For the 95th entry in the Honcho Podcast Series, we welcome @livwutang! Denver-raised, Seattle-honed, DJ livwutang stews together atmospheric soundscapes and bubbly instrumentation that could soundtrack a smoke-filled lounge, or a walk home under the cover of night.

After getting her start spinning on pirate radio, livwutang has been a regular curator and feature at local parties in her area. Her prolific grind and playful mixes earned her a spot as a resident of a room in one of Seattle's premier clubs.

Honcho Podcast Series 95: livwutang

@kiernan-laveaux

Introduce yourself? Pronouns? Where do you currently reside? 1 fun fact about yourself?

Hey! Thanks for these thoughtful questions
My pronouns are She/Her or They/Them
I currently reside in Pittsburgh, PA
I eat strawberries whole :)

How did you get your DJ name? 

So one night when I was 18, I was at a Los Crudos show at the venue that a lot of friends and I would later throw parties at in Cleveland (shout out to Martin and any Limp Wrist fans reading this too!). The venue is next door to a terrible gay bar, I went there randomly (weird for me because gay bars are hell on earth 99% of the time) and ended up meeting a group of queens who said they were from the House of Laveaux and that I was their daughter now. They said I needed a name, and the name they chose for me was Kiernan Laveaux. I never saw them again after that night, but a few months later I began to go by the name when I started DJing. It’s become a part of my being in a way I couldn’t have imagined, and also a way of expressing my inner voice in hopes that it reaches the inner voices of others too - and maybe we all start to sing together.  

Who/what currently inspires your music-wise that has nothing to do with music?

Everything is musical & leads back to music for me no matter what, but recently leaning into the fact that I’m the oldest of a handful of young people on the paternal side of my family has been a really inspiring perspective shift of life. The potential of being a supportive & loving older person in the lives of younger people fills me with an infinite amount of joy.

I’ve been discovering more about Jewish heritage of mine that’s been attempted to be erased (as it goes), and in turn learning/reading more about Kabbalisitic thought & ways of being - engaging in magic in my own ways has been expanding my perspective on music/DJing the past several years. 

I’m far from any kind of expert on kabbalah, but the way energy flow & manifestation is written about and practiced within it has been validating to read, in music but as well as the way it feeds back into life. Even just the ability of the word “kabbalah” to translate to “reception”, “tradition”, or “correspondence” <3

Dream line-up?

System of a Down, Nissenenmondai, Cities Aviv, Devo, Mwandishi, The Body, Madam Data, Model Home, Obnox, Neon Phusion, African Head Charge, Cindytalk, Maurice Fulton, Via App, Cyrnai, Rakta, Plack Blague + all the homies DJing for a week straight

What was your best moment on the dance floor?

I’m thankful a lot of meaningful ones come to mind when I think of this - 
the one I always jump to with this question is the first time I saw Titonton Duvante & Bill Converse dj in May 2016, somewhere in Ohio. Both are definitely some of the first people who helped me see how unique & personal you can really be with DJing, Bill’s set that night especially helped show me how deep you can traverse the wormhole. It was just like this completely enveloping & beautiful psychedelic phenomena for me. I don’t remember a lot of the music, but I’ll never forget how it made me feel. Eternally grateful to have any of these experiences in life to help me smile and still feel coursing through my DJing to this day.

Do you have any upcoming releases/gigs?

Lots of ideas swirling in my mind to manifest for the future, but as of right now…

I’m playing in NYC Friday Sept 24 at Nowadays with 
Azu Tiwaline & DJ Voices :)

What would you like to see in the future for the dance community?

A complete & utter overhaul of the ways we create space, express ourselves, and love one another.

Check out the A/V set to Kiernan Laveaux's 363˚ mix here -> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yAFVqE6tdn8&ab_channel=KiernanLaveaux

For extended Q&A + OG pi pi pi game please visit the website ------> pipipi.life <--------

Kiernan Laveaux - 363˚

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So thrilled on this day to say…

@livwutang gives lots of life sowing other and underworlds. Aqua waves, ray beams, fertile grounds, warmth and light all in balance. Bump it on the street and..

Happy earth day 🌎🌍🌏

d o w n 2 e a r t h 40 - livwutang

Priori and Ciel go b2b for 2 hours prior to their set at Public Records on NYE

http://www.instagram.com/priori_tize  
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Ciel b2b Priori @ The Lot Radio 12 - 30 - 2022

Manchester's Jon K explores the spaces between monthly for 120 mins.

https://www.nts.live/shows/jon-k-presents-peking-spring/episodes/jon-k-presents-peking-spring-14th-february-2023

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CCL (@ccl-url) has many tricks and plenty of surprises up their sleeve. London-born, US-bred but now Berlin-based, they are playful in what they play but serious about how they play it, whether that's head spinning 160bpm cut, "cowgirl-breaks or wiggle steppers." The key for this multidisciplinary artist and former New Forms festival curator is to find the similarities and differences between shades of sound and rhythm and exploit them to spellbinding effect. As a producer, they are no different and have always managed to find fresh in-between sounds on labels like Fever AM and Discwoman. 

The singular DJ steps up this week with almost two hours of pure sonic adventure. It's a perfect showcase of how they can soundtrack imaginary worlds from humid future jungles to robot dances in the sky. You'll hear rhythms you could never imagine and contort your body in impossible ways, all while admiring the dexterity of the DJ who has threaded together such a trippy trip.

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Monthly missives from a London club selector par excellence - expect anything from finger-on-the-pulse UK rap, to deep house and techno records, to jungle & UK funky.

https://www.nts.live/shows/ok-williams/episodes/ok-williams-27th-april-2023

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dj fart in the club dj set at her very own (legendary) imaginary friend party at fitzroy berlin, march 18 2023 6-7.30am

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ani/live Fourteen: DJ Fart in the Club @ Imaginary Friend

Interview: https://truantsblog.com/2023/truancy-volume-309-ron-like-hell/ ‎

Soundcloud: @ronlikehell

Access the download and full tracklist (Confirmed and added) on our Patreon. Your support helps cover all our costs and allows Truants to continue running as a non-profit and ad-free platform. patreon.com/truants

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Ron Like Hell

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a recording of my set for Erosion [@erosion] , on a fine night in Glasgow tooon'

Jay Duncan @ Erosion - Glasgow [28.04.23]

Click here for the interview with deep creep melbournedeepcast.net/portfolio/deep-creep

Locking in next with a banging mix of hi-energy hypnotics from the Brooklyn rave specialist and all night party professor @deepcreep88! Cutting her teeth throwing wild DIY after-hours parties in Austin before landing in NYC three years ago, @thelotradio resident and host of the killer @pipipigroup mix series soundtracks a sunny NYC summer of quarantine with some 'super-posi' rave nostalgia, weaving deep trance cuts, gritty breaks and big late night techno euphorics!

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