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Furtive is a starry-eyed, polychromatic rave conjurer. As a relentless creative tinkerer and underground grand-stander, they have come up in DC’s scene as a prolific, multivariate producer, genre-agnostic DJ, and event organizer. Furtive’s tireless studio wizardry has allowed them to land releases on Warok Music, Format Recordings, and DC’s own ROOM and Metro Xpress, along with a slew of tracks on VA compilations, dozens of self-released cuts, and several pending vinyl releases. Furtive has worked to foster the raveworld underground as a promoter, organizer, and booker, helping realize some of DC more precious parties. Beyond the dance floors and strobe lights, Furtive is a medium-mixing visual artist, squiggly illustrator, and a tattoo scratcher. They have spent the long stretches of the pandemic grinding in new directions and ceaselessly churning out new material, from a rich raft of eclectic DJ mixes and releases, to ink-splattered artworks. 

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Sounds Of Vacancy Vol. 42

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Sounds Of Vacancy Vol. 42 (ft. Furtive) [Live Mix]

Furtive is a full-gonzo polychromatic rave conjurer and a relentless creative tinkerer. A Philadelphia-based producer, DJ, and DIY underground event organizer with over a decade of experience in the studio, Furtive's production wizardry has allowed them to land releases on a variety of US and overseas labels - including their first vinyl EP in spring 2022, with another coming soon - along with a slew of tracks on VA compilations and dozens of their own self-released cuts. Furtive’s body of work comprises psychedelic warphole-diving techno, quirky and muscular electro, acerbic acid tracks, moving ambient atmospheres, and drum & bass bin-rattlers. Furtive cut their teeth as a DJ and promoter/DIY organizer in Washington, DC’s warehouses, where they also played a turnkey role in putting on some of the District’s zaniest techno parties. They now co-run an intimate off-the-books venue in Philly. As a DJ, they’ve supported internationally celebrated no-nonsense acts and have routinely held court in precious warehouses and dingy local watering holes - always with eclectic selections and a steadfast focus on pacing and dynamics, regularly jumping genres to build moving and impactful sets. Beyond the fog and strobe lights, Furtive creates art in a variety of mediums, including linocuts, render art, inky drawings, and occasionally tattooing.

If you would like to contribute to this mix, send directly to the artist:
Paypal: ajrindy@yahoo.com
Venmo: @alexander-rindisbacher

Tracklist:
1. Alicia - Archangelic Collapse - Fever AM
2. Shoal - Kuari - End of Perception
3. Atom TM - Riding The Void (Consumed Remix) - Raster Noton
4. AOW - Boa - self released
5. Ikävä Pii - Death by haha reaction - Early Reflex
6. James Bangura - BX5 Revival (Juice Hazy Type Beat) - self released
7. Juan Campos - Ondas Gravitacionales - Kusiya Records
8. NØ Shelter - Infestation, Oppression, Possession - HXAGRAM
9. Altinbas - Cyclic Frames - Float
10. Ben Ritz - Crystalline - Fixed Rhythms
11. Kashpitzky - Operate - BCCO
12. Javadeep - Fluid on a Sphere - Knotweed Records
13. TAUCETI & Darzack - Chrysalide - Raise Records
14. Jacobworld - Cycle - OOM Records
15. Oxygeno - Mirror of Confusion - Lost Verses Music
16. CVRDWELL - Revenge is a Confession of Pain - Warok Music
17. Arbitrage - GMT Graind - BCCO
18. Mac Delos - Plastic Soap Dispenser - Raise Records
19. No Saavy - Tease - Sindex Trax
20. DJ Badshape - Beer2Beer - Human
21. ABEM - Knock Out - Hardest Soft
22. Bloom OS - Always (Petal Supply's Bullet Hell) - SongMusicLLC
23. S O A R E R - Lights on the corner - Mobile Suit
24. Zemog - The Birds That Never Returned - Huinali
25. Grey People - Krautwerk - Perimeter Junk

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OBSRRD 154 // Furtive

Lee Graves live at Echostage in Washington, DC opening for Dom Dolla, HoneyLuv, and Torren Foot Friday, October 14th, 2022.

Lee Graves @ Echostage Washington, DC - 10/14/22

Space Me (Remixes)

Opolopo - Space Me (Lee Graves Remix)

Opolopo - Space Me (Lee Graves Remix) [Manuscript Records]

Lee Graves | Live From the Washington Monument 11.19.22

Lee Graves live at Eaton Radio in Washington, DC for the 'Trend' monthly broadcast Wednesday, February 8th, 2023.

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Trend with Lee Graves @ Eaton Radio Washington, DC - 02/08/23

Lee Graves live at Eaton Radio in Washington, DC for the 'Trend' monthly broadcast Wednesday, March 8th, 2023.

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Trend with Lee Graves @ Eaton Radio Washington, DC - 03/08/23

Lee Graves & DJ Roo live at Gramophone in Washington, DC Friday, March 24th, 2023.

