BC154 - Five Mixes: November 2025
Catching up with the Joneses
Mark Broom, via SoundCloud
“Keeping up” is a relative thing around here, of course—I’ve been considering new releases alongside much older ones a lot of late. That’s rewarding, but it also cuts into the new stuff some—not to mention the abundance of list-making that occupies this time of year and puts me onto yet more goodies. I’ll be sharing some of those in due time. Meanwhile, here’s a little bit of catch-up. You can hear these five sets at this SoundCloud playlist.
Theo Parrish, Mixmag Lab Bali (Mixmag, November 13)
Lately, I’ve been thinking about the commonalities between Theo Parrish’s sets and Frederick Wiseman’s documentaries—their extended lengths reflect an abundance of material, not an inability to edit it, and that longevity allows them genuine panoramic sweep. The analogy falls apart at the level of concept: Wiseman enters a location and documents his surroundings; Parrish remakes his surroundings by choosing the music. But there’s something invigorating about immersing in both. This one is three and a half hours, seemingly caught mid-flow, the audience plenty audible, the levels occasionally overdriven, always buoyant. Want a place to start with him? You could do a lot worse.
Titonton Duvanté (Residual Recordings), The Lot Radio (November 15)
Recently, my friend Alfred Soto referred to Marlon Brando as “avocado-voiced,” a description that has been haunting me ever since—it’s so aleatory, so sleight-of-hand, so weirdly allusive, so startlingly apt. I have a similar kind of response to Titonton Duvanté as a DJ—he satisfies a particular itch, offers a specific palate, provides a particular texture and tang within a surpassing smoothness. Not bland—spare, techy, lightly psychedelic, comfortable but engaged. But subtle enough that the surprising amount of audible mixing in he does is only noticeable when you focus hard.
Kliopatrah Jones, RA.1013 (Resident Advisor, November 16)
Favorite DJ: Junior Vazquez. Opening voiceover: harsh but fair doorperson sizing up a potential entry. Emphasis: pumping cunty shit. Ending: “Rescue Me (Titanic Vocal).” Verdict: yessss.
Kush Jones, Rinse FM (November 16)
This edition’s other K. Jones’s set, for Rinse last month, is rangy and playful in much the way the other Rinse sets I’ve heard. There’s a lot of filtered throwbacks and chopped disco—in particular, one very popular singer from that realm makes a couple of appearances. The choppiness of some of the tracks in particular gives the set its edges; even the string-soaked stuff never gets to fully settle.
Mark Broom, Autechre Tour Mix_2025 (November 17)
Opening for Autechre seems like it would give one some leeway—a DJ might not worry so much about keeping the floor. (The venue in Minneapolis, at least, was small, and sold out fast.) But over this hour, an at-home approximation of his nightly set, which went unrecorded, Broom plays away from the straight four—leaning into the skids of jungle and its IDM cousins as rhythm and not just FX—and thus supercharges the straight four, gives it an edge and some added thrills. If this were performed in a club or party he’d be filling the floor anyway, not losing it. Just like every third DJ of 2025, Broom ends it with some drum & bass. In this case, it’s a Soundmurderer megamix—some of the most violently dismembered D&B drums in existence, an apt parallel with the headliners’ approach.