#it was lovely to contribute to the zine. I also drew a sticker that I will show soon.

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Early canon Iron Man taking a break at the park, drawn for the Heroes' Day Off zine (@dayoffzine)!

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My pieces for the Tales of Arcadia Zine organized by @demonunderpressure !!!

I had an amazing time working on the zine and being able to contribute to this passion project about this amazing show and characters that I adore so much!

The Douxie piece consisted of the imagery of him being surrounded by the magic of his loved ones while being in the void of the universe. His story and his life having impacted them so much, their magic embracing him and his legacy.

The Scrapbook piece, consisting of my vision of the future of these characters. The futures they deserved, a happy life together, moving on to college and spending time together. With stickers, references and just good times all around.

I also drew Nari for the cover! Showing off her magical butterflies!

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I’d like to share with you a mind-blowing experience I had in Canada!!! I participated in TCAF 2018 (Toronto Comic Art Festival). The top photo is me with my table-mates at the festival (Harley Lin, Dakota Mcfadzean, Mark Laliberte, and me, Erik Nebel). The bottom photo is a panel discussion with Annie Koyama, Francoise Mouly, Luc Bosse, Yvan Alagbe, and the moderator.   

Toronto Reference Library was the venue. It’s quite a sight, when you step inside. I don’t know how many people were in there, but it looked like thousands. Fortunately, the library is gigantic, it’s like a cavernous tower, so it could accommodate every one.

