Name: soFa at Lente Kabinet Festival 2019 by dekmantel
Duration: 1 h 58 min 3 s
Description: Recording of soFa's (@sofaholic) set at Lente Kabinet Festival 2019.

NICE ! TUNE !! wirst du verraten wer hier groovt ??

always a pleasure coming back to this goldmine • bi~annual visit by the looks of it • next time 2026 😁

Hey @sofaholic can we get the id here? beautiful track!

Hailing from the Belgian capital and as 1/3 behind the Şelale record on Second Circle, it's our friend soFa (@sofaholic) on mix 32. Interview (excerpt) down below.

www.musicfrommemory.com 

MFM: Hi Chris, can you tell a bit about how you made your first steps in the scene as a DJ/producer?

SE: That was first by playing school parties only, and later by organising parties and getting booked by others in return. The usual game, but it was a bit easier as today since there was less competition I think. On the production side I am quite new to that. I started in 2018 only because I lacked time before that, I used to have a job as curator for an art festival and also digging for records kept me busy and excited for many hours every day. 

MFM: Earlier this summer saw the release of Selale on Second Circle, a collaborative project between you, Okay Temiz and Houschyar. Most releases you've worked on are collaborations. Is there a reason for that? 

SE: Yeh different reasons. It's much more fun to share the fun! I'm not a properly trained musician, I like to break rules, rather than applying them. Collaborating with people who know notes and harmonies allows to combine those 2 visions and the results are more exciting to my ears. I feel I have more to say by helping others to get their music right (or wrong) cause that's what all those years of digging after very specific records have taught me.

MFM: Any more projects lined up already?

SE: Yes, quite a bunch I produced with dear friends, Nyati Mayi, soon on Bongo Joe, CCCVVV with Clara Vellin on Strangelove Music and Sexo Y Fantasia with Da Boochie from Kiosk Radio on Glossy Mistakes coming up. There is also a solo record going to the pressing plant next week, coming out on Planet Trip in spring. It has guest singers, but I call it my solo record since I played the whole beats and synths by myself. Its probably gonna remain my only solo record for a while. I slipped into so many collabs and I'd like to focus on that. I especially love working with singers/voices and hopefully some day I get to produce a whole band project!

MFM: What are you hoping for to find in nightlife now that dancefloors are opening up again? Have you been thinking about this whole situation a lot at all?

SE: I am looking forward to seeing people smile and dance again! Party wise I would especially hope to find more groove and less hard music everywhere. I have the feeling the youth of today can only dance to hard stuff, I find that sad. Real music lovers can dance to anything. The whole situation is/was of course tragic for the nightlife sector. Especially for younger people who are in their best years to create a network of friends and experience adulthood for the first time. On a personal level I liked the time off. It allowed me to focus on a more healthy lifestyle and on making music. 

MFM: Cheers for contributing your mix! What can you tell about it? 

SE: I glued together the first half of it while on a roadtrip in Albania last month. Second half I did this morning in a rush. It's nice tunes, diverse and odd enough as I love. I don't care too much about the technical aspect, I just recorded a bunch of records I felt for sharing. In my opinion all that Dj thing is a bit overrated and way too serious. We are just playing other people's music afterall. There is an art behind that, but I feel it's getting lost more and more. For me it's not about the technical side of it, it's about adapting to people and still surprising them in an original way.

MFM Mix 032: soFa elsewhere

Delighted to host @invisible-inc influence mix on Oddity Radio.

@g-k-machine : At first I decided to only pick records that existed prior to 2015, the year the label started. In other words I interpreted it as using the mix as an opportunity to showcase what HAD inspired its birth. Then I thought, fuck this weird limitation I’ve imposed on myself….there is so much great music being released NOW that I want to put on it. Besides, the label is constantly evolving so it would be weird to say the influences stopped after the label started. So in the end it encapsulated as much as I could possibly bring into it and despite it’s diversity, it’s still quite niche…….

Turn on, tune in and don't drop out!

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GK Machine - Oddity Influence Mix

Ground Zero for all that cosmic tinged Euro disco... Here's a snippy snip from a bona fide scene sleuth xxx Thanks a bunch.....The night looked like this..

This Friday we welcome back an old friend for the 3rd round of the MUSIKIÍ NIGHTS residency of @oscarolias ..

#campcosmic founder @albionven is back for the umpteenth @sameheads gig to crack his cosmic whip...

Joining up on the night will be #r.moro LIVE and #smetana.. plus the little wizard himself....

Fruity..

Art by @ogarabello ..

Catch u there xxxxxx

Albion – Musikií Nights @ Sameheads 14.04.23

Since none of us was in the city for round #78 we asked our friends @s-and-w if they could take over. They did in the best possible way and delivered a dreamy journey from Mediterranean and Brazilian shores up to the pink sunset-clouds and back. Thanks so much for this!

