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WHAT
‣   Tapes are the archived spine of the weekly 4DJs CAST Twitch.tv/shapeblue broadcast—each episode pressed into a series of TAPES000.

‣   A playground for DJs to dig up new territory in experimental mixing methods and immersive soundscapes that everyone deserves.


WHY 
‣   4DJs started as a one-person proof-of-concept: could a mix be more than track-to-track experience, could it feel like a short film? It’s grown into an open lab where any adventurous DJ can co-pilot and push the craft past status-quo of beat-matching. Every different approach lifts the art a notch higher; every solo tape shows where my sound is headed next.

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FULLY IMMERSE
1. Quality headphones or speaker. >> Dial in on a TAPE.
2. If a transition warps your reality, let me know; the next episode might start with your idea.

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4DJs CAST

READ > https://inverted-audio.com/premiere-kamus-wallace

Or:la’s @cead_cd imprint welcome Glasgow’s @yungkamus to the fold, presenting a loosely defined UK club sound through two original productions, with Nikki Nair providing a deadly high-velocity remix.

Kult

Kamus - Wallace [Céad]

words by @delilahtov about her sonic memory: 

"somewhere over the rainbow, there is a place we can go to do magic. it’s a land of abundance where we tranifest our dreams—yet we bring our nightmares with us. in loopy quests for healing, power, and pussy, we tromp up and down a steep mountainside bearing amulets, wands, and shields. on moonlit nights, shadows reach out from our wakes, but vanish as soon as we turn around to look. 



this mix is inspired by a night on that land, taking refuge from a storm and wayward psychic energies with three queer children in a bathhouse. we fed logs to the stove in a wood-fired sauna as outside, muffled thunder seeped from clouds sparkling with electricity. i felt myself channeling Hera, adopting Zeus’s ephebes—young, effeminate cupbearers. one carried water, the other a staff, and the third was keeper of the Pan flute, an eternally hitting vape; the gift that keeps us living. 



staying lifted, surfing currents of our whims, we fanned the flames of a bonfire outside that persisted to spite the rain, until one of the children whispered “hold me,” or rather demanded “cuddle puddle.” we traipsed up to the cabin, where with beaver-like instincts, i heaped blankets and pillows on the wood floor to make a dam that held back time. the kids nuzzled in purring satisfaction. an oil lamp on the hearth illuminated offerings of tinctures, balms, and spiked Mountain Dew. i puffed the vape while i scratched the kids’ backs, admiring the sacredness of youth. 



for those few hours we were all nineteen, re-writing our stories with chosen family and striving to not re-inscribe the wounds inflicted by our blood. we needed to not give a fuck about anything except blowing on each other’s simmering coals. both dreams and nightmares can keep one from sleep; i know this from experience. so nothing could sate me like watching chests rise and fall in slow rhythms, as each of Hera’s children faded into gentle sleep.


dedicated to the lost and found bois."

ghunghru 059 // Delilah At Night / The Shape of Memory

REC_1_COMO_SE_DJ

BABES The DJ playing the Lot Radio on The Carry Nation Show 8/22/24. 1pm-2pm. 

'Lunchtime Dance' Inspired by the Legends of Carry Nation. Downtempo, breakbeat, drum & bass, R&B, dance, house all come together in this chill, cool & cute, sexy, exciting, nostalgic, dancey and yet C#NT journey.

 The full two hour show also included Kate Land from 12-1. Listen to the full set including her hour on the Lot Radio Soundcloud. .

Lot Radio -  BABES The DJ on ‘The Carry Nation Show’ LIVE 8/22/24

Listener.

Got your comfy shoes and a loose grip on reality? Perfect.. because A Kautious Score isn’t an easy trip to hop hop hop; it’s that glorious nowhere-walk where streetlights sigh backward, exit signs harmonize, and you’re low-key wondering if the sidewalk just whispered your name.

TAPE021 pivots the 4DJS series toward a style that blurs perception and reality–where dream-logic thrives, where time stretches + recoils, and everyday sounds morph into uncanny threads that tighten the narrative’s emotional grip. Where nostalgia sidles up and tickles the back of your neck–but never lets you scratch.

