We are proud to announce the launch of our new podcast series. Our first feature will see @MANUMAT hitting the decks!

MANUMAT sees music as a universal language. A connection and a frequency attainable between all living beings.

Living in Miami for the better part of 15 years and with roots in Colombia, France, Spain and Portugal and now USA, his sound can be described as a journey through ancient cultures blending electronic with organic sounds. New and old, fast and slow, always groovy and on the move. 

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We are delighted to host Xeum for our second installment!

French DJ, Producer, Remixer and Performer from Asian and Slavic roots, Xeum discovered electronic music and synthesis sound as a child and quickly started to compose and perform his music. With a versatile music background education, he graduated from Paris & Versailles Conservatory of Music and became a studio- recording artist for EMI and classical percussionist in the French Air Force Brass Band, which plays for French President. With various orchestras, he has performed in prestigious venues like Chatelet Theater, Palais des Congres, Mogador Theater in Paris, Budapest Opera, Kremlin in Moscow. 

Xeumʼs international collaborations are as eclectic as diverse. Versatiliy might be closest way of describing his sonic sensitivity as he regularly performs and produces a range of music from Classic, Jazz, through House, Tech House-Electro to Electronica for various events. As Dj and musician, Xeum tours with a live act, mixing and performing electronic and acoustic instruments or 100% Originals DJ set. He has performed in many clubs and concert venues around the world.

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Codex Naturae Guest Mix 002: Xeum (live)

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Timboletti, bringing the sound of Codex Naturae 003! Jump on the train and enjoy the wild ride...

Rumours have it that he escaped from a confetti factory in some faraway place, and that he was on the road with a flea circus afterwards. That would explain why all those sepia-coloured scenes from exotic places appear before the inner eye of his listeners: With the steady, hypnotic rattle of a steam train in the background, they show sequences from Middle East, South America, India, and from the infinite realms of Inner Space. It's this organic amalgamation of traditional, hand-played music and the digital functionality of House beats that makes Timboletti a very special DJ and producer.

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Codex Naturae Guest Mix 003: Timboletti

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Let Lola Villa take you on a gorgeous emotional journey. Music for thought, music for those life changing moments...

Lola Villa is a Bogotá born, a Buenos Aires bred and a Berlin grown – now being of musical menace to the Dutch capital. Her travels have brought her closer to both her Latin American roots and a borderless exploration of global sounds. When playing, Lola invokes landscapes, animals & rituals of her homeland Colombia – a country rich in Amazonian, Andean, Afro and Arab musical legacies. Her electronic sound is for that exact same reason a profound journey of melodies, a playground of rhythms breaking genres and boundaries.

Expect musical connections between past and present, east and west, tropical and deep. An ongoing voyage with carefully crafted folkloric moves.

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Codex Naturae Guest Mix 004: Lola Villa

This week prepare to abandon the safety of a house beat and dive into the reality constructed by Romanian duo Karpov Not Kasparov, a reality built on the rules of chess! Today, the duo is joined for this special session by Ion Dumitrescu and Camil Dumitrescu of Future Nuggets, an imprint on the prowl for obscure musical hybrids in the dark corners of Romania.

Karpov Not Kasparov’s debut LP, "Soundtrack for a Game of Chess", (2015) has been nominated 'album of the month' by Vice Magazine, has been aired on New York radios and pressed on vinyl by the boutique label @Polychromesounds.

The duo began making music based on the rules and strategies of chess. It might seem complicated but the output is always a very danceable melody, sometimes inspired by Oriental folklore (because chess is an Oriental game) and always mixed with powerful 80's dancefloor sounds.

Local heros in their native Bucharest but also quite active musical tourists, Karpov not Kasparov have been carrying their instruments throughout Europe during the past four years, playing their very energetic live set in alternative venues from Berlin, Milano, Vienna, Florence, Hamburg,  Basel, Torino, Brussels, Dusseldorf, Prague, Lille, Budapest etc.

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Codex Naturae Guest Mix 005: Karpov Not Kasparov (live)

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M@kossa shows his world for CDX 006, prepare for some gems!

