Perhaps best known for his association with beloved dance music blog Truants, @riccardovillella is also one of our favorite DJs—with a streak of mixes that always feel like instant classics—and a staple of the broader dance music scene in his own right. Villella's penchant for community began on early dance music forums and extends into today's social media networks and elevating others through mixes and in-depth interviews on @truants. His mix for us, inspired by timeless mix CDs like those of Fabric and a 'spiritual successor' to his mix for our friends at @sure_thing, is also a vivid memory of teenage bike rides along the beach in 2006.

Read the interview and see a tracklist:
spontaneous.zone/051-villella

"For the last 11 years I’d been living in London and for a long time, I had no desire really to leave. People say you can call somewhere 'home' after living there for a duration of seven years, so I was well past and on my way. The last three years though, I had really burnt out quite hard creatively, and was kind of just trudging along. It took me a while to realize that I’d maybe needed a break away from London and the constant living for the weekend parties. Work had gone remote, so the option of moving back home to Brighton on the seafront for a temporary reset and to save some money seemed like the logical next step.

I was quite excited about moving back, as one of my friends Bobby had moved back home from London a year prior to also work remote, my friend Sean was still down there and had been making some really cool art recently so we’d been reconnecting, and my friend Sam who moved to Australia 10 years ago was going to be back for a short trip in Brighton this year for a couple weeks. This felt kind of important to me as, as we’d all be in the same city for the first time in a very long time, and these were people that made up my favourite summer ever - the year 10 one in 2006.

... We spent most of that summer going on these really long bike rides from Shoreham-by-Sea, past the cement factory before reaching Brighton beach, and just cycle as far as we could until the sun went down. Me and Bobby would pack our little MP3 players (think I had a Creative Zen Touch then) the night before with as much ‘feels’ music as we’d like to call it, anything that would make our cycles feel like an extended Michael Mann movie, or "LA Action" we’d say. There was just something quite life-affirming as a 16 year old, headphones in, cycling back as the sun sets after exploring some beach cave and you’ve got either of Fila Brazillia - "Subtle Body", Groove Armada - "Paris", or DJ Shadow - "Blood On The Motorway" playing in the background. It was all very Stand By Me in the most musically liberating way possible. I’ve caught myself thinking of those times a lot lately.

I’ve tried to channel a lot of those feelings quite subtly into my studio mixes over the years—hopeless nostalgia, bittersweetness, a sad euphoria—more so on ones where I’m trying to achieve something other than a club-mix. The Sure Thing mix comes to mind especially, but that was also very influenced by the techno aspect of the series and certain life events. Whilst this feels very much like a spiritual successor to that mix, I didn’t want to be so subtle with this one. It’s a straight ode to a single perfect 24 hours that summer, and all the tunes that I was listening to back then, plus some that capture that perfect world-at-your-feet, carefree, teen vibe for me. It covers many moods and feelings of a hot day down at the beach and the transition as the sun sets and you’re getting ready to dance the night away.

I’ve wanted to record something like this for a long time, something that kind of felt like a timeless mix CD, and think you gave me the best opportunity and timing in wanting to put it together, especially as I’ve been doing that same cycle route every other weekend whilst down here."

@riccardovillella / @truants

Spontaneous Affinity

Interview + Tracklist

Spontaneous Affinity #051: Villella

Here is the 12th mix of OPEN PORT CLUB mix series by Tornado Wallace.  Hope you enjoy that 65 minutes a meditative journey.
OPC Mix 12本目となる今回は、メルボルンに生まれ近年はベルリンを拠点とするTornado Wallaceによるミックス。日本ツアーを目前に控えて録音された65分の瞑想的な音楽旅行をお楽しみください。
インタビューも合わせてどうぞ。

Interview : http://openportclub.net/opc-mix/tornadowallace/
Tornado Wallace SoundCloud : @tornadowallace

=INTERVIEW=
Q1. How and where was the mix recorded? Could you tell us about the idea behind the mix?
I recorded it at home using a turntable, an e&s mixer and ableton. I wanted to listen through to music I had come across recently and dig into the tracks deeper. I leaned more into the trippier sounding tracks with really nice sonics and "world-building" characteristics.

