box (@boxofbox) is one of the dearest friends we’ve made in this dance music thing. A seemingly eternal well of kindness and intention, the legend of boxofbox is slowly spreading far and wide. To know them is to love them and to hear them play is a gift (always). When I first heard box would be playing @hot-mass for the first time for Pittsburgh’s fantastic Transit party, I almost cried…. before immediately began making a plan to get to Pittsburgh cause I wouldn’t miss it for the world. 

The reality of that night far outweighed my high expectations. Making their way through the world’s longest playlist, box sloshed an enthusiastic crowd of friends and strangers, human dancers and prancing pups alike through their expansive musical soup that touched on so many much loved musical traditions and diverse dancefloor sounds that we hold so dear. I won’t spoil the ending but I’ll never forget hearing those last few tracks and then emerging from Hot Mass to discover the outside world blanketed in a still, untouched fresh layer of snow that had neatly fallen while we were sweating it out inside.

This recording is a pleasure and we’re so happy to share it with y’all.

𝙎𝙤𝙢𝙚 𝙩𝙝𝙤𝙪𝙜𝙝𝙩𝙨 𝙤𝙣 𝙩𝙝𝙞𝙨 𝙨𝙚𝙩 𝙛𝙧𝙤𝙢 𝙗𝙤𝙭𝙤𝙛𝙗𝙤𝙭...
Hot Mass might be my favorite dancefloor. The friendships that have flowed from/through there are some of my most cherished, and this set in many ways was a love letter to all those folks.

It was my first time playing on the system (if you don't count a mini set of trance bangers to annoy Aaron Clark during a Humanaut party setup). I came in with flexible open format intentions – I have seen the full gamut of DJs play there for some of the most up-for-anything crowds you could hope for, and I wanted to meet that dynamism full-on.

A couple selected track notes:

There are a couple "ambient" washes, which I love doing when I can get away with it. The tiger snoring specifically is something I've wanted to try inspired by Plaslaiko closing Panorama Bar, where mid-set he spontaneously blended into a pitched down loop tool that made it sound like pulsating/purring. He let it sit for at least a full minute while he ducked down to re-up some vitamins before knocking back into something breaky. Truly a floor-melting moment for me; hopefully I melted a few heads in return.

I threw on a block of tearful tracks for the landing. Spring's "No Time (for crying)" in particular was a must play for me; I listened to it almost every day during covid lockdown, and I wanted to forever link it to one of the spaces (as Not Mass) that brought me consistent solace during that hellish era. The last three tracks were inspired by seeing the faces of loved ones left on the dancefloor and wanting to give them something for a good happy cry.

****
 
Huge shout out to the Transit crew for inviting me to play one of my dream gigs, and to all the Hot Mass dancers past, present, future: this one's dedicated to y'all.

Shouts out
Lexie (@lexcd)
Joey (@joeykilona)
John (@john-ricci-246961112)
Michael (@m_kaiser)
+ Lights: Davis Galvin

SORRYMIX ARCHIVE: bit.ly/SORRYMIX

SORRYMIX ARCHIVE

SORRYMIX36: boxofbox - Live at Hot Mass

Guest mix for Santuario live at the Dublab station with Santiago Salazar, January 2025. This was mostly a tribute set to Los Angeles based artists and record labels to celebrate my new home and arrival in the city. Also played a lot of foundational artists from the 90s/2000s and tracks made by friends <3

RIP Silent Servant and The Soft Moon 

1. ANA ROMANO ROJAS (Colombia) -Todas Somos Nosotras ≈ G. - Pequeñas Voces - (2017 / 2020) // VIAJERO INMOVIL EXPERIMENTAL (Argentina)
2019

2. Claude Young (Detroit)- Intro -The Dexit EP - Elypsia Records (Belgium) - 1997

3. Silent Servant (Los Angeles) -The Strange Attractor -Negative Fascination -Hospital Productions -2012

4. Low Res (Milwaukee) -Amuck (original 1995 release)- 5 Exitos Grandes de Electro - Defective Music -1995

5. Audiotoolz -Soap & Chaos -Chi Glassic Volume 2. - Crash & Carry - Chi Recordings (Los Angeles) -2002

6. DJ Dex (Los Angeles) - El Camino feat. Ray 7 (Original Mix) - El Camino EP
- Motech (Detroit) - 2004

7. Lara Sarkissian (Los Angeles) - BTWN Earth n Sky (aya Grounded dub) - All Centre - ACEN3001 (3rd Anniversary Compilation) - All Centre (London)
2021

