January 2023

We're taking a trip back to summer with this recording from Huerta's sublime 2 hour set, supplying the soundtrack to a bustling beach stage dance floor on the final night of Dimensions 2022. 

Recorded as part of the VBX & Slapfunk takeover, Monday 5th September 2022.

https://soundcloud.com/stevehuerta

Huerta - live at Dimensions 2022

Finn & Jordan return for the fourth instalment of their Christmas mixtape series - this time recorded live in Soup Basement on Mad Friday. 

Just over two hours of dance music gold, frankincense and myrrh. Merry Christmas ya filthy animals!

Tracklist on request.

Finn & I. Jordan - Joy 4 The World

Greetings! We're excited to share one last Pacific Spirit session in 2022. This time around we're taking an uplifting cruise through foundational and under the radar deep house from the golden era stitched together by NYC's @arsenii aka Bliss Street Queens. Arsenii released an incredible record with us a few months back called the "Deep Hows EP" and this mix is evocative of the sound he explored on that essential 12". If you haven't secured a copy there's still a handful floating around at the finer record stores on the Planet E. 

Enjoy the sounds everybody. Catch you on the other side!

Tracklist: Night Trains - Miles Away 
Slam Mode – Clouds 
Wamdue Project - Get High On The Music 
The Mackenzie – No Promises 
E-Culture - Tribal Confusion (Inhalation Mix) 
Fortran 5 – Crazy Earth (L'essence De Syd) 
Sandmen - Thelma (Fallout Mix)
Ambassador Of Love - A Love Song 
Zanga Zanga – Oh Ciolili (The Continental Club Mix) 
The Love Tribe – Garden Of Delights (Triumphal Edit) 
Propaganda – Your Wildlife (Wilderness Mix) 
Genus – The Island (Ocean Mix)

Pacific Spirit No. 83 | Bliss Street Queens

The 2022 Edition was a special one for me, full of mixed feelings and not really in my best mental state. As soon as I was up there and got in the groove I looked up and saw all the smiles and for a moment I forgot all the bad stuff and went for the ride.
So this is my little gift to you all.

Immense thanks for all your kind words received during the festival. Before and after my set. I live for moments like this and to celebrate music in such environments with the best crowds possible.
Small, simple, good music, good people. Thats all I need.

Also thanks for continually supporting Parallel Festival. I have big plans for the future which I hope to make possible.

Love,

Alex.

Photo by @sara_llobet

Refracted @ Parallel Festival 2022

John Talabot Mix N°60

Living Room n°47 ~ @kingsofty

q. is there a story behind the mix? how did it come together?

This mix is a collage of music from my community. It's quite a reflective mix for me, and I chose tracks that I felt held me in a suspended state of thought or existentialism. I think this is a consequence of my difficulties in dealing with changes in my life that I felt not quite ready for. The mix is a way for me to stay a little longer in the place was before.


q. in your opinion, what would be the ideal circumstances to enjoy your mix?

It's good to listen to it alone in headphones, maybe while you walk around your neighbourhood. I would say it will be a bit annoying as background music, and it suits more deep listening. It would be cool to listen to loud in your living room with a couple of close friends too, but it should be people you don’t mind a limited amount of conversation with as there are parts I hope you would zone out together in your thoughts.


q. describe a favourite object in your living room...

I would say my bedroom is more my living room these days as it's the brightest room in my house and it has all my favourite objects in it. It's really hard to say a favourite as my room is made up of little shrine-like clusters of art objects, all of which I love.

Just because it's right here on my desk next to me: This roughly A5-sized wooden board with Green, Orange, Brown, Blue, Black, and Yellow play-dough pressed onto it in a kind of abstract landscape painting by Isaac Rayneau. I really love how you can still see the fingerprints of the artist in the play-dough if you look closely. Over time the play-dough has started to dry out and crack so you can see through to the board behind. The ridges made from the pressing of the fingertips have gathered dust which is impossible to get rid of completely, because of the subtle details like the fingernail crescents and other tiny details that I have become obsessed with preserving, precisely as it was given to me. The artwork has been travelling with me for about 8 years


q. are you working on any projects right now (music or not music)?

I am working on some more visual art currently. I was going through pictures from my phone camera taken this year and began turning them into large poster formats. I'm quite a sentimental person as the above might have indicated already so I often do this as a kind of time stamping for myself. It ends up being quite cathartic to produce artwork like this and helps me feel okay to move on in the same way this mix has done for me.

