #5 - Tovar

We invite our brother Seung L to kick off a new season of Otherly Love with a collection of his favorite lovey dubby tracks - on wax. 

Light up for an hour of soulful, hazy house.

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Track List:

1. Soylent Green - After All
2. Idealist - Interlude
3. Florian Kupfer - SAD Edit 01  B
4. Tony Rodriguez - black2d
5. DJ Wey - Song For Masahiro 
6. Omar S - Can't Change
7. Coflo - False Feelins
8. Willow - Sexuall 
9. Omar S - Desert Eagle 
10. Neotnas - I Feel 
11. Idealist - Tear in Vain 
12. Occidental - I Have Always

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Released October 28, 2023

Art - @dominic.a.tovar

Otherly Love #6 - Seung L

Tovar spins an hour of liquid funk on a dry lake-bed in the the Mojave Desert. Lock in for an hour of jazz-bent drum &bass thicc with classics and new releases. Shout out to the SF-based Vitamin1k crew for having me back in 2024 for another fast, windy weekend at the Space Ranch in Southern California.

Special shouts to LTJ Bukem for the eternal inspo and Jazzsticks Recordings for keeping jazzy DNB alive and thriving. https://jazzsticks.bandcamp.com/music
  
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Track list: 

Electric blue - Deepness 
Mindgaters - Apollo 69 (Peshay remix) 
Jazzthetics - Zero Gravity 
Pillow talk - Detroit's Filthiest 
From dust & noise - Flowriance 
Outlined - Carter 
Flip the narrative - LTJ Bukem 
Parts of me - Paul SG 
Tamra Maew - Prince Ozay 
Bawrley - The Jazzassins 
Automatic - Continuous cool 
King's Town - Paul SG 
The Change - Zero Gravity (Paul SG remix) 
They're from scam planet - Driss Bennis & Swoze

VITARAVE006 - Tovar

This year I had the pleasure to deejay one of my favorite monthly House events: Made to Move . Aside from their consistency, a rarity in Los Angeles, I admire their inclusivity and diversity in the House music they spotlight. I'm honored to have made to list (;

Listen to this re-recording of Tovar’s set from Made to Move on February 8, 2024 starring NAYGOD and Made to Move residents. 

You know what to expect: soulful, jazzy love music.

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Sundials ft. Nathan Haines - Brawther

b1 Radiance - Mike Huckaby

Forms of Love - Sound Process

From a Slice to a Draw - John Tejada

Long Time - Inland Knights 

Self Control - Wave Particle Singularity 

Flavors ft. Wes Maples (Club Mix) - Sable Blanc

Rental VHS - No Time

You Belong to Me - Sakro 

Medicated Skin Cream - Playin’ 4 the City

Watch Them Come (Green Velvet Remix) - Men From the Nile

Million Dollar Feeling - Session Victim

Cayama - Stacy Kidd

TOVAR - Made To Move 2/8/24

“…the gritty, the hard kicks, the fat basslines, the jazz chords…is back.” - Jovonn




If you’ve heard 90’s House on the dance floor or the radio, you know it just hits different. Functional, timeless, celestial. House is indeed a feeling 🤎

This month we celebrate two years of Otherly Love with a full-fledged Classic House mix from Tovar - number seven of this mix series focused on love songs and other soulful oddities. This edition is thicc with soulful productions from heavyweight house heads of your favorite era. 

If it ain’t broke, don’t fix it.

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Track List:

- A new day (mix 2) - Scott Grooves
- Lovin’ me (Harley & Muscle Remix)
- I Surrender - Niko Marks (City Boy Players)
- Back in the dark - Jovonn & Dj deep
- Rushing’ (Mood || swing dub) - Loni Clark
- Lead me to the feelin’- Grant Nelson
- Ass is gonna work - Dj Sneak
- Mind , Body, & Soul (sci-fi dub) - Dina Carroll
- Teach me, Keep me - Chez Damier
- Another dimension (smoothness pumping house mix)- Rick Wade 
- Pianos of gold Ian pooley remix) - Jovonn
- Running - Demanic 
- Possessed- Will Buck 
- Love’s got me high (Marc Romboy’s Systematic Soul mix) - Terrance Parker
- Drive on (instrumental Mix) - Soldiers of Twilight 

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Released October 13, 2024

Art - @dominic.a.Tovar

Otherly Love #7 - Tovar

Happy new year, Otherly Lovers. Smoke is clearing up in the physical world and with that, soon so will the mind. With patience, grace, and kindness.

Otherly Love kicks off the tumultuous year with a gentle, disco-bent hour of soul. For your sky gazing consideration.

Meditate, dilate, appreciate.

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Track List:

- Butterflies - Kenny Larkin 

- Circles - Mustafa ft. Natalia

- Antares - Omniverse

- My Mind - Jay-Leklass

- How did i get here? (Lovedrop remix) - Javonntte

- Won't Go Back (feat. Robert Owens) (Kerri 'Kaoz 6: 23' Chandler Remix) Harley&Muscle

- a2 ketras - Odyssey

- House Music Is... (N.W.N. A Mix) - Alex Finkin, Dj Disciple

-Night to remember - BRS

- Big Love - Pete Heller's Big Love

- Sunset - DJ Steaw

- Feeling' Love (club mix) - Soulsearcher 

- Selfish - Frequent Fliers

- AHYEE - Eddie Fowlkes 

- The Sax Speaks fr. Keith Kaminski - Scott Grooves

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Released January 31, 2025

Art - @dominic.a.tovar

Otherly Love #8 - Tovar

Do you feel it? The blues are getting lighter and brighter each day that passes this season. To curate, Otherly Love invites fellow house head agraybé to help us spring our limbs and help us soak up this seasonal shift with an hour of soul and disco - reborn.

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Ariana Gray Bé, aka agraybé (@agraybe), brings her unique perspectives as an artist, scientist, and environmentalist to the dance floor. Her sets invigorate the soul and the senses with selections that meld ecological influences with deep grooves grounded in Midwest dance music. Born and raised in Cleveland, Ohio, Ariana spent her formative years across the Great Lakes Rust Belt before relocating to the West Coast. She is now deeply rooted in the LA ecosystem as a resident for Made to Move and @newpalm. She is also the founder / co-organizer of the Anemone events and hosts her mix diary, Cloud Studies.

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Track list:

Life 4 Living - USG feat. Monica Elam

Strollin thru Barcelona - Kai Alcé

Working Nights - Trus'me

Sweet Potatoes - Blaze

Moonwalk - Funky People

Lotrama (Delano Smith Remix) - Traumer

Illusion - John Jastszebski

Gotta Work - Robert Owens

Hott - Scott Grooves feat. Alton Miller

Marimba Disco (Kai Alcé's NDATL Interpretation) - George Davis

Listen To This Drum (Turbojazz & Sean McCabe Remix) - Ursula Rucker

Gloria’s Muse (The Yoga Song) (Karizma’s Drum-N-Base Mix) - Blaze

A Soft Drink - Glenn Underground

Living In The Future - Hardrive 2000

Better Days - Blaze

You're A Star - Aquarian Dream

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Released March 23, 2025

Art - @dominic.a.tovar

Otherly Love #9 - agraybé

Tovar is a LA-born and raised househead whose style is inspired by soul, disco, and Afro house. With love and respect for the pioneers of Chicago and Detroit house music, his sets invigorate classic house. 

Not that the genre needed it.

Tovar heads and curates ‘Otherly Love,’ a quarterly mix series thick with thumpin’ love songs and other soulful oddities.

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