The morning of Saturday, May 12th, I went to the table where cartoonists sign in, and I chatted with a nice person named Jasmine, the volunteer coordinator. At the sign-in table there were pronoun stickers, where you could choose: he/him, she/her, they/them. I proudly got the they/them sticker. I went to find Mark Laliberte at the 4Panel table, where he had already set up to sell our comics. It’s actually the first time that we met each other in person. (We’ve had an online friendship up until this point.) Mark is an amazing artist and designer and publisher, and I’ve been collaborating with him for the past few years via email and Facebook messaging. He’s been a dream to work with, I can’t thank him enough for the opportunities he’s given me. I was happy to see that the TCAF people had chosen to place our table right in front of the Koyama Press table. Annie Koyama publishes some of my favorite cartoonists. One of my hopes in coming to TCAF was that I’d have a chance to meet Annie, and there she was, right in front of me! I had plenty of opportunities throughout the festival to chat with her, and it was such a pleasure. Now I’ll tell you more about the people that are with me in that photo up above. If you look at the person who is next to me holding a book, that is Mark Laliberte, the publisher and designer and editor of the book that he is holding. Hartley Lin (on the far left of me and Mark) is one of the cartoonists whose work is in the book. And my comics are in the book.The book is called: 4Panel2. It’s called 4Panel2 because all the cartoonists use the same 4-panel template as the basis for the comics. And it’s volume two because it’s part of a series, where different artists are invited to contribute to different volumes. Here is the link to see the book: https://popnoir.bigcartel.com/product/4panel-2 I hope you buy it! I hope you like it! After hanging out with Mark for a bit and meeting some of the other contributors to the book (Fiona Smyth, Jonathan Dyck, Drazen Kozjan, and Barbara Postema), I went out to have lunch with my friend, the cartoonist, Beatrix Urkowitz, who was also exhibiting at the festival. She lives on the east coast, and I’m on the west coast, so the only time we see each other is at comics festivals. Quality time. After a quick lunch, we went back to our tables. One of my favorite parts of being at comics festivals is meeting people who really enthusiastically love what I’m doing, and I feel really fortunate to have those fans. I can’t remember the names of every one I met who bought my comics, but several of them stand out to me in my mind. There was Kasper, who told me that he’s never seen any one do what I’m doing with my comics, and he plans on showing my art to all his artist friends. There was Ben Grill, who gave me a copy of his beautiful risograph comic and told me that he was inspired by my work. And there was Haejin Park, who said to me, “You’re Erik Nebel? I love your comics.” She told me she had been reading my comics online, and she put her hand to her heart and said, “I really love your comics.” It was so sweet, I’m so grateful. She said she was also an exhibitor herself at the festival, but I never got a chance to find her, wherever she was, and look at her art. I’ve seen some of her work online and it’s stunning. Next day, Sunday, I went to the zine show at Cumberland Terrace, and there was a panel discussion with comics publishers at 11am (Annie Koyama, Francoise Mouly, Luc Bosse, Yvan Alagbe). It was a great talk, where every member of the panel had something thoughtful and insightful to say. The funniest moment of that panel was at the very end. They were running a bit late, past their scheduled time, and suddenly some one appeared from out of nowhere, zoom! He rushed into the room and rushed up to the front to sit down next to Annie Koyama. There was a moment of silence, and then the guy realized that every one was looking at him, and he said, “Oh, no. I’m in the wrong panel. I thought I was late, but I guess I’m early.” Every one laughed. It was a nice way to end the panel with all the laughter. After the panel, I headed back to the library and back to the 4Panel table. I spent most of my day at our table, but I did briefly leave the table to say hi to my friends at a comics publisher called 2dcloud: Maggie Umber and Raighne Hogan. They recently posted a little bio of me and my comics on the 2dcloud website: http://2dcloud.com/well-come I am deeply grateful to 2dcloud for including my comics on their site. I love so many of the cartoonists they publish. At 5pm, we started hearing announcements that it was time to pack up and leave the library, TCAF was over. The last event was a good-bye party at 8pm. I was talking with an artist named Marc Ngui, and he asked me if I was going to the final event. I told him I wasn’t sure if I wanted to go because I might get lost in Toronto. He was really sweet, and he gave me one of his postcards, and he drew an elaborate map of how to get there, and places to eat nearby. So I went back to the hotel room to rest for a bit, and then around 7pm, I took the subway to the place on the map and walked around a fun area of Toronto and had some good food, and then I went to the event. I was nervous, thinking that when I got there, I wouldn’t know anybody, and that would be pretty awkward. I walked around for a bit looking for familiar faces, and then I thought, “Oh, forget it, why did I come here? I’ll just leave.” Fortunately, Dakota McFadzean saw me as I was walking out of the place, and he called out to me and beckoned me to meet his friends. Dakota McFadzean is the guy with the thick beard (in the photo); he was one of my table mates at the festival, and I’m a big fan of his work. Dakota introduced me to Meags Fitzgerald and Beth. Meags is a cartoonist who was published by Conundrum Press and Pow Pow, and is being distributed by 2dcloud. Beth is a professor at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, where she teaches comics. She is super passionate about her work. We were later joined by Reid Psaltis, who has a new book that debuted from the publisher Secret Acres. We had a fun time talking about… yes, comics. And then it was over. I took the subway back to the hotel. Got up real early. Took a bus to the airport (only 3 dollars to go from my hotel to the airport!). Spent all day Monday traveling home, with delays because of bad weather. Spent Tuesday exhausted. Ruminating. What is the takeaway? People who nurture artists are just as important as the artists themselves. Thank you, TCAF.

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Transmission Initiated Transmission ID: 00031 TFNation_2017 Operation: Who's In The Forge

In terms of exclusives for TFNation, we are blessed with some great collaborators, with final products that have certainly caught a lot of peoples attention.... but these are far from the only opportunity for attendees to grab something unique and different at the convention, and so it is our great pleasure to announce THE FORGE listings for TFNation 2017!

For those unaware, THE FORGE is our home for arts and crafts created by the many passionate and talented members of the Transformers community. Housed in a brighter, more accessible room you won't miss, the items on sale here will cover all styles, materials, ideas and influences.... so lets see who we have:

Nate 'Natephoenix' Hammond DeviantArt: https://natephoenix.deviantart.com Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/NatephoenixArt/

Following the end of his 8-year run on zombie-themed webcomic, Jazz and Jess, Nate turned his attention to another of his loves, Transformers. Since then, he became a member of the 'Lost Seeds Studios', who have produced comic art and box design for several 3rd Party companies, such as Warbotron, Keith's Fantasy Club, X-Transbots and more!You'll probably find Nate either singing, dancing or hugging someone.

