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In SZ’s own words: I’m pleased to present a lil’ slice of my nearly 7hr set from No Way Back 2022. A wild ride that began with Vangelis and somehow meandered onto the CISCO hold theme? NWB, by far, is my favorite room to play as I get to truly stretch out and see all my friends at once. Year after year. A humble ty to everyone for letting me do my thing. Whatever the hell it is. If you ever figure...

Derek Plaslaiko at No Way Back May 29, 2022, night 2 of Return to the Source, a weekend at The Tangent. In his own words: “This was our first in-person NWB since before the pandemic hit. So, just that alone makes the whole night special. It was just SO amazing to have everyone in the same room again, going crazy to all these monster sets that everyone played. When I would look out from the stage,...

This is Duck Trash’s set from Tomorrow’s Fires, a party celebrating the release of Erika’s “Anevite Void” album on February 25, 2023. Mix theme: After getting abducted by aliens, one must learn how to adapt & grow plants on an unfamiliar planet in outer space. It’s hard to overstate the transformative power of the American Underground. Things get lost when it’s just a systematic big business, all...

Intergalactic Gary is one of our favorite selectors, as his gift is to transcend the boundaries of genre. For this set, you can feel his inspiration as he plays his favorite music from far and beyond to close the ultra heady indoor room of An Interdimensional New Years 2022 at Marble Bar, directly after a mesmerizing set from Mozhgan & Solar. What we got was one of the finest sets anyone could ask...

For Erika’s second album “Anevite Void”, she explores her live process as it permeates everything she does, including documenting the process of life in the elaborate sci fi mythology she created. @erikadotnet began performing live in Ectomorph in 1997 when she was gifted a TR-606 by BMG and asked to join the group. This grew to her building her own studio, performing solo as Erika, collaborating...

We’re launching this season’s podcast series with a slow burn set from Detroit veterans Scott Zacharias & Bill Spencer from our June 25th party, where they played directly before BMG who was playing before Titonton. This set is perfect for heady winter exploration, and this podcast also functions as a teaser for Erika’s album release party Tomorrow’s Fires happening Feb 25, where they will both pl...

Bileebob was living in the lofts at 1217 Griswold when I first met him, this is one of the seminal places that the post Music Institute Detroit scene grew out of. People who lived there performed or threw parties in their lofts for rent money, other people living at 1217 included Buzz Goree, the founders of Paxahau, De3n System. Bileebob’s an amazing and unique part of the Detroit scene, having cr...

Andy Toth casts a long shadow in the Detroit scene. From being co-founder of the Detroit Grand Pubahs to working as an engineer and mixer, he’s worked on so many records that you know but in his egoless way, didn’t know he was part of. Being the co-author of “Sandwiches” took him around the world, but more importantly it was the hold music for Mudgie’s, a legendary Detroit Deli run by another long...

Andrew Smith aka Jasen Loveland aka infinity was the embodiment of the spirit of No Way Back and Return to the Source, his energy, his neon colors, his front and center nature was such a core element of these parties. In 2019 he showed up to the party with a shirt he ordered off the internet that was a collage of all these pictures he had done of the Interdimensional Transmissions logo, it was so...

Adam Arthur lives in rural Arkansas where he records with his massive Buchla modular on his Funktion One system. We’ve never met anyone just like him, we first met him on the floor at No Way Back, then he came to our debut at Berghain in 2014. It grew to playing for him in Memphis and people like Larry Heard and Chad White showing up to the party. IT released a record from Adam last year, and he p...

For a good while, I did not think No Way Back would be a streaming event for the second year in a row, but as it became clear that was what was happening, I had to start thinking about this set. This was the opening set of the 36 hour stream, which gave me a lot of space to build things up incredibly slowly. There were a few things I knew I really wanted to include like the DJ Plead, Plastikman of...

"No Way Back is a big part of my life — the music, the people, the ethos, the vibe. Being asked to play was the ultimate honor, and I knew I needed to share something focused and personal. There are many great records out in the world, but only a handful of artists who produce nothing *but* great records. Norm Chambers is one of them. There are oceans of texture, color, and depth within each relea...

