What a mix this has been! So many beautiful selections

Recording of Clémentine's set at Dekmantel Selectors 2021.

"After a break of almost a year and a half, it seemed almost unreal, I haven't felt that energy for a while, the crowd was so lovely - what a great feeling it was."

Dekmantel Selectors 2021

Clémentine at Dekmantel Selectors 2021

The sequel to the mix which started it all, and Wax’o Paradiso Recordings’ first release on cassette. Presenting WPT001: Wax’o Balearico Vol. II.

Selected and mixed by Edd Fisher and Simon TK, recorded at Motom Studios, designed by Milly Davison.

Cassette available now via bandcamp.
https://waxoparadiso.bandcamp.com/album/waxo-balearico-vol-ii

Wax'o Balearico Vol.II

Wax'o Balearico Vol. II

Remembering good times
@raphael-top-secret live taken from Altered Soul Experiment in February 2020.

Raphael Top Secret @ Altered Soul Experiment Berlin. 01.02.20

First contribution to our Spring/Summer mix series by LA's very own, @suzannekraft . Check out our short interview with him on our website! https://www.homagebrewing.com/spring-summer-mix-series

Homage Mix Series: Suzanne Kraft - 001

Please meet London based DJ and producer, former Cafe Del Mar resident, and our long time close friend Phil Mison (@cantomamusic). Interview (excerpt) down below.

www.musicfrommemory.com

MFM: Hi Phil, many know you as one of the DJ's who has played all the best sunset spots across the globe. How did your summer look this year, still been scoring sunsets here and there?

PM: My summer was great. I travelled to Amsterdam, Cork, Copenhagen and Barcelona and had some nice gigs in the UK. My friend Deke has opened a bar on the seafront in Margate, you get pretty epic sunsets down there. I played a few records one evening and managed to fit in a few old cafe classics as the sun disappeared into the sea. 

MFM: Please tell us a bit about how it all started for you?

PM: I grew up in the 70’s, so there were quite a few different influences. David Bowie ‘Life On Mars’ was an early memory, and I was obsessed with Blondie. Parallel lines was the first album I bought. Later it was Northern Soul, Electro, nothing really that mellow! In 87 I met a couple of people who were really into House. I started going to groove records in soho to buy records like Adonis - No Way Back, Ten City - Devotion. Then as 88 rolled around I got into the more Balearic side of things. Later in 89 I’d pop into Reckless Records for second hand stuff and started to browse the New Age section where I got things like Kitaro  ‘Tunhuang’ and Paul Greaver ‘Joy’. Those records were the starting point really. 

MFM: DJing in clubs to make people dance never really attracted you?

PM: I’d say pretty much most of my DJing has been in clubs. I started at the Milk Bar in Soho in 1992 after giving Darren Emerson a tape. Even though I was doing the warm up and playing mellow stuff at the beginning, you had to build it up to a full dance floor by the end. In 1996 and 2000 I was the tour DJ for Lefttfield, playing in front of 1000 odd people. ‘Just get it going before we come on!’ Alongside Ross Allen and Rob Da Bank, I was resident at Bar Rhumba for our Next Level night in 1997. It lasted a year and we opened with Harvey and closed with Andrew Weatherall. I Have to mention Moonboots and Jason Boardman’s night Aficionado too. I always enjoyed playing to a dancefloor there, they’ve kept the Balearic flag flying since 1998. 

MFM: At what point did you got into making music on your own? 

PM: I’d worked on a project for Kenneth Bager in 1994. Then later on he started his Music For Dreams Label, and asked me if I would be interested in making an album.  So the first Cantoma album was started in Copenhagen in 1999, and finished in London in 2003. 

MFM: How do you come up with a new song, is there a certain Phil Mison way to it? Do you write the parts for the musicians?

PM: It usually starts with an idea that pops into my head. Sometimes a memory or travelling will get a melody going, and I’ll sometimes hum it into my phone and use that as a starting point. Ive worked with Engineer/Producer Robin Twelftree on all the Cantoma albums. I’ll go into Robin’s studio and usually start with some basic keyboards, then I’ll play a bassline in. I’ll take the demos away and think about what would work on the tracks. For some musicians the music is written down. Ive worked with Robin Lee from Faze Action on a few Cantoma tunes, and he usually transcribes my basic melodies onto sheet music. Other times I’ll play the melodies on a keyboard or hum the tunes for the musicians to follow along to. On some tracks I’ll write the lyrics too and get a singer to record on a track. There’s a lot of going back and forth until I’m happy with the final cut. The music rarely ends up sounding like the first version.

MFM: Making a mix must have been a piece of cake for you :) What is this mix like?

PM: I went back through my 92-94 selection and picked a selection of the lesser played records. Memories of magic times at the Milk Bar and warm summer evenings at the Cafe del mar.

MFM Mix 044: Phil Mison

Raphaël Top-Secret at Solstice 2022

DREAM ON with Lloyd @ The Lot Radio 02 - 01 - 2023

Recording from Space Ghost shutting down Club 77 on the 1st of April 2023 as his final show of his first aus/nz tour presented by Crown Ruler and Planet Trip.

ID Requests ~ @space-ghost-1

Space Ghost live at Club 77 x Planet Trip - Eora_Sydney (4.1.23)

TRUSHMIX 100: A percussive, stomping and boiling Monday night live recording from DJ Fett Burger & DJ Sotofett’s "2016 Sex Tags Mania Japan Tour After Party" at Forestlimit, Tokyo. The usual unreleased & soon-to-be-released tracks, as well as home made & global classics are as always embedded in this two hour excerpt of a wonderful basement night.

Thanks to Diskomo (Tokyo) and SJ Tequila (Osaka/Berlin) for setting up Japan Tour and to Forest Limit crew for hosting and recording.

www.trushmix.com

Trushmix 100: DJ Fett Burger & DJ Sotofett

Recorded live @ Giant Steps (London)26/01/19

RTS @ GIANT STEPS (London)

Very honored to have one of the greatest - CC:DISCO! with a very personal selection for your Tuesday blues. Here's what the tireless selector and DJ has to say about it:

"The following is a mix to enjoy while alone, weather its on the bus, plane, sitting in a park, at the beach or when you want to nap... ESP when you want to NAP!!! It takes from the 50s,60s'70s''80's eras, a time when lyrics told you stories and guitars made you feel warm and fuzzy. This isn't a mix of obscure tracks you've never heard to prove my 'diggin clout' but a mix to just sit back and enjoy, Loves songs that relax you and make you drift way and at some points you can even sing along.  It also features a few tracks my mum and dad would sit and play us on the farm (the Everly brothers) and a movie that our family was obsessed with it. (La bamba). These particular tracks take me to a time when I fell in love with the stories in songs and it was the start of my obsession for music you enjoy! NFTCM (not for the chins mix)" 

Peace!

CC:DISCO! (Have a Cry Mix)

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