Mixes

Wonja (@wonj) is an elite level record collector. The Oakland-based DJ and producer has been putting together mixes for many years that are filled with music that is hard to describe, let alone to find. From teary-eyed Italo disco to her series of Wood Glass Metal mixes via world music and more club ready sounds, she is a Jedi-level digger who also occasionally produces solo, or with partner Dan as Motoko & Myers. Her main priority, though, is to devour and share as much music as possible.

This week's podcast is a two hour trip to the outer edges of Wonja's collection that her partner describes as "hard sci-fi party tracks." It is a wide open and spacious selection where alien details, solar pulses and cosmic motifs all drift by as scattered percussion only hints at the most skeletal rhythms. Nothing about the tracks is at all familiar, and all genre terms are redundant. Even when more propulsive grooves do arrive, the sound sources are wonderfully weird and abstract, yet the desire to dance is as primal and compelling as ever. Few mixes are as full of WTF?! moments as this one.

Dekmantel Podcast

Dekmantel Podcast 328 - Wonja

For the 100th entry in the Honcho Podcast series, we welcome @wonj!  Wonja is an Oakland, CA-based DJ, digger, and long-time music collector, originally from New England. Occasionally producing music as half of Motoko & Myers. This mix is about embracing the warm tingly feeling that only a blissed-out house jam can give you, and it’s dedicated to the idea of playing records for my friends in a small dark crowded bar.

We want to thank you all for supporting the podcast over the years, hitting 100 is an amazing milestone! We've worked with dozens of incredible artists from all around the globe, shining a light and boosting our community has truly been a pleasure. Here's to 100 more!

Honcho Podcast Series 100: Wonja

A beautifully warm, diverse and wiggly mix from Oakland, California based Wonja (@wonj). Alongside being a talented dj & avid record collector, Wonja makes up one half of Motoko & Myers with her partner Dan. 

I'm constantly impressed by the wide-spanning range of genres, styles and moods that make up Wonja's mix catalogue - always new and always fresh.  For this mix, she's put together a playful and eclectic mix of glitch, groove and interesting soundscapes.

Thank you so much for this one Wonja! <3

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Animix Seventy One: Wonja

“This mix is my love letter to 90s dancehall riddims and pop renditions. Some of the most creative and moving music in existence! Turn up the system, pop open that bottle of wine and press play :)" - @wonj

B.P.T. Radio 051: Wonja

Bill Spencer shares weekend recordings from his living room studio in Detroit, Michigan, from where he brings a range of soulful jazz rock, and ambient sounds, spanning to electronica and psychedelic dub.
 
Find the full tracklist and related episodes on NTS: https://www.nts.live/shows/bill-spencer/episodes/bill-spencer-26th-may-2024

A Month of Sundays w/ Wonja 260524

The LA-based DJ and producer Wonja finds inspiration from the modernist design aesthetic of Building Block.  Selections offer warped orchestral soundscapes to make up the soundtrack to the AW18 collection. Building Block explores conventionality and utilitarianism to develop practical and adaptable accessories with a contemporary design aesthetic.

LN-CC STORE MIX 073 - WONJA FOR BUILDING BLOCK AW18

listen to the whole show here: https://www.mixcloud.com/BCR_Radio/deadlift-027-ft-wonja/

much love to @deadlift666 <3

Tracklist:
Ernst Oosterveld - Meander
NSRD - Ziemeļbriežu pajūgā pa Rīgas jūras līci (On a Reindeer Sleigh Across The Gulf Of Riga)
Boof - To Make Up For It
SM Nurse - Mort Automatique
Short-term Memory - Hysteria
Michele Mercure - An Accident Waiting To Happen
Loop B - Visita
JTG - The Hours I Wait (JTG Version)
Nadia Khan - Sorting Through
Enchante - Keeping Dogs
Jaures - TRI
Yoshinori Hayashi - 759
Ka Baird -  Ka
Eleventeen Eston - 2 d'Or (Cab Chassis)
Luna Set - Slow Caravan To J.
Muxi - Jones
Autechre - xflood
Silvia Kastel - Bruell
Loop B - Visita, continued
Open Corner - A Mind On The Outs With Itself
Park Jiha - Communion

Guest Mix for Deadlift on BCR 2018/11/14

Honey Soundsystem Potcast

HNYPOT 305: Wonja's Fine Lines and Wrinkles Mix

So happy to welcome Wonja to the series for mix number 35. She has been responsible for some wonderfully dynamic guest mixes over the last few years as well as a weekly collaborative radio show w/ DJML. The two of them also have a project called ‘Motoko & Myers’ who’s first release last year on Bass Clef’s label explored “hazy sound baths, autonomous arpeggiations, and microtonal dub”(I've also been told there is a new 7 inch on the way :)). This mix feels particularly reflective of some of the sensations that come with the summer months.

https://soundcloud.com/wonj
Image by Angelina Nonaj

Motion Cast Vol. 35: Wonja

i recently unearthed this mix i made 3 years ago that never got released or aired, and i'm setting it free now in hopes it'll provide some entertainment while self-isolating. <3

