The Listening Practice

🎧 Follow Jayvi Velasco on Twitch:  / jayvi_velasco  💿 Support The Listening Practice on Patreon:  / coflo  In this long-form, uncut episode of The Listening Practice, I sit down with San Francisco legend/House DJ - Jayvi Velasco inside his personal DJ booth — a fully realized hybrid setup built for vinyl, CDJs, live performance, and weekly streaming.We walk through Jayvi’s entire signal flow: how everything is routed, how he monitors, how streaming changes decision-making, and why certain pieces of gear have stayed while others came and went. This isn’t a flex or a highlight reel — it’s a real conversation inside a booth that’s been refined over decades of DJing.We cover:• Vinyl, CDJ-3000s & hybrid workflows• Mixer philosophy (V10 vs rotary classics)• Monitoring, speakers & sub integration• External FX loops & isolators• Streaming setup, cameras & audio capture• What gear actually matters — and what doesn’tIf you’re a DJ, producer, or someone who cares about how sound really moves in a room, this one’s for you.

Episode 3 — The Situation’s SituationIn this episode of The Listening Practice, Coflo breaks down his most popular remix of 2025: The Situation by Stranger Danger featuring Tony Soul, released on Moulton Music.What started as a single remix turned into six atempted versions, each exploring a different relationship between groove, dance, vocal delivery, and intention. Rather than a simple track breakdown, this episode looks at the real work behind remixing: endurance, decision-making, abandoning good ideas, and trusting feel over formulas.Coflo walks through each version—some abandoned, some will get repurposed, one almost released—before landing on the final cut that unexpectedly became his most widely shared and played track of the year. Along the way, he dives deep into rhythm as language, call-and-response songwriting, dancer-first composition, and why popularity often has very little to do with intention.This episode is for producers, dancers, DJs, and anyone curious about how dance music is actually built—not just technically, but philosophically.

Is AI actually ruining underground dance music — or is it exposing something deeper?In this episode of The Listening Practice, I dig into the uncomfortable, nuanced reality of AI in music — not from a hype perspective, and not from a fear-based one — but from the lens of someone who has lived inside underground dance culture for decades.We talk about:Why AI isn’t killing creativity, but exposing gaps in itThe difference between generative AI and traditional music toolsWhy some AI-written music feels “too sweet” — and why that mattersHow digital retailers and streaming platforms are being flooded with AI-driven releasesThe shrinking retail and cultural space for the next underground geniusWhy sound quality and fidelity still matter on real systemsThe danger of confusing tools with authorshipWhy Bandcamp’s stance on AI actually makes senseHow AI can be used responsibly as a creative assistantAnd why human intention, spirit, and collaboration still define great musicThis is not an anti-AI rant.This is not a hype piece.This is a conversation about culture, intention, longevity, and soul — especially in underground dance music where those things still matter.If you’re a producer, DJ, dancer, label owner, or lifelong listener — this one’s for you.

In this first episode of The Listening Practice, Coflo breaks down “Salutations”, a track from the EP Infinite Salutations.This is a behind-the-scenes walkthrough of how the song came to life — from the original idea to the final arrangement — created in collaboration with Grammy-nominated artist Emmaculate and featuring QVLN.Coflo explores the story behind the record, the creative decisions that shaped it, and dives into individual parts and stems to unpack the rhythm, harmony, and emotion that make the track work.This episode isn’t about tutorials or presets — it’s about listening deeper, understanding process, and learning how records evolve through collaboration and intention.