These are mixes made by the current members of Research & Development, Makeen and JS Alvarez

Mixes by R&D members

Tracklist:

Fernando Falcão - Memoria das Aguas
Pulse Emitter - Void Engine 1
Uun - Junkspace
Inox Trax - Sound Effects
Franz Jager - Lana Hunts (VIL Club Edit)
Robert Hood - Ignite A War
Hardcell & Grindvik - Silver (Hardcell Remix)
Sibilant - Screecher Creature
Overland - NASA
1800 Haightstreet - Permafrost
Pelada - Desatado
Vinicius Honorio - Heartbeat (Alex Bau Repaint)
Andre Kronert - Tenth Street Rag
dj ESP Woody McBride vs. John Frank - The Pitch of Madness
Clouds - T12
Sound Associates - Jackknife (Len Faki edit)
Subjected - Thtswhtwnt
Merino - Como Desaparacer
Lonefront - 19
Furtive - Crossfire
Russell E.L. Butler - Maggots
Are:gone - 721.2
Tarker - Enhanced
Jaq Attaque - Martian Immigration (Raw Mix)
Free Range - The Grey Goose
Paul Bailey - Battery Girl
Blacknecks - Don’t Say Goodbye
Frankie Vega & Gabriel Palomo - The Tempest
Decks - Fractured
Keanu Raves - Secret Base Aesthetic
Fjaak - Bassani
Alphaconda - Hey Mami
LSDXOXO - Mutant Exotic (D.Dan Remix)

JS Alvarez- minimal detroit

For mix number 18 in the PPRZ Podcast series, we have a mix from Chicago's @makeensound

Chicago based producer and DJ Makeen is focused on groovy textural techno
with a dark edge. He co-organizes the party series Research & Development
with J.S. Alvarez and founded the parties Spent and Near Dark.

His electronic music obsession began when he started performing live sets
on tables full of gear. With an interest in sound design and synthesis, Makeen
spent the early part of his artistic life composing and performing
experimental music more focused on acoustic instruments. The latest leg of
his journey has brought him back to electronic music with an elevated
passion for dance floor-focused beats.

Mix Description:
I decided to take a playful approach to this mix— playing some lighter and
groovier tracks with an emphasis on trippy sounds and atmospheres. This
mix was recorded with 3 x CDJs and an Allen & Heath Xone 92 mixer. The
focus was on long continuous blends, while shifting between new and
unexpected sonic worlds.

Tracklist:
Oktobr - Sleepdancer
Dj Hyperactive & Jason Patrick - Harrier Env (Original Mix)
BLANKA - Howl
Atonism - Back And Forth
Temudo - P is For Paula
Karo - Uväll
Vladw - Aou Mallku
Augusto Taito - High Trip
Ohm - ASKE
CRAVO - Innerversion
Tsibo - M25
Takt - Groove Chaser
Orbe - Post-Cycle
Toru Ikemoto, bw - Don’t Play 050r
Amotik - Saat
Zisko - State of Rhythm
Seigg - Secondary Options
Planetary Assault Systems - Raww
Speedy & Steve - Rotor
Temudo - Susto
Gaetano Parisio - Klytia

PPRZ Podcast 18 - Makeen

"Leaning hard into the conceptual thrust of the Distant Signal series, Furtive weaves a sonic narrative of cosmic exploration and calamity. Pulling heavily from all stripes of lost-in-space science fiction plots, this is a non-specific tale of human optimism (or naivete) and intrepid scientific leaps leading to a terrifying confrontation with eldritch cosmic forces and the unraveling of the reality our limited human technology, science, and faith have tried to understand. This is a mix of high-impact “g-force ambient” (in Furtive’s parlance) and introspective atmospheres, a sonic ride for psychedelic explorers and dissociated adventurers, those taking (third) eye-opening sacraments to traverse the vacuum of space, the sands of the desert, the cold of night, and chasms of the heart. 

The sonic arc of this mix begins by conveying the receipt of a distant signal, a message from far within the blackness of the cosmos that suggests an intelligent alien entity is beckoning to us. In our natural human curiosity and hubris, a mission to make contact is undertaken, launching a ship with a team of top scientists, explorers, negotiators, and warriors to investigate, communicate, learn, discover, and perhaps conquer. A journey full of promise, hope, excitement, faith in humanity and our collective achievements and intentions. Their long, plodding interstellar journey encounters treacherous circumstances, leaving nerves on edge and the team rattled as they approach their destination… yet as they come up on their anticipated end point, they are overwhelmed by slack-jawed awe. Initial contact is promising and profound, unnerving but inspiring. The awe and excitement fade, quickly becoming concerning as slinking things get out of hand with spiking anxiety and desperation, an absolute moment of break-glass emergency and panic on the space station. Nothing is as expected and promised - yet fully predestined and predictable - as mysterious, otherworldly eldritch forces alter, predate, inspired, terrorize, and transform - threatening to rend cosmic reality, civilization, the foundations of our minds, knowledge, and reason as we have understood them all. Through the contortions of alien forces and life-threatening calamity, the existential threat abates. A new light shines on this portion of the universe, and a new vision of our place in the world prevails - though not destroyed, nothing is ever the same, and we can look into the cosmos with fresh eyes, of understanding, awe, fear, and faith, and beauty, rinsed clean by a narrow brush with annihilation.

