MIXES 9 CHECK OUT

005 - Peder Mannerfelt: Six Hits Of Sunshine And The Scent Of Spring

Marcel Dettmann – live from Hard Wax in Berlin

Marcel Dettmann | Boiler Room x Technics x Dommune: 50 years of the SL-1200

Half of the SZTVO duo showcases his deft DJ skills by combining expansive IDM syncopations and stilted electronics into unified stream of immersive experimentation - groove echoes, tenacious beats and elusive bass lines for a musical expansion of consciousness.

Recorded specially for Grains of Peace - recreational zone and charity marathon on Kyiv-based 20ft Radio to help Ukrainians who have suffered from russia's aggression.

Listen to music and stay with Ukraine: www.20ftradio.net

Grains of Peace w/ Tofudj @ 20ft Radio - 28/03/2022

Live from Porto - Tugalife soundtracks your morning with downtempo chillers. Sunny spring day business.

Tugalife - May 2022

Elle Clark was joined by Bristol based producer Elpac who recently debuted on Cloudcore with his release Faaro alongside Mulholland. Elle runs through the first hour with tracks from TSVI, Ploy, Ahadadream and the forthcoming release from Gallegos on Curving Track, dropping this Wednesday. Elpac’s guest mix in the second hour features a bunch of exclusives as well as tracks from Amor Satyr & Siu Mata , Two Shell, Soso Tharpa, Josi Devil and many more.

Curving Track w/ Elle Clark & Elpac - May 2022

A whole season has passed since our last mix, and we’d love to say it’s looking like spring (but of course, it’s raining in Manchester), so launching back in with MIX025, we’re bringing nothing but good vibes from @savsannah. 

Cali-born, Cologne-based Savsannah aspires to bring people together through music, community building, and writing. Over the past six years, she's grown as an artist and has found herself in different pockets of the city, such as hosting her bi-monthly dublab DE radio show "This Must Be The Place," co-founding the new contemporary pop-focused label, Safe Space Records, and also co-founding the queer-feminist collective, cumming. In the past two years, she started DJing at various venues and parties in Cologne, focusing her sets on creating a welcoming space, where listeners can escape to another world and feel an array of emotions.

Having always had a brilliant way with words, Sav was kind enough to guide us through this hour of tunes:

‘I call it “Ocean Nostalgia” – a mix that shimmers in the air when you turn the volume up for more. It’s memories of the salty breeze filling my nostrils with empathy and solace. It’s the days from my San Francisco apartment on Moraga Street, walking out the door with my Bluetooth speaker playing a pop bop as I skip down to Ocean Beach’s dunes. The mix begins with low tides, shallow waters, and calm ripples. Island vibes on a coastline. As it progresses, beach balls bounce on top of the house beats. Snow cones under a palm tree. Then as we climax, the high tide rolls in with the chaotic sunset colors. Wild waves and shores of summer.’

TRACKLIST:
DJ Rish – Best
Addison Groove – Laguna 
FYI Chris – On Tik (feat. Pinty & Simeon Jones)
Hidden Spheres – Beachy
Maggie Rogers – Alaska (Sofi Tukker Remix)
Kareem Ali – Como Me Siento Por Ti (Instrumental Version)
Fred again.. – Hannah (The Sun)
Mood J – Looking Further
Pamcy – Oyster Sauce
DJ Fett Burger & Dj Speckgürtel – Sunshine in the Limousine
Drexciya – Sea Snake
FaltyDL – Hip Love (Jamie xx Remix)
Tom VR – Soared Straight Through Me (Midland Remix)
Haider – I Came To Destroy 
Sansibar – Sunshine In Gomorrah

noire state

NSMIX 025 | Savsannah | 06.05.22

007 - BYRON YEATES

https://www.nts.live/shows/equiknoxx/episodes/equiknoxx-12th-may-2022

Equiknoxx w/ Daria 120522

https://www.nts.live/shows/early-bird-show-spirit-blue/episodes/early-bird-show-spirit-blue-12th-may-2022

The Early Bird Show w/ Spirit Blue - 120522

Dedicated to the late Harrison Birtwistle, this episode of Inside Sound features a blend of contemporary classical and ambient music either selected by or inspired by his musical life.

Inside Sound - May 2022

Lupini is a DJ and broadcaster based in Liverpool. She is a bit of an unsung hero if you ask us, having worked tirelessly behind the scenes of endless projects and as the station manager at the city’s Melodic Distraction.

More recently she has been broadcasting music on NTS, on which she has launched her own show and has gathered a core following of listeners who have gravitated towards her selections which span the breadth of dub, post punk, ambient and the leftfield fringes of electronic music.

She’s been pivotal in helping to push and promote a wealth of musicians from the North and has documented this off piste music culture from Liverpool, Manchester and beyond for the love of it growing as a DJ and an artist in her own right at the same time.

