Last April, I stopped at the NTS studio in LA whilst I was in town during my North America tour. I recorded an hourlong guest show which featured music from Omar S, D. Tiffany, DJ Slugo, Parris, and more.

Gabrielle Kwarteng on NTS Radio - 22.04.22

We made time… we made magic… This is what I sounded like at the Majestic Stage at Making time Festival in Philadelphia, PA during late September 2024. 

A couple days before my 30th birthday, my twenties came to an end after that weekend. This decade of my life took me from traveling across town from my college apartment in Boston to play basement raves all the way to the club and festival stages of the whole wide world. :''} I spent the weekend how I spent my 20's: DJing, dancing, smoking ouid, chatting it up and realizing just how much life and kinship my love of music has given to me. The bravery to take up space that it instilled in me is the ultimate gift. 

I planned a special mostly all vinyl set to play for this one because I owe it all to the music. I remember as soon as I could drive leaving high school on my lunch break  to  look through dusty bins at Papa Jazz records store in South Carolina.  I didn’t know what I was looking for in those dusty bins until it found me: house music, the connections of soul, jazz, RnB, and the real feeling type of music my gay and black ancestors planted seeds and reflections in for me. 

I got to play that last 20-something DJ set on maestro DJ and house music godfather, Theo Parrish’s custom rotary ISONOE mixer. 

Every DJ before him touched those knobs, but when it was my turn it became a Divinely Feminine rotation, a ritual of sound and spirit, sweeping synths and crackling of the record dust mimicking the planes flying over head, where my hands were thrown up in ecstatic motion at times, there was a synergy that could not be explained. It was a beautiful day.

I felt good about this energy work. I felt good lighting the incense. It felt good fulfilling my purpose, praise and worship, a musical acknowledgement of the source energy that flows and unites all things.

 I’m blessed to act as conduit when I’m tapped into the gift of persuasion of melodies and moods. I am charged by the power of the elements especially when I am playing in the outdoors like I was this day.

I pray many more birthdays come to find me doing what I love, what I was made to do, making a joyful noise as loud as they will let me and shining this light, my spark - this black magic woman starlight-  for all to see(and hear).

Track list soon come. <3 Dee Diggs

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Recorded live from our first party at Miscellania in Oct 2024 <3 90 mins from Boorloo based Wongi man @yikesone, live n direct into an hour of power from residents @dawsdj and @djluvyou to close!

'LUNA' episode 16 aired on LYL Radio at 9 pm AEDT 3/06/25

Live at LUNA Blessings w/ Yikes & DAWS b2b DJ Luv You Ξ LYL Radio

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✱ CONFIDE IN HANNAH D ✱ Live at Miscellania – 08.06.2025

Recorded live at Miscellania, let local legend Hannah D take you on an expertly curated journey through her plush, progressive soundscape.

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CONFIDE IN HANNAH D (025) (Live at Miscellania – 08.06.2025)

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Usually known for his wild and eclectic house selections, Kasra V switches gears for us with a rare techno set. Clocking in at 59 minutes this mix is driven by rolling drums and tribal rhythms: it’s fast, playful and irresistibly sexy – still groovy at the core but with a rawer edge built for the floor. Turn it up!

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