In The Window

A soulful mix from Leeds-based selector blending funk, Afrobeat, and highlife heat for the at at the end of last year! 

Check out the full mix on our YouTube - link in bio 🔗

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“I recently came across Trüby Trio’s mix from 2001 (DJ-Kicks), and knew I wanted to start with High Jazz because it’s such a banger; then the mix was kind of negotiating how to exit that clubby vibe and move towards playing funk/disco, which is my true favourite genre to mix. I travelled there via Afrobeat and Highlife goodness, and the occasional off-the-wall track.” – DJ TalisMan

📍 Recorded at: Outlaws Yacht Club
📅 Date: 20/11/2025
🎧 Genres: Funk, Afrobeat, Highlife

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🗣️ Q&A with DJ TalisMan 🗣️

💡 What sparked your interest in digging/collecting music? Was it a person, experience, or specific moment?

I would say that my dad has always been quietly inspiring me to be a DJ. Him and my uncle started DJing in their youth as the Stewart Brothers; I hear stories of Tenerife, and their jaunt as EFM (the “Elite Funk Masters”). Shortly after I was born, my dad acquired a record distribution company for a quid (the parent company was going bust), so I grew up surrounded by vinyl. For a while, I’d been making a playlist of a “dream DJ set”, and decided to just rip the plaster off. I have a few DJ friends who gave me sage advice and kindly let me use their decks. I played my first house party at the end of 2023. That morning was the first time I’d ever interacted with CDJs. Somehow, it was still one of the best times I’ve mixed (or at least I thought so…)

Read the full interview on our YouTube…

A raw and rhythmic mix from Leeds-based selector Eve Lizard from our recording with in at the end of last year!

A massive thank you to for organising ❤️

“I did toy with doing a super sunshiney lovely house mix to beat the looming winter blues, but instead I just tried to lean into the weirdness of the deep dark autumn nights :) Lots of techno, etc. featuring: broken rhythms, spacey trippy atmospheres, sub bass and drum machine workouts. Music that I feel in my whole body, stuff that makes my eyes roll back in my head and puts a grin on my face on the dancefloor. Admittedly probably too heavy for the evening hours of a Thursday night!! but I hope you find some enjoyment in it anyway ❤️” – Eve Lizard

📍 Recorded at: Outlaws Yacht Club
📅 Date: 20/11/2025
🎧 Genres: Tech House, Techno, Breakbeat

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🗣️ Q&A with Eve Lizard 🗣️

💡 What sparked your interest in digging/collecting music? Was it a person, experience, or specific moment?
I got super into dance music as a young adult, all thanks to the wonderful scene in Leeds and the countless amazingly talented DJs here playing great music :) I had a regrettable EDM phase as a kid that I wanna say sparked some sort of electronic music love… but idk. Really it was punk, emo, and indie rock that got me into digging obscure music rabbit holes as a teenager! I started going out to very student-centric parties playing mostly garage, where the crowds were often very hyper-masculine & standoffish. But just hearing that music on soundsystems was enough to give me the bug, and I started seeking out parties with more interesting music and much nicer crowds. The q***r party + underground dance scenes in Leeds are fantastic & inspiringly resilient despite a lot of struggle. I would not be DJing at all without all the lovely people I’ve met here!

Watch the full mix, link in bio 🔗

We’re joined by (Rachel Jazz) of and the co-founder of - for a seriously slick set of Deep House, Dub Techno and Downtempo, recorded live from , Leeds.

“I think I have a fairly broad taste in music but find myself drawn towards tracks with elements of jazz, funk, or dub. I rarely do an all electronic mix as I flit between disco and jazz adjacent stuff a lot but this time I wanted to embrace the deeper, dubbier, electronic side of my collection. As of late I’ve been really digging Francois K’s Deep Space mix series and I think a lot of that comes through in this mix. I also love a lot of early 90s ambient which I wanted to pay homage to here.”
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🗣️ Q&A with Rachel Jazz 🗣️

💡 What sparked your interest in digging/collecting music?

I’ve been an electric guitarist since I was 8 and built my own bass guitar at 16. It was figuring out how to work my loop pedal with all the crazy effects which really sparked my interest which was a nice segue into properly discovering electronic music when I was about 19. I used to collect CDs when I was a teenager and still have a decent collection of prog rock and jazz fusion with some hip hop, metal, and funk thrown in.

🎚️ Tell us about any parties, events, collectives or labels that have inspired you.

Where to start! I think everyone that runs parties in Leeds inspires me as the job is so tough right now so everyone who painstakingly puts on nights with love and attention to detail deserves a raise and a big hug.

Hearing 10-minute gospel tracks at or tunes like “Underwater” by Harry Thumann at gave me the confidence to embrace playing what I wanted to hear, rather than what I think I should play as a DJ (i.e. generic house music). Hearing Andrea Dama at my first .x.x was my first “what the hell am I dancing to” moment, blew my mind. Had never heard of New Beat or proto-trance, leftfield disco stuff. Still one of my favourite sets to this day. Working at Outlaws Yacht Club also exposed me to a huge variety of music, as did going to , , and

We welcome back Dinx () for a wonderfully joyous journey through disco and funk from across the globe. A true lover of the scene, Dinx and her cru at are part of the heartbeat keeping Leeds alive. We love partying, we love Dinx!

Catch Dinx and her cru down at this evening for an absolutely mega party on the sound system with .

“I played music that makes me feel really happy, hoping others would feel the same. The Lift Your Feet crew and the atmosphere they created was a perfect reflection of that.” – Dinx

📍 Recorded at:
📅 Date: 08/11/2025

💡 What sparked your interest in digging/collecting music?

I grew up in Suffolk with enthusiastic diy band scene and a family that loved to dance in the kitchen. Moving to Leeds, clubbing and house parties opened a whole new world for me musically. A few years in (Roy Radiant) gave me a tiny USB labelled ‘Dinx’. I’d not considered DJing myself before and without him I don’t know if I would have taken that step.

🎚️ Tell us about any parties, events, collectives or labels that have inspired you.

Parties and collectives in the north continually inspire me , , .x.x, .heia.records, and to name a few.

recently played at in Nottingham which made me feel a genre of joy only q***r dance floors can produce.

ALSO shoutout the inspirational Freddie for the love and energy he put into platforming people. The scene relies on cuties like him bringing people together