Transformation In O - O [Superordinate Dub Waves]

Through fading signs and hollow structures, silence drifts like smoke across the horizon. Forgotten light intertwines in broken patterns, as coordinates dissolve into measureless spaces. In the silent pulse of invisible currents, movement transforms into serenity: a rhythm beyond time, carried in whispers of air and light.

The Vanishing Signal

Night Text (The Remixes)

Arteforma - Night Text feat. D'aria (Jonas Schilling Remix)

A few weeks ago, not long after we all went into lockdown, I decided to put together a mix, but I wanted it to be a little different from all of the mixes that were frequently popping up on social media. With that in mind I involved you in the process and asked for your suggestions of some of your favourite tracks from the past until now which I would include in the mix.

I was overwhelmed by the shear numbers of suggestions you put forward -  far too many to include all in one mix. However, I spent lot of time and love on the final mix, trying to create a special journey instead of just listing tracks that really stood out to me.

Digging through many old records like this, putting the mix together became quite emotional for me and it reminded me why I fell in love with electronic music in the first place.  It brought back many fond memories too. 
I really hope you enjoy listening to the results as much I did and I hope it stirs some memories, whether it be chills, smiles, tears or laughs for you all too.

Lockdown Love

DJ T. - Strictly Rhythm Compilation - Pumping Mix

www.openlab.fm | 106.4FM in Ibiza & Formentera

|| OL SELECTORS - PAPA LU ||

In this week’s installment of OL Selectors, we welcome Papa Lu. 

Born and raised in the San Francisco Bay Area, Papa Lu was exposed to a vast and diverse selection of underground music which he gladly absorbed at a young age. Finding himself instantly drawn to a thriving Hip Hop scene at the time, he dove right into the business of throwing parties, working with classic artists of the true school era like Digable Planets, Digital Underground, Gang Starr, Kool Keith, and many more. During that time, several house music pioneers like Mark Farina, Derrick Carter, DJ Sneak, etc. were making waves at the same venues he was holding his hip hop shows. From that exposure, he made a quick transition into producing house music events like his Night Moves party at Monarch SF. 
His love for music and natural talent for booking events rapidly developed into an exciting career of discovering new artists and bringing new sounds and talent to the Bay Area through his parties. He also collaborated with a group of close friends to create the Kazbah, one of the most popular sound camps at Burningman, and worked to rapidly gain a mass following through his signature sound known throughout Black Rock City and beyond.

Tracklist:

unknown artist - Baby, Baby Please [Gallery 2020]
YouANDme - Ppppp (diva mix) [Rhythm Cult, 2016]
FPI Project - Rich in Paradise (Soul Speech remix) [Snatch! Records, 2018]
H-Foundation - Passage of Time (D'Julz remix) [Soma, 2011]
Loods - Realness [Steal City Dance Discs, 2019]
Bellaire - Paris City Jazz [AOC Records, 2017]
K Alexi Shelby - Chicago Disco [Play it Say it, 2018]
Omar S - You want the best [FXHE, 2020]
Italojohnson - Untitled A1 [Diamonds & Pearls, 2011]
Dan Shake - Freak [Shake Label, 2019]
Abe Duque, Blake Baxter - Disco Nights [Abe Duque Records, 2006]
Sally C - OG Chunker [Big Saldo's Chunker, 2020]
Adesse Versions - Pride [Numbers, 2015]

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Selectors 60 [with Papa Lu]

1 Soundstream - Soul Train 
2 D’Arabia - Pajama - Girl
3 Tullio De Piscopo - Stop Bajon (Jolly Mare Remix)
4 DJLMP - Angry
5 In Flagranti feat. Ayakamay - Kachi Kach (Remix)
6 Rogue D - Coming Home
7 Paradise Pizza - Blackness
8 Nina Simone - Westwind (Kerri Chandler Remix)
9 Memoryman aka Uovo  & Rogue D - Tomorrow (Unreleased Version)
10 Paradise Pizza - Green B1
11 Unknown Artist - Let's Freak
12 Pastaboys - Amore (Ricky Cardelli Remix)
13 U-Love - Gift Of Love 
14 Memoryman aka Uovo - Happyness
15 Paradise Pizza - Mou
16 Dirty Channels - Guava Juice
17 Unknown Artist - More Than Just A Dance 
18 PPPP04 - What Happened To The Music
19 Rogue D - Burning
20 Unknown Artist - Holdin' On
21 Rogue D - Nights

Rogue D: The Crosstown Mix Show 005

Our 21st outing is brought to us by Auckland DJ and scenester Oliver Harris. Oliver has been entrenched in the dance music scene since the early 90s, finding his love of the doof in the legendary (although terribly named) CLUB UK in London, where he was lucky enough to enjoy Friday night residencies from Laurent Garnier and the late great Andrew Weatherall.

Purchasing a pair of trusty 1210s at university, and taking influences from the likes of the Global Underground crew, Ralph Lawson and Huggy, an epic music collection began to build. He started DJ'ing at house parties, and gigs on Koh Phagnan in Thailand and at the iconic Burning Man festival in the USA followed. 

