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This is a very special edition of the GHT podcast. With the release of our second compilation on August 19th, 2016 we tasked  Lady Fingers with a very tall order. Taking all 21 somewhat eclectic and stylistically varied tracks and massage them info a cohesive mix. The results frame the creative works of all 21 artists without sacrificing the function-to dance.

City

Chapel Hill, North Carolina

Affiliations

Chordial Recordings (Chapel Hill)

Activ-Analog (Charlotte) (7”)

Alma Soul (Madrid)

Friends With Benefits (San Francisco/Portland)

Trax (Chicago)

Label (Detroit)

Sound Warrior (Jersey City/Berlin) (Upcoming 12")

Tracklist

What’s your preferred method of playing?

My preferred method of spinning is Serato with control records since I have a very slim record collection left sad to say. I enjoy CDJ's also but will play on anything that will allow me to share my love of music with the people on the dance floor.

How did you get into djing?

I started making IDMish/house tracks in the early/mid 90's after seeing mods in action. I bought a used Korg Poly-800 early on and later borrowed a friend's Nord Lead and a K2000 hooked up to the original version of Logic Audio before Apple bought it out - the version that came with a dongle to ensure against piracy. The word dongle always made me chuckle.

As for DJing, I messed around with the turntables at my college's radio station. My friends accused me of trading them (my friends) out for records. I started really DJing when I lived in New Orleans about 6 years ago. It never dawned on me to spin the music that I loved until then.

Present & future

I created Pegasus, a queer dance party in Chapel Hill, NC housed in one of the first gay bars in the nation in the 60's and plan to bring back some variation of this in the future.

Otherwise I gig fairly regularly in random spots around the NC Triangle such as the Nightlight, Pinhook, and Arcana as Lady Fingers or as half of the duo Holy Tribady and Sir Elton Jane.

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Find my latest 7" out on Activ-Analog:

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Also Juno.co.uk should have more copies soon!

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Sweat Equity Recordings

Tracklist

1. Alexi Delano/Mr Barth-Above the Skyline
2. Reel People & Omar-Otta Love (feat Alix Alvarez)Matthew Bandy's Dub beat edit 
3. Raiz/Truncate-Rhythm 
4. DJ Le Roi- I Loved You First (Nikola Gala Remix) 
5. Daniel Avery-Movement 
6. M28 truncate remix 
7. John Tejada-Mono on Mono 
8. Monty Luke-Bomb on Bomb 
9. Nina Kraviz-Ghetto Kraviz (Alex Kid edit) 
10. Tapesh-Time after Time 
11. Masa Ueda-Sprecher (Truncate Remix) 
12. Adrianna Lopez-Estructura 
13. Truncate-Diffration (Jonas Kopp remix) 
14. Trina-Look Back At Me (DMS edit) 
15. Benny Rodriguez-Funky Drummer 
16. Trevor Siegler-Doot 
17. Todd Terry-Break It Down (skateboard kings mix) 
18. Dubfound-Suprise 
19. Truncate-Modify 
20. Maan-Jackin' 
21. Truncate-Dial 
22. Raiz/Truncate-Flux 
23. Chris Moody-Work It To The Bone (mindskap remix) 
24. Cajmere-Percolator (Jamie jones vault remix) 
25. F.U.S.E.-FU 
26. Mark Broom/Dustin Zahn-WEASEL DUST-09 edit 
27. Bleak-Fun 
28. Slam-positive education (Jerome Sydenham remix)

City

San Leandro, CA

How did you get into DJing?

