Octo Octa &c

<3

the more I play this album. the more I love it

something about listening to this album reminded me of a time I tagged along with a friend to a college radio dj gathering in the park when I was still in school. everyone was having an amazingly chill time, laughing and dancing around as the sun was setting. it took me almost twenty minutes to realize “groove is in the heart” had been playing on repeat the entire time I’d been there

this album keeps working

so great

if you have the opportunity to see an Octo Octa/Eris Drew b2b dj set, do it!

I probably could have done so in Chicago at some point instead of traveling partway around the world, nonetheless...

I hate to be churlish but my vinyl doesn't seem to be..... mastered well? It's exhausting to listen to. I don't have this problem listening to the digital versions on headphones. I'm not usually sensitive to this stuff so I feel like it must be pretty bad if I'm noticing! Then again i could be just a wee bit deranged. This stuff can be subjective.

Someone mentioned Eris Drew

https://www.residentadvisor.net/reviews/24835

This new EP is great

hell yeah, thanks for the heads up!

I've been playing it a few days now, IMO the title feels a bit too disjointed in a way where you can the seams between elements. "Transcendental Access Points", OTOH, flows beautifully, it reminds me of "Waterfalls" by Atlantic Ocean.

"the title track"

Love the new Eris Drew single so much

I saw her w/ Eris Drew DJing last night, and I have to say, I was not expecting so many cishet people to be in the crowd, and that kinda soured the night for me especially since the event was marketed as an inclusive event for all marginalized folk

you'd prefer that people who enjoyed her didn't attend? Did you feel unsafe or marginalized in any way?

Well, I got the sense that a good amount of those people hadn’t vibed with them before; perhaps they were checking it out because it seemed like a hot event. This happens quite a bit in San Francisco, and that’s fine — of course they have every right to check it out — but as a queer person going out to see queer DJs, you can imagine that I would expect differently. I felt marginalized in the sense that I had a bunch of people disregard my presence as they walked through my path, and you could say that it makes sense that something like that would happen (more so if people are inebriated to some degree), but that never happens to me in queer-specific spaces (which this event wasn’t housed in).

that's fair, obviously; it was your experience not mine and i have zero understanding of the san francisco club scene. I've certainly been to plenty of shows where the audience bummed me out on artists that i loved. but you can likely imagine that - as a cishet person who also likes to see DJs of all varieties if they're good - I might be a little put off at the suggestion that I'm either not welcome or don't belong simply because of being who i am. If I'm being a dick in that space, that is of course a different story.

I hear you, and I certainly uphold the idea that all identities can exist joyfully in one space, but there has to be recognition of the fact that not all identities have the same inherent sense of safety, access, community etc. — in this case amongst queer and cishet folk — and if there’s queer talent playing an event put together by queer organizers, then I’m gonna have certain expectations (that doesn’t involve the total exclusion of cishet folk)

it's less about the politics for me or about who is or isn't welcome then about my general discomfort, sense of isolation, sense of "otherness", in most spaces, and the hope i feel that an event marketed as an inclusive space might provide an alternative to that, and the disappointment i feel if it doesn't. also, for me, it's not even necessarily about cishet people - i've been in places where most of the people were queer, but most of them were also very masc gay men, and that had the same sort of effect on me.

My thoughts exactly, Kate! I experience a similar thing with masc gay men as well. What I’m describing is just specific to the experience I took in last night, and perhaps ascribing my feelings towards a specific profile is unfair of me.

xp josh: i hear you with that and I'm not arguing that the problems of integrating core communities with mainstream crowds as artists find broader audiences aren't real. I would say that I think the greatest responsibility there is incumbent on promoters/curators/venue owners - moreso than audiences or even artists - to communicate the expectations of an event so that your experience of feeling minimized in a space where you expected to be comfortable isn't the norm. Sounds like the people who put together than party didn't prioritize that enough; they sure didn't for you.

which is to say i'm agreeing with kate here. and i think we're all agreeing with each other!

I hate when I go out to dance events and they are full of masc bros, jumping and fistpumping instead of actually dancing

I imagine this is going to be good:

https://soundcloud.com/dkmntl/dekmantel-podcast-270-eris-drew

dropping the intro to "the number one song in heaven" right from the start is a good way to get in my good books :)

Hey yo

Tomorrow, Saturday, March 28th, @octo_octa and I will b2b outside of @T4TLUVNRG HQ, which is our home in the forests of New Hampshire. We get started at 2pm EST (6pm GMT). I will post a link for the stream on Saturday a few hours before the event. pic.twitter.com/xQetyOmduk

— 🍄 Eris Drew 🍄 (@ErisDrew) March 27, 2020

bump here when that goes live plz?

On in an hour and a half from now:

The @T4TLUVNRG at home forest throwdown with @octo_octa & I begins today at 2PM EST (Sat) https://t.co/umQtMbSC3w pic.twitter.com/csRb8JyStu

— 🍄 Eris Drew 🍄 (@ErisDrew) March 28, 2020

Bumpity bump my forks

Thanks!

Think the squirrels must've chewed thru the cable

Updated link:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yRPrutWH5vg

Updated link for our live stream!https://t.co/6cqijjre1z

— 🌻Octo Octa🌻 (@octo_octa) March 28, 2020

also thanks NickB for alerting us to this!

Nice one thank u!

This is very wholesome and also very cuet

how is it that none of the trans people i know on discord listen to house music

idgi

i don't have access to the good drugs so i have decided to handle this event by getting drunk and crying

i make the best life decisions

eris drew knocking back the melted down yankee candle there

hugs 2 u kate

sorry Kate, hope you're doing ok

any denizens of borad 59 may like to note that (according to someone in the chat) that's an Aeon Flux backprint on OO's jacket

(apologies if I have Octo Octa and Eris Drew the wrong way round)

no your id's are bang on! like to think that eris is quaffing a jar of mead there but it's hard to tell

oh hey, I have a small bottle of mead somewhere. lockdown bad ideas!

the craft beer bar round the corner for a while had a cardboard box on the bar with runes written on it in day-glo felt-tip pen. one day I asked what it was, and it was some local/homebrew mead, in a foil bag container like a cheap winebox

tbh the mead itself wasn't as exciting as its incongruous packaging

er, back to the stream: I like the toadstool on the deck

sounds like you got yrself some proper hobbit mead there!

needless to say eris and octo seem to be having more fun in this three hours than i have managed in two whole weeks of lockdown, been a joy to witness

yeah we watched for an hour over dinner. great fun

this was great!

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par for the course i guess

if anybody has a decent rip of the stream lmk, i don't really have any stream ripping software so i tried to catch some of it in audacity but it wasn't exactly an ideal solution, lots of dropouts and crashes

not that i'm really convinced that i'm emotionally equipped to repeat the experience rn

missed it entirely as i went down an animal crossing hole; would welcome a stream rip

The Resident Advisor review of them in Glasgow a few weeks back suggested that they played big and cheesy with "Freed From Desire" and "Out Of Space", which is fun but if they're really meant to be the next big thing in dance music then the world should be watching out for me and any other 30-something with a Wi-Fi connection to Youtube and an aux cable

lots of fun, positive vibes, feel of a party I'd like to go to

Freed From Desire did indeed happen on the stream, at which point I turned it off for a while, so maybe I missed Out of Space, which I am still fine with ftr

(I acknowledge that being OK with one and not the other merely underlines that I am from the very end of that 30-something aux cable bracket)