ductape dj sets
Ductape is a fitting DJ name for events and production master Kate Lesta. The woman behind the moniker is a well-reputed curator, organizer, and event producer who has the ability to pull off parties, festivals, or experiences that most of us only dream of. Sometimes, she does it by taping a broken system together in order for the show to go on -- and we hear this strategy in her sets. As a DJ, Kate conjuncts dub techno, ambient, abstract, and sound design. With a slow hand while mixing, Ductape sets are quiet broadcasts for physiological, spiritual marination, which are best enjoyed during small outdoor parties in the mountainous woods.
 photo by scott kaplan, gemini 2011.
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This set was recorded at Chillits, held at Black Oak Ranch in Northern California, on September 14, 2019. Marc Leclair - 85e Jour - Musique Pour 3 Femmes Enceintes Purl + ProtoU - Morning Light - Sub Life Purl - Sagan (Warmth’s Place of Peace) - Sagan Warmth - Time as a Reward - Ambient Archives Vol. 3 Deepchord & Pulshar- Undercover (Ambisonic Version I) - Undercover Docetism - The Last Forest II - The Last Forest Isobel Waller-Bridge - Virginia Woolf - Vita & Virginia Isobel Waller-Bridge - Bedroom - Vita & Virginia Thomas Fehlmann - Treatment - Pop Ambient 2014 Donato Dozzy & Nuel - Aqua 5 - The Aquaplano Sessions Mountains - Blue Lanterns on East Oxford - Air Museum Charles Spearin - Vanessa - The Happiness Project Spirits of the Red City - Serves You Right - Daytrotter Session Evelyn Glennie & Fred Frith - Improv / Untitled Excerpt - Touch The Sound Alex Somers - Campfire - Captain Fantastic Doyeq - Train Travel - Eyelashes of Lanterns Isobel Waller-Bridge - After the Party - Vita & Virginia Isobel Waller-Bridge - Chapel - Vita & Virginia Henry Green / Corre - Rituals - Rituals Darren Harper - Small Remembrance - Paths |
from Derek Plaslaiko, curator of Snowprayers...
Many moons ago, Kate Simko was talking to me about "a girl you will meet one day who totally is your sister." I think we might have even called her on the phone right then and there. A bit of time passed, and then one day I did in fact meet her, and Ms Simko couldn't have been more spot on in her assessment. The girl is the curator of this long overdue (sorry bout that....) edition of Snowprayers: Kate Lesta. Kate is one of the busiest people I know. To list all of the projects she is involved with would take up far too much room for this description, but if there was 1 thing she's known for, it would be the always magical Communikey Festival (CMKY for short) which is thrown every spring in Boulder, CO. I have had the pleasure of playing 2 of them now, and even if I am not on the bill I still attend. If you have the opportunity to check it out in the future, I would absolutely recommend that you do so! Kate and her amazing crew put together a truly memorable experience, and the scenery can't be beat! Kate also works tirelessly to bring new talent stateside for tours and events. So, if you've gone to any electronic music events in the states that featured maybe an artist previously unheard of, chances are she might have had a hand in getting that person to play some amazing music for your head as well as your feet. These are the main reasons I wanted her to submit an edition for the series. The range of musical taste on Kate is extremely vast, and it certainly shines through this mix. Not only that, but like it states at the beginning... I definitely consider her to be part of my family. So, after the turkey settles tonight, throw this wonderful 2 hour ride on. But be careful... it just might get you pregnant. :) Kate, thank you SOO much for being such an amazing person in life, and for putting together this phenomenal edition of Snowprayers. |
hecanjog - suite one fourtet - peace for earth foxes in fiction - basement window + thank you sunday morning slacker - a million dreams windy & carl - the sun small prayer - rain in my face paper bird - peace of mind (pizza mind) - lake mary rework cmjk - st helens children (outro without meaning) andrew weathers - ecstatic, unchanging gillian welch - lvis presley blues bill callahan - all thoughts are prey to some beast cat power - shaking pepper dirty projector's - irresponsible song princess music - morning song of the thrush charles bradley - heartache and pain lee hazelwood- the little flowers grow le tigre - keep on livin' ombre - cara falsa oliver tank - up all night peter broderick - proposed solution to the mystery of the soul pavla & nouva - dont owe me a thing gently nowness - laura goldhamer - dj this that and the other rework sad livin' in the city - time for trees feat. layden bryant midas touch - boards of canada / hell interface rework tones on tail - real life oingo boingo - flesh n blood the field - everbody's gotta learn sometime hecanjog - suite two |
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Ductape - Enjoy The Silence - Make Mistakes | Photographic Memories
Artist | Track | Album | Label opiate - 1% in 2/3 speed - while you were sleeping - april mountain man - arabella - made the harbor - partisan jose gonzalez - instrumental - stay in the shade - imperial smog - say valley maker - a river ain't too much to love - drag city nils frahm - more - felt - erased tapes interlude white rainbow - sleep now we are soft (dirty projectors rmx) - box - marriage ben frost - theory of machines (reprise) - by the throat - bedroom community sufjan stevens - you are the blood - dark was the night - 4ad nicolas jaar - why didn't you save me - don't break my love - clown and sunset purity ring - lofticries - ungirthed ep - transparent peaking lights - synthy - 936 - not not fun nils frahm - peter - juno - erased tapes spirits of the red city - as animal - hunter moon - self-released |
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Ductape, Recorded live at Gemini 2011
in b flat brandon wolcott + emil - tango for faye charles spearin, the happiness project - mrs morris reprise braids - native speaker foxes in fiction - memory pool tuneyards - bidness twin shadow - tether beat dawn golden and rosy cross - white sun dirty projectors - rise above sufjan stevens - now that im older ramona cordova - givers reply mirah - while we have the sun |