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Pontiac Streator Hot Mix 6/15/21

Rounding off the year, Philadelphia-based DJ and producer Opheliaxz rolls with the punches on this weighty session.

We first came across Opheliaxz through her contribution to 3 X L's mix series earlier this year and have been digging through her rich catalogue of mixes ever since for platforms such as Honey Soundsystem, Tobago Tracks, Animalia and Aire Libre to name a few. During quarantine last year, Opheliaxz was exploring more ambient leaning mixes, leaning in with the mood of the times. Now she's showcasing her love for sounds that fall within the realm of bass music, specifically aiming to show a different side of dubstep to the American audience where it can be misrepresented. She approaches the mixes with playfulness, piecing together juxtaposing moods and textures, manipulating the records to fit within her colourful world. 

In her own words, Kelsey says, “my inspiration for this mix was finding the balance between soft and tough within bass genres. I really enjoy bass music as a whole and wanted to play with the texture of drums between multiple styles and wonky right and wrong bpms. I've for a long time been scared of playing the genre out because of the learning curve but have been an avid listener for many years, so it's been a nice flip from the more ambient and experimental styles I was doing throughout 2020 quarantine. I think Dubstep, in general, is misunderstood here in the states and has a bad rap. There's a lot of room to play with the drops between dubstep tracks and I wanted to take full advantage of showing the listener the soundscaping possibilities. The goal was to make this mix surreal and dreamy without losing a listener's interest. I would say bass music is on the rise in the states but audience-wise, not many understand how to vibe out to it in a large club setting, my hope is to continue hearing more of new and old styles out in dance spaces in New York and beyond because it's an exceptionally brilliant broad genre that's worthy of continuing to shine bright.”

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Tracklist
Klaus - Qua
Teffa - The right dub
Siu Mata - In the shadows
Atrice - Q
Zygos - Malenka
Pinch - Midnight Oil
Nihiloxica - Bwola (BFTT’s Swamp Edit)
El Alfa El Jefe - Uzi (Siu Mata edit)
Daniel 58 - If it’s Dead Now, When Was it Alive?
Sobolik - Luna
Sully - Sun
Dawsha FM ( Hassan Abou Alam Remix)
Qant - Education
FyuJon - Donnan
Atrice - Cont.Piuu
Lack - Constant
Queniv - Unfold
Juanny Depp - Holliwood Florida
Scatta - Somebody

Untitled 909 Podcast 098: Opheliaxz

Very special new mix by my friend Opheliaxz ~ an hour and 15 minutes of ethereal campfire moods from artists like The Fertile Crescent, loveliescrushing, special guest dj, Roy Montgomery, all light hits u and plenty of other heart tuggers. Will be listening to this one a lot this summer, thanks Kelsey <3

https://soundcloud.com/opheliaxz

Motion Cast Vol. 83: Opheliaxz

feeling blessed to debut our mix series with a super speshy one by the bestest @perila
 
recorded live at co:clear in The Old Hairdresser's, Glasgow

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Tracklist:

perfume tree - flare
pump - blind
trance to the sun - map of the lost
curve - clipped
here - haze
sonic youth - shadow of a doubt
slowdive - she calls
ozean - porcelain
perfume tree - so far away
spooky - hypo-allergenic
donna lewis - heaven sent you
hysterical love project - boyracer
snooze - your consciousness goes bip

James K - Trip Lick w/ Special Guest DJ Takeover - NTS October 2022

Maserati 'Live From The Basement' ⓜⓘⓧ ⓪④②

Zaumne - Drifting With Air

Dedicated to the sweetness, Angelique
Painting 'Marsh Creatures' by Rachel Dinwiddie

Daniel Schmidt, The Apricot Tree 
Fortresses, June
Christophe Charles, Deposition Yokohama (Excerpt)
Ana Roxanne, Venus 
Rob Lye, Brace
Perila & Ulla, Every Something is an Echo of Nothing
Sleepdial, the absence of color, Charred 
Yosuke Tokunaga, connect edness 
Andrea Taeggi, Intravagance
Tomoko Sauvage, In some brighter sphere
Field recording, nature birds
Ronce, asmr
Field recording, winter storm 
Gareth Davis, In Vivo IV 
Zenxen, Mesh of Nodes 
Bendik Giske, Up 
Nile Koetting, Iceage 
Nile Koetting, Architecture 
Sky Hum
TIBSLC, Hypertranslucent
Leila Bordreuil, Double Depth
Ale Hop, They Thought of Themselves, with Felicity Mangan & KMRU 
BETA TYRANT, Waterproof Knight, what after 
Exzald S, unreleased
Mary Lattimore, Moon over deetjen's

Mari 'Ange' ⓜⓘⓧ ⓪④③

Living Room n°47 ~ @kingsofty

q. is there a story behind the mix? how did it come together?

This mix is a collage of music from my community. It's quite a reflective mix for me, and I chose tracks that I felt held me in a suspended state of thought or existentialism. I think this is a consequence of my difficulties in dealing with changes in my life that I felt not quite ready for. The mix is a way for me to stay a little longer in the place was before.


q. in your opinion, what would be the ideal circumstances to enjoy your mix?

It's good to listen to it alone in headphones, maybe while you walk around your neighbourhood. I would say it will be a bit annoying as background music, and it suits more deep listening. It would be cool to listen to loud in your living room with a couple of close friends too, but it should be people you don’t mind a limited amount of conversation with as there are parts I hope you would zone out together in your thoughts.


q. describe a favourite object in your living room...

I would say my bedroom is more my living room these days as it's the brightest room in my house and it has all my favourite objects in it. It's really hard to say a favourite as my room is made up of little shrine-like clusters of art objects, all of which I love.

Just because it's right here on my desk next to me: This roughly A5-sized wooden board with Green, Orange, Brown, Blue, Black, and Yellow play-dough pressed onto it in a kind of abstract landscape painting by Isaac Rayneau. I really love how you can still see the fingerprints of the artist in the play-dough if you look closely. Over time the play-dough has started to dry out and crack so you can see through to the board behind. The ridges made from the pressing of the fingertips have gathered dust which is impossible to get rid of completely, because of the subtle details like the fingernail crescents and other tiny details that I have become obsessed with preserving, precisely as it was given to me. The artwork has been travelling with me for about 8 years


q. are you working on any projects right now (music or not music)?

I am working on some more visual art currently. I was going through pictures from my phone camera taken this year and began turning them into large poster formats. I'm quite a sentimental person as the above might have indicated already so I often do this as a kind of time stamping for myself. It ends up being quite cathartic to produce artwork like this and helps me feel okay to move on in the same way this mix has done for me.

Living Room n°47 ~ King Softy

naemi - threaded hum, honeyed

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