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Lee Graves & DJ Roo @ Gramophone Washington, DC - 03/24/23

Lee Graves live for Keenan Orr's Sundae Sunday party at The Owl Room in Washington, DC Sunday, April 2nd, 2023.

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Lee Graves for Sundae Sunday @ The Owl Room Washington, DC - 04/02/23

Lee Graves live at Eaton Radio in Washington, DC with special guest Thomas Blondet for the 'Trend' monthly broadcast Wednesday, April 12th, 2023.

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Trend with Lee Graves & Thomas Blondet @ Eaton Radio Washington, DC - 04/12/23

For the 116th entry in the Honcho Podcast Series, we welcome @furtivetrax! Furtive is a full-gonzo rave conjurer and relentless creative tinkerer, intractably committed to the rave as a Philadelphia-based producer, DJ, underground event organizer, and dancer. 

A veritable product of the contemporary American underground, Furtive cut their teeth as a DJ and DIY event organizer in Washington, DC’s warehouses. Furtive now co-runs an intimate, blossoming off-the-books venue in Philly, and holds a radio residency at Philly scene mainstay Great Circles. Enjoy!

Honcho Podcast Series 116: Furtive

Lee Graves live vinyl set at Flash Washington, DC Friday, July 28th, 2023.

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Lee Graves Vinyl Set @ Flash Washington, DC - 07/28/23

This is a mix I've sat on for a long time - nearly an entire year! On a hot August day of biking many, many miles, some incidental sweaty hijinks, and after completing work on Sympathies VII earlier in the day, this was recorded during a rampaging late-night mix session at the then still-fledgling Bounce House, Philadelphia. All alone in the sweltering warehouse space, I used the usual dancefloor speakers as overkill booth monitors and romped, recording three mixes in one night, ending with this one. 

This is, in some ways, me operating at my finest, or at least showcasing my best tendencies as a DJ: a wide range of genres, intentional progression in energy and between genres, deliberate selection, seamlessly executed eclectic stunts, a flow-state of three of four decks. It's also special to me because I happened to recreate one such dramatic stunt that I improvised when I had played in NYC earlier in the year for my Mild Fantasy record release party during a particularly emotionally turbulent period of life. The gaping dramatic, emotional moment on the dancefloor shockingly didn't clear the crowd - something that has been instructive for my growth as a DJ. 

This mix is deliberate and methodical in progressing through vibes and genres, beginning with a gentle atmospheric bath and moving into bass and wiggly  material and sunshine-y rollers before settling into a full-tilt 3+ deck techno firestorm and easing back out into some surprises and delights. expect (or don't!) wormhole techno, drum & bass, dubstep, a handful of originals, and even a glint of hyperpop. 

TRACKLIST:
(artist - track title)* 
Kali Malone - Fast Goodbye
Supreems - Soft Spring
Stones Taro - Tiger
side II side - Stranded
Dubtek & Mouhc - Visionary
Dukwa - Jingle
Sweater & DJ Dre - Gang Gang
Kush Jones - Worldly Rhythm
Dustmite - Hiding
Albert Zhirnov - Old Malt
Guilt Attendant - The Icon is God
Furtive - Convoke
Blacklauren - Teocalli
Anthony Linnell - Falling into Form
Furtive - Voltaic Kisses
Flashe - Protocol
Giordano - Direction of Rotation
Marcal - Manta Ray
P. Lopez & Octavio - ONTO70
DJ Hockey - Take a Tumble
Cosmic Xplorer - Space Run
William Arist - Like Everybody Wants Now
Bop ft. Anastasia Basenko - Glancing Stream (instrumental version)
LUAP ft. Marsch - Unspoken Words
Modus - Plot Rider
Dold - Version (Newa Remix)
Yawning Portal - Minute Sun
otodojo - Tetsuo's Arm
Furtive - Question Accelerator (No Answers)
Presha - RATS (The Untouchables Remix)
Forest Drive West - Persistence of Memory #3
Furtive - I Always Try to Be This Gentle
Happa - Fever
Petal Supply & Himera - It's U (Diamond Version)

*the way it's supposed to be, you deranged freaks

Unvanquishable Summer (Furtive // Bounce House, August 2022)

"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
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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

1. Togetha Foreva (Kai Alce Remix) - Antonio Zuza, Kai Alce	
2. Travel Through Your Mind - Felipe Gordon	
3. The Message (Sax Dub) - Homero Espinosa, FKAjazz
4. No Problem (Lee's Unreleased Dub) - Lee Graves, Okofunk 	
5. Can't Stop Loving (Bonus Track)	- Jimpster	
6. The Naked City - Mindchime	
7. Walkin Tall Feat. Paul Hollis - Mindchime
8. Coffee - Fouk
9. Satellite Bay - Coeo
10. Yago Bleep (Extended Mix) - Lance DeSardi	
11. Cosmopolis (Original Mix) - Franck Roger
12. The Night (Fred Everything Extended Tribute Mix) - Roach Motel, Fred Everything
13. Strip Town - Lex (Athens)
14. The Rusty Piano (Shur-I-Kan Unreleased Vinyl Dub) - Karol XVII, MB Valence, Samocki, Shur-I-Kan

