Episode 34: "BROACHLESS" feat. PELLE ROCK aka salt_server *PREVIEW — FULL EP ON PATREON*

You are listening to the free version of Cloud Farm. For the full episode, sub to Patriot on Geyser. Swear down. Bash. I met her at an arcade and we were just vibing out, drinking bubble tea. Really, there's only one thing that matters, and that's love. And it comes in a very neat amount of forms. And that's the only neat. Oh, and also keep edging. So if love doesn't get you there, just keep edging. dancing in my room locked probably fucking naked with ten candles on around me dancing like a fucking crazy person and I just posted it as a passion project because I work at a fucking job and This isn't what I get paid to do. I just do it because I'm a fucking soul skater. Oh, God. And I literally walked to Starbucks with a load in my pants, dripping down. I was wearing, like, sweats with no shorts or any, like, barrier. Just, like, I could just feel it getting, like, onto my thighs. And I'm like, hey! And I'm like... Can you tell us about your relationship to Total Freedom? A.K.A. Ashley Mines. A.K.A. Bobby Beethoven. A.K.A. Big Gay DJ. Also, yeah. Also one of my personal favorites. I just learned about him, actually. So, I guess back to 2012, I had just heard about him. And those mixes were life-changing. And that's what really was like, okay, now I really just want to like actually try and like say something more than just putting songs together. So I got really into like deconstructed club, just making new sounds that people were still dancing, vibing to. There was still an energy. Like I'd already got exposed to like a ton of like musical genres. And so when I heard like all those old TF mixes, just like putting it in this absolutely insane,

just based on just the sound field he's creating. And also around the same time, you know, that whole like ghetto gothic, ghetto gothic, I think they just had a party again. But like that whole party was, I think this must have been like 2012, 2014, maybe. Did you go to some of these? Venus X is like a notorious lunatic, right? Yeah. Venus X is like a notorious lunatic. I went to a couple of Venus X sets. I went to... two ghetto gothic shows um one of the last ones they did because at that point i had moved kind of down to like jersey city um so i was able to like just go into the city more and just get exposed to just more and more music so go down there ghetto gothic going even further like down into brooklyn just going to really anything that was happening mix pack at the same time was doing shows towards the end too um so again just like a bunch of shit really started following uh total freedom just like all the music just it was it was like the the only thing i really wanted to like listen to that like arca just anything that really kind of made my mind melt um i also thought he was like really hot so i was like he's a sexy man i was like You're really hot and you're playing really good music and everybody's freaking out on the dance floor. How tall is he? Average height? Not your height. Maybe closer to your height. Taller than me. Which is to say not short. Got you. So just like basically being his biggest cheerleader on the dance floor because I was just like... Absolutely freaking out with all these other freaks because it was just like that, just embracing like your freak, you know? So then like one night I like go to a ghetto gothic show. I think it was like the 10th anniversary show. It was at like somewhere in Manhattan. I was like super high on MDMA. I took it way too early in the night. Go on the path train from Jersey City.

suddenly it's like that like dean blunt song like wine has she should molly i love that yeah so so that entire like dictation is basically part of how my night went but like while i get on to this is the train to world trade center i'm like on the craziest fucking come up like oh my god this is feeling um a bit scary now this is feeling like a spaceship what the fuck is happening and start to come up even more trying to navigate the subways i'm like trying to figure out how to get there i have like a watch on and my phone trying to get there get onto the next subway i sit down put my hands behind me like this because i just want to sit on them otherwise everybody's going to see me shaking i i just got like super socially like paranoid right like coming up on molly with nobody around that like i knew Um, so I'm sitting there on the train, go like five stops, ding, ding, get up, get off the train. Okay. Uh, I'm like three blocks down. Like my hands are still in my pockets. I'm like, okay, where the fuck am I supposed to go? My fucking phone is on the train. Oh God, I'm fucking high as fuck. And I don't know where I'm going. Uh, oh fuck, fuck, fuck, fuck. So I'm like somewhere in like hell's kitchen maybe, which is to say like, Midtown West, like 9th Avenue by like 49th, 50th Street. Pretty big gay hub. Really cool like drag scene. Or it used to be. But like pretty interesting scene. Was over there. Thought I was going to the right place. Still wanted to go to the show. Walked into just a drag club. Paid like $5. Walked through an entire drag show. I'm like, this is not ghetto gothic. What the fuck? Then I go. down like some like other street i'm like okay can you please tell me where like sony theater is they're like uh yes sir it's over here takes me to like a carport um right across the street is sony theater i still have my wallet i'm like okay let me just take money out to pay for the ticket i want to go see total freedom i said i was gonna fucking see total freedom tonight i'm not making this a shitty night i'm coming up so i take money out

