spaceottercast

You are not morning. You are late afternoon. And that's why beings love you. You are the warmth of a thing past its peak, the growing fuzz of possibilities for transformation from the light's late gaze into something less clear. You are a meadow caught by a sudden dazzle of solar photons, lazy and majestic. You don't hold promises, or negotiate means of keeping them. You are the scuppered sound of a rower's oars kissing the tops of the waves as they recede. You are the gentle gleam on the belly of the plane as it hums by. You are not night. Your warmth may last long into darkness, but you are not that mystery. You are not the hard-baked glory of noon. You are the late gold miners chased but never found in solid form. You are the late afternoon. And that's why we love you. - spaceotter meadowmancer ----------- "Being menial, how do we let vastnesses strike through Our fastened nerves, or see -- being the ordered smallesses We are -- the whole spill, squeeze and boiling without Losing heart, mind, or being Insinuated -- hugged or struck into the unwanted Northless utmosts, the Southless balconies between Gables of dust, rotundas of sun? Can it be our comfort's Derived from our dumbness?" - from "The Fractal Lanes" by Alice Fulton -------------- Always thanks to Wesley Holmes, Erin O'Conner-Drew, Jeremey Linden, Kadeejah Streets, Jenö, Lee Burridge, Brother Michael and the playa.

My summer 2018 house music podcast for the illustrius Flammable Seattle crew. Many thanks and much love to Wesley Holmes & Flammable, Erin O'Conner-Drew, Moodymanc, Jenö, Kadeejah Streets, and Chris Howarth for support and inspirations. In memory of Maya Angelou, Loleatta Holloway, and Aretha Franklin.

Psychedlic Love Affair: Discoherence Discoherence: phenomena seemingly going out of phase so they can come into greater alignment later. Repeat and stir, ad infinitum. This was initially a fall mix--about the psychedelic beauty of decay--but it slowly became a solstice/new years coming-of-the-light endeavor. So I imagine decay prefacing greater order, and a coming back into light. For all of us. (Yes, that's a little north hemisphere-centric. You'll get yours soon enough!) Mad love and thanks to (and tracks occasionally shamelessly sourced): Mira, Gingko & Andy Warren, Kinjo & Miles Mercer, Jëno, Chase Cuntersson, and Colisciousbou; and ALWAYS love and thanks to the fabulous new daddy Wesley Holmes, Erin O'Connor-Drew, Kadeejah Streets, Grffn Girl, Scott Burdette, bucket & Randy, Deano, Robbie & Brooke and everyone who encourages me to be me.

spaceotter live on BAAAHS (Big Ass Amazing Awesome Homosexual Sheep artcar), Friday night at Burning Man 2017. I played that night with Bezier (Honey Soundsystem), Rebolledo (Mayan Warrior), La Fraicheur (Bottom Forty/Leonizer, Berlin), and Nark (Bottom Forty, Seattle). It was quite the evening.

My fairly infamous, genre-spanning set at Electric Tea Garden for Proper, 2-2-13.

Coeffulgence: shining in radiant splendor, together. Born of the idea that our centers are connected, and that all beings co-evolve, despite surface seeming. See also: Immanence, radiance, interconnection. Psychedelic Love Affair: a sensual, erotic, musical, psychedelic broadsides against the state of despair. A series of mixes and future parties, where you can dance, touch, undress, massage, make out, make love and basically do what you erotically want to, while suffused with psychedelic music. #mostlywarmweird Thanks to Ben/Konifer and Lisa/ELLEM, Mark Lippert, Hanssen, Jenö, and Miles Mercer & Kinjo of Grounded...as well as ALWAYS to Erin O'Connor, Wesley Holmes, Kadeejah Streets, Night Train & Innerflight for inspirations, camaraderie and beloved interactions. Big love to all my radical faeries and burners as well. (Based on my live set at Grounded's "All Due Respect" party at Woodsky's in Fremont, Seattle on June 25, 2017, with some embellishments.)

Live at the Seattle Erotic Art Festival Pride Afterparty at Fremont Studios, 6-22-12. Opening for the glorious Pezzner.

My intention for this mix was to create a psychedelic battering ram to the current state of horror and despair. A way of break through to a better Spring. * Thanks to visual collaborator Brian Akey for the incredible graphics! Instagram: bakey_graphics * Love to the Radical Faeries who inspired so much, including the concept of the Psychedelic Love Affair--imagined as a party where you can dance, make out, relax, fuck, do yoga, sleep, massage, eat, thrive, live, exult, empty out, fill up again...all to gorgeous melodic music on the psychedelic edge of house and techno. #WarmWeirdMostly. * Mad love and endless respect to Jenö, Lily Ackerman, Roman Flügel, the Mayan Warrior, Ginkgo, Jerry Bonham, Powel, and especially Lee Burridge (and Robot Heart) for exposing me initially to so many of the flavors I used here. * Mad love to giraffe Mark Lippert for concept consultation; to Erin O'Connor-Drew, Wesley Holmes, Kadeejah, Finn, Biggie and Scott Burdette for the love and support. * Quote from my favorite play & movie, John Guare's "Six Degrees of Separation." 3/20/17

Live at Bottom Forty Pride 6-27-15, Big Building warehouse Seattle, 3 days after the Supreme Court ruled in favor of marriage equality.

Live @ the Bounce-a-Holiks Brunch 5-2-15. A triptych of 30 minute sets.

Live at Honey Dusted VI, Comfort & Joy, Burning Man 2012. It was quite the morning. This set ran from about 4-7:30am Saturday morning. Thanks to Honey Soundsystem (especially Jacob) and C&J for having me.

Monkey Loft back deck on New Year's Day 2017. Thanks to the Shameless Crew for having me.

Live at Soft Option at the Monkey Loft, 11-5-16 for the Seattle Church of House Music takeover with Erin O'Connor-Drew, Mr. Linden and Justin Earl. These are my two sets compiled into one long mix. Thanks to Michelle and Karl for having us! Photo by: David Newell

Test mix for November introversion. Drifty & deep & meditative.

Innerflight Podcast 59, recorded live 7/24/15 at the Seattle Eagle after I got back from Berlin. Heavily influenced by my experiences there. That sound at the beginning is an audio rendering of the Big Bang.

spaceotter live at subMerge, Kremwerk, Seattle 10-13-16

Recreation of my live set at Golden Gardns for Innerflight, September 2015. Mastering by Gene Lee.

From Soft Serving (Soft Option + Now Serving) on the Monkey Loft back deck, 7-3-16. 8-9am set.

Downturn--a downtempo mix I made in 2009, contemplating downturn: economic, spiritual, social--and what lies beyond.

Live at the Breitenbush Winter Faerie Gathering, 2012