Mixes

Benedikt Frey — KuH 2023

We're stoked to drop the dope set by @fabio-konair, killing it with a vinyl-only DJ set recorded on a sunny summer day in the mystical maze of Berlin's rave scene. His mix of bold acid melodies, downtempo techno, tastefully selected house jams, and high-energy breaks had everyone on their feet. Enjoy!

Vision 006 w/ Yuzo Iwata (Secret Location '23)

Recording of Sacha Mambo (@mzkbx) set at SUPERCAMP Festival 2023

Sacha Mambo - SUPERCAMP Festival 2023

Yuzo Iwata, a composer and DJ born in Saitama, Japan, via Sapporo, and currently based in Berlin, has sent us his live recorded at "BSR Label Nacht @ OHM, Berlin" on 13 July 2023, held by Butter Sessions the label released his album "Kaizu".
This is a vinyl-only opening set gradually making a distinctive and psychedelic whirlpool with acid house, rave and Japanese proto-techno things selected and mixed thoughtfully as a deep digger also a record buyer in Berlin.You will know you can not miss his next play in Europe, Berlin and Japan after this mix. 
Thank you Yuzo!
@fabio-konair

DREAMING 026 : Yuzo Iwata - Butter Sessions at OHM Berlin 13 July 2023

Sound Metaphors 8 year anniversary

And before you know it, 8 years fly by. It's been a wild ride with still no signs of a clear destination in sight - the music seems to keep you moving. We've been told it's a good sign when you lose track of time. In celebration of all the madness and good times, we invite you to meet again and hopefully lose track of time in good company once again at @club.ost this time with a really special dream lineup of heroes in sounds and rhythms. Save the date - THIS FRIDAY 🎂 and thank you all for the years of support and kind customership 💘 please be invited for another hurra 💘

SOUND METAPHORS 8 YEAR ANNIVERSARY
FRIDAY 27 OCTOBER 2023
CLUB OST
ALT-STRALAU 1-2,
10245 BERLIN
10.00pm - END

𝐋𝐈𝐍𝐄𝐔𝐏 :
𝐃𝐨𝐧𝐚𝐭𝐨 𝐃𝐨𝐳𝐳𝐲
𝐎𝐫:𝐥𝐚
𝐄𝐥𝐞𝐧𝐚 𝐂𝐨𝐥𝐨𝐦𝐛𝐢
𝐑𝐚𝐛𝐢𝐡 𝐁𝐞𝐚𝐢𝐧𝐢
𝐀𝐥𝐢𝐜𝐢𝐚 𝐂𝐚𝐫𝐫𝐞𝐫𝐚
𝐃𝐚𝐯𝐢𝐝 𝐅𝐨𝐠𝐚𝐫𝐭𝐲
𝐒𝐨𝐩𝐡𝐢𝐞 𝐌𝐜𝐀𝐥𝐢𝐬𝐭𝐞𝐫
𝐂𝐡𝐫𝐢𝐬 𝐂𝐫𝐮𝐬𝐞
𝐓𝐞𝐦𝐩𝐥𝐞 𝐑𝐚𝐭
𝐘𝐮𝐳𝐨 𝐈𝐰𝐚𝐭𝐚
𝐓𝐚𝐤𝐚𝐤𝐨

Yuzo Iwata - Refuge Worldwide (Sound Metaphors 8 year anniversary)

Amsterdam selector Orpheu The Wizard connects oddball and straight forward jams from different decades and different record shelves in a monthly show.  
https://www.nts.live/shows/orpheu-the-wizard/episodes/orpheu-the-wizard-23rd-february-2024

Orpheu The Wizard 230224

Sound Metaphors 8 year anniversary live recording Club Ost (Berlin)

Sound Metaphors 8 year anniversary : Yuzo Iwata (closing set)

It was a cold October night in Berlin. The anniversary of our favorite record store label. Blissful sounds were coming out of the basement as we were going down the stairs to enter the dancefloor. As the night went away and the sun started to rise, Yuzo Itawa, appeared on the decks, sending us on a very matchless journey, one to remember! We fell in love ever since and we are very honored to share this special mix by him for BLISS.