Born in the valleys home of Brunello di Montalcino in Italy, M@kossa has voyaged the world seeking sound. From Jazz to Soul, from House to R&B, from African Beats to Electronic music and Funky Disco. Enchanted by Nicholas Jaar’s spell in his teenage years, M@kossa studies as a sound engineer and starts producing. His productions are as stripped down as they are intoxicating, inducing the listener in a quasi meditative state. A cornucopia of tropical and oriental sound, his music whispers an ancestral message of a slow life.

He has released tracks on Talvera Records, Cosmic Awakenings and Orient Art, with a new track coming out soon on Berlin imprint Drossel.

Let the warmth of his sound caress your skin and and make sweet love to your eardrums…


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Codex Naturae Guest Mix 006: M@kossa

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Gigios takes us on a trip of vocally infused trippy, tribal beats for CDX 007.
He plays around with sound as if it were his own creature, modulating, melding, shaping it into different directions yet somehow following a straight line. Guilherme Freire, aka Gigios, produces and Dj’s in his hometown of Rio de Janeiro. Lend him your ears for this hour long journey and be mesmerized by the quality of his selection.

Enjoy!

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Codex Naturae Guest Mix 007: Gigios

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Italian born, Buenos Aires bred, add a spice of Panama and now living in Mexico City. This volcanic mix speaks lenghts about the energy Etna Calvi brings to the dancefloor. Bouncing around from Latin American influences to darker electronic sounds, her's is a journey to remember!! Happy dancing :)

ps. Etna Calvi cared to share a poem with us for this mix, for you spanish speakers out there ;)



Ya nadie mira a la luna,
la luna ya no es de nadie;
ya no la cubren de besos,
ya no la bañan con sangre.

Ni ya le escriben poemas,
ni ya le clavan puñales;
ya no hay tragedias de amores,
ya no hay amor, no hay amantes.

Ya pasa sola la luna,
ya pasa sola, sin nadie;
ya no amontona secretos
ni alumbra sueños, como antes.

¿Adónde fuisteis, poetas,
adónde fuisteis, amantes,
que la dejásteis sin versos,
que sin amor la dejásteis?

Ya no es de nadie, ni es luna,
la luna que ahora nos sale;
porque es un círculo sólo,
y sólo un círculo errante.

Sólo un castillo arrumbado,
sólo un recuerdo distante;
sólo una historia en un libro,
sólo una estatua en un parque.

La luna no será luna
sin corazones que amen;
sin pensamientos que vuelen
y sin poetas que canten.

Y es esa luna, lunero,
la misma luna, no obstante,
que tú metiste en los versos
porque era tuya una parte

Pero los hombres son otros
y otras las cosas que valen;
y otros los ojos que miran
y otras las formas de amarse.

La luna no será luna,
porque la luna es mirarse:
asesinar con los ojos
hasta el dolor de la sangre.
-Mariano Estrada-

Enjoy!

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Codex Naturae Guest Mix 008: Etna Calvi "Luna De Octubre"

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Mr. Codex Naturae 009 | Andre Campos Romero, AKA @Nochi, is a musician and producer from the gorgeous Costa Rica. Nochi performs live (solo or in a duet) combining acoustic instruments with his Dj sets. His musical spectrum composed of a cornucopia of sounds ranges from Minimal to Ska, Footwork to Dub Reggae, to Deep and Tech house, a taste of Cumbia, a spice of Afro and a final touch of Latin Rhythms. This colorful pallet pervades in all his musical selection which hits your eardrums from all angles.

He is also co-founder of Deep Underground Beats, an Artist Agency based in San Jose, Costa Rica and Founded 11 years ago by four companions with a combined 15-year experience in music, broadcasting, and design. In It’s lifetime, Deep Underground Beats has been pushing electronic sounds through various clubs and parties around the country, spreading good energy and even better music.

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Codex Naturae Guest Mix 009: Nochi

For CDX 010 meet Intiche the cosmonaut!

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Born in the Paris of South America, Buenos Aires, he has been a Berlin resident for almost 20 years now.

In his own words:
"Spiritual Biological,
Organic Human.
Creature of energy and flesh.
Flowing with the energy of life, walking my road in Pachamama. 
Messenger/Visionary for people to connect, feel good and vibrate with mother earth. 
Musician, climber, permaculture activist, traveler, nature lover and father of three awake and living hearts."

