AppleCat

Tis the season. 🖤🕯️🔊

AppleCat - As Above So Below - Winter Solstice Mix As a Winter Solstice gift, I crafted a 3-hour gift to you all, on the longest night of the year we all at once embrace our shadow and celebrate the light that is to come. When I speak about being a s

PASSION PORTAL Winter Solstice | Enchanted Forest Party is coming up quick.

Vancouver I am so damn excited to be in you. 🔊🫠🐉

Get those tickets while you can.

Something wicked this way comes. 😈🔊

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Tonight at 1030 sharp! Catch me at Mind Garden x Capital Ballroom: Co[Lab] ft ATYYA and Saturna

This is a call to the folks in the Pacific Northwest. Want a ticket to Tectonic SHIFT Festival 2023: Electric Sky this weekend?

Get yourself a love that looks at you the way AppleCat looks at her music. 👀🖤🔊

Catch me next July 21st just outside of Portland for Tectonic SHIFT Festival 2023: Electric Sky

And after that August 19th for Cumberland Wild in.... you guessed it Cumberland BC

Check out the u r l to the events in my b i o

Original photo by ShoshanaPhotography (thank you)

Random thought at work.

I love the song "does your mother know?" By ABBA.

You couldn't throw a rock in the 70s without hitting some rock band writing a song about a sexy teenager. But ABBA? They're cheeky as heck. They wrote "does your mother know?"

Which basically translates their experience as "Heeey dancing and flirting with a pretty lady!.... Wait, you're how old?! Jesus f**k, you're a child, where's your mum?!"

And I love them for that. Especially given how normal, and uncontested it was to sexualize young girls back then.

Also ABBA f**king slaps.

Seattle bound.

So delighted to be headlining Summer Night Moon Bloom

See you lovely dancers tomorrow 🐾🇨🇦😺⏩🇺🇸🍎🔊

Did you know that despite all circumstances pushing against it, I had released my annual post temple burn set?

Well I did. And people seem to be quite pleased with it.

So, here it is. My annual offering of catharsis and movement, my ask that you shake out all that bu****it that has been holding you down. My request that you release that motherf**king unnecessary burden that does not serve you anymore. A little spell, from my heart to yours. Just keep dancing damn it.

Listen to AppleCat - A Temple Unburnt - A Otherworld 2023 Post Temple Set

AppleCat - A Temple Unburnt - A Otherworld 2023 Post Temple Burning Man Set I am still alive. Regardless of where I am, I will be there for you post temple, every damn year, a god damn priestess for her cause. Whether she burns or not, her pyre is alive in us all. Dance my

PORTLAND

Come July catch me and Areza at Tectonic SHIFT Festival 2023: Electric Sky

Hot f**king damn I cannot express all the excite in one post alone. Words are futile. FUTILE I SAY.

Coming up so soon Seattle area:

I am so dang excited to be headlining Summer Night Moon Bloom

See you in just a shake of an AppleCats tail. 🍎🐾🔊

Catch me at otherworld this year. For my one and only OW set, my annual post temple performance.

Sunday the 11th - 1030pm to midnight at the Genesis stage.

I really do suggest being there from start to finish. For those of you that have been part of my post temple sets in the past, you'll understand.

See you there. 🖤🙏🔊🍎

It was a delight to perform for you all last night. Thank you so much to all the event producers for putting so much hard work into this fundraiser, and deepest blessings and appreciation to all you lovely fierce dancers.

A little shameless self-promotion, because shame has no place in artistry, I recorded the set that I played last night and I will be posting it shortly on my Patreon. If you wanted it all for yourself, have a boo and consider signing up. It's a massively helpful resource for me and is filled with monthly exclusives.

https://www.patreon.com/AppleCat

Until next time my dear ones,

- AppleCat

P.s. see you at Lamplight, Year One 🔊🖤🍎

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TODAY OMG.

*Hey everyone! BUY TICKETS AHEAD! Limited tickets at the gate. We may be at capacity so come early and buy ahead. Here is tomorrow's schedule so you know when you want to arrive! PM an organizer if you require a ride or post on the page!
Make sure to bring: headlamp, warm clothes, flow toys, water, yoga mat (if possible)!

The gate will be closed on arrival, if no one is at gate please call me or text me for the gate code and directions on where to park. 250-884-8242

We are going to try to get all the cars inside the property. If you need to park outside the gate. No one park on the neighbours side of the road please! Wheels off the pavement and on my side of the street only.*

Hey! While I wasn't paying attention Kings Fantasy hit 30K.

Well dang. 🔊🙏🖤

AppleCat x Atliens x Musicality - King's Fantasy I have a dream, and in that dream we're all shaking our asses to the shared beat of fire producers and live orchestras. Until then I'm going to keep on musing. “And those who were seen dancing were

Upcoming events you can catch me at 🖤🔊

Where would you like to see me play next?