What’s sneaking up on you?
 ‣ Debussy’s Arabesques stitched onto every sidewalk you touch
 ‣ Prophet- drone purring like a feral cat under the floorboards
 ‣ Heart Of Glass (Ambient Rework Yougourthen) - Blondie
 ‣ Walk On By (Yougourthen Rework) - Isaac Hayes
 ‣ Pleasure Dome; Morse Code; Funky Swing - Armando

But first: sign the waiver. (Yes, really. Liability’s a vibe.)
💋 Turn the key. Inhale. Exhale. Press play.

Let the score glide you through your limbo.
When you remember to come up for air.. tell me: did the minutes bother following you, or are they still floating face-down behind the ghosts?

4DJS021: A Kautious Score

Played a  slow slambient darkroom set at Noxeema Jackson in dc this January during Mid Atlantic Leather. Its the sound I've always wanted in a darkroom (chuggy, not quite danceable, a bit broken).

What we did in the dark (live from MAL)

Tripped-out excursions through percussive club music with the Nowadays resident.

Ayesha Chugh, AKA Ayesha, makes club music that activates the body. The Brooklyn-based artist has spent the last few years carving out a distinct lane in modern club music. Her fusion of dubstep, techno and essential '90s rave elements into dynamite club tools that test and support dancers in equal measure. This time though, for her RA Podcast, Chugh purposefully tilts in a "more colorful wonky direction."

Since first turning heads with releases on labels like Fever AM and Kindergarten Records, she’s continued to refine a sound that feels both playful and punishing, marked by writhing basslines, rumbling drums and an innate ability to make bodies move. Her productions capture a kind of kinetic precision—tracks that are slippery yet forceful, balancing psychedelic textures with dubstep-like physicality and club-focused power. As Andrew Ryce wrote of her debut, Rhythm is Memory, her skill is "full of textures that wrap around the otherwise thudding, sub-heavy kick drums." After a serious accident in 2024 stopped her in her tracks, this year marks a full return to global touring with a new vantage point on life and the sound she seeks to push.

RA.983, clocking in at nearly two and a half hours, finds Chugh flexing that club muscle once again. Offering a tour through global club music both old and new, it's based around a set at her home base Nowadays this February. It's a patient but relentless ride: from deep, tunneling psytrance, progressive techno and slippery electro before really turning on the gas at the half mark, moving into slanted UK techno territory.

As she explains in the Q&A, it's a carefully curated selection of tracks that probes "what we perceive as tasteful." It's a mix that speaks to her deep knowledge of dance music’s lineage—and her intuitive ability to push it forward.

@aye5ha
Find the interview and tracklist at ra.co/podcast/983

RA.983 Ayesha

Listener.
In this rendition of a rainy day, I instruct you to turn toward it. Embrace it.
Now, not too much like that Lady Drew Lady. But if today is, in fact, gloomy and rainy—rainy and gloomy does not equal joyful rain video in my set description.

So let’s continue to TAPE015.
Let’s focus our prowess of hearing toward something we can truly feel in our feels—something that slowly drags us out of being potato.

Take a look at this crackpot.
Unfortunately, no crack.
But what we do have is a selection spanning Classical, Jazz, R&B, Electronica, and dare I say… Trance?
Maybe I’m wrong.


Productions presented in today’s TAPE015 include:
Every Day I Have the Blues – Count Basie & Joe Williams
Intro, I’m Not Afraid of Tomorrow, and Everybody Needs $ – Annette Taylor (Hustlin’ for Dollars, Hustlin’ for Change)
Too Much Rain (ATB vs. Woody van Eyden Mix) – ATB (Movin’ Melodies)
Strings of Eden (Garden Mix) feat. Miguel Atwood-Ferguson – Alex Kassian

Tools used to weld these productions:
Prophet Drone
Strings – Arditti Quartet
Field Recordings

4DJS015:  Too Much Rain, Too Little Crack

Listener, 

Ever heard of double homicide, will this one is not. It’s actually just one, split into two. Ooh, an embryo split into two would make twins?? So as I sit here in my Carrie vibes throwing these words, it now makes me think.. damn maybe it is after all a double homicide. 

TAPE018 is part of a two part dance. Consider it my opening act, to my own very act that comes after this. I know, must be hard to keep up with these words, but you MUST.  

In this ‘opener’ it grooms your mind to close your eyes, inside your mind and feel your body warning you, and the music is calling it. You’ll be falling deep and won’t be able to sleep. It’ll leave you wanting another line by the time it finishes. JUST. In time for the Modular Misdeed.  


