Name: A good year by strudelific
Duration: 2 h 49 min 19 s
Description: Snippet of my new year's private party liveset. The year started very well, hope you enjoy <3

Ups & Downs @ Sameheads 01.10.21

Alfonso Bravo Gallo Lento 
Gastrocosmic duo Alfonso Bravo Gallo Lento will offer you a psychedelic syntoguitarro truck of improvisation that brings you deep into there.
https://maisparabaixo.bandcamp.com/track/disco-palma-2

Ondula
Ondula delivers through her musical approach an unorthodox way to reach the emotions behind the shell. Finding her roots in radio and sound-collage, she has been active in music for over a decade, collecting, exploring and trying to find a conscious listener to share her universe.
https://soundcloud.com/ondula/self-hypnosys-is-a-tool-for-modern-minds_ondula-for-geograficamente-perto

Yief
PlaYing for the sake of plaYing. Young dj & independent music aficionado, Pablo Yief offers a collection of unusual songs for uncomplicated people. One of the various artists behind Real No Real, a not conforming platform organizing DIY concerts in Madrid since 2017. 
https://soundcloud.com/pyief/ficcion-romance

Vacas
Juan Vacas was a Spanish photographer who lived in Córdoba since 1952 and a founding member of the Agrupación Fotográfica de Córdoba. Juan Vacas is also a promising thirteen years old Real Madrid player. A third Juan will be playing some free-form music this Friday night.
https://soundcloud.com/testfm_radio/psychogeography-w-vacas-testfm-25042021

Ondula - Live Dj Excerpt - Ups&Downs @ Sameheads 01.10.21

R14 Record Club - two turntables, a rotary mixer, and many crackly records. 

A four-hour DJ session with Renno & Erkin accompanied by some excellent wine, so expect some hazy mixes in between. 

Big shout to all the Restaurant R14 crew for supporting good music.

https://soundcloud.com/muhkontagurpidilohk
https://soundcloud.com/rennopaat
https://soundcloud.com/erkinantov

R14 Record Club (May 10, 2024) - Renno Paat & Erkin Antov

‘Eighty Three’, a sumptuous slab of slow-motion gorgeousness smothered in sun-splashed synth sounds and warming electric piano motifs, was one of the undoubted highlights of Mudd’s critically acclaimed sophomore solo album, In The Garden of Mindfulness. Now the track has been given a makeover by Conrad McDonnell, a long-time friend of the family and Claremont 56 contributor.

 

McDonnell is famous for his wild and effects-laden dub mixes, both as a solo remixer and alongside long-time musical partner Dan Tyler as the Idjut Boys. Together, they provided deliciously wayward and mind-altering takes of tracks from the Claremont 56 catalogue as part of the label’s 10th anniversary triple-CD compilation back in 2017.

Now McDonnell has gone solo to deliver an album of dubbed-out revisions of In The Garden of Mindfulness, a set that will land next year. To get us all in the mood, he’s laid down a trio if reworks of ‘Eighty Three’ in his distinctive style.

McDonnell first offers up the ‘Le Cidre Dub’, a slowly pulsating rendition in which lightly echoing and tape delay-laden guitar, synthesiser and Rhodes riffs drift across a throbbing electronic groove and low-tempo dub disco drums. The veteran DJ/producer has effectively given the track a more cosmic and spaced-out spin whilst retaining much of Mudd’s intricate and densely layered instrumentation.

Those seeking even wilder and more out-there acoustics are catered for by McDonnell’s two alternative dub takes. He successfully strips back the track to its most skeletal form on the ‘Uppity Dub’, bringing the sparsest of beats in and out of the mix whilst focusing on ambient synthesiser sounds, bubbly electronic patterns, echoing electric piano notes and Mudd’s squelchy and addictive bassline. His favoured effects are all audible in the mix but never dominate the sound space.

