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The debut episode of my monthly show on bside.radio, live from The Beaumont Studios in Vancouver.

bside.radio 001 (2 hr set)

Shapes. Guest Mix 021 // @Shukadubs ⚡
Mad selector Shuka brings this heavy-weight - all vinyl - deep dub techno mix. 

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Shapes. Guest Mix 021 // Shuka

https://soundcloud.com/moodchange B2B https://soundcloud.com/the-librarian

Recorded live on Jan 28, 2023 at Dolly Disco in Vancouver.  This is the first time we've played an all night B2B together and it ended up being one of most fun times either of us have had DJing.  We played 6 hours from open to close. This recording captures the arch of energy throughout the night, the spontaneity of trading 3 for 3, the imperfections/perfections of a live set and connection between dance floor and DJ.  Thanks for having us Dolly!

The Librarian B2B Mood Change -  All Night Long!  - Live @ Dolly Disco 01/28/23

One of my favourite sets I've played in a while, absolutely love the vibe on this one.
Started with some smooth 2steppy shuffle and house into uk breaks, into some light and medium techno, into dubstep, then ramped up through some 150 light jungle into liquid dnb for a while, then into some moody breakbeats again, then house and through some weird 100bmp stuff before winding down with some lofi and hip hop.

Live @ Blind Rabbit March 11 2023

A gorgeous journey through sound with the return of Erski

https://soundcloud.com/erski1
https://soundcloud.com/levrige

Tracklist:

Law - 1 4 Me
Angus Green - Come Get It
Fracture - Avian
Damien’s Ghost - Look at the Lights
Kid Drama - Crystalline
Harmony - Dance With Me
Dennis Brown - At the Foot of the Mountain (Double O & Mantra Remix)
NonRev - Conditioning
Ulterior Motive - You Must See
Bop x Subwave - Zaichik
Dusky - YooHoo (LTJ Bukem Remix)
Original Sin - Kiss
Marcus Intalex & SPY - Paulista Dub
Roni Size - Strictly Social
Anile - Lost Section
Zero T - Come and Reprazent
Unglued - Sardinian Sunrise ft. Singing Fats
Workforce - Broken
En:vy - You
QZB - Half Awake ft Ill
Deeper South - Breeze
Etherwood - The Current ft DRS
DSP - True Words
London Elektricity - Vasquez
Marcus Intalex & ST Files
Dub Phizix - Stack
Calibre - Cross The Line
070 Shake - Body (Levrige Bootleg)
Mystic State - Phased Out
Klinical - Lost Vanity
Xtrah - Holding On ft Genic
Levrige - Locust

Hydration Mix Series

No. 67 - Erski

You know what they call a bunch of flowers?
Just a bunch of flowers. 
But once they've been arranged, we call that a bouquet
It's quite the change.

A bunch of caterpillars is called an army
But once they become butterflies
We call that a kaleidoscope.
We'll come back to that in a minute.

Welcome to the meadow where the petals smell ya back
The roses all have noses I suppose it's just a fact
That this place is kinda topsy turvey
So don't you hurry
Straight is kinda curly when you're in an avant garden

Startin in the middle cuz a dream has no beginning
Stuck inside a riddle little purple cat be grinnin'
Been in places kinda like this
Once or twice but nothing quite just
Hard to say what's wrong or righteous
In an avant garden

Pardon me,........eject and take a step back
Check surroundings, reflect and reassess that
We're in a safe place,
Although strange and bizarre
You can’t get lost cuz there you are.

Dressed to impress reveal the real you
Peacock plume reveals the teal blue
Was always there just hidden
Seeds just needed the right conditions and that's this

A bit of patience, water and sun
A bit of space but walk don’t run
Cuz growth takes time and it can’t be rushed
So just tend to the soil, the rest is trust

Just breathe
Believe in the leaves and the trees
This place it has all that you need
In fact If you’re guarding a garden
The garden is guarding you back

Kaleidoscope fly
Ain't no need to wonder why
Just a flutter of colours taking off to the sky
Yeah a bunch of butterflies
Do close your eyes and just glide
Welcome to the garden enjoy the ride
Let's go

