Pepe's Bodega - Pepe's Kosmos

Pepe's Bodega - Spectral Lounge

Pepe's Bodega - The Experiment/True Hallucinations

Pepe's Bodega - Settlement/Hole In The Ground

Pepe's Bodega - Arrival/Igara Parana

I accidentally found this forgotten sequence in my library. Nothing extra-ordinary, just a fine collection of 'travel music' of different sorts. Once a pilgrim, always a pilgrim.

Functional Music - Backpacking 2022

Buy the track here:
https://navigareaudio.bandcamp.com/album/navig-ra

Marcus Henriksson - Fire Of Water (Don Pepe & David Laake Remix)

Meditative, no-bullshit ambience for reading purposes. Safe travels!

01 - Shida Shahabi - Kinsei
02 - The Zenmenn - The Invisible Landscape
03 - Fool's Harp - Source
04 - Merope - Rototo
05 - Mattimatti - Efter Regnet
06 - Greg Foat - After The Storm
07 - Shida Shahabi - Tecum
08 - Kara-Lis Coverdale - Moments In Love
09 - Shida Shahabi - Vassen
10 - Prins Emanuel - Girra
11 - Deuter - Haiku
12 - Fernando Falcão - Amanhecer Tabajara (À Alceu Valença)
13 - Priscilla Ermel - Martim Pescador
14 - Música Esporádica - Música Esporádica
15 - David Sylvian - The Wooden Cross
16 - Clannad - Ocean Of Light/Drifting
17 - Finis Africae - Carauari/Remontando El Purus

Functional Music - Reading II (Vinyl Only) 2024

Pepe's Bodega Unreleased - Part I

Pepe's Bodega Unreleased - Part II

Pepe's Bodega Unreleased - Part III

Wise Dub in honour of grandfather Huachuma. 

DJ-set from Antaris Festival outside of Berlin, July 2014.

Huachuma Dub - @ Antaris Festival 2014

Thank you Tudor and Marian for inviting me back to this little paradise. Best festival on the planet.

Afternoon @ Waha Festival 2024

Old-School SuomiSounds from the Beyond... 

All tracks were written between 1996-2004

Weird Creatures 2011

Greetings from the land of eternal spring!

Recorded while living and working at a hidden retreat in southern Ecuador. Recorded for one purpose only: hiking the mountains with Huachuma...

Mein Dzei 2016

Together with Random Records we've made this beast of a compilation. With KWERK I wanted to create a genre within genres, where deep forest psychedelia meets funk, punk and a leftfield kind of mindset. Simply what Bäverdisco always was about...

https://randomrecords.bandcamp.com/album/kwerk
 
To complete this delayed two year project I recorded this journey of highest quality kwerkiness, including some of the artists on the compilation. 


KWERK is released on the 15th of February 2016. All the profits go straight to Survival International, an NGO supporting indigenous peoples around the world. You can buy it on Beatport, Beatspace and on https://randomrecords.bandcamp.com/album/kwerk. Limited CD-edition is available, with beautiful artwork by Whrikk.

Immense amount of gratitude to Dark El Kante, Gojja/Makadam, Captain Kirk, Yhtiöt, Ziog, Ocelot, Discolin, Bechamel Boyz, Salakavala, Eat Static, Whrikk and Monno Dunkel for your passion, expertise and support.

KWERK 2016

A trip down memory lane. Recorded in december 2011, while living by the Norwegian Atlantic coast. Winter darkness, constant fog and aggressive winds - my cure was studio time, tropical fungi and these joooozy froots.

Bäverian Froots 2011

Recorded at the beautiful Human Evolution Festival in Italy late august 2016. Following the theme of the festival I created a journey from where it all began, through our species past, present and inevitable future. Hope you'll enjoy!

Please support the artists and labels who dedicate their lives to fulfill your souls.