Lee Graves March 2024 Mix

Alias: Furtive
Pronouns: they / them
Location: Philadelphia
Collectives: Bounce House
Residency: Great Circles
Labels: Psychic Relief, Mild Fantasy
Name of the mix: Glow Glitters and Night Critters
About the mix: House music has always struck me as a manifestation of profound, glowing joy and being remarkably human - sometimes in sharp contrast with murkier, shadowy wormhole rave music shrouded in fog and strobe lights - perhaps the dancefloor equivalent of bubbling laughter where other dance music is whispering prayer. It's this quality of warmth that is so exciting and comforting, and allows everyone to groove and celebrate life together, that makes house music familiar and unifying. I wanted to take this energy and sensibility but make it more dreamy, gauzy, atmospheric, and decorated with some twinkling sentimentality - hence dreamier pads, emotive synths, sparkling arpeggios, some trance-adjacent leanings and references. Particularly as the seasons change and we tip over into longer days, brighter light, and the beginning of blooming, I thought to conjure a vernal haze for waking up from cold winds to new, surprising sunrays - music for jostling yourself into big smiles with thoughtful, jubilant company. 
Follow: @furtivetrax

#tracklist
01. Hymns - Waves of Nothing [Salt Mines, 2018]
02. Douwe - Hallucinogenics [Tessellate, 2022]
03. Panooc - Sam Origin [Fortune Signal, 2023]
04. M&C - Droofin [Junction, 2016]
05. Slythe - Ni Nombre [Musica Lunar, 2021]
06. Yard One - One Day [Tact Recordings, 2024]
07. Type B. - Lisa [Moving Pictures, 2023]
08. Octo Octa - Only Tears [Allergy Season, 2017]
09. Elvin T - Pressure of Desire [self-released, 2021]
10. Lautaro Scavuzzo - [Musica Lunar, 2019]
11. Roman Lindau - Pianomenal [Colorcode, 2024]
12. Hush Hush - What A Feeling [Housepit Chi, 2020]
13. Laidlaw - I Know This [Straight from the House, 2021]
14. Route 8 - Acid Talk [This is Our Time, 2018]
15. Mirèle, Lipelis - В темноте [System 108, 2024]
16. Chud - Rumslap (39 Records, 2023]
17. IAMX - Kiss and Swallow (Moonbootica Remix) [Major Records, 2004]
18. Detroit’s Filthiest - Fatal Attraction [House of Underground, 2023]
19. Physical Therapy - 2 Tears (Introspect Remix) [Allergy Season, 2023]
20. PVLV - Time to Move [self-released, 2021]
21. Fedra - Arenga (DJ Double Oh! Remix) [Vista Recordings, 2023]
22. No Sir - Bismuth [self-released, 2021]
23. djfix - Hidden Character [Earth Dog Records, 2023]
24. Roza Ternezi & DJ Zozi - Seashell Trust [Planet Euphorique, 2020]
25. Jorg Kuning - Klarneto [Bakk Heia, 2023]

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House of Others #060 | FURTIVE | Glow Glitters and Night Critters

Producer/DJ/Promoter/Organizer/bonehead/etc - [Bounce House] -  they/them - PHL
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For booking, production, remix work, promos, or any other inquiries, please write to: furtivetrax@gmail.com
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Upcoming Dates:
4/19 Bounce House, Philly
7/28 - The Great Beyond, MN
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Furtive is a full-gonzo rave conjurer and relentless creative tinkerer, intractably committed to the rave as a Philadelphia-based producer, DJ, underground event organizer, and dancer. Furtive brings a scintillating and sentimental touch to their many polished and focused genre-spanning productions, informed by over a decade of experience in the studio and yielding a rich selection of self-released tracks, contributions to VA comps, and recent vinyl pressings. A veritable product of the contemporary American underground, Furtive cut their teeth as a DJ and DIY event organizer in Washington, DC’s warehouses, where they played a turnkey role in putting on some of the District’s zaniest techno parties. Furtive now co-runs an intimate, blossoming off-the-books venue in Philly. As a DJ, Furtive has supported internationally celebrated, no-nonsense acts and held court in dingy local watering holes with eclectic selections and a steadfast focus on pacing and dynamics, regularly jumping genres to build moving and impactful sets. Beyond the fog and speaker stacks, Furtive creates art in a variety of mediums. They're as unapologetic in their sincerity and flair as they are in being a die-hard True Believer in the rave.
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Learn more here: https://www.attackmagazine.com/features/introducing/furtive-the-astronaut-in-a-pool-of-mermaids/
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As a closing note: the journey can be summarized in their own words (or, a cheeky amalgamated existential portmanteau): “I aim for the stars, but sometimes I land in a pool of mermaids.”

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https://soundcloud.com/furtivetrax
https://www.instagram.com/furtive.sasha/
https://ra.co/dj/furtive

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Sounds Of Vacancy Vol. 42 (ft. Furtive) [Live Mix]

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