Grew up playing music/singing in church and at home. In high School/College played in punk, rock, and jam/funk bands. In 1993 on Thanksgiving night I candy-flipped at a warehouse on Harrison St. in San Francisco. I have been in love with dance music ever since. Technically my first experience was in the parking lot of the Oakland Coliseum sucking down nitrous balloons at DJ Garth's Disco Bus but I digress...I started buying records and trying my hand at DJing in 1996-1997. In 1999 I started producing my own tracks. In 2004 I pressed 200+ copies of a white label of 4 of my tracks. I am more in love with this music than ever before. I live to be in my basement making tracks or on the dance floor shakin' my ass. Truth be told...I am a dancer. That's why I am here still a part of this scene. I just love dancing! Oh yeah...and I am an unapologetic raver that still sees the positive possibilities with the human race.

What is your preferred method of playing?

I DJ in Abelton Live with an AKAI APC40 controller. I generally will add some drum sounds and sometimes loops of tracks I am working on to add texture to the mix. I live for the extended mix of 2-3 tracks with added percussion. The way I like to mix is greatly influenced by the old Richie Hawtin set up 3 turntables and a 909. It s not uncommon for me to keep 2 or more tracks playing together for well over a minute.

Present/Future

You can find my white label here.
Most of my music can be found here.

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Tracklist

1. Gay! You are Gay!
2. Emeralds - does it look like I’m here (Daphni Mix 1) (2012 Jiaolong)
3. Philip Bader, Andrea Oliva - Animales (2012 Dantze)
4. Halo Varga - Future (2000 Hooj Choons)
5. Eddie Fowlkes - Track 2 (1994 City Boy)
6. Sano - Chupa! (Feat Naty) (2012 Cómeme)
7. Djs Pareja - De La Cabeza (Original Mix) (2012 Cómeme)
8. Steve Pointdexter - Computer Madness (Function vs. Jerome Sydenham Remix) (2012 Thema)
9. Dimitri From Paris & DJ Rocca - Pretty Baby feat. Hard Ton (Dim & Rocca Sound Factory Rub) (2012 ITH Records)
10. Longsy D’s House Sound - This is Ska (Skacid Mix) (1989 Big One)
11. Curtis Mc Claine and On The House - Let’s Get Busy (Dub Mix) (1988 Trax)
12. Adonis - We’re Rocking Down The House (1986 Trax)
13. The Barking Dogs - Linked In (Altz Darty Dub) (2012 Gomma)
14. Rodion & Mammarella - Escape From Kyoto (Alien Alien Remix) (2012 Slowmotion)
15. Matthew Dekay & Lee Burridge - Lost in Moment (2012 Innervisions)

City

Brussels & Rome

How did you get into DJing?

When I was a kid I listened often in my bedroom a radio show called Dj Mix on a Italian FM Radio, i used to recorded in tapes every session of the show. It was in 1984 and I played those tapes for years over and over before starting to buy those vinyls I was listening in my walkman. It was Acid House! At the same time I discovered the New Sound of Belgium called New Beat!
Some years later my vinyl collection were growing up more and more, collecting early house, italo disco, new wave, acid house, experimental music, rocksteady, minimal synth...
In the early nineties I played in Switzerland (Geneve) for the first time in a famous place called L’Usine, the sensation making and seeing people dancing started me as DJ until nowdays.
When I moved to Brussels in 1996 I started my radio show on an independant radio called Radio Panik (www.radiopanik.org). In 1999, with some friends we created our label called Pneu (www.pneu.org) and we start to run some parties. In 2005 I met some italian djs and I started to collaborate with them (Discolooser, Subwoofer, Cockette,...)

Preferred method of playing

I mostly use vinyls but also cds. When I travel I use as well Serato Scratch.

Present/Future

I’m still running my radio show each wednesday from 8.30 to 10 pm on Radio Panik 105.4 FM Brussels
We recently released on Pneu Records the LP Palais Chalet: a compilation with some bands that played at our party during the last years.
Out soon my remix of Sambaca of ALIEN ALIEN on Roccodisco (featuring as well remixes by GM POP and Fabrizio Mammarella).. more remixes are coming.
Currently working with Hugo Sanchez & Rodion on a new project
.. Surprise soon!