May 6th - Spring Bliss in Metchosin BC

May 20th - Lamplight, Year One Cowichan BC

June 10th - Otherworld, Vancouver Islands Regional Burning Man

July 21st - Portland OR *unannounced* 🤫🫢🤭

August 19th - Cumberland Wild, Cumberland BC

If you would like to have me at your event feel free to reach out to email bookapplecat at gmail dot com

Photo credit to russellbohrphoto taken at thedenportland

Posting this here dispite the fact that it doesn't have anything to do with AppleCat persay.... but instead my AppleBun!!

Friends and Fam, let's help send Chloe Bun to Indonesia for her 16th Birthday.

So here is the DL, little Bun is turning 16 this year and it's been my plan for years to take her to Indonesia to explore that side of her heritage. Both as a means to understand herself more, as well so she may understand firsthand the different ways folks live in the world.

We intend to travel from Jakarta, to Bandung, and end in Bali over the course of 10 days. This has been something Chloe Bun and I have been planning for years, and we are deeply looking forward to spending this time exploring together.

With that said, as a single-income household it won't be cheap, and as it's her 16th we thought that maybe we could reach out to friends and family for support in funding this unique once in a lifetime experience.

Our goal is 3000.00CAN, if we make that it would be amazing and that would cover our flights, and if not every little contribution and share counts towards making this little dream of ours a reality. If we are fortunate enough to make anything above that, Bun and I will make sure to put it towards educational and nourishing experiences for her.

https://gofund.me/3e70ca59

For those of you who can't donate to gofundme our etransfer email is [email protected].

Thank you so much for considering supporting Chloe Bun's sweet 16th celebration in Indonesia. 🍎 🐰 🐱 🇮🇩

Why do I make art from death?

Well to start on an obtuse note, I don't, not persay. That would be to say that there wasn't something already inherently artistic about death. I don't pluck it's beauty from thin air and bestow it benevolently where it wasn't before. I simply take what I find beautiful, and try to convey what I already see.

Death feeds life, life gives to death. So it is, so it has always been, and gods willing so it will always be. Somewhere along the way we started to be indoctrinated with the idea that death was an affliction, that it was a solely disease to be cured. We were taught that death is grotesque, evil, something to be shunned, and in most cases something to be feared.

But this has not always been so.

If you go far enough into the myths of the world each of them will tell you that the mastery and transcension of death is a lonely and heartbreaking existence. One that can only be achieved by losing ones humanness. Because that's just it, death, like myth, is an integral part of the human experience. And without it, there would be no new life.

This is what I find beautiful. This dark dance partner to life is where I find myself inspired to make art from where nature has already started.

My sculptures may make some folk uncomfortable, but honestly that is in part the point. I want folks who would normally cast their eyes as far away from death as possible to gaze upon my work and feel compelled to think about it. Because I thoroughly believe that the understanding of deaths truth nature is on each of our tongues tip. But unfortunately the absence of grief work, death education, and connection to the cycles of nature have our unconscious hackles up so hard they've built walls upon walls upon walls. So, I push that edge by taking death and adorning her with beauty, with curiosity, and with stories. I brazenly ask you to f**king LOOK.

You may see that as we are art in life, someday we each will be art in death. That is inevitable no matter how we go about it, and it doesn't have to be terrible. It is my wish for us to live and die well with this understanding, one that has been around since time immemorial.

I love my sculptures, they feed me in ways I have only found before in my music. And in many ways they have similar inspirations. Movement, curiosity, storytelling, beauty in the dark taboo spaces, and even playfulness.

I make art like this because I am called to offer my small part in shifting the narrative we've been fed arouns death. I make art from bones to convey beauty, contemplation, ritual, and sometimes discomfort in a way that only art can.

I am a bone witch, among other things. And I do this, for the same reason I do anything else that has stirred so deeply inside my belly, because I am called to.

Image note: this piece is unnamed. She is made from a doe I salvaged and cleaned. She had been there a fair while. I have lacquard dried roses for her eyes as it seemed for whatever reason that she was a romantic. The social structures of deer families are inherently loving, so this doesn't feel too far fetched.

I've been musing and I have reached a curious place.

Healers, Community Builders, "Conscious" Event Producers, Teachers, Coaches, Thought leaders, Venue owners: how are you making your workshops, your retreats, your classes, your events, and the like accessible and welcoming to low income folks, to disabled folks, and to BIPOC?

By no means does anyone or any event have to be perfect, that said I am wondering what people are doing to create these spaces with more collective ease.

How are we to shift our current paradigm to a more sustainable, healthy one, if it is predominantly well-off-white-able-bodied folks that are able to attend these healing offerings? Isn't a power imbalance in favour of Rich YT people already one of the hugest issues with our dominant paradigm?

Can this healing last if it leaves so many behind? Especially given that many of these offerings did not solely come from Eurocentric spaces. I believe that sustainable healing cannot come from a gentrified appropriated place. It can feel like change, but truly I can't help but judge it as feeding into the hungry maw of our very broken culture.

