Boy, crush, by ASA 808

Boy, crush

by ASA 808

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1.	Bliss 06:14	info	buy track
2.	Fill Your Lungs With Peace 04:24	info	buy track
3.	Boy, crush 03:51	info	buy track
4.	ASA 808, DAEDE - Love No Matter What feat. DAEDE 04:17	lyrics	buy track
daede high daede love liebe dich no matter what high sein lila wolken 8 0 8 and rainbows lieber high on love liebe dich no matter what high sein lila blumen kiss kiss kiss und alles gute daede high daede love liebe mich no matter what high sein lila wolken 8 0 8 and unicorns lieber high on love liebe dich no matter what lieb sein lila blumen kiss kiss kiss und alles gute kiss kiss kiss und alles gute lieber high on love liebe dich no matter what lieb sein lila blumen kiss kiss kiss und alles gute
5.	Another First Next Time feat. Séverine 06:17	info	buy track
6.	Healing 05:24	info	buy track
7.	Ataraxia feat. Séverine 06:33	lyrics	buy track
Vocals by Séverine Marguin
8.	Detox Masculinity 07:18	info	buy track

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ASA 808’s new album Boy, crush is a very personal inner journey as well as a call to fight and free ourselves from toxic masculinity. In eight tracks that subtly merge electronica, ambient, breakbeat and house, the Berlin-based artist processes their own quest for gender identity. Out on vinyl and digital via the TOYS Berlin imprint, the album proposes new, softer and more diverse forms of gender fluidity.

ASA 808 invites listeners to expand their views of the gender spectrum. The title Boy, crush plays with the term “boy crush” and is meant as an encouragement for all men to collectively crush manhood with all its toxic traits and consequences:
“Toxic masculinity has kept our grandmothers and mothers small and brought deviant boys into line. It took me a long time to unlearn so much sexism and queerphobia, and find my inner queer child again to let it grow, bloom and shine. I dream of a world in which men emasculate themselves and choose to embrace softness, weakness, vulnerability, solidarity, consideration, mindfulness, self-reflectiveness and nonviolence", explains the non-binary producer and DJ who discovered their gender-nonconforming side at an early age.

"I loved to dress up and dance when I was a kid. I loved everything that glittered and sparkled. My best friends were girls. I often felt like boys’ nights were a downward spiral and tried to refuse my socialization as a man. Still today, it seems to me that so many toxic behaviors are linked to hegemonic ideas of masculinity. We’re all suffering from them, whether we’re men or not, whether we want it or not, some obviously more than others.”
To free ourselves from the restraints of patriarchy, ASA 808 always saw the dancefloor as a potential space for emancipation where everyone should feel included and safe.

While the introverted ambient tracks on the album were recorded during the pandemic, the more energetic tracks emerged when life returned to the city and clubs reopened.
"Everyone was hungry for culture and there was a very exciting and blissful energy in the air", recalls ASA, who released previously on George FitzGerald’s MakeMusic imprint and developed a special connection to the capital's nightlife through their own TOYS fundraiser parties.

credits

released October 28, 2022

TOYS010 // TOYS Berlin 2022

All tracks written, produced & engineered by A. Rudolf / mastered by Moomin.

Vocals & lyrics: "Love no matter what" by Laura Daedelow, "Ataraxia" & "Another first next time" by Séverine Marguin.

Design by Hayung von Oepen / cover photo by Marco Lehmbeck
Special thanks for making this happen: Antonio Cárdenas, Phil Darimont, Marie-Claire Wygand & James Moorton.

Supported by Initiative Musik gGmbH with project funds from the Federal Government Commissioner for Culture and Media.

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ASA 808 Berlin, Germany

[he/they] Producer / DJ / radio host / rave maker / Cute Laune Festival + TOYS Berlin collective & label founder. Tracks on MakeMusic Club, TOYS Berlin, Blank & Yarn Audio. Bookings: booking@toysberlin.de

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COLOR / BLIND

Sep 2023
SOMA

Mar 2023
YOWSE

Mar 2023
Boy, crush

Oct 2022

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