BuduShe - Ye - Ye (RC Edit)Soviet Union New Wave, Post Rock, Avantgarde

Magpie (Morgan Geist Remix)

Rare Silk - Storm (Cheap Kidz Edit)

Out February 20th, the Akasha EP consists of two journeys into the vast human experiment; interactions both subtle and intimate, yet grand and profound. From the ashes of lost love to the redemption of a new journey, the LOP crew uses a palette of bold colors to paint these tales. Drawing upon imagery from the stars, tarot, symbology and their many adventures on road, they decode the mysterious exchanges and vibrations of the universe.

Akasha refers to the Akashic record, an etheric database of yore encompassing all human experience. When one accesses the record, they may see events with another's eyes throughout history. Turn up your speakers and ride through different dimensions of culture and experience. Explore the spectrum of sensation as Phill and Patrick shift between contrasting and fleeting moods.

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BOF44 - Life on Planets - Surface Creature (Chicago Love Mix)

Clip of my new track made with legendary house vocalist Robert Owens - 

A side to the 'Midst of the Moment EP' out on Wolf and Lamb Records (July 2012)

Mike Gill feat. Robert Owens - Midst of the moment (Wolf and Lamb Records)

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Over the years, Phil Mison has become the go-to selector for those looking for Ibiza-themed compilations. None of his previous collections, though, have been quite as personal as Out Of The Blue, a compilation inspired by his first spell behind the decks at the Café Del Mar in 1993 – and the remarkable chain of events leading up to it.

Mison made his first trip to Ibiza in the summer of 1991 and quickly fell in love with the magical music being played by Café Del Mar resident DJ, Jose Padilla. On his return to the UK, Mison began to cultivate his own take on the laidback, open-minded style, recording mix-tapes of “Ibiza style chill out” tunes to give to friends.

In November 1992, Mison was hanging out in Tag Records, Soho, when Padilla walked in. He plucked up the courage to speak to the Spaniard because earlier that summer Mison had given one of his friends some tapes to take out to Jose in Ibiza so he wanted to see if he had got them. During the conversation Mison invited him down to his next DJ set at Nicky Holloway’s club, the Milk Bar and less than three months later, and clearly impressed by what he’d heard on the tapes, Padilla invited Mison to fill in for him at the Café Del Mar, beginning in April ’93.

It’s that first trip to DJ in Ibiza – a crazy six-weeks spent dividing his time between spinning records at Café Del Mar, hanging out in Jose Padilla’s house in the hills, and meeting some particularly eccentric White Isle residents – that proved the inspiration for Out Of The Blue.

The compilation contains a mixture of records that Mison played in his earliest Ibiza sets, those that remind him of that period, and recent discoveries that boast a similarly warm, loved-up vibe. Mison is at pains to point out that it’s not a track-for-track representation of his first sets, but rather a collection inspired by this most momentous of experiences.

As you’d expect from a selector of Phil Mison’s standing, Out Of The Blue is an outstanding collection. Some will no doubt hear the influence of his mentor – the man he credits with effectively turning his DJing career around – in the undulating rhythms and new age melodies of Kamasutra’s “Sugar Step”, the meandering synthesizer solos and Spanish language vocals of Congarilla’s sublime “Sacred Tree”, and the lilting flamenco guitars of “Gambarra”, an unreleased mix from Mison’s popular Cantoma project.

Elsewhere, listeners can marvel at the starry ambient bliss of Belgian legend Frank De Wulf’s “The End”, recline to the saucer-eyed fusion jazz of the Christoph Spendel Group, shuffle along to tactile, hard-to-find period deep house from Language, Moodswings and Don Carlos, and marvel at The Cactus Rose Project’s ridiculously rare “Jelly”, a sparkling, disco-era jazz-rock outing partly inspired by the Doobie Brothers’ “Long Train Running”.

Out Of The Blue may well be a very personal selection of tracks celebrating a moment in time, but it’s happily one that we can all enjoy.

Out of The Blue

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The Cactus Rose Project - Jelly

DAY HAPPENS by BEGIN

Psychemagik are known for their beautiful production work, vast record collections and transcendent mixtape journeys and they boast one of the most impressive and comprehensive remix outputs in contemporary electronic music for names including Roisin Murphy, Noel Gallagher, Haim, Bryan Ferry, Beyond The Wizards Sleeve, Paul Weller and Metronomy.  
 
‘I Feel How This Night Should Look’ is an album with a phenomenal backstory. It spans back over a decade back to when Tom Coveneyand Danny McLewin first met in 2008 and produced the ten tracks over an intensive two year period following the birth of Psychemagik.  It was recorded at a number of esteemed locations primed for sonic craft including Kate Bush’s old workspace, George Martin’s Air Studios Lyndhurst Hall, where the duo recorded a seventeen piece string section, and Toe Rag Studios recording drums onto tape.  
 
This album is a true labour of love.  The first taste comes via the effortlessly smooth and immediately deep ‘We Can Be One feat. Quinn Lamont Luke’.  An invigorating and ethereal cut offset with the acid rifts and the Balearic vocals by the New York artist.  ‘We Can Be One’beautifully lays down the foundations and entry point into the endlessly unique and diverse world of Psychemagik.
 
‘Something To Believe’ features English garage rock royalty Holly Golightly which spans a sound palette as diverse and invigorating as one of the pair’s vastly eclectic DJ sets.  The afro-harping ‘Seahorse’ is graced by the airy, wordless vocal styling of British jazz legend Norma Winstone.   ‘Triumph Of The Gods’ featuring Renate Staal Nygård  is an epic, piano and orchestra led tour de force, a funk fuelled soundtrack for a thriller yet to be made.  ‘Ghost Particle’ glides along at cruising altitude featuring Canterbury’s wilfully underrated Syd Arthur, whilst ‘Above The Clouds’ and ‘Cosmic Forest’ are exquisite string and synth-led cosmic disco.  ‘Le Paix Est Un Fleur’ deftly mixes psychedelic delights and easy listening.  
 
Finally set for release on Psychemagik Recordings in December, ‘​I Feel How This Night Should Look ​’ is testament to the duo’s deep understanding and love of their craft. It’s an album which hones a layered intelligence that only long-term dedication to the art and craft of the  DJ can deliver.

PREMIERE: Psychemagik - Triumph Of The Gods Feat. Renate Staal Nygard

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New York's Arthur's Landing is far from a cover project.  Made up of a collective of many of the late Arthur Russell's closest friends and collaborators, the group uses their experiences working with Arthur as a jumping off point to create new material out of song fragments, performance exercises, and some of the material on which they worked together with much loved artist.  On "Love Dancing," the Loose Joints classic "Is It All Over My Face" becomes a sparse meditation on the feelings, akin to a crush, that music can inspire.  The track features vocals from Arthur Russell's good friend Joyce Bowden, as well as Hercules And Love Affair's Nomi.

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Love Dancing

Arthur's Landing- Love Dancing (Is It All Over My Face)

Smith & Mudd - Norway Stores (clip)

Navid Izadi- Satisfaction Edit

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Smith & Mudd - Norway Stores (clip)

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