the butcher bird

This is the beginning of a mix series by me, the butcher bird. It is called Double Yolk and the premise of the series is that I will go b2b with as many friends as will put up with me. It is quite self-indulgent, because I’m a limelight-loving Leo 💁🏾‍♀️. I also really love b2bs because it means I get to hang out and jam with a person I like, as well as getting to think about my collection in new and interesting ways. The series is genre agnostic. I think the best b2bs are the product of two people whose collections are quite different, because when that’s the case, they create something together that they couldn’t have done on their own, so come to it with zero expectations other than that you’ll hear some great tunes. Primarily, this series is about noodling around and having fun. Tracklists are not provided simply because the thought of adding that to my admin list made me not want to do the series and also because I’m fairly sure everything I play is easily Shazamable, but if you come across anything that isn’t, just ask (nicely :) ) and I’ll be happy to provide, and I’m sure my b2buddies will do the same. Eggs forever. 🥚🍳

Suuuper excited to share my mix now that it’s out! With 945 submissions (apparently 11 times more than the previous season!) it was a huge privilege to be one of the 30 chosen. Join me on a ride through some techno, breaks, EBM and acid - it’s hot and heavy throughout. It was a pleasure to put this together; at times hands-in-the-air fun, and at other times introspective and deep. There’s a lot going on, which is exactly how I like it as a dancer too. The sets I enjoy the most are the ones that are a smorgasbord of sound, unabashedly maximalist and playful. I hope that’s how you’ll feel while listening. Swipe for clips and track list, as always 🤝 Big big thank you to @bccoberlin for this opportunity. It is easy to feel disheartened and like you’re bleating into the void when sending mixes out. This has been a huge confidence boost for me and I feel excited about putting together more mixes for more opportunities. Thank you to @glenn.seven and Toby from BCCO for being so kind and friendly and to the whole team for listening to the mixes and everything else that went into this 💕

The news out of Palestine in the last couple of days has left me feeling especially despairing. I’m in a contestant state of impotent rage because it feels like nothing we do makes any difference because the government doesn’t care. Then I remembered the impact that collective action had on McDonald’s etc and so I collated a few resources that would help with that. This includes BDS lists, the Gaza e-Sims website and some printable supermarket labels by @spellingmistakescostlives for those pots of Sabra hummus etc. So if you too feel like you want to do a little more than share things to stories but keep forgetting where to start, perhaps this would be helpful. The QR code in the post takes you straight to the link, or you can access it through my bio. So if anyone asks for links you can just point your phone at them :) Please feel free to suggest additions etc. It’s lacking things like templates you can use to email your MP and so on. 🇵🇸🍉✊🏾

Last month I was too exhausted to record a show, but this month I’m back on the airwaves, fuelled by a cluster of excellent gigs and nights out that lit a fire in me, and it’s good to be back 💥 This month’s show is a blend of new delights and old favourites and I am very happy with how it came together (so much so that I did a bit of bellowing into the mic before I got my shit together and calmed down). Wall-to-wall electro and techno, maximalist mayhem, with dystopia throughout. I only realised once I’d gotten the show together that I also opened my March show with a track by Jauzas the Shining 🙃 whose name I’m sure I continue to mispronounce. I have been digging deep through his discography and found so much stuff I loved that I almost did a show just on his work. Please go look it up! I thoroughly enjoyed seeing queen Deena Abdelwahed play at Phonox last month. She was brilliant, there was so much joy on that dance floor; she could have gone anywhere with that set and we’d have happily followed. Shortly after that I went to Don’t which was unreal. Not only were the tunes wild, the crowd was so lovely. Made some new friends, saw some old friends, danced so much my feet nearly fell off. That in combination with playing a couple of lovely gigs recently has lifted my spirits, and I’m looking forward to summer :) Listening Spa by Young Adults is forthcoming on @private_parts_records . Also, it was only after I did the show that I realised that HR101 is another of Human Rebellion’s aliases, but I’m still not sure why they’re billed as ‘Human Rebellion x HR101’ on that track, so if anyone can explain that to me please do :) Swipe for snippets and tracklist 🥚🥚🥚

I had the best time at @queensyardsummerparty 🥹💓 I wasn’t sure what it’d be like opening a (sort of) indoors venue on a sunny day, but people really showed up! The vibes in @growhackney were beautiful right up until the end when it was rave sardines for Jaye Ward and Elena Colombi. I had more track ID requests, fist bumps and cheers than I could’ve hoped for. Big thank you to @rosieama for the invite and the trust, it was an enormous privilege being on this lineup for @humanendeavourrecs and @clubscp ✨🌀 Tracks in the videos are: Bubblegum (Andrew Weatherall Remix) - Confidence Man I’m Your Queen - @anastasiazems Thank you also to @eddsowden and @dj_paniolo for the pics and vids 🙏🏾

