Trouble Mix

We are glad to invite @a_cigarra for the Trouble Mix series debut, our monthly guest release.

Born in São Paulo, the city where she grew up in the daily flows of immigration and developed street expression tactics in party collectives, she has been a DJ, performer, music producer and cultural agent for over 15 years. She dedicated half of this time to the Lisbon scene in partnership with the city and dissident artists, had her parties resident in the city's main venues and is an agent of the rise of street carnival in Portugal. Carniçeira, BLOCU, MeioFio (Festival Alkantara), Ancestrofuturismo, SOMA, Hystereofônica, Roda de Sample are some of the projects she has spearheaded over the years in research into decolonial crossroads.

Cigarra performed at festivals in more than 10 countries across Europe, with one album (as Trypas Corassão) and two EPs released and tracks on various compilations around the world, in addition to writing original soundtracks for dance, performance and cinema shows. Her music brings an engaged and seductive research, crossing diasporic marginalities with the commotion of pop and experimental subversion. Crispy and creamy, to the venous extent that makes the track sweat.

Trouble Mix #1 CIGARRA

We are glad to invite @xd_erica for the 2nd Trouble Mix, our monthly guest release.

xD_Eric She/They/Them, São Paulo born and Berlin based multiartist, co-founder of the Brazilian collective ‘Chernobyl’. The passion for music started with the influence of her family. She searching for Latin peripheral music ranging from Brazilian funk, passing through many other aspects as Techno, Hard dance and Latin Core that make LATAM catch fire. Their approach to Black music comes from some of her family members, like her father and uncles, who in the 80’s organized Black Music balls in São Paulo. “I collect countless works that make me proud and I am increasingly hungry for knowledge. I had uncles who are DJs and always thought it was amazing and inspired me.”

Trouble Mix #2 XDERIC

Super honrada de apresentar artista convidada para o mês de março, além de grande amiga é uma das minhas DJs favoritas em Lisboa: @ntriangulontriangulo

Sua malvada favorita. 
Performer, Professora, Poeta, Perigosa. N▲N▼ (Lê-se: Nany) é uma artista multidisciplinar brasileira imigrante em Lisboa que usa de sua musicalidade para criar narrativas provocantes e implacáveis. 
Mestra no violino, sua sonoridade,  ao mesmo tempo catártica e abissal, são desdobramentos da ancestralidade musical do Nordeste do Brasil, sua terra natal. N▲N▼ processa a efervescência do frevo, a pungência do maracatu e a transcendência dos pontos de Orixá das nações Ketu e Nagô para propor respostas em forma de som para perguntas como "Quando foi que eu entendi que era preta?" ou "Como eu aprendi a lutar pelo meu corpo?". Suas composições usam o improviso como fio condutor para nutrir cenas peculiares e inesquecíveis.

Defenestrada - Um delírio de triunfo brasileiro 
TRACK LIST: 
That Night in Hawaii When I Turned into a Panther and Started Making These Low Register Purring Tones That I Couldn't Control ... Sh¥t Was Wild - Andre 3000 
Into the Darkness - Unknown
Mami quiebra la cintura -  Dj Chino & Mishelle Master Boys
Palhaço das Trevas - 0001
Ela me Mamou com bala Halls - DJ M13 & Gustavo de Oz
Beat Surta Frozen - Quik
O carro da droga - Dj DM feat. Mc Itanhém
Vapo Vapo Agressivo - MC GW, MC Yuri, DJ Miller
Manda Bala - Ariis
Beat Mega Louco -Dj Xs Dark
Cataclismo Infernal - SpUp
Mega Sequencia Agressiva - ???
Projeto Automotivo - Brphk
Ponte Selvaje - IAMTR4$H
Malvadeza 1.0 - Dj Death Original. Dj Davi ZL
Sombra das Sombras - Brphk

Trouble Mix #3 N▲N▼

We are very glad to present April's guest artist: @injetora

Injetora is a non-binary multi artist from amazonia born in capital Belém currently based in portugal, they gravitate towards happicore n’ technomelody. Injetora uses technology to generate their domain and bring hope n’ happiness to human kind 🧸🎠🩰🛍️🍀

Trouble Mix #4 INJETORA

For the program of this month we are glad to present the amazing @4leakim


Aleakim is one of the projects of Mikaela Pimentel, born in Olinda and based in Rio de Janeiro. She has been involved in the Rio electronic scene since an early age, initially as a promoter and, since 2020, as a DJ-selector. She is part of the Rio collective Escola de Mistérios and a resident DJ for the party collectives Inception Rio and Mov Festival. In her sets, she dwells in the intersection between the abstract sounds of Detroit techno and the syncopated percussiveness of Afro-diasporic rhythms.

Always in dialogue with the dancefloor, her work aims to create an atmosphere of introspection, dissolution and catharsis without being limited by BPMs and musical genres. She has performed on online radio programs, both nationally and internationally (Casa Caos, Function, Root - TR, Planet Ibiza - ES), as well as at parties and festivals such as O/NDA, Gruta, Domply, Festival de Ativação Urbana (FAU) and Rock the Mountain.