01 – Chancha Via Circuito – Macá Tobiano (Simbohlic Edit)
02 – Populous – Guadeloupe
03 – Axel Krygier – Cumbia Tucumana
04 – Tremor – Viajante
05 – Umoja – ZuchoMaya
06 – El Búho – Tecolotin
07 – Nicola Cruz – Invocacion
08 – Jota Karloza - Sloth
09 – Mala & Dreiser & Sexto Sentido– Como Como (Theo Parrish Remix)
10 – R Vincenzo – Cabras No Elevado Quilombola
11 – Xanga – La Luz
12 – R Vincenzo – Eletrotranse Do Alto Rio Negro
13 – Jota Karloza – Ugate Soraj
14 – Psilosamples – Agulha No Boneco
15 – Kurup – Macaúba
16 – Clap! Clap! – Ichnusa
17 – Umoja – Beatacuda
18 – Psilosamples - Perdão
19 – Panchasila - Cariñito Dub
20 – El Remolon – Energia Natural (Chancha Via Circuito Remix)
21 – Mala – Shadows
22 – Freeman – Obelisk
23 – Shackleton – Man On A String Part 1 & 2
24 – Ricardo Villalobos & Max Loderbauer - Meets Tshetsha Boys
25 – Mala – Cuba Electronic
26 – DJ Khalab – Malala
27 – Clap! Clap! – Camo
28 – Clap! Clap! – The Rainstick Fable
29 – Psilosamples – Chocolate
30 – Bwoy De Bhajan – Splooj Yodor’s Coconut Island
31 – Bwoy De Bhajan - Northern Quartz Aurora 
32 – Bwoy De Bhajan - Mysterious Moon Village (Celestial Space Version)

Anthropos Logos - @ Human Evolution Festival 2016

As weird as it sounds - I was raised to the sound of the early 90's ambient techno scene. Although I was still being breastfed when "Little Fluffy Clouds" hit the charts, the analogue warmth, acid bleeps, gentle pulse and curious yet deep psychedelia of the golden years 1990 to 1994 always felt so strangely familiar.

So how and when did I fall in to this rabbit hole? 2002, 14 years old, buying any record I could get ahold of with "entrancing" music. Hearing more made me crave for more, which made me hear more that got me craving for more. Napster. Kazaa. DC++. Discogs... 
Contemporary trance music felt stiff, uninspired and cheesy, while that 90's Eye Q, Harthouse, Platipus, Superstition and all this Goatrance took me so deep. Especially those who dared to bring the tempo down. So hypnotizing. So challenging. So rewarding... Levitation music....

The last months I've sold off big parts of my record collection, and while digitizing the music I've sold I've re-discovered many of these psychedelic wonders. This is truly sacred music for me, music that has been with me for so many travels the last 10-15 years. So I invite you to sit down on your magic carpet and explore space from a time long forgotten.

A Spacetime Odyssey 2016

Excerpt from a 2,5 hour set recorded on a hot, sunny afternoon at Andra Vaerlden Gathering 2017 in Värmland, Sweden. The usual night time madness gave space to my take on playful daytime psychedelia. No Recordbox, no Tractor, no Sync-buttons - just good old CDs with mind-bending/heart-warming psychedelic dance music, beyond genres, trends and dogmas, selected and harvested since forever.

Thank you Moreno Margherita for bringing the recorder, thank you Marcus Henriksson for pushing "Rec", thank You allihopa everybody who participated in this amazing forest gathering. I'm still levitating...

With love,
Sim

Daytime @ Andra Vaerlden Gathering 2017

Excerpt from a maraton set at Swedish psychedelic festival Forest Star around midsummer 2018. This was the first half, while the sun was setting, the rest of the set went deeper, darker and more techy. Included a whole bunch of my own little edits for this set, for some extra personal flavour. 

