Them Local

🟩🟥 Read a banned book. CHNGE ™ items available in-store at 2041 Coral St. - hours in bio!

“Close The App, Make The Ting,” launched by Elijah in July 2021, started as Instagram notes on post-lockdown creativity. It grew into an album, installations, a club night, and a lecture series. The book compiles inspiring ideas for artists in the 2020s. 🟨◼️◼️🟨

Available in-store and now online at themlocal.com

We love this photo by britt.kulick of Eva’s pick! 🙃

Velocity Press Elijah

Tomorrow awaits! Spatial Awareness is set to wrap up the season, and Cubby has gathered some incredible tunes over the past few months. We’ve been keeping a close ear on his music, which beautifully blends what’s on the horizon with beloved classics. 🫨➰

Caleb Reyes, known as Cubby, is a multimedia artist celebrated for his world-building prowess. His sound and style are distinctive and nostalgic, capturing the essence of the obscure and turning it into something familiar. Whether he’s DJing, creating art, or producing, his main goal is to spark an emotional and physical response from his audience—as a musician first and a DJ second, he brings that perspective to his artistry. Constantly immersed in music, he draws inspiration from a wide array of genres, including Detroit techno, tribal, deep house, ambient, club, jungle, and dub, among others. His curiosity about sound—how it’s crafted artistically and acoustically—drives him forward. Alongside conceptualizing and co-hosting Spatial Awareness, a weekly gathering at Percy focused on intentional listening and community building, Cubby can be heard at some of Philadelphia’s most established clubs and local radio/streaming programs on a monthly basis. 

time table>>>
3:00p-5:00p: Cyrus
5:00p-6:00p: Liquid Asset (live)
6:00p-7:00p: Cubby

Beverages by FORÎN

Flyer by Cubby

New in the shop: Mater Soap 💦

Mater Soap, based in Brooklyn, offers handmade, cold-process bar soaps and organic body products. Crafted in small batches with natural ingredients like plant oils, smoky pine tar, and red alkanet root powder, Mater Soap focuses on both function and well-being. Founded on a commitment to quality, it transforms your bathing routine into a mindful self-care ritual. Come check it out in person at 2041 Coral St ( inside FORÎN )

Join us this Saturday 9/5, as Spatial Awareness presents Liquid Asset for our next live act! ✳️✳️✳️

Liquid Asset is the electronic music project of Alene Marie, a Philadelphia-based producer with releases on labels like New York Trax and Summer Isle. She has performed at clubs and festivals including Bossa Nova Civic, MOMA PS1, and Sustain-Release. With over a decade in the underground music community, Alene creates synthesizer-based recordings and performances using both analog and digital equipment, often handbuilt. She works as an electrician in Philadelphia; her current work explores the class war and the push and pull of singularity with machines juxtaposed against daydreams of the fall of industrial society, in other words techno.

See you there ❇️

Flyer by Cubby

We’re just days away from our final summer gathering at the shop, and we’re ready to welcome Spatial Awareness, a staple in Philly’s scene since 2025. 🌱 The event will kick off with Cyrus, Sound Lounge @ Percy sound curator and 1/2 of Spatial Awareness.

They are a seasoned DJ, musician, artist, and avid record collector with 10+ years of experience behind the decks. Born and raised in Portland, OR, Cyrus carries with them the organic and hypnotic melancholy that life in the Pacific Northwest fosters. In Philly, they are currently working as the Programming Director at the Percy Sound Lounge where they focus on spotlighting artists who they believe are pushing the conversation around community and music forward including residents ADAB, Skeme Richards, Mario Cotto, and Nine of Wands. Their expression in all things is informed by spirituality, interactions with the natural world, the vitality of q***r community, imagining abolitionist futures, and the conviction that deep listening is the act through which human connection is most readily formed.

Join us 9/5 - starts at 3 pm! 🌀🌀🌀

We’re excited to wrap up our summer local series with where it all began. Spatial Awareness is a weekly in-town gathering hosted by our favorite duo Cubby and Cyrus. Exactly one year ago, we held a Them Local pop-up and DJ set at the Sound Lounge @ Percy , which eventually led to our b&m location upstairs at FORÎN - 2041 Coral St. On September 5th, we are thrilled to have them curating the afternoon at the shop. The event will feature a live act by Liquid Asset ( liquid asset ), with sets before, after, and in between by Spatial residents Cubby and Cyrus 🙂‍↕️

Spatial Awareness: “Their Thursday nights brings together listeners, DJs, producers, musicians, and artists to explore unconventional soundscapes in the comfortable, high-fidelity setting of the Sound Lounge. Every artist booked to play is chosen with complete trust to bring forward sounds that’s both unique and personal to them. Artists are given no assigned format or genre requirements, with limited suggestions, and are encouraged to play whatever they want. Spatial Awareness invites listeners to come with an open mind and tap into something beyond the ordinary.”

We can’t wait to see you there! 🌱

3pm-7pm * Coffee and cocktails by FORÎN

Flyer by Cubby

From us to you! 💐
Two randomly selected RA ticket buyers will get a goodie bag at the door!

> Giveaway #1: Includes an XL black long-sleeve ‘Tudo é no Guetto’ (Príncipe merch), 1 High Beam pennant designed by Andrew Vickery , + 2 posters.

> Giveaway #2: Classic 12’’ Record ‘Chá Preto’ by DJ N. Fox, the HB pennant, + 2 posters.

See you at 601 Spring Garden St, Philly BASTET - doors open at 10 pm. RA link in bio 🚨

NEW ARRIVALS ➰➰➰ In the shop:
1. Bim Sherman - Vinyl Ghetto Dub

NEW ARRIVALS ➰➰➰ In the shop:
2. Lukid - Underloop (Death Is Not The End, September 19, 2025)

NEW ARRIVALS ➰➰➰ In the shop:
3. Aziz Balouch - Sufi Hispano-Pakistani (Expanded) [Death Is Not The End]

NEW ARRIVALS ➰➰➰ In the shop:
4. Akane -  Night-Time Birds 

NEW ARRIVALS ➰➰➰ In the shop:
5. Trustee - uu014 

NEW ARRIVALS ➰➰➰ In the shop:
6. Drexciya -  Fusion Flats 

NEW ARRIVALS ➰➰➰ In the shop:
7. Fatima Al Qadiri - Asiatisch

NEW ARRIVALS ➰➰➰ In the shop:
8. Aubrey Hoermann - The Dance Flo-Funk EP

NEW ARRIVALS ➰➰➰ In the shop:
9. Damian’s Ghost - All I Remember (Single sided) 

NEW ARRIVALS ➰➰➰ In the shop:
10. A Night to Remember: UK Soundsystem Flyers, 1972-1994 (Death Is Not The End) Book

TL love recap on the past 3 months + gatherings at the shop with so much talent and care - may good times continue and stand vital. ✅ It’s not all about a shop; it would be meh without real connection, and of course: MUSIC - so THANK YOU to the artists and everyone who helped make this possible! 🫶

Thank you, FORÎN + team, for trusting us to be part of your space - truly grateful.

Next up >>> August, we are leaving the goods behind and welcoming our PT friends DJ N***a Fox , DJ Lycox , and DJ Danifox from the Príncipe Discos (debut in Philly!!), a special collab with the best of the best HIGH BEAM at the recently opened club BASTET , so we can sweat it all out! 💦

Eev Frances , SHUGAZI , nina , Nave Mãe on support duties up and down!

Tickets are in the second phase - don’t miss out on 8/08!!! Link in bio.
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