... BUT RATHER SEND IT LIGHT

TYGAPAW LIVE at Nocturnal Emissions 01/11/25, in Brooklyn, New York. TYGAPAW unleashed a beautifully relentless peak hour set at Nocturnal Emissions on 01/11/25, seamlessly blending the percussive power of dancehall with their signature emotional, driving techno. Pulsing with urgency and defiance, this set is a kinetic journey through sound, resistance, and release. Listen to more on TYGAPAW's SoundCloud https://soundcloud.com/tygapaw

TYGAPAW grew up as Dion McKenzie in Mandeville, Jamaica. Today, the Artist, producer, DJ and label owner resides in Brooklyn, New York, where they have spent the better part of a decade uplifting frequencies representative of the Black electronic music diaspora. Their sonic palette—informed by the dancehall of their hometown as much as it is the techno emanating from the warehouses of Detroit—has made them an indispensable figure in Brooklyn's electronic music scene.

Since 2014, McKenzie has been carving spaces in New York for queer people of color through their queer club night, and now label, Fake Accent. The platform is part of their broader mission to forge liberating spaces for marginalized people, particularly Black, queer and trans people, an agenda embedded in the various layers of the artist's work. Early records like the breakthrough EP Handle With Care (2019), Ode To Black Trans Lives (2020) and their debut album, Get Free (2020) established McKenzie not only as a skillful producer, but further as an emotive storyteller. Through their production, they are known to weave together stories of queer immigrant life, radical self-preservation and Black communal joy.

Their music, much like New York, is a cultural stew made vibrant by influences as local as New York's ballroom community and as distant as Berlin's hard techno circuit. In 2021, one of techno's most vital institutions, the Berlin venue and record label Tresor, enlisted MacKkenzie to contribute to their 30th anniversary compilation, where the musician was in the company of techno luminaries like fellow contributors Juan Atkins, K-HAND and Robert Hood. In 2022, McKenzie brought their visionary take on techno to life with a three-part techno opera, Devil Woman (Obeah Woman)—the first iteration of which premiered at New York's The Chocolate Factory Theater, and Queens Museum before the project traveled to Berlin.

2023, TYGAPAW's second album love has never been a popular movement, was released on fabric Originals in the spring. This album is a special one for several reasons: It's the first album the musician produced with hardware rather than Ableton, their first record that features their vocals prominently and it also sees McKenzie try their hand at songwriting. In eight tracks that hopscotch across atmospheric techno and East Coast club, love has never been a popular movement addresses, with unshakable confidence, fierce self-love and TYGAPAW's journey as a Jamaican reckoning with their trans identity.

NOCTURNAL EMISSIONS is a trippy mix-mash of house, techno and trance with Latin / tribal influence; a distorted, sound-bending, mind-fuck that will leave you suspended with the vibrations of the night. bit.ly/nocturnalnyc for next events and more info. Live set mastered by @djjohnnyi

Nocturnal Sessions 027: TYGAPAW (LIVE)

special set... this b2b w/ @sekucci and I at Nowadays earlier this year. 
was cute to make up for our @sustain-release-nyc year 10 moment 🧡

Sekucci B2B Sterling Juan Diaz Live @ Nowadays Nonstop Sustain - Release 03-02-25

Live @ ZERO CHILL, 4-7 AM 
April 13, 2025

ZERO CHILL 2025  (ELECTRICAL SURGERY)

LAUREN FLAX AT ZERO CHILL - April 13, 2025

LIVE @ FAW 2025.04.04

Live @ Zero Chill 2025

D.M.T (Demon Monkey Techno) - Diluvia

Live recording from my set at Sustain Release Year 11


'Honey From The Lion's Carcass'
Re: the story in the Bible where Sampson finds a dead lion that bees have made a hive inside of, and he eats honey from the hive. Which is at once in keeping with the natural world, but also causes him to break his vow to touch no unclean thing.

-Mischa

Honey From The Lion's Carcass | SR YR 11

Lelo Miranda DJ Set #8 2025 Tech House Rework

Full release:
https://diffusereality.bandcamp.com/album/cat-can-do-carara-bengal-bounce

Released with Diffuse Reality on September 15, 2025
Mastered by Jesse Creed at CanMARC
Mixed and produced live by cat can do

Bengal Bounce

But'nd

With to do that's

2025
08.31.25 - Dissident X Royal Highness - Berlin, DE
08.03.25 - Mala Junta (Basement) NYC
06.29.25 - Zero Chill - NYC
06.14.25 - Kilowatt - Berlin, DE
06.07.25 - Community Service - Richmond, VA
04.06.25 - Kinky Sundays - Hamburg, DE
03.10.25 - Nowadays - NYC
02.21.25 - Basement - FIST - NYC
02.15.25 - Zhaodai - Beijing, China
02.14.25 - Pontent - Shanghai, China
02.08.25 - TAG - Chengdu, China
01.31.25 - TAG - SAL CNY - Chengdu, China