This tape reflects a scenario she describes as being best listened to on “a fuzzy Sunday with a Scorpio-rising full moon, as folks come in on the roll-through and need their heads rattling a bit.”

This one goes deep, we’re delighted to include one of our favourite selectors in the series.

Lupini plays our inaugural festival with Optimo; Watching Trees this Sept: https://www.watchingtrees.com/

Lupini: The Ransom Note Mix

https://www.nts.live/shows/the-breakfast-show-zakia/episodes/the-breakfast-show-zakia-13th-may-2022

The NTS Breakfast Show w/ Zakia & Dhanveer Singh Brar 130522

Resident @foodforyasoul is a DJ duo based in Brussels, which draws its main influences from the British music scene. Fine selectors, they share their finds from all genres - house, broken beat, jazz, hip-hop, footwork, grime, and much more. 

Catch FoodForYaSoul every 2nd Saturday of the month, from 14h to 16h [CET] on rinse.fr

Rinse France Podcast

FOOD FOR YA SOUL - 14 Avril 2022

https://www.nts.live/shows/we-are/episodes/we-are-14th-may-2022

We Are... w/ Paul Camo & Tom Herbert 140522

https://www.nts.live/shows/japanblues/episodes/japanblues-14th-may-2022

Japan Blues 140522

NIGHT BUS 3: DEATH OF NIGHT BUS

tracklist:
opn - remember / arca - held apart
leftfield - rino’s prayer
grouper - holifernes
young thug - stoner (cfcf nightmusic remix)
bjork - possibly maybe
graham lambkin & jason lescalleet - back again
objekt - one stitch follows another
chaz jankel - reverie
dj rashad - let u no
underworld - push downstairs
angelo badalamenti - audrey’s dance
dutch e germ - hba war
arca - fish
dean blunt - mersh
klaus schulze - freeze
groundislava - terminate uplink / tevin campbell - shh (break it down)
rhythim is rhythim - kao-tic harmony
holly herndon - home (acapella)
copeland - fit 1
harold budd & brian eno - late october
burial - hiders / mariah carey - we belong together
geinoh yamashirogumi - ave maria
cfcf - don’t worry
otomo yoshihide - cash dispenser
norihiko hibino - fortune

NIGHT BUS 3

Premiered on The Fader on 16 Sept. 2010: http://www.thefader.com/2010/09/16/premiere-cfcf-do-u-like-night-bus-mix

01 intro 
02 aaliyah - 4 page letter (remix) 
03 trap or die/aguirre/go/push upstairs suite 
04 kingdom - pathfinder 
05 instra:mental - watching you 
06 dj nate - ima burn him (screw) 
07 ciara - ride (nightbus remix) 
08 the-dream - make up bag (screw) 
09 prgz - rollin (dj ayres remix) 
10 bun b - draped up (remix)

CFCF -- Do U Like Night Bus?

CFCF Night Bus II Mix MP3

Taken from blog post:
http://www.gregwilson.co.uk/2012/05/it-was-back-in-82/

IT WAS BACK IN ’82:
One of the defining moments of my DJ career took place exactly 30 years ago, on Monday May 10th 1982, when my first radio mix was broadcast on Mike Shaft’s show, ‘T.C.O.B’ (Taking Care Of Business), on Manchester’s hugely influential Piccadilly Radio, which played a major part in bringing black / dance music to wider attention during the 70’s and ‘80’s - from Soul, Funk and Disco, through Jazz-Funk and Electro, and on into Hip Hop, House and Techno. I go into its rich legacy in greater depth here:
http://www.electrofunkroots.co.uk/articles/dont_touch_that_dial.html   

The mix had been recorded a few days earlier, as live, one afternoon at Legend in Manchester (the club closed at the time). Mike Shaft had brought along a Revox B77 reel-to-reel to record onto, the machine being the portable unit of choice throughout the radio industry in this country back then. This was the first time the Revox, which has since played a constant role in my work, entered my life. At the time I had no means to record at home, but by the end of the year, following the runaway success of the mixes, which would subsequently become a regular feature on Piccadilly, I’d purchase a couple of Technics SL1200’s and a Matamp Super Nova mixer (this was at a time when, with the exception of London DJ, Froggy, who used them for his Roadshow, no UK DJ’s had such equipment at home). To top things off I bought my first B77, so I could put together my mixes at home, which would serve to lead me ever-deeper into my obsession with editing. So glory be to Mike Shaft and to Piccadilly Radio for facilitating this life-defining arc of continued discovery.

The reel of ¼ tape onto which that first mix was recorded onto was, as with most of my radio mixes (the final one, ‘The Best Of ‘83’, being aired in December 1983), lost – probably copied over at some point or other, having been stored at the station. I managed to salvage a few of these mastertapes, most importantly ‘The Best Of ’82, but the original mix wasn’t amongst these, and I only had it on an extremely lo-fi cassette recorded from the radio at the time.