Trouble Mix #5 ALEAKIM

We have the honor to present the guest DJ for this month, @yura_yura_yura:

Yura was born and raised in São Paulo, Brasil. Circa 2015, they started DJing for the independent underground music scene of the city, having learned with one of the first São Paulo techno female DJs in the late 90’s. Yura moved to Lisbon, Portugal in 2019, where she started a show for radio Quântica and later the party VORAZ. They had played in the hottest parties in the city, always bringing an intense energy.  

Yura brings a fine n’ fresh selection of tunes, specially from Latin America, that matches with the energy needed in the dancefloor. You can find some dirty electro, Brazilian funk, and perfect house tunes. But the music genre doesn’t matter that much - what matters is the narrative of the DJ set and the sensitivity to understand what song works better at which moment.

Trouble Mix #6 YURA

We are super glad to share that @Glowriosa is our guest artist for July's Trouble Mix program. Dirty live set this time.

Call her Glowriosa (she/her).

Brazilian multiartist located in Europe.

Her passion for music came about through her father, who had a CD store in the 2000s.
She likes to improvise and produce with modular instruments that gravitate between rhythms such as Jazz, Phonk, House and Drum & Bass.  Focused on creating immersive elements that form a story and transport the listener to another place.

"I like to find comfort in discomfort."

Trouble Mix #7 GLORIOSA

Super glad to share our August guest artist: @naovenhasemrosto

NÃOVENHASEMROSTO (São Paulo - Brazil) is undoubtedly one of the biggest names in the world electronic music scene! Conquering more and more spaces, the DJ, Producer, Performer and Actress, has already performed on the main stages of parties and performance art in the country, and is the Musical Director of Cia Rainha Kong, is part of the team of producers of the album DEB RMX by Juçara Marçal, alongside Podeserdesligado with whom she signs the highly successful B2b project and the acclaimed album “Especial de Natal”! Her soundtrack has already been performed by the Balé da Cidade de São Paulo choreographed by Davi Pontes, in a season in 2023 at the Teatro Municipal de São Paulo in the show “VARIAÇÃO”. After two years of her first release, in June 2024 she released her newest EP “SINGLES” with two tracks. Her Sets and productions are packed with her research into the African matrix and violent beats, which certainly cause great emotions!

Trouble Mix #8 NÃOVENHASEMROSTO

For this month we are super happy to share @kali-kaliza's set, live recorded in Outra Cena - Lisbon, for our guest mix show.

Kali Kaliza is the new project by music producer and researcher Renato Rocha aka Kurup. Inspired by a fusion of global south genres with various strands of electronic music, Kali's sound explores a psychic atmosphere, blending elements of Oldschool, Garage, and Club Music with foundational influences from Funk, Batida, Latin Core, and other popular manifestations. Through this Solar Punk Dissident Latin character, we see the reflection of his migrant and transitory life. Acidic and fast-paced, Kali uses music as a medium for personal and collective expression, influenced by experiences in both the East and West, always aiming for the dissolution of political and intra-personal boundaries.

Trouble Mix #9 KALI KALIZA

We are honored to share this month's guest artist for our monthly mix show, multitalented and sweet, from food to visual performances, and now by energetic sound waves, Rude:

I am a Big Nose, green eyes big lips blondy and skinny trans flowcore music producer. Life is great. My sounds are an experiment to bring us to a meditative outloook where you can experience a little bit of what a person that mostly tries to expand all its abilities can do… a Noir sarcastic and dreamy version of what bring me to existence. If there is something i know is that this is not my first life! How can you deal and support such a heavy affirmation? Are you prepared to your next life? Can you accept that more then just music this is our connection to outer spaces?


Trouble Mix #10 RUDE

We are super honored to share that our monthly guest is Your Danso:

Abdallah Ramadhani Abdallah Popular Knows as YOUR DANSO is a DJ and Producer of Singeli music from Dar es Salaam, Tanzania. He is known for his unique skill in combining unique Singeli rhythms with the use of modern technologies to produce powerful and focused music. Your Danso uses popular software like Virtual DJ, Logic Pro, and FL Studio to produce and edit his songs.

 As an artist who likes to do things effectively, Your Danso also uses a Bluetooth Keyboard in producing and playing his music Live, which shows his creativity and efficiency in writing and performing music. Through the combination of sound and unique style, Your Danso has become famous among Singeli music fans, being one of the emerging names in the new generation music industry in Tanzania.

Trouble Mix #11 YOUR DANSO

Super honored to share our December guest and last one of this year, https://soundcloud.com/mada-kya:

MADAKYA (they/them) is a Berlin-based artist and social worker. Their creative practice spans photography, writing, and sound. Their visual work is an intimate archive that celebrates queer existence, relationships, and a recording of an era.

This mix was recorded for TroubleMaker Records during Scorpio season, as the sun transited through their 12th house. The 12th house rules, but not just, the subconscious, secrets, dreams, everything hidden or that is part of mystery, mental health, isolation and also meditation. This mix serves as a sonic reflection of the entanglements of the 12th house, and MADAKYA's aim to evoke transformation through meditation. Within the mix they use a track from their duo project "naket spheras" with Gerald, in which they led vocals and songwriting.

“If the twelfth house is the house of enmity and danger, then it is also the house of resistance.” - Alice Sparkly Kat