Living Room n°47 ~ King Softy

Priori and Ciel go b2b for 2 hours prior to their set at Public Records on NYE

http://www.instagram.com/priori_tize  
https://www.instagram.com/ciel_dj

Ciel b2b Priori @ The Lot Radio 12 - 30 - 2022

Rinse FM Podcasts

Hessle Audio feat. Ben UFO & Maria Teriaeva - 02 January 2023

Rinse FM Podcast

Ciel (Twitch Recordings Special) - 02 January 2023

With what was mostly a full and fruitful year for us with many beautiful moments, we now turn our eyes forward to what is looking to be a very exciting year for us at Phonica as we walk into our 20th year of being alive. 2022 saw our mix series get even more killer contributions from artists like Paramida, Sally C, Fred P, Eden Burns, Alex Kassian, Erol Alkan and more. 2023's series line up plans to keep moving up and we have opened this years mix season in the capable hands of two of the finest DJ/Producers doing it right now. Bringing nothing but powerful, euphoric and goddess energies it can only be Octo Octa and Eris Drew of T4T Luv NRG. Amazingly celebrated for their strand of psychedelic, rolling progressive, trancey-house and break rhythms we can't think of two better selector's to take on our series. With an excellently curated compilation and mix for our good friends at Fabric last year as well as two banging cassettes on T4T we can't begin to imagine what this year has in-store for Maya and Eris but we have no doubt it's even more on the upward trajectory! Most likely to the heavens and back! We had a chat with Maya and Eris to see what they have been up to lately and little about how they approached the mix.

Interview Here

Phonica Mix Series 103: Octo Octa & Eris Drew

Crisp house and dubbed out bliss from New York.

Interview and download: https://bit.ly/XLR8Rpodcast_EamonHarkin

XLR8R Podcast

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XLR8R Podcast 781: Eamon Harkin

Ryan Elliott — live from Glitch Festival 2022.

Ryan Elliott | Glitch Festival 2022 - Monday

Chaos In The CBD — live from Glitch Festival 2022.

Chaos in the CBD | Glitch Festival 2022 - Monday

For the Monument podcast, the new year starts with a mix from Blazej Malinowski, an impactful force amongst the deep and hypnotic techno spectrum ranks, who delivers an hour of heavy-pulling drives and versatile ambiance.

Read more :

https://mnmt.no/magazine/2023/01/04/monument-355-blazej-malinowski

Tracklist : 

1. /DL/MS/ - Canvas
2. Anthony Tring - Open Fireplaces
3. D-Leria - Time Flies
4. Akob - Phase of Denial
5. Latmos - Labyrinthine Ways (The Alchemical Theory Remix)
6. Ribé - Nom de plume
7. Pause - Night Spasm
8. Temporal Geometryk and Avox25 - Circulo de entendido
9. Neiland - Sucias excusas
10. Atomic Moog - Static Flow
11. DJ Datch - Reaktor
12. Blovk - Beautiful Limited II
13. Blazej Malinowski - Silent Resistance
14. Donga - Kaishi
15. Artjom Schmidt - Impact Crater

Follow :

FB: https://www.facebook.com/malinowskiblazej
IG: https://www.instagram.com/blazejmalinowski
SC: @blazejmalinowskiofficial
Inner Tension Bandcamp: https://innertension.bandcamp.com/music

MNMT 355 : Blazej Malinowski

The snack enthusiast and London based producer and DJ takes on the NTS airwaves. Stay tuned for mixes spanning the breadth of dance and club music.

https://www.nts.live/shows/peach/episodes/peach-4th-january-2023

Peach 051

Nothing In Moderation with DJ Voices @ The Lot Radio 01 - 04 - 2023

Roughly ten years ago—if we pretend the peak pandemic year-and-a-half doesn't count—Lars Dales and Maarten Smeets first came together as Detroit Swindle, before changing their name to Dam Swindle towards the end of 2020. The original name was meant as a tribute to one of their favorite musical legacies, but recognizing that it didn't come across how they meant it, the duo changed their name to pay homage to their other favourite place: Amsterdam. Dales and Smeets have become core parts of the Amsterdam house scene in their time, especially with their excellent Heist Recordings label, which they started back in 2013 (hey, now *that's* literally ten years ago). 

