014 SAGITTARIUS TEEP
This month’s episode of Libra Radio we collaborated with Sagittarius Teep for his weekly radio show sewersounds on WMBR Cambridge, MA 88.1FM. Sewersounds is the undercurrent of electronix presented via a live-mix moodmat.
You can tune into his OTA show tonight, his birthday December 17th 10-11pm EST on WMBR. Check out past shows under the Grit Chamber section of his website.
We spoke with Teep about his process and concept behind sewersounds and what it’s like to be a Sagittarius on the radio.
LR- How does being a Sagittarius relate to your relationship with music and curating music as a DJ?
TEEP- Sagittarius is a collector of experiences and being ruled by Jupiter, is right at home on a quest for abundance. Week to week I crave new sounds and styles, admittedly to excess. Curation then is a process of finding optimism for songs that I think others will similarly enjoy. True to fire sign form, I want to share my enthusiasm for the music that makes it into my sets. I feel lucky when my instincts are affirmed, but in the end I don’t need that, as Sagittarius are content with being independent. After all, I’m just sharing what I already love.
LR- What was your inspiration for this set / moodmat?
TEEP- I have a vivid memory of an after party, in a basement somewhere in Brighton in the 90s, where the headliner from the night (Onionz) turned up and turned it out. The party was raw, sweaty, and totally jumping. The music was funky but deep and far out. So that’s the mood I tried to rep here. 100% underground after hours house party. If you were in that basement, you were dancing.
LR- Tell us more about sewersounds. How it all started and your moodmats.
TEEP- First, I need to give props to Unit Moebius who’s track on Interr-Ference HM1201 called “sewer” is certainly a part of the inspiration for sewersounds. The concept is just this, if commercial radio exists above the streets, the turf I’m interested in operating in, is under the manhole cover that is our logo. Or as my WMBR program guide show description reads "The undercurrent of electronix presented via a live-mix moodmat.” The moodmat concept was from the mind of Dan Sicko, who sought to unchain collections of music from genres that he felt would trap radio into a format. No question he was inspired by the Electrifying Mojo in this idea, to be guided to bring instead, a moodmat. The show in its current 10-11pm Thursday spot, has been on WMBR since May 2019, but earlier sewersounds shows ran from 2011 to 2013 10-Midnight on Thursdays.
Tracklist:
Artist - Song - Album
No Moon - Aoe_Rushin - Set Phasers to Stun
A Sagittariun - The Soft Machine - Live From The Sea Of Tranquility
Chupacabras - Piddle - s/t
Ben Pest - Mouth Lawson - Vim & Vigour
Hadamard - City To City - When Cities Collide IX
Zenker Brothers - Intense Incense - ITLP07 Zenker Brothers - Cosmic Transmission
Aleksi Perälä - FI3AC2031040 - Spectrum 3
Denham Audio - Check 1 - Feel The Panic EP
Pearson Sound - Alien Mode - Alien Mode EP
Aleksi Perälä - D1_ UKMH51900047 - Resonance
Anz - Loos In Twos (NRG) - Loos In Twos (NRG)
Tom Jarmey - Pale Sky - Amber Glass LP
Caribou - Sunny's Time (Logic1000 Remix) - Suddenly Remixes EP
EDTS-001 - (BONUS) DJ AGONY - PUMP THAT BASS FOR AGONY EDTS-001
Drexciya - The Last Transmission - Journey Of The Deep Sea Dweller IV
Sewersounds seeks to present a genre free (but not freeform) “moodmat” (not format) of music. More precisely, the music presented will not be qualified by commercial genre labels, but by the more qualitative characteristics that can be used to describe it: dirty or lo-fi, dense or sparse, liquid or solid.