A visit by electroclash, techno and acid from the founding father of LA’s Xtended Launch collective.
In early 2020, simply after the world was put into lockdown, LA-based DJ and producer Christiane Øyen aka séverine uploaded a monitor to SoundCloud that might turn into a minor viral hit. ‘Look How Onerous I’m Into You’ combines the vocal from Ariana Grande’s ‘Into You’ with Barker’s ‘Look How Onerous I’ve Tried’ to create a piece of easy however efficient mashup genius that has since appeared in two Radio 1 Important Mixes.
‘Look How Onerous I’m Into You’ is reflective of the big selection of influences that make up séverine’s method to music. As a younger music fan rising up in Lengthy Seashore, séverine was immersed in trance and electroclash, which gave method to techno and rave because the LA scene advanced. A self-described “poptimist”, séverine attracts on all of those experiences to create music and DJ units that cross stylistic boundaries and prioritise euphoria over all else.
Since 2018, séverine has headed up DIY rave collective Xtended Launch, an LA-based occasion that has paired native expertise alongside worldwide artists together with Dis Fig, Jasmine Infiniti and Ariel Zetina. In her Truth Combine, séverine presents a style of the LA scene whereas staying true to the music that shaped her distinctive model, beginning with the traditional Jacques Lu Cont remix of Felix Da Housecat’s ‘Silver Display Bathe Scene’ and transferring by tracks from M.E.S.H., Coucou Chloe, False Witness, Nkisi, Privateness and Portishead.
“I needed this combine to include as many previous and current selves as potential, blended collectively typically seamlessly, typically not, to invoke euphoria and rigidity in fast waves,” séverine says. “It begins out with a few of my favourite electro home bangers from my childhood earlier than mixing in some staple tracks of my stay units over time. From there it switches to a primarily 4/4-driven sound mashing collectively all of the totally different strains of techno that make my mind go brrrrrr—industrial, hardgroove, schranz, acid, some shit that feels like raving in a bounce home on the moon. In two phrases, it’s a horny spiral.”
“This combine was positively made with LA dancefloors in thoughts; it’s been stunning seeing more and more youthful and queerer crowds right here go so onerous for more and more weirder and deeper units, supporting the locals and studying in regards to the historical past. I dedicate this to the ladies and gays initially, particularly those on the rave to seek out neighborhood and themselves, open to listening to one thing new and a bit of difficult. I additionally dedicate this to all of the awe-inspiring transfem DJs who’ve been my function fashions and whose units have left me essentially modified.”
Comply with séverine on Instagram and SoundCloud. séverine’s newest launch, a mix pack titled Daybreak of the Coastal DJ, is out there now on Membership Paradiso.
Tracklist:
Felix Da Housecat – ‘Silver Display Bathe Scene’ (Jacques Lu Cont ‘Skinny White Duke’ Combine)
Tiga – ‘Transfer My Physique’ (Solely 4 Erol Combine)
M.E.S.H. – ‘Impressed By True Story’
Coucou Chloe – ‘2000’
Privateness – ‘Apex Predator’
djsex – ‘Neo-Generator’
Feminine – ‘Serve’ (Re-Group Edit)
Metrakit – ‘Out of Management’
séverine – ‘FUCK HIM ALL NIGHT IN THE SUDAN SEDAN’ (AZEALIA X D.DAN)
DJ Powerout – ‘Slime’
Panteros666 – ‘Planet TER’
Ryan James Ford – ‘Snake Biter (1999 Combine)’
Nkisi – ‘Justice’
LUNÁTICA – ‘Ouroboros’
Mehen – ‘Silver Parade’
Gaël – ‘Mess’
Glenn Wilson & Mike Humphries – ‘On the Submit’
Vitalic – ‘La Rock 01’ (Tommy Zero Bootleg)
False Witness feat. Ledef – ‘Arm the Dolls (San Antonio Unique Combine)’
The Sprawl – ‘X System’
DJ Chip – ‘Bang Ski’ (Woture Edit)
Nebuchadnezzar – ‘Edit 2’
dj diphenhydramine – ‘persistence is a vice’
Portishead – ‘S.O.S.’ (ABBA Cowl)
Pay attention subsequent: Truth Combine 864: Bloomfeld