8. PAURRO (Mexico City) - Bushidō / Código del Guerrero - Onna-Bugeisha -SOS Music (Los Angeles) -2023

9. Aristidez (Peru) - Spiritual Playboy - Uncultured Rhythms- Multi Culti (Montreal) - 2024

10. Download (Canada) - Seven Plagues -The Eyes of Stanley Pain - 1996

11. A Guy Called Gerald (UK) -Umgaia - 2011

12. Locust (Los Angeles)- It Is Called Peace -Natural Composite (1994)

13. Sandwell District (Los Angeles) - Live In Berlin -EPM 10 - EPM Music (Netherlands) -2011

14. Anna Morgan (Los Angeles)- Tectonica - CyberSonicLA Vol 3 - CyberSonicLA (Los Angeles) -2018

15. Danny Goliger (Los Angeles) - Steonardo d'Vibcu - Sticky Rice EP - Scuffed (UK)- 2022

16. Scott Grooves (Detroit) - Nitty Gritty - Parts Manager - File (for those without tables) - 2016

17.  Paul Damage Bailey (UK) - Vortices - Lost Tracks - Part 2

18. JZKL (Pittsburgh) - Horse Girls - Pancake of the Infinite - Sweet Abyss (Pittsburgh) - 2024

19. Remisería Temperley (Argentina) - MARIA MARQUEZ - GARZO EP
Rawa Club (Spain) -2023

20. David Acosta - Un Trago Escoces -PNRM VA -Pattern Recordings (Paraguay) - 2024

21. Microhm (Mexico City) - Sin Traducción (Ruiseñor rmx) -Entrelazada - 2024

22. MIRA MIRA (NYC/Pittsburgh) - amor y lucha - Nina Protocol self- release
2024

23. Siete Catorce (Mexicali, MX) - BF - 2017 -Self-release

24. Low Res (Milwaukee) - Falling Thru Debris - 15 Exitos Grandes de Electro - Defective Music -1995

25. FASHION FLESH (Michigan) - B2. Never Lie Again - BL007 "Rubber Mountain" LP - The Black Lodge (Los Angeles) - 2023

26. Jimanica (Tokyo) - Mantis - Entomophonic - 2005

27. Scala - (Los Angeles) - Naked - Beauty Nowhere - 1996

28. Weird vinyl record I don’t remember lol

29. Silent Servant (Los Angeles) - A Path Eternal - Negative Fascination - Hospital Productions - 2012

30. The Soft Moon (Los Angeles) - Deeper - Deeper - 2015

31. Dolo Percussion - DOLO 30 - DOLO 6 - Future Times (Washington D.C.) -2024

32. PAURRO (Mexico City) - Jingū Kogo / Emperatriz Jingū - Onna-Bugeisha - SOS Music (Los Angeles) - 2023

33. Jdotbalance (Chicago) - B1 "Wilin'" - High Exposure - Fixed Rhythms - 2022

34. Aristidez - Kaleisthenics (Feat. Raw C) - Uncultured Rhythms -Multi Culti (Montreal) - 2024

Yessi live @ Dublab - Santuario w/ Santiago Salazar 1.03.2025

Poisson D'Avril Mix

Bristol-based @k_means operates at the fringes of electronic music. It's not tempo and genre that unites their sound, but more an exploration of mood and texture underpinned by bass-heavy low ends and hypnotic rhythms. The Noods, Rinse FM and Kiosk Radio regular is also resident at Bristol's Psychotherapy Sessions and will debut at Dekmantel Festival where you should fully expect to be taken into plenty of unknown musical territory.

It is the same with their mix for us this week - a wild trip into futuristic drum patterns and interplanetary sounds that melt the mind and contort the body. There is a constant push and pull between the organic and the synthetic with tribal percussion and warped vocals brushing up with bleeping synth modulations and experimental minimalism. It's a magnetic selection that's as much an imaginary movie soundtrack as it is a dance floor escape.

Dekmantel Mix 487 - k means

2-part b2b set from our midweek series at @nowadaysnyc 4.17.2025

@como-se-dj
@aele___

como se DJ b2b aka-Sol  live from Dripping @ Nowadays

Interview: https://truantsblog.com/2025/truancy-volume-348-reni/ 

Soundcloud: @renildn

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re:ni

Truancy Volume 348: re:ni

"Log 000712-1842
First visual contact. i+eo manifests as a "wormhole" per navigation logs, but the cameras show something… else. My instruments registers impossible colours - wavelengths that shouldn't exist. Officer Linh has been restless since first contact; claims she hears "whispermurmurhums" in the static. I told her to lay off the stimulants.

