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Multi-channel operator and fellow transatlantic psychonaut The Hefker Girl (@navigatingthefartworld) has a singularly unified “practice” (if we have to put a label on it), pulling from Pythagoras, 1980s fringe cults, uncharted waters, warped and dusty platines to create something distinctly off-kilter. She operates in several different milieux; I first encountered her assisting with @groovetrackersfm on WKCR (see DOS015: @nyc.pr3 ) as their media maven of sorts, but is equally at home on the design / booking / graphics / archiving / curation fronts in the back ends of bookshops and cash-only bars that seem to uphold what is left of the East Village’s nous against the beige tide that swarms and chokes. Blue World Below (named without awareness of the FIsh Bowl world she has created for herself) dives deep into untracklisted realms, fathoms of telepathic fish and echoes of chillout rooms and future visions from the end of history. Describes herself as a sailor at sea, armed with a dub compass to guide her through the uncharted depths of dance music and inviting the crowd into the haze, the suspension. taken in New York, New York by @_neonlichter

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5 months ago

Ending off the year in style with a beautifully introspective mix from one of Montréals hardest working operators @goblincandance: profound dark ambience, modal jazz, post-rock, screwed-up CR-80s, expensive-furniture downtempo, and ‘descriptive scores for scenes of visual impact’. Whether behind the guitar, light boards, turntables, or organizing much of the renegade underworld, Ethan has been an absolute energy force the whole time I've known them across disciplines, the exact kind of attitude and drive I wish I had acted on in my early-mid 20s -- but who is to say I'm not doing that now? More action for the series in 2026 and beyond >>> for now tune in and drift (or cry in the supermarket as I did). A special thanks to @jamesbenjamin__ for the excellent mastering job !

Tracklisting forthcoming! taken in Montreal by @_neonlichter

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10 months ago

Warm melancholia and heady sonics from Iris - the Montreal-based DJ, fellow @n10.as host, and mind behind the queer-focused @undergroundloveaffair party and mix series (with a few shared contributors!). Their usual playing styles foreground an insatiable appetite for musics guided by emotion — “cyberjazz, aquabreaks, bubblestep, windmill techno, critter-hop, and punk house”.

Intentionally created for the last months of summer, his mix runs the gamut through lush ambient, shoegaze, dubbed out leftfield reggaeton and glistening polyrhythms. No tracklist on this one, dive in to the mindstream.

“I feel this is a very nostalgia time of year and nostalgia is such a powerful sensation — like a deep yearning for parts of the past or escape from the present” taken in Montreal, Quebec by @_neonlichter

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a year ago

Montréal house staple @kridelka plunges into the acid from the deep end before wading out again, in an exploration of the 303. "The style is a little less accessible, particularly old tracks with a large dynamic range that can sometimes sound particularly harsh on big sound systems, so I took this opportunity to explore that part of my collection. Hope you enjoy it, and thanks for your time!"

Max Essa & Eddie C — Save Me [2024, Razor-N-Tape]
Fatima Yamaha — Love Invaders [2015, Magnetron]
Ash Walker & Amp Fiddler — Afronaught (Ron Trent Remix) [2024, Night Time Stories]
The Vision — Heaven (Nightmares On Wax Remix) [2019, Defected]
Connie Case — Get Down [1982, Konduko]
Whitesquare — Inside Your Soul [2022, Visual Distortions]
Felipe Gordon — Acid Party at Santa Barbara [2024, Razor-N-Tape]
Guti — El Solitario (Carl Craig Remix) [2015, Defected]
Jinger aka Traumer — Apoplex [2022, Jinger]
Larry Heard & Mr White — The Sun Can't Compare [2006, Alleviated]
Murr ft. Rosina — Fables and Fairytales (Adam Marshall’s “Into the Spirit Lands” Mix) [2008, Kuji]
Basement Jaxx — Fly Life Xtra [1997, Rotate]
Simo Not Simon — Don't Leave [2024, Clover Club] taken in Montreal, Quebec by @_neonlichter

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a year ago

Le quinzième arrive: @pr3zz000 presents an hour and change of waves, tones, and some damn fine moods (including several tracks I've not heard since the Astral Travelling days). He's one of the hosts of @groovetrackersfm (fka Workaround) on the venerable WKCR, where you'll also be hearing me this Friday at 9 PM for an hour of power recorded a few weeks ago in studio.

