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The Cactus Channel - Wooden Boy (Part 1)

My very first set
with/and/for the summer - 

"Prenons l'A7 !"

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A7 summer set - part 1/2

CENTAN - Le Chocolat ( Original Mix )

20-Jimmy Smith - Root Down

Tosca - My First [Nicola Conte Version]

Born Into The Sunset (Lindstrom & Prins Thomas Remix)

Gil-Scott Heron  feat. Mos Def - New York is Killing Me

This month we're so honoured to have Matthew Hayes (@matthewhayesmusic) step in with an hour-long mix. In last month's FLORA monthly newsletter, we sung the high praises of his latest collaboration with Joel Trigg, and now we're thrilled to have him contribute this mix. A huge thanks to Matthew for this beautiful mix, and we can't say this enough, but Elegant Universe, his album with Joel Trigg, is one of the best of this year. Go grab it on Bandcamp (https://kenoathrecords.bandcamp.com/album/matthew-hayes-joel-trigg-elegant-universe). He's also got a new, more dancefloor-oriented collaboration (with Ziggy Zeitgeist) on the way, and the first sounds from it are incredible (https://soundcloud.com/matthewhayesmusic).

Tracklist:

1. Kenji Kihara - Early Summer
2. Bazar Bla - Dalaimama Part 1
3. James Maloney - Intertwine
4. r beny - Fernwood
5. Khotin - Vacation
6. Zazz - Forever Is a Distance
7. Gian Slater with Will Poskitt - Creatures At The Crossroads
8. Joni Mitchell - Hejira
9. Rings Around Saturn - Anamnesis

FLORA / radio 3 ~ guest mix from matthew hayes

Another month, another beautiful guest mix, this time care of an artist we've been obsessing over for the past few months, r beny (@rbeny). His ambient works are created in large part on his modular synthesis setup, which you can experience in a deeply personal way by heading over to his Youtube channel (https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC5hhwOVY0lxIn4ELd5ZP1Bw). We asked Austin a few questions about this mix, and the relationship between modular synthesis and the natural world:
 
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Where and when did you put this mix together? 
 
This mix was mostly put together during a couple of sleepless nights at home. Those nights where you just can’t shut off your brain. Not even anything in particular heavily weighing on your mind, just rudimentary thoughts. Those nights where you feel like you are counting each breath and heartbeat. This mix is sort of a reflection of that. Soft tones and hushed drones as the night passes you by. Filmic textures enveloping everything as your mind starts to wander. Memories start to weave in and out as you start to drift out. Are you still in the confines of your bed or are you out driving in the mountains? The mix gets a little more emotional as it proceeds. Maybe some of those memories were just a little too painful.

You do a wonderful job of blending the digital and the natural with your music; what is it about modular synthesis that seems to draw that out in you?

Nature is very important to me and is something that I am inspired and humbled by. I try to put those feelings into my music and they end up there in both obvious and subtle ways. I think the open-ended nature of modular has something to do with it. Modular has allowed me to build out an instrument tailored to my workflow. It’s an instrument that equally allows and rewards expression and spontaneity. Sometimes patching reminds me of gardening.

What is your favourite season, and what are you looking forward to in the months to come?
 
I love the colder seasons. Fall is probably my favorite. It’s amazing to watch the landscape change during these transitional seasons. If Spring is for renewal, then Fall is for letting go. I find comfort in that. For some reason I just seem to get so much more done in the Fall and Winter. Maybe it has something to do with the air being crisper. Gloomy days seem to match my artistic and emotional sensibility. In the coming months I am looking forward to finishing a new release for the label Dauw (represented twice in this mix in Twincities’ “ The Story of the World Unbinding” and Lambert’s “It Might Be a Feeling”), catching up on my reading list, drinking a lot of tea, and making a lot of soup in my slow cooker.

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Thank you again to Austin for contributing such a beautiful mix, and for the thoughtful answers. His newest release, "Eistla" (http://rbeny.bandcamp.com/album/eistla) is a perfect soundtrack to this colder season we find ourselves in. If you're new to his work, head back into his discography and we swear you won't be disappointed. He makes the kind of music that's so easy to just put on repeat, and have playing throughout the day.

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Tracklist:
Will Samson - Electric Parade
Lau Nau - Maininki
Sigbjørn Apeland - Lite
Twincities - The Story of the World Unbinding
Taylor Deupree & Marcus Fischer - Lowlands
Deru - Three Cheers for Existence (Remix)
Florist - Dust Inside the Light
Ian William Craig - Innermost
Benoît Pioulard - Sixth Hour Bloom
Duster - Constellations
Set Fire to Flames - Fading Lights Are Fading / Reign Rebuilder [Tail Out]
Leandro Fresco & Rafael Anton Irisarri - Un Horizonte en Llamas
Rauelsson - Marbles
Julia Kent - Frost and Furrow
Dmitry Evgrafov - Unasked Questions
Mick Turner - Rosa I
Ant'lrd - Lawn Tactics
Lambert - It Might Be a Feeling
Songs: Ohia - The Big Game Is Every Night (Demo)
Kyson - Outro / If Our Love Was a Movie

FLORA / radio 4 ~ guest mix from r beny

Proud to present the latest Métron Mixtape from Kyoto based producer Michiru Aoyama. His 2018 LP 'Brilliant Days' is still one of my favourite records of the year and am delighted to share his brilliant new mixtape that features 35 minutes of exclusive unreleased material from Michiru himself. Beautiful, serene and full of heart - that's what makes his music so special. Hope you enjoy.

