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“Elevation” by quest?onmarc

DV:

I’ve missed my friends this year, but we’ve had our group chats and largely kept up with an online happy hour and had a lot of video calls and occasionally managed backyard visits so like, I miss them but I also feel almost more connected to them than usual? Like if I make it through this pandemic, they get nearly the credit my family does. But. What I really miss, what I’ve realized more and more as the year’s gone on, is I miss seeing my friends at places. Specifically, music places. Specifically, bars or clubs or auditoriums, specifically anywhere where it wasn’t the videochat’s muting algorithm that we had to worry about, it was the soundsystem drowning out any human voice. I miss it so much I can practically feel the sticky floors and the miasma that settles into the space when everyone’s packing in with their winter coats on and the spit of someone trying too hard to share whatever’s on their mind. I wanna hear them! And I wanna forget it immediately after, just as they’ll immediately forget whatever I shout back at them! And I miss the communal trust that we’re all sharing the most important thoughts and our bodies are vibrating on the same frequency and we’re all experiencing exactly the same things at the same time in the same place.

But it seems like it’ll still be months before we get to do that again, so I’ve turned to Soundcloud mixes in the meantime. Their mobile app is garbage and I’ve avoided it in the past but at home, it’s easy to find a good mix and spend an hour or two transported to somewhere else. There’s some shit out there (same as anywhere else) but when it’s good it’s truly great - so much better than YouTube’s so-called algorithm, or Spotify’s payola. It’s producers and DJs who will take you on a fucking journey, and who you can truly put your faith in. I started the lockdown listening to classic floor fillers - shoutout Tom Moulton’s Labor Day 1974 mix tape, I love you - but thanks to recommendations from folks like Crystal Leww, I quickly wound up in much more contemporary spaces. And the best of the many DJs I heard all year was quest?onmarc, and the single best song I heard all year was “Elevation”, a distillation of the chaos of 2020 into three minutes of propulsive, beautiful dance music, an encapsulation of the year’s entire terrible zeitgeist in one track. “Elevation” is a place. It’s what I’d been missing for months. This is a song that starts with droning, fuzzy noise, adds a pounding drumbeat and - at the signal of an airhorn - becomes increasingly frenetic and uncontrollable, shifting every few seconds to hit a new plateau but never dropping that beat or risking a missed step. It’s simultaneously elegiac and pummeling; it’s everything 2020 was and could be; it’s the first time in my life I’ve ever heard a whole year in a single song. I want to move to this in a room where there’s no room to move properly, and yell at my friends and barely hear them yell back, and put my hands up and head down and feel that bass in a way I know my body will punish me for in the morning. It’s worth it, or at least I can hope it will be, and nothing in this terrible year has made me feel both more anxious to be back in those beautiful communal spaces, and more happy to be alive in this unprecedented terrible isolation, as “Elevation” delivers in three ecstatic minutes.

MG:

In a year full of tragedy and strife, stillness and restriction, worry and isolation, chaos in place of routine, routine in place of discovery, and moon-dictated tide of boredom in and anxiety out, there’s perhaps one small thing worth celebrating: I FINALLY GOT A SONG WITH NO WORDS TO SOTY NUMBER ONE. What’s this year to a bridge troll like me? I eat misery like it’s a kitchen cabinet filled with spinach cans. And after all that eating, meal after meal of disappointment and bodies stiff from too much sitting, I shit out this gem. Alright, onto why “Elevation,” specifically, is our wordless (not even a vocal sample, I cry) selection for the top spot. DV says it’s the whole year in both potential and kinetic energy and I’d go a step further and say that you can only accomplish something so vast and idiosyncratic with a piece of tightly structured electronic music. Even a single lyric would take “Elevation” from the realm of universal to the drawing room of multi-purpose. Here we have a world of imagination housed within a world of brutality. The production is bludgeoning, the kind of excessive force that indicates a crime of passion, but in response our bodies soften and absorb all the tension, transmuting it to movement and flailing our limbs to the beat (or around it, as the case always is when the limbs are mine.) Do we need the hurt to feel the glory? Absolutely not, that’s preposterous. We can’t avoid it, though. We can’t control it or contain it or direct it but when dealt a blow we can dance. It’s the lesson at the heart of everything from Mary Poppins to Footloose to “Common People” and “I Want to See the Bright Lights Tonight.” But these are all ancient and steeped in a calcified whiteness that is alienating to a future world with better possibilities. The dance is up to our imaginations and that’s where “Elevation” truly excels. This isn’t a dark song for a dark room during the darkest part of the night. It’s that, too, but nestled at its core is unbound ambition, the brightness of daylight. Truthfully, it’s anything you want to hear and without the usual dull hum of everyone else’s voices your wants are the  loudest sound around.

