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

My name is Fana’ (which can be stylized a number of different ways; FANA’, fana’), my pronouns are they/them, I’m from NYC but currently live in Cleveland, OH and a fun fact about me is that I can’t tell people where I currently live without disclaiming that I’m from New York.

Who currently inspires your music-wise?

Indigenous throat-singing throughout Asia but specifically Ainu Rekuhara and Kurdish Dengbej

What other activities have you dipped into with a break from djing?

If anything this past year has given me the opportunity to just sit on my ass and do absolutely nothing without any guilt so instead of replacing going to clubs with hobbies I’d only be getting into for the sake of productivity, I’m really enjoying doing less and just having time to myself.

If you had to describe yourself as a plant what would it be and why?

Berfin (Kurdish snowdrop); a winter flower that grows in very low sunlight. There’s a scene in a Kurdish film called I Saw the Sun (Güneşi Gördüm in Turkish) where one of the main characters, a trans woman, is explaining why she kept a wilted berfin from the Kurdish village she’s from. In Kurdish folklore, berfin are in love with the sun but know they’ll wilt once the sun shines on them. Despite knowing this, they beg Allah to let them see the sun and when their wish is granted they inevitably die. They sacrifice their entire existence - the struggle of growing through snow - for a moment of warmth and happiness. Sometimes the meaning of struggle is risking everything to bask in the sun, and as a transgender Kurdish person myself, I really fucking feel that.

(Disclaimer: I Saw the Sun is loaded with transmisogyny and violence toward trans women so I don’t really suggest watching it if that’s something that would be triggering.)

How do you see your music taste evolving as time goes on?

The older I get the more pan-Asian and pan-African music I want to listen to and study. At the same time, I’m constantly revisiting/recontextualizing genres I used to listen to and applying that to how I feel about music now and what I wanna create in the future.

What was your first gig? How did it go? 

My first DJ gig was opening for Crash Course in Science when In Training brought them to Cleveland in 2016. I played Italo-disco and didn’t beatmatch and had a really great time.

Why do you think it's important to share music?

Being Kurdish I know too well why sharing music is essential to the preservation of indigenous history and the passing on of endangered culture through generations; Kurds have been historically denied the right to publish our own history books in the places where we’re from, and the only narrative that gets told on paper is by our colonizers. Dengbej singing is the primary way we’ve passed down stories of our history, our mythologies, our geography, our language and all its dialects. Without the sharing of song my people wouldn’t have a way of keeping ourselves recognized in places that want to eradicate our heritage.

Tracklist:

Duma - ANGELS AND ABYSSES
33EMYBW - 冬虫夏草
Osmani Soundz - Spiritual Masterkey
Asian Dub Foundation - Debris
Gag Reflex - Silk
Nitin Sawhney - Nadia
Soichi Terada - Grand Senshuraku
Future Soundz of India - Shang High
???*** - Silsila Ye Chaahat Ka Remix
Natacha Atlas - Duden (Talvin Singh Remix)
Sharmaji - Jawani
D.J. Rawaat - Masbaha in the Bentley
Anuj Rastogi - Darth Veda
Anuj Rastogi - The River
Natacha Atlas - Taalet (The Kaya Project Remix)

***i dont remember where i got this track from and im not sure if someone had sent it to me a while back and i forgot so if this is you pls get in touch!!! it slams and also i wanna give credit

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fana' - 187˚

blowing the first candle of the show on @noodsradio with an hour of dancehall sonic dominance and distorted contemporary club variations

Noods Radio - OJOO Show Birthday Special #12 (01/09/21)

Experimental ambience, dub, techno, and other crazy left shxt from Joshua Reid & Joshua Inyang, a.k.a Space Afrika... Please, enjoy.

https://www.nts.live/shows/space-afrika/episodes/space-afrika-29th-november-2022

Space Afrika w/ Jessica Ekomane 291122

https://www.nts.live/shows/in-focus/episodes/in-focus-laurie-spiegel-21st-july-2023

In Focus: Laurie Spiegel

YL Hooi and Tarquin Manek unravel the perfect comedown for the heatwave fever dream.

htttps://www.factmag.com/2023/09/11/fact-mix-yl-hooi-tarquin-manek/

Fact Mixes

Fact Mix 925: YL Hooi & Tarquin Manek (Sep '23)

Rinse FM Podcast

DJ Plead with CS + Kreme - 25 September 2023

Tim Hecker plays his favorites new and old. This show is 100% Terry Riley. 
https://www.nts.live/shows/tim-hecker/episodes/tim-hecker-26th-september-2023

Spa-Time w/ Tim Hecker 260923

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https://www.nts.live/shows/early-bird-show-maria-somerville/episodes/early-bird-show-maria-somerville-9th-october-2023

The Early Bird Show w/ SSIEGE - 𝙉𝙏𝙎 Radio - Oct '23

Full tracklist and feature: https://shrptyp.co/sharpfm-jalbert-willaugustpark

A heady and heart-y stew of a mix from two of NYC's finest multi-instrumentalists that maps out their shared musical universe. 

From Jio: "This mix is a slurry of unreleased and/or unfinished recordings from Takuya Nakamura, Ex Wish, & myself with some of Will’s tasteful selections laced throughout."

Read more about how they chose the theme of language—relevant for us—as the jumping off point for this mix at the link above.

012: J. Albert & Will August Park

ENVY Ft. DJ Crud (16/12/23)

New Delhi and San Francisco based GHUNGHRU presents sounds influenced by Indian classical music and other traditional sounds of India, modular synthesizers, drones, lyricism, and texture.

www.ghunghru.fm 
https://www.nts.live/shows/ghunghru/episodes/ghunghru-3rd-january-2024

Ghunghru w/ Arushi Jain 030124

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