"No Way Back has, hands down, the best audience in the world. You all love music as much as I do, and are out there to hear what the DJs have to share with you, with open minds and hearts. You have guided me through a few of the most off-the-rails and out there sets I've ever done, so trying to play for you from my attic without our feedback loop presented a whole new challenge. In the absence of a human audience, I asked myself: How do I bridge the ecstatic witchy energy of Eris Drew and the hazy cerebral science of Patrick Russell, in a way that works for home listening (and cats)? The answer is found in this set, where I picked out a first track and winged it from there, navigating loose playlists and the metadata of unknown tracks, using the concept of "Eris to Patrick" rather than your energy to guide me."

— Erika =^^=

No Way Back: Streaming From Beyond

A 36+ hour take on No Way Back, with 24 hours of the No Way Back room residents and 12+ hours of the Outer Space room immediately following. An excess of the mindmelting wormhole dance experience followed by many hours of floating in space and beyond. When we considered podcasting some sets, we decided to just release them all, one week at a time, in an order different than their original broadcast, with the concept of bringing further ideas with the continuum to light.

For us the toughest moment of the pandemic shut down was the thought that we could not gather on Memorial Day weekend for our annual rite of No Way Back. We need our community now more than ever, to connect and to feel free, in a world of shifting real and unreal realities, sequestered in isolation, how can we get together? Time feels different now, we have more patience for everything, so we applied that space for exploration to the sets at No Way Back, extending them to 3 hours so the DJs can fully explore their ideas.

The Electrifyin' Mojo would say "if you reach the end of your rope, just tie a knot and don’t let go" and this stream and podcasts are our knot. This was the first ever NWB without a defined space, without the transformational art of Amber Gillen and crew, let's hope we can get together in the future safely. Grab a little bit of netting or a parachute, turn on some red lights, move into another dimension. Please stay safe and live to dance another day.

Artist - Track [Label]

Blue Hour - First Light (3KZ Jungle Mix) [Blue Hour]
Bluematter - Remorseless [E-Beamz]
Hooverian Blur - Old Gold [Sneaker Social Club]
Dead Man's Chest - Lo-Freq Soul (Soundboy Version) [Western Lore]
Borai & Denham Audio - Skrrrt [e-beamz]
Mystic State - Hemisphere (VIP Mix) [Artikal Music UK]
Calibre - Stranger [Exit Records UK]
Mauoq - Millipede [Diffrent Music]
Homemade Weapons - Swampdrain [self-released]
DLR - Busy [31 Recordings]
Antagonist - Enchant [Samurai Music]
Mike Parker - Siren's Theme [Enisslab]
No Spiritual Surrender - Spinning Circles [L.I.E.S.]
Kabuki - Iceberg [Beat Excursions]
Constrict - Notice To Thieves [Sweetbox]
Ronan - Star Fissure [Planet Euphorique]
Pugilist - Heavy Lies The Crown [Trule]
Yak - Esper [3024]
Mike Parker - The Melting Mask [Spazio Disponibile]
The Lone Flanger - Target [self-released]
Sonic - Workbench [Western Lore]
Andrea - Reinf [Ilian Tape]
Skee Mask - 800AB [Ilian Tape]
Daniel 58 - If It's Dead Now, When Was It Alive? [Parallel Minds]
Zenker Brothers - Sorting Peanuts [Ilian Tape]
LMajor - The Future [WNCL Recordings]
Calibre - Diamond Dub [The Nothing Special]
Minos - Aquaplaning [Don't Be Afraid]
Ehua - Picaboo [femme culture]
Batu & Lurka - Curved (Bambounou Hyper Street Remix) [Fringe White]
T++ - Space Break [Erosion]
Sepehr - Coup D'etat [Dark Entries]
Inner Lakes - Modularcut1 [Vae Victis Records]
Derailleur - Formula 14 (Adam Reid Remix) [Decade Box]
Cocktail Party Effect - Whose There [Transfigured Time]
Baby T - Portra (Hybrid Mix) [Samurai Music]
An Avrin - Slalom [SPE:C]
Cleveland - Gamma [Kalahari Oyster Cult]
b.mod - L of G [Animal Farm Records]
Amanda Mussi - Diving [Unterwegs]
Peter van Hoesen - Faultline [Enisslab]
Makaton - Bruise Violet [Voitax]
Shifted - Mixen [Stroboscopic Artefacts]
Syntaxism - Onar [Evod Music]
Alessandro Adriani ft Beau Wanzer - Inverted Aspects [Stroboscopic Artefacts]
Unknown Artist - Kralingen [Planet Rhythm]
FBK - No Body Fucking Cared [ART21]
Oscar Mulero - Transparent Ray [Warm Up Recordings]
Jonas Friedlich - Jazzersizzzze (Shed Rmx) [RFR Records]
Krypt - Aswan [Diffuse Reality Records]
Pyramidal Decode - Mida (2XXRemix) [Sigma5]
Xhin - Link (Lucy Remix) [Stroboscopic Artefacts]
Sebastian Mullaert - Elegy to the Void [Kontra-Musik]
Kosei Fukuda - Escapism Within Structure [Reiten]
Shlømo - Mouais (Sodeyama remix) [Taapion]
Alexander Kowalski & Mario Berger - 5 A.M. [Illegal Alien Records]
Giorgio Gigli & Lunatik - Warning Words [KR3 Records]
Mod21 - Offset [Evod Music]
Kon Janson - Extract III [Spatial Cues]
Ricardo Garduno - It Was Just A Hoax [Illegal Alien LTD]
James Bong - Hose [Mind Trip Records]
6siss - Zeal [R&S Records]
Falling Echoes - Rituals (Drafted Remix) [Illegal Alien Records]
Shifted - Seel [Stroboscopic Artefacts]
Deas - Empty Space [Materia]