Breeezy Memory

One of the best parties i've played in yonks. Recorded straight from the desk in (partial) stereo. Flips over to mono half-way in (re: turntable issues / Fernet-Branca). 

Final party of the season this coming Sunday with NO ZU DJs et al. More here: https://www.facebook.com/daydreamsdanceparty https://soundcloud.com/daydreamsparty

András @ Daydreams 08.03.15

W H A T T A N I G H T ! Hy on mic duties, Beautiful Swimmers & Jack J in the booth. Things Will Be Better In Future Times

FT Holiday Party 2015 - Beautiful Swimmers & Jack J w/ Hy - 12/23/15

The first collector to introduce her/himself on "5918mins.“ is "exte82“ aka veterinarian Üllar Siir from Tallinn, Estonia. Üllar delivers 72 minutes of Rare Psych (aka those 7inches that you only come across once in your life-time, if ever). Within the mix, he proves his uncompromising commitment to music, far detached from genre-hypes. 

While he is certainly one of the most-respected out there (just ask Soul-fanatico Jeremy Underground),  we found Üllar’s focus on the essence of what it means to be a music-collector particularly impressive. Üllar digs completely in his own realm. His taste is so distinct that we even got into the habit of describing certain music as "exte-type-records“. Together with his ability to casually pull out tracks that leave you speechless (e.g. 3rd track in this mix), it was instantly clear that he had to do the first mix in this project (and we’re very happy it came together!).

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Finn Johannsen is back for his yearly spring session here on Trushmix. As always expect top notch reggae, dub, and other bass heavy Jamaican sound system vibes.
Expect more than five hours of massive tunes from the heavyweight selector we always welcome so much here at Trush!

Enjoy this mix, and put it on heavy rotation to get you in the right mood for the summer!

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Trushmix 121: Finn Johannsen

The Dekmantel Selectors podcast series became tradition. Each year, we ask 6 artists from the line-up to deliver a mix in anticipation of the new edition. This time we kick-off with Palo Santo and Coco Maria. 

Respected diggers in their own right, when Palo Santo and Coco Maria combine forces, what results is an essential lesson in the spectrum of sounds that originate from countries closer to the equator. Specializing in Brazilian, South-, Central-American, and Caribbean wax, the pair are supremely skilled in weaving together bright and inviting slices of bossa nova, samba, cumbia, and all sorts of rarities from sunnier, far-off places.

Palo Santo & Coco Maria on their mix: "We’ve found these songs on recent trips to Mexico and Brazil, and we like to share this musical journey with you all at Dekmantel Selectors in Tisno."

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Selectors Podcast 021 - Palo Santo & Coco Maria

With pleasure and honor we welcome friend and maestro Gigi Masin (@gigi-masin) to the series. Q&A (short version) below.

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MFM: Ciao Gigi. So, you first started experimenting with music in the late 70's, please can you tell a bit about how it was to be a young aspiring Italian musician back then? 

GM: Here? Nobody care about young musicians... if you try to make some new sound (no pop music, no opera, no symphony, no dance) this country is really a bad choice.

MFM: How did you discover all those artists and their music, in Italy where all was about pop and opera, and while internet was hardly known?

GM: Not hardly known, just it didn’t exist... But good radios, good books and good concerts made the difference. 

MFM: You used to be a fulltime radio DJ for quite some years, right? Can you tell a bit more about that period and how it happened? 

GM: My dream nr.1 was to be a radio dj when i was 12 and the nights were devoted to Radio Luxembourg. I was 18 when in Italy the Government gave permission to start using the FM frequencies to broadcast music and voices.. Radio Luxembourg was a private radio, broadcasting from the Luxembourg but the studios were in London, it was pretty famous in the 70s for their late shows. 

MFM: Did it feel a little controversial to be playing other people's music while you wanted to be a fulltime musician yourself, or did it maybe even help you to get closer to your goals?

GM: No need to be a musician at that time also if I was used to write and sing my songs to friends but, true.. searching for new music and for new records (it was really difficult in Italy years ago..) helped a lot to think on music in a different way.

MFM: In a different way, could you explain that a little maybe?

GM: Television, radio, newspapers.. only mainstream music, big names.. if you’d like to find something different or just exploring new sounds you have to travel a lot to find a nice record shop, or recording a lot of tape cassettes from friends’ records.

MFM: Your works consist of quite some collaborations, Gaussian Curve of course being one of them. Is there a specific reason for that, do you feel more inspired when collaborating?

GM: Isolation is absurd.. you have always to learn something, stay human.. Collaboration for me is essential, unique, for my music and for my spirit.. I’d like in the future to work with acoustic instruments, maybe a little orchestra.. there’s a lot to explore with electronics, love the idea to write songs for a beautiful voice, someday.

MFM: Quite a lot of your works got discovered and found a wider audience years after it was created. How do you feel about that? Do you think your story would have been different when you would have grown up elsewhere and some years later? 

GM: I think the music is not to be hidden in cages, let it go around and sometimes the music makes the difference between a grey life and a dream came true. Most of the music discovered in the past years was made only in vinyl and simply disappeared in the cd era. Only because hundred blessed dj became to dig for old and underrated music we are here, and not on the sofa just thinking on the past years.

MFM: Mille grazie for joining the MFM mix series, such a pleasure and honor to have you on board! For someone who used to be a professional radio DJ for years, did you have a specific idea or feeling or purpose before/while making the mix?

GM: MFM is always to be back home for me.. the mix is really what I’d like to listen in a sunny spring morning in Venice, while chatting and drinking with friends.

MFM Mix 004: Gigi Masin

More summer soundtracking, this time it's mostly 90s slomo jams starting off on a balearic vibe, venturing on through some dubby tribal ethno and ending on a trancey note...

Mike Burns - It's Not Autumn Yet Mix

A few years back, my friend Otis did a mixtape called ‘a time for peace’. It’s an effortless mix of melodic & vocally driven music which became a source of some of my favourite records that I was yet to discover. There was never a tracklist for it, but over the years, have found them serendipitously in record shops and had a few joyful moments when finally the needle drops on one of the tracks from this mix!
The past week has given me an opportunity to reflect on some of the records that I return to constantly, can get lost in & consider something else for a while. I hope that perhaps someone out there might find something in here that opens their ears to something new, can get lost in and one day have that needle drop moment too! Thanks to everyone who put me onto these records in one way or another.

Dialogue Between Dreamers Pt. One

Moods For Lockdown Romance I by Phuong-Dan

An infectiously feel-good selection of sounds from around the globe kicks off our We Out Here mix series, courtesy of Worldwide Fm’s @cocomariamusic. 

A specialist in Brazilian, South-, Central-American, and Caribbean wax, Coco hosts the regular “Club Coco” show on Worldwide FM transporting listeners to sunnier sides of the musical world. This hour-long compilation binds slices of bossa nova, samba, cumbia and all sorts of rarities, guaranteed to bring a smile to the face and tap to the feet. Thank you for kicking us off Coco <3

WOH MIX.01 - Coco Maria

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