Hit Factory NTS

aka-Sol (@acaciabaila) is an Ecuadorian DJ, producer, and multidisciplinary artist based in Brooklyn. Through their Acacia Baila label, they're also a connector: they've released their own tracks and collaborations alongside releases from their friends and community, as well as thrown events at spaces like Mansions and their involvement in the Dripping event series and festival. As a DJ, their sets are genre-defying and psychedelic, bridging the gap between heady, trippy sounds and groove and percussion that go straight to the body. Their mix for us is deftly controlled chaos — a fresh, freaky take on 'fast' that's as floating and expansive as it is frenetic.

Read the interview and see a tracklist:
spontaneous.zone/052-aka-sol

"I wanted to create a mix exploring the 150-160 bpm pocket. I feel like I have only landed in playing around these tempos a few times while DJing live, and had definitely not recorded a mix up there before. I was itching to submerge into it after a crucial year in my DJ career, where I have widely expanded the limitations of the things I feel comfortable playing.

It’s been refreshing to understand more and more that I am not an artist/DJ that could be defined by a music genre, but rather by the sensibility in which I lace the different styles and sounds I use to create narratives when constructing my sets. Another important challenge I presented to myself for recording this mix was the curiosity of understanding what kind of tunes I would select and blend for this as a non DnB nor hard techno DJ. I feel like by going through this challenge, I have opened a world of possibilities that I can’t wait to incorporate when playing out there.

In terms of feelings explored, I would say that expansiveness of the body and the mind are a recurrent element in my practice and it was very present in this mix too. I wanted to build something that could feel both complex yet fluid. Entering into deeper introspections while feeling your body being pulled in all possible directions at once until the point of surrendering into a floating state of slow movements is the only possible solution to cope with the amount of information being received.

In terms of gear, I used 2 Pioneer XDJ-700s and a Pioneer DJM 450 mixer. For the recording I use a Zoom H6 recorder."

@acaciabaila

Interview + Tracklist

Spontaneous Affinity #052: aka-Sol

For entry number 10 in the PPRZ Podcast series, we have a mix from New York's @threehz

threehz is an explorer of textural, dream-like emotion. With sets ranging from sludgy dark psychedelia to kaleidoscopic warpdrive techno, threehz is a rising tripped-out player throughout New York City’s techno dance floors. 

His namesake is an inaudible but mystical frequency associated with theta waves, dreams, meditative states, and divination - a frequency allegedly imbued with brutal physical power that could topple speaker stacks if they were only capable of reproducing and amplifying 3Hz. With a deep grounding in musical esoterica and a previous life in metal music - most recently as part of celebrated avant-metal outfit Sannhet – threehz is a full-bore sonic experimentalist. 

threehz’ DJ career has been on a long arc, launching in earnest with an exploratory, cross-genre show on The Lot Radio with friend and Sannhet bandmate AJ XO. The pair’s collaborative work, titled NO DAWN, has been in rotation on The Lot for seven years, and has yielded expansive joint sets at recent editions of the Shaker Mountain festival. 

His deep and psychedelic techno series “dream/self” at Queens mainstay Mansions has showcased him alongside other like-minded techno experimentalists, and he has made regular appearances at the venerable Bossa Nova Civic Club. threehz’s continued passion for distilling and blending psychedelic sounds has yielded focused and deep dives into techno for densely foggy dancefloors and pulsing colors – a place threehz himself is likely to be found at the blurry morning hours.

threehz describes their mix as “This winter has felt very long and dark for a lot of people, myself included.  A lot of difficult energy has been in the air, but finally in the past week or two it feels like spring is trying to break through the darkness – literally and figuratively.  I think this mix reflects that – starting in a darker, confusing space and eventually working itself to a place with a glimpse of hope. It’s a bit darker than what I’ve been playing lately, but I think it is true to both my roots and my more recent focus.  Selection wise, I tried to pull from classic 90’s material through brand new releases, and I tried to work in a third deck a bit more than usual for some tripped out layered bits. I hope you enjoy the journey!”

Mix mastered by FRDM
Photo by AJ Annunziata

Tracklist
Alec Empire - 22:24
Plastikman - Sickness
Rainforest Spiritual Enslavement - Nocturnal Anatomy
Emptyset - Gate 1
Shifted - Wire It Shut
APS - A Young Girl Reads a Prologue
Zvrra - Ambijame
Holy Ghost - Zombie Assassin
Fase Bipolar - Deeply Broken (Paleman remix)
Svaag - Saaade
Donor - Apollo
Mike Parker - Reduction
Viels - Nekhu Junah
JK Flesh - Static Demon
Lebed - Fifth Circle (Wrath)
Ritzi Lee - Interfacing
Münch - Cascades
Lōn - Addicted To It Self
Ritaffein - Tension 01
Bias - Expanded Present (Squaric In The Mountain Mix)
Attemporal - Att 2 (Audio Injection Remix)
Attemporal - Att 4 (Kwartz Remix)
Von Grall - Chain
The Plant Worker - Epsilon 02
AFX - Backdoor.Berbew.Q
Wata Igarashi - Storm
Evigt Mörker - Sol som får tidens hjul att stå stilla
Cory James - Life Itself
Croatian Amor & Scandinavian Star - There Is A Place For You Among The Stars (ft. Alto Aria)

If you enjoyed this mix, please consider donating to threehz's organization of choice  https://transgenderlegal.org/support-us/

PPRZ Podcast 10 - threehz

Nowadays Nonstop w/Lychee & Wata Igarashi

Nowadays Nonstop (March 25 2023)

Get the party started with DJ Wawa & Clay Wilson's Hit Factory Records.

https://www.nts.live/shows/hit-factory/episodes/hit-factory-11th-may-2023

Hit Factory w/ Clay Wilson 110523

Regular transmissions from two of Glasgow's most idiosyncratic & knowledgable DJs. 
https://www.nts.live/shows/sofay-ribeka/episodes/sofay-ribeka-15th-august-2023

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Season 8 Episode 1 - 09.01.23

To launch our eighth season of Kajunga Program, we welcome Long Beach artist and curator of the Neptunian Influence mix series, Miranda Calzada aka Whipnotiq. She unleashes some serious heat in this fast-paced mix of electro, breaks and techno with enough velocity to blow through the atmosphere and well past the eighth planet.