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Collaborator 062: Karas Lamb w/ Mistah Rapsey on the B-side

Karas Lamb described her playlist for Mistah Rapsey’s Staying Underground mix series as one that combines tunes full of unbridled joy, palpable angst and the luminous resonance of unflinching faith to groove you through your darkest hour. 

🌿 website  🌞 instagram 🌿 twitter 🌞 soundcloud a-side: Karas Lamb 1. Gage & Kevin Jz Prodigy - Bad Bitch 2. Abdu Ali - Did Dat (Quest?onmarc Vogue Edit) 3. Waajeed - Better Late Than Never 4. Karizma - Work It Out 5. Devin Tracy - Lovinnu (REO x ROG Remix) 6. Munir - Wet Dreams 7. Full Crate - Mans Not Hot [Refix] 8. Low Leaf - DNA Feelz 9. Bongomann - Deeperluv 10. Buscrates 16-Bit Ensemble - The Cell [Buscrates Reflip 107bpm] 11. Kansado - Besame Como El Melao 12. 30/70 Collective - Nu Spring

b-side: Mistah Rapsey 1. Planet Giza - Hold On (Internet edit) 2. Maayan Nidam - Harmonious Funk 3. LAKIM - Novacane 4. Seven Davis Jr. - Thanks 5. rxn - Loma 6. Carlos Niño & Friends - Joyous Gratitude (Live) [feat. Kamasi Washington & The Cosmic Band] 7. zeroh - Faith 8. Bueller - GiL SCoTT-HeRON (BUeLLER tribute) 9. Taylor McFerrin - The Antidote (feat. Nai Palm) 10. Norvis Junior - DEPESHION 124