there's like literally like a big prostitution scene right over there too nice where the atm is it's on a corner it's well lit but there's like just a lot of just like you know sexy time behavior and as soon as i take the money out i'm walking like i'm coming out of the towards the sewing theater this girl just like basically like grabs me right by like the side of my arm hooks into me she's like you're high as a kite tonight I'm like, and I literally just put my hands up like, I'm innocent. And she's like, you're weird. And her pimp was like, I don't know, like five meters behind. He's like, fuck that guy. Come on. So I'm like, did I really just try to get like fucking picked up right now? Walk across, go in. The thing is basically wrapping up. There's like maybe 10 people there now. I think. Maybe there were 50. Wait, what time of night is this? This is, like, 2 in the morning. Okay, yeah. I think Ash was playing at, like, 2.30 or 3, and it closed at 4. I was like, well, at least I'm going to see him play. Then it was, I think there was, like, two other performers. So I started, like, trying to calm down. I'm like, I'm going to at least watch him play. And as I'm saying, they're like, oh, fuck, like, I'm so high, and this is the worst night. Total Freedom just walks up to me and he's like, hey, and he gives me a hug. He's like, thank you for coming. I was like, what? Oh, my God. Like, what the fuck? This person that I like, this music I like listen to for all this fucking time and just meant so much. So then I was like, what the fuck? That was like the coolest thing ever for me. So I was like, wow, thanks. And then I just watched him play basically like. a noise set for an hour with nobody on the dance floor it was like just him in this giant theater i think occasionally like two or three people kind of came through like i think a couple finance bros came at the very end and

totally was just playing like like it was just basically sounded like gunfire and this like finance bro in a suit came and he did like the scar face like this type of thing like dancing i was like and i was super high that's sick this is actually fucking perfect yeah i'm i whatever my phone's gone um this is fucking cool and then i talked to him for like a few minutes maybe like after basically about the fact that i lost my phone i didn't really know what i was going to do but he was like at least you're alive and he made it here i was like very true and so we kind of just developed like like a weird friendship over time and during like covet i would say that kind of like um because he lived like downtown we just ended up chilling a lot more um so then I think like mid-COVID, he was going to like Fire Island for like, I don't know, like a weekend, like Fire Island gays do like shit in the woods. And there's a bunch of rich gays, as we all know, that run the world. And they also happen to be the biggest patron of the fucking arts. So, you know, a lot of gay shit happens and a lot of money gets spent. You know, artists do what artists do and sell art. And he was like, do you want to come like house sit my plants for like a weekend? I was like, fuck yeah. I'm like working from home. What do you mean? Do I want to like chill in like one of the coolest artists fucking studio for a week? Yeah. Let's do it. So I just stayed at his place, which was right across the water from me. So it was just like 10 minutes. And I go in, I'm like, are there going to be CDJs there? What if there's CDJs there? There's not going to be CDJs there. He did just do a mix. Maybe there's CDJs there. I go in and there's CDJs there. And I'm like, this is fucking incredible. Let's fucking go. And this is also around the same time, maybe three months prior, you would hit me up. Hey, any update on that mix, LOL? I'm like...

I don't type like a cug. You do LOL. I do LOL. David cucked out an LOL on the SoundCloud messages, perhaps. Wait, was that the first time you guys were in contact? We were in contact. I don't remember. I think we were in contact just around the time COVID was popping off. It might have been just before. Anyway, I'd made an empty promise to deliver a mix. And those promises were finally starting to come due. And everything kind of coalesced at the time that I saw CDJs at Ashland's apartment. Wait, you made that mix on Ashland's? So I basically downloaded Rekordbox at that point. I don't think I'd really... Oh, no, I had Rekordbox. So I just loaded tracks onto a USB and tried recording it. I recorded part of it. um on the cdjs and record another mix for like jerome on the cdjs and then i use wait who's jerome jerome is um matt from classical tracks shout out coach matt platform shout out matt shout out coach he's a legend so so again a lot of those things coalesce at the same time getting like really really really into funk when i got really really into all that electro DJ Medi, danceable shit. And then when I heard some of Ash's mixes, sorry, Bobby Beethoven's mixes, totally other area of Brazilian funk that was basically, to me, music of like the devil. I'm like, this is absolutely so sick. Why are these rhythms the way they are? The devil wrote this, for sure. But, you know, just like going further into like a SoundCloud hole. because now we're using SoundCloud way more like around Common Era, BC. I started getting really into just funk music that was made by like nine-year-olds basically that were, you know, basically, you know, very, very high on drugs and just making the absolute most insane music. Some gang-related music, some just like crime-related music.

