Lazy Calm Raga - INVITES /// xxsd & Dj Mature /// [06.05.21]

This guest episode is 2 exciting hours of our friends, the Berlin based Trust Issues affiliated xxsd and Dj Mature. The first hour is on the more chilled spectrum and coming from xxsd, titled as “be your own best companion app (gratefulness mix).mp3”. Here are some words about it: “be your own best companion app (gratefulness mix).mp3” is first and foremost what the title indicates: an expression of being thankful, while struggling to meet the demands that this prolonged situation poses. Like most of the work I do, it is dedicated to everyone who helps me exist. If “trust issues”, a project I co-initiated some years ago, for me has always been about exploring different notions of community in a club environment, my work under the “xxsd” moniker is zooming into what remains, now that clubs have been deconstructed proper, and maybe for good. This is meant to be more of a compositional experiment than a “mix” (or what’s the difference?) in the way I arranged and altered the sounds, tracks and pieces in there over the course of several months since late summer 2020. It’s not about digging or including the freshest tunes. It’s not about transitions or the craft of DJing. Rather I included music that helps me oscillate between solace and despair. Music I would listen to on repeat on my headphones at full volume, walking alone at night or lying down on my carpet at home. Lyrics that have since become mantras. Music I admire, some of which I got recommended ages ago, when I first started going to record shops. Music I wish never ended. Music that is not afraid of making more and more demands. Music of friends. Music I feel close to. Music I hope will get us closer; please get in touch if it did. “be your own best companion app (dj tools and meditations)” a compilation of my own material, some of which is featured in this mix will be released end of June 2021 via https://xxsd.bandcamp.com/ The second, more dancey hour is coming from "the agitated Montreal poet Joni Jacusto aka DJ Mature, who ages like alcohol, relentlessly evaporating into sounds, ahoy! While poetry crosses unfamiliar territories, grateful to be there, thoughts lead to music. Dancing, we think..." 👏 All 👏 Life 👏 is 👏 rhythmic 👏