NWB weekly podcasts continue with a jacking otherworldly set from Mike Servito — featured as part of No Way Back: Streaming From Beyond 2021. As the unknown loomed so large for all of us in the last of our major streams, Servito brought a graceful power of mystery to the grooves he laid down. In his own words: "I was always fond of otherworldly sounds, alien textures, and musical escapism. Acid ha...

A live show for No Way Back Streaming From Beyond 2021 from experimental synth artist Raica. Chloe Harris is a renowned DJ & producer based in Seattle. As a true stalwart of the Pacific Northwest scene, she is the head of Further Records, both a store and a label (that has released artists as diverse as Hieroglyphic Being and Donato Dozzy). Here we find her exploring the beauty and caverns of her...

A live show for No Way Back: Streaming From Beyond 2021 from Outer Space Room residents Organic Dial, a duo of John Elliott and Drew Veres, true midwest freaks hailing from Cleveland. In their own words: “We wanted to make a set for No Way Back that had an infinite feeling, with sounds sort of running into one another like soft waves on a lake. Many of the tracks here were made to go on indefinite...

Doing the streams was an incredible release in a time of social separation, it allowed us to get together and show our growth, changes in approach, changes to body, changes to mind. The catharsis of a No Way Back set allows for a kind of spiritual rebirth. There’s been many phases to my approach to DJing technically, but one constant has been combining the love of so many genres and aspects of thi...

“My set for No Way Back last year was a difficult one to pull off. On one hand, I was fortunate enough to be able to record the mix inside Globus. This is one of my favorite rooms in the whole world to play in: a combination of a phenomenal DJ booth, a great sized room and flawless sound, not to mention the fact that it is inside the legendary Tresor Berlin. But, on the other hand, I had learned o...

Bay Area heroes Mozhgan & Solar at No Way Back: Streaming From Beyond 2021, going deep and hypnotic in the early morning as they bridge the sound of the No Way Back cavernous dance floor with the heady beginnings of the Outer Space Room, playing directly between Mike Servito and Scott Zacharias. This is pure high end psychedelia, perfectly executing their concept of mesmerizing throbbing, burning...

A rare freeform set from Carlos Souffront, archived from the Outer Space Room at No Way Back: Streaming From Beyond 2021. Going far beyond the boundaries of the dance floor and deep into his record collection, we get to experience a side of Carlos seldom seen. Carlos is a rare DJ where everything he does is just so thoughtful and layered, so it is really amazing to go on this adventure with him wh...

“The 2021 NWB stream was much different than the year before. For me, it felt like we were getting closer to reopening, all of us so ready for the party, and being honored with the opportunity to compose a 5-hour narrative meant I needed to reflect that energy and represent the dance floor we all love so much. I wanted to keep it heady like 2020 but focus more on what it would feel like to play th...

"This set is dedicated to the late Harold Budd, whose minimalist and often melancholic compositions on piano will forever remain influential. I began and ended the set with a selection of favorites from his solo and collaborative works. Special thanks to IT for giving me space to thrive as a DJ at No Way Back, and to my creative partner – Candace Price, for creating quite the wondrous abyss throug...

The weekly podcasts of No Way Back: Streaming From Beyond 2021 begins with a deeply psychedelic journey from Scott Zacharias. In his own words: “I would like to thank IT, Ian Clark and the UFO Factory in Detroit for hosting. Eerily, I had made a reference to ‘The Shining’ and empty venues, but as soon as the monitors warmed up, I was immediately lost again in the sound. I had recently been going t...

The hivemind of Ectomorph made its DJ world club debut at Samhain XXI, a collaboration of BMG & Erika on the Model 1 and effects. This is a recording of their closing set in Detroit on Saturday October 30th at Marble Bar.

Adam Arthur is the kind of character you just couldn’t make up. I first met him while he was dancing in front of me while I played at No Way Back, back when it was at 1515 Broadway. He later asked me to come play his living room in Memphis, “I have a Funktion One sound system” he said. His friends were pretty cool so I said why not? During my set on the dance floor in this small room I saw Larry H...

I.T. is proud to release this @noncompliant1 set from An Interdimensional New Years 2019, where she played directly after Titonton Duvanté. She always brings a fresh sound and vision to each performance, we look forward to seeing what she does for the Return of I.T. next week. In her own words: “So really the only things I was thinking about during that set were trying to build on the vibe and get...