Now Auckland based, Oliver's authentic taste has been noticed and he's popping up at all the parties that matter. He caught LO-FI's Attention with his excellent ambient/downbeat mix FROM LOCKDOWN WITH LOVE ... and it was from this we asked him if he could put together a mix for us here at LO-FI.

Here is the result, a true journey and walk through styles and tempos, starting with some ambience, moving through the etherial and emotive, and arriving at a crescendo of progressive goodness with a nod to the classic house sounds of yesteryear. Oliver makes no secret of his love of legends SASHA and DIGWEED and their influences are all over this mix.

Thanks Oliver and welcome to the LO-FI Family.
Enjoy people.

Oliver Harris. LO-FI Presents Explorations 21

DJ T. @ Diaries From The Underground (30.05.20)

DJ T. @ Dskonnect at Be-At TV (July 2020)

Tracklist:
Jordan Gcz - Yethuga
Seven Windows - Danse Ralenti
Brian Bennet Band - Drum Oddysey
Sugar Hill Gang - Passion Play 
Obryan - Doin Alright
Lenny Mcdowell - Love On Ice 
Oliver Mandic - Smejem Se A Plakao Bih
Spike - You Can Do It 
Ingleton Falls - Mind Your Head 
P. Allen - Fisherman
Pablo Augustus - Park Lane Special 
Roy And Robbie - Call Me Rambo
Contemporary Sounds - Strange
Robert Palmer - Keep In Touch 
Richard Sanderson - Never Let You Go 
Frontline Orchestra- No Entry 
A Band Called O - Coasting 
Solar Wind - Samarkand

Ben Westbeech: The Crosstown Mix Show 013

In today’s electronic music world there are not many artists who can lay claim to a legacy like that of DJ T. Born in Dusseldorf, DJ T. (aka Thomas Koch,) re-located to Frankfurt with his family in the late 70s. During his formative years, he fell for the hypnotic grooves of disco, inspired by his parents’ record collec-tion. At the age of nine he was already completely enraptured by music and that love affair continues until this very day. He began an obsessive quest to collect music, feeding his soul with everything from Disco and Hi-Nrg, through to early Hip-Hop and Electro, Soul, Funk and R’n’B. The groovy, infectious rhythms of all those genres continue to permeate into the music he makes and plays today, providing an intrinsic part of his sound ethic. 
He took up breakdancing, before becoming a DJ, playing at private parties ini-tially before landing his first professional gigs in the late eighties. This period proved to be a pivotal moment in his life as Acid House swept through Europe, landing in Frankfurt and taking over with the launch of Sven Väth’s legendary Omen club in 1988. The first wave of House and Techno took hold and T. was there at the forefront, absorbing all the fresh new sounds from Chicago, Detroit and the UK. He picked up a residency at the infamous Music Hall and held resi-dencies at countless clubs across the city during the next 10 years from Plastik and Dorian Gray to The Box. By the end of the nineties, he was one of Frank-furt’s best-known selectors. 
In 1989 DJ T. tapped into another side of his creative energy to set up Groove Magazine. Identifying a gap in the market and fuelled by a need to satisfy his own desire for specialised music journalism, which focused on his interests – namely underground dance music. Under his leadership the magazine was launched into the public’s consciousness and he guided Groove to become one of Europe’s premier dance music publications, which it still is today. 
DJ T.’s progression continued at a pace, as he launched his own club, Monza, using the experience gained through a decade of club events and tours under the Groove Magazine banner. He also invested his skills and knowledge into con-ceiving Get Physical – a label, which remains one of the world’s best- known House and Techno platforms. Though he left in 2010, T. still occasionally A&Rs for the label, lending his uncanny ability to uncover new talent to the seminal label. 
Production-wise, he has been consistent ever since his debut release, the ‘Mon-sterbaze’ EP with Steve Bug, which was released on Poker Flat in 2000. Since then, T. has released several well-received EPs, a slew of remixes and three al-bums, ‘Boogie Playground’ in 2005, ‘The Inner Jukebox’ produced with Tho-mas Schumacher in 2009 and ‘Pleasure Principle’ in 2011. His special touch has also been employed by numerous labels to curate compilation mixes , including ‘United Under The Ball – 30 Years Of Disco’ in 2011 and ‘The House That Jack Built Vol 1 & 2’ in 2012. In 2013 he celebrated 25 years of DJing with a very personal mix compilation, followed also by ‘Body Language 15’ and col-laboration with Defected and Strictly Rhythm to celebrate the latter’s 25th anni-versary. DJ T.’s reputation for being a master selector has been cemented by these superlative collections of music, each of which has received widespread praise, often featuring many of T.’s own edits of classic tracks. 
Despite so many accolades, his passion for music remains staunch, recently making several key changes to his professional life that have inspired him to explore new terrains. With hot new releases on AUS Music, Moon Harbour, True Soul and Jackathon representing his continued to desire to push his crea-tive boundaries. 
A highly-skilled DJ and producer and an A&R with an uncanny ability to dis-cover a nurture new talent, DJ T. is a master selector and one of the industry’s most influential figures.

DJ T. @ Dskonnect at Be-At TV (July 2020)

DJ T.

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