Moods 87: BEIGE
The Bay Area meets Detroit—and vinyl keepsakes meet bittersweet memories.
Season Eight of Moods closes with none other than Detroit-based BEIGE. They’re technically no stranger to Moods—having recorded a Season One mix (yes, Season One from 2018!) for the Seraphine Collective invited by Khlonez. The Moods Team decided to have them back under their own name to warm us in the last weeks of 2025.
Known across the sonic cinematic universe as a T4TLUVNRG resident, Sustain Release stage closer, and Movement Detroit alumni, BEIGE collaged an hour and a half of songs pulled strictly from physical media: records and CDs tied to exes, lost friends, and former peers—keepsakes that outlast the relationships that delivered them.
From Bay Area beginnings to a decade in Detroit (with stops in between), they turn the detritus of memory into motion—folding love songs, dancefloor ghosts, and a few perfectly wrong-speed fixations into one long, tender goodbye.
Liner Notes
I restricted myself to my physical collection for this mix, and the organizing concept is “Connection Failed”. This is a collage of music left over from people who aren’t in my life anymore—various exes, brief entanglements, friends I’ve lost touch with, old industry peers—on good terms, bad terms, and/or fully cancelled. This is music I have either because they first put me on to the artist, gifted me a record from their personal collection, shared a special dancefloor moment, or in one case, left a CD at my house and never came back for it. From that pretty miscellaneous pool I kind of naturally filtered it down to mostly songs (and it’s definitely more song-y than track-y) about love and relationships to underline the larger theme. Some of these are personal classics which appear in my sets frequently or have made it into a mix before, and the rest I don’t think I’ve played publicly ever. Reals heads will recognize a coded message or two, plus my recent fixation on playing things at the wrong speed.
I’m very interested in the idea of how music as the physical detritus of memory can keep following us from place to place for years after the person who gave it to us is gone, and putting this together was a bittersweet way to explore that. I grew up mostly in the San Francisco Bay Area but left home at 15 and have been out on my own in the world ever since. Between there and here I lived in Massachusetts, Texas, and Australia, but I just celebrated the 10 year anniversary of my move to Detroit back in November. Each of those places shows up in this mix in some way.
Tracklist
Barry White - My Buddy
IMPEDANCE - TAINTED LOVE (Underground Mix)
Mary Stavin - Feeling Good, Being Bad (Special Disco Mix)
Jackie Moore - This Time Baby
Pet Shop Boys - Always On My Mind (Dance Version)
Evelyn Thomas - High Energy
eLBee BaD vs. L.B GooD - These Mutha Fukin DJ’s (Club Mixx)
Kinobe - Butterfly (Swag’s Falling Further Dub)
Communards - Don’t Leave Me This Way (The Gotham City Mix)
Abbacadabra - Lay All Your Love On Me (Dub)
Alex Cameron - Mongrel
Rhye - Open
Tina Turner - What’s Love Got To Do With It (Special Extended Mix)
Wet - Dreams
Shy Girls - Still Not Falling
Artwork
We’ve paired BEIGE’s mix with a found object sculpture by Ser Serpas. A discussion on the combo could ultimately be a two-hour lecture, but the shorthand is: we find both artist generate new combinations, references, and stories from the left-behind. Ser’s work, in her own words, is often made from materials gifted by friends. “I guess it had always been about space”—she notes—“collecting material to fill other spaces and still have an efficient life.”
For more on Ser Serpas, we recommend this interview from Flash Art.
For more on BEIGE, we recommend following them on Instagram.