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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

TAPE009: Listener, it may feel like it’s been a decade since my last post—and that’s because it has… a decade and a day, to be exact! But don’t worry; I’m back, energized and ready to serve up a fresh menu for your ears.

Today’s special edition set is actually two recordings: The Full Experience and The Ambient Foundation. Both were born out of an experimental setup where I used two separate mixers feeding into a single master output.

The Full Experience lives up to its name, delivering a merged, eclectic sound. My recommendation? Follow the guiding bird into your own personal journey. With any luck, we’ll share the same dream when morning comes.

Below is the tracklist for The Full Experience:

→ My Love Is Music - Space
→ Bird Song – Tool
→ Two Days (Tyrell and Serge Remix) – John Daly
→ Dilemma (Original Mix) – @dannywabbit23
→ Post Hypnotic Signal (The Carry Nation Remix) – @hannah-holland & @Joy-Joseph20
→ Ebedi – @kondukukonduku
→ 190204 (Original Mix) – @ReneWise, @rodhad
→ Control – Gomorra & Dersu


Sit back, press play, and let go.. TAPE009 will guide you through a dreamy musical journey. Let me know what you think!

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4DJS CAST is a weekly live-streamed experience on Twitch.Tv/Shapeblue, immersing listeners in a musical landscape that celebrates and pushes the boundaries of alternative mixing. Each set is unrehearsed, unplanned, and purely improvised, spotlighting experimental techniques to redefine the art of DJing.

Those who share this vision are welcome to connect and be part of the journey.

4DJS009:  Dream, Pussycat! Dream! [Full Experience]

TAPE009: Listener, it may feel like it’s been a decade since my last post—and that’s because it has… a decade and a day, to be exact! But don’t worry; I’m back, energized and ready to serve up a fresh menu for your ears.

Today’s special edition set is actually two recordings: The Full Experience and The Ambient Foundation. Both were born out of an experimental setup where I used two separate mixers feeding into a single master output.

The Ambient Foundation (optional to describe further if you want) highlights the underlying atmospheres that tie this experiment together—perfect for those moments you need to drift into reflection.

Below is the list of heavily manipulated tools for The Ambient Foundation: 
→ Prophet Horns Multitrack
→ Organ Pad Sample 
→ Cello Multitrack
→ Synth Multitrack

Sit back, press play, and let TAPE009 guide you through a musical journey like no other. Let me know what you think!

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4DJS CAST is a weekly live-streamed experience on Twitch.Tv/Shapeblue, immersing listeners in a musical landscape that celebrates and pushes the boundaries of alternative mixing. Each set is unrehearsed, unplanned, and purely improvised, spotlighting experimental techniques to redefine the art of DJing.

Those who share this vision are welcome to connect and be part of the journey.

4DJS009:  Dream, Pussycat! Dream! [Ambient Foundation]

Listener, I’m back so soon. Were you expecting this to come so quickly, so prematurely? Good—’cause I won’t—in this newest set, cooked in my lab-grown, grass-fed set: discovery into the world of Jersey Club…

This set was a pretty cool session, trying to focus only on Jersey Club. Notably, this was my first take mixing with this rhythm—my initial love for wanting to play around was the dreamy qualities I observed. Of course, as you should know already, it’s a chopped, seasoned, stretched, bending,  mixed version…

With that said, 🥸

Productions:
→ Didier Marouani & Paris France Transit ‎– Concerts En URSS - Running In The City
→ Jungle Luv (Original Mix) - Peter Bailey @djpeterbailey
→ Dance Like Me (Original Mix)  - Michael Cignarale @cignarale
→ HEAT WAV - Sjayy @sjayyofficial
→ BOP - Dj Tray @trayw908
→ TAH N JiDDDY - She Chose - TAH @tah_heaux
→ Thong Song - Constantine @constantinehlms
→ Last Time - Dj Tray
→ Pop, Lock & Drop It - Constantine 

Tools:
→ Prophet Horns - Multitrack
→ Triangle - Multitrack
→ Piano Multitrack
→ Horns Multitrack

4DJS010:  Chords. Bounce. Jersey. Club.

Listener. What do you call a suit you never bought but were born wearing? That’s riiight: my native extraterrestrial birthday suit. (You didn’t really believe I was human, did you?) If so, I implore you: open your mind—and your pockets—to TAPE011. Because where I come from, a “birthday” isn’t some yearly pat on the back—it’s a ritual and rebirth.

I can give you one solid fact: October 27—that’s when Sharlene (se) catapulted my soul and MERGE’d me (plus every galactic spirit hovering nearby) into a black hole. And let me tell you, as a bona fide extraterrestrial, that hole spun me like nobody’s business. It stretched me wide open. How open, you ask? Gaping, to the point of no return. Being rebirthed through the neon hallways of Windows XP? That’s a trip I still can’t explain.

This entire cosmic plunge demanded I retell my golden 27th sojourn first thing in the morning—through sound. So if you want to read about my journey by listening to it, go ahead: press play, then let me know how it hits you. Seriously. Come say hi. I’ll be floating around in my birthday suit, waiting.

4DJS011:  Gaping Golden 27th

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

Listener, before we move forward with the upcoming TAPES, let’s recalibrate.

In TAPE012, you will be transported through a time portal.
Time is the motif for the upcoming TAPES, and in line with the brand, this mix takes you through eras spanning from the ‘70s to the late ‘90s.

