Occupy The Disco (OXD) is the New York-based DJ collective of Tad Haes and DJ RuBot. What started out as a casual experiment by friends to introduce underground electronic music back onto the gay dance floor soon turned into curation and experimentation behind the decks. Their shared love of nightlife's past and present permeates their sound, unabashedly queer and always eclectic.

Occupy The Disco maintains a residency at Le Bain at The Standard, High Line. Additionally, OXD has played at Good Room, Public Records, Cielo, Black Flamingo, Analog BKNY and The Pines Party.

Loftus, AKA BigDumbTop, AKA DaddyBaby, current Brooklyn resident, a Virginia native turned SF sensation burst onto the scene in late 2022. He captivates audiences by crafting unique adventurous blends of cunty/bouncey bass, house, techno, club, dembow and acid, with playful infusions. 

DB's style is a refreshing mix of boldness and familiarity. With a commitment to intentional queer community engagement, he keeps it delightfully silly, sexy, and sleazy in sound. Notably, DaddyBaby serves as a Resident DJ and Co-Producer of Key, a  queer music-driven monthly function that has been setting the scene ablaze since the start of 2023.

Secret Mixes Fixes is an "edits" label, classics and obscure gems reshaped and recontextualized for the dance floor. These releases exist as DJ tools.

Secret Mixes Fixes began as an experiment in fixing and editing songs for extended Ableton sets. The idea was to take as many disparate influences that make up the momentum of the Detroit Techno sound, or Midwestern Hot Box DJ sound, that became the Detroit House sound and what not. There is something in there, these unexpected collisions from a city that is already an absurd culture clash, these sparks that give more light to how we got to where we are at now. And instead of being historical, treat this music as it is: fully alive. With the context of the type of DJ sets they were to be, songs, tracks, any weird archival piece that would bring back that feeling of discovery. Like when you first heard "Shari Vari" and were blown away by its unexpected italo influence, Kraftwerk smoothness over the unsteady beat that already sounds like the DJ is finger braking the platter that gives it that total rawness. Secret clues to a fantasy past.

Or maybe like the fifth time you heard "No Way Back" Adventure 2 by The Dells remixed like the Ron Hardy tapes had it mixed. We all want to live in this fantasy past where Larry Levan is playing some Danny Krivit tape edit of some Arthur Russell song that doesn't actually exist.

History should not be dead, the great ideas should continue and mutate. Thus Secret Mixes Fixes gave way to utilitarian fixes of ridiculously off time editing or drum machines and then reshaping songs into new shapes, to be used as DJ tools, just to keep these great ideas alive on the dance floor.

As the label continued, the original intent of documenting some highlights from this DJ sonic collage phase ended. The bizarre energy unleashed from Gay Marvine's deceptively direct edits began to take on their own life -- and for the past few years, Secret Mixes Fixes has served to showcase his ever growing talents and ever more absurd choices for originals that he somehow always manages to turn into total gems that last in your head far after the party is over.

BATH HOUSE ETIQUETTE

Bath House Etiquette is a manual on how to handle Gay Discos. Everyone needs a little inside information. Follow the stairs to the basement, wait on your knees by the sling and wait for Mr. Marvine (to you) for further instructions.

Bath House Etiquette emerged from the cult edits label Secret Mixes Fixes. Secret Mixes Fixes focuses on diverse selection of music towards the larger goal of recontextualizing music that inspired a whole midwestern sound. Bath House Etiquette showcases master editor Gay Marvine's burning Disco side, his journey through the pleasures and perils of gay nightlife.

How do I look in control in only a towel? What do you do with a young lover that is beautiful to look at but trecherous to converse with? Where are all the red hanky bottoms? Best timing for a popper? The right leather harness for your body shape? What do you do when you go to leather party but everybody is dressed up as puppies sniffing each others asses?

Through that exploration and his endless refinement, he gives us his fantasy sound track for that experience. Tracks perfect for rocking the floor, boot blacking, crisco based disco sling fun and other hedonistic orgiastic endevors...

The best bootleg mashup (and mashup parties) in the world ever.

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Initially established in 2003 at The Eagle in London’s Vauxhall, Horse Meat Disco has evolved into a powerful force in queer and club culture as a whole, while staying local to its original home, each and every Sunday. Co-founded by James Hillard and Jim Stanton, and encompassing residents Severino and Luke Howard, the crew continue to maintain not only the weekly Sunday party, but a number of residencies in cities across the world, alongside a kaleidoscope of club appearances, festival dates and specially curated mixes.

Taking inspiration from a diverse, counter-cultural history of clubs and DJs, as well as from the sprawling, ever-expanding musical collections of it's resident crew, the sound of HMD is impossible to place. Nonetheless their style is undeniable, as is a popper-scented air of sheer authenticity. Rooted in hedonism, rhythm, freedom and emotion, a Horse Meat Disco set reinforces everything invigorating about disco, as comfortable as shattering old-school mirror ball cliches as basking in their light.

A typical HMD set blends classics, italo disco, house, oddities and punk funk, to conjure their initial spirit of “a queer party for everyone”, including, but not limited to, “Homos and Heteros, club kids, bears, fashionistas, naturists, guerilla drag queens and ladies who munch.” They have made appearances on every notable club scene in the modern world, as well as those beyond, and have long been a key fixture at festivals including Glastonbury, Bestival and Festival No.6.

Outside of the club, the Horse Meat Disco train rolls across the airwaves on Rinse FM, where the crew hold down a weekly residency every Sunday afternoon, serving as a pre and post-club Sunday lunch accompaniment, often delving into the more soulful shades of their sublime taste, often encompassing rave groove, gospel and whatever they can’t get away with on the dancefloor (which, as the years have proven, isn’t much). A series of expertly curated and acclaimed compilations for reissue label Strut helped further cement HMD’s formidable but communal reputation as disco masterminds, spreading their sound and many enviable obscurities into front rooms and record bags across the world. Their latest, ‘Meat Me Down the Disco’, was released on Z Records in 2017.

After decades of crate digging, globetrotting and partying, the HMD story continues apace. 2017 also saw the crew record their long-awaited contribution to BBC Radio 1’s ‘Essential Mix’, as well as their first joint foray into production, ‘Waiting For You To Call’, featuring Roy Inc., and released on their own, self-titled imprint. They are currently working on new music to be released with Glitterbox, with the new single ‘Let’s Go Dancing’ released in December 2018.

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