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Another Poem

  I don't know what the fuck I'm doing I don't know where my life is going I do know it scares the fuck out of me I do know I have to press on   I don't know what the future holds I hate the things I can't control I don't know which direction to go I don't know where the fuck is home I don't know if I'm hated or loved If I'm too much Or not enough   Feels like I tried 1 million times Feels like I died..., and Was supposed to say it's fine   Don't know if it's you Or if it's me If I should stop Or set myself free   Lock my self up In-side a cage Or get my ass Back out on stage   Fuck all the past I move on now Can't see the way Do it somehow   With all the bridges That I have burned Yet for some reason I still return   Time again and again I'm asking why Should I give up Or drown, or lie?   Time again I ask you why Should I give up Or drown and lie  I can't abandon What I hold dear So I must push on Through all the fear...

Christoph's DJ Toolz, 30 Jan 25

      Untz untz untz untz January is almost done and it's been kind of a shitshow. Our president is a fucking idiot with a religious dedication to making life as hard as possible for anyone who has even a scrap of basic human decency, the job market is dogshit, Taylor Swift is still making her awful music, everything below the 30 degree latitude mark will soon be uninhabitable due to climate change... Untz untz untz untz let's get into some tunes that don't suck. These are really great ones for DJ sets, but also just for general listening. I ain't gonna give you every lil gem in my library of tekno-sorcery, but I'll defs share some some of da good onez.   Funk Tribu, ANDATA - New Wave Simple to follow along with, pure euphoria. Those sexy vocals and those spacey synths tho. It's such a minimal track, yet everything induces big emotions and unadulterated bliss. Versus- What's Poppin (Narciss' Champagne Poppin Remix) Boastful, bold, braggadocious, bombast...

A Poem

  none of the shit i used to care about matters now this is a new life i am a new person i must change i cannot go back that door has been closed     // (P.S. I'm back on The Music Galaxy Radio (LDN) next Monday- Go check it out I'm psyched af to be back on there)  

DJ Advice

  Stop making music. Your goal should be to make harsh repetetive noise. A kind of anti-music, if you will. It's a kind of revivial spell for after people have had the life yanked out of them by the monotony of the real world. It's a heart beating back to life after it's been emptied of all that is good. A mystic spell to bring back in the flawed, the real, the human. Life was never supposed to be like this, you know. Safe and boring and bland and predictable. I mean, yes that is nice, but we've become like animals in zoos, all pent up and confused, hurting ourselves and each other in a sad, desperate struggle for the connection capitalism steals from us. Life is meant to be shamelessly weird, a flawed, vulnerable mess. Not this bland, safe digital purgatory we've become stuck in. I'm not interested in making music. The rockers ruined music. I'm interested in something stranger and more abstract, that gets results in the real world. Art was never meant to be...

Fire DJ Mixes, 21 Jan 2025

 It's Tuesday. It's cold outside. The Gulf of Mexico has blizzards. The world is ending. Ugh. What a pain in the ass. Something something history of techno. Something something original spiritual successor to the classic Detroit sound. Something something something something techno blossoms when times are toughest. Untz untz untz untz.   Ophelia- Techno Sludge Fudge Dark, moody, hypnotic, gothic- like the name says, it's churning and viscous. Pulls you like the undercurrent on a racing river. Powerful. Unrelentingly, suffocatingly hazy. IDBH (US)- Echoes.001  Minimal, atmospheric. Lots of varied sounds and feelings from the same sources over and over. Somehow some of the least repetitive techno I've ever heard. Mellow music for Saturday mornings when you need a lil extra serotonin. SPFDJ- Mix Up for Triple J Loud, cathartic, angry, aggressive, intense, noisy, metallic, satisfying, physical. Barely even music. Funky, somehow?  Milch- 2207 A psychedelic industrial jour...

What's Christoph listening to? 20 Jan 2025

 Welp, 2025 is here and it's off to a wild start. Fascism is back in power in America and I'm all adventured out for a lil while. Most of the country is dealing with insane levels of winter weather. The future is here, and it's very fucking strange. Here's some songs that are infinitely better than Spotify's boring-ass AI slop. Enjoy. Fluid Dynamic- In Da House, Vol. 1    Big 80s diva vocals over crisp, flashy 90s house. Every song hits hard enough to get the dancefloor moving, but also has enough melody and complexity that you can play it in the car or headphones over and over without it losing its straightforward, poppy appeal. I met Ross via Facebook back when they were a resident DJ on my home station, The Music Galaxy Radio . Aside from being a treasure trove of useful advice and friendly AF, they've also put me on to other great music, like Wake Up! The Fluid Dynamic project encompasses everything from hard trance to Dune soundtrack style ambient, all of...

2025 is here n so far its been fckin insane.

 Morning everyone! Happy belated new year. 2024 was weird af. I had a lot of really cool moments last year (Getting to open for Colin Cook/IDBH was a huge highlight) but TBH I'm ready to put most of it behind me. I've been spending the last month or so traveling around the United States with my homie Xavier (Go check him out, he's a super dope painter) so I thought I'd share a quick lil recap of our adventures with y'all.   We started middle of December leaving Denver. We had moved there a couple months ago and it really just was not working out. The living situation was absolutely fricken atrocious and it really felt like almost all the creative people had left the city (With the exception of Quite Right Records ). So we hopped in the car and started driving. Down East through Kansas and Oklahoma. To Arkansas. Go see Arkansas. It's so fricken pretty. After Arkansas, we came back up through Missouri and Iowa to Nebraska for the holidays. We made some really do...