Gianni Gebbia - Ipnogatto
? (can't remember.. anyone know?) - Canhão
Carl Stone - Gadberry's 1989
Talempong Unggan - Ramo Ramo Tabang Tinggi
Entenga Za Labaka - Kyuma
Thomas Kessler - Pujaparwata
Dark - Brenner
Paul Dresher - Other Fire
Jacki Apple - The Mexican Tapes
Barbara Benary - 8442B - Gamelan Son of Lion (Part 2) - 02 Side 2
Baird Hersey & David Moss - De Montanas
Jaleh Negari - SKSP. Shifts On Take Off
Nouthong Phimvilayphone - Khene
Leven Signs - Morse Message
Miguel A. Ruiz - Papua
Laetitia Compiegne De Sonami - What Happened
Miguel Frasconi - Solo For Mbira 1995
Andrew Pekler - Synthetic Gamelan and Frogs
Live Low - Antiplot
Tamia - Madrugada
Wendy Reid - Tree Piece #17
Gilbert and George - Twisted and Aggressive
Disco Inferno - Summer’s Last Sound

Quarantined Mix from 2017

"This mix is based on a set I played last year at a small party on a weekday night to an almost empty room, which seems so absurd now, but the feeling of solitude and intensity that I had playing that set is what I hope comes across in the mix, because I think it's what a lot of us are feeling in lockdown."

hex code:#e8937b

https://twitter.com/wonja / https://soundcloud.com/wonj

Chroma

Wonja - Moss

https://www.nts.live/shows/last-resort/episodes/last-resort-25th-april-2020

Last Resort w/ Wonja 250420

Beyond /Below 32 "Time, Lost and Found" mix by @motokomyers(@wonj and @the-globule). Received May 2020.
Photo by Dan Letson, taken at home

Watch an old movie. Scroll the timeline. Read a funny post. Watch a cooking tutorial.
Play a relaxing video game. Chat with friends. Fall asleep to menu music. Wake up to end credits. Read a worrying article. 
Brush your teeth. Wait for the weekend. Peek out the window. 

This mix is built around the time-dilating quality of loops, inspired by the kind of “holding pattern” we’re all in. Full tracks, isolated phrases, processed recordings, and original sonic material. The initial inspiration for the mix came from Wonja’s re-discovery of a PC game from her childhood, and its unique sound design. Loops of in-game ambience, engineered by Bay Area composer Brenda Hutchinson, appear throughout the mix. 
 
The mix itself is a loop, beginning and ending in the same setting. Play it on repeat or for any amount of time.

Featured artists in alphabetical order:
Blackhumour
John Chowning
David Cunningham
Fritz Hauser
I.A.M. Umbrella
Mesmer
Ian Middleton
Monochrome Bleu
Motoko & Myers
Jonny Nash / Lindsay Todd
Katie O’Looney
Hiroyuki Onogawa
Philip Perkins
QST
Riou
Seefeel
Shinichi Atobe
Speculative Ero
Topdown Dialectic
Voices of Kwahn
Hildegard Westerkamp
Stomu Yamash’ta

32. Motoko & Myers

INTERVIEW: http://www.ayli-sf.com/2020/07/05/ayli-podcast-99-wonja/
@wonj
https://twitter.com/wonja
https://www.instagram.com/wonjwonj/

As You Like It Podcast

AYLI on Bandcamp

AYLI Podcast #99 - Wonja

JEROME Mixfile #620-Wonja

https://soundcloud.com/wonj
https://twitter.com/wonja

JEROME Mixfile #620-Wonja

Rinse FM Podcast

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Bake with Wonja - 28 September 2020

Rinse France Podcast

Perko invite Wonja & Conrad Pack - 11 Novembre 2020

wonja - rootless flowers

Bside Incoming: Wonja

This episode of Bside Incoming is the Californian creation of a New Englander. An artist with an original sound, excellent taste, and as always, an incredible collection of music. Wonja

The journey began with her formative experience on local and college radio, where a community of like minded music lovers helped to expand Wonja’s sonic horizons. While house and techno form the basis of her live DJ sets she has an intriguing specialist subject: Gamelan, a percussive genre based on the use of metallophone and wood instruments.

Her audiences are usually small, intimate, and local. So it’s a pleasure to transport her intriguing style beyond its ordinary confines. If you like the taste of this, be sure to tune into her Do/While mixtape with DJML. The duo are soon to release an LP on Soda Gong as Motoko and Myers. We’ve got our ears to the ground for this one!

https://soundcloud.com/wonj?fbclid=IwAR0PRI6FNHzvLlBCJYRR2seEnpbhZnXIAS1gHhZT9PcqVcvZmVDmOjrjwYU

Starting out with extra-terrestrial sounds, slowly winding down to the ground. Eerie beats, relaxing ambiance, nostalgically natural sounds, and splash of spoken word.

Check her soundcloud here - https://soundcloud.com/wonj
And her amazing Do/While series - https://soundcloud.com/wonj/sets/do-while

Thanks to Molly Hickey for the beautiful artwork as always. www.instagram.com/mollyth.art/
Follow the Bside instagram for updates/news/vinyl and general music chat - www.instagram.com/bsidepodcasts/

Bside Incoming: Wonja

The Federation mix is a series of mixes curated by Wokoundou’s commander @philoulouzolo. With The Federation, Wokoundou launches a platform to both hidden talent and the establishment, introducing its guests as science fiction superheroines - superheroes with special powers to honor their talent.

@wonj

As always, we ask our superheroines - superheroes to their special powers.
Wonja's a shapeshifter! 💫

More @wonj
https://www.instagram.com/wonjwonj

More Wokoundou:
@philoulouzolo-wokoundou
Instagram.com/philoulouzolo
www.wokoundou.com