Will Soer

Last year I ran two OOBP day parties, at our usual times of year around the Mar / Sept equinoxes. The 1st party, at EartH Kitchen, involved a full band live set from Joviale, their first time playing out in years. The highly intense day started with someone telling me the room was just not set up for a band - thankfully it worked out, with help from EartH’s golden community studio team, @studi0_36 , photographed amazingly by @eric.aydin.barberini Joviale has since dropped their wonderful debut album, Mount Crystal. The 2nd party was in much smaller venue (HWK), but took much more work. We went through a full feedback process with Neuro-Diverse guests from previous events (facilitated by @jeanie_gee_ , plus extra insight from @disconeurotico ), and fully reworked the format. It was scary; prioritising neuro-diverse needs required cutting out parts of the party that I loved (parts that were also helpful for ticket sales). The new party had fully distinct spaces, a variety of activities, ranging from meditative to explorative, and explanatory welcome packs by @heartleeap Everyone who returned said that they preferred it (whether they were Neuro Diverse or not), filling me with excitement about pushing on and advocating for this stuff. Not a moment too soon - I was so ready to wind it down and live a simpler life, just doing my day job and chilling at the weekends. Talking of day job, I ended ‘25 by bringing in and managing my first full research project at @themix.global , exploring some new secret *things* that could be genuinely helpful for Neuro-Diverse people, having been freshly reminded how taking guidance from a range of ND people (as they discuss a world that wasn’t built for us) can make things more fun and more accessible for *everyone*. I’ve always intuitively believed this, so it feels surreal to be typing it into a Figma deck, sat alongside colleagues who have come to my party and seen the vision. Thank you to everyone who has supported my work this year. It was only 2 years ago that I was deeply unemployed, praying that one of my research job or event funding applications get accepted. Sometimes things suddenly work out.

some clips of @regaljason singing over my DJ set at the last @outofbodypop party, this was a lot of fun! Come see him singing with @funkbutcher and me DJing with @angusdymoke at the next party on 13.04, tickets on in my bio link tracklist - @jamesmassiah - Soon Touch (special instrumental that he emailed me the morning of the party Alaska - Accuse (official Instrumental, like it’s available on streaming services) @dojacat - Get Into It (Yuh) (very unofficial pre-AI kareoke instrumental) Johnta Austin - The one that got away (cool HQ instrumental that I found online and got very excited about because I originally downloaded a mid quality instrumental of this track off some random mp3 site a decade ago and wanted to DJ it but wasn’t sure how it would sound on big speakers, no need to worry!)

Little bit of studio footage from my NTS guestmix for @marshmello7s ’ Midnight Marauders show… if you’re wondering why I’m serving Blue Steel till kingdom come it’s because I never practice my mixes or choose what specific tracks I’ll play, so I don’t know if any of this is gonna work! You can listen back to the show via my BIO LINK, or get tickets for the next OOBP show, where I’ll be DJing with live vocals from @regaljason Of course I did prepare for the show, I’d been putting together a ‘Midnight Marauders’ playlist for maybe 6 months, although I only ended up bringing in a small section of it, based on what made sense on re-listen and with reference to the @gabrielleultras short story reading in the middle of the mix. Main upside of this process it makes listening back to the shows, very fun, hearing my favourite music mixed by one slightly chaotic boi! 🎵 Sadness is on his way - @murkagedave Daniel - @batforlashes

I’m one part Scottish and zero parts driving license holder, very lucky to have miss mufferino in my life

So excited for @outofbodypop tomorrow, tickets in bio!

@outofbodypop April 19th

@murkagedave ’s new album Brut Thoughts is out today (and also today is Bandcamp Friday), go check it out and support the GOAT I went down to Bristol last week to hear it for the first time alongside some of the other MD Ultras, and also to check in on some other people and pigeons as they wade through this strange world Check my bio link for a piece I wrote that’s tangential to the album, and to hear the unplanned sequence of tracks that I played immediately after runthrough 1 of the album was done, I’m gonna head outside now for runthrough 2 💛

Very fun Tuesday, I got to DJ at @murkagedave ’s album party in @gigispizzashop in Bristol, responding to the music after hearing it for the first time, good times, ‘Brut Thoughts’ is out this Friday (Bandcamp Friday no less) I made a Soundcloud playlist of the tracks that I played and wrote a Substack piece about the week leading up to it, you can find both in my bio

treated myself to an iTunes cleanup yesterday, locating old files for tracks that had been unplayable since I messed my filing system up in 2016 I had a listen to them this morning in the park and wowwww they really hit alongside the first sunshine we’ve seen in ages, ooof thank you This one is from 2008, ‘Laughter Crescendo’ by Bassnectar, I love this kind of wacky crusty bouncey quasi-EDM stuff, (probably got blown out of popular consciousness by Dubstep), like KOAN Sound

xmas 25 throwback his previous owner named him Roe, my mum and so my family call him Rollie

Spaces!