Lem Art Tumblr: https://lems-art-blog.tumblr.com/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/Lem_BorghiniEtsy: https://www.etsy.com/de/shop/LeMonFashionStudio

Mixed media all-arounder freelance artist and 'Robot Couture' fashion designer from Germany, inventor of the 'Enerjohnnies' clothing- and accessories-line, bringer of nerdy loot, but also really looking forward to just chatting with you guys so come and visit me in the forge.

Larrydraws and Herzspalter Twitter: https://twitter.com/larry_draws, https://twitter.com/Herzspalter Tumblr: http://larrydrawsrobots.tumblr.com/, http://herzspalter.tumblr.com/ 

A Russian and a Swiss artist brought together by The Power Of Love... for Transformers! Herzspalter has recently contributed to the epic fan comic book project featured at TFNation - Re-Animated and Larry has been busy creating TFNation exclusive artwork. With their forces combined they bring posters, stickers, badges, keychains, as well as some original pieces and sketchbooks! Wares include pieces inspired by many beloved continuities, from G1 and Beast Wars to TFA and current IDW comics.

Coralus Website: http://umimiyao15.wix.com/coralus Tumblr: http://coralus.tumblr.com/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/coralus_SF

Coralus, also known as Umi, is a young aspiring artist at age of 19. Freelancing as comic and illustrator artist―mainly draws robots/mecha and japanese animation style. She had contributed illustrations and mecha designing for Space Colony Studios in UK, enlisted to work for MARVEL comics, soon to be a creator for Flashstrike, a Transformers original comic, a collaboration with her writer, Peri, and working as comic artist for MMC company. She also dreams to work in IDW soon for Transformers comics with great support from her fans and her friends from IDW

Lyrica Belachium Deviantart: http://lyricabelachium.deviantart.com/ Tumblr: https://www.tumblr.com/blog/lyricabelachium

Lyrica is a Freelance artist, mostly known for her cartoon work and background in Animation. Her work features mostly that of Transformers Animated, including comics, animations, and illustrations.

We66 ILLUSTRATION Facebook: https://m.facebook.com/nathanwe66/ Facebook: https://m.facebook.com/Britformers

A freelance artist working in the games and comics market. We66 drew a strip for the Transformers Armada retrospective magazine being released at TFNation and I'm co creator of a new project called BRITFORMERS.

Paul Goodenough Facebook http://www.facebook.com/paul.goodenough, http://www.facebook.com/thechimeran, http://www.facebook.com/jointhefeatherhood Website: http://www.thechimeran.com

Paul is a multi award winning and Emmy nominated writer and producer for TV, Films, Comics and Books, working on brands including How To Train Your Dragon, Sherlock Holmes, Doctor Who, Beano, Warhammer 40K and GI Joe. He's also written fan comics for Transformers and Future Shocks, and is the co-creator of The Chimeran with Gary Kurtz (Star Wars, Dark Crystal), Richard Bazley (Iron Giant, Harry Potter) and Simon Furman (Transformers, Terminator) and also he's the creator of upcoming comic series, The Featherhood.

Mean Green Flamingos in Trees

Jon, Temple and Lauren are excited to be selling a range of unique products from art prints and tote bags to charms and embroidery patches! We’re long-time Transformers fans, come visit our stall to chill and chat! You can preview Jon’s merch at https://www.tictail.com/s/greenrobots and http://greenjon.tumblr.com And Lauren’s merch at https://www.etsy.com/shop/PinkBirdOriginals/items and https://twitter.com/PinkBird_Tweets

Vanessa Sutherland Tumblr: http://kannter.tumblr.com/ Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/nessasart deviantART: http://kannter.deviantart.com/

A fan artist and convention-goer from Scotland, who dabbles in anything that plays to my interest, for example Transformers, Cardfight Vanguard, Yu-Gi-Oh and various other works of fiction. Previous work has been for Varg Veum (2014), as well as previous convention work for Auto Assembly. Vanessa will be selling prints, key-rings, and mugs!

