🍄 Eris Drew 🍄
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A raver keeps dancing after the party is over. Even when no one is around. On street corners, in your bedroom, in the forest. With friends at home or in your car. Whatever you do right now to be safe, don’t stop movin’...
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I know it’s been 7 months but is it possible a few ravers are still at the afters & don’t know what’s happened?
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DJ’s: If you don’t share your track ids for new/reissued music, pls consider doing so. If you have real style and technique, no one can copy you off your track lists. The little labels supporting emerging artists and/or pressing vinyl need our help to survive and grow. 💗🌷
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The world does not need fewer DJs, we just need more dancers. Keep moving. Keep building.
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I spent decades making music that few people heard. It always mattered to me. It was important to me. It helped me survive & see myself. It doesn’t matter if it was good or completely unique or whatever. It was for me. Still is. Everyone should make music if they want to.
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One of the coolest things about dj mixes is that they are like one of the only examples of a long play format that has remained popular. Listening closely to a 60 min mix requires a sustained degree of attention. They are meditative symphonies. We get lost in the groove.
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Touring DJs: you you may be able to influence who plays before you & with you at events. If equalization efforts are important to you, this is one area you can exert some pressure. When you get a request, find a great local that needs support & try to get them on the bill too.
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The most fundamental technique of mixing house & techno is beat matching to hold blends. When we do workshops I always encourage folks to not touch the eq & effects until they become proficient with holding the records tight & blending the tracks with volume changes alone.🥏💙🥏
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Would be cool if bigger publications did an in-depth piece on rave sound systems. Not the deconstructed things hanging from rafters in clubs these days, but the high-pressure mobile systems maintained around the world by small crews. That tech is important to what comes next.
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Don’t listen to people who say there are too many musicians/artists. That’s what the dominator wants us to believe: that music is a gift in the hands of a few. Not true. The world needs as much healing art as we can create. And there aren’t too many DJs if people dance more.
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Media about trans people is just unreal. Keep it simple: Let trans & non binary people express & define what we need to be ok & believe us. Gender/sex isn’t as straight-forward as the Victorians thought & that’s a-ok. World is better with us in it. We’re part of the human story.
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House music is ritual trance music; it is the ecstatic union of body, spirit, and machine fueled by the power of love, set to an archaic pulse, and quantized to a steady clock. We use it to deprogram ourselves, connect with our nature, and find others like us.
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Helena Hauff is always awesome. Saw her for the first time in a while last night. She started with some amazing Djax record I don’t know and went from there. And she’s still 100% committed to vinyl after years of touring and a hard serious player. Respect to her.
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Residents should always be listed by name on flyers in the same font size as other DJs. There would be no “headliners” without the local scenes that originally nurtured them. Clubs are just Venues unless they invest in local talent. Residents foster the artistic culture of clubs.
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So much joyous music is made by people who struggle & experience intense pain. The joy is defiant. It is radiant because it expresses resilience, a person’s strength & their community values. It is powerful b/c it is a catharsis.
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Do ravers still dream of the future? Have a-holes (like the one who runs this platform) stolen our collective technological dreams? In 1990s we thought AI, the web, techno were revolutionary technologies—they were & are—but as the world burns the promise of tech seems illusory?
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When did the term “opener” start being used for the DJs that start the party? I’ve been playing since ‘94 but only started hearing the term “opener” for a DJ around 2012. I think that term is borrowed from rock culture & for me doesn’t fit the prerogatives of the club/rave.
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No one has ever asked me even once how I feel as a trans woman about being called womxn. One of my main struggles is to be respected & seen as a woman, so when people alter the word cause I am around (to “include” me) it feels really bad. Pls comment only if you are transgender.
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Can rave save the world? No. But it can transform the lives of individuals & communities. It can reestablish a connection to nature once severed by colonialism/rationalism/organized religion/ideology. It provides us with a direct experience. Binds us together. Activates bodies.
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I am on the cover of December’s
@DJmag
. It was so wild to be asked. I never would have thought. There is an 8-page article inside by Lauren Martin.