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Tracklist

1. George Fitzgerald - Child
2. Atnarko, Sam Mollison - Thinking Of You (Pezzner's Remix / Fred Everything Re-Dub)
3. Chaos In The CBD - Dusty Sundays (Jack Dixon Remix)
4. Joel Alter - Early Birds
5. Jichael Mackson - Gedons
6. Ramiro Lopez - Brunch in Guadalmar (Evans & Waterfall remix)
7. Pablo Bolivar - Magnum (Tigerskin Remix)
8. Rainer - 8000 Feet Up (Shaun Reeves & Tale of Us Edit)
9. Guy Gerber, Varoslav, dOP - The Fire Within
10. Round Two - New Day feat. Andy Caine (Club Vocal Mix)

City

San Francisco

How did you get into DJing?

I got into producing about 2 years ago with Ableton Suite.

Some of the best moments of my entire life, times where I have felt to be at the pinnacle of my existance, have been dancing with my friends to this kind of music, particularily deeper minimal/house. Having so much bass in this kind of music enables a very rare and intimate form of collective joy with those around you, because you're all simultaneously moving together while not just hearing the music, but (more importantly IMO) you're also feeling it together. That's been my experience with it, and being as touched as I am, and because of musics over all capabilities for my personal growth, I feel the need to contribute. I feel the need for others to have these feelings that music makes me have when I'm dancing with those dear to me. So I bought Ableton.

What is your preferred method of playing?

I've only ever DJ'd with Ableton + APC 40. As I just mentioned, I got into Ableton for producing, I'm much more interested in producing than I am in DJing, but I certainly love to DJ. I'm still pretty new with production and everyone can hear it, but over all I improve in leaps and bounds with every new track I make. They're all on my soundcloud page, soundcloud.com/tisdale

That being said, after learning production basics in Ableton, I just kind of inherently knew how to DJ based on everything I had already learned, so why not put it to use? Oh, also I made this mix "live" in my room in one shot with said software/hardware.

Present/Future

I've recently begun my most exciting musical venture called "WHAT?" with Trevor Sigler, Joe Pickett, and Dima, which is every wednesday at 222 hyde from 7 to midnight. I'm enjoying DJing but am even more passionate about making music and learning. I would love a mentor who's well versed in production that might want to take on a n00b 🙂 Also if you like my mix and want me to DJ for you, just ask, I'd love that!

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Tracklist

1. Tom Ellis - Specific Threat
2. Adam Marshall - For Melvin
3. Canary Fontaine and Zippy - Clothes Horses
4. Daze Maxim - Orbiting Closely
5. Taron Trekka - Krass Und Zick
6. Jonas Kopp - Dangerous
7. Marcello Napoletano - Lazz del sottopassagio
8. I Love Hugh - Awanto 3
9. Lucretio - Where You
10. Oliver Deutschmann - Gimme Some Love
11. Mr. G - Pulsez
12. marsmatic 700 - prespun
13. Crystal Bois (Sex Tags Mania) - Can You Handle The Acid!
14. Fast Eddie - Git On Up (The Tyree Cooper Mix)
15. Special Request - Deflowered (Kassem Mosse & Mix Mup Remix)
16. Ordinary Folk - Out Of The Darkness
17. Slammode - Virtual Reality 124!!!
18. Weed People - Spirit Drum II
19. Marcelus - Sulfuric
20. Armando - Radikal Bitch (London Fierce Pussy Mix)
21. Redshape - On Da Floor
22. C.L.A.W.S. - Glass Monkey
23. Italojohnson - Untitled (ITJ005)
24. Omar S and Kai Alce - Not Phazed

City

Oxford, CT

How did you get into djing?

I started playing around with production when I was 11 or 12 with a software called DM2 I believe. Haven't stopped ever since. I started out playing off a laptop but I've taken up playing vinyl exclusively instead. I occasionally bring some CD's out as well. The recording set up was very basic (it's all we can get in the forest) Two turntables. 1 CD player, a Behringer mixer and my Abelton Live to capture the audio.

