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762 Peach ⟋ RA Podcast

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RA.762 Peach
Published Filesize

11 Jan 2021 302 MB

Length

02:11:47

Bright
Tracklistand cheerful tunes from the irrepressible London DJ.
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when they're just playing another night at a packed club. Serena Passion, who made waves as a DJ well
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had any productions out, is one of them. Since moving to London from Toronto around four years
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not only an in-demand club DJ but a consummate radio host, with a non-dance-focused
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NTS Show that reveals her talent for picking music in any settings. Or for an even clearer example, watch
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of her live at Giant Steps in London, where she brings a crowd from a sit-down to a rapturous
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dance with only a few kick drums here and there. She barely even mixes in that set, and she doesn't need
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makes the tracks sing all by themselves.

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her strengths. While she’s not exactly dropping musique concréte or polka on the dance
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floor, her- style
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is more of a feel than a sound or a genre: melodic, bouncy, usually uplifting, with an
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and springy percussion, along with a certain understatedness. Listen to how her
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burning through electro, acid, trance and more. It’s loaded with her own exclusive tracks—she
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as a producer yet, though she’s got the goods—along with unreleased material from
be known
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Saoirse, D. Tiffany and Elissa Suckdog.

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been up to recently?

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my pals, staying at home, cooking, trying to be productive in the studio and making this mix.

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How and where was the mix recorded?

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It was recorded
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at my house, with two Pioneer-CDJ2000NXS2s, one Technics 1200 and a Xone:92 mixer. I
did the
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so of the mix before the new year, and spent a few days listening to it and making sure
that it was
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the direction I wanted to go in before I recorded the whole thing. I haven't recorded a mix in this
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nice to listen back and get excited to finish it. I felt a bit out of practice too, so I
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gain some confidence back.

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behind the mix?

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able to really get into it on a dancefloor, so I wanted to channel all

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really wanted to play a bunch of tracks my friends have been making, some
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which will be out this year and a lot of old favourites which have good memories attached
to them.

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credit: Isaac Lamb
I feel like I don't do a great job of staying in one lane in terms of genres. Usually in sets I'm trying to weave
between many different sound palettes, and I think that has really informed the music I'm attracted to.
There's different aspects about different genres that I like, and I hope that this translates in all the music that
I choose, and that the array of tracks sound interesting and different, but also cohesive together—something
every DJ wants, I imagine? Overall, I wanted this mix to be a testament to my progress by flying through all
the sounds and feelings that resonate with me. I'm hoping this mix shows people my journey so far and gets
me a step closer to my musical identity.

There are also some vocal samples from my best friend that are encouraging at the beginning because, at
the risk of sounding super corny, I really do feel like more than ever in 2020 I leaned on my friends for
support and they really helped me get through a tough year. I also included some Peep Show samples
because when I was telling another best friend about how I envisioned the mix going, she sent me a link to
this clip which made me laugh.

We're entering another year of Covid-19 with a fresh, stricter lockdown in England (where you live).
How are you feeling about this coming year?

Last year was difficult for everyone for a myriad of reasons, and I really struggled with my relationship with
dance music at the start of everything. I actually put off doing this mix for all of 2020 because I didn't feel like
it was the right time, and at the start of the pandemic I wasn't connecting with dance music at all.

This year, I'm feeling a lot more motivated and in the routine of things. I've started producing music regularly
and I'm feeling excited about what I'm writing. I generally feel hopeful for what is to come and I really hope
that we can get back to dance floors soon because while streaming has risen to fill a void during a time of
need (for which I'm thankful for), I'm sure everyone can agree that nothing can stand in place for real life
interaction on the dance floor.

Generally, I am thankful for my health and that my friends and family are healthy, which is a privileged
position to be in—and for that I'm super grateful.

How have you kept busy during the pandemic? Has your DJing style, or approach to DJing (or the
records you like) changed at all since the world first shut down last March?

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To be entirely honest with you, it took me a lot of last year to come back around and get into digging and
enjoying it again after everything happened in March—all of the tracks I was playing reminded me of specific
dancefloor moments and it made me really sad for many months. I wish I could say I was being super
productive like producing music and digging my little heart out, but I wasn't. I think at first I was just holding
onto whatever made me happy, and I reconnected with other genres of music I neglected in many years of
being obsessed with dance music—mainly hip-hop and R&B—and I started getting really into trap and drill
too. This inspired the Marcixs R&B mix I did, which was so much fun. It was the first time I'd actually tried to
DJ that style of music since listening to it on repeat when I was younger.

For my monthly NTS show, I like exploring non-dance floor sounds, and I really took to that at the start of
2020. I was also trying to focus on artists that were newer instead of just playing a lot of older, ‘90s-era
music to try and support everyone where I could. I found it really difficult to do radio at first since my internet
wasn't good enough to stream live. I really missed the live aspect of it, and talking on the mic. I'm now in the
process of getting better internet so I can do it live, though, and I've slowly come back to playing higher
energy stuff again on my show.

Some of my favourite mixes I listened to this year were by Francesco Del Garda, Sugar Free, Christian AB
and Hamish & Toby… to name a few. These mixes are a part of dance music I had explored before, but
really connected with over lockdown since I found it was the perfect vibe to dance around the house to, bike
around, anything really. This definitely inspired a lot of the music I was playing throughout the lockdown in
mixes and streams, and helped me rebuild the relationship with dance music that I had felt saddened by
when gigs stopped in March.

What are you up to next?

Bubbling some more, sending off the masters for my first 12-inch, writing more music, cooking more and
trying to borrow people’s dogs on borrowmydoggy.

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