2024
12.06.24 - Lark - GIFT - Berlin, DE
12.06.24 - GUNDLED x FICKEN 3000 - Berlin, DE
11.09.24 - Steamroom - NYC
10.25.24 - Basement - NYC
10.19.24 - Riff - Changsha, China
10.18.24 - TAG - Chengdu, China
10.17.24 - Heim - Shanghai, China
10.13.24 - Wigwam - Shanghai, China
10.11.24 - Loopy Club - Hangzhou, China
10.05.24 - Mirror - Guangzhou, China
10.02.24 - Zhaodai - Beijing, China
07.28.24 - Nowadays - Nonstop - Brooklyn, NY
07.07.24 - Solar Tribe @ H0l0 - Brooklyn, NY
07.04.24 - Paragon, Byrell The Great - Brooklyn, NY
06.29.24 - ZeroChill - Brooklyn, NY
06.29.24 - Outlaw - Brooklyn, NY
06.21.24 - BUTT Magazine x KEM Pride - Warsaw, Poland
06.08.24 - Paragon, Dance Planet - Brooklyn, NY
05.18.24 - Bossa Nova, Siren - Brooklyn, NY
05.08.24 - MoMa PS1 Gala - Queens,NY
05.05.24 - Document Journal x Erykah Badu - NY, NY
05.03.24 - Same Bitches x Outlaw x Mizz Softee - Brooklyn, NY 
05.02.24 - Rash Bar, Brooklyn NY
04.17.24 - Kwia - G6/Cora - Berlin, DE
04.04.24 - TAG - Chengdu, China
03.27.24 - Heim - Ximon Lee FW24 - Shanghai, China
02.16.24 - Le Bain - Midnite Request - NY,NY
02.09.24 - Vaquera X Pornhub FW24 - NY, NY
02.04.24 - Mizz Softee - Brooklyn, NY
01.19.24 - Paragon - Brooklyn, NY

2023
12.15.23 - Eartheater Powders Tour Closing - NY, NY
12.10.23 - Decompress Festival - Miami FL
11.03.23 - System - Shanghai, China 
10.27.23 - Tag - Chengdu, China
10.21.23 - Zhoadai - Beijing, China
09.27.23 - Nowadays Non-Stop - Brooklyn, NY 
08.20.23 - The Lot Radio - Brooklyn, NY
08.11.23 - MoMA PS1 - Warm Up - Brooklyn, NY
06.28.23 - Carbone Club - Dion Lee SS23 Party - Paris, France
06.03.23 - Paragon - Dance Planet - Brooklyn, NY
05.29.23 - SILO - 52 Weeks In A Year - Brooklyn, NY
05.18.23 - MoCADA - Territory of the Heart - Brooklyn, NY
05.13.23 - DAS - Hulter Til Bulter - Copenhagen, DK
04.08.23 - Noxemma Jackson - Washington, DC
03.04.23 - The Loft - Denver, CO
01.23.23 - Nowadays Non-Stop - Brooklyn, NY 
01.14.23 - Paragon - Flex - Brooklyn, NY
01.06.23 - Elsewhere - Club Carry - Brooklyn, NY

2022
11.18.22 - Paragon - Escape - Brooklyn, NY
11.12.22 - Market Hotel - BBB - Brooklyn, NY
11.12.22 - Basement -  Queens, NY
10.07.22 - Bossa Nova Civic Club - 5 Stars - Brooklyn, NY
10.01.22 - Basement - Herrensauna - Queens, NY
09.22.22 - Boiler Room NYC - Brooklyn, NY
09.03.22 - Basement - Fast Forward - Queens, NY
08.21.22 - Mala Junta - Berlin, DE
08.06.22 - Endurance - Copenhagen, DK 
07.30.22 - Basement -  Queens, NY
07.22.22 - Paragon - Escape - Brooklyn, NY
07.21.22 - Nowadays - Club Carry - Brooklyn, NY
06.25.22 - Basement - Bound - Brooklyn, NY 
06.24.22 - Merge - Brooklyn, NY
06.02.22 - The Guggenheim - Young Collectors Party - NY, NY
05.27.22 - Elsewhere - RNR - Brooklyn NY 
05.20.22 - Wire Festival - Queens, NY 
05.14.22 - Locked Groove - Brooklyn, NY 
05.14.22 - Paragon - Earth - Brooklyn, NY 
05.07.22 - Basement - Basement Anniversary -  Brooklyn, NY
04.22.22 - Le Bain - Sacred Rites - NY, NY 
04.02.22 - Trauma Bar - Berlin, DE
03.12.22 - Basement - Queens, NY
02.23.22 - Dweller Festival - Brooklyn, NY
01.29.22 - Basement - Queens,