DJ Mag UK’s December cover star is the one and only
@ErisDrew
🍄
On stands, or available by subscription, now: /
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@3_song_no_flash
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Reading that tracks are getting shorter as I listen to an 11 min tune i am working on (which Maya just referred to as my typical “smoker’s length” on a 1st bounce). I love getting lost in a groove. The extended length of dance tunes is magical for listening & a dream for blending
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I got into dance music for a few reasons, not the least of which was to find other people who wanted to crack themselves open on a dance floor. I think ravers are some of the coolest people, even if there are bad eggs in the lot. I found most of my best friends through the music.
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Techno is not merely a vision of “future music.” We use it for all the reasons people have used music since pre-history: to form social bonds, for ritual ecstasy, to access a trance-like state, to heal, to connect with ancestral memory, to assert cultural identity, etc.
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You’ll never mess-up a person’s pronouns if you actually change how you see them. If you r just translating pronouns in your head, u r still misgendering.
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Brooke just said on the way to the club in Bali, “it is good thing BPM is a universal unit of measurement so you don’t have to convert to kilobeats per minute or something...”💧
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Psychedelics show me that on a deep level things are connected, but NOT unified in this world. In your psychedelic visions u see the trauma of culture & the utter power of symbols & language to shape thought. We must use that special perspective to change the world not escape it.
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As fun as it is to watch a great DJ, music really comes alive when I limit other stimulation. I can’t recommend enough spending some time at a party dancing into a speaker, or grooving w/ your eyes closed (as long as there is room around u), or getting down while u face a friend.
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Felt pretty shit leaving the party last night just to get called “bro” by the staff with perfunctory fist bump — NT’s loft had these anti-harassment posts everywhere for the visual solidarity…something about “gender history.” 🧐Fuk me I guess.
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Oh how many old school “heads” I have met only to unfollow as they show how fucking childish, sexist and or homophobic they actually are. Fuck you dudes hard. Losers.
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People associate Chicago with House, but as someone who came up in the 90s rave scene there, I can testify that techno was huge at warehouse/loft parties. The “Chicago techno” has roots in productions by LiL Louis (Video Clash), K-Alexi (My Medusa), DJ Rush, Relief Records etc
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Psychedelics have been used by humans for at least 60,000 years to behold something mystical & penetrating. I don’t think we should let the sick culture we are born into rob us of the ability to peek behind the veil. Or let culture de-power our subjective spiritual experiences.
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I show PRIDE by loving every last trans & enby person regardless of the choices they make for their bodies, how they express themselves, & whether or not they are “out.” I am 6’2”. I sweat, sling records, have a deep voice, & dress how I wanna. Been on my “journey” since 1975❤️✌🏼
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Tonight is my last set of 2019. I am playing b2b w/
@octo_octa
in the place of my birth, Perth AU. This year I played 95 sets, for a total time behind the decks of 265 hours. 120 of those were b2b with my love Maya. A huge thanks to my hosts & all who came to dance!!🚨😘❤️🍄
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It is possible to view dance music culture as a mere product if all you know of it is media created. But we know this: there are tens (100s?) of thousands people on this planet using the music to de-program social norms, find their friends, and live in a different way.
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It isn’t retrograde to make “rave” music with its roots in the 90s cause that music went through so many changes so fast & production was inaccessible to most. It is unsurprising that creative people go back & mine that history to further explore eclipsed ideas & technology.
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I hear stories about US DJs & their weed. I guess I join the ranks. I very genuinely love smoking while I mix & scratch. Arthur Russell said the THC opens your ears. I agree. In the States most of my DJ friends love to blaze & mix for hours. Part of the practice ritual I think.
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My approach is to eat 🍄 about 5 hours after a simple healthy meal. I smoke weed at the hour to kick-in the visuals. I do not pretend everything is normal & engage in polite club conversation. I dance hard & close my eyes. I let go & engage with it. I let the beat control my body
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Fall in love with music over and over again. Play what you love. If it makes you move and want more, you are probably not alone.❤️
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I just came out anesthesia for a routine medical procedure (I am totally fine don’t worry about me!❤️) and the first thing I said was “are you playing techno?” Turns out it was the machines in the room mixed with Cheryl Crow “All I wanna do.” 😅🤣😭
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We lost our cat today after a long struggle with cancer. Life is short & pretty brutal in the end so find your peace where & when you can. I would give anything for more time with her. She was the little face that would be waiting for us when we got back from tour. Our little Ma.