"A conceptual mixtape, this brings together a selection of tracks that, either in their individual structural or in combination, enact an idea of “scarcity, density, release.” Look forward to some lesser heard B-sides (specifically a Sade one!) as well as some familiar names for the cerebral house heads. The inspiration comes from a thought my friend George Webster expressed to me recently."

Nala Sinephro — Space 1 [2021, Warp]
Sault — Warrior [2023, Forever Living Originals]
Sade — Make Some Room [1988, Epic]
Aybee — Dawn [2013, Deepblak]
Chaos in the CBD — Trust is Key [2015, Rhythm Section]
Daphni — Mania [2022, Jiaolong]
Rednail Kidz & Derrick Carter — Do My Thing [2015, Cyclo]
Projekt:pm — Audio Visuals [1997, Crucial Sounds]
Kornel Kovacs — Szikra (Abdulla Rashim Remix) [2014, Studio Barnhus]
In Fields — Joy [2020, Höga Nord Rekords]
Galcher Lustwerk — Stem [2015, Lustwerk Music]
Floating Points — Ocotillo [2024, Ninja Tune]
Fatima — Cinnamon [2011, Eglo]
Nala Sinephro — Space 4 [2021, Warp] taken in New York by @_neonlichter

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2 years ago

If there are any DJs I want to uplift here or else, it's the ones who I know have a deep knowledge of the histories and many sounds of 'dance music' -- not for want of being a know it all, but of gaining histories and contexts that would be otherwise lost in the algorithmic shuffle. Nashville-born, Montréal-based Esme is one of the best DJs of late I've heard make pure wormholes of techno, the kind that you can properly shut out the world and lose your body in. As someone who was also into this sound when I was their age, it gives me joy to see early-to-mid 20-somethings have the chances to share that kind of knowledge. Esme's mix feels like you're on cruise control, it's gone midnight and the air smells of petrichor, faint diesel, and distant flowers. Many shades of techno flow across each other like paint. You neither know nor care what tomorrow will bring. Swipe for tracklist. taken in Montreal, Quebec by @_neonlichter

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2 years ago

DOS013: Stefan Christoff [April Mix] (2024)

I first encounter Stefan though through Casa Del Popolo, the Main’s main den of épatering the bourgeoisie since the 90s, when they booked me for what was only the second Days of Steam night after the first at Rye Wax. The old booth was set up like you were in a chapel, dim as hell for me but enough of a remove from the audience without being too removed. They’re a longtime organizer in Montréal activist circles, the mind of @freecityradio, with a CV too long to summarize here but one that shows genuine belief and investment in the causes he champions. I’d seen them years back before we knew each other, as part of the city’s experimental undercurrents, with releases of introspective piano for Howl Arts alongside local luminaries Sam Shalabi and Peter Burton and mainstays d’la marge like Aural Canyon and Beacon Sound. Tapestries of field recordings and plunderphonics, part of a long tradition of musique actuelle in the city without intentionally trying to be so. The mix he sent over is almost entirely as of writing recent pieces, with compositions (what they all feel like more than ‘pieces’ or ‘tracks’) from Berkeley, Brooklyn, Brazil, Houston, Jaffa, Milan, Montréal - the sound of the uncertainty and rage of the now, but never restoring to despondency, moreso righteousness. Swipe for tracklist.

