06 / 08 · /mixes

Dr. Dissonance
on the decks.

The other job. 4,500-track AIFF library, four pro libraries in Rekordbox, and a tendency to mix Berlin house into 4 AM techno without telling anyone the transition is happening. Sets below — push play.

// dr. dissonance · live on soundcloud

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// catalog · 5 stations

What's on the shelf.

Rooftop set

77 tracks

Sunset · ambient electronica → house

Outdoor, golden-hour, friends.

Fusion

243 tracks

Eclectic electronic · genre-fluid

The library that started everything.

Berlin House

lib tracks

House · deep, dub, melodic

The Berlin years left a mark.

Techno

lib tracks

Techno · driving, hypnotic

For the late part of the night.

SET2021-10-08 (archived)

WAV tracks

1.26 GB live recording

A long one. Worth digging up.

// philosophy

Why DJing.

DJing is sequencing. It's the same engineering problem as the AGF data platform — feeds from different sources, real-time decisions, latency that has to be invisible — except the latency budget is a single bar and the failure mode is a crowd that walks off the floor.

"Dr. Dissonance" started as a joke about a synth-bio PhD doing 2 AM sets. The name stuck because dissonance is the interesting place — that moment in a mix where two tracks shouldn't fit and then do. Same instinct as cross-disciplinary engineering: bring the wrong things together and see what new pattern emerges.

Open to Sydney gigs. Open to private events. Open to bring-your-own-headphones rooftops. Not open to weddings (sorry).