Broadcast 59 of INFINITE BEAT is a special, in-depth look at Jacktone Records. DJ and producer DoctorMelissa Sleep returns to San Francisco to share many past releases from the label as well as some new upcoming releases. Featuring a number of Bay Area artists, Jacktone has given a platform for many rising producers who are redefining dance music today.

Thank you to Doc Sleep for finding time in her packed tour schedule to spend an afternoon in the studio. Special thanks to Nihar and the Creatrix for guest hosting and a lovely boba break.

Topazu played:

gayphextwin / Spiro

Doc Sleep played:

TBA

Broadcast 58 of Infinite Beat is now podcasted for your listening enjoyment. Beginning with a short feature on Devine Weight, a collection of experimentations stemming from the Alex Zhang Hungtai’s “failed” attempts at composing through his famed saxophone, disfigured and manipulated into the washes and drones that you hear in the album as the end result.

According to the album’s description “Similar to Alejandro Jodorowsky’s Psychomagic, dreams and visions take on the roles of witnesses inside the uncharted labyrinth of the personal sub-conscious. To witness, is to believe. To believe, is to project a certain reality onto the external world. The projection then, has nothing to do with reality. Perhaps it’s where dreams go, after it dies.”

Afterwards is a short interview with visual artist, Subset. He is a working designer who creates beautiful, geometric, digital deconstructions that explore the visual and audio experience. He has performed his live visuals with Atom™, Silent Servant, Rrose, Powell, Marcel Dettmann, Perc and as the “fifth member” of the Surface Tension Collective.

The broadcast concludes with a mix showcasing his audio influences that have inspired his visual perspective. Enjoy.

Topazu played:

Alex Zhang Hungtai / Devine Weight EP

Subset played:

Les Fleurs Du Mal / Biosphere, Deathprod / Nordheim Transformed

Sunny Graves / Spring (Slow Return) / Bayou EP

Luke Abbott / Brazil (Slow Version) / Brazil

Rival Consoles / Johannesburg / Night Melody

Actress / N.E.W. / R.I.P.

György Ligeti, Pierre-Laurent Aimard / Musica Ricercata no. 7 / Ligeti: Études Musica Ricercata

Kangding Ray / La Belle / OR

Steve Hauschild / Arpeggiare / Where All Is Fled

Petar Dundov / Ideas From The Pond / Ideas From The Pond

Room 2 / 36 / The Infinity Room

Pye Corner Audio / She Hunts At Night / Prowler

Nine / The Age / Unreleased

Bicep / Spring / Bicep

Death in Vegas / Sequential Analog Memory / Transmission

Tangerine Dream / One Night in Space / Booster

Datassette / Hands & Faces / Selected Offal

Stephan Bodzin / Odyssee / Powers of Ten

Archivist / Klamath / Pathfinder

Jon Hopkins / Everything Connected / Singularity

Rob Clouth / The Bridge And The Lights / Cloud Complex

The Sight Below / Life’s Fading Light / Glider

Next Guest on INFINITE BEAT is subset, a visual artist who creates geometric, digital deconstructions that explore the visual and audio experience. He has performed his live visuals with Atom™, Silent Servant, Rrose, Powell, Marcel Dettmann, Perc and as the “fifth member” of the SURFACE TENSION Collective. Tune in Saturday from 4-6pm on Radio Valencia to hear more from the artist as well as a mix full of artists he is inspired by.

Broadcast 57 of Infinite Beat is podcasted for your listening enjoyment. Featuring the new upcoming Ostgut Ton release from Dutch producer Martyn called Voids. He reaches back to his earlier influences, pulling out deep D&B roots, UK garage and lush primitive rhythms.

According to the release, “Voids is also an attempt to work through personal trauma and loss, including recovering from a heart attack and dealing with the passing of close friend and fellow producer Marcus Intalex aka Trevino, to whom the track “Manchester” is dedicated.”

After is a sophisticated, genre-bending mix from Mid-West artist and DJ He Valencia. With a talent for sculpting stories with his DJ sets, digging deeply for obscure cuts and connecting his Mid-West roots with a global perspective through music, He Valencia’s mixes are pure poetry. Enjoy.

Topazu played:

Martyn / Mind Rain / Voids / 2018

Vainqueur ‎/ Solanus (Extracted) / Solanus EP / 1996

He Valencia played:

Barrington Levy / The Vibes is Right / The Vibes is Right / 1985

Film Clip / Killmonger museum scene excerpt from ‘Black Panther’ / 2018

Audio Clip / IPhone Voice Message from Foozool

Outkast / My Favorite Things / The Love Below / 2003

Flying Lotus / Pickled! / Cosmogramma / 2010

DJ Assault / Tyrone / The Rowdy EP / 1998

dBridge / 5th Floor / Exit 018 / 2009

Hans Zimmer & Benjamin Wallfisch / Flight to LAPD / Blade Runner 2049 Sountrack / 2017