Q1. このミックスはどこでどのように録音されたのでしょうか？また、このミックスに込められた思いについて教えてください。
ターンテーブル、E&Sミキサー、abletonを使って自宅で録音しました。最近出会った音楽を聴いて、より深くトラックを掘り下げたいと思ったんだ。トリッピーなサウンドで、音質が良く、「世界観がある」楽曲に重点を置きました。

Read more : openportclub.net/mixseries/tornadowallace/

OPEN PORT CLUB Mix Series – Tornado Wallace

Recording of Vladimir Ivkovic's set at Dekmantel Selectors 2022.

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Vladimir Ivkovic at Dekmantel Selectors 2022

Chugging club grooves, live from Melbourne.

Download and tracklisting: https://bit.ly/XLR8Rpodcast_FrancisInfernoOrchestra

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XLR8R Podcast

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XLR8R Podcast 789 - Francis Inferno Orchestra

Non stop Dj Sotofett & Gilb'r 2 hours mix for radio Couleur 3 (i:cube's album release party).
Part 1 of 2 (next one is I:Cube).

Dj Sotofett & Gilb'r mix for I:Cube's release party on Couleur 3, march 2023.

The breezy sound of the Canadian Riviera, from Mood Hut's Pender Street Steppers.

https://www.nts.live/shows/pender-street-steppers/episodes/pender-street-steppers-4th-april-2023

PENDER STREET STEPPERS w/ Inner Totality 040423

Interview:  https://truantsblog.com/2023/truancy-volume-306-kiara-scuro/

Soundcloud: @wearekiarascuro

Access the download and tracklist (Confirmed) on our Patreon. Your support helps cover all our costs and allows Truants to continue running as a non-profit and ad-free platform. patreon.com/truants

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Truancy Volume 306: Kiara Scuro

Music in praise of the Moon
Mix series hosted by Stathis and Luigi Di Venere
33rd Episode by Son of George @son_of_george
Artwork by Thodoris Dimitropoulos

Moon Gazing 033 by Son of George

Finn Johannsen is a bit of an unsung hero – not one to seek the limelight or stardom he has given more to the wlectronic music community than most having worked in numerous capacities over many years. Finn has worn many hats – a journalist, a promoter, a label boss, a DJ and beyond. His taste is ridiculously good and you’d be hard pushed to find someone who knows as much about the lineage and roots of dance music as he does.

At present he works behind the scenes at the infamous Paloma in Berlin.

It is also here that he has become a figurehead behind the stellar club night Power House which has helped breathe life into the fundamentals and roots of House music in the city at its core.

Few DJ’s are as technically able as Finn, who regularly plays mammoth extended vinyl sets which span hours at a time.

This mix is honestly long overdue, we thought we’d asked him before but we hadn’t. Thankfully it’s better than even we could have imagined.

Finn Johannsen: The Ransom Note Mix

Classy tunes from the Red Light Radio cofounder.

Read more here: https://www.residentadvisor.net/podcast-episode.aspx?id=649

@orpheuthewizard

Resident Advisor podcast

RA.649 Orpheu The Wizard

Full tracklist: bleep.com/features/bleep-mix-133-Vladimir-Ivkovic-Ivan-Smagghe

The duo of Vladimir Ivkovic and Ivan Smagghe deliver a feast of delights for lovers of far-out sonics and experimental electronics on their entry into Bleep’s mix series. Running close to three hours in length, the first third of their IDMEMO mix journeys into tripped-out drone, psychedelic reveries and outer-edges industrialism - tracks from seminal post-industrial outfits Nurse With Wound, Current 93 and Coil are all included. While this vibe is returned to throughout the subsequent tracks, Ivkovic and Smagghe also juxtapose it with some more beat-driven passages which veer between lush IDM and low-slung leftfield Balearicism/psychedelic house. The pair also find time to slip a couple of their own remixes into proceedings - indeed, the mix closes out with the ethereal, almost Arca-esque electro-balladry of Mickey van Seenus’s ‘What If (Smagghe & Cross Version)’.

Bleep Mix #133 - Vladimir Ivkovic & Ivan Smagghe

A collective of sorts. Parties | Music | Art

Moon Gazing 033 by Son of George

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