A LIFE STORY
“I’ve separated myself from everything that in general you call life. I’ve concentrated entirely on the music, and I’m preoccupied with the planet […] I’ve abandoned the habitual and my previous life is of no significance anymore. I don’t remember when I was born. I’ve never memorized it. And this is exactly what I want to teach everybody: that it is important to liberate oneself from the obligation to be born […] because whoever is born has to die.” – Sun Ra
Easter. Hibernation. Hermes’ underworld journey … our story begins like most: at the end, tracing backwards and through. Labyrinthine, a circular progression towards centre, source. More often than not, progression is the elaborate guise of regression, birth but a foil to the continuous process of death.
Death is just another word for transformation and often becomes a vessel – a berth, a tomb, a living room … for a time we must occupy a hidden space where we might empty and renew parts of our Self. Sometimes dissolving into another allows us to release what is not needed in Becoming.
“I’m living in an idea, an idea from another man’s mind” – Frank Ocean, from ‘Seigfried’
Perhaps, it is while underground we are
like roots intertwined in rapt embrace or bloodlines
surging in the thrall of merging,
able to truly connect to an other,
each other.
Before we emerge singular,
naked,
bathed in our own light
Separate.
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Guest mix from @djchoozey (LAGOM, Montréal)
01. Heatwave – Star Of A Story – Epic / GTO
02. DJ Rashad – Everyday Of My Life – Hyperdub
03. Remarc – RIP – Suburban Base
04. Fusion – Truth Over Falsehood – Kemet
05. DJ Spinn – 20/20 – Planet Mu
06. Les Boucles Etranges – Untitled – Hokus Pokus
07. Prince – Something In The Water (Does Not Compute) – Warner Brothers
08. Jlin & Holly Herndon – 1% – Planet Mu
09. Danny Xtravaganza – Love The Life You Live (Garage Mix) – Nu Groove
10. 100 Hz – Subconscious (Hebephrenic Mix) – 100 Hz
11. Arthur Russell – Lucky Cloud – Audika
12. The Sun God – The Spirits Have Spoken – Sequencias
13. King Amazin’ – Double Asunder (Underworld Dub) – House Jam
14. Yukihiro Takahashi – Curtains – Alfa
15. First Choice – Let No Man Put Asunder – Salsoul
16. MC King Prince – Ooh! So Fine (Acapella House Dub) – Kacy Records
17. Velma Wright – You’re Not Right (Acapella) – Supertronics
18. Population One – My Own Shadow – Rush Hour
19. Pev – Livity – Livity Sound
20. Future Tense – Unreality – Renegade
21. Aaron-Carl – Crucified (Veto Mix) – Sirkus
22. Reson – Aftermath – Sex Tags Mania
23. Phortune – Unity – Jack Trax
24. Jurgen Paape – Untitled (Glanz) – Kompakt
25. Deetron – The Loft – Sector 616
26. Willi Ninja – Hot (Ambience) – Nervous Records
27. DJ Mayhem – Inesse – Face
28. Bob James – The Golden Apple – CTI
29. Smokey Joe – A Special Request – Labello Blanco
30. Traxman – Ever And Always – Planet Mu
31. Jana Rush – Divine – Objects Limited
32. SOS Band – Sands Of Time – Tabu