Present/Future

I am simply floating around these days, occasionally playing parties in Brooklyn a few times a year for the Sunrise Over Monitor kids. Looking forward to playing for some fresh faces before the end of the year and generally I'm just looking to have lots of fun!

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Tracklist

1. Wadsworth - Lime & Pink
2. Unknown - Basic Channel Promo
3. Miss Fitz - Colici (Sascha Dive's Dark Beat Mix)
4. Ryo Murakami - Down The Sky (Argy Remix)
5. Dj Slip - Available Light (Franco Cinelli Mix)
6. Nina Kraviz - I'm gonna get you
7. Djebali - Reputation (Original Mix)
8. Anthea & Celler - Ceadmon Loop (Original Mix)
9. Romero & Jauregui - Growing (Sante Remix)
10. Steve Parker - Interstate (Original Mix)
11. Paperclip People - 4 my Peepz (Dubfire Rework)
12. Laurent Garnier ft LBS Crew - Jacques in the Box (Original Mix)

City

Brussels, Belgium

How did you get into djing?

I started collecting records beginning of the 90's, every single place visited was good to find records.
Quickly this passion grew and I've started to play in radio shows for the late night programs where only the addicted were tuning on to listen to some new amazing sounds.
In 2004, I started to play in Brussels (Belgium) from bars to bars and parties to parties.
In 2006, I landed at Le Belgica (in Brussels downtown gay district). It is the first dj bar in Brussels, where they filter beats and vibes for more than 24 years now. They have a great sound system and an absolutely amazing crowd ready to party!
These left me some really good memories of best parties ever like the annuals street parties or the special events where the bar and the street are over crowded!
Beside Le Belgica, I've spinned records around Belgium either for private parties in some amazing location like castles, met amazing people like all the Russian advertising crew for the Martini photo shoot; or played in some club that have true soul like Cafe Capital (Antwerp) or Brussels T Dance the Sundays afternoon (organized by the Naughty Team).

Present/Future

Check the agenda on dizzyjee.com to find me where i'm spinning records.
Website : http://www.dizzyjee.com
Facebook Page : http://www.facebook.com/dizzyjeepage
Soundcloud : http://soundcloud.com/dizzyjee
Mixcloud : http://www.mixcloud.com/dizzyjee/
Podomatic : http://dizzyjee.podomatic.com

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east coast underground, A/Vclub

Tracklist

1. Cosmin TRG— Amor Y Otros
2. Oliver Lieb — Non Binary
3. Ness, Attemporal— Signal On
4. Hertz — In My Mind
5. DJ Pierre, Green Velvet, Phuture — Acid Trax 2011
6. Miro Pajic — Glue
7. [a]pendics.shuffle — Move On It
8. Gaiser — Nasty Girl
9. Simian Mobile Disco — A Skin Cracker
10. Mihai Popoviciu — If There Is?
11. Wehbba — The Speech (Samuel L. Session Remix)
12. Internullo — Taifai (Alex Cellar Dub)
13. Extrawelt — My Stupid (Edit/ Dub Mix)
14. Dieter Krause, Deepak Sharma — Wolkenrise (DJ QU Remix)
15. Daypak — Tyffaniecell
16. Gaiser — New Dust
17. Booka Shade — Charolette (Dubfire Remix)
18. Adam Beyer — No Rain (Radio Slave's Berlin Summer remix)
19. Audiofly X — Don't Panic Till I Said So

City

Portland, ME

How did you get into djing?

I got into djing because I had to. It was the natural progression of things. I had been dancing and listening for SO long, the music is a part of me. I was collecting music and mixing it in my head. Djing was the next obvious step. It still hasn't been that long, but I am truly loving this new outlet. Really submersing myself in it. It's been a healthy addition to my life. I always have a project going on or thinking about what to do next. Still collecting lots of great tracks and building my library. I've been to some AMAZING parties with some fantastic dj's. That has set the standard pretty high... .I know what I think is good..... Well, don't we all?