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Kajunga Program SE.8 EP.1 - Whipnotiq

Off-Label is a party by Cleaner Tapes
This is a recording of a hybrid DJ set by Charle Wallace at that party
it was technically August 20th, 2023
at like 3:45 AM


Track List
[CW plays analogue synth & drum machine intermittently/throughout]

Closing – Stukes
Residual Pulse – Charmaine Lee
Policía Covarde – FBC & VHOOR
Camouflage – Seaclones
FROST (C) – Sunn O)))
Closed Forest (Insical Remix) – 92Jelani & Tap Newo
Global Warning — Driss Bennis
[live bit] — Charle Wallace
Interstate – Ali Berger
Stepper – Anz 
Mimic – Aria Bare
Water Stain – rRoxymore
AB (otodojo Dolphin Remix) – Kenya Kanazawaa
They Have 4 Subs – W00dy
Inner Propeller — Yessi 
Seven Angels — Earth 
[live bit] — Charle Wallace
Kann Klub Ultra — PANGAR
NEW YORKS FINEST VIP – Deft
Kulthan – Robert Aiki Aubrey Lowe
True Romance — Thunderhead the Word by Eden
Weight — Current Value
Sunday pick up – bastiengoat 
AMPLIPHAEDIES (E) – Sunn O)))
Albatross — Datamaster 
M’bondo (Charle Wallace edit) – Robert Aiki Aubrey Lowe
La Tormenta (Adam Ten & Mita Gami Remix)— Xinobi 
La Pampara – ELO
I Can Get Out Of This – Aria Bare
Night Ride – Colby Sey
Show & Tell — Overtone Series
Não Da Pra Expllicar ft. Mariana Cavanella — FBC & VHOOR
Butterfly 3 – Morton Subotnik
Sugar Water – Cibo Matto
ASCENSION (A) – Sunn O)))
Shango — King Wellington
Love Is All We Need (Original Mix) – DJ Stix
The Journey – Scott Grooves
Amphibian Headspace (Live) – Seaclones
[live bit] — Charle Wallace
Crush Metric – Ali Berger
Fourth Perspective – Jlin
Music Came (Instrumental)— Southern University Jazz Ensemble
4Q 510-511 — Surly 
we love the blue truck – Charle Wallace

Off-Label: Charle Wallace at Club Pittsburgh

NO DAWN returns with another edition, tonight opened up by resident threehz, followed by a live modular set from special guest Janus Rose and closed out by AJ_XO.

About our guest:

Janus Rose is a NYC-based producer, DJ and synthesist. Utilizing a broad toolset of live hardware, her practice draws heavily from the languages of cyberfeminism and queer rave culture.

Hailing from Brooklyn, NY, she has performed both live hardware and DJ sets at clubs across the U.S., as well as in Europe, Australia, and Japan. In 2023, she began releasing music on the LA-based queer imprint Delusional Records, as well as hosting Soft_Reset, a local party for experimental club and bass music.

NO DAWN with AJ XO, threehz and Janus Rose @ The Lot Radio 09-21-2023

Get the party started with DJ Wawa & Clay Wilson's Hit Factory Records.  
https://www.nts.live/shows/hit-factory/episodes/hit-factory-15th-february-2024

Hit Factory 150224

Get the party started with DJ Wawa & Clay Wilson's Hit Factory Records.  
Find the full tracklist and related episodes on NTS: https://www.nts.live/shows/hit-factory/episodes/hit-factory-16th-march-2024

Hit Factory w/ Rose Kourts  160324

Get the party started with DJ Wawa & Clay Wilson's Hit Factory Records.  
Find the full tracklist and related episodes on NTS: https://www.nts.live/shows/hit-factory/episodes/hit-factory-11th-april-2024

Hit Factory w/ El Niño Indigo 170424

Get the party started with DJ Wawa & Clay Wilson's Hit Factory Records.  
Find the full tracklist and related episodes on NTS: https://www.nts.live/shows/hit-factory/episodes/hit-factory-9th-may-2024

Hit Factory 090524

Get the party started with DJ Wawa & Clay Wilson's Hit Factory Records.  
Find the full tracklist and related episodes on NTS: https://www.nts.live/shows/hit-factory/episodes/hit-factory-6th-june-2024

Hit Factory 060624

Crossfade Sounds delivers a special remix edition of ZeroA's Goblins, featuring ten reworks that span the full spectrum of dub-inspired sound. A Belgian artist and longtime label regular, ZeroA's work here is reimagined by Asphalt Layer, Deepdrome, dESUS, Emesh, Francesco Tamburrano, ORBIA, Substak, The Open Circle, Victor Lopez, and ZeroA himself with a Collisions Mix. From slow, dubby 94 BPM explorations to classic oldschool dub techno aesthetics, the package highlights both the versatility of the original track and the creative breadth of the Crossfade Sounds family.

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ZeroA - Goblins (Victor Lopez Remix) [Crossfade Sounds]

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Carpathia - Athame

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