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Soundcloud: @intiche
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Codex Naturae Guest Mix 010: Intiche

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Our Guest for CDX 011, Ɣսle graduated as cultural producer works as a radio broadcaster and has been djing for the last 4 years. 
As a producer she has released tracks on CasaCaos and one by Tropical Twista Records although she still considers herself a "newbie" in musical production and curation. Recently Yule founded the "Unsbeat" and intends to release the label's first compilation in by the end of 2017. 

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Codex Naturae Guest Mix 011: Yule

Our Guest this month grew up in Morocco, where he developed a strong affinity for Maghrebian sounds. During his years in Germany, he became seduced with the electro sounds of the capital. The result is powerful a psychedelic blend of ethnic beats, disco, and electro.

Badre has been on the road for more than 15 years in the music scene at home and abroad.

He always transports in his suitcase a collection of fine records, which, despite or because of their diversity, make his gigs a harmonious sound experience.

The motto: Different Styles - One Soul

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Codex Naturae Guest Mix 012: Badre

Originally from Istanbul, our guest this month, grew up with a love for music, especially music performance. At age 6, she joined the school choir and started singing. Since then, she performed on countless occasions in Turkey, the US, Brazil, Costa Rica and Paraguay. Tuğçe studied voice, jazz vocals, and West-African drumming with percussionist Milford Graves and singer &amp; songwriter Sheila Jordan among others.

Various listeners have remarked that her voice is “ethereal”, “something ancient, calling from the primeval darkness of fairytale.” Tugçe’s musical interests cross genres and continents. She has collaborated as a singer, songwriter, and co-producer with Paraguayan musician & producer Santi on three albums: Cíclico (2014), Songs for Another Day (2015), and El Regreso del Gallito (2016). She has also released four
singles: Istanbul’a (2017), Donde Va (2016), Sevda Çiçeği (2016) and Backflash (2015).

As the founder and curator of the Kybele Project, she develops opportunities for greater collaboration and broader inclusion of artists from around the world.

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Codex Naturae Guest Mix 013: Tugçe Kurtiş

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Our Guest Bx94, provides us with a stunning CDX014 guestmix! Bx94 is a hiphop inspired culturally infused beats alter-ego of an elusive artist from New York. 
Of Turkish descent, our guest gains inspiration from  Zeki Muren and Erkin Koray as well as masters like Fela Kuti and Mulatu Astatke.

Bx94 also occasionally produces as Germanic, his minimal house project, where he exlpores eerie and mystical soundscapes. In his own words, this music is supposed to "capture the listener in an emotional state of pure stimulation."

As the founder of Baklava Tapes he explores a plethora of beatmakers with oriental, turkish, and jazz influences. The label was established in 2016 to cater a specific type of space. A chill cafe or rooftop setting. The music is mostly free and 100% of the digital album sales are given to the artist. 

CDX014 to honour the mix, we created a visual mix, entirely made with the lo-fi video equivalent of tapes, GIFs. A short movie of sorts 🎥. Check for excerpts on our Facebook page and Stay tuned for the full movie.

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Soundcloud: @bx94 @baklavatapes @germanicmusic
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Codex Naturae Guest Mix 014: bx94 "Belly Dancer Beats"

This month welcome Facets,  well respected DJ /Promoter in the New York electronic scene and now founder / label boss of the exciting label @samorecords, which will soon celebrate its 3rd release.

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Codex Naturae Guest Mix 015: Facets

Follow CDX 016 guest, Toulouse in this journey to the east. All tracks in the set are unreleased originals produced by Toulouse himself!! Keep an eye open in the coming weeks for a track list.

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Eastern Lost

Codex Naturae Guest Mix 016: Toulouse

Codex Naturae guest 017 hails from Corpus Christi, TX. EDICA+ is a Guyanese DJ/Music Producer, based in Brooklyn, NY. Heavily influenced by Caribbean, Latin, Indian, African, and European sounds, EDICA+ serves up a refreshing mix of cultural flavors from around the world. 

Using bass to bump your body and rhythm to renew your soul, EDICA+ loves to move and groove you.