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2019

2019

Deerhunter - Why hasn’t everything already disappeared Quelle Chris - Guns James Blake - Assume Form Panda Bear - Buoys Self Esteem - Compliments please PUP - Morbid Stuff Pixvae - Cali Fat White Family - Serfs up! The comet is coming - Trust in the lifeforce of the deep mystery Malihini - Hopefully, again Great Dad - Great Dad Public Body - EP Public Body Chris Cohen - Chris Cohen Miley Cyrus - She is coming Karen O - Lux Prima The Mauskovic Dance Band - The Mauskovic Dance Band Potsu - Ivy League Bill Callahan - Shepherd in a sheepskin vest Why?- AOKOHIO Metronomy - Metronomy Forever Cashmere Cat - Princess Catgirl Drake - Care Package Kanye West - JESUS IS KING Clark - Kiri Variations Benjamin Francis Leftwich - Elephant Shamir - Be the yee, here comes the haw Skinny Pelembe - Dreaming is dead now Cate Le Bone - Reward Vagabon - Vagabon SAULT - 7 SAULT - 5 Toro y Moi - Outer Space Tyler, the creator - IGOR FKA Twigs - MAGDALENE Pleasure System - Terraform Charlotte Adigéry - Zandoli 2018 SOPHIE - Oil Of Every Pearl’s Un-Insides Hen Ogledd - Mogic BC Camplight - Deportation Blues Shamir - Resolution Daughters - You Won't Get What You Want IDLES - Joy As An Act Of Resistance Wei Zhongle - The Operators Elza Soares - Deus É Mulher JID - DiCaprio 2 Christian Fitness - Nuance - The Musical Devi McCallion & Katie Dey - Some New Form Of Life Palm - Rock Island Pusha T - DAYTONA Lithics - Mating Surfaces Paul Williams - Surf Music serpentwithfeet - soil quest?onmarc - ? : ID Noname - Room 25 Jean Grae & Quelle Chris - Everything's Fine The Beths - Future me hates me Teleman - Family of Aliens U.S. Girls - In A Poem Unlimited LUMP - LUMP BUSDRIVER - Electricity Is On Our Side Heather Leigh - Throne Guerrilla Toss - Twisted Crystal Vessel - Queen of Golden Dogs Amen Dunes - Freedom Baxter Dury, Etienne de Crécy, Delilah Holliday - B.E.D Insecure Men - Insecure Men Soccer Mommy - Clean Kamaal Williams - The Return SUPERTEEN - Over Everything LICE - It All Worked out Great, Vol 1 & 2 Material Girls - Leather Ask Carol - Ask Carol The Mauskovic Dance Band - Down in the basement Potsu - Just Friends A L E X - Hollow Moon Kamasi Washington - Heaven and Heart CD1 + CD2 Gruff Rhys - Babelsberg Gwenno - Le Kov Aisha Devi - DNA Feelings Channel Tres - Black Moses Holly Herndon - Proto Rezzett- Rezzett The Ophelias - Almost Pan Amsterdam, thatmanmonkz - The Pocket Watch Oh papa - Papa Les Loners - Be Happy Against all logic -  2012 - 2017 2017 Curtis Harding - Face your fear Protomartyr - Relatives In Descent JFDR - Brazil Soccer Mommy - Collection Alessandro cortini - avanti Miley Cyrus - Younger now Beach House - B-Sides and Rarities Silvia Kastel - Air Lows Why? - Moh Lhean Mildlife - Phase 2016 Kevin Abstract - American Boyfriend: A suburban love story Ela & PomPom - My New Music Elizabeta Lāce - Songs About D Elizabete Balčus - Conarium The comet is coming - Channel the Spirits Duchess Says - Sciences Nouvelles Nina Ryser - I Hope All Of Your Dreams Come True SUPERTEEN - Isn’t A Person Bestial Mouths- Heartless The Sooper Swag Project - Badd Timing Rozi Plain - Friend of a friend Khompa - The Shape Of Drums To Come Subrosa - For This We Fought The Battle Of Ages Comfort food - Waffle Frolic LICE - Nulmilk: The Basement Demo Skinny girl diet - Heavy Flow The Octopus Project - Memory Mirror Porridge Radio - Rise, Pasta and other fillers Big thief  - Masterpiece Injury Reserve - Floss DRAM - Big Baby DRAM Miike Snow - iii Will wood and the tapeworms - Self-ish Opposite sex - Hamlet David Bowie - Blackstar Orkesta mendoza - !Vamos a Guarachar! No genre  - Don’t call it a Christmas album The avalanches - Wildflower Sleigh Bells - Jessical Rabbit TEEN - Love Yes Beyonce - Lemonade Olga Bell - Tempo Clipping - Splendor & Misery Show me the body - Body War Elza Soares - A mulher do fim do mundo Esperanza Spalding - Emily’s D+Evolution Nico Muhly & Teitur - Confessions Claire Cronin - Came Down a Storm Horse Jumper Of Love - Horse Jumper Of Love NAILS - You Will Never Be One Of Us The Cult Of Dom Keller - Goodbye To The Light The Ophelias - Creature Native Magnolian - Famous Men Ukandanz- Awo The I.L.Y’s - Scum With Boundaries Drugdealer - The End Of Comedy Greys - Outer Heaven Saul Williams - MartyrLoserKing CC Mose - Beat Me Sturgill Simpson - A Sailor’s Guide To Earth Montaigne - Glorious Heights So Laid Back Country China - Sin Cristales Lemon Demon - Spirit Phone Mitski - Puberty 2Moor Mother - Fetish Bones Yussef Kamaal - Black Focus Susumu Yokota - Laputan Mr Oizo - All Wet Skeletons -Am I Home? Lee Fields & The Expressions - Special Night Flock of Dimes - If You See Me, Say Yes Lee Hazlewood - 13 Childish Gambino - Awaken, My Love! Modern Baseball - Holy Ghosts Oddisse - Alwasta Ryley Walker - Golden Sings That Have Been SungHalf Japanese - Perfect AJ Cornell & Tim Darcy - Too significant to ignore Jaimeo Brown Transcendence - Work Songs Kamaiyah - A Good Night In The Ghetto 2015 BC Camplight - How To Die In The North Kefaya - Radio International Other Lives - Rituals Viegli - Loks paliek vala SUPERTEEN - Stay Creepy Miley Cyrus - Miley Cyrus & Her Dead Petz EL VY - Return to the Moon Dakha brakha - wnrx The I.L.Y’s - I’ve always been good at true love 2014 Keaton Henson - Romantic Works The dø - Shake Shook Shoken 2013 DARKSIDE - Golden Arrow SUPERTEEN - Exponential Superteen Why? - Golden Tickets 2012 Allah-Las - Allah-las Why? - Mumps, etc Why? - Sod in the Seed 2011 Viegli - Viegli 2010 The Books - The Way Out Johnny Flynn - Been Listening 2009 Peter Doherty - Last of English Roses Bill Callahan - Sometimes I wish we were an eagle Why? - Eskimo Snow 2008 Why? - Alopecia Johnny Flynn - A Larum 2007 BC Camplight - Blink of a Nihilist Subtle - Yell and Ice Akron/Family - Love is simple John Maus - Love is Real 2006 The Forest & The Sea - Leafcutter John Subtle - For Hero: For Fool The Books - Music for a french elevator and other oddities Why? - Rubber Traits 2005 BC Camplight  - Hide, Run Away The Books - Lost and Safe Akron/Family - Akron/Family Why? - Elephant Eyelash Why? - Sanddollars 2004 The Fiery Furnaces - Blueberry Boat 2003 Matmos - wide open spaces Hymie’s Basement - Hymie’s Basement The Books - The Lemon of Pink Why? - Oaklandazulasylum Why? - The Early Whitney Parsley Sound - Parsley Sound 2002 Broken Social Scene - You Forgot It in People The Books - Thought for food 2001 The Avalanches - Since I left you 1998 The Sugarcubes - Life’s too good 1997 The Sea And Cake- The Fawn Stereolab - Dots and Loops 1996 Squarepusher - Feed Me Weird Things 1984 Art of Noise - Who’s afraid of the art of noise? 1981 This Heat - Deceit 1977 Fleetwood Mac - Rumors 1973 Perigeo - abbiamo tutti un blues da piangere 1971 Jethro Tull - Aqualung