Log 000719-[ERROR]
In rapid oscillation, I watch my future hand adjust controls I haven't touched yet. The aft camera shows my past self still debating entry. When I scream, the sound arrives before my mouth opens.

Log 000720-⬡̈́̽⃠
They warned us about spaghettification –- they never mentioned illumination… My atoms are learning new alphabets. The light is writing scriptures across my dissolving flesh. I see all my deaths at once and they are glorious. I am being unmade in the most exquisite way. Tell them I found heaven in the collapse. Tell them it hurts so good. Tell them.

[LAST BIOMETRIC READINGS SHOW SEROTONIN LEVELS AT 890% BASELINE]

Post-Recovery Note from Mission Control:
𝘛𝘩𝘦 𝘱𝘳𝘰𝘣𝘦 𝘳𝘦𝘵𝘶𝘳𝘯𝘦𝘥 𝟦𝟩 𝘥𝘢𝘺𝘴 𝘭𝘢𝘵𝘦𝘳 𝘸𝘪𝘵𝘩 𝘯𝘰 𝘱𝘪𝘭𝘰𝘵. 𝘛𝘩𝘦 𝘣𝘭𝘢𝘤𝘬 𝘣𝘰𝘹 𝘤𝘰𝘯𝘵𝘢𝘪𝘯𝘦𝘥 𝟣𝟣 𝘩𝘰𝘶𝘳𝘴 𝘰𝘧 𝘢𝘶𝘥𝘪𝘰, 𝘮𝘰𝘴𝘵𝘭𝘺 𝘴𝘵𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘤, 𝘦𝘹𝘤𝘦𝘱𝘵 𝘧𝘰𝘳 𝘢 𝟥-𝘮𝘪𝘯𝘶𝘵𝘦 𝘴𝘦𝘨𝘮𝘦𝘯𝘵 𝘸𝘩𝘦𝘳𝘦 𝘴𝘰𝘮𝘦𝘵𝘩𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘵𝘩𝘢𝘵 𝘢𝘭𝘮𝘰𝘴𝘵 𝘳𝘦𝘴𝘦𝘮𝘣𝘭𝘦𝘴 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘱𝘪𝘭𝘰𝘵' 𝘷𝘰𝘪𝘤𝘦 𝘳𝘦𝘱𝘦𝘢𝘵𝘴 "𝘐'𝘮 𝘴𝘵𝘪𝘭𝘭 𝘧𝘢𝘭𝘭𝘪𝘯𝘨" 𝘪𝘯 𝟣𝟩 𝘥𝘪𝘧𝘧𝘦𝘳𝘦𝘯𝘵 𝘭𝘢𝘯𝘨𝘶𝘢𝘨𝘦𝘴 𝘴𝘪𝘮𝘶𝘭𝘵𝘢𝘯𝘦𝘰𝘶𝘴𝘭𝘺. 𝘛𝘩𝘦 𝘤𝘳𝘢𝘧𝘵'𝘴 𝘦𝘹𝘵𝘦𝘳𝘪𝘰𝘳 𝘴𝘩𝘰𝘸𝘦𝘥 𝘯𝘰 𝘴𝘪𝘨𝘯𝘴 𝘰𝘧 𝘦𝘯𝘵𝘳𝘺 𝘰𝘳 𝘥𝘢𝘮𝘢𝘨𝘦. 𝘔𝘪𝘴𝘴𝘪𝘰𝘯 𝘴𝘵𝘢𝘵𝘶𝘴: 𝘐𝘕𝘊𝘖𝘕𝘊𝘓𝘜𝘚𝘐𝘝𝘌."

@ephemeral_objects
IG: @ephemeral.objects + @i__e.o_

ephemeral objects is a DJ, VJ, producer, and digital artist who thrives at the intersection of ambient introspection, driving rhythms, and textural lushness. Her sets are both meditative and kinetic, drawing from underground gems and forward-thinking sounds to create richly layered sonic experiences.