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The scene would die if not for all the small crews & promo teams that do it just to create something special in their city. They might lose $$ but they do it to see local artists grow, to provide a place for people like us to commune with the Beat, & to support music they love.💗
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Whether it is sex, dancing or “drugs”, a prime goal is boundary dissolution. If we maintain absolute control/composure we are not doing it right. Your ego is there to protect you, but it will keep u a safe little child if you allow it. Let go of control & you may become stronger.
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Genuine advice for all organizers is don’t build a stage unless you absolutely must. A rave is about the connective flow between dancefloor, music, & medium (the DJ). It is so dope to just play on the floor & be in the party w/ everyone. Plus stages are a 100% nightmare 4 vinyl.
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I think once a DJ steps up to the mixer that mixer is “theirs” for the set. If a sound person feels that the main volume needs to be turned up or that levels are too hot, they should wait until the blend is fully transformed and then speak to the DJ—NOT reach over us during a mix
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White supremacy is marketing music w/ roots in black & queer culture, while u stick a high price tag on it & ask a few POC & Queer people to play. Organizations should reflect diverse leadership in this industry. Anti-blackness isn’t just in line-ups, it is how business is done.
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Had so many problems with decks lately we said fuck it & brought our own to SR. Those were our PLX-1000s mounted on Isonoe feet. The monitors were loud with NO delay, so we could mix tight and actually build heat ‘n’ NrG, instead of internal frustration. 8.5 hours felt short.✨
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Last fall we finally got some proper hearing protection in the form of soft silicone custom ACS plugs. Took about 4 months to get used to mixing with them & I still get confused occasionally but now I really like monitoring w/ them. Helps to hear in harsh environments ❤️
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My gf is upstairs making music and it just one of the most intimate things to hear her slowly make something appear out of air. Right now it is a synthesized quilt with only a few patches but I hear the patterns.💕
@octo_octa
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Drums and percussion — just a part of what makes 90s club/house/techno tracks so special. Lots of energy in the midrange. Whether the first few Sharp releases, or the great early Touché, or Nice N Ripe, or deeper stuff like Rasoul or techno like Carl Craig’s remixes 93-95…
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Ah that lovely experience of being made fun of by customs officers while they inspect every inch of your passport to try to challenge something about it cause u a trans woman and your docs properly say “F.” Today the F is for Fuk-U!😁
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If u struggle using “they” as a singular, practice w/ consistent usage. The brain needs to overwrite it’s existing program. Also do the work of accepting that she/he doesn’t accurately reflect some genders. Binary gender is a colonized linguistic concept not a scientific one.
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More rave memories from 95/96...Daft Punk b2b in an old roller rink, Hardfloor live hardware set. Everyone off the rails in the best way. 1st set on a big system for me was at that location. I ended it by hot mixing as many records as I could in 2 min — I had ‘em stacked.
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One of the most powerful things about the rituals we call “parties,” “raves” and “undergrounds” is that our attention is focused on actual lived experience. What we experience together is both communal (collective) & profoundly subjective (your own memories, traumas, emotions).
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If you see someone who looks tired or has been dancing hard for a long time, hand them a bottle of water. It is a simple gesture but can make a huge difference for a person. DJs need it too. Hydration is super important when you are partying. It is easy to forget to drink H2O.
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Quivering in Time review ✨💛
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A few straight-forward tips if you are frustrated trying to mix vinyl: Keep your hand on the pitch even if you think the tempo is locked: ride it don’t set it. Keep one ear in the headphone listening for most of the mix. Monitors should be at head level & close enough to touch.
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Always mining for dope techno & find myself drawn to records from 1998-2000. Many of the time r minimal in a way but w/ midrange funk & not slick. I love tunes like this b/c the through-line to “track-y house” is clear. Slow down & mix with house/breaks💛🫠
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Just played a stormin’ little set at Wire in Leeds. They reviewed their licenses and figured out they never have to close, so the party goes until 10am.😅That’s what I call a proper closing time (and a good bit of office work).