So yes, at the same time, we need to be making a profit too, rent needs to be paid, food put on the table etc etc. Capitalism has us all by a choke chain and that's a musing for a whole other post. For clarity I am not sitting here trying to whistle blow from my high horse, I am scratching my head out loud so to speak. I am musing as a person who has offered and attended many gatherings, on how we can do better. I believe that making a profit and offering accessible and welcoming spaces does not have to be mutually exclusive. It could be as simple as scholarships, low income tickets, BIPOC pricing, or even allowing folks the option of paying more for their attendance to balance things out. Hiring more q***r and BIPOC folks as staff and advisers, gender free bathrooms, etc etc. I see things happening a lot in the dance scene, but would really like to see these attempts go further than that.

I'm a low income q***r neurodivergent deaf person, but also Im a Cis Passing Able-bodied White Woman, and being as such I think it's the responsibility of people like me to ask these types of questions, as we stand on the borders of privilege and oppression.

Can we please normalize these kind of conversations without getting our hackles up, screaming "virtue signaler", or knee jerk collapsing into shame?

Anyway, just putting it out there. I am genuinely curious to hear what other folks are doing to shift things. And if anything perhaps this post will serve as a sowed seed to get people thinking on how they can proceed more skillfully.

Baby steps are still massively integral steps, in many cases they are the most integral steps. It's just hard to see that sometimes.

Portland, I f**king adore you. Have me back soon. I dare ye.

Big appreciation to sheenamedicina for having me out and for cultivating such a lovely cauldron of delights.

🔊🖤🤌🐍✨🔊

On route to Portland. Catch me tomorrow at BassWitch 3.0

I've got some new unreleased goodies to share with you lovelies so come get witchy with me.

💀✨🔊🐾🍎🐍🌘🕷️

PORTLAND: I shall finally be returning to you on Friday.

So damn excited to be performing in one of my most favourite cities again.

BassWitch 3.0 - coming up hot. 🔊✨💃🌘🐍🍎

A simple and effective recipe for a happy and very sleepy AppleCat. 🍎🐾🤌

It was a delight to come back to the stage, and to come back to you Victoria. Let's do it again soon. 🖤🔊

TONIGHT. OH DAMN. The Widdler & AppleCat ft Khan & Psycheda

It's your last chance to get a discount on Saturdays The Widdler & AppleCat ft Khan & Psycheda shoooow. Message me and I shall hook you up with a code. Online ticket sales end at 8pm.

Catch me at 1130. Come earlier for psycheda and Khan - stay late for mf Widdler.

ME. MEEEEEE.

The Widdler & AppleCat ft Khan & Psycheda is going to be a heckin time. I hope to see you folks there.

Just ONE WEEK to go! We're excited to present BC's own legend of Bass Music, AppleCat gracing the stage with her fairytale wubs next Saturday night. I hope you are ready!!
"A Revolution without dancing is not a Revolution worth having"
Internationally acclaimed electronic musician, and vocalist; AppleCat was raised on the West-Coast of Canada, specializing in Deep Dubstep, Fairytale Bass, Trap, and World influences. On the dancefloor, she weaves a mystic underworld vibe - stating that her intention is to " have us all come out the other side moved in some way - the kind of movement that is far beyond being solely physical."
Grime and poetic grace, with live mashup & reworks, AppleCat blends cinematic sound, with primal bass. This cosmic b***y bouncing dubwitch sets bend the perception of "genre" exemplifying her unparalleled "je ne sais quoi.”
AppleCat is a main focus of a feature documentary about women in electronic music. ‘Amplify Her’ was released worldwide in 2017 (http://www.amplifyher.com/).
She was recently featured in DJMag and has performed her act all around the world, including venues/festivals: Burning Man, Rifflandia, Enchanted Forest Gathering, Evolve Festival, Halifax Pop Explosion, and Tall Tree Festival. She has shared a stage with Truth, Seven Lions, Zeds Dead, David Starfire, Emancipator, PhuturePrimitive, Bluetech, Clozee, The Polish Ambassador, A Tribe Called Red, Tipper, Govinda, Random Rab, An-Ten-Nae and
many more...
What's next for this Sultry Fruity Feline? This is only the beginning.
"Music is a possession that I desire no exorcism from. " - AppleCat

EDIT IM SILLY AND USED THE OLD IMAGE: ITS MARCH 25TH... Not November. SILLY CAT.

oh sweet loves, I'm so pleased to end my hiatus in just over a week for The Widdler & AppleCat ft Khan & Psycheda show in Victoria BC.

I've been cooking up some sweet new surprises in my wub cauldron to tantalize your earbuds and vibrate your butts.

hope to see the lot of you there, due to environmental happenstance (massive thunder storms, the new plague) this show has been postponed twice since 2020 so I kid you not when I say that we've been cultivating the best kind of antici................. ............ ...
PATION!!!