Bass Coast 2023: Avant Garden
Cantina
Sat July 8, 2023
1:30 - 3:00 pm

Photo by @PhysicalToDigital
Image by @MylesAway

1. Claude VonStroke - Aundy (DJ Marky & S.P.Y. remix)
2. Rezilient - Faith In Me
3. Icicle - Nostalgia
4. Finnadrift - Tree Lined Trails
5. Echomatics - Riddle Me This
6. Octavate - Crashing
7. IYRE - Drifting Sideways
8. Aaron Payne & RMS - Just Say It
9. Captivate - Perception
10. Marenn Sukie - On Fire (ft. Drummotive)
11. Askel & Elere & Shibumi - Alpheratz
12. Halogenix - Lost Friends
13. Telomic - Pieces
14. Fox - Don't Hate My High (prod. by Biome)
15. Black Opps - Malekith
16. Alpha Rhythm - Mindless
17. Particle - Let It Go
18. Saikon - Broken Chains
19. Logistics - Sleeper Dub
20. Jaguar Skills - Big Time
21. Saikon - A Different Way
22. Frame - No Matters
23. En:vy - Beautiful Dreamer
24. Minos - Eyes On Me
25. Shift - Ronin
26. MONRROE - Out Of Time (feat Zara Kershaw)
27. Brainwork - Felt Your Touch
28. Aaron Payne & RMS - Vision
29. Drum Origins - A Bit of Luck
30. Digital Native - Been Ages Since
31. pyxis, Note - Shambala
32. Motiv - Fever Dream
33. Felov - Enough
34. DOCUMENT ONE - Reaching Out
35. Out Of Fuel & Criba - Tähtisumu
36. Lefty - Passage
37. HL - New Day
38. Low:r - Goon Squad
39. Ism - Into Beyond
40. Arp Nova & Silence Groove - Mauve
41. Dialective - Angels (Original Mix)
42. Deviant - Always
43. Edlan - Fading
44. Unknown Artist - I Love You remix

Willisist - Avant Garden: Bass Coast 2023

Wicked Woods 2023, SHAHdjs Showcase was 6-9pm, I was 5th up from 8-8:30
Hit the ground running, high energy moody dancefloor DnB
Tracklist:
Skopus feat. MC Tree - Calibrate the Conscious
Kenji & Warhead - Galaxy
Ominous X GEAR - Focus
R3IDY X Kalane - Trench
Sustance & Visages - Moments ft. Phoebe Freya
BlckHry - Alone (spacious glean growls)
Levela & Particle - Reap What You Sow (feat Jakes)
Ism - Paracite
DUB PHIZIX - Dust
Blinde - Cursed
Operate & Rizzle - Azula
Kasra - Negative Space
Iris - Not Even A Big Up
MARVELLOUS CAIN feat CUTTY RANKS - The HitMan (Bladerunner VIP)
Whychek - Spies
Hyroglifics - Albany Road
goddard., Pola & Bryson, Lens - Way Up (feat. Javeon)

Willisist @ Wicked Woods 2023 - ch 5 of 6 of SHAH showcase

A live recording from a beautiful night with Luke Mandala , Phaeleh, and Rob Noble at The High Dive in Seattle, WA ~ hope you dig it

Rob Noble live 8/15/23 (Opening for Phaeleh @ High Dive Seattle)

A deep voyage put together for the monthly Nautilus night. 
Starts around 125bpm with ASC in a 6:4 count, into some dub techno then almost into deep house, before a full change up to some moody halftime around the 160ish range.
Drift away.
Tracklist:
ASC - No Mask (Nowhere To Hide)
Angus Mills - Paradis
Noah Lyas - Swimming Below Surface
Angus Mills - Yelp
Martinou - Om und Draag (Reduced mix)
Atart - JNVPE (Original Mix)
Nicolas Barnes - Leave It To Me
Slolek - Transfiguration
Joy Orbison - playground (w/ goya gumbani)
SUBSET - Decoded
Breakage - If (ft. Threshold)
Teqmun - Parachute Kernel
Javier Salazar - Epaix
RQ - THORNTREE
Bop - xx
Marenn Sukie - On My Mind
Coco Bryce - Nirwana
Javier Salazar - Kandahar
PHAELEH - Never Fade Away
Evasion - Nostalgia
Mister Shifter - Spiritual Tourist
Javier Salazar - Unitatem
Hyroglifics - I'll Wait, I Guess
Synkro - Feel My Mind
ASC - No Mask (Nowhere To Hide)

Tidal

TIDAL 2 (nautilus)

Buff N Pretty (Finn and @Mother-Mary-yyc) are back with another mix showcasing their love for breakbeats, soaring emotional bass music, UK garage cuts, and each other. This is a faithful recreation of their 2am Saturday night set at Future Forest which was notable for the energy of the friends present and the amount of mud on the dance floor. This set is best enjoyed while driving, cooking, out on a walk, or while getting ready for a party. Stay tuned for what's next for these two as they cook up their schemes for next summer.

Tracklist:
Rave - Hunter Starkings
Day 1 - Cimm
JackMaster - Tom PKR
Freeze Out - Pruvan
House Check - Human Movement
Up To No Good - Rassan
Startrack - Nikki Nair
Set The Roof (feat. Tayla Park) - Hudson Mohawk & Nikki Nair
Call Mi ft. なかむらみなみ, Sweetie Irie, Serocee, & Flowdan - Roska
Strugglin (Rewire Mix) - Dual Monitor
Agonda - DE-TU
Black Dove - Leon Vynehall
Spittoon - Product Toss
Touch - Joe Polar
Arroyo (Beckett Shiny Version) - Tacit Gleam
Thinking Of U - Debba
She Knows - Finn
Get Doe - DE-TU
106 Regulate - Roaming Data
Zero Day - Chungo
Wub1out - DADs
Step 2 - Joey
Hiccups - Will Hofbauer
Alpha House - Knucks
Twelve Fingers - Energy Boyz
Phoneline Massive - D-Elite
Wrong Train - Cortese
Play Your Corner (Riko Dan 2 Step Edit) - Tom PKR
Back 2 Basics - Drez
Tokyo - Gemi
Lime Bike Elf Bar - Breaka
B&G Dub - ZeroFG
Pax (Four Tet Remix) - Cholé Robinson
Freedom 2 - Kwengface, Joy Orbison & Overmono
Too Many Men (Prozak's Stardust Speedy G Mix) - Prozak
WARPER B - India Jordan
Bubblin - Julio Bashmore
FREAK (DJ ADHD Remix) - Sentimento
The Grid - Martyn Bootyspoon
Sprinter Dub - Y U QT
Feel The Same - Salute

Buff N Pretty @ Future Forest - Aug 5, 2023

Willisist's Cantina stage set is a must-hear mix from a master of deep, rolling drum and bass, blissful liquid, and halftime beats.