Artwork by @magicmuelli

The Past Forward radio show is hosted and aired on Cashmere Radio. Find more info and other episodes on the Cashmere Radio website - cashmereradio.com/shows/past-forward/

Past Forward

Past Forward #78 w/ S&W

Dubbed out dance and weirdo balearic sounds from Sacha Mambo, taking over for a guest hour.

https://www.nts.live/shows/guests/episodes/sacha-mambo-23rd-may-2023

Sacha Mambo 230523

Soundtrack for Summer's road trips, enjoy!

Summer Moods 2023 by Sacha Mambo recorded the 10th of June 23
1. Susan Mazer « Indigo-Gold » (Rising Sun Records)
2. June11 « Matter Is Alive (For Marthe Wéry) » (EE Tapes)
3. Neotropic « Inch Inch » (Mush)
4. Dif Juz « Soarn » (4AD)
5. Tim Cross « Undercurrent Three » (JW Music Library)
6. Roy Montgomery « Otherness » (Grapefruit Records)
7. Alex De Grassi « Sleeping Lady » (Windham Hill Records)
8. Alchimia « Non Lo So » (Industrie Discografiche Lacerba)
9. Lippie & Martin « Lettre au President » (Groovedge)
10. Frédérick Rousseau « The Opening » (CBS)
11. Nasca « Tolbiac » (cortizona)
12. Joe Mubare « I'm Not Afraid Anymore » (YAYA)
13. Fiesta En El Vacío « 엄마 (Avec Ji Min Park) » (Simple Music Experience)
14. Blueboy « The Joy Of Living » (A Colourful Storm)
15. Patrik Fitzgerald + 3 « Poor John » (Red Flame)
16. The The « This Is The Day » (Epic)
17. Everything But The Girl « Shoot Me Down » (Blanco Y Negro)
18. Matthew Cang / Eddie Chin « Touch » (KPM Music)
19. Gerry Rafferty « Right Down The Line » (United Artists Records)
20. Cisco « Oh Man » (Forager Records)
21. Suzanne Vega « Wooden Horse (Caspar Hauser's Song) » (A&M Records)
22. Roy Montgomery Featuring Martha Skye Murphy « Heart Restart » (El Ron Del Mundo)
23. Guido And Maurizio « Goodbye My Friend » (Private Stock)
24. ADN' Ckrystall « Mais Elle Est Passée Où La Mélodie ? » (Macadam Mambo)
25. B. Says « Amore » (Off The Track Records)
26. Startled Insects « Desert » (Sense)
27. Roland Hollinger « Revival's Things Of Dreams » (Auvidis)
28. Luciano Beretta with Walter Camurri « Dice Le Sue Poesie » (Bla Bla)
29. Cinema « Looking Into A Dream » (Beverly Hills)

Summer Moods (10.06.2023)

The first edition of Moonshoe Selects is about the interwebs… And who better to inaugurate our mix series than a true connoisseur of esoteric and oddball sound? Lauren has deftly spun together over an hour of psychotropic Tropicalia that places pins all around the globe. Connecting the fifteen thousand kilometres between a quixotic ex-progger in West London thinking of East Timor to 80s oddities from Australia’s east coast, Lauren draws from the “melting pot” era of the 80s, when tropical sounds outside Kraftwerk’s Teutonic rigidity where channeled through primitive drum machines. The perfect soundtrack to the synthetic Jungle of your dreams...

Moonshoe Selects 0001 - Lauren Hansom

No other club in the world is as dedicated to the essence of musical, genre-crossing and whole-hearted DJ-sets as the Salon. Aki Aki and Rasputin are both part of the DJs around the Salon making it the special place it is today. 

Teaming up as Phaser Boys, they brought out one of the best dance records of 2018. Here you can now listen to their set at the 3-day Salon des Amateurs Closing Extravaganza that happened 2 months ago. Maybe an opportunity to dive back into it or, else, have one more reason to go when it reopens (hopefully) soon.

Phaser Boys (@ Salon des Amateurs Closing)

'October Jams' 2012 [Disco Not Disco ]

Recording of soFa's (@sofaholic) set at Lente Kabinet Festival 2019.

Lente Kabinet Festival 2019

soFa at Lente Kabinet Festival 2019

2019/09/08 - Eupen | Music selected by Tako, recorded live at the Heuboden / dublab Sleepless Floor at Meakusma Festival 2019.

In September 2019 the Meakusma Festival took place in Eupen / Belgium for the 4th time, celebrating the unclassifiable through music, installations and lectures. Once again dublab set up shop at the Heuboden of “Alter Schlachthof”,  commited to create a cozy safe haven for all visitors from far and near, driven by respect for each other and a mutual love for the arts. 

In this surrounding a handpicked selection of live-acts and DJs from the musical cosmos of Meakusma and dublab shared amazing music all weekend long and was embraced by a gentle and highly attentive  audience. Top times!

Tako - Live from dublab Sleepless Floor (Meakusma Festival 2019)

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