Live digital set at Faro Cafe in Cambridge, MA on a rainy/muggy summer evening in June. A mix of intimate and introspective ambient, folk, leftfield pop, and post-punk, among other things. 

Recorded through Rekordbox with a limiter, and mastered to a peak of -12 dB.

Live @ Faro Cafe (6-14-24)

Also known as DJ Jihad and many other aliases on occasion

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wending
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menace (downtempo, new beat),
mania (ebm, electro, techno), and
melancholy (folk, ambient, experimental)

Live @ Faro Cafe (6-14-24)

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