We’re excited to be back at Queens Yard Summer Party in Hackney Wick this Saturday as we team up with our mates over at Human Endeavour Records, where you’ll find us at one of our favourite intimate spaces Grow. We can’t wait to be back alongside some of our favourite DJs including Elena Colombi, Jaye Ward, Harri Pepper, The Butcher Bird and more… Last few tickets available now over at Resident Advisor…

Tonight is the night, the Awaaz crew takeover Club Makossa from 8pm—1am!��the butcher bird, pallavi, ramnik & sway of the verses will be soundtracking your evening with a mixture of hip-hop, beats, jazz, disco, house, garage, dubstep, dnb, interspersed with south asian flavas, get the weekend started early! Happy Hour from 8-9:30pm ^^ Link in bio for tickets ^^ @eggsandbleach @p4llavi @ramniktatla @swayoftheverses @club_makossa_dalston @thefadedcommunity

Thursday is the new Friday and what better way to start the weekend with a basement boogie. Join the Awaaz collective at Club Makossa from 8pm-1am for eclectic rhythms, infectious grooves and experimental sounds. We are Awaaz (meaning 'noise' or 'sound in Punjabi/Hindi/Urdu), a collective of South Asian DJs aiming to uplift and share our love of music in all forms - be it classical Indian, jazz, funk and soul, techno, footwork, ambient and more. We are new on the circuit but not on the dance floor. Come join the Awaaz dance! ^^ Link in bio for tickets ^^ @eggsandbleach @p4llavi @ramniktatla @swayoftheverses @thefadedcommunity @club_makossa_dalston

For tonight’s @moderadio.london I’m joined by my musical clone: the butcher bird, for a very exciting B2B showcasing all the weird and wonderful corners of bass, dubstep and electro. Tune in 7-9pm tonight!!

Special triple yolk edition for Double Yolk 002! I’m so happy to have done a mix with my pals @balaclavaboifriend and @dj.drperra ; it’s extra special because we all learned to DJ together in 2023 through @mixnights :) This mix was definitely a hangout first and a mixing session second. We went at it with only the slenderest of plans and the knowledge that it would be fun because we have quite different collections that also unexpectedly work quite well together. We opted for chaos mode and went track for track, and this is mix is a long sashay through some slinky, bouncy, groovy bits. It was also a rare digital set from Dr Perra who is normally a wax-only queen. Thank you to these two for giving up some of their sunny bank holiday Monday to jam in a windowless Pirate studio 💓 swipe for snippets and cute pics. Link in stories and bio ⛓️🐣🥚🥚🥚

This time last week I went to bid farewell to my favourite club in the world. Across all the club closures over the years, the news of Corsica’s closure was the only one that made me cry, and multiple times at that. I managed to hold it together in the dance last Sunday, but only just. I first started dancing there in 2009, when I was a silly little student who didn’t fully appreciate the magical place I was in. My friends and I would buy tickets for whatever was going without doing much research and head down, confident in the knowledge that we’d have an amazing time. Corsica shaped who I am as a DJ and impacted my life well beyond the dance floor. I’ve met so many lovely people in that club and the memories there will be some of my most precious. I was lucky enough to play in Corsica, and experiencing that side of the dance only cemented my appreciation for the depth of care that went into running the club. A small example: I once played Maara’s ‘Serving Cunt’, which has vocals that say “take my photo why don’t you”, at which point the person doing the lights flashed the strobes as if it were a camera flash 😩💗 That attention to detail was threaded throughout the club consistently, in all the years it ran. The greatest thing about Corsica, for me, was the community and what drove it: taking care of djs and dancers alike, giving new nights the space to grow and thrive, and an organ-rearranging sound system that made the music soar. What they did should be a template for how clubs are run. There is so much more I could say. Thank you for all the memories 🖤

The inaugural mix of the Double Yolk series is of course the b2b that gave me a taste for b2bs: when @mfceol and I went to @mssnldn last year and played some dubstep and other bits. A dream pairing, as our collections went so well together and the whole thing felt smooth and symbiotic. We’ve since done a b2b in the club at MF Ceól’s party @start_parties and it was just as dreamy, especially playing more high-octane tunes under a bit of pressure. Sadly that set wasn’t recorded, but swipe for a foggy photo that’s proof it happened, and for some snippets of this mix.