Sometimes you have to clear the way by removing everything from the board state, even what you have built. Some may cry foul, accusations of war crimes may commence, but if it's truly Magical, then it will be the Gathering it was supposed to be... If they weren't willing to do it themselves and none of them held up protection, then I guess we'll have to start anew and with some grade of parity, or at least that's what I was told when the board wiped out....

On this episode:

People Under the Stairs

Fendi Pendergrass

Action Bronson

Balacktus

Mass of the Fermenting Dregs

JustMaine

The Expert ft. ShrapKnel

Matt Berry

Sonnyjim ft. Lee Scott, King Grubb, Jehst

Batsauce

Recorded and manipulated at the Stoned Reserve Studios somewhere outside Atlanta, GA.

Photoshoppery by DJ Throwback Soul

Garf Crew 4 Life, Fred Mertz will be a Bodhisatva until we're all enlightened... Yeah right...

Please support official releases and more by buying music from Bandcamp rather than listening to it on Spotify....

This isn't a Memento reference, rather a chance to feed the film into the projector in a way which undoes the destruction rather than enhancing it and zooming in... I don't feel very clever right now, maybe later on I will...

Featured on this episode:

The Crew at Milliways

Marlowe (L'Orange / Solemn Brigham)

Lice (Aesop Rock / Homeboy Sandman)

Sea Power

Revival Season

Gretzky da Sumo

P.O.S

R.A.P. Ferreira & Kenny Segal

The Garden

Day Tripper w/ Phyllis Iller

Crispin Wah

Recorded, mixed, and otherwise fenagled at the Stoned Reserve Studios just outside I-285

Artwork Photoshopped by DJ Throwback Soul

Fred Mertz is a Boddhisatva and causes fine sand to swirl up conical baths....

Please support official releases and going mad now to save yourself the hassle later...

Almost a year later, after the last Mini Massive was so well received, another fieldtrip to the world of Juke and Footwork was absolutely in the plans for this already egregious Summer heat. Everything was found via the 160bpm tag on Bandcamp, so please go support the official releases, and thank you in advance for bumping this loud and proud....

Artists Featured

Principal Moss & Mrs. Winston

D.J.G.O.

DJ 5spice

DJ World Cup

Mujipuki

DJ Orange Julius

DJ Ends

Matlin Worf

TASO TEKLIFE

kane 47

Recorded, Mixed, and otherwise Fenagled at The Stoned Reserve Studios just outside Atlanta, GA.

Photoshop Collage by DJ Throwback Soul

Fred Mertz is a Boddhisatva and smoked Johnny Carson's Own to become as such...

I reaffirm, please support the official releases, I sure did....

Due to a very busy weekend and a start of week with heavy things on the brain, I let this loose into the sphere of influence with little extra elaboration other than I greatly appreciate the community of artists I have found myself in, and am grateful for their support. Please support official releases, and play a fair and transparent game of Calvinball for ya boy....

Artists Featured

Loggins, McDonald, and Ingram

dios trio

arson0

Aesop Rock

Day Tripper ft. Sum

toe

The Expert ft. Dillon, Donwill, NAHreally & Rob Cave

Monster Rally ft. Henry Mancini

Arranged, Recorded, and Post Produced at the Stoned Reserve Studios somewhere outside Atlanta, GA.

Artwork Collage by DJ Throwback Soul

Fred Mertz is a Boddhisatva and has profound koans for that ass....

In an age of Steiner Math and the Billions and Billions of whatever Carl Sagan was on about, acknowledging the egregious size of a thing is often enough to appease its very being, a thing that I wouldn't pull a gimmick trying to actually count up to or down from...

After several months of very specific allusions, this episode falls into a more normalized melty presentation, with new faces and OG's alike on the bill, so let's not waste any more time trying to guess how many jelly beans are in an infinite universe, simpler to go mad instead of knowing the actual retail amount...

Artists Featured

Robocrap 2

Klark Sound

Yugen Blakrok

Batsauce

Zazen Boys

40 Winks

Surf Out!

I-Self Devine

3L3D3P ft. Puzzle

Arranged, Recorded, and otherwise Fenagled at the Stoned Reserve Studios just outside of Atlanta, GA.

Photoshop Collage by DJ Throwback Soul

Fred Mertz is a Boddhisatva, bless his daily affirmations...

So almost a decade plus after McKenna's supposed time-wave apex, we find ourselves at the peak of it, finally living in a space where information moves so fast that it's breaking apart as it travels, and as such leads to broken brains and more melting faces... Sometimes you follow a rabbit hole and it leads you to a wascally wabbit, in these times I fear the hole is blacker than imagined and with no potential for escape... The cultural model is crashing, and I worry we'll be able to land it without destroying the runway in the process...

