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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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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

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

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

Obession Tool

Who Am I Then

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

4DJS026 ✦ LEVEL 2

4DJS027 ✦  LEVEL 3

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

4DJS026 ✦ LEVEL 2

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