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Actual source mixes

publisher/book store/design company Actual Source releases some very tasteful SoundCloud mixes, sometimes with outside contributors. Their French Touch mix is wildly fun. This collab with Nicholas Krgovich mixes K. Leimer and SZA in the middle of it, which made me :) And I’m always into a good film soundtrack.

@leen

Oct 24, 2024

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spending an hour digging through soundcloud

in that timespan you'll find some unbelievably beautiful tracks, some banger flips, crazy mashups, fire DJ mixes and criminally underrated producers/artists/musicians, all in an hour... (the tracks i end up liking are most likely to end up on future DJ mixes i'm gonna cook up in the comfort of my bedroom. such a valuable tool)

@miggy

Jun 8, 2024

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multi genre dj sets

I love to create a long ass list of mixes to listen to on YouTube (and pray that an angel has put the tracklist in the comments) One thing I have noticed in the comments of DJ mixes, is people's pure amazement that a DJ has mixed a wide range of genres together. I picked up DJ'ing two years ago and with that, a keen interest in the history of genres and where they originated. To be fr, the majority of music we listen to today was created by black people who were innovative against all odds. I truly believe that rhythm is intrinsic to that creative process and the reason why a lot of these genres blend so well is because of common drum patterns and melodies. For example, I went to a salsa night and felt moved by the drum patterns of the songs being played, as they were reminiscent of the music I grew up on (Highlife, Ghana). This can be traced back to the slave trade, where Africans were enslaved and transported from Africa across to the Caribbean, taking those rhythms with them and creating new sounds that established this tangible sonic connection. So when we witness DJ's mix Jersey Club, with Reggaeton, to Baltimore Club to Grime, to Jungle, Baile funk and back again... that's lightwork! Black people pioneered all these genres, infusing those intrinsic rhythms and unknowingly creating a formula that makes all these musical genres blend so perfectly. So the next time you listen to a multi-genre DJ set (I'd recommend Zack Fox's Boiler Room to start) just know you are getting schooled in BLACK HISTORY!

@caffy

Sep 17, 2024

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Cigarette Snuffers

A few years ago, my friend Sara gave me this big Ziploc that was full to the brim with lighters, which a pothead like me can never have enough of. There was also a ceramic cigarette snuffer in the bag. In case you’re not familiar, you place these tchotchkes in the middle of your ashtray. They’re made of porcelain, ceramic, or resin, and have a hole in the center that you put your cigarette or joint inside of when you want to extinguish it without snubbing it out for good.I chainsmoke. Marlboro 27s or Amsterdam Shag during the day, non-stop spliffs after sundown (I’m a vampire stoner). It’s a nasty habit, but smoking alleviates my OCD symptoms and prevents me from, like, counting in my head or doing other magical thinking rigmaroles. Before my cigarette snuffers, I would rip through smokes and waste a good 50% of each. Now, I can take a couple drags or have a lil cheeky toke and then put the bastard out. This has probably saved me ounces and ounces of weed over the years. A couple times a year, I’ll buy a new pack of snuffers on eBay — like this clown one, or these translucent skull guys. They make smoking a more efficient and less ashy process. Plus, I use these Santa Fe incense (the Hickory-scented ones) which fit neatly on the snuffers, and help cover the smell of smoke.

@zach-sokol

Sep 8, 2022

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Embracing “Time as a Construct”

This may sound like some stoner shit, but bear with me here. People like to talk about “constructs,” whether gender or the indica/sativa binary. Yes, sure, that’s all accurate. But to me, TIME is the biggest construct of them all. Lots of people in New York sometimes get wrapped up in “hustle culture,” blocking out our calendars with hour-by-hour tasks, and late capitalism/globalization/etc. We tend to forget time is an abstract thing we’ve all embraced. It may be a dimension, but its societal function is still made up! Time rules my brain and my OCD stuff is deeply entrenched in things pertaining to seconds, minutes, hours. So it’s a huge relief to remind myself that this organizing principle of human life can be bent and molded. My buddy Dan and I have this ongoing project that documents instances of traditional EST time being warped. Years back, he worked at a salmon cannery in Alaska. He claims that one day he went into his boss’s office and saw either a 60- or 100-hour clock because the workers would have something like 60 hours on the clock, 40 hours off. It supposedly had a psychological effect that made shifts feel shorter, or prevented employees from losing their marbles and killing the foreman with one of those big serrated knives they use to gut fish. Over the years, we’ve found lots of instances of time being messed with, from this Wikipedia page on calendar reform ideas, this odd clock, and this 28-hour watch, to Val Kilmer flat-out saying he doesn’t subscribe to the idea of time. I also think about this drug delivery service I once copped from in Mexico. You have to plan your day around making an order because the dealer is “not true to time,” as my connect warned. But that makes sense, since it’s considered a “polychronic” country and dealers don’t operate within a 9-5 work structure. Anyway, there are definitely like-minded time benders out there.Finally, I would be remiss not to mention the Norwegian “Island of No Time,” which declared itself a “time-free zone” because Sommarøy doesn’t have sundown for something like three-month stretches. The townspeople said they wanted to opt out of the global clock because locals “cut the lawn at 4AM” anyway. The whole thing was mostly a publicity stunt to attract more tourism, but one day I intend to visit the Island of No Time and make some sort of project about all this stuff I’m describing. I will prove that time flies when you’re having fun!!!

@zach-sokol

Sep 8, 2022

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Drug Showers

One of my best friends, Julia, lives in Berlin. She used to send me a selfie on Sunday evenings after she had returned home from a Berghain bender and taken a shower. Her pupils would always be gigantic, but she’d look so fresh, clean, and downright happy after washing away the sins from The Big House. Over the years, I took a note from her playbook, and would always make it a part of the party process to take a shower after a night consuming drugs and shuffling the feet on a sticky dance floor. That said, this is a tricky line to walk that can easily lead to a broken neck or bad trip. And no one wants their bloated corpse to be discovered in a cramped Brooklyn bathroom with the water still running (RIP Brittany Murphy). So I have a few tips for ensuring that your drug shower will be a rejuvenating success, regardless of what substance(s) you’re on:

@zach-sokol

Sep 8, 2022