Mixing things up for Chapter 80 of my radio show! I’m dedicating the second half of my show to explore the mind blowing sound that is ZAMROCK!

Zamrock is a genre of music that came out of Zambia in the early 1970’s. Think psych rock / hard rock meets traditional African music.
It’s absolutely amazing…

Lastly, happy 80 shows ya'll! Thank you to everyone for your support and love throughout these years. I'm so hopeful that this show will continue to grow in the most beautiful of ways!

Zamrock Doc Links: 
Vinyl Me Please: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mwzeqPFLWL0
Bandsplaining: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=czrPRJehmdA&t=112s

Playing my vinyl collection @ Part Time Lovers March 18th. (San Diego)

Chapter #80

Naïve

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"Dancing has always been visceral to me." The DJ and producer talks about bringing movement into her music practice and the role mythology and meditation plays in art and life.

The Italian-French DJ, producer and dancer Giulia Fournier-Mercadante—AKA GiGi FM—has had a varied, multidisciplinary career. Originally a dancer, Fournier-Mercadante received a scholarship for the New York City Ballet and the contemporary dance outfit Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater as a teenager. Finding the dancing world difficult to navigate, especially in its approach to body image, she graduated and moved to London to focus on music. It was there that she discovered techno and its capacity to heal. She started hosting a regular show on NTS, getting booked locally and then touring around the world.

Today, Fournier-Mercadante has integrated dance into her productions, which use motion sensors to transform physical movement into MIDI. Her use of her body as her basic instrument has led to a unique, kinetic sound palette that defines all of her tracks. In this Exchange, she unpacks how she's worked with this technique and rediscovered her love of dancing, as well as how spirituality, dream states and astrology inform her life and work. Listen to the episode in full.

EX.726 GiGi FM

~ big softy ~

lead single from the upcoming CRUSH ep.

cute, cuddly, and a little scary <3 

big softy

Grand Paon de Nuit

Baton rouge

Out Here

Wide Awake

Coming in from Brussels, Belgium, DJ / Selector @XOGN drifts in with a new Island Time episode for us. His words on the mix:

🏝️ Island winds and eye-land waves 🏝️

Usually more focused on African music, I wanted to make a special mix for Island Time Radio. So, it's entirely dedicated to Island music, from the Caribbean Sea to the Indian Ocean (including Cape Verde and Sao Tome).
Disco and funky vibes in the first part, cadence and latin rhythms in the second part. 100% vinyl with tunes that, as far as I know, have not yet been reissued. And now ... let's play!
15 tracks, 15 different places: Bahamas - Cape Verde - Comoros - Cuba - Dominica - Haïti - Jamaïca - Madagascar - Martinique - Mauritius - Puerto Rico - Réunion - St Lucia - Sao Tome & Principe - Tobago.
Guess which song comes from which country!

📷 Photo credit: "Waves under my eyelids" (Alba'hian series) by JOANA CHOUMALI (www.joanachoumali.com/)

all IDs to @xogn

Island Time Radio: Mix 24 with XOGN

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big softy

~ lulu ~

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