This celebrated side of McDonnell’s audio output comes to the fore on the EP-ending ‘Uppity Again Dub’, in which waves of trippy and picturesque electronics lap against a locked-in, delay-laden dub disco groove and flashes of reverb-heavy bass. It’s effectively a heady, mind-altering ambient dub interpretation of a sun-splashed Balearic treat. Like the other revisions on the EP, it offers a mouth-watering appetiser for the album of dubs still to come.

Eighty Three (Uppity Dub)

It is Sunday Vinyl Picking time! Again, I found it very joyful to play a vinyl-only set, pick some records without a direction, push the record button and go with the flow. 

This time I chose some beautiful records from my “new arrivals” shelf, some I just took out from my record bag and unpacked after the recent show, and others were just the ones that were still scattered around after a listening session at home.


Enjoy the spontaneous Sunday Vinyl Session #2 with some alluring tracks I never played before and the ones that never leave my record bag. If you like synth and electro, African and world music gems of the 80s, this set will be for you. Follow the groove and let yourself dive into the off-the-cuff vinyl session.
The mix is recorded live in my music room in Istanbul on a cold Sunday afternoon.


Tracklist:
The Art of Noise, feat. Mahlathini and Mahotella Queens - Yebo!
Arabian Prince - Africanism
Hot R.S - Slow Blow
Kovacs Kati - Hivlak
Moonbase - Waiting for the train
Armonics - Future Echoes
Steve Monit - Only You
Mory Kante - Toma
Sylvester - In my Fantasy
Flamingo Pier - Tell Me How
Pol Rax - Full of Shame
Shankar Jaikishan - Aye Mere Dil Kahin Aur Chal

Sunday Vinyl Picking

Fourier transform 004 mini album
https://fouriertransformlabel.bandcamp.com/album/uf0

303 corp (FT 004)

Textures 001 kicks of a new series for 2025. 
Picture taken in Cambridge one foggy Thursday evening. 
The pictures (a small series of shadow on raised concrete) inspired me to get back behind the decks and try a new exciting series of music accompaniments to my 'snaps' 
I'll be adding to this series often, (I find its best not confirm dates as I always break them). Expect to see a new image with a new mix as regularly as I can muster. 
Hope you vibe on these as I put them out. Please comment, engage and most of all. Enjoy. 
4c x

Tracklist
Sage Caswell - Y'all
Dudley Perkins - Forevaendless
Jura Soundsystem - Cafafe Denim
House Smoke
Mark Seven - Helping Hand
Rodaestet - Nishikawa II
Larry Heard - Dolphin Dream 
Safar Ansari / Ian Fink - Walk In D Garden
Sampology - Peace Lily 
Sebastian Tellier - La Ritournelle
Roman Flugel - Wood & Neon
William The Squid - Arab Sun
Khotin - Fever Loop
Kindimmer - Leaving
Harry Griffiths - 300
Loopz The Maestro - What A Life
Vincent Floyd - Economy In Motion
Jesse Bru - The Ground Beneth
Carlos Nilmmns  - Light & Shadow
Kaytranada - Bullets (Feat Little Dragon)

equipment used
Technics 1210 mk1 x 2
Allen and Heath PX5
Traktor dvs vinyl. 
one take mix.  


4c textures 001

Snippet of my new year's private party liveset. The year started very well, hope you enjoy <3

A good year

Long time friend of the label and Stones Throw alumni ‘Rejoicer’ joins forces with longtime collaborator, fellow Apifera band member and renowned pianist Nitai Hershkovits to present a new moniker and concept piece “Cinema Royal” - a delicate yet audacious album that quietly commands attention. Having previously collaborated on works for Raw Tapes and beyond, this body of work exists more on the modern classical plain with splices of ambient and jazz woven into the musical fabric of the compositions. 