What is your preferred method of playing?

I Use Traktor Pro, Vestax VCI-100, M-Audio FastTrack Pro, and my Dell Laptop

Present/Future

I host and dj a party every first friday called LOVE, located at Flask Lounge in Portland, ME.
I'm almost half way through my second year and it's going strong.
Other than that I usually do one or two other local gigs per month.
Check some other mixes out @ http://www.mixcloud.com/jamieosullivan/

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SQURRRL & Rocket Collective

Tracklist

1. Kris Wadsworth - It's Time
2. Nick Monaco - Nick's Episode (Ardalan Remix)
3. Franco Cinelli - Synewave
4. Gabriel Ferreira - Sill
5. Truncate - Concentrate
6. Wehbba - Balance
7. Nathan Coles, David Coker - Summer Acid
8. Funk D'void - Shadowchaser (Alexander Kowalski Remix)
9. Martyn - Masks
10. Eliphino - I Played
11. Victor Ruiz - Take a Nap (Rework)

City

San Francisco

How did you get into djing?

I got into DJ'ing about 2 years ago after I started going to school for Audio Production. The production side of things really sparked my interest in DJ'ing and mixing other tracks together.

What is your preferred method of playing?

I use Traktor with a Denon DN-MC6000LE controller, I also use Serato Scratch and/or CD's for gigs that the DJ booth has less room in. I recorded this set with Traktor and its internal mix recorder.

Present/Future

Right now my biggest focuses are: A) Graduating, B) SQURRRL and all things we are planning for the future, C) Getting Rocket Collective off the ground to help benefit Burning Man camps and attendees. I'm also releasing an album in mid March accompanied by a release party. I had a remix released on February 10th on Coconut Palm Records. Its a tech house remix of Electro Crazed's "Dark Harmonies," http://soundcloud.com/tsigler3441/dark-harmonies-tss-rmx.

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Rocket Collective
Solid

Tracklist

1. The Knife - Like A Pen (Thomas Schumacher Remix)
2. Crowdpleaser - Skeleton 1 + vox
3. Instra:mental - Pyramid
4. Hot Chip - I Feel Better (Florian Meindl Remix)
5. Len Faki - BX 3
6. Silent Servant - Violencia (Function Mix)
7. Adam Beyer & Alan Fitzpatrick - Human Reason
8. Gary Beck - Get Down
9. Jesper Dahlback - Our Love
10. Kevin Gorman - Shakey Metallic Beats
11. Deadbeat - Vampire
12. Massive Attack - Teardrop (Minilogue Remix)

City

San Francisco

How did you get into djing?

I have nurtured a lifelong passion for music. From a very early age I experimented with recording music, and began learning about music production in earnest at the age of 13. I've since produced music for myself and others in genres spanning house, disco, electronica, and rock; check out my profile at soundcloud.com/heskanen to hear select examples of my work.

My DJ experimentation began while immersed in the club scene of Munich, Germany in 2006 and 2007 as the minimal techno scene was at its peak. Soon afterwards, I acquired turntables, started honing my mixing skills, and developed a DJ aesthetic that encompasses disco, Chicago- acid- tech- and deep- house, and techno.

I moved to San Francisco in November 2009 and immediately felt at home in the city’s alternative queer club scene. I joined the Solid crew (www.solid.dj) in January of 2011. Recently I joined forces with fellow GHT-ers Trevor Sigler, Mat dos Santos, and Brian Maier as Rocket Collective (www.rocketsf.com).

Since starting my DJ career in January 2011, I've played at venues including the Stud, Qbar, Rebel, Powerhouse, and 222 Hyde, and I've contributed podcasts to Honey Soundsystem and Electronic Music Bears.

