See Moir Music: Mid-May Music
And I continue staying at home...
Where I’ll Be
Attempting to finish my blog post about how the shelter-in-place has changed my music listening habits. Give it another few days…
Also worming my way through various afrohouse and dancehall rabbit holes. I was joking with a friend earlier that I’d start learning new languages with all the livestreams I’ve been watching—Black Coffee playing from South Africa, a new Brazilian YouTube channel posting sets, and the French that Transmission MTL and the Moonshine Collective post in while advertising their sets as well. I say frequently that the web DEFINITELY has borders, and music licensing makes that VERY clear, but the livestream communities can break them down in very small ways, it seems.
Just Announced
Special Events
Noise Pop is doing “No Place Like Home” events every Tuesday and Thursday, benefitting different local venues each time.
Tue 5/19 — Josiah Johnson (formerly of The Head and the Heart) + Lauren O'Connell + more benefitting Starline Social Club
Thu 5/21 — Fruit Bats + Vetiver benefitting The Chapel, with Folkyeah Presents
Sat May 23 – Mon May 25 — Movement @ Home. Featuring Carl Craig, Claude VonStroke, Justin Martin, Matthew Dear, MK, and others. So many more I don’t know! Catch it on Twitch.
Fri May 22 – Sun May 24 — DGTL LIB aka Digital Lightning in a Bottle, featuring Eli & Fur, Four Tet, Justin Jay, Kaytranada, Luttrell, Rinzen, Sacha Robotti, Shiba San, The Glitch Mob, TOKiMONSTA, Tycho, and others. Streaming on Twitch, see the Facebook event for more details.
Livestream highlights
Clêmente played a DJ set for BATEKOO. I’d never heard of her before, but the Moonshine DJ collective posted about playing a set for BATEKOO, and I accidentally tuned in a day early. I loved this set. (1 hr, YouTube)
Black Coffee played his third and final Home Brewed DJ set and it was a great one as well. Nothing but bootlegs left online so go digging if you’re curious.
The Transmission MTL DJ sets that I keep raving from Twitch started posting to YouTube as well. I recommend checking out these sets from the Moonshine Collective DJs from Transmission MTL 003:
Samito (1 hr, YouTube)
Akantu (1 hr, YouTube)
M.Touré (1 hr, YouTube)
The Fitness (1 hr, YouTube)
I spent most of the weekend listening to DJ sets for the SET Underground virtual festival. They promised to try to post some of the sets online after the fact, but just for the record these were my favorites:
Enamour played my favorite set. (Tracklist)
Guy Mantzur caught me by surprise and kept me up late, I’d never listened to him before but I plan on keeping an eye on him.
Fehrplay, Simon Doty, and Blond:ish all played pretty good sets as well.
I was bummed to miss out on most of Verlk’s set (I was sleeping); he played a good set at the Fresh Start New Year’s Day festival that I went to this year.
Looking forward to checking out
Moonshine DJ collective premiered a set for Batekoo (which is how I stumbled on the other one). It overlapped with me doing chores and listening to Lazer Sunday, so I’ll get to it tomorrow night. (1 hr, YouTube)
Kottke.org posted about Questlove doing DJ sets, and I was thinking “well gosh I already have way too many in my backlog” but then quoted him saying that he tried to play a dancehall set without playing “Murder She Wrote” and I laughed and had to track it down. I’ve been tuning into Lazer Sunday every week, and Ape Drums plays it EVERY WEEK. So 3 hours of dancehall without that track? Color me intrigued (for the record, it’s an excellent track). (3 hrs, YouTube)
I skipped all of the EDC Virtual @ Home shows, but planning to track down these sets this week:
Other notes
Recent great releases
Nothing I’ve had time to listen to but this is what I’ve got queued up:
Justin Jay put out a track with jahjaylee called onmyown
Max Cooper has a 3D reworks EP out, with headphones-only reworks of some of his tracks.
Max Frost also has a new track out called Sayonara.
Really I’m more excited to dig into some back catalogs of artists I’ve been discovering that have played DJ sets, or the artists that other DJs have been playing.
Shazamming while Dancing
Consistently keeping my quarandjed playlist updated with my favorites from all the live and recorded streams I’ve been watching. Highlights from the past week of Shazams:
Pretty much the only track I could Shazam from Black Coffee’s set was: House Gospel Choir - Blind Faith (THEMBA's Herd Remix)
The other was this one: DJ Kabila - Somnyama
Discovered this Guy Mantzur track this weekend as well, courtesy of the man himself: Guy Mantzur and Khen - Children With No Name. Black Coffee also put it on an “Ibiza 17 Appreciation Mix” that I’m also working my way through.
Also got really excited when Fehrplay played Tensions by Lindstrom, a real favorite of mine.
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The more bootlegs I come across of these livestreams makes me realize—since all of these end up recorded anyway, is there money to gain for DJs and producers in selling access to these sets after the fact? Or does the licensing and royalty payments of that get too complicated? Not sure!