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Codex Naturae Guest Mix 017: EDICA+

For podcast 018 we are graced with a magical journey in jazz by PVNX

We leave you with some words by the creator which we suggest you read before listening:

"I always feel undeniable passion for Jazz. I think it is in my blood, my father was the one who showed me that part of the music universe when I was a kid. I do remember that music was playing at our house always, mostly it was jazz, it fascinated me by the sophistication, complexity of the music ideas, transitions and developments. One of my favorite tracks of all times is a 9 minute 11 seconds masterpiece by Charles Mingus named Goodbye Pork Pie Hat recorded live by the very interesting blend of musicians, they called themselves Manhattan Project (Wayne Shorter, Michel Petrucciani, Stanley Clarke, Lenny White, Gil Goldstein and Pete Levin). The second one is a genius rework of California Dreaming by George Benson, simply fantastic fusion adventure for 7 minutes 22 seconds. I want to thank my father for showing me and giving opportunity to dream and fly on the wings of both of that tracks, as well as musician general which changed my life forever... good music, good life...

Composing started long before the actual mix came together, when I started djing back in 2007, it was a dream for me to play jazz only mixes. Since then I was collecting jazz records, scrutinizing discographies of favorite jazz musicians, finding new names and putting all my gems on the shelf for the better moment to come. 9 years later moving to New York, falling in love with radio WBGO, digging through enormous amount of records on every day basis, meeting with the founder of Codex Naturae and his patience helped the pieces of the puzzle fell into place. Composing this mix was one of the biggest challenges for me as a dj/vinyl collector. But as in a beautiful novel everything happened for reason and every musical composition in this mix appeared and played its role in my life as well. The thought process changed 4 times while I was working on the mix. Exploring jazz music gave me a chance to fall in love with early prog rock. Finally the concept defined itself - it is an ode to the Freedom, Love and Hope of the different future, future which were expected and pursued in the heads of young Chick Corea, Bob James, Marc Moulin, John Abercrombie, Dedalus, Joze Privsek, Lloyd McNeill, Oregon, Gabor Szabo... composed by their geniuses, which world would recognize later, these burning hearts were speaking so emotionally so truthful... so real... 

Instruction: 
Spend 1 hour of your life with yourself, at least try to avoid your social media frustration and bugging. Listen to the whole mix carefully, music is the key."

PVNX

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Codex Naturae Guest Mix 018: PVNX

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It is with great honor that we announce Fattish for CDX 019! For this journey, Fattish delighted us with a few edits of his. Tracklist available soon. Watch this space...

The Turkey based groove addicted dj, has produced several mashups featuring Mogollar, Cypress Hill, Sezen Aksu and Prodigy for MTV Turkey. Known as a remixer and edit lover in his country he loves to mix sounds from east to west.


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Codex Naturae Guest Mix 019: Fattish

Created in the isolation of the British countryside, Desert Sound Colony is inspired by faintly remembered sounds and almost forgotten memories. The thread running through the melodic, visceral tracks touch on a sense of melancholy present within us all. 

Occupying a space somewhere between ‘60s Psychedelia and the pulsating sounds of future-clubs, Desert Sound Colony is both infectious and ethereal, shrouding the listener in a gentle, rhythmical canopy. 

The project’s debut EP, 'The Way I Began', is released October 13th on New York’s Scissor & Thread, the first release on the label from an artist not based in NYC. Desert Sound Colony’s second EP release debuted on the label in early 2015.

1. How did you first get into music?
My parents always had music on 24/7 growing up so I was definitely surrounded by it. I can vividly remembering getting into my own music though. I was in Long Island, NY with my grandma when I was 12 years old. She bought me a Sony Discman at a local mall and said I could pick a CD to go with it. I chose Linkin Park - Hybrid Theory because I liked the front cover. I had no idea what it sounded like at all. I went back to the car to check it out whilst she shopped and I was completely hooked. I listened to that CD probably over a thousand times ha! From Nu Metal it progressed to much harder and darker sounds, mainly black and death metal. I spent most of my teenage years at gigs of that sort, drinking beer and getting crazy in mosh pits. Good times!

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Codex Naturae Guest Mix 020: Desert Sound Colony

This week Kid Baba leads the way for our Codex Naturae Guest Mix.

We urge you to take the time to journey through this enticing mix of world and electronic sounds.

