Secret Sauce Mix + Recipe

Secret Sauce · Secret Sauce 05 - DJ Slow

Fresh mix alert - a groovy, funky jazz mood to go along with a recipe for the Companion Bakes Secret Sauce series. Click photo above for recipe and track list. 

Thanks so much to Kayla for hosting - I’m particularly stoked to return the favor for the excellent mix they submitted as Aos back when I was curating a series for MOTOR - an all time fave mix of mine. And don’t miss their incredible baked creations!

End of Year Meditations + Best of 2021 Mix with Sound Machine's William Rauscher

I had the pleasure of talking with William Rauscher of Sound Machine (aka Das Rausch) about my top tracks of 2021 as well as what listening to music meant during the difficult, unusual past year. Check out our conversation here.

To go along with the podcast, we each put together a list of our favorite music of the year which I pulled from to make a mix:

dj_slow · dj slow x Sound Machine: Best of 2021

Further listening:

> dj slow's Best of 2021 list

> William Rauscher's Best of 2021 list

Slow Music Meltdown HER 210503 - Moody Synth

Transitioning from a morning to an evening slot on Hollow Earth Radio a while back has been a breath of fresh air for me/my show as I no longer have to manage tracks while simultaneously doing my day job from my home office, so I can really focus on the show and see where the music takes me. I started recording the sets - here’s one from back in May with some synth heroes and local legends. Recommended for a drive or with headphones. Hope you enjoy.

Brain Fruit - 1.7
N Chambers - Myosynchron
Jonathan Fitoussi - Vents Magnetiques
Bitchin Bajas - Rias Baixas
Forma - Physicalist
Kraftwerk - Tanzmusik
Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith - Existence in the Unfurling
Delia Gonzalez & Gavilán Rayna Russom - Relevee
Ricardo Donoso - The North Quadrant (ascension)

Slow Music Meltdown Mondays 7-8pm PST
www.hollowearthradio.org
KHUH 104.9FM Seattle

RIP Bill Withers

Props to Hippy Jonny for the Live Bill Withers video

ALTAR Closing Party Mix for Jacob Lawrence Gallery

Valda Nogueira, from the Porto series, 2012–present.Photo © Valda Nogueira

I was asked to put together an afrobeat-inspired playlist for the closing party (11/22/19) of the ALTAR exhibition at the Jacob Lawrence Gallery,  UW. Check out the playlist below and if you see this in time I encourage you to visit the show as well - some captivating, thought-provoking work! I also provided wine from the sustainably-farmed Indaba Wines in S. Africa via my day job at GVWM.

Jonathan Bree - Fuck It

Goo Goo tipped me off to Jonathan Bree via the above video.

He plays Columbia City Theater 10/22/19.

Juju Fuzz - 3.9.19 - Corvus & Co.

More info / RSVP.

Buy Music Club - Best of 2018

Avalon Emerson and friends made a site for creating lists using Bandcamp:

"Bandcamp is currently one of the most equitable music vendors online, discovering and buying music there is one of the best ways to support independent artists and record labels.

It would be nice to funnel year-end list-mania through a channel that actually pays people." - Avalon Emerson

In no particular order here are my standouts for 2018:

https://buymusic.club/list/dj-slow-2018-faves

Medical Rx Night - 7.26.18

Guest dj'ing w/ Medical Records Rx at Pony Thursday 7/26

Music Meltdown @ Corvus & Co. 6/16

MTRMX043

DJ SLOW VENTURES DOWN THE DARKER SIDES OF DUB & DRONE
This mix was inspired by an album I’d had on deep repeat that was then used as the foundation to build the mix around. Sigma Flare I by Chambers (Gabriel Saloman and Michael Red) struck a chord in me for its application of ethereal and wintry textures framed in a dub sensibility. Being a huge dub reggae fan, this record got me thinking about what else in my collection had dark, haunting and/or noise elements coupled with dub effects, and as I dug into my library the theme expanded to include darker cosmic, tribal, and drone elements. 

Tracklist

[Intro: “Willow” - Black Hat]

Raica - Tiwie
Maud Geffray - 1994
Chambers - 313
Holden - Sky Burial
Black Hat - Imaginary Friends
Patrick Cowley - Uhura
Swahili - Invocation
Jon Hassel / Brian Eno - Charm (Over "Burundi Cloud")
Sun Araw - Conga Mind
Hobo Cubes - Infatuation
African Head Charge - African Hedge Hog
Best Available Technology - Digi Hex
Pan•American - Lake Supplies

The all‐vinyl mix was built spontaneously and recorded live in one take.

Download Link: https://soundcloud.com/motor-collective/mtrmx043
Mix Length: 01:04:16
Podcast RSS: https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/motor-mix-series-motor/id955329106

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MOTOR MIX SERIES UPDATE

5.29.18 #chickenandwafflestuesdays at Fat's

5.29.18 6-8pm  #chickenandwafflestuesdays at Fat's

Here's a mix to give you some flavors you'll be hearing:

LIMITS.02 :: Timbre Room :: 3.08.18

MOTOR MIX SERIES UPDATE

Knife Play Interview

Check an interview with yours truly and a stellar series of curatorial endeavors over at Knife Play.

Macabre, Mercury @ Machineworks - 11.20.17

3 years of the MOTOR Mix Series: MTRMX036 - dj slow

 

Being a part of the collective the last 5 years has vastly re-shaped my understanding of deejaying and outlook on it. For our 36th edition I’ve kept things moving at 130BPM and mixed with traditional as well as Serato control vinyl. Included are some touring producers who’ve lit up the night for us such as Cassegrain and Minimal Violence, a few of my bucket list artists like Wata Igarashi and Karen Gwyer, plus some favorite tracks from recent MOTOR releases.

Tracklist:

Romans - Sabratha
IVVY - Royal Blue [MTR020]
Privacy - Density
Cassegrain - Kor
Karen Gwyer - Lay Claim To My Grub
Randomer - Dem Thing
richard_p - identity_of_indiscernibles
ASSS - Male Nurses
400PPM - 8.069
James Ruskin ‎– Into A Circle
Sabertooth - Nun [MTR023]
Person of Interest - Down For…
Minimal Violence - Hibernation
Voiski - Happy Piece For Happy People Piece
Archivist - That Sinking Feeling [MTR016]
Surgeon - Untitled (La Real 12”)
Wata Igarashi - Mood Of the Machines Pt II
HOM - Milkdust [MTR012]
Orphx - All Rivers At Once
Certain Creatures - Pleasure Principle
SHXCXCHCXSH - Stämma #2
Klein & Lack - Qal Alluvium [MTR022]

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Photo by Nathaniel Young