Productions used: 

Children Laughing by Wendy & Bonnie 
I Need Another _________ by Moodymann @moodymann313
Desire (Album Version) by Yello @yello-official
Can’t Get Enough (Leela D) by Dimitri From Paris @dfp
La Electricidad (Original Mix) Oggie B @ognjen-bogdanovic


Tools:
Prophet Drone 
Moans

4DJS018:  Prelude to Misdeed

Listener, 

You caught me. Sometimes I’m just not good enough at covering my steps behind. Double homicide it is, cue the meme. That of course, if you heard the previous tape you’d understand that we are standing on a criminal sonic journey. 

TAPE019 is the one before the twentieth and it gives me great pleasure to introduce you to it. Would I consider it a baby, maybe. Would you consider me your baby? Do you want to pay for my school? I guess we can keep our roles then… me the clown and you the consumer of here this entertainment  honey of TAPE019. 

TAPE019 introduces an hour sonic journey filled with some oomph. Ideally if you were going on a journey this would be somewhere you’d consider lost but hey this is.. yeah. Okay want another bump? type of vibe. It’s rather a special treat for you because for most, you need mama to feed you a spoon at a time and I can’t always do that—instead, I’ll be feeding your ears with a set focused on the modular side of things. With minimal (count two) of productions and a laundry list of multitrack tools, loops and grind. It’s honestly a pretty cool set and I hope that your ears get wet from it. 

Please note that this set is providing an eccentric sound that spans eras and instrumentations… Flip the key and get lost.

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Productions: 

- LIES MEN TELL (Original Mix) by PH Balanced @cory_got_tracks
- Percapella 3 by Trainer & Galvan 


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Tools: 
✦ Multitracks Instrumentation 

-  Prophet-5 drone: breathes beneath the mix, gluing every other layer together.
-  70s soul Rhodes vamp: Warm gospel-blues phrase that slips in during lulls, grounding the floor in nostalgia before the next climb.
-  Motown piano: Bright, one-bar turnaround used as punctuation
-  Disco horn burst: Three-note brass fanfare that kicks open big drops like a glitter cannon of confidence.
-  Orchestral flute-and-brass: lush symphonic chords that signal the final crescendo, splashing Technicolor across the mind’s eye booboo.
-  New-wave guitar:  Razor-edged, chorus-soaked riff that slices through lush sections with sudden punk attitude.
- Spanish guitar: a ‘rasgueado’ that flares at emotional peaks like a flirtatious smoke ring.
-  Post-disco handclap-conga groove: human swing layered under synth sections, adding earthy warmth to machine precision.

✦ Vocals 

- “Higher” vocal sample: Beyoncé’s single-word cry, stretched in reverb to act as a beacon of lift-off.
- ​​Woo (acapella) by Rihanna 

✦ Loops

-  Early electro drum loop: dry, machine-tight kicks and hats that inject the first surge of kinetic snap, later flipped for a halftime head-fake.
-  Broken-beat techno loop: metallic, syncopated kicks and ghost snares that wobble the pulse and keep dancers on their toes.
-  Minimal synth loop: an eight-step bleep line in feedback, forming a hypnotic eye-of-the-storm before momentum returns.
-  Rubbery 808-bass riff: a slithery two-note glide that restores cheeky swagger after blow-out peaks.

4DJS019:   Modular Misdeed (LIVE SET)

Listener, 

Has it really reached our 20th TAPE? Feels like only yesterday we were crawling out of that big black hole, and now we’ve found ourselves at a moment of divergence, on a new timeline. 

Is it a merging of sonic sparkle into your gaping ear canal—or something more sinister? Something is brewing and only Time Through Love’s Tale will tell in TAPE020.

The sonic journey you’re about to embark consists of a simple yet strong story arc anchored by a phantom companion through out. To start your journey, you’ll be greeted with a moody flash-forward opening, tragic broken hearted vocals of B.B. King with The Thrill is Gone followed by the following productions:

✦ I’m Not In Love / Girl, You’re In Love (Mix-x-x-Tend Version) by Scherrie Payne on @horse-meat-disco 
✦ Tied Up by Yello @yello-official
✦ Dance Of The Snake by Space Drum Meditation @spacedrummeditation

But linger closely… throughout this arc, a voice shall be heard and they won’t go unheard.. you heard?
They are a messenger, neither hero nor bystander. Their presence is merely a reflection of your emotional projection. Just don’t ache when their absence becomes a silence you didn’t expect to mourn for.