…or something like that."

@furtivetrax
IG: @furtive.sasha
https://furtivetrax.bandcamp.com/ 
https://ra.co/dj/furtive

Furtive is a full-gonzo rave conjurer: they're a Philadelphia-based producer, DJ, event organizer, and visual artist - bending and blending genres, mediums, experiences, and crowds into raveworld magic. 

Tracklist: 
I Am A Lake of Burning Orchids - Sojourn
Lapalux - Oblivion
adammmmmmmmmmmm - ok I’m real I think
Bubba crumrine - Coin
Sung Hargun - Rigel
MORI345 - Oxbow Owls
Horla - Opium Quartet
Lišaj - Mezina (feat. Sweeps 04)
Laura Luna Castillo - Things Have Started To Float
Exploited Body - Hypoesthesia
clipping. - Interlude 01 (Freestyle)
Polygon - Soft Focus
DIGITRONICA - кораблик
BRYYA - Ano
Heliochrysum - FORBIDDEN STRUCTURES
Infans - Avanie
Punshukunshu - Indistinct Light
DJ Glow presents Populist - (Spectrum)
Kathy Jinani - Abandoned Gear (wac© Remix)
Air Max '97 - Veneer (Tendryl's purp80x remix)
Mosca - The Twins
WOLF & 111X - Wounded Alien (Astrosuka Remix)
‡Starving Poet§ - Trans Euphoria
Arca - Sinner (JHL remix)
Yen Tech - Sentry
Furtive - Awe Bubble
Sangam - The World Ain’t The Same
Ben Frost - Periphera
Seven Orbits - Ganglion
Furtive - Embrace
Jade Statues - Invocation
Modeo - Nobody Sleeps

Distant Signals 035: Furtive

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For episode 03 of No Tags, Chal & Tom meet CCL.

A true DJ’s DJ, CCL is typical of the kind of artist we both admire: someone with reassuringly broad taste, a lifelong affinity with the underground and a winningly self-deprecating sense of humour.

After obsessing over their recorded mixes for ages we realised we knew almost nothing about Ceci the person. Turns out, there’s much to tell – with past lives in Moscow, Rome, Bristol and Seattle, their life story veers from elite dance schools to cider-swilling student nights via stints as a festival booker, trainee coder and crisis hotline staffer.

We sat down with Ceci between two London gigs for a great IRL conversation, going deep on the intricacies (and flaws) of Rekordbox, the politics of DJ collectives, the dynamics of queer dancefloors, the importance of digital archiving and more, all threaded through their unique life story.

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Season 8 Episode 5 - 01.03.24

It’s 2024 and the groove is upon us. Kajunga’s own Lanny kicks off the new year with an exquisite selection of funky, spaced-out house and techno.

@lanny-mpls

Kajunga Program SE.8 EP.5 - Lanny

Live for No System takeover at Drama Radio Bar CDMX.12.15.2024
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EtZofjwk-Y0

NAP @ DramaRadio// No System Take Over

getting to this was moment was a long labor of love and hugely emotional
bigggg thanks to all who have been a part of the journey
i will never forget it!

graphic art by franki farb 💜

Opening @ Nowadays Nonstop 1/20

https://soundcloud.com/sardashhh
A self-described "rave-generalist", Sard is a DJ, producer, and Live PA artist living in Detroit. Combining his passion for perfect dancefloors and the deeper technical aspects of dance music, his performances and productions have maintained a steady placement in the Midwest and beyond. Sard channels a life dedicated to music study into his sound, blending influences of North American techno and rhythms from abroad. His releases on Fixed Rhythms, PPRZ, Amphiboly, and Codec Recordings have been played globally by friends and heroes alike.

RND 099 - Sard

85 🤝 170

tracklist: 
K.O.P. 32 - Now 
cypha - Xzirow Command 
Javier Salazar - Unilatem 
Estrato Aurora - Hilos de Fósforo
yin yang audio - Presence
Javier Salazar - Toltec 
Space Drum Meditation - Reign (Konduku Remix) 
or+be - Protocole 
Minú Jr - Cure 
Varuna - Jewel Changi (Jan Loup Remix)
Sindh - Adhibhaar 
yin yang audio - Splitting the atom 
Third Space - Push (Part 2) 
Donato Dozzy - Mai 
Trois-Quarts Taxi System - A Visit
Vardae - Fusion 
Hysteria Temple Foundation ft. Spekki Webu - Oceanographic 
RDG & Gaze III - Opia 
or+be - Spore 
Onohno - Spriggan Gathering
Abo Abo - Black Burrow 
Kiss Nuka - Speaking In Tongues 
Batu - Other Means 
The Untouchables - Gunmetal 
Last Life - Tunnel 
Torn - Pathogens 
Takuhn - Kyoda 
The Untouchables - Thorium (with Homemade Weapons)