[minorscienceminorscience]

Boiler Room @ Akvarium, Budapest, 5th March 2020

Mutsumi - Collage Panty Smelling [Bubbletease] Tristan Arp - Coil [Human Pitch] Kaap - External World [De Lichting] quest?onmarc - Paranoia [self-released] Syn - Temper [Even The Strong] DJ Gregory - Work Me [Defected] Theus Mago - Siri Will Rise [Optimo] Schlachthof Bronx & Warrior Queen - Killer [Rave & Romance] Tom Blip - Forthcoming Too Late Productions & DJ Platinum - Tell The Truth [Top Billin] Young Muscle - Vivid Dream Of Death [Scuffed] Locked Club ft. Vadim Seleznev - Svoboda [Private Persons] Too Late Productions - Cops On Da Floor [Knightwerk] Mark Broom - Drum Jamz (MS Edit) [Mistress] M. Bootyspoon - Lick My Ear [Model Future] Jas Shaw - Lecturing Birds On How To Fly [Delicacies] Conforce - Aphelion [Delsin] Shlomi Aber - Common Denominator [Figure] Minor Science - Blue Deal [Whities] Florian T M Zeisig - Whispers [Anomia]

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Burial - Archangel (quest?onmarc edit)

[lvlsrvryhigh]

Mix Series Recap 2016

2016 MIX SERIES Out to everyone who contributed last year. Don’t watch the PS progression. 

Already got some special ones lined up for 2017. 

INNER [LVLSRVRYHI-025] Interview: http://lvlsrvryhigh.tumblr.com/post/139047574562/mix-series-lvlsrvryhi-025-inner

SVANI [LVLSRVRYHI-026]

Babi Audi [LVLSRVRYHI-027]

DJ Ouai [LVLSRVRYHI-028] Interview: http://lvlsrvryhigh.tumblr.com/post/141561173347/mix-series-lvlsrvryhi-028-dj-ouai

Noelsferatu [LVLSRVRYHI-029] Interview: http://lvlsrvryhigh.tumblr.com/post/141896380417/mix-series-noelsferatu

Crude Familia (Mixed by Archer) [LVLSRVRYHI-030] Interview: http://lvlsrvryhigh.tumblr.com/post/142179465902/mix-series-krud-fam

Big Sigh Brat Club (Botaz / Farsight / Ballast) [LVLSRVRYHI-031] Interview: http://lvlsrvryhigh.tumblr.com/post/144247503332/mix-series-big-sigh-brat-club

111X [LVLSRVRYHI-032] Interview: http://lvlsrvryhigh.tumblr.com/post/144910559307/mix-series-111x

DJ Sakana [LVLSRVRYHI-033] Interview: http://lvlsrvryhigh.tumblr.com/post/145919197802/more-basics-first-for-anyone-who-doesnt

quest?onmarc [LVLSRVRYHI-034] Interview: http://lvlsrvryhigh.tumblr.com/post/147700450722/mix-series-questonmarc

