Music in praise of the Moon
Mix series hosted by Stathis and Luigi Di Venere
15th Episode by Bill Sanders
Artwork by Thodoris Dimitropoulos

Moon Gazing 015 by Bill Sanders

This is the 237th recorded instore session at the PP Headquarters.
Mixed and compiled by Marco Mascarpone.

TASCAM DR-40

PP INSTORE SESSION #237 (MARCO MASCARPONE)

It's a real pleasure to welcome highly respected and experienced musical selector, DJ, radio host and curator Colleen 'Cosmo' Murphy (@colleen-cosmo-murphy) with a special 'audio yoga mix' to our series. Interview (excerpt) down below.

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MFM: Hi Colleen, thanks for sharing your thoughts and music with us. Hosting your weekly online radio shows, making plenty mixes for several outlets, DJing clubs and festivals... How do you keep motivated and inspired?

CM: Sharing music has been focal to my life since I was a teenager hosting shows on our 10-watt high school radio station and working in a record shop after school. Turning people onto new tunes and artists gives me immense joy and courses throughout every aspect of my vocation. I’m a communicator at heart. That’s balanced with the more internalized creativity of music productions and remixes. Being in the studio and playing with ideas and sounds is very focusing and the rest of the world seems to fall away. It’s therapeutic. And playing records as a DJ or musical host is like a lively musical conversation in which I draw energy from the dancers and give it back in turn. A great party is a collective creation. Throughout all of my endeavours I try to impart the life energy of music, a healing and motivational force that inspires me every day.

MFM: In a time and place where the context of a DJ seems to have changed over decades, do you feel your “classic” approach of DJing gives you an advantage in keeping relevant and reaching a crowd?

CM: It's important to have your own point of difference. I have never been a ‘cookie-cutter’ type DJ and used to struggle with the idea that I didn’t fit in. But then I recognized that all the different aspects of my vocation had one thing in common – myself. Once I integrated everything and became more holistic in my approach, I felt happier and more confident. Being authentic to oneself is first and foremost and then it is up to others to decide whether or not they like your creative output. You can’t please everybody, but you have to try to please yourself otherwise there is no point. I get immense pleasure in what I do and hope that it brings joy to others. I do have a classic approach to DJ-ing but I’m also always looking for new sounds that resonate. I also admire other DJs styles even if it’s quite different to my own. There’s room for everyone.

MFM: You're a DJ who encourages the listener to open up and really listen to music, its definitions, context and aesthetics. Probably one of the foremost reasons why you tend to let a song run from beginning till end. With such strong values, what's your view on the modern way of “consuming” music?

CM: There are many different ways to enjoy music and none are the wrong way. Any experience of music is good. When I started Classic Album Sundays in 2010, it was a response to music only being ‘consumed’ rather than experienced and I wanted to share the way the I often listen to music with others to provide an alternative. At that time, we were in the midst of shuffle culture and the almighty MP3 and whilst both have their place, it shouldn’t be the end-all experience. When people come to a Classic Album Sundays event and hear the subtleties and nuances of an entire album played without interruption, on one of the world’s best sound systems and in a communal setting, they experience music in a different way and most find it transformative. But listening to music in a car or dancing to a DJ who scratches and cuts up songs can also be inspirational. I can only try to offer what is authentic from me.

MFM Mix 045: Colleen 'Cosmo' Murphy

Apiento, a.k.a Paul Byrne runs the invaluable Test Pressing blog and releases music on World Building, World Unknown and more. His show has that esoteric techno thing and whatever suits the mood…

https://www.nts.live/shows/test-pressing/episodes/test-pressing-11th-march-2023

Test Pressing 110323

During 2021, to help get through the ongoing lockdown I made a series of 90 minute cassette tapes, one a month for ten months. I thought there would be a small demand but was blown away by the response. People really embraced them and copies went to every corner of the planet. They became a huge part of my year and really helped me through a tough time.

A little later I made them available digitally for a short period and all the proceeds raised went to Glasgow NW Foodbank. I was again blown away as thousands of pounds were raised.

I have decided to put the series on Soundcloud. I'll upload them sporadically over the coming months. I'm skipping the 2nd one as it has the same title as a compilation I put out recently and I don't want the two getting confused, but I may come back to it later. This is the 3rd one titled “SMI²LE - Space Migration, Intelligence Increase, Life Extension".

Smi²le was Timothy Leary’s mid 70s vision of the future of humanity. It's Utopian & in hindsight wildly optimistic. He believed we would have colonised space & have cloned ourselves by around the year 2000. He envisaged millions of us would be living in “High orbital mini Earths” in our own small Utopian communities. I have a long time fascination with (unrealisable) Utopian communities and Smi²le has always been one I particularly liked as it was so fully thought out & even by Utopian standards wildly hopeful & unrealistic. It's also relevant to our times as contentious/ awful figures like Peter Thiel & Elon Musk have adopted the worst parts of these ideas without any public scrutiny. Free market space migration may not be a positive thing, particularly if we are exporting this planet’s problems into outer space.

Anyway, that’s an aside and it’s basically a 90 minute space themed mix of music. Understanding / knowing about the Smi²le concept is not essential to its enjoyment. :)

Tape released May 7, 2021

Artwork – Musheto Fernandez.

JD Twitch - SMI²LE (Optimo Music Tape 003 - originally released May 2021)

https://www.nts.live/shows/soup-to-nuts-john-gomez/episodes/soup-to-nuts-john-gomez-10th-april-2023
Collector John Gómez brightens up Mondays with some music from different times and different places.

Soup To Nuts w/ John Gómez 100423

Mix by DJ City on his bi-monthly show Blue Monday on Radio 80000.

Next episode airs july 2023

Blue Monday May 15th on Radio 80000

Classy tunes from the Red Light Radio cofounder.

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For home use only’ is an anti-club social, a chance to get to know someone/something. A series of transmissions purely dedicated to exploring the other side.

Well, I’m very much over my quarter (mix series) life crisis, and to celebrate we have a bloody exceptional mix from the exotic land of the bin chicken (aka the olympic city) from none other than Mr. Tobias Vogel aka the musical mogul aka keep him off the vocal’s, the Ear to Ear (Tip! The music for ….. series is sublime) mastermind. Paving its own way in incredible selections from more than incredible selectors, as well as running some damn good parties in the city that refuses to quit, Ear to Ear has cemented itself as an integral part(y) of the Sydney scene. To top it off, apparently he’s a god damn sweetheart.

Again, dipping into the talent pool of Sydney, it’s not hard to hear that this bloke has the ear for the audible candy as flexed in this audio resume. This mix is literally ticking every box in a poetic manner. Every song struck a chord in some part of my body and I guarantee it’ll do the same for you. This is a perfect example of those ‘go-anywhere’ mixes - a perfect soundtrack to cook dinner to, as well as eating it with someone you love, spilling wine everywhere, and leaving the clean up for the morning. It flows from dub to Japanese pop, sprinkled with the perfect amount of street soul and trip-hop. A direct effect of listening is a consistent grin from ear to ear permanently planted on your face - this mix is guaranteed to snap you out of any sour mood. I originally wanted to save it for birth of spring, but I think it’s actually perfect for the depths of winter - as it’s a friendly reminder of all that’s good.  

Keep well and warm.

his sound >>> https://soundcloud.com/tobiasdelamerevogel

his baby >>>> https://soundcloud.com/eartoearmusic

FHUO # 26 // Tobias

Recording of Yu Su's set at the Red Light Radio stage during Dekmantel Festival 2019.

Red Light Radio:  Yu Su at Dekmantel Festival 2019

A soothing session in troubled times.

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