Original Prose:

You know what they call a bunch of flowers?
Just a bunch of flowers. 
But once they've been arranged, we call that a bouquet
It's quite the change.

A bunch of caterpillars is called an army
But once they become butterflies
We call that a kaleidoscope.
We'll come back to that in a minute.

Welcome to the meadow where the petals smell ya back
The roses all have noses I suppose it's just a fact
That this place is kinda topsy turvey
So don't you hurry
Straight is kinda curly when you're in an avant garden

Startin in the middle cuz a dream has no beginning
Stuck inside a riddle little purple cat be grinnin'
Been in places kinda like this
Once or twice but nothing quite just
Hard to say what's wrong or righteous
In an avant garden

Pardon me,........eject and take a step back
Check surroundings, reflect and reassess that
We're in a safe place,
Although strange and bizarre
You can’t get lost cuz there you are.

Dressed to impress reveal the real you
Peacock plume reveals the teal blue
Was always there just hidden
Seeds just needed the right conditions and that's this

A bit of patience, water and sun
A bit of space but walk don’t run
Cuz growth takes time and it can’t be rushed
So just tend to the soil, the rest is trust

Just breathe
Believe in the leaves and the trees
This place it has all that you need
In fact If you’re guarding a garden
The garden is guarding you back

Kaleidoscope fly
Ain't no need to wonder why
Just a flutter of colours taking off to the sky
Yeah a bunch of butterflies
Do close your eyes and just glide
Welcome to the garden enjoy the ride
Let's go

Track List: 
1. Claude VonStroke - Aundy (DJ Marky & S.P.Y. remix)
2. Rezilient - Faith In Me
3. Icicle - Nostalgia
4. Finnadrift - Tree Lined Trails
5. Echomatics - Riddle Me This
6. Octavate - Crashing
7. IYRE - Drifting Sideways
8. Aaron Payne & RMS - Just Say It
9. Captivate - Perception
10. Marenn Sukie - On Fire (ft. Drummotive)
11. Askel & Elere & Shibumi - Alpheratz
12. Halogenix - Lost Friends
13. Telomic - Pieces
14. Fox - Don't Hate My High (prod. by Biome)
15. Black Opps - Malekith
16. Alpha Rhythm - Mindless
17. Particle - Let It Go
18. Saikon - Broken Chains
19. Logistics - Sleeper Dub
20. Jaguar Skills - Big Time
21. Saikon - A Different Way
22. Frame - No Matters
23. En:vy - Beautiful Dreamer
24. Minos - Eyes On Me
25. Shift - Ronin
26. MONRROE - Out Of Time (feat Zara Kershaw)
27. Brainwork - Felt Your Touch
28. Aaron Payne & RMS - Vision
29. Drum Origins - A Bit of Luck
30. Digital Native - Been Ages Since
31. pyxis, Note - Shambala
32. Motiv - Fever Dream
33. Felov - Enough
34. DOCUMENT ONE - Reaching Out
35. Out Of Fuel & Criba - Tähtisumu
36. Lefty - Passage
37. HL - New Day
38. Low:r - Goon Squad
39. Ism - Into Beyond
40. Arp Nova & Silence Groove - Mauve
41. Dialective - Angels (Original Mix)
42. Deviant - Always
43. Edlan - Fading
44. Unknown Artist - I Love You remix

Willisist Live at Bass Coast 2023

The Willisist
Deep, rolling Drum and Bass. Heavy thick 85. Blissful liquid and half time. Expanding into 130 breakbeats, tech house, 2-step, low fi, dubstep etc. If it's good it's good. 
Close your eyes and listen closely, there's layers. 

Since 2007 The Willisist has been pushing the underground in Vancouver. With well over 300 shows hosted, at just about every venue the city had to offer, showcasing international headliners as well as the best new and veteran locals.  Still known for the now legendary False-o-Ween series, some massive NYE events at W2 and The Hive Climbing gym, and long running local nights with Nautilus and the Back Stage Lounge, he's also been a regular at Basscoast, and played Shambs and Wicked Woods. 

With a genuine love for Drum and Bass he has opened or hosted for the likes of Calibre, D-Bridge, Andy C, Dub FX, Dub Phizix, Blu Mar Ten, LSB, Spectrasoul, Breakage, High Contrast, Pendulum, Von D, Netsky and dozens more.

Tune in, let's roll.

TIDAL 2 (nautilus)

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