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Dream Chimney exclusive 'Mix of the Week' #15 is from Diepvries 

On Soundcloud: @diepvries
On the web: www.flexx.be

Tracklist:

1. excerpt
2. The Presets - Promises (Nils Frahm Rework)
3. Wally Badarou - Keys
4. Robert Palmer - Woke up Laughing
5. Psychic Ills - Red-split
6. Sand Circles - White Sand
7. Grouper - STS (+ excerpts)
8. ImPLOG - Holland Tunnel Dive
9. Martin Rev - Coal Train
10. Emeralds - Candy Shoppe (+ excerpts)
11. Andreas Vollenweider - Hands And Clouds
12. Simple Minds - A Brass Band In African Chimes
13. Seahawks - Is This It?
14. This Mortal Coil - Meniscus
15. Cisco Default Hold Music (+ excerpts)
16. Alessi Brothers - Seabird
17. Sensations Fix - Fragments Of Light
18. His Name Is Alive - Spirit And Body


Mix of the Week

Mix of the Week: Diepvries - Ocean Corp

Weston Prince_Threshold Point

This week's show features a selection from the Brand New X Marks the Pedwalk recording "Superstition", a track from one of our favorite recordings of 2023, Termınal's brilliant, captivating and epic release, "The New Republic", brand new spacey, yet hard hitting techno music out of Detroit from Body Mechanic, and another spin for that great recent rhythmic minimal synth track with techno and Synthwave undertones from Diem Redux!

Sound + Vision: December 6 & 10, 2023 broadcast

Infinite Pacifics_Astrastellar

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)

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