Xao [LVLSRVRYHI-035] Interview: http://lvlsrvryhigh.tumblr.com/post/148352442142/xao-mix-series

Martel Ferdan [LVLSRVRYHI-036] Interview: http://lvlsrvryhigh.tumblr.com/post/149378132792/martel-ferdan-mix-series

Gohda [LVLSRVRYHI-037] Interview: http://lvlsrvryhigh.tumblr.com/post/149800131692/gohda-mix-series

Top Shotta [LVLSRVRYHI-038] Interview: http://lvlsrvryhigh.tumblr.com/post/150407898232/top-shotta-mix-series

Astrosuka [LVLSRVRYHI-039] Interview: http://lvlsrvryhigh.tumblr.com/post/150780400752/mix-series-astrosuka

SWAN MEAT [LVLSRVRYHI-040] Interview: http://lvlsrvryhigh.tumblr.com/post/152077091752/swan-meat-mix-series

Niet Christ [LVLSRVRYHI-041] Interview: http://lvlsrvryhigh.tumblr.com/post/153606469947/niet-christ-mix-series

ZINI [LVLSRVRYHI-042] Interview: http://lvlsrvryhigh.tumblr.com/post/154169328202/zini-mix-series

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(CLUB CHAI)

[wittbronsky]

(Quest!onmarc)

[daily-coloring]

Fact Mix 818: quest?onmarq (Jul '21) - SoundCloud

Listen to Fact Mix 818: quest?onmarq (Jul '21) by Fact Magazine on #SoundCloud

NYX – ‘Work’

Burial – ‘Southern Comfort (quest?onmarc Bootleg)’

The Cranberries – ‘Dreams’

Ikonika – ‘Nobody (quest?onmarq Remix)’

quest?onmarq- ‘Spinout (featuring Neana)’

Okzharp – ‘Mirror, Mirror’

M.I.A. – ‘Bucky Done Gun’

quest?onmarc – ‘Eye Of The Spiral’

Burial – ‘Archangel (quest?onmarc Bootleg)’

quest?onmarq – ‘Think I Broke These Randomer Stems’

quest?onmarc – ‘Monolith’

Jeff Mills – ‘The Bells’

Sunn O))) – ‘Aghartha (quest?onmarc Bootleg)’

quest?onmarq – ‘Like This’

Radiohead – ‘Idioteque (quest?onmarc Bootleg)’

quest?onmarc – ‘Rings Of Saturn’

Nguzunguzu – ‘Skycell’

quest?onmarq – ‘???’

Freestylers – ‘Cracks ft. Belle Humble (Flux Pavilion Remix)’

Burial – ‘Near Dark (quest?onmarc Remix)’

quest?onmarq – ‘Smokescreen (Randomer Bootleg)’

quest?onmarc – ‘Waterbender (Homage To Stolen Ancestors)’

KoRn – ‘Souvenir’

quest?onmarq – ‘Chasing The Sun (06h00 mix)’

Rapala700 – ‘bloto (quest?onmarc Remix)’

quest?onmarc – ‘Co**n**r**s (ft. Cardi B)’

DJ Rashad – ’45 Fifty Four’

??? – ‘??? (quest?onmarq Remix)’

311 – ‘Amber (quest?onmarc Bootleg)’

quest?onmarc – ‘yin’

Burial – ‘Spaceape’

Kode9 & DJ Fulltono – ‘TKO’  

Alaska – ‘Broken Silence’

Mobb Deep – ‘Shook Ones (pt.II)’

quest?onmarc – ‘Ephemera’

Massive Attack – ‘Machine Gun’

[totaldispleasure]

V-Neck - Auto Syz - Bunzunkunzun Aheloy! - Dozen Claves Stasis - So-Lar Strict Face - XT Ring Leonce - Axial Tim Baker - Steamer Xen Chron - Wrong Dimension The Exaltics - Skyway Chase DJ Vader - Untitled DJ Savage - Pre-Post Geeneus & Slimzee - Logoff Juzer - Ribtickler Peverelist - Dance ’Til the Police Come quest?onmarc - Eye of the Spiral Laksa - Belly Brocka Petals - Input (Peder Mannerfelt Remix) Tayhana - Coytada Remix J-Sweet & DJ Cameo - The Blob Drawing Future Life - Crystal Core Forever