@fabio-konair

BLISS004 - YUZO IWATA

no track list, sorry

@roman-wafers 
@jtarpey
@vio-deejay

DANCE MUSIC SHOW - 3g GUEST MIX - 16/04/24

Zaum. The quest for transnational.

http://www.instagram.com/vladimir_ivkovic

Vladimir Ivkovic (Offen Music) @ The Lot Radio 04-29-2024

This limited Psychedelic Meltdown cassette release is linked to an event series of the same name curated by The Slow Brown Fox, taking place at Sameheads in Berlin. As stated by its name, the series aims to mind-bend the audience through trippy and unexpected music, freely flowing between electronica and sounds from the beyond.

This first showcase presents a double mixtape released via Sameheads being the manifestation of the magic experienced on the inaugural night of January 6, 2024 featuring Loma Doom, Akvilina, Lizzie Urquhart and The Slow Brown Fox.

Enjoy!

Psychedelic Meltdown - Sameheads C90 Special

Akvilina (Side C) - Psychedelic Meltdown - Sameheads C90 Tape Cassette Special

Nadia recently ripped it up during a recent Perfumed Garden party at Sameheads and here are the results...... Vinyl only and toe tappingly infectious.  Enjoy!

The night looked like this......

Perfumed Garden time again next week folks....

Reset your musical preconceptions.... Open your hearts and minds....

Bad Boy Baader and Electric Evelyn have curated another banger.

With
J D TWITCH (Optimo)
NADIA WISE
JONAS FRIEDLICH
ALBA ACAB
BAD BOY BAADER

Art by EVELYN SIEGMUND

they'll all be rootin' and tootin' at @sameheads from 22h..
On the dot, with a little extension to our opening hours to accommodate a late addition to the line up....

😎
#sameheads #perfumedgarden #berlin

Nadia Wise (Vinyl only Dj set) - Perfumed Garden @ Sameheads 19.04.24

Continuing the series is Mancunian producer, dj and music teacher Tom Burford who just released his LP 'Elevations' with us as Contours (@contoursmusic). Interview (excerpt) down below.

www.musicfrommemory.com

MFM: Hey Tom. You just returned from a big hike, how was it?

TC: Hey! Yeah, we were able to get out on some beautiful hikes around the Anaga national park in the north of Tenerife. It’s a stunning landscape and a nice change from the overbearing grey we get in Manchester for half the year. 

MFM: Does nature play an important role in your life and music?

JC: Definitely in life, and then I guess that just seeps into my music. I grew up in a pretty rural part of Cumbria. It was very beautiful landscape but with very little to do from an entertainment perspective, so getting out in the landscape or jamming with friends always felt like the two most freeing things to do. 

MFM: About jamming with friends... Your new album Elevations includes a lot of collaborations with other musicians, of which you did the recordings yourself. Can you highlight one special moment from those recording sessions?

TC: When recording Pots, I had initially written and recorded the percussion and synth parts at home and hit up Abraham to see if he wanted to add some Trumpet parts. He is based in London and so he recorded initial takes remotely and sent them through. They sounded great, but I really wanted to transform and process his parts for the track to manipulate them into sounding more synth like at points. Doing, that without him in the space felt like there was dialogue missing. In the end I went down to London and we recorded and dubbed them out in the same space at the Rhythm Section studio (shouts to Mali on engineering duties). Being able to respond to his playing and him in turn being able to respond to the dubbing of his parts felt like it was able to capture some really special elements.  

MFM: The A side of your new LP has Elevations 1, 2 and 3. Was it intentional for these tracks to end up separately or did they used to be one larger piece?

TC: When I started writing Elevations 1, 2 and 3 it just began as a series of jams and recording sessions in my flat bouncing ideas back and forth between myself, Beka, Abel and Simmy. These sessions were always just me and one other collaborator at a time, partly down to schedules, the size of the flat, but also the chance to not have to rush the process and to really dig into how we worked together. I continued building out the same project over multiple sessions so that I could have access to all the material collated in one place. Specific sections and ideas started to come together, but I liked the idea of them forging part of a wider piece. I’d previously worked in a largely self-contained track basis but had been listening to a lot of pieces like Six Marimbas, Music for 18 musicians and Tehillim by Steve Reich that build over a long period and loved the scope this gave to get completely lost in the music. I love the hypnotic nature created when polyrhythms morph over each other for a long enough period, shifting emphasis and eventually melting away.  