This journey unfolds with evolving energy—starting in a laid-back, nostalgic groove, moving into a reflective interlude, and finally settling into a vibrant, club-ready conclusion. Like an opening set, it gradually builds, inviting you to settle in and reset for what’s to come.

Each track is showcased one at a time—giving them the space and respect they deserve.

Productions Include:
1. "Could Heaven Ever Be Like This" – Idris Muhammad (1977)
2. "Maude Reminisces" – Johnny Pate (1973)
3. "Dance With Me" – Peter Brown (1978)
4. "Bro & Stroke" – Patrick Cowley (1981)
5. "The Dream" (feat. Peter Rauhofer) – Size Queen (1998)
6. "Paul's Groove" (feat. Peter Rauhofer) – Size Queen (1998)
7. "K-Hole" (feat. Peter Rauhofer) – Size Queen (1998)


4DJS012:  Recalibrating the Dolls

4DJS013:  Aura to Popped Art

Listener. It’s time. It’s time. Time..
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Now that you've stepped out of that Popped-Art Aura—a gentle ambient cocoon—into this new plane we're in. I think you've unlocked the next level. Let's guide you through three-worlds in this CUaNTum universe, all woven into one immersive stomping pilgrimage.

Directions: TAPE014 asks that you buckle your ears, open your heart, and fly. Let the motifs tug at your suballscious; let the fractal arcs spin you in circles. The CUaNTum experience—part beast, part enlightenment—invites you to press play, slip snug in the groove, and find yourself dancing somewhere between dreamscape and reality. Because if you know, you know. And if you don’t, now’s your chance to learn.

Productions Utilized:

Aaliyah - More Than A Woman (Keemix) - Hakeem Syrbram @hakeemsyrbram
Deejay Service 204 (Original Mix) - Abdul Raeva @gearmasterz
Get 2 - Body Double
Where 2 Go (Bass Mix) - Ghostwhip @ghostwhip707
Underwater [Origami Sound] - Gomorra & Dersu @origamisound
Drumz! (Original Mix) - K-Lone @k-lone93
Autumn Layers - DJ POLO @djpolo-uk
Steve Austin (Pandaboy's N Da Houz Mix) - Tayo Wink
River (Original Mix) - Octo Octa @octoocta
V Trigger (Original Mix) - Sekucci @sekucci
Can't Stop Dancing (Acapella) - Eli Escobar, Nomi Ruiz @eliescobar @nomi-ruiz

Multitrack Tools Utilized:

Fretless Bass 
Phone Synth Art Pop - @ladygaga 
Flamenco Claps 
Prophet Horn Drone 
Bird Song (Field Recording)
Dong Accents

4DJS014  ✦  Venus in the Triadic CUaNTum

Survey Series are table napkin conceptual sets; Short & Grand (maybe.)

Listener, this concept really pushes the boundary between the old and the new.
Considering the rarity of classical music on the floor—bitch, you better have seen that pumpkin pop up. Did you transform into that pretty thing you always knew you were—for Prince Charming? perhaps a tango or a waltz? Maybe both.

Productions:
1.  House-O-Rmx by DJ Deeon 
2. Creepin' Around The Bend (Original Mix) By Reflex Blue
3. Track Unknown - Salonmusik aus Lateinamerika CD Nr.2 (Special Concert, MAx Joseph-Saal)

Tool:
Prophet Drone

4DJS024: SINDERELLA [SV-K024]

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.. We’re charting how sound bends reality—one ear at a time.

Time’s pulling its favorite party trick again—folding in on itself like a beach wave, stretching like cosmic expansion, then snapping back when you least expect it. 

TAPE016 is printed on both sides; side 1, a mix, and the other introduces a Survey Series: mixes that double as experiments, coaxing the club floor (and your subconscious) into answering questions it didn’t know were on the test. Slip in, stretch out, report back. The only true measure of time is how wide your grin is when the floor finally settles.

Survey Directions:
1. Fully immerse yourself in headphones and space
2. Slip the full Key
3. Press play
4. When the abduction beat hits, note your internal timestamp—or just let the body shout.
4. After the last cymbal fades, drop your findings (word‑burst, emoji‑storm, or literal timestamp) into the comments or DMs!
5. If you want to Kontinue your journey here is a special present: bit.ly/AKautiousScore


What You'll Encounter:
- Afro‑house gateway grooves with trance‑laced pads.
- Rolling kicks, darbukas, field‑recorded water taps, and tribal horns that cut through like signals.
- Techno layers fold in on themselves—echoes inside echoes.
- A dimensional shift with time feeling wrong in all the right ways.
-  Swelling of a Prophet drone synth.
- Amii Stewart’s “Knock On Wood” beams you back with disco warmth.
- This is how sound bends reality. Let it.

4DJS016  ✦  Ritual Kompression [SV-K016]

Listener, we continue our lesson in time.

TAPE017 is a dance ritual, not a playlist. Surrender to the spell or stay outside the circle—there’s no halfway doorway once the beat starts building.

Productions:
Don't Stop No Sleep (Tale Of Us Remix) - Radio Slave 
Roots ft. Messias Messiah - Space Drum Meditation
I Get So High (part 1)  - John Daly 

Tools:
Dreamy Scape
Piano Fill

4DJS017  ✦  Ritual Expansion

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

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

4DJS025  ✦  LEVEL 1

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.

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