Sam Palmer Sam is a UK-based comic colourist, artist and animator. A member of the online Transformer fandom for many many years, he discovered a talent for comic colouring while studying his degree in 2D digital animation, and has since contributed to many Transformers fan endeavours, including Transformers: Mosaic and Transformers: The Lost Seasons and has worked professionally on Titan's Transformers: Prime comic, Fub Pub's Transformers Collectors Club comics and on various projects for Botcon and Joecon. Outside of Transformers he's worked on properties such as GI Joe, Power Rangers and Geek Girl as well as the critically acclaimed graphic novel Video Nasty. He'll be doing sketches and selling prints all weekend. 

Please check out some examples of his work at: Facebook.com/sampalmercolours and Sam-Palmer.co.uk

Themanlylobster Twitter: https://twitter.com/Themanlylobster Etsy: https://www.etsy.com/uk/shop/Themanlylobster Tumblr: http://themanlylobster.tumblr.com/ 

"I'm a motion graphics animator but I take the opportunity to practice drawing transformers when i can! Though i'll mainly have IDW /MTMTE/LL art to sell i still love all Transformers, still making my way through 30yrs of content backwards! I'll have art prints charms, pins, keyrings, magnets and stickers to sell and have a perfectly healthy obsession of drawing Rodimus as a hotdog."

Khaosenvy Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/Khaosenvy/ Twitter: http://twitter.com/Khaosenvy Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/Khaosenvy/ Lenton Experiment: http://on.fb.me/UNsMn7

"Doodler of many things geeky, former Old Oil House Original & their on call art monkey. Lucky to be allowed back at TFNation Forge for the second year. Come buy my stuff so I can afford my room! ;-P"

Crono Storenvy - http://cronosiem.storenvy.com Tumblr - http://lullishop.tumblr.com/ Twitter - http://twitter.com/Cronosiem

Crono of Lullishop, shall be selling her crafts at TFNation 2017 including badges and magnets of characters from the IDW Transformers series, Beast Wars, Transformers Animated, Prime, Rescue Bots and the 2015 RiD animated series.You can check out her work at her Storenvy (http://cronosiem.storenvy.com/), Tumblr account (http://lullishop.tumblr.com/) and can find her on Twitter @cronosiem.

Emma Wyatt Emma make designs from hama beads, including nintendo characters, superheros, pokemon and of course everyone's favourite transformers. The smaller designs can be made into keyrings, some are suitable as fridge magnets and the larger can be used as coasters or simple to decorate a room.

Kaysielcrafts Twitter: http://twitter.com/kaysielcrafts

Kaysielcrafts makes TF plushies, patches, pencil cases/small bags and other sewn stuff

Hinomars Hinomars will be taking inked head shot commissions, and selling Transformers art prints. Below are some links to art examples. http://pre06.deviantart.net/ce01/th/pre/f/2016/015/e/f/crash_hog_small_by_hinomars19-d9o25ou.jpghttp://pre07.deviantart.net/3a67/th/pre/f/2016/015/8/f/dd_cover_by_hinomars19-d9o24ka.jpghttp://pre04.deviantart.net/6d83/th/pre/f/2016/312/7/e/_dead_reckoning__p1_by_hinomars19-dak8cia.jpghttp://orig01.deviantart.net/a3ff/f/2016/218/8/1/prints_ex_by_hinomars19-dacue3n.jpg

TMUK Presents A group of exhibitors who have been said to be 'great in small doses'. Come to the TMUK tables throughout the event to meet a variety of creators with a huge mix of talent to share and a modest amount of prints to sell. 

Gavin Spence www.gavinspence.comwww.twitter.com/GeshGav Gavin is a nice enough big guy and full-time illustrator from Glasgow, Scotland. You can find his comic work in Transformers Animated: Trial and Error - an original full length graphic novel exclusively available at TFN 2017. Ed Pirriehttp://www.facebook.com/edtothapizzleTFN contributor, fan-comic collaborator, knocks about with colours on various titles. Andy TurnbullWhen he's not toiling in the TFNation saltmines he can be found producing various Transformers parody comics from the long-running The Daily Straxus - with a strong G1 flavour, to more recent MTMTE themed japery in The Last Light. As well as non-TF collaborations as part of A.R.K. Comics. Andy will have various prints and zines at the table. Check his work out at http://www.arkcomics.co.uk and on twitter @andrewdturnbull (check him out using his sunday name) Ben Pirriehttp://www.benpirrie.com.Ben spends most of his time drawing robots, and listening to music at unhealthy volumes. He has contributed to TFN projects past and present, and intends to not stop there. Ben continues to bring his own distinct flavour to Transformers fandom. Further transmissions to follow. TFNation Where All Are One End_transmission Tickets: https://tfnation.com/2017/registration/

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LVLSRVRYHI-050: The Dance Pit | The Levels Are Very High

Hi Anuradha, how's it going? I usually start these things with a bit of an intro, so for anyone who doesn't know: who are you? Where are you from? Hi! It’s 3am and I think I’m finally done answering all these questions!