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Jana has 'shape shifting lizard' JS Alvarez on the show to select some mutant techno and unruly bass music. 
https://www.nts.live/shows/jana-rush/episodes/jana-rush-24th-february-2024

Jana Rush w/ JS Alvarez 240224

9th June 2023, the incredible @kiernanlaveaux live at Mansions, NYC. A 2 hour snippet of a 6 hour set. <3

Artwork by her partner Malzof with a photo from this Mansions set

"The shape design is from Wind Chorus by Pauline Oliveros - which I also have the design of on some custom slipmats that are also visible in the photo ;)"

<3

ani/live Forty: Kiernan Laveaux @ Mansions

Nowadays Live and Direct returns after a long hiatus with a 5-hour recording from Carlos Souffront (@csouffront), recorded from 10 am - 3 pm at our Halloween Nonstop party on October 29, 2022. Carlos returns to Nowadays for another Nonstop set this weekend, playing from 3 pm to 6 pm Sunday afternoon.

A regular at Interdimensional Transmissions' No Way Back parties in Detroit and beyond, Carlos Souffront brings a brilliant sense of creative alchemy to the decks, combining years of experience and digging with a sensibility like no other. Abstract rhythms meld together into inexplicable chaos magic. Dark, shadowy selves emerge, ready to be explored with a sense of mischief and playfulness, carried through by an acid bassline or cheeky vocal.

For this extended Halloween set during the real witching hours, Carlos summoned all of the party gremlins, goblins, and ghouls to the Nowadays dancefloor for the ultimate seance.

Nonstop: 3/9-3/10

Nowadays Live and Direct 016: Carlos Souffront

DJ Set for Tower @ Bossa Nova Civic Club w/ @tristanarp @djdeadname @surger_y 
[ @framework-ny x @bossanovacivicclub ]

Tracklist:
Rasmus Östling - Kivikko
Caterina Barbieri - Memory Leak
J Sliwa - Harder Than Ever
Temudo - Da Papps (Mix2)
Go Hiyama - XL
Marco Zenker - Wave Mode
Ōtone - Slice
NIQH - Ziplock Weaponry
Unified Method - Beyond Self Imposed Boundaries (Catartsis Remix)
Henry Greenleaf - Sign Replacement
Sciahri - Lake Of Snakes
Lakker - Surface Drummer
Two Shell - rock✧solid
TWR72 - Movement
ZULI - Bussra
Lotic - Amygdala Hijack
Peder Mannerfelt - Liquid Rattan Mainframe
Gramrcy - Ruffian
Eustress - Disorbital (feat. MOS FET & Lee Lloyd)
jaijiu - jaijiu_128kbps (150bpm)
SOPHIE - Burn Rubber
Blawan - Justa
YUKU - Quadrilogy
Spiral Tribe - Black Plastic
Itoa - Girlboss Microplastix
ZULI - All [The Drills]
Black Snake Whip - Turn You Off
Trash Bandicooc - Here We Go
Metrist - GMFGR
Skee Mask - Zezbo Version
Massive Attack - Black Milk (feat. Elizabeth Fraser)
FKA twigs & Pa Salieu - honda
Simo Cell - behind the waterfall
a2a - Lilac
BOSTICH - POLARIS (LAO BOOTLEG)

boxofbox - DJ Set from Tower @ Bossa Nova Civic Club (February 29, 2024)

@jsalvarez
@researchndevelopment
Interview: https://www.ayli-sf.com/2024/05/16/ayli-ground-level-019-js-alvarez/

Track-listing: 

Michal Wolski - Qi
Architectural - Rare Ceremony Tapes
Space Drum Meditation - Oviraptor (Marco Shuttle Remix) 
Felix K - Fundamentals (Onar Anxiety Remix)
Uun - Blood Money Redux
Wata Igarashi - Gravity 
DJ Hockey - Whirlpool 
Jeremy Caufield - Station A
Aliasing - Bline
DJ Nobu - pressure point 
Ezy - Too Deep
Marçal- Bionic Jungle 
Gag Reflex - Tomb 
Ungar - Aggressive 
PS11 - Chiron 
Decoder - Visionary
Legless Lizard - Something Better 
Are:gone - Organic Taste 
Aadja - post natal drip

AYLI Ground Level 018: JS Alvarez

Rumors Mix Series 022: MAKEEN

Based in Chicago, R&D is a music event/mix series focused on nurturing new sounds, experiences and atmospheres while exploring the music and culture it was born or mutated from. Techno, electro, EBM, bass, breaks, club and beyond.
Current personnel
Jeremy Alvarez - JS Alvarez
Eric Fernandez - Makeen

Jana Rush w/ JS Alvarez 240224

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