Sonic Studies
Recorded explorations in rhythm, structure, and sonic storytelling.
These mixes document moments of experimentation within the Big Cat Energy project — short studies, longer journeys, and fragments captured during the ongoing Tiger Experiment.
2026, March
A short recording documenting my experimentation with UK Garage House.
March 5, 2026 — Arrival of Loud Lion
I started filming this to create a POV-style video of how I mix music for others to see.
I didn’t yet have a proper hands-free phone mount, so it was harder to mix with the level of technical involvement I had originally intended... BUT, I was having too much fun inside these large-scale, anthemic soundscapes to stop recording.
I kept going so I could capture the feeling, return to it later, and share that moment of scale, energy, and warmth with my community.
I hope these lion calls inspire in you the same strength and joy they bring out in me. However the music moves you inside, I hope it moves you to dance on the outside.
Authentically yours,
BCE 💜🦁
2026, March 17
Afro House Expression — within Big Cat Energy 🐅
This expression exists within the broader Big Cat Energy framework, functioning as an artistic and experiential lens rather than a brand or product.
It lives in a rhythm-forward, melodic space—intersecting with Afro House and global groove-driven sounds.
The focus is not on drops or peak moments, but on sustained movement, layered percussion, and immersive flow.
Sets unfold steadily and with intention, designed to be felt in the body as much as the mind.
Within this space, the Leopard and Jaguar archetypes are most present 🐆
Leopard holds the foundation—fluid, precise, and adaptive. Movement follows the groove rather than imposing upon it. Transitions are controlled and unforced, allowing continuity to remain intact. Jaguar introduces depth. A quieter presence. A grounded, nocturnal quality that emerges through space, restraint, and immersion rather than emphasis. At times, Lion energy may surface in more vocal or uplifting moments, but it does not define the overall tone 🦁
The result is a sound that is rhythmic, hypnotic, and embodied. It invites connection—internally and collectively—through presence, participation, and shared experience, without relying on intensity, spectacle, or the extraction of attention.
This expression is grounded in a broader way of moving through the world—one that values authenticity, consent, and non-transactional connection. This is not about branding or ownership. It is about creating and holding a shared state 🤝💜
Track Credits:
Yamore by MoBlack → My Love for You (Yebba’s Heartbreak) by Marten Lou
Big Cat Energy 🐯
Enter: Snow Leopard 🤍🐆
A short mix shaped through the Big Cat Energy “Snow Leopard” motif, with a progressive-leaning melodic house & techno edge.
This recording explores patient layering, emotional continuity, and the shaping of a single extended atmosphere rather than simple, linear track-to-track progression.
The movement here dips into and out of each track rather than connecting them head to tail. Toyger calls to Tell Me, and Tell Me responds — waiting for Toyger to say its piece before carrying the story forward.
With tracks like Toyger (Mees Salomé Remix) into Tell Me, and an intro sample from Reminiscing by Nora En Pure, this mix follows spacious, hypnotic, gradually evolving soundscapes into a more sculpted environment.
It carries emotion through atmosphere, restraint, and return.
This work belongs to an ongoing evolution in taste, structure, and aesthetic choice.
In quiet appreciation,
BCE 🐆
Track credits:
Intro sample from “Reminiscing” — Nora En Pure
Toyger (Mees Salomé Remix) — Olivier Weiter, Mees Salomé
Tell Me — Familiar Faces
2026, April 4
This set lives in the space of becoming.
It is not necessarily part of a defined motif project like Loud Lion, Snow Leopard, or I Am Tiger, and that is okay. Some work lands clearly inside a named archetype. Some work belongs to the archive of growth in motion. This one feels like an experiment, a refinement study, and a document of development as I continue shaping my voice as a DJ and artist.
The set was built through a gradual BPM rise, using harmonic compatibility and shared key relationships to create smoothness, continuity, and a natural forward motion. That gave the mix cohesion and helped it move cleanly from track to track, but it also revealed an important learning edge for me.
One of the clearest lessons from this recording is that BPM rise alone can create momentum, but harmonic consistency can sometimes make the emotional landscape feel less diverse than I want. Staying in one key gave the set blend quality, hypnosis, and continuity, but it may also have limited the degree of variation, contrast, and harmonic storytelling I was looking for. The set still moves forward, and it still works, but I can hear places where more movement through adjacent compatible keys might have created a stronger sense of contour and progression.
That feels like an important takeaway. Same-key sequencing can be beautiful for coherence, but adjacent-key movement may be more effective when I want a set to feel like it is evolving not just in tempo, but in emotional color and perspective as well.
So this mix stands as both a finished piece and a learning document. It reflects experimentation with progression, harmonic structure, and energy shaping, while also clarifying something about my process: smoothness and variation are not the same thing, and part of my growth is learning when to prioritize continuity and when to invite more contrast.
This set may not resolve into one of my more specifically defined projects, but it still matters. It belongs to the larger archive of becoming — the ongoing process through which my taste, instincts, structure, and artistic language continue to take shape through sound.
And most importantly, I had fun making it 🐅
Track credits:
Over Jou (Extended Mix) — Feyln
Bloom Again — Nu Aspect
Breaking Point — Rebel Of Sleep, Jack Willard
Could You Be Loved (with LP Giobbi) — Bob Marley & The Wailers, LP Giobbi
Bansuri — fwd/slash
Just Be — Ønawa
KFIL — Estiva
Terminal Feeling — Kasablanca
Expanse — Dezza, Kolonie
Mother (Cover) — Madeaux
Tell Me Why (MEDUZA Remix) — Supermode, MEDUZA
Let’s Ride Away (feat. Elle King) [MEDUZA For Tim Edit] — Avicii, MEDUZA, Elle King
Off The Wall — Chris Giuliano
I Remember — deadmau5, Kaskade
Spring Threshold — Sunshine Session
Recorded on May 9, 2026
A melodic house-leaning open-air set recorded on a beautiful sunny day in Chicago.
This set marked a personal threshold in my mixing practice: a first field test of my new sound system, the first time mixing openly in the public park near my home, and a moment where technical progress began to feel more embodied.
People gathered in the grass, danced, listened from picnic blankets, and let the music become part of the day.
One emotional anchor was mixing in Could You Be Loved, remixed by LP Giobbi — one of the artists whose own journey helped inspire me to begin learning to DJ.
Please enjoy this field note from my unfolding journey to yours.
In gratitude and warmth,
BCE ☀️🐯
May 27, 2026
Track Credits:
VisionV — Blossom (Extended Mix)
Divolly & Markward — Bamako (feat. Amadou & Mariam)
Nora En Pure — Come With Me
Naws, Marksman & Ayca — Falling (Extended Mix)
Gem & Tauri — Crash Into Me (feat. Tyler Graves)
Delta Vaults — Colors of Life
Nora En Pure — All I Need (Extended Mix)
fwd/slash — Bansuri
Ed Sheeran, MEDUZA — Bad Habits (MEDUZA Remix)
David Guetta, Becky Hill & Ella Henderson — Crazy What Love Can Do
Bob Marley & The Wailers, LP Giobbi — Could You Be Loved
Mia Mendi & TH;EN — Collapsing Sky
Rue & Alastor — Contact (Extended Mix)