My grandfather named me Anuradha, though I’m still not 100% sure on how to “correctly” pronounce my name. I was born in Bangladesh, a year before Maluma. My star sign is a Capricorn and I’ve been living in the South Bronx for the past 21 years.

What are some of your early musical memories? I remember hearing Usher's Confessions album everywhere in 2004; Burn, Confessions Part II, and Yeah on rotation. That and Gasolina. That’s when I remember paying attention to music more (I think I’ve blocked most memories of MTV’s TRL out of my head), and then came the emo phase of ’07.

I also remember, though this isn't particularly musical, enjoying the Spice Girls lollipops that came with the stickers which is earlier in memory.

Whilst you run parties and a mix series as The Dance Pit, my first introduction to you was through (I think) the second issue of your zine Club Etiquette and then I kind of worked backwards from there. What first pushed you towards organising a zine? How did the specific idea for Club Etiquette come about? Mungo asked me if there were any parties he could play when he came over in 2015. I told him if I couldn’t find any, I’d put one on, which I decided to anyway.

At the same time, I was going to the club pretty regularly and would see the same people and we would always talk about what annoyed us, both on large and small scales, so thought a guideline would be handy, to be more conscientious of one’s surroundings and others. My school radio station (shouts to WBAR!) used to create zines, so thought that would be the most direct (least-bureaucratic) method. Since it was a guideline on “club etiquette,” that’s just what I decided to call it, although I still think the name sounds a bit bougie and will probably change it at some point.

My background is in activist theatre, so I was taught that anything I take on has to have a greater social purpose, cause what’s the point otherwise? (Don’t @ me with “art for art’s sake” – it may be for some people, but I have no time for it when so many other narratives don’t get heard).

Whitney Wei's illustrations that adorn the covers and grow throughout the pages of Club Etiquette provide the zine with this homemade warmth that carries over even into its digital copies, something that usually gets lost in the move to screens and online spaces of discussion. Did you find that it was important for you to produce the zine with that physicality in tact? Yes, shouts to Whitney! And Carmela Tzigana (who drew the Vol.6 cover). All cover aesthetic skills and most illustrations are credited to Whitney, who, regardless of the landscapes or deadlines I throw at her, manages to create something grounded and finely-detailed.

It makes me happy that you say that the physicality carries over (cause there is def some blood, sweat, and tears in some of those physical copies). I also really don’t like reading on computer screens, so if other people don’t mind and get past that, that’s great!

Tangibility, in a larger sense, is super important to me. Being able to cross over what’s written in the zine and enacting it in physical club spaces (or everyday life) is the reason why it was made in the first place. Theory is cool and all and part of the process, but actually putting ideas in practice is how I grow, and know what works.

A lot of Club Etiquette's material is necessarily born out of very personal and difficult experiences, but you also focus on some of the more lighthearted or even mundane aspects of club-going - 4am foodspots, hangovers, health tips, tv picks etc. I tend to find that these are the parts of the zine that fill me with the most nostalgia (for faceless nights I've mostly forgotten). What was the idea behind including them? How do you find the balance between them and the more serious aspects of each issue? I love the mundane. I also think there’s often a glamorization of going out needing to be the “best, most peak, night” of one’s life, like having a couple of nights where things get hella turnt is chill, but for me to constantly be at that level, I couldn’t do that. My club schedule is pretty routine and focusing on how to make up for lost sleep, or what to eat after I’ve danced for five hours straight, or what I watch when I don’t go out is really necessary for my survival.