I hope this sonic tragedy doesn’t disappoint—especially that little 1,2,3 setlist for a 59-minute set. 
It’s by design. Sometimes the fewer the steps, the deeper the fall.. and the deeper you fall the harder it is to get up and easier to slip on lube. Not the look, boo. If you were wondering, I find that fucking amazing… by.. the way.

With that said, have fun and thank you for joining me on this new sonic road that we are carving out on our new timeline.

4DJS020  ✦  Time Through Love’s Tale

House and breaks and other hard-to-describe genres...

Obession Tool

Loosen your shoulders and let the room exhale with you.
Picture a midnight blues bar melting into a chrome runway where a Freak-Out is taking place. 

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You might have wondered why mama Giggly puff called em freak-outs. But it all makes sense. Sit...

A “freak-out” is a mid-60s psychedelic happening where the lights, drugs, and grooves dissolve choreography so dancers can sprawl, sway, and spiral any way the music moves them—total free-form liberation on the floor. In mama Giggly Puffs  context it was about control--trying to catch them all. 

Listener, in our context, you're invited on your terms and liberated you are. 

TAPE022, takes you through a LIVE SET exercise journeying and exploring the manipulation of very very verrrry familiar sounds across eras and media application.

Enjoy before our next stop.

4DJS022: Vogue Swaying Freak-Out (LIVE SET)

Fully Immerse: Flip the key, tap play, and let go.

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Your inner person crawls through the crevices of the central nervous system to initiate mission impossible. It’s there that it discovers that 1,000 years have passed by in a lull of time enriched in absolute limbo.

TAPE023  we continue on our diverged sonic path which is inherently is walking in the direction of our shared consciousness. A path to what? Was it the same path the previous you took. The days, months and years in a lull of deep DEEP introspection. A path that led to confusion and whole lotta hole. As it rallied around the tip of the head and said release me it found the shattered mirror lifting from the ground by boiling blood and healed itself. 

Listener, Some might call that getting released from the K hole you were in but I promise you, this is a different timeline. A timeline you bounced. A universe you’re entering,  only bound by your own restrictions. 

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Productions:
‣ After The Storm (@borisfromhamburg Edit) - Toyin Agbetu @toyin-agbetu
‣ Deep Introspection - Sensory Productions
‣ Raw Mission - Savas Pascalidis @savaspascalidis
‣ Hypnotise (Original Mix) - GIDEÖN @gideon_dj_official
‣ Track 15: Special Concert, Max-Joseph-Saal 1992

Tools: 
‣ Prophet Drone
‣ Wah Guitar 
‣ Darbouka Solo 
‣ Bassline Sample

4DJS023 ✦ Hypnotizing Ritual

Douched & Dangerous is a genre-defiant, high-femme, no-fucks-given mix that celebrates trans greatness, joy, and the playfulness of American club culture.

Opening with the voice of trans icon AJA, “Douched & Dangerous”, is an ode to trans women who have significantly shaped nightlife. From Bashkka to Arca to Ms. Boogie, these women drive the flow of the mix producing a bouncy, sexy, and an "I'm that bitch" type of energy. DIVAS TO THE DANCE FLOOR!!!

This mix doesn't sit neatly inside genre lines. It builds, crashes, and swerves through bass, booty house, experimental techno, and ghetto club. Inspired by how Berlin always reminds me of my love for Black American culture — the humor, the irreverence, the inventiveness — this set is a love letter to this community as well.

Ultimately, this is for the gworls, the dolls, the they/thems, and anyone who doesn't do keta on the dance floor lol.

Douched and Dangerous

4DJs Project is an initiative pushing to redefine the art of DJing. It’s a playground movement that encourages and promotes alternative mixing methods—whether experimental, modular, or any technique that challenges the status quo.

→ Promoters, listeners, and the curious—dive into the pinned playlists. Listening is best immersed with headphones or stereo speakers. 

→  Those who embody this spirit are always welcome to reach out and connect.

— 4DJs CAST Weekends on Twitch.TV/Shapeblue  —

Me: Spins Modular-esque Compositional Narratives with a 5-Deck Setup. Keeping the Energy Flowing with Retro Loops, Drone, Riffs & Grooves. Intentionally not Confined To A Particular Genre or Sound Style. Grow like a spore.

✨Call Me Youyou for Short

4DJS018: Prelude to Misdeed

Yougourthen Ayouni

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