It's easy to understand why the duo have become so popular. In person and onstage, they're goofy, funny guys, the kind of people you might describe as the life of the party. And musically, they're massively appealing, marrying a European tech house strut to deeper and more soulful inspirations, a preoccupation reflected in Heist's impressive artist roster: Ge-Ology, Demuir, Byron The Aquarius, Matthew Herbert and more. 

Their RA Podcast comes at a time of reflection and change, looking back on the decade-plus history of both act and label and plotting their new album, which they say will expand their horizons even more. The mix is eclectic but smooth, pulling together tracks from the likes of Omar-S, Lil Silva, Ruf Dug and Genius Of Time (with one of last year's most underrated tracks). It's always a treat to hear consummate club DJs in a more relaxed mode, and this one's no exception.

@damswindle

Read more at https://ra.co/podcast/866

RA podcast

RA.866 Dam Swindle

During our trip to the Netherlands in October, we had an opportunity to meet one of the rising stars from the Dutch underground electronic scene that we've been following for a few years now, Ashley Haak, aka Luna Ludmila. The talented DJ and producer from Utrecht stole our hearts with her warm and friendly attitude, vast music knowledge, and incredible DJ skills. 

After contributing a track to the 'Nowhere 02' compilation on SoHaSo and remixing Dwaalgast's 'Maan' track, both of which we had the pleasure premiering, Luna Ludmila released an outstanding debut solo EP on Amsterdam-based Statetly Records in June last year.
With many local and international gigs, already under her belt, including Loveland Festival, Breakfast Club, Shelter, and Paradigm, to name a few, and her upcoming debut at the infamous Awakenings festival Luna Ludmila is one the bright stars from the vibrating Dutch scene. 

Luna Ludmila's mix is deep and dubby, blurring the lines between house and techno with excellent track selection and smooth flow. It's the late-night, after-hour vibe in its finest form.

@lunaludmila
https://www.instagram.com/luna_ludmila_/

www.itsdelayed.com
www.instagram.com/_itsdelayed_
www.facebook.com/itsdelayed

Delayed with... Luna Ludmila

Diyanna Monet – live from Boiler Room X ROAM in Washington DC.

Diyanna Monet | Boiler Room X ROAM: DC

x3butterfly

Our belated official closing of 2K22 is curated by none other than Mexican/American DJ and producer hailing from Detroit, currently based in New York: x3butterfly
While studying at California Institute of the Arts, they began their career in music as an experimental performance artist.
Heavily influenced by innovators such as Throbbing Gristle and Floorplan, their productions encapsulated sounds that were inspired by the UK and Detroit, and were complimented with live spoken word. After moving to Berlin in 2016, they transitioned from performance art to DJing, where their sets on HÖR facilitated their breakthrough as a DJ.

Having drawn inspiration from early industrial and techno pioneers, x3butterfly’s sets retain a raw and ominous quality, with a club twist. Prioritizing the eclectic, they often aim to take listeners on a story-telling journey while simultaneously keeping them on the dance floor. Their sets combine jungle, drum and bass, R&B, dubstep, techno, and other world sounds at 140-160 BPM. x3butterfly has played in various clubs in Mexico, Germany, Denmark, and Greece, as well as a multitude of cities in the US. They have quickly become a rising NYC star, DJing notorious NYC venues such as Bossa Nova, Mood Ring, and Nowadays.

SoundCloud : https://soundcloud.com/sorrellem

Tracklist
Swooh - Forgery
Main Phase - Big Shaker
Settle Down - Seen
Bowser - Neurons
Satl - Werk It
Wingz - Can’t See
Fork And Knife - Salt Lamp
Marcus Visionary - Big Forward
Bailey Ibbs - Nokstella 
Benkins - Rock The Microphone 
Masha Wordpress - Gotcha 
Main Phase - Indiscrete
Koherent & Edit - Dis One
Flatmate - I Know You’re There
Bailey Ibbs - That’s Right
Lvcky - Every Beat
K65 - Red Room
Club Glow - Mosquito
Lars Huismann - Echo 
Daffy PJ Bridger - What Back When (Ollie Rant RMX)
Nia Archives - Mash Up The Dance Dub
Satl - Beautiful Struggle
Cesco & Molecular - Punch Smoke
Satl - Frozen

January 2023

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