As such we continue with the revolutionary themes of the last episode, allowing the psychosis to crawl on its belly and permeate whatever we're calling the airwaves these days... Keep your head up, don't let them lie to you about the state of things, and in the name of St. Adams, don't panic....

This episode features:

Folding Ideas

Bit Brigade

Brian Morabito

Revival Season

B. Dolan

Enjoy

The Roach

Takamaru Gaiden

Ali Sahir

Gretzky da Sumo

Matt Berry

Recorded, mixed and otherwise fenagled at the Stoned Reserve Studios outside Atlanta, GA.

Terence McKenna photograph by Jon Hanna was cribbed from Wikipedia

Photoshopped by DJ Throwback Soul

Please support the official releases, and don't let the peak novelty wave carry you away....

The title translates lazily to "Iron first in a velvet glove".... Sometimes sheer force must be softened, but more often than not it merely disguises the brute hatred and violence which comes with the closed metallic hand.... Be wary of charismatic leaders who cover a single hand in a glove... They are the Strangeloves, and their best option is sticking your head in the sand... we've already addressed the ostrich in hiding, it's time to give back as good as we've given...

Popo Descending

Favvors

Little Barrie

Crispin Wah

R.A.P. Ferreira & Kenny Segal

Propagandhi

Heems & Lapgan

Saib

Downtown Boys

I dedicate this mix to the displaced masses around the world whose home were upturned due to political and socio-economic forces out of their control, those huddles persons seeking freedom and only finding the end of an empire unwilling to be empathetic... No more shepherd, we tend the garden or we lose paradise...

Photograph of the obvious episode's metaphor is somewhere in Detroit Michigan.

Photoshoppery by DJ Throwback Soul

This episode was recorded in the Stoned Reserve Studios somewhere outside of Atlanta, GA.

Please support official releases, and please acknowledge the history that puts us where we are today, and all the brute force wrapped in a pretty piece of cloth that it took to get us here....

Also, I'll be DJing at Drunken Unicorn on 3/22, somewhere between 7-11pm... If you came because of this, ask me for the obligatory Matt Hardy "I knew you'd come" voice... It's delightful.

Things don't last forever, sometimes you have to allow things which are good for your own mental health to flourish, even if it signifies the end of one era and the harsh realities of the others that constantly face us... I have featured clips from Hey (EW) in sparse bursts over the last several years and am grateful for what the host managed to do in that time, which was entertain a select few with some awareness of the joke underneath, which is truly the most subversive and by proxy the most pure form of art we could ever hope for.... Thank You Babyface... set the real Sonjay free....

This Episode Features:

RJ City and an AI simulacrum of Sonjay Dutt

A DJ Throwback Soul Beat Flip

The Difference Machine ft. Gretzky da Sumo

The Aquaholics

Sonnyjim x Giallo Point

P.O.S

Dillon ft. Willie Evans Jr. & Cool Calm Pete

JustMaine

standards

cesrv

Photograph of the Hey(EW) set was photoshopped by myself

Arranged, Recorded, and Fenagled at the Stoned Reserve Studios just outside of Atlanta, GA.

Please support official releases, buy a mug if they still have them, and enjoy your coffee with those you love knowing nothing will last eternally... no not even that...

One year following the letting go of all caution and releasing Melty Massives 3, we return again to the format for a fourth time, truly throwing caution to the wind and embracing the chaos of the creation process to blend another glorious stack of tracks together for your listening pleasure...

As per the prior release, I'm not too keen on putting together a name list but will if anyone pokes me enough about it....

Keep the glasses lit, and happy holidays, whichever ones you acknowledge and whichever ones you don't.

After a year in which the almighty Chungus played an integral part, it's time to banish the energy which sustained us back to the dark realm from which it came, in hopes that 2026 won't need such a Tulpa or Golem to feed the stars and that they will, somehow, sustain themselves...

I am incredibly grateful for everyone I was able to feature in a mix, and to the Auxigen crew in ATL for providing a space for me to seek growth and positive development when I truly needed it most...

This episode features things by....

DJ Throwback Soul X Alan Watts (Namaste My Guy)

Brian Morabito

klark sound

Qwazaar & Batsauce

CHEW

Imp & Fendi Pendergrass ft. Gretzky da Sumo and Day Tripper

Nelsun

R.A.P. Ferreira & Kenny Segal

standards

Ali Sahir ft. Shimmer Wali

Garbage for Lust

NO/BODIES

Cecil Baldwin

The new season of Hot Melting Face will return around the start of February 2026 with plenty of gooey bangers and the heaviest of mashes....

Cultivated at the Stoned Reserve Studios somewhere outside of Atlanta, GA.

Artwork Photoshopped by DJ Throwback Soul

Chungus knows there are worlds other than this...

Please support each other, stay hydrated, and make your own meaning in the void which binds....