Introducing Moods Season Six
Music and events that explore where the techno community came from—and explain why that matters.
Hi dearest reader,
You’re receiving this email for a few reasons. Maybe you contributed a Moods Mix over the past five years. Maybe you’re a long time fan and supporter of the work we’ve done in the past (since Drip in 2018!). Maybe you own our merch or came to an event. Whichever way, welcome to the new way we’re communicating our community to yours for Season Six.
In the past five years, Moods has platformed over 50 artists’ sonic origin stories since 2018, totaling 56+ hours of music and nearly 675+ songs from 475+ musicians. We’ve hit well over 22,000+ listeners across six continents. That’s around 25,000 hours of music played through Moods—or 2.8 years of nonstop music around the globe. And, might we add, we’ve distributed $8,926.13 to 55+ artists—and counting.
We moved our entire archive of mixes, interviews, and tracklists to this Substack so both founding supporters of Moods and new members of our family can quickly explore all past five seasons. It’s also a streamlined way to ensure the new Moods Mixes arrive nice and pretty in your inbox to listen, read, share, and discuss.
You’re welcome to share this letter with a few folks who you think would love what we do—or take it a step further and support our work by becoming a $5/mo donor on Substack or a monthly Paypal of $1/mo, $4/mo, or $20/mo. Our Substack will always be free, but your support will strengthen our work and expand our impact to new geographies, more stories, and larger payouts to artists:
Season Six will open next week with Detroit-based musician and DJ, Wetdog. We’ve also launched a new playlist (!!!!) that collects our favorite Soundcloud mixes and music from past Moods Alumni.
We’re so excited to share this year with you, and hope you stick along for the sonic ride. We’re sending our love and thanks to every Moods Alumni, as well as each and every one of you:
Endash, Lorelei, Tabby, CYBER GIRL, Noetry, Khlonez, Beige, Emily McGill, Picture Lock, Miguel Senquiz, Andrew Barren, Tessa Beck, V, Max Ellington, Anne Lacy, Icarus Redux, Corine Vermeulen, kels, M Parent, Nancy Kim, Erin Keeffe, Jasen Loveland, Cara Daley, Altstadt Echo, Vicki Siolos, Crystal Gause, Ash Lauryn, Anders Villani, kevinmcq, livwutang, Aaron Davis, Gold-E-Loxx, Dirty Daddy Don, Savile, Miguel Cisne, edamami, Operative, Veblen Defect, Tom Giardini, Gil A.D., jack withers, Honey Bun, Elif Cadoux, Brujx Boogie, Psy-Chick, Blackmoonchild, Molly Smith, dieSagar, MGUN, Corporeal, Detroit Bureau of Sound, Bale Defoe, Student Teacher, SABETYE, Otodojo, Gavilán Rayna Russom, Peer Review, and more to come <3
xoxo,
Moods Team (Daniel Sharp, Crystal Gause, Miguel Cisne)