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We’re pleased to offer this dinner plate for Sunday’s event, served by @snacc.fairy fairy. Sam is the mind behind whimsical late-night delights for DIY parties and music festivals.

🍴If you’ve tasted her creations before, you know what’s coming: a menu as captivating as it is nourishing.

💫Lock in those preorders via form in bio.
Orders will close on Friday Evening | 10/9 by @simmerdown

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Break a sweat and kiss the sun. We are ecstatic to welcome you all back to Good Hot’s Sauna Village on Sunday, October 11th from 4-8pm

Same simmer, softer light. Scoring the evening, Malzof and Kiernan Laveaux will connect us through rhythm and blissed out sonics.

Stay tuned for divine offerings from @snacc.fairy

Tickets are live in bio

Flyer: @taialeituala by @simmerdown

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22 days ago

simmerdown’s 10th mix entry is from atrevido @atrevid000

Atrevido is a San Diego-based artist deeply imbued in the underground scene via his work on community radio station Particle FM, years behind the decks at queer raves, and a recent debut release on Lisbon label Naive. Atrevido employs inescapable basslines, dreamy electronica, and industrial soundscapes often reaching for Midwestern, UK, and LatAm sounds amongst a wider repertoire of mutant sounds. He also organizes ambient and dance events with a custom-built Klipsch soundsystem in addition to helping organize COMPRESSED, a yearly zine and music fair in San Diego’s Barrio Logan.

“I wanted to capture all the organic textures and feelings of being in a traditional sauna: the water, the wood, and the human body. Music to relax to but also to endure the heat. Cedar, steam, pulse, rhythm.” by @simmerdown

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Every lasting light of solstice day still flows. Are you ready to send off the sun until it’s time to meet again?

Stay tuned, await heat rising. by @simmerdown

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Save the date: Saturday June 20th. Simmer Solstice ☀️🩲

Tickets will be live beginning of June.
Pic: @moodlightbf by @simmerdown

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Third time is a charm. We are excited to be back for our somewhat semi annual soirée of sunset and sweat at the iconic Good Hot sauna village on Saturday, June 20th from 5-9pm.
☀️ Suntracking the simmer with sonics and sound, we are delighted to present two special guests Way and In Bloom.

Our lovely friends @thesugarbully will be providing delightful nosh. 🥟✨

Link in bio to purchase tickets!
💦Flyer: @taialeituala taken in Richmond, California by @simmerdown

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Post-Sauna bliss 35mm captures with the sweeties of @simmerdown ✨🫧 taken in Good Hot by @simmerdown

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simmerdown mix 08 is a transmission from @_ezri_dax_

Ship’s Log, Stardate 6969: ezri_dax selects compassionate speed to bring you into
transwarp; psychedelic rhythms to meld minds; high camp to tug the heartstrings; and
always keeps it spacey on the 1s & 2s.
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About the mix: “This mix reflects a number of recent ambient sets that responded to the sauna (Bad
Sauna, PGH) and other venues that invited subtle moments of tension, release,
contemplation, or attention in the midst of deep winter. My desire is to prompt space and
joy for the intensity of a sweat, to sit with the darker melancholy of introspection that
accompanies the day-to-day, and to fold in some (at least personal) nostalgic souvenirs
to integrate past and present.” by @simmerdown

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simmerdown 09 arrives from Farplane, a Chicago-based duo comprised of sold @glorbis and Hi-Vis @lexciya_ . Farplane fuses both of their tastes across the spectrum of psychedelic, groovy, ambient, and technoid electronic sounds to induct ecstatic trance states. They co-run Lizard label and have previously collaborated on the deep listening portion of Eris Drew’s Motherbeat raves.

Marking another joining of these two spirits, this shared mix unfolds like light breaking through fog. Glimmering textures and propulsive rhythms create a dreamlike atmosphere suspended in desire and mystery by @simmerdown

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simmerdown mix 7: @hyeonje._

Hyeonje is a multidisciplinary artist creating out of Seattle, WA. They work with music, graphics, and writing to explore themes around identity, community, and spirituality. As a DJ, they use collective dancefloors and listening spaces as canvases upon which they translate old wisdoms, evoke familiar futures, and reconfigure present realities. They believe in the power of the Rave as a force for self-discovery, imagination, collective healing, and ancestral communication.

About the mix: “This is a 2 hr. recording of a set I played live for an intimate home gathering of friends and community members on the winter solstice this year. It is a special representation of some of the slower, ambient, orchestral, and abstract music that I love. During the set, I felt called to conjure disparate textures reflecting the contrasting feelings of grief, kinship, drama, and comedy that I perceived as being held by the room at the time. I think this mix is well suited for a deep listening sesh during a bath in a dark room lit by a single candle. Rest in peace to our dear beloved, Todd Hochradel.” by @simmerdown

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9 months ago

We are excited to present our sixth @simmerdown mix - a heartfelt transmission from Mx. Blaire. Huge thanks to @beets.bi.blaire for this lovely contribution to the series, @ivnatx for the dreamy artwork, and @clubchow for programming. Read about the artist below and the mix on Soundcloud. Link is in our bio - enjoy!! 🌀

Mx. Blaire:
A dazzling selectress, an embodiment of skill and craft, and a passionate community builder, Mx. Blaire (she/they) of Boston, MA has a singular ability to enchant dancers with stirring, sometimes otherworldly sounds. Her reverence for 90s house, hard-hitting techno, and mind-bending acid guarantees an active dance floor, kept enthralled by intentionally placed breaks and thrilling interplays of tempos and textures. As a result of their dedicated vinyl practice, Blaire’s sets are also technically engaging, with brilliant phrasing and thoughtful touches of turntablism. She uses these skills to transfer her energy to the dancers and share in sonic conversations, exploring concurrent themes of resistance & joy and existence & play. In addition to sharing their gifts through DJ sets, Blaire betters Boston’s underground through their organizing, for the queer dance music collective Boudoir and their new series Sheer Bliss. It’s hard to find parties frequented by a stronger community and filled with as much uninhibited delight. Furthering her commitment to community care, Blaire has created her spirit-comforting Sunday ambient and downtempo party called Sweetie Pie. by @simmerdown

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Pssst… we’re ecstatic to have sound ran by the brilliant minds of Envelope Soundsystem. We have danced (and puddled) countless hours in front of this incredible hand built sound system.

Envelope Soundsystem is a transsexual soundsystem collective based in Oakland, CA. Their underground events center the wheel of the year—ēostre, samhain—and are labored over to encourage intentionality, mutualism, and life-saving self-becoming. From the ground up, Envelope Soundsystem has been assembled by transexual hands; from loudspeaker design and construction to the meticulous altars fashioned from clay and foliage. Envelope exists to show queers that we do not have to rely on the institutions which oppress us— we can create the infrastructure and ritual of the world we want to live in. by @simmerdown

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