KEXP ~ PACIFIC NOTIONS - Part 1

Language Barrier

Stones Throw

Our latest mix is from musician CFCF, Mike Silver, who’s recent album Memoryland is a staple at Editorial HQ.  CFCF hones his skill for world-building in his latest release, which serves as a sentimental homage to the 90s intersection of commercial electronica and angsty alt rock. In his Editorial Mag mix, CFCF explores this milieu further, breathy foreign vocals breeze over mid-late 90s vinyl lounge music, taking us into a European internet cafe with bowl sized cappuccinos and beautiful jet-set youth.

@cfcf

CFCF - i regret the jet-set: global lounge 1994-2001

Splashy

a couple of edits i made while i was bored back in 2021

enjoy <3

Unlock It 2

Recently I mentioned that I had a cassette tape from over 40 years ago when The Takahashi Band of 82 made a demo track for a potential TV commercial. The track was only worked on for a day or two and then abandoned. I think we all had a busy year and for whatever reason this recording was discarded.

I also talked about sharing the recording one day just for nostalgic reasons, however the mix was a very basic end-of-day progress mix and no vocal part was conceived. Sharing it in this form would not do the potential of the work any justice.

The track began with chords and synths that Yukihiro Takahashi recorded, the basic building blocks of his composition. I added the drum part. Having been intensively rehearsing and performing Takahashi material this triggered a distinct blend of my own style as might appear on tracks such as 'The Art of Parties' and Yukihiro's style on tracks such as 'Glass'. Haruomi Hosono added his brilliance on bass, as well as Masami Tsuchiya overlaying guitar parts and Hajime Tachibana adding a saxophone solo.

Fast forward over 40 years....
 
At the end of 2023 I sent the demo to singer/songwriter Marco Machera, someone I’ve collaborated with a few times in the past and whose vocal style I felt would compliment the music. Yukihiro also enjoyed Marco's music, including it on his own radio show. I asked Marco to consider adding a vocal which he was happy to do, also composing lyrics too.

I used an AI program to break down the stereo mix of the original cassette recording into individual tracks (this is a relatively new technology and although the quality struggled it allowed for a little bit more flexibility with the mixing and blending of new overdubs). The performed parts were retained, and to which I recorded some additional instrumentation as well as joining Marco on the chorus vocals. I made a new mix of the track. So what we have here is the finished piece: “Impossible Until It Happens”. 

Marco and I share this as an homage to Yukihiro who passed away this time last year and is greatly missed. We can feel the essence of Yukihiro's writing style in this track and we hope that you enjoy it.

Music by Yukihiro Takahashi / Song & Lyrics by Marco Machera

Yukihiro Takahashi - Keyboards
Haruomi Hosono - Electric Bass
Steve Jansen - Drums & Percussion, Additional Sequencers & Synthesisers, Chorus Vocals
Masami Tsuchiya - Electric Guitar
Hajime Tachibana - Saxophone
Marco Machera -  Lead Vocals, Samples, Additional Synthesiser
(for more information www.marcomachera.com)

Impossible Until It Happens

Music for Objects

Ring

Today, breath-taking post-classical artist Poppy Ackroyd shares her brand new single ‘Paper’ taken from her first full-length album with One Little Indian Records, Resolve – out early 2018. A classically trained pianist, violinist, producer, and composer, Ackroyd turned heads in the neo-classical world with her previous works Escapement and Feathers, as well as her involvement in Hidden Orchestra (Tru Thoughts).

Having played alongside giants of the genre, Hauschka and Nils Frahm, the unique musician has returned, newly signed to Bjork’s label One Little Indian Records, fresh off the back of a mini-album Sketches, and set to release her brand new self-produced full-length record - her most ambitious and progressive piece of work to date.

Resolve

Paper

Apollo's Grove

Charlie's Window

The booth for HMT Hard Cru's micro-rave propped open a lift with walls plastered in memes, and the DJs donned boiler suits reading "WITCH HOUSE" and "BLOG HOUSE." That was only the beginning of the fun. Just when you think this ride couldn't get any more wild, keep listening for the next ridiculous (maybe better: ridonkulous) edit or unthinkable mashup.

RA Live - 7.12.2019 - HMT Hard Cru, twentyfour/seven London, FOLD

TRACKLIST:
Doss - Attitude Intro
Doss - ????
DJ Hell - This Is For You
Mike Hulme - 100mg (Stupid Fresh Remix)
D-Block, S-te-Fan - Loopmachine (Original Mix)
Marcel Woods - Cherry Blossom (TE 2006 MIX) + Monologue
DJ IQ - Bonus Dance Beat Part 1
Colette, Santiago & Bushido - Make Me Feel (Original Mix)
Gianluca Motta, Khady - The Party (Gianluca Motta & Paola Albierti Club Mix)
Cosmic Gate - Analog Feel (Original Mix)
Sander Van Doorn - Riff
Moksi - So Fly Feat. Lil Debbie (TANTRON Remix)
SOPHIE, Doss - New York’s Burning Down
The Requesters - Strong Love
Freakadelika - Just Freakin’
Juyen Sebulba - Resist
Milky - Just the Way You Are (Almighty Mix)
Doss - ????
Miles Maeda - Round Like This (Been Like That)
Smith & Pledger, Aspekt - Hi Jack (Instrumental Mix)
Tear the Club Up
Ferry Corsten - Beautiful (Doss Edit)
Doss - ????

VISUALS BY DOSS x TERRELL DAVIS

DOSS, "THE SKY UPSIDE DOWN" SECRET SKY MIX

Mix for https://studio-aok.com/ 

Chill rock and ambient mix, pairs well with a pull from your bong. :~)

Tracklist:
O.S.S. - Engel
Rothko - Suddenly Becomes Light
Susumu Yokota - Tobiume
The Durutti Column - Never Known
Orquesta de las Nubes - El orden del Azar
Unknown Mobile - A Windless March Ouest (ft. CFCF)
Mogollar - Sehnaz Longa
Tri Atma - Ajit
Björn Meyer - Traces Of A Song
Bel Canto - Intravenous
Alan Sorrenti - Sienteme
Piero Umiliani - Wanderer
Bobby Hutcherson - Montara
Kandahar - The Hobbit
David Sylvain - When Poets Dreamed of Angels
Talk Talk - Eden
54-40 - Get Back Down
The Tragically Hip - Titanic Terrarium
Pink Floyd - Set the Controls for the Heart of the Sun
Oregon - Song for a Friend


Studio A-OK is a lifestyle brand and agency formed by three leisure enthusiasts in 2016. Taking nods from past subcultures, future spacecrafts and meandering brain waves, A-OK is not one thing, but many.

A-OK takes your smoking experience and gazes at it through a modernist haze. Whether designing our own line of accessories and apparel, to cultivating the most unique shopping experience in Vancouver at our concept store All Day Breakfast, A-OK is here to keep your third-eye seeing clear.

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Do You Remember

Helios - first dream called ocean

millennium new age deep thoughts producer/dj from Montreal, QC

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