5 Women’s Day Compilations You Should Check Out
Every year, Women’s History Month is observed to spotlight women for their incredible contributions and efforts for the betterment and advancement of our society.
Every year, Women’s History Month is observed to spotlight women for their incredible contributions and efforts for the betterment and advancement of our society. To mark the end of Women’s History Month this year, we’ve handpicked some compilations that feature female artists for this momentous occasion! From LP Giobbi to foundation.fm, our list features six compilations that will fill you with awe and make you groove.
Femme House Vol. 2
Femme House started Women’s History Month with a compilation by teaming up with Insomniac Records. Comprising 14 tracks from the likes of female duo PAUZA, DJ/producer Julia Sandstorm, Baby Weight, and Mary Droppinz, the compilation opens with a tune from Femme House co-founders LP Giobbi and hermixalot, ‘How Deep Is Your Love.’
“The first dance track that I ever fell in love with was The Rapture’s How Deep Is Your Love. It was the first time I heard the piano layered with synths – the perfect combination of live and electronic and it led me down a rabbit hole into dance music. I wanted to pay homage to this special track by joining forces with my Femme House Co-founder @hermixalot,” Oregon-born DJ/producer LP Giobbi shared on Instagram.
“We created Femme House to teach women and gender expansive individuals how to produce music in hopes that one day women make up more than 2% of producers. We are honored to work with Insomniac to highlight all the amazing female and gender expansive talent out there!” They now have a weekly radio show on SiriusXM and free workshops on DJing as well as music production. Femme House’s programming also includes “specialized online coursework on studio techniques” as per their website.
Started in 2019, Femme House’s mission is to create “opportunities for women, gender-expansive, BIPOC, and LGBTQIA+ creatives in the technical and behind the scenes areas of music.”
Bodies
A new two-side compilation from foundation.fm arrived in March 2024! Titled ‘Bodies,’ Side A centers on club sounds “with themes towards the extreme, fun, harder,” while Side B displays an alternative sound “through notions of softer, experimental, down time pieces.” The femme-led radio station’s compilation consists of 12 tracks, six on each side. It features Ariel Zetina, a Tokyo-based audiovisual unit tamanaramen, LUXE, and Ikonika, among others.
‘Poison and the Cure’ from Pesh, Leo Gosh’s ‘I Guess, I’m Living,’ and ‘Raining’ by Club Eat are also part of the project. ‘Bodies’ is foundation.fm’s very first compilation and was released on International Women’s Day. “bringing together two worlds/sides that allow artists to have more freedom on tracks they feel inspired to make,” foundation.fm wrote on Instagram while sharing the compilation.
<GEO>
On International Women’s Day this year, Seoul-based imprint The Internatiiional presented a compilation of a whopping 32 tracks! The party collective curated the Korean electronic music compilation, <GEO>, with tracks from KISEWA, Soomin Kim, KIRARA, and Yuzo Yetsubi, and uman therma of Salamanda. It is The Internatiiional’s second release.
“<GEO> encompasses all music that can be embraced on the basis of electronic music, from Ambient, Breakcore, and Contemporary to Dance floors Music and Hyper pop. It serves as an indicator for the art of time, demonstrated by 32 artists who are not bound by tempo, rhythm, tonal, or a-tonal. It is also a geography drawn by connecting diverse electronic musicians in South Korea, each with their own story, breaking the boundaries of music,” The Internatiiional shared in a statement via Instagram.
Proceeds from the sales of <GEO> on Bandcamp will go to the Korea Women’s Hotline, which protects women from violence, sexual violence, human trafficking, and domestic violence.
fabric’s IWD24: International Women’s Day 2024
fabric brings to you a curation of 14 mixes from DJ Gigola, Nala Brown, PARAMIDA, Daria Kolosova, and more. Their brand new mix has been available on SoundCloud since International Women’s Day on March 8. The mix spans genres from artists “techno, house, bass and beyond.” This project, fabric says, features: “the scene’s most formidable, established and emerging talent” and “celebrates pioneering female artists working, playing and hustling in the scene today.”
Radiant Love IWD Comp Vol 3
In 2022, Berlin-based label Radiant Love offered a new compilation titled ‘Radiant Love IWD Comp Vol 3.’ This is the third annual compilation from Radiant Love and it featured 15 tracks from Australian DJ/producer Roza Terenzi, Helsinki-based DJ/producer Sansibar, Berlin-based DJ/producer D.Dan, and Canadian DJ D. Tiffany, among others. The proceeds from this compilation were to be donated to charities “working to create safe sleeping spaces for homeless migrants, trans, inter and queer health care and people with disabilities in Berlin as well as various charities in Ukraine,” as per Radiant Love’s post on Instagram.
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