Kid Baba Q&A:

1. how did you first get into music?
I startet in 1998, exactly 20 years ago, with djing. I was 16 years old & i bought myself with my hard-earned money two technics turntables and a mixer.
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2. How do you usually approach mixes? Do you record your mixes live with CDJ/Traktor is it an Ableton or Logic session? 
I still record my mixes with my two technics.

3. Which people/artists have inspired your career? Any non musical influences?
My career? haha, still working on it! There are countless artists, musicians, but also people from my own environment who have inspired me or still inspire me today. My biggest source of inspiration is the Klub Kegelbahn in Lucerne, where I am resident DJ. Under the name "KOSMO" I have been organizing a monthly event. Eddie C, Carrot Green, Khidja, Suutsche, Thomash & Urubu Marinka, Noema, Zozo and many others have already been guests.

4. Can you share 5 tracks/songs that have inspired you to make/work with music?

Mich Gerber - LATITUDE
LE MYSTERE DES VOIX BULGARES (VOL.4) - Radke, Mama Radke
Orestt - Homies
C Cat Trance - Shake The Mind
Thomash & Projeto Mujique - Cosmosamba

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Codex Naturae Guest Mix 021: Kid Baba

For CDX 023 we are honored to host @Quixosis, aka Daniel Lofredo Rota, hailing all the way from Quito, Ecuador!

Daniel quite literally fell into music before he was born, with his mother making him listen to techno pioneer Jean-Michel Jarre when she was pregnant. He started studying violin when he was 7. “I had such a classical music education that I came to a point that I rejected music; but I recovered this taste with electro and noise, as ‘traditional’ electro music is somehow very connected with classical music.”

Possibly because of his Italian background, Daniel focused especially on what he considers the first creators of electronic music in the world: the futurists. “They wanted to create the music of the future, cutting off their roots with the past, an aesthetic that engendered fascism. And I realized when I was using the synthesizers that I was also giving up my roots, I ended up drifting without identity.”

But later, under the name of Quixosis, Daniel eventually connected again with his roots, using “in a subversive way” the same machines invented to get rid of the past in order to preserve Ecuador’s traditional inheritage.

Exerpt from: https://soundsandcolours.com/articles/ecuador/cultures-of-the-past-sounds-of-the-future-introducing-ecuadors-quixosis-34039/

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Codex Naturae Guest Mix 022: Quixosis

This week we are honored with a mix composed by rising Kenyan star, Jinku. Hailing from Nairobi, Jinku is part of a musical collective called EA Wave. Get ready to be tantalized by his blend of Tribal Downtempo & Psychedelic African Dance Music.

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Below a brief Q&A with the man himself.
1.	How did you first get into music?
I stumbled into it by mistake to be honest, I had always set out to be an illustrator, so I was doing illustrations for a friend of mine who was a musician – and he taught me production in exchange for the illustrations. The final nail in the coffin was that during my university attachment, I worked at a record label and I fell in love with it from there.

2.	How do you usually approach mixes? Do you record your mixes live with CDJ/Traktor is it an Ableton or Logic session? 
I like to create mini stories in my mixes, so for example, I set a mood, and this is the story of a person traversing underground, he is following the voice of a siren, the deeper he goes, the deeper the music gets and more tribal it becomes as he reaches the underworld realm where his ancestors reside in. I do record my mixes live, with my controller through Traktor.

3.	Which people/artists have inspired your career? Any non-musical influences?

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Codex Naturae Guest Mix 023: Jinku

Open your mind and let Bartellow fill it up...

From his ground control in his new studio complex in Munich, musical-promiscuous Bartellow alias Beni Brachtel carries a lot of different projects into the world, all aiming for the same credo: style over stylistics. Most of his productions balance the voltage ratio between hypnotic, percussion driven groove and the obsessive workout on deep harmony and abstract soundscapes, which can be found under his own alias, as Tambien (w/ Marvin&Valentino from Pubic Possession) his own work, or his collabs with Osaka's prodigy dj and producer Ground. The puissance of recontextualising emotional content reflects also the Munich/London-based label SVS Records he runs with Daniel Hermann-Collini....

