18/02/2022
I have 5 new sets in the works! Descriptions below!
Live-mixed and recorded off my decks, these are 1-hour-ish sets that I agonize over for weeks (months) to cultivate a certain mood, vibe, theme, style, flow, or all of the above. I create these sets with the aim of them being go-to's for myself when a certain mood whelms me. Maybe others will enjoy them as such too. The goal is the art of the mix-tape taken to a new level with as close to seamless transitions and clever song blending as my technical skills and aesthetic sensibilities will allow. Oh, and they're almost all VERY Danceable, but with very different dance styles involved. In the hopper:
- THE PURPLE LOUNGE - This set ain't for everybody, only the sexy people. This is the music you’d hear in my imaginary VIP lounge bar bathed only in purple neon light where to get in you must be a black belt in slow hard and deep, AND a PhD in downtempo seduction. You can’t afford the drinks, the dress code is Just Barely, and the dance floor temperature is 98.6 degrees. Consisting mostly of Trip Hop, with sum occasional downtempo DnB and electronica (maybe even sum funk and soul?) as the mooood allows.
- GOBLIN SLINK FIRE CAULDRON STOMP - The Goblins are celebrating a coronation and the dawning of a new age of dance floor dominance in the deep dark dank forest, feasting on hunks of defeated enemy flesh, bellowing around the bonfire while beating their drums of dance floor war, and showing off their slinky shmexy shadow dances. Consisting of Dark Pop, Dark Techno, Post-Industrial, and anything else that felt sufficiently new-ish and goblin-y to slink or stomp to.
- WEAPONIZED HIGH VOLTAGE HAMSTER DOOM – When Industrial, Metal, and Goth are not Heavy, Fast, or Dark enough to open a crack in the network of noise that is your exponentially looping thought processes, the High Voltage Hamster has your back with consciousness condensing, nihilism rending, eff-it-all we’re gonna dance like ferrets on hotplates until we can Even again, beats. Consisting of Dark Drum ‘n Bass, Techstep, Glitch, Breakbeats and More Dark DnB. Warning: not danceable unless you are a small rodent riding a sugar-high from snorting seven pixy stix.
- DROPPIN’ HOUSE, WITCHES! - This is the Witch House set whose future existence was implied by the name of the previously released “I’m Melting Mix”, which did not contain any actual Witch House but was produced in a factory with equipment that sometimes processes Witch House. THIS is the Witch House set, in which the witches switches the narrative up and drop their House on y’alls heads! Consisting of music vaguely resembling Witch House, but also not, because it’s a genre with a very specific, unique, stylized feel that is conducive to writhey dancing, so I’m leaning into that with the song selections and straying from strictly Witch House in favor of the Writhe. They’ll get you dancing my pretties, and your little dog too.
- SEASONAL AFFECTIVE DISORDER – aka “A Wintry Mix”. An ode to grey skies, snow-and-ice-blasted washed-out-light landscapes, and long bitter cold dark nights. When things are so bleak and soul-sapping, one must move to stay warm and this set is just the thing. Been working on this setlist since November when the first snow fell, it’s now February. Have all the music, now practicing the mixing. Very soon. Like, before spring. 😉 Consisting of Coldwave, Darkwave, Minimal wave, Dark Pop, etc.