And, like, why? Like, why are these rhythms so good? And why are they talking about all of this crazy shit? I mean, it's, you know, it's, why is gangster rap kind of, like, there's an element of truth, you know? If you really, like, try to pull apart gangster rap, it's like, you know. But... I've been studying such scriptures for days. You've been reading the scriptures, I can tell, yeah. Biatch. Biatch. No, but just, like, really glorifying crime and all of this stuff. So just getting very, very deep into a hole and on acid thinking that, oh, no, if I listen to any more of this, it's going to change my brain chemistry and I'm going to turn it into the devil. But then just like really getting into understanding the kind of the religious context of what's that in which that music is made to like like the Kandongle religion and Mbanda. Yes. The concept of an Orisha, which is a deity that assumes very specific characteristics. Wait, have you ever gone to an Umbanda? My housemate goes to it. No, but I'm very interested. I got really into the folk religions that kind of evolved from that whole diaspora. All of the music that we listen to today, if it's polyrhythmic, came from the African diaspora. We're just kind of playing in that sand. Which is to say, like, let's fucking party. Bobby does a land acknowledgement before he listens to any music. I do a fucking pussy acknowledgement before I fucking do any type of set. We typically try and raise, you know, to prominence one or more orishas while playing funk. That's just the die that was cast. Okay, so basically checkmark of my life, got the DJ in my favorite DJ's house. Are you still in contact with Ash? Yes, I mean, yes. What's he up to? I feel like he's, at least musically he's been a little bit reclusive. Musically he just played, musically he's Bobby Beethoven.

World traveling, jet-setting DJ. I saw him in Bushwick a couple weeks ago for this show versus where he was back-to-back with Machine Girl, DJ Chaotic Ugly, some other glorious folks in a wrestling ring. That sounds like total freedom, yeah. I have to say the one time I saw him DJ, this was a few years ago in Amsterdam at this place called OT301. which is coincidentally the place where I had the infamous Jam City encounter. Really? Jam City? Jam City. I'll tell you after. Is it? Okay. Yeah, you have been in a fight. I have been in a fight. Yeah, it's true. God, we can't talk about this now. Well, I've just like, we've done it. Oh, you've done it? Okay. Let's not beat a dead horse. He played a bunch of like hard techno stuff that really didn't do it for me. And I was, like, extremely excited because I just, like, knew him from his, like, online mixes, the stuff he's posted, which is obviously, which is... He played... You're saying Ash played hard techno with this thing? Yeah. It wasn't... It just really wasn't to my taste. You probably needed to go to a New York show, man. I don't know, bruh. I mean, I got the sense his sense was probably, like, really unpredictable. He didn't play a very good citizen. Yeah. Yeah, yeah, yeah. So... He wouldn't do that, like, now. i don't know maybe more inclined to do that so he was programming a night in tokyo i think um that that he's putting on i think next weekend or in two weeks i didn't realize it so i'm so i'm so fucking bad responding to texts like i don't know if that was covid or what but i need to be better about just being more responsive because he texted me and he was like are you in tokyo right now and i was like no why i'm in brooklyn and he was like have you ever been to tokyo and i didn't respond i was like is he just like what is he what is he on about so i was like what the fuck anyway like two weeks go by and we hang out um kind of uh like downtown i guess and he was like why didn't you respond i was like um i don't fucking know i'm really sorry

And he wanted to put me on that. So I was like... Oh, you were full for that, man. He was like, you're going to really regret that because I was really trying to book you for this. I was like... You were damn full for that. I'm fucking banned from fucking getting booked. I would be haunted. You should be haunted and traumatized. And really upset. You know, you live and you love. You live and you love and occasionally you learn. And I think this is one of those moments where I'm really learning. Clout is killing our people Clout is killing our people Clout is killing our people Clout is killing our people They move like the groupies, them Sending shots or snap But in real life don't use their skank