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Codex Naturae Guest Mix 024: Bartellow

For CDX 025 we have a very special guest

To read our Q&A with Balam, go here: http://codexnaturae.com/artist/CDX025:Balam

BALAM is a musician, producer and DJ from Buenos Aires, Argentina, after a long time working with his indie dance band that allowed him to play in many countries and festivals around the world, he gets all into his new solo project as producer and DJ “Balam” focusing on techno, disco, shamanic beats all produced and recorded in his studio combining real analog synthesizers, like modular synths, moogs with guitars, real and weird percussion sounds creating a unique atmosphere making every track a voyage through the latin american jungle.

At the moment he has two releases, “Chaman EP” released through french label ESTHETIQUE RECORDS (FR) in March 2018, available both digital and cassette, and an “Senderos de Selva” out on April 24 through PLAYGROUND RECORDS (BCN/ARG), plus remixes and a track for the Take Away series for the prestigious label Calypso Records from Iñigo Vontier and Thomas Jackson, a track coming soon for the new Spanish label United Colors of Rhythm, plus remixes for labels like Innisfallen (MX), Control (MX), Nein (UK), Emerald & Doreen (Gr).
In June 2018 he made his first USA mini tour with 2 gigs, one in the prestigious Brooklyn, New York radio “The Lot Radio” and the other one in the well known SAMO Records Night at Jupiter Disco, Brooklyn, New York.

Now he is planning his first Mexican tour with confirmed dates in CDMX, Toluca and Puebla plus more to be confirmed.

His work had been supported by artist like Thomas Von Party, Tronik Youth, Golden Bug, Perel, JP Soul, Curses, Rodion, Freudenthal, Thomass Jackson, Veneno, Clandestino, Local Suicide, Theus Mago, Roman and Castro, Marcos in Dub, James Rod, Colossio, K-effect, Man2.0, Connor, Gabriel Ferreira, Timothy Clerkin, Shit Happens, Owls at Down, Vverses, Facets, Dany Nijensohn, Shubostar, Iñigo Vontier, among others.

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Codex Naturae Guest Mix 025: Balam

@Attendances (Alessandro Larice) was born in Ancona (1987), a small town in the east cost of Italy. Attendances Is an Italian dj and producer influenced from different kind of music: new wave, indie-dance, darkdisco, electronic and techno.

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Codex Naturae Guest Mix 026: Attendances

Delighted to showcase this journey from budding artist and woman on the move, Hannah Lee! @hannahleemusica

Read an exerpt of our Q&A with Hannah below:

1. Where are you from and where do you live?
I’m from Los Angeles originally but am currently located in Quito, Ecuador. I spent the last two years living in Buenos Aires, Argentina and this year I’ve been constantly moving around. I was in Colombia for five months and now I’ve been Ecuador for one!

2. how did you first get into music?
Music was a part of my upbringing, my parents basically gave me a stereo system as soon as I was old enough to be able to mentally process what it was (3?) and some CDs that they wanted to listen to themselves (The English Beat, Beatles, Jackson 5, etc). I had a radio show in college and I’ve always worked in the music industry and with events, so becoming an electronic music DJ felt like a natural progression of events.

3. How do you usually approach mixes? Do you record your mixes live with CDJ/Traktor is it an Ableton or Logic session?
I like to play with energy levels and transitions between songs, my sets can be pretty eclectic with tracks of very different origins so finding a way to make everything sound smooth can be like a puzzle sometimes, but that’s what makes it fun! I record with Traktor using an Native Instruments X2 as a controller

4.Which people/artists have inspired your career? Any non-musical influences?
I work for ZZK Records so artists like Nicola Cruz, Chancha Via Circuito, and Uji were how I first got into electronic music. From there I’ve branched out a lot but usually still go for sounds that have some sort of organic influence, samples, a live recorded drum solo, etc

5. Can you share 5 tracks/songs that have inspired you to make/work with music?
a. Mala Fama - ‘Alma Punlla’
b. Mohammad Rafi - ‘Jaan Pehechaan Ho’
c. Vinicius de Moraes e Baden Powell - ‘Canto de Xangô’
d. Montoya - ‘Hey Avi’
e. Fedia Laguerre ‎– ‘Divizion (Voilaaa Remix)’

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Codex Naturae Guest Mix 027: Hannah Lee

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