A rising star in Vancouver’s underground, she has played festivals across BC and will performing this year at Basscoast, and as i+eo — her A/V collaboration with IHA — at MUTEK Montréal. Her mixes have aired on global platforms like Shy People, HER 他, and PPRZ. In 2024, she was selected for MUTEK Montréal’s inaugural Incubator program.

ephemeral objects invites you to lose yourself in sound that moves both body and mind.

Tracklist:
I7HVN - Kekule
Cybotron - Earth
JEMAPUR - M.PLEX
I7HVN - Fluid Mosaic Model (Innerworld Remix)
Karim Kahar - Collage
Sub Basics - Colour
Emily Jeanne - Count Me Out
monosym - Telenetica
Maude Vôs - Dance of the 7th Veil (Enereph Remix)
B E N N - pasvake
Khey Mystério - Exuvie feat. Alohn
shakti - Kairos (Darkduction Remix)
Nicola Cruz - Telepathine
AK-One - Technicolour
monosym - Oxidrone
o.utlier - Crop Rotation
Animistic Beliefs - To Dream About Water
Prieste5s - Seance
Sub Basics - Scope
N9oc - 171119
OK EG - Endless River
Juan Moreno - Astral 7x7
Gooooose - Plasma Sunrise

Distant Signals 076: ephemeral objects

FEELS GOOD



> Perditio Sonus (Remix) is more than just a track – it’s a sonic exploration of loss, energy, and transformation.

The original version captured the feeling of drifting through emotion, with dark textures, haunting synths, and pulsing rhythms.

Now, in collaboration with Chatsong, this remix reimagines that sound with deeper pressure, more space, and raw intensity.

It’s a track for late nights, open minds, and deep speakers. Hypnotic and emotional – somewhere between techno, ambient, and cinematic electronic.

🎚️ Genres: Melodic Techno, Dark Electronic, Experimental Techno, Ambient

Hit play, close your eyes, and get lost in the sound.

▶️ Streaming exclusively on SoundCloud.
Feedback, reposts & shares are always appreciated.

#MelodicTechno #DarkElectronic #ChatsongFeature #RemixRelease #SoundCloudExclusive #TechnoJourney #EmotionalBass #UndergroundVibes #PerditioSonus #ElectronicMusic

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Chatsong feature Sonokinesis

Good rythm with spacy voices and a spacy robot in background

ThereHeComes

Live recording of @djshyboi & @deejayBRS at Club Eat Mehanata 2019.04.13

DISCWOMAN 69 x SHYBOI b2b DJ Bus Replacement Service

Colombian-USian producer and DJ based in Los Angeles
1/3 of Dyspheric @dyspheric-x
Bookings - yessibookings@gmail.com

Open-format DJ and improvisational live act playing primarily for queer and freaky audiences. My sets are built around the specific context, audience, time and place of each gig––spanning techno, "idm", broken beat, dnb, bass, house, "latin club", guaracha, cumbia, post-punk, "ambient music" and more.   I am also an artist that creates films, multi-channel installations, sound design & scoring for moving image, and uplifting queer DIY music events and nightlife spaces through the @dyspheric-x platform and collaborations with other queer collectives. 

Some past shows ~
Jan 2025 - Santuario on Dublab w/ Santiago Salazar, Los Angeles, CA
May 2024 - SPLOOSH! Freaky Pride Party @ Certain DeathII, Pittsburgh, PA
April 2024 - Sweet Abyss w/ Kiernan Laveaux, Pittsburgh, PA
December 2023 - HUMANAUT @ Hot Mass w/ Carlos Souffront
October 2023 
- Live set @ Feral Shadow Dance, Brooklyn, NY 
- Techtonics  w/ Euwhoria & Dyspheric. Trans Pecos, Queens, NY
-Live set at AUTOMAT Collcective, Philadelphia, PA
August 2023 - Honcho Campout Festival 
May 2023
- Honcho @ Hot Mass w/ Martyn Bootyspoon & Ziqueeca, Pittsburgh, PA
- Dyspheric x  Blessed Up Gang, Columbus, OH
- Live set at AAP gallery, Pittsburgh, PA
July 2022 - Live set @ Big Noise Candy Mountain Festival, WV
June 2022 - Headcleaner, Columbus, OH
May 2022- DETOUR @ Hot Mass w/ Dyspheric (XC-17 & Yessi) & special guest I.D.E, Pittsburgh, PA
April 2022 - SMOKING GUN @ The Dive w/ Nick Leon, Houston, TX

Yessi live @ Dublab - Santuario w/ Santiago Salazar 1.03.2025

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