MFM: What can you tell about the mix you've made?

TC: I wanted to create a mix that was able to showcase the variety of sounds that influence me, both as a DJ and Producer. I love listening to mixes and radio at home and the best club experiences I’ve had have always been when a DJ is able to surprise you and really take you on a journey. The album makes heavy use of strings through the violin and cello, but also the Guzheng, a Chinese Zither and the Clàrsach a Celtic Harp. The initial three tracks of the mix focus on these sounds before skirting into more percussive and jazz focused influences and then into some deeper acid-tinged downtempo tracks and sub heavy club sounds. Hopefully this mix takes people on a journey and is something for people to get lost in.

MFM Mix 051: Contours

Slammin in at no. #9 in our illustrious mix series this week is none other than the reluctant but rightfully crowned king of Long Island, Ron Morelli.
   Perfectly rendering a feverish club kid’s ultimate cityscape in sound, Ron presses the old n new up against each other as a relentless 4-4 jackin beat creeps underneath. It’s riding the subway with your friends at 1am; it’s feeling faded in the back of a taxi screaming down 2nd ave; it’s pounding the club walls with your fists as sweat drips down your face - DON'T HOLD BACK!
 ~ 𝘛𝘩𝘪𝘴 𝘮𝘪𝘹 𝘬𝘪𝘤𝘬𝘴 𝘰𝘧𝘧 𝘢𝘯 𝘦𝘹𝘵𝘦𝘯𝘴𝘪𝘷𝘦 𝘵𝘰𝘶𝘳 𝘧𝘰𝘳 𝘙𝘰𝘯, 𝘴𝘦𝘦𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘩𝘪𝘮 𝘱𝘭𝘢𝘺𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘥𝘢𝘵𝘦𝘴 𝘢𝘭𝘭 𝘰𝘷𝘦𝘳 𝘈𝘮𝘦𝘳𝘪𝘤𝘢 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘌𝘶𝘳𝘰𝘱𝘦, 𝘧𝘰𝘭𝘭𝘰𝘸𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘩𝘪𝘴 𝘭𝘢𝘴𝘵 𝘢𝘭𝘣𝘶𝘮 "𝘙𝘩𝘺𝘵𝘩𝘮 𝘔𝘢𝘴𝘵𝘦𝘳" 𝘰𝘯 𝘓.𝘐.𝘌.𝘚. 𝘙𝘦𝘤𝘰𝘳𝘥𝘴.

SC: @l-i-e-s
IG: @ lies_records

GABRIELA MIX #9 ~ RON MORELLI

Our favorite Yuzo Iwata's third appearance on DREAMING MIX is the one recorded live at MOLDIVE held at club NOON, Osaka in January 2024. His era-spanning and boundary-breaking selection with psychedelic scent topped and heavy funkiness infused makes this set very complex and wild. Let's click the play button, and embark on a journey together. We assure of your late-night space-out experience.

@fabio-konair

DREAMING 033 : Yuzo Iwata - MOLDIVE @NOON 13 Jan 2024

Full recording of DJ Sotofett's closing set at Brave! Festival in Kyiv, 27th of August 2023. Slava Ukraini!

SO-PHAT-MIXES

Get first track here!

SO-PHAT-MIXES-36: DJ Sotofett - Live @ Brave! Festival Kyiv (2023-08-27)

A music collective from Prishtina, KOSOVO.

get in touch: blissprishtina@gmail.com


Bliss party:
17.05.2024 - https://ra.co/events/1910324 - Red Hall - Prishtina, Kosovo
14.11.2024 - https://ra.co/events/1888222 - OHM Berlin, Germany
13.05.2023 - https://ra.co/events/1695218 - Grand Hotel Prishtina, Kosovo

1st album Kaizu @buttersessions
https://buttersessions.com/products/bsr035-yuzo-iwata-kaizu-lp

Open Port Club Mix series
https://soundcloud.com/openportclub

contact
fabio.konair@gmail(dot)com

BLISS004 - YUZO IWATA

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