Cinema Royal - Cinema Royal [LP Preview]

01. Rocco Raimundo - Made For Each Other - Luv Shack Records
02. LeSale - Mister E - Luv Shack Records
03. Jakobin & Domino - Unbogeba - Luv Shack Records
04. Guiddo feat. Louie Austen - Dream Your Dream (KEZ YM Dub) - Luv Shack Records
05. Hard Ton - Can You Feel The Love (Demuja Remix) - Luv Shack Records
06. Moodtrax - Running Number (Longhair´s Luv Remix) - Luv Shack Records
07. Jakobin & Domino - Polar 7- Luv Shack Records
08. Burnin Tears - Confessions (ROTCIV Remix) - Luv Shack Records
09. Space Echo - Rare Function - Luv Shack Records
10. Lee Stevens & Ken Hayakawa - If You - Luv Shack Records

Simonlebon - Luv Shack Records Radioshow @ Superfly.fm - January 2025

Barda - Barulho



Barulho es un tema nuevo de Barda anticipando el disco que sale en apenas unos días con Basalto Records como parte del álbum Árboles Nativos Vol. 1. Los stabs de sintetizadores juegan con la melodía de un balafón. Por momentos suena oscuro, por otros más diurno y colorido. Como en la frondosidad de una selva, el sol por momentos se va y por momentos regresa, desplegando los colores brillantes de las alas de una mariposa o las plumas de un ave.

ENGLISH - ----- 
Barulho is the new track by Barda, anticipating the release of her upcoming record in just a few days via Basalto Records, as part of the compilation Árboles Nativos Vol. 1. The synth stabs interplay with the melody of a balafón, weaving a soundscape that shifts between dark and bright, colorful tones.
Like the lush density of the jungle, the sunlight fades and reappears, revealing flashes reminiscent of butterfly wings or bird feathers.

LISTEN AND BUY

PREMIERE009 // Barda - Barulho

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► Release Info:

A returning artist to the Meanwhile catalogue, EMPHI builds on his growing support and popularity with a brand-new twin-track EP in the form of "Walk With Me / Research Myself".

Hailing from the Swedish capital, EMPHI has lit up the world of Progressive House in the first half of the 2020s with his "tracks filled with vibrant percussion and anthemic melodies." Able to point to a growing number of blue-chip labels that have featured his work, Kasey Taylor's Vapour Recordings, Alex O'Rion's Solis Records, as well as the number 1 selling Mango Alley and iconic Balance Music, have all played host to EMPHI's production talent since a 2020 debut on Odd One Out.

Meanwhile has also been a key component in seeing the Stockholm resident soar to new heights. A pair of tracks have featured on the "Meanwhile Excursions" series with "The Box" on July 2022's Vol. 2 and "Azur" on Vol. 3 a year later. Now returning for a third appearance and a full solo EP, "Walk With Me" is propelled forward by a deep and penetrating kick. At the same time, a fizzing percussive top-line of hats and shakers provides the backdrop for a hypnotic bassline groove to anchor a series of sweeping, stereo-panned effects and vocal loop to flow seamlessly across the 7-minute piece. A catchy lead motif then provides melodic interest as it filters its way through proceedings from the mid-point onwards and into a stripped-down break. Building once more, the final movement explodes into a cadenced square wave synth that cuts through the mix with sumptuous pads adding to the soundscape.

Partner track, "Research Myself" immediately comes alive with a delicious head-shaking rhythmic pattern that creates a call and answer sequence with subtle synth placement. A chorus of hi-hats and shaker patterns adds further to the dancefloor arrangement as exquisitely placed slow attack chords and delicious effects create a hypnotising sonic collage. Rising and falling with immaculate ease, the track contains all the hallmarks of the EMPHI production skillset in a seething dancefloor gem.

Journeying to new frontiers on a voyage of self-discovery, EMPHI reaches new heights with "Walk With Me / Research Myself".

Directed by GMJ & Matter
Mastered by Cid Inc.
Design by Matter
Text by James Warren

PREMIERE: EMPHI - Research Myself (Original Mix) [MEANWHILE RECORDINGS]

Stirring your cravings for Groovy, Progressive, Psychedelic beats – and even that miscellaneous Techno-haberdashery. 

Bookings: strudelific@gmail.com

A good year

strudelific

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