Finding a balance between having both serious topics and lighthearted ones can be a bit tricky; I definitely don’t want to trivialize bigger issues by talking about/placing something silly right after. However, I do think that joy is also an integral part of our lives, and humor can be a place of learning as well. It’s the whole “I am not bound to one narrative” idea (that Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie talks about in her TED Talk), that I am not defined by only my traumatic experiences, but my day-to-day comforts too.

I also just watch a whole bunch of children’s television, so I’m trying to learn from that how writers can discuss heavy topics but not bombard people with negativity. Also, a very much large shout-out is needed for everyone who contributes; their perspectives make up so much of the humor and joy in the zine, and I really am grateful for the club community here that practices what they preach <3.

New York sits at this juncture between North, South, and Central American dance cultures which, at least this is in the impression I got when I was there, in turn, maintain musical interactions with and influences from the UK. You yourself have relationships that spread throughout this geographical club axis (from the stuff you've done with Hiedrah Club de Baile to your Dance Pit NY parties and UK tour dates). How much has the influence of this environment bled into the zine, your sets and/or the parties you put on? Is there anywhere else you could see yourself living? I want to preface my answer by acknowledging the “first-world” privilege of made-up “border” (by this I mean borders are arbitrary in conception but have very-tangible effects) mobility that I have. I have been immensely lucky to have been able to experience Club Viral, HiedraH Club de Baile, and the Salviatek nights in Monterrey, Buenos Aires, and Montevideo respectively as well nights in the UK before that (with HDD and the Hub-before-it-was-the-Hub <3) and each journey has definitely bled into every aspect of my life, as seen through my sets (which are all over the place), with the different translations of the zine, and through the djs I book.

I grew up and still live in a predominantly Afro-Latinx and Afro-Caribbean community so bachata, reggaeton, and dancehall are what I’m surrounded by most and I think that influence is clear in what I play. I will say though that it is irresponsible to just play the sounds and not give anything back to the communities who create this music both locally and internationally, so I’m still figuring out ways in which to support producers, djs, and club nights that have taught me so much that goes beyond just promotions or social capital. I think it can be easy to fall into the trap of appropriating sounds, so it becomes really important to *listen* when people say it makes them uncomfortable when you’re playing certain music. I want to believe there can be collaborative exchanges in music, but ultimately, under capitalism, someone will always reap the benefits off of the exploitation of other cultures, so I have to just be hyper-vigilant about what I play, who I play it for, how it affects them, and how I can give back.

For me, people rather than place define what home is, so with the hope that in the future all visa requirements and borders will be abolished, I would very much like to go back to South America (back to Argentina & Uruguay, and to the western coast this time around, but also with a much overdue visit to Brazil) and the UK (further north this time!) for an extended period of time to hang with people I very much consider family and give back what I can.

There's a growing tendency at the moment towards abstraction and experimentalism in tracks and sets, attempts to push (or destroy) the boundaries of what a dance track can be or how two (or three or four) tracks should be mixed together. Feeling and hearing an artist's intent in a way that I've barely even considered before is exhilarating but there's also been times when I've missed a certain concreteness. Come New Years - when I caught up with you in London - I was really just itching to dance. Is it important for you to get that sort of physical reaction to a set or a blend? What does dancing mean to you? I started djing, or rather selecting music, for friends who loved to dance when no one else would. So every time I dj or make a mix, I always have someone I know in mind who I want to dedicate the set to, they all just happen to be people who dance a lot. Getting a physical reaction to a set isn’t necessary, people react to music in their own way, but dancing may just be inevitable :)

Dancing is how I show my gratitude to djs and other musicians (in addition to showering them with compliments :3). It’s only a small token of appreciation for the continuous experience of listening to their music.

Talk me through the mixes - how were they recorded? What led to the two parts? It’s been three months since you have asked me to do this(these) mix(es). About a month ago, maybe, I chose to split them because my temperament was changing so often (I blame the weather, the 2+ retrogrades, etc.) and also my attention span was/is decreasing daily.

The first mix is definitely for when I’m in one of my angsty moods, and am placing expectations on others, when I should just let them be. I also wanted to try constraining some parts in the mix to just highlighting certain instruments.