As the author / DJ Dave Haslam once said, the mixes “were probably some of the most taped programmes in Manchester radio history”. These tapes would also spread further afield than the Greater Manchester region that Piccadilly broadcasted to, with copies, and copies of copies, finding their way into cassette players and ghetto blasters in all corners of the country, often without people having a clue about their source – this was the ‘mixtape’ in its earliest form from a British perspective. One such recipient of my mixes was Stafford based Pezz, then a 14 year old lad discovering his musical influences, and later of the fabled Nottingham-based soundsystem and DJ collective, DiY, who were amongst the pioneers of the UK free party scene, having formed in 1989.

I’d meet Pezz at the Liverpool offices of 3Beat, the record shop / label he worked for – this was in 2002, 20 years on from when my radio mixes first aired. My DJ comeback was still in the future, and I was very much an obscure name from the past at best, most people of Pezz’s age brought up on a later generation of DJ’s. So his excitement at meeting me was unexpected – he was talking about this tape from back in my Piccadilly days that had made a big impact on him and his friends at the time, as they set off on their own personal dance music odysseys, and asked me if I could identify a couple of the tracks featured (these id’s having eluded them for 2 decades). It turned out that one of his big mates back then was Dean Meredith, later of Bizarre Inc, who enjoyed chart success in the early 90’s, and more recently  Chicken Lips (whose ‘He Not In’ I edited on my first ‘Credit To The Edit’ compilation in 2005), and that this tape had been a major influence on the sound of his latter project, which, along with Bizarre Inc, was produced in collaboration with partner Andy Meecham.

Pezz takes up the story in the sleevenotes of a limited run CD (300 copies only) from 2007, to mark the 25th anniversary, which he called ‘It Was Back In ‘82’:

“As soon as I’d met Greg, an excited call was made to Dean. ‘…. Hey kid, guess what! I just met Greg Wilson – No way – I need you to send me a copy of the tape up as soon as possible….’ Then came the months of waiting more phone call’s hassling to get a copy before eventually with the bribe of digitally remastering it onto CD it finally arrived!

In the meantime I’d had many conversations with Greg and e-mail’s were exchanged, one of which contained a list of essential Electro-Funk releases. This list was full of records I, and anyone I showed it to, had never heard of, apart from some obvious classic’s such as the Peech Boy’s ‘Don’t Make Me Wait’, and Afrika Bambaataa’s ‘Planet Rock’. When I finally sent him a copy of the tape I’d got from Dean he identified mysterious artists and titles like The Gunchback Boogie Band’s ‘Funn’ and Jimmy Spicer’s ‘The Bubble Bunch’. I began hunting down these tracks on the internet, the first to arrive was Larry Graham’s ‘Sooner Or Later’, and the excitement of finally getting my hands on these tunes was unreal, mindblowing! I hadn’t had such a buzz from buying records in years. A goal was then set to collect every track on the tape. Gradually over the coming weeks all but a handful were found. In the meantime, Greg found the old tracklistings for his first ever mixes for Mike Shaft, which just happened to be the two mixes contained on the legendary tape. I was then able to find all but two tracks, or rather two small drum sections he used in the first of the mixes. Not even Greg can recall where these came from!

Before long it seemed obvious that listening to this 20-year-old tape was not enough. After collecting these, and a host of other early 80’s Electro-Funk releases, I decided that the only thing left to do was to re-create the mixes myself! Rather than just re-do them as Greg did back in ‘82 on the decks at Legends. I decided to use the computer to ensure the tightest of mixes and present them in today’s highly polished manner (I also lifted and cleaned the missing drum parts direct from the tape). The whole concept of taking someone else’s work and re-creating it is quite strange, and actually completing it and then re-presenting it to Greg felt even more bizarre. Thankfully he was really into what I’d done, especially as the original ¼” masters have been lost and, like myself, the only copy of these mixes that Greg had was recorded onto cassette from the radio.”

Pezz’s full sleevenotes can be read at:
http://www.electrofunkroots.co.uk/it-was-back-in-82/

So, to mark its 30th anniversary, this reconstructed version of my first ever radio mix, which was painstakingly pieced together by Pezz, has now been uploaded onto my SoundCloud.

The mix would be the first of its type on British radio, and following the fantastic response to mix 1, Mike Shaft decided to make it a regular feature, with new mixes every 3-4 weeks. It would have an instant impact in the clubs, with Legend’s attendance, which was already on the up, going through the roof in a matter of weeks. It was a momentous month, which also saw the release of the seminal Electro track, ‘Planet Rock’ (see: www.electrofunkroots.co.uk/articles/when_the_planet_rocked.html) and the opening of a new Manchester club, which I’d DJ at later down the line, called The Haçienda.

My career was about to go into overdrive, and ‘The Greg Wilson Mix’, as Mike, in his distinctive mid-Atlantic drawl, would introduce it, was a major part of this process.

Greg Wilson May 2012

IT WAS BACK IN '82 (by greg wilson for piccadilly radio manchester 1982 reconstructed by pezz 2004)

NIGHT BUS 4: MEMORY OF NIGHT BUS
http://doulikenightbus.com

AFTER THE DEATH OF NIGHT BUS, ITS DESICCATED CORPSE TURNED TO DUST, GRADUALLY DISSOLVING INTO INFINITELY SMALLER UNTRACEABLE PARTICLES. THESE "GHOSTS" ONCE HAUNTED OUR EVERYDAY WORKINGS IN CURATED NETSPACE UNTIL THEY BECAME UNDETECTABLE AND WERE EVENTUALLY SUBSUMED BY THE UTTER MASS OF ACTIVITY. NOW, IT'S IMPOSSIBLE TO TRULY INTERFACE WITH NIGHT BUS. WE CAN ONLY GATHER PARTIAL INTEL FROM SHORT, REPEATED MISSIONS INTO "MEMORYSPACE" -- PART NOSTALGIC TRIP, PART DIGITAL ARCHAEOLOGY, PART SHARED COMMUNAL MYTH. THIS ARTEFACT, "NIGHT BUS 4: MEMORY OF NIGHT BUS", IS ENTIRELY COUNTERFEIT. OBSCURE DETAILS MUST GIVE WAY TO OBVIOUS TOUCHSTONES FOR THE SAKE OF AN APPEALING REPRODUCTION: A DASH OF BJÖRK HERE, A TWIST OF YOUNG THUG THERE, CULMINATING WITH AN EMOTIONAL FINISH THANKS TO A RE-APPROPRIATED R&B QUEEN. A MELODRAMATIC NIGHTMARE 'IMITATION OF LIFE'. AT BEST, A FORGED OSSUARY; AT WORST, BAD TAXIDERMY. LIKE THE JAMES OSSUARY, IT IS A FABRICATION CARVED ONTO AN AUTHENTIC BUT EMPTY CONTAINER SO AS TO CONVINCINGLY DECEIVE, OR, LIKE THE LION OF GRIPSHOLM CASTLE, IT IS AN ABSURD ATTEMPT TO RE-CAPTURE MAJESTIC LIFE FROM A CORPSE FOR THE SAKE OF DECORATION; LIKE THE LION, IT CACKLES STUPIDLY AT US FOR EVEN TRYING. HYUCK. IN ANY CASE, THESE NIGHTS JUST AIN'T GETTING ANY EASIER, AND WHO COULD JUDGE US FOR SEEKING COMFORT IN THE HAZY COUNTERFEIT LAND OF MEMORY.

RIP MARK HOLLIS
RIP SUSUMU YOKOTA
RIP PRODIGY
RIP ROBERT MILES

Ed Tomney - Safe
Goldie - Letter of Fate
Susumu Yokota - Sea Blue
PNL - Sur Paname
Moby - Feeling So Real
Lorenzo Senni - Angel
Chemical Vacation - Real Style
Yves Tumor - Role In Creation
Babyfather ft. Arca - Meditation
Carla dal Forno - Fast Moving Cars
Marie Davidson - La chambre intérieure
Sky H1 - Air
exael - flowered knife shadows
Oval - Do While (Command+X)
ANOHNI - Marrow
Bjork - Hyperballad
The Blue Nile - Stay Close
Portishead - It Could Be Sweet
Kuedo - Slow Knife
Massive Attack - Man Next Door
Andrea Parker - Ballbreaker
Basement Jaxx - Just 1 Kiss (nb fix)
Oblivion - Last Dance
Terre Thaemlitz - Love Theme From Ai No Bakudan
Jon Hassell - Slipstream
Intense - The Genesis Project
Tim Hecker - Up Red Bull Creek
Mobb Deep - Quiet Storm
Actress - Ascending
Sonic Youth - Dirty Boots
Underworld - King of Snake
The Future Sound of London - Spineless Jelly
Young Thug - Safe (nb remix)
Aphex Twin - Rhubarb
Rihanna - Sex With Me (nb remix)
Jennifer Lopez - Waiting for Tonight (nb remix)
Faye Wong - 童 (Child)
Alexander O’Neal - If You Were Here Tonight
EMBACI - Walk on May 5th
Pentagon - Heal
Talk Talk - Wealth
Graham Lambkin & Jason Lescalleet - Loss
Yves Tumor - Limerence
Julia Holter - Hello Stranger

conceived & arranged by cfcf, November 2016 - November 2018
3d artwork by nicole ruggiero http://www.nicoleruggiero.com

MIXES 9 CHECK OUT

Bálint Kollár