Iannis Xenakis / Concret PH / 1958

Kesswa / Contemplate feat. Harpist Ahya Simone / Contemplate Single / 2018

Kareem Lofty / Swamp / Praxis Houston / 2017

Goldlink / Crew feat. Brent Faiyaz & Shy Glizzy / At What Cost? / 2016

Drake / Preach feat. PARTYNEXTDOOR / If You’re Reading This It’s Too Late / 2015

Kareem Lofty / Fr3sh / V/A – Mono No Aware / 2017

Drew McDowall / Tell Me the Name / Unnatural Channel / 2017

Moss Harvest / Vitrine III – Cloth Held With Mordants / Vitrine / 2017

Siouxsie and The Banshees / Jigsaw Feeling / The Scream / 1978

Asylum Party / Play Alone / Borderline / 1989

Zadig / Solar Analog / Act III / 2017

Stojche / Instinct / Magnitude EP / 2018

Huey Mnemonic / Control Mission / Unreleased / 2018

Robert Hood / War in the Streets / Omega / 2010

Aiken / 987 / Act II / 2017

Kalli / Profanity / V/A Black 01 / 2017

Chez Damier / Can You Feel It (MK New York Dub) / Can You Feel It 12″ / 1992

DJ Deep / Nitescan / Act III / 2017

NY’s Finest / Do You Feel Me (Club Mix) / Do You Feel Me 12” / 1993

Octave One / Meridian / The Collective / 1998

Broadcast 56 features Atlas of Nothing’s latest release on Perfect Location Records called Audio Surveillance Zone. This San Francisco-based producer and DJ has crafted an EP full of lush sludge and throbbing weirdness. This is a highly recommended release.

Afterwards is an exclusive live mix from Teeyam. He is one third of They’re Here, a horror inspired party in San Francisco’s techno-electro underbelly with éstudy and Rodney K as well as a resident DJ for Outpost. Like Infinite Beat, his mixes celebrate the strange and the romantic.

Enjoy this visceral, sumptuous mix from the loved DJ, writer and film enthusiast.

Topazu played:

AON / Audio Surveillance Zone EP / Perfect Location Records

Drew McDowall & Hiro Kone / Barely Awake / The Ghost of Georges Bataille

Teeyam played:

TBA

Next guest this Saturday on INFINITE BEAT is They’re Here‘s Teeyam Moussavi. Tune in from 4-6pm to hear a visceral, sumptuous mix from the loved DJ and film enthusiast.

Broadcast 54 starts with a short feature on the Neu U EP from New York-based producer Heidi Sabertooth. Featuring four electro stompers, her analog live performances are superb and her sound has developed into bold, acidic productions. Highly recommended.

This broadcast also features an exclusive mix from the prolific producer Auscultation. You may also know him as Golden Donna. He put together a collection of favorites: ambient abstractions, melancholy film soundtracks and a little bit of pop tinged romanticism. A wildly refreshing, unexpected look at the producer’s influences. Enjoy.

Topazu played:

Heidi Sabertooth / Neu U / Neu U

Heidi Sabertooth / Crack on the D / Neu U

Auscultation played:

no tracklisting

This Saturday my next exclusive guest mix on INFINITE BEAT is Auscultation. You may also know him as Golden Donna. He is a master of production and one of the hardest working live performers to ever witness. Tune in from 4-6pm on Radio Valencia for a emotional mix from the accomplished producer.

Broadcast 53 has been podcasted for your listening pleasure. This episode features a founding member of the Katabatik Kollective, Michael Buchanan. He has been a respected veteran in Bay Area experimental electronics in both production as well as a mentor to many. His mix ties together his production work as Identity Theft, in Abandoned Footwear with his Katabatik brethren Exillon and the many projects he has worked on over the past 20 years. It was a delight to have him play a retrospective of his body of work. Enjoy.

Identity Theft played:

Ceremonial Abyss / Pathwork 1 (Identity Theft Remix) / Pathwork 1, 2015

Abandoned Footwear / Live at the Silver Key (Excerpt)

Identity Theft / Johari Window (unreleased)

Identity Theft / Morbos Animi / Kollektion 4 2011

Identity Theft / Calls // The Scrap Mag 4th Anniversary Comp 2015

Identity Theft / Remember / Sore – Seja Records Compilation 2016

Identity Theft / Misanthropocene / Reconnaissance, 2017

Atlea (ft Ceremonial Abyss + Identity Theft) / To the Moon + To Saturn (unreleased)

Identity Theft / Flecktarn (unreleased)

Nolse / A Tower, A Song, A Dove / My Animal Life 2014

Identity Theft / Say Something / (unreleased)

Identity Theft / The Apparatus World / (unreleased)

Seacrypt / Watcher / (unreleased)

Identity Theft / Deadfall / (unreleased)

Identity Theft / Williwaw / Night Workers, 2010

Identity Theft / Deep State (unreleased)

Identity Theft / Climate Denial (unreleased)

Identity Theft / Reconnaissance Peak / Reconnaissance, 2017

Nommo Ogo / Narwhal / Endless Dream

Nolse / Silence of Age / (unreleased)

Identity Theft / No Response / (unreleased)

Identity Theft / Degloving / (unreleased)

Identity Theft / Hieromancy / (unreleased)

Next guest on INFINITE BEAT this Saturday is Identity Theft! You may also know him as Michael Buchanan of the Katabatik Kollective or as one half of the lovely duo Abandoned Footwear. Tune in from 4-6pm Pacific time to hear more from the seasoned producer. He has a very special mix just for you.