The second mix I made so I that when I play it on my monitors, my neighbors can listen to even more Bad Bunny than they have already been blasting onto the block on a Sunday. 

Both mixes are heavily influenced by my travels at the end of last year.

I live-recorded these (way too many times) and added any extra effects on audacity.

What do you have planned for the rest of 2017? I’d really like to continue the translations series of the zines, and there are def a couple more zine release parties in store for this year. My annual tarot card reading said I’ll find a new skill which will be my life’s work in October, so hopefully that’ll happen. As I mentioned above, I’d like to visit all my friends if possible, maybe finally make that mixtape hehe.

But most importantly, curating netflix for my mom and volunteering locally to facilitate and preserve music, arts, and community spaces in my neighborhood when displacement is already happening.

Finally, if you had to pick something for people to listen to immediately after these mixes what would it be? Trick Answer: Go watch Steven Universe, give your eyes, ears, mind, and heart a treat. (That and Silver Spoon too please! - oh but also listen to Common Sense).

"Night" Tracklist

Sand Pact - Fervor w/ Nato - Cerita interlude Bad Bunny - Soy Peor (Axel Caram remix) DJ Nervoso - Djj Kala - Boriken Brazilian Percussion - Samba-Reggae 2 Cardi B interlude MC Lustosa_Shaded Pistola (MM edit) Gigi - Cah PayTay (Reply) Lechuga Zafiro - Suave Pero Rugoso (Diosa Tayhana remix) w/ TT The Artist - Worst Bday interlude Badgyal (Prod. Plata) - SMTHIN LIKE THIS x Dholi Taro Dhol Baaje Karaoke Version Aggromance - 1noche x Leokarlo - Intro ‘New Era’ x Dj Fofuxo - Raizes “Nu Guetto Qui Ta Bater” BAD$ISTA - Last night* Raman Saran - Dhak (Drum) Lechuga Zafiro - Orquídea T-Ney Kid Cala - Blue Magic (Loris Remix) Soda Plains - Espalho Meu Passo w/ Toshiro Masuda - Orochimaru’s** Theme interlude MC Linn da Quebrada - Mulher Totó La Momposina y sus tambores - Rosa FUNERAL - Cumbia futura Shivam Gupta - Durga Theme DJ Nervoso - Areia x Rebecca Sugar - Here Come’s a Thought Steven Universe - Rose’s Room dialogue***

*my phone# is on my last mix, call me up (thru facetime/whatsapp, bless) **i dont support/sympathize with orochimaru, they are a creep ***I hope Steven will be ok

"Day" Tracklist

Dj Valet - O começo Dj Nk - Caipirinha Vany-Fox - Me vs World Bk(blackinhO) - Funana [Batucada] Badgyal - Dinero (Prod. FAKEGUIDO) Bad Bunny ft. De La Ghetto, Zion, Bryant Myers - Caile (Dj Arturex & Dj Kris Club Version) MC Katia - Arrocha Das Fiéis (DJ Xaropinho) Conejx - Parvada w/ Bryant Myers ft. Bad Bunny - Un Ratito Mas interlude* Yxng Bane ft. Kojo Funds & Wizkid - Fine Wine Gage - Throat (Street Mongrel Riddim Version X Talkdunsk Remake) DJ Spinall ft. Wizkid - Opoju Yandel - Encantadora (El Kechu DJ Cumbia base Remix) Anuel AA - Ayer (Elián Acapella Remix) Epic B - Wicked Riddim Javed Akthar - Azeem O Shaan Shahenshah Instrumental Vybz Kartel - Fever (Dj YaMtZa Remix) Florentino - Bloodline x Florin Salam ft. Denisa - Cineva Ma Suna Cu Numar Privat deejay jeff love c pikachu 2pekes (Pininga Edit) Sikuri - Aamado Murlo - Hunter Tina Savage ft. Don Jazzy - Eminado (DJ Yoko Champeta Remix) Superficie - Febre Do Vale Joha - Me Llama Glolaluz - Me Controlas FUNERAL - Reverberacion Antenas ———————————————— J Hus - Did You See x Sikuri - 0

*use condoms! + Special thanks to Callosum, Mungo, Becky, and Michelle <3