01 - Todd Terje - New Mjondalen Disco Swingers (Don Pepe Edit)
02 - Ponty Mython - Lovin' You Is A Pleasure (Don Pepe Edit)
03 - Williams - Confused Arp Disco (Frisvold & Lindbaek Remix)
04 - Das Komplex - Tonight, Good Night
05 - Lindstrom & Lindbaek - Alien In My Pocket (Rune's Extended Mix)
06 - Das Komplex - All For Love
07 - Lemonade - Bliss Out (Frisvold & Lindbaek Remix)
08 - Khidja - Microb
09 - Tony Allen - Asiko (Motor City Drum Ensemble Remix)
10 - Strategy - Tuff Life
11 - Owiny Sigoma Band - Nyiduonge Drums
12 - The Emperor Machine - Africa (Wolf Müller Remix)
13 - Dude Energy - Renee Running
14 - Todd Terje & Det Gylne Triangel - Maskindans
15 - Khidja - Die Wilde Spirale
16 - Owiny Sigoma - Changaa Attack (General Ludd Remix)
17 - The Coober Pedy University Band - Kookaburra
18 - Bob Holroyd - African Drug (Four Tet Remix/Don Pepe Edit)
19 - Ost & Kjex - Milano Model (Mungolian Jetset Remix)
20 - Thomas Krome - The Real Jazz (Erot Remix/Don Pepe Edit)
21 - Flash Atkins - Squatting (Mental Overdrive Remix)
22 - Ralph Myerz & The Kosmik Diamondz - Lett Sommarmat
23 - Låpsley - Operator (DJ Koze Remix)
24 - Lindstrom - Another Station (Todd Terje Temix)
25 - Space Dimension Controller - Flight Of The Escape Vessels
26 - The MFA - The Difference It Makes (Superpitcher Remix)
27 - Kilowatts - Hyperion Hustle
28 - Nathan Fake - Undoing The Laces
29 - Petter - Robotfood
30 - Britney Spears - Breathe On Me (James Holden Remix)
31 - Bjorn Torske - Langt Fra Afrika (Todd Terje Remix/Don Pepe Edit)
32 - Four Tet - Kool FM (Champion Remix)
33 - Blawan - Bohla
34 - Pearson Sound - XLB
35 - Josh Wink - Talking To You
36 - James Holden - A Break In The Clouds (Beats Tool)
37 - Snacks - Order To The Senses (Kornél Kovács Remix)
38 - Janis - Parental Advisory House (Kornél Kovács Remix)
39 - Mr. Oizo - Flat Beat
40 - Dextro - Do You Need Help (The MFA Remix/Don Pepe Edit)

DJ-set @ Forest Star 2018

Musik skall byggas utav glädje!

Recorded around christmas 2018 as a nod, ode and shoutout to one of my long time selector heroes Mixmaster Morris. I first became familiar with him in high school ca 2004-05, hearing his early 90's classics as Dreamfish and The Irresistible Force. But it wasn't until around 2012, when my own DJ-adventure was already living it's own life, where I started to notice his true brilliance: behind the decks. As a hobby music historian/anthropologist I loved digging into his older and newer mixes (easily found online), exploring his vast library of music and learning that it can be completely OK to hear a Minnie Riperton ballad next to Plaid next to an old, dusty house track next to an Adrian Sherwood dub beast. Don't think in terms of genres, think in flow, think in the tidal waves that make up the human spirit. Spontaneity. Joy, sadness, depth, memories, experimentality, playfulness, and back to joy again. Always come back to joy. Perhaps this isn't the words Morris would use himself, but this is my understanding of his wordless teaching. It has been a revelation to me, and something I've been trying to adapt to my own art ever since. And for that I'm forever grateful.

In the summer of 2018 I joined my friend and DJ colleague Anders Navigare to Ozora Festival. Quite accidentally the two of us received a drop of pure and very potent acid in the moment Mixmaster Morris started playing at the Dome stage. Let me tell you it was quite possibly the most powerful musical experience in my life. I thought I knew the music world of Mixmaster Morris, but I guess you can't really say that until you've been tripping under his command. Outside the Dome an enormously violent thunderstorm was causing havoc over the festival, but inside we had the most loving and blissful music experience, grooving to D'Angelo, DJ Koze, Kamaal Williams, Flying Lotus, The Orb/Sun Electric and gosh, did my heart melt to the sounds of "hey teachers, leave those kids alone!!!"? I kid you not, I bursted into tears twice over these 4 hours! Forever imprinted into my DNA.

I bow my head and wish to express my deepest gratitude and respect for you Mixmaster Morris, if you ever read this. Thanks for all the inspiration throughout the years.