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I used to work in a sporting goods store. One time my friend was so high on acid that he figured he could take a snowboard off the wall and walk out without anyone noticing or caring as long as it was done with a pure heart. This was a losing day for the power of intention.
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Follow-up on NT’s Loft: the staff member wrote me with a fulsome apology. It was proper & didn’t shift blame onto me or try to avoid accountability. In turn, I don’t want to shift all the micro-aggressions I deal with on this one person, so I accepted. Thx u all so much 4 support
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I find myself fantasizing about people dancing. When everyone is being cool by the speaker & totally jamming to the music. How bodies you don’t know look in motion, swimming together. What it is like to feel free around people you don’t know.
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Big fan of the “long blend.” When I mix I love to use a combination of mostly long blends (1-3 min average) & some shorter “hot” mixes (32-64 beats). My inspiration for long blends were underground DJs like Justin Long & my inspiration for quick blends were radio hot mixers.
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I was supposed to pack the 🍄 not eat it but my instinct with capsules in the morning is to pop them in my mouth—-Realized what was up on the way to the airport so I guess my Movement weekend started a few hours early this year ❤️😳🕳🪱
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Playing a record can be a time machine to the past. But it can also unlock a before untapped potential in a record. Suppose you made a record & it didn’t get a lot of play or exposure? But 20 years later DJs find it & make it a new classic? Like a 🗝waiting for the right lock.
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I believe that wherever there is a soundsystem & dance music there are trans people. Not just queer spaces. We are often not visible but we are there. Always have been. If people aren’t out in your particular scene it is cause they don’t feel safe. Not cause they aren’t there.
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I wrote this in response to an Insta post about artists putting pressure on promoters to book more black artists. My basic view is that we need structural change to how business is done otherwise black artists are put into a bad position. So we need to push for that change too.
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Rave dancing involves a surrender. You let the beat into your body. It is penetrating. Like sex. Boundary dissolving. Not everyone seeks out this experience. Not everyone knows how. To give yourself to the beat, this is a union with something external & non-material.
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Music has helped me for decades. It is a tool. Techno is a healing art. Raving has healed my connection to my body. I have used plants to dissolve rationalist models & see past culture-bound socially-constructed linguistic reality. I continue to find others like me.❤️
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When it comes to mixing records on turntables, if you want to correct sync issues before anyone hears it the technique I recommend is to: 1 keep one hand on the pitch at almost all times 2 keep one ear in the can (headphone) while you blend with a dry 1-channel signal as the cue
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A favorite chaos aspect to records is buying a disk for one track, only to find out later, on repeat deep listens, that “this other track is the one.”
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DJs have to trust their sense of what’s good. It is a process over time. It is a skill because we have to learn to ignore other messages. If u love it, if it moves your heart, if it makes u dance, if it suspends time in its grip, or if it attaches a memory to it, pay attention.
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Samples, drops & breaks are interesting because they ARE reused, not in spite of that. We keep using the ones that resonate. Could a rhythm be charged through reuse? Could it become sacred by passing through all these machines? Could it become part of a community through dance?
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Kelli Hand always treated me with kindness. She was super fun. I got to play after her at Tuf in 2017 which was an honor. She ripped up that party & played so hard. I loved randomly seeing her on the road after. I have a lot of respect & will miss her. RIP you legend.
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First time I took E the party got busted so me & my best GF went back to this DJ’s loft, listened to a promo of Dewdrops In the Garden, danced on old carpets & then cuddled. It was the best rave that never happened (technically). Sometimes the key experience is before/after.
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If you want to wrk together when I travel to your city pls get in touch. I give talks on connections btw rave culture & other ecstatic traditions w/ a focus on shamanism. I mentor & give workshops on DJing techniques. And I am involved in advocacy work on behalf of trans people.
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Arrangement can be such a challenge when working on a track. I have a simple technique which works really well for me. I stand in my studio—there is no chair—and I dance on & off while I work. Doing this helps me make decisions, cause it shifts my perspective to that of a dancer.
