SWAYMIX SERIES

B.P.T. Radio 036: Tornado Wallace

Heeeere weee gooo. A little blast from the past. Starting off with slow and sexy swings and quickly upping the tempo to move ya hamstrings. Raphaël Top Secret played an all too sweet set at Post Bar in February 2019 (when most people woulda laughed at the idea of a pandemic hitting in a year, hah). And it’s all on tape. Hit it.

Post Recording 019 - Raphaël Top-Secret

https://www.nts.live/shows/pender-street-steppers/episodes/pender-street-steppers-14th-december-2021

Pender Street Steppers w/ Benedek & Suzanne Kraft - 141221

017 Daniel Pisano

Nearly 4 hours of being so smooth it's slippery. The fun kind of slippery. Sliding you downtempo into Boogie, slowly burning you through streets of Soul, touching you like only RNB can. 

Put down that ruler in your hand, because this mix from Daniel Pisano, we assure you, is very good measure. 

Recorded live @Waxflowerbar

017 Daniel Pisano

Jamie Tiller & Lauren Hansom @ The Lot Radio 07 - 24 - 2022

Recording of Tako & Relmer's set at Dekmantel Selectors 2022.

Tako & Relmer at Dekmantel Selectors 22

Celebrating the release of our first single and new band, a.s.o. Woo!

______Tracklist _________
The Rainbow - Talk Talk
A Man Called Sun - The Verve
Planet Caravan - Black Caravan
Heaven - The Rolling Stones
Message from Home - Broadcast
You Are Not An Island - Vanishing Twin
No Trace - Carla dal Forno
Her Face Forms In Summertime - The Future Sound Of London
Pitch the Baby - Cocteau Twins
Uneasy - Perfume Tree
Milk - Garbage
White Flag (cover) - 6 Underground (a.s.o)
Kilburn Towers - Bee Gees
Sails Across the sea - Boz Metzdorf
I Am the Changer - Cotton Jones
Fallin' Rain - Karl Blau
Take Care - Yo La Tengo
How Do - Sneaker Pimps
Erase/Rewind - The Cardigans
Forbidden Love - Madonna
Plastic Stress - TerraNova
Go On - a.s.o.

Thank you to the artists who featured in this episode.

Deep Pop Episode 4 - a.s.o. special with guest Lewie @ Refuge Worldwide ~ 13.10.22

Please meet London based DJ and producer, former Cafe Del Mar resident, and our long time close friend Phil Mison (@cantomamusic). Interview (excerpt) down below.

www.musicfrommemory.com

MFM: Hi Phil, many know you as one of the DJ's who has played all the best sunset spots across the globe. How did your summer look this year, still been scoring sunsets here and there?

PM: My summer was great. I travelled to Amsterdam, Cork, Copenhagen and Barcelona and had some nice gigs in the UK. My friend Deke has opened a bar on the seafront in Margate, you get pretty epic sunsets down there. I played a few records one evening and managed to fit in a few old cafe classics as the sun disappeared into the sea. 

MFM: Please tell us a bit about how it all started for you?

PM: I grew up in the 70’s, so there were quite a few different influences. David Bowie ‘Life On Mars’ was an early memory, and I was obsessed with Blondie. Parallel lines was the first album I bought. Later it was Northern Soul, Electro, nothing really that mellow! In 87 I met a couple of people who were really into House. I started going to groove records in soho to buy records like Adonis - No Way Back, Ten City - Devotion. Then as 88 rolled around I got into the more Balearic side of things. Later in 89 I’d pop into Reckless Records for second hand stuff and started to browse the New Age section where I got things like Kitaro  ‘Tunhuang’ and Paul Greaver ‘Joy’. Those records were the starting point really. 

MFM: DJing in clubs to make people dance never really attracted you?

PM: I’d say pretty much most of my DJing has been in clubs. I started at the Milk Bar in Soho in 1992 after giving Darren Emerson a tape. Even though I was doing the warm up and playing mellow stuff at the beginning, you had to build it up to a full dance floor by the end. In 1996 and 2000 I was the tour DJ for Lefttfield, playing in front of 1000 odd people. ‘Just get it going before we come on!’ Alongside Ross Allen and Rob Da Bank, I was resident at Bar Rhumba for our Next Level night in 1997. It lasted a year and we opened with Harvey and closed with Andrew Weatherall. I Have to mention Moonboots and Jason Boardman’s night Aficionado too. I always enjoyed playing to a dancefloor there, they’ve kept the Balearic flag flying since 1998. 

MFM: At what point did you got into making music on your own? 

PM: I’d worked on a project for Kenneth Bager in 1994. Then later on he started his Music For Dreams Label, and asked me if I would be interested in making an album.  So the first Cantoma album was started in Copenhagen in 1999, and finished in London in 2003. 

MFM: How do you come up with a new song, is there a certain Phil Mison way to it? Do you write the parts for the musicians?

PM: It usually starts with an idea that pops into my head. Sometimes a memory or travelling will get a melody going, and I’ll sometimes hum it into my phone and use that as a starting point. Ive worked with Engineer/Producer Robin Twelftree on all the Cantoma albums. I’ll go into Robin’s studio and usually start with some basic keyboards, then I’ll play a bassline in. I’ll take the demos away and think about what would work on the tracks. For some musicians the music is written down. Ive worked with Robin Lee from Faze Action on a few Cantoma tunes, and he usually transcribes my basic melodies onto sheet music. Other times I’ll play the melodies on a keyboard or hum the tunes for the musicians to follow along to. On some tracks I’ll write the lyrics too and get a singer to record on a track. There’s a lot of going back and forth until I’m happy with the final cut. The music rarely ends up sounding like the first version.

MFM: Making a mix must have been a piece of cake for you :) What is this mix like?

PM: I went back through my 92-94 selection and picked a selection of the lesser played records. Memories of magic times at the Milk Bar and warm summer evenings at the Cafe del mar.

MFM Mix 044: Phil Mison

SWAYMIX 001 - Telephones

SWAYMIX 002 - Eternal Love

SWAYMIX 003 - Alias Error

SWAYMIX 004 - Loveshadow

SWAYMIX 005 - Jeremy Castillo

‘Please Don’t Step on My Rainbow,” our latest mixtape and contribution to Jungles cassette series, is an escape into the Wax’o world of assorted balearica, sun-drenched psychedelia, downtempo and contemporary soul. Music both new and old, some rarities and some starterpack jams. Cassette available now via Bandcamp or Jungles webstore!

Jungles Mixtape: 'Please Don't Step on My Rainbow'

With an impeccable record collection spanning all that is interesting - and likely full of music you’ve never heard before, from left of centre pop to ambient soundscapes and anomalous house & techno - we are very happy to be putting out this sublime mix from Jamie Tiller. 
The London born, Berlin resident is a veteran digger and co-founder of the indisputable Music from Memory imprint, renowned for unearthing hidden gems. Recorded back in June 2019, Jamie takes us on a unshazamable-ambient-electronic-synth-pop journey of bliss.

SWAYMIX 001 - Telephones

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