// Simon

01 - Bugge Wesseltoft & Prins Thomas - Bar Asfalt
02 - Siriusmo - Liu
03 - Michael Jackson - I Can't Help It (Todd Terje Remix)
04 - Roy Ayers - I Am Your Mind (Pepe Bradock Remix)
05 - James Vincent - Space Traveller
06 - G.R.C. Five - Saga Of A Secluded Swamp Monster
07 - Hi-Fi Companions - I Croon On Empire
08 - Axel Boman & Kornél Kovács - Paris 2006
09 - Move D & Fragment - Untitled
10 - Latecomer - Cosmic Cart
11 - Femi Kuti - Beng Beng Beng (Ashley Beedle Remix)
12 - Vakula - Oceaxe
13 - King Britt & Ursula Rucker - Circe (Jazzanova Remix)
14 - Bwoy De Bhajan - Amazon Lily Hut
15 - Nalepa - Uh Oh Hey Um
16 - Glenn Astro - Forgotten Intro (4 My Peeps)
17 - Linkwood - Pumpernickel
18 - Black Devil Disco Club - For Hoped (Dub)
19 - Georges Vert - En Plein Air
20 - Jaga Jazzist - Oban (Todd Terje Remix)
21 - Kraftwerk - Home Computer (Live)
22 - Seb Wildblood - Wet Summer (Kornél Kovács Remix)
23 - Magic Mountain High - Spacepod
24 - Porn Sword Tobacco & SVN - Untitled
25 - Floating Points - For Marmish

Possible Musics 2018

Excerpt from an all night set at the beautiful chill out barn of my favorite festival. Tropical heat wave in the Norwegian forest, amazing music, flawless aesthetics and my favorite people.

Blissout @ Andra Vaerlden Gathering 2019

Acid housebreakstechtrance

01 - Lone - How Can You Tell
02 - Perishing Thirst - Poplar Object
03 - Luca Luzano & DJ Fett Burger - SignalRod
04 - Life Sciences Division - Frog Tech
05 - Reptant - Liquid Acrobatics
06 - Posthuman - Airwave Uranium (Lou Karsh Remix)
07 - Roza Terenzi & DJ Zozi - Strobe Fountain
08 - Urulu - Groove Therapy
09 - Furious Frank - Ahora Sí (D. Tiffany Remix)
10 - PMTC - Cool Waters
11 - LAPS - Who Me (D. Tiffany & Roza Terenzi Remix)
12 - Rudolf C - Second Hand Love
13 - DJ Shark - Outro (Fantastic Man Remix)
14 - Djrum - Tailing
15 - SMP - Natty Bop
16 - Ambien Baby - Ciclón
17 - Mor Elian - Persona Non Grata
18 - Ambien Baby - Stab Me
19 - Djrum - Abandon Me
20 - Falty DL - Because You
21 - Way Out West - Dancehall Tornado
22 - Funkopath - Skwirm

Saturn Return 2020

One of my greatest memories of last summer was closing the main stage at Andra Halvan in Norway on an insanely hot Sunday afternoon in July. The organizers gave me the blessing to do it my way, resulting in a 5 hour session that still gives me the chills just thinking about it. Many people asked me then and afterwards about the music, but for some stupid reason I forgot to record the set.

Fast forward to last week, when I found one of the USB-sticks used at the gig, still with a music library named "Andra Halvan 2019". Since there's little to no DJ-activity for me in these strange times I decided to record something out of that vibe. Impossible to re-create the golden moments of last summer, but hopefully enjoyable for your private headphone/hi-fi pleasure of summers to come. Please play loud!

01 - Namaste!
02 - Super Flu - Jo Gurt (DJ Koze Remix/Don Pepe Edit)
03 - Ponty Mython - Street Sunbath
04 - Linkwood - Pumpernickel
05 - Axel Boman - Europa
06 - Nu - Man O Tu (Pepe Bradock Remix)
07 - Nicola Cruz - Espíritu De Proteccíon (Don Pepe Edit)
08 - Ponty Mython - Slippin' Into Darkness
09 - Dreems & Jagma - Bilbio Bush Baby
10 - Axel Boman - Purple Drank
11 - International Pony - Bubble In The Bottle (Pepe Bradock Remix)
12 - Lone - Ultramarine
13 - D. Tiffany - Respect The Flute
14 - Urulu - Body Drum
15 - Space - Magic Fly (The Orb Remix)
16 - I Led 3 Lives - Juini's Arrival (I:Cube Remix)
17 - Tornado Wallace - Open Door
18 - Gilles Peterson - Urgent Rