Merchant's fifth edition of their monthly residency sees them invite On The Rocks to the mix. This crew out of Birmingham host the town's best parties at Cafe Artum and runs a youtube page full of under the radar finds. Recommended listening.

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Merchant w/ On The Rocks - June 2022

Live recording at Radio Tempo Não Pára (23.07.2022)

Artist: @heelsandsouls

Heels & Souls @ Radio TNP 23.07.2022

Doing Time 21.08.22

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Through The Tree's with On The Rocks Records - 21.08.2022

Collector John Gómez brightens up Mondays with some music from different times and different places.

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CROWNRULER TAKEOVER w/ TAELYN - Sunday 16th October

Coming correct with magic mix number sixty five is Darold 368 @darold368

Long-time digger from London, now based in Rye on the south coast. He’s kind to animals, claims mysterious street soul producer C.S. Lewis is his aunty, and owns more than 26 good records.

Expect lovers rock, street soul, house not house.

M a g i c a s t - 0 6 5 🎇 - Darold 368

DPDR (w/ 68+1)

We are here, we are one



These words, simple as they may be, are the essence of everything. They rise up from my heart and return me to a place of stillness, of presence, of truth. They are enough.

I stand here, in the unfolding of my life, and I see how gratitude softens all edges, how it shapes each moment into something luminous. When I whisper thank you, the world reshapes itself — the struggles become teachers, the wounds become openings, and even the silence is filled with meaning.

In love, in loss, in the laughter of my children, in the quiet breath of the morning — thank you. For each meeting, for each parting, for every hand held and every tear shed. Thank you. For the questions I cannot answer, and for the mysteries that need no answer.



Section 2
We live in a world where everything asks us to hurry, to choose sides, to reduce ourselves to labels. But love, true love, is the refusal to shrink. It is the courage to stay open, to stay vast, to stay vulnerable in a world that teaches us to armor ourselves. I have learned that tenderness is a form of rebellion, and devotion is the most radical act of freedom.



Section 3
I believe in presence more than perfection. Presence is when you show up, unarmored, unedited, as you are. That is what makes intimacy possible — not the performance of being flawless, but the offering of being real. It is in our cracks, not our polish, that we recognize each other. It is where we are unfinished that love enters.



Section 4
Fundamentalism, whether in politics, religion, or even relationships, is the opposite of life. It is a narrowing. It fears ambiguity, nuance, the places where contradictions breathe. But we are not meant to be simple, we are meant to be infinite. We are both light and shadow, laughter and grief, certainty and doubt. To love is to hold all of it, without needing to resolve it into something smaller than it is.



Section 5
The more I live, the more I understand that death is not the opposite of life, but its mirror. It teaches us to stop waiting. To pour the wine, to kiss longer, to tell people what they mean to us now, not tomorrow. Mortality is not cruel; it is the teacher that reminds us of the urgency of tenderness.



Section 6
I have hit a confusing problem. I feel inside of me that I live 2 lives every day. I am a Gemini, but so is everyone. You feel 2 things every day — your physical body (food, clothes, exercise, nature, sun) — and you feed your psyche, your brain (radio, book). But most important is that it is not a choice. It is a human breath, a necessity.




Section 7
If I leave you with one truth, it is this: love is not something you find. It is something you choose, again and again, even when it is hard, even when you are tired, even when fear tells you to close. Choose love like a practice, like a prayer. That is the only way to stay free.



Jérémi’s Words

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