"It is my pleasure to share these tracks with you. On a basic level these tracks were shared mostly by friends in the context of exchanges and ongoing collaborations with folks in cities all over the place, around creating content for Radio AlHara in Palestine and beyond. I love that this mix jumps between vibes and styles. I also included a couple of tracks from recent releases that I worked on. I hope you enjoy the mix.” taken in Montreal, Quebec by @_neonlichter

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2 years ago

A "c80 drunken stumble taking the wrong shortcut back to a flat full of odd convos and good mixers" from Rye Wax doyen / 1/2 of "FYI Chris" Nowt (aka Watson).

post-punk poetry / slovene tape sculptures / synth clouds / sermons / brass reconstructions / house classics / Baltimore club deconstructions / proto-everything / non-euclidian transitions. Swipe for tracklist. taken in Borough of Lewisham, London by @_neonlichter

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2 years ago

DOS011: Faux Sommets [A Dozen Hands] (2024)

Intense introspections from beau mensch of many hats Simon St-Louis (Loose Screws x Air Supply x Moab x Necklace) - restrained guitars and drum machines crawl inexorably along the Bowery, plaintive abstractions for the soul, suffocating Southern ambience, inverted psychedelia, staring at the horizon a la récherche du temps perdu. Swipe for tracklist. taken in Montreal, Quebec by @_neonlichter

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2 years ago

DOS010: Mahmood Schricker [The Shortest Days] (2023).

Friend, bandmate, composer, and Tehrantologist Mahmood Schricker presents an hour of deep jazz cuts, postmodern classical, his recent soundtrack work for Fremont, and other musics of the Persian diaspora. Swipe for tracklist. taken in Toronto, Ontario by @_neonlichter

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2 years ago

DOS009: Technique Nado [Chaleur Insoutenable] (2023)

Slow-fast-slow / fast-slow-fast rhythms from 3rd.kind's first time back in the studio in a few months. When I heard it, it sounded like I was watching Koyaanisqatsi backwards on half speed, if that explains anything. No tracklisting for this one - spotters, do your thing.

"This mix is inspired by unbearable, heavy heat - the one you can’t escape // Ce mixe est inspiré par la chaleur insoutenable et lourde - celle dont on ne peut se sauver." taken in Montréal, Québec by @_neonlichter

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2 years ago

DOS008: Icarus Redux [Para-Ilian Frequencies] (2023)

Restrained freakout sonics and subcranial rhythms from @icarus_redux — “earth-moving kicks, baleful, eyes-dilated synths, and rough, mostly unsampled breakbeats. Fog machine bathing all as one.” Inspired as an artist by a mixed bag of artists and theorists that cast light on the darkness - Fisher, Graeber, Preciado, Shadow, Thaemlitz, Tiqqun, Weatherall - this mix is one of the first I’ve heard that approaches AI-assisted technologies (demuxing, polyrhythmic mixing, etc) in a way that reminds me of early cut-and-paste techniques or Richie Hawtin’s Decks x EFX mixes that reassemble contexts on a micro-level, not just layering tracks over each other but reconstructing them, and here it’s far more subtle. It’s enticing and unnerving to me but such is the effect of the dawn of a new form of technology that has the potential for use and abuse. Here it’s done to only positive effect, again highlighting the spaces between the notes, the snatches of memory that flit through your brain. A lot of the tracks from the early 2010s are records I remember hearing and playing when I lived in Leeds, which I had associated with a very different scene that I naively believed at the time would never truly take off Stateside. At the same time, Disclosure were getting big then and I thought the US would pass them over - from downloading italo and house rips off of Bicep's old blog to seeing them headline warehouses in Brooklyn that charge $40+ admission (both Disclosure and Bicep, at this rate it's probably $60+...mais je divague). Swipe for tracklist.

Tracks by @andrea_iliantape @banoffeepiesrecords @basicsoulunit @bianca_scout @blawan_ternesc @creme_organization @firstterracerecords @fourtetkieran @glaskinofficial @hessleaudio @honestjonsrecords @johnny_ayln @matthewherbertmusic @hotflushuk @iliantape @martyn3024 @ofparadiserecords @pinkmanrecords @pugilistmusic @ryan.james.ford @taravalmusic @throttleclark @wnclrecordings @warprecords and others taken in Chennai, India by @_neonlichter

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2 years ago