What is your preferred method of playing?

I typically use Serato Scratch Live with control vinyl. It marries the convenience of digital storage with the satisfaction of manipulating the turntables. However I'm continuing to grow my vinyl collection.

Present/Future

In January, Rocket Collective launched our new event called ROCKET, which is a party every fourth Saturday at Rickshaw Stop in San Francisco for queers who like underground dance music and radical creativity (as practiced at events like Burning Man, for instance). ROCKET is every fourth Saturday at Rickshaw Stop.
I'm part of a rotating crew of resident DJs at JOE, the Friday night party at Lookout.
I frequently play guest gigs around San Francisco.
I'm continuing to upload new songs and mixes to www.soundcloud.com/heskanen.

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StirSound/Gays Hate Techno

Tracklist

1. Brian Sanhaji - 2000 Watt - 2000 Watt Remixes [Sonata Music]
2. Black Astroid - Engine 1 (Brian Sanhaji Remix-Another Verision) - Engine 1 Remixes [CLR]
3. Cari Lekebusch - Third Eye Vision - Third Eye Vision [Mote Evolver]
4. Sei A - Flicker (Terence Fixmer Remix) - Turbo Centruy IV [Turbo Recordings]
5. Marcel Dettmann - Translation One - Translation EP [Ostgut Ton]
6. Shifted - Drifting Over - Control [Mote Evolver]
7. Luke Slater, Planetary Assault Systems - Raid - Deep Heet Vol. 2 [Mote Evolver]
8. Norman Nodge - Body to Body - The Happenstance EP [Ostgut Ton]
9. Developer - Edicficio (Audio Injection Remix) - Edificio [Modularz]
10. Terence Fixmer - Kiss of Death - The Night [Turbo Recordings]
11. Terence Fixmer, Claudio PRC - Planetary Phase - Techno En Vogue - Electronic Way Of Consciousness Volume 2 [Prologue]
12. Kalden Bess (aka m0h) - Death Squad - Death Squad EP [Blind Spot Music]
13. Slam - Step Back (Adam Beyer And Jesper Dahlback Remix) - Slam Remixed Part 2 [Soma]
14. Timothy Dalton - Modern Thrift (Ian Funk Controlled Chaos Remix) - Modern Thrift [More or Less Records]
15. Paravoice - Break (Ian Funk Remix) - Unreleased

City

Washington D.C.

How did you get into djing?

I started djing about 13 years ago and got into after getting tired of playing guitar in bands. Producing came around the same time when it dawned on me that I could have control over every aspect of the sounds I was creating instead of just the limited scope of a guitars sound. I really started leaning into production after I got my degree in recording and finally knew my way around a studio and became more fluent in the hardware/software that I was using. Somewhere around the age of 21 I started StirSound as an outlet for both myself and other unknown artists and built a great network of friends. Been musically hibernating for a few years after moving back to the States from Europe and finally getting back into both making and playing music.

What’s you preferred method of playing?

I started out playing all vinyl, switched to Final Scratch and really felt a loss in the emotional connection between what I was playing and what I was feeling. I switched back to all vinyl again when I lived in Europe and was djing full time but now that I’m stateside, there are no record stores in DC, and the dollar sucks for buying records from overseas (especially as a poor student), I’m using a combo of both Traktor Scratch and vinyl. This mix was recorded with Traktor with 3 decks and a controller because I didn’t have access to decks. It gave me the opportunity to loop and layer more so there’s quite a bit of 3 tracks playing at a time in this one.

Present & future

I’m really excited to be working behind the scenes with the Gays Hate Techno crew at the moment. Not sure where it will go but hoping to bring some great podcasts promoting gay artists and djs. Been working on a bunch of new tracks that I can’t seem to find the time to finish. Had a remix come out on Black Montanas under the name Controlled Choas recently and another coming out on More or Less out of Baltimore in the near future.