Please go check out the full feature and interview on our new and improved website: www.metronrecords.com

Bandcamp: michiruaoyama.bandcamp.com
Soundcloud: @michiru-aoyama
Artwork: Jack Hardwicke

Métron

Métron Mixtape - 058 - Michiru Aoyama

Session Victim - Time to let you down - Delusions of Grandeur - Dog12 - AA

In 2006, flau honcho aus @a-u-s made a mixtape for a gig 'dot' at SALON, Koenji with El Fog, Yui Onodera and Yusuke Kamijima. When the mix was published in International Tapes @mrintl, an introduction by E.Neubauten and Tsumugine was added in 2012 . The mix includes many tracks by Japanese artists, mainly from the internet archive and early electronics.

tracklist>> https://www.mixcloud.com/simiangibbons/aus-mixtape-for-international-tapes-a-dream-within-a-dream/

ausmix

aus (mix for International Tapes)

RKX072 HANNAH WILLIAMS & The AFFIRMATIONS "50 Foot Woman" (CD / LP / Digi)

Produced by Shawn Lee the new much awaited album by Jay-Z's soul queen Hannah Williams & The Affirmations.

Hourglass

This is the day of our Victory!
New single (7'' and Digital) is out from Agogo Records
link: https://rsn-music.bandcamp.com/album/victory

Give some love to everyone who worked for this single
Lyrics / Vocals: Mc Yinka
Music: Dimitris Dermanis / Dennis Morfis and Me
Percussion: Quilombo Centro Cultural
Additional vocals: Thaliah
Also to our sound engineers: Alexis Ghikas / Yannis Markopouliotis
Logo: Till noon
Edit: Madeleine Theofilopoulou

RSN & Electric Quartet Victory (Instrumental)

Montenegrin born in Istanbul, precocious pianist growing up in an embassy, brilliant musician. Prolific composer speaking eight languages, he arranged music for jazz, pop music, adopting multiple identities.
For one label, he is Andy Loore; for another, Emiliano Orti. For others, he is called Alan Blackwell or Johnny Montevideo, but behind all these aliases, there is only one man: Janko Nilovic.
						
Exploring the shelves of musical production, venturing into the less-illuminated corners of library music, Janko Nilovic's name lights up dozens of shelves on which his soundtracks, his records for Editions Neuilly or Sforzando, but above all his twenty albums for Editions Montparnasse, are stored. A considerable and imposing work, rich in orchestrations of keyboards, strings and brass instruments, themes, atmospheres and melodies. A repertoire in which the cinema, television and advertising have come to find their delight ...
						
Subjected to the sharp blades of samplers, reduced to a few effective  seconds, joined with rhythmic beats, some of his tracks have infiltrated hip hop for a long time , leading the most curious to go back to the source to get the complete albums from which the precious loops had been taken. 
Almost unknown to the general public, Janko Nilovic is a master for the initiated, whether  they are at his side in the studio or comfortably seated in their armchair savouring the final result on their turntable. His discretion combined with his long years of silence on the record could lead one to believe that he had cleverly arranged his disappearance from the radar to make Janko Nilovic a mystery that has never been completely solved.
						
Until this message from The Soul Surfers.
A few miles away, in their studio fired up by analog funk, the Muscovites had been put back on the Nilovic track by multi-instrumentalist Shawn Lee. A few passionate discussions later, and the desire for a joint album was already lighting up the amps, making the bass strings shiver and the drum skins tighten.			
Initiated by the coming and going of scores, the collaboration finally continued in studio for a real exchange, instantly bouncing off proposals, developing ideas in a live group dynamic that distance would have made impossible.
									
To feel the vibrations accumulated for decades at the CBE studio (like Chatelain Bisson Estardy), a mythical place founded in 1966, in which many albums, especially library, were immortalized. A place where consoles, equipment and instruments were kept as they were, accumulating in their wiring, meters and speakers, endless hours of experimentation and recording.
						
A place that Janko knew well and where an old acquaintance was waiting for him. A Hammond organ with a Leslie booth whose keys he had already flattered in the past and behind which an improvisation and a single take were enough to complete the eponymous title.					
Together, Janko Nilovic and The Soul Surfers have built Maze Of Sounds, a musical labyrinth paved by the master's keyboards where the soul-funk groove of the fiery Russians is the listener's thread, his point of reference in this maze of atmospheres and emotions, at once cinematic, nostalgic, dancing, dreamlike and contemplative.
				
An album where, however, nothing is compartmentalized. Where, blown by the whirlwind strung by a violin quintet, the barriers move preparing the entrance of a Slavic choir, letting a screaming guitar come and go alongside the crystalline liveliness of the Fender Rhodes, organize some rhythmic aerations at the disposal of the samplers.				
A fusion between the cleverly blackened scores, between the science of precisely written arrangements and the soul-funk feel of The Soul Surfers. An album such as Janko Nilovic has been dreaming of making for years.

Tosca - My First [Nicola Conte Version]

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