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All these posts across my feed about age today. Ya’ll gonna stand or have stood in both pairs of shoes ya know. A good healthy scene both recognizes people who have been at it for years and invests in young people who are getting excited about the music & changing/challenging it.
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Every person we encounter is a little universe. As it goes, we will all be dead in the blink of a cosmic eye. I am not being morbid. That's just real. For better or worse, this is your time. Don't wait to be, become or live. Don't wait to do what you need to do in this world.
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How u treat trans people has a lot to do with how u talk about us when we aren't around. How many of u misgender trans people like me casually, or use dead names, or do internet searches trying to find out about our past? If that's u, u don't support. U just like everyone else.
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While I support lots of mischief generally, pls drink a ton of water and be careful with substances. I don’t think a lot of ravers know that Fentanyl contamination/deaths have increased since the pandemic. Take care of each other. ❤️
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Anthropologically, the musician is closely related to the shaman, the smith & the healer. Music ain’t entertainment. The way to open our ears, open our eyes & reconnect w/ the subjective experience of a living world is through music/art. People need that connection more than ever
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Today most of us will be as triggered & alone feeling as any other day, just with more fireworks. Trans people are very visible right now in the media & we are targets. We need actual concern, check-ins from friends, jobs, protective legislation, income, health care etc to be ok.
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Big pharma isn’t making money off trans people in a meaningful way. We are a relatively small demographic and most of our medicines are written off script. The idea that trans healthcare is a corporate imperative/initiative is a deep misunderstanding of the situation.
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I am, and will always be, a raver. Pardon the morbidity, but when I die I want to be entombed in my record collection. Like an empress. “Here lies Eris Drew, encased in 8,000 vinyl records. Rave on.”
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To be clear, I don’t have a neutral position regarding Kravitz. Her comments replying to
@frankiefatgold
are racist. I talk about appropriation in interviews because it is an important issue. If techo/rave has any vitality it must be an intrumentality of change.
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Was so excited when I found out
@CrackMagazine
wanted to do a cover feature in honor my forthcoming album, “Quivering In Time” on
@T4TLUVNRG
. Thank you to writer
@chalravens
for the serious interview and for your words about my work.
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Maya just blew my mind by showing me that u can reverse an old record box to make it like new for shipping.
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So excited to announce that starting in March, me & my love
@octoocta
will be hosting six shows for
@BBCR1
as new Residents.
#r1residency
💗💙✨
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One time on a flight I gave a “nice” person my email address cause she was very friendly. Within a day she sent me message about god & his love & about making peace with myself. I wrote her back and told her the goddess was rising & that the Motherbeat is real. Never heard back.
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No corners should be cut for DJ monitoring. If u plan to use tops in the booth—which usually only can output down to 50 Hz—u need to also have subs in the booth directly under the tops for low bass. A full range speaker should go down to at least 30Hz if u don’t plan to use subs.
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“Filter house” is one of these styles for which there is a core of amazing music for true diggers. Mike Delgado’s “Byrd Man’s Revenge” is such a tune. It is transcendentally beautiful ritual trance music, relying on subtle harmonic shifts to transport u 💕
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Someday we’ll shake our heads and say to people younger than us, “that club mate was one hell of a drug.”
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Played for 6.5 hrs yesterday at
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for M_Sunday. Thx to
@octo_octa
for the impromptu b2b at the end! The set was intended as a full psychedelic cycle with stages of conflict, difficulty, memory, ecstasy, embodiment. Maya was there to reintegrate the experience via love.
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When your girlfriend finds a Black Science Orchestra record you’ve been after in a bin for 3£. Thank you love ❤️
@octo_octa
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Someone joked “I wouldn’t be part of any club that would have me as a member”. People invest in that terrible idea w/o realizing it. Try not to. Invest in people around u. Look for strengths/talents in friends—Don’t wait for others to recognize. Tell friends their work matters.
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I used to think ear plug came between me and the music in a way I didn’t like. Most soft fit plugs are muffling but musician plugs do sound amazing once you get used to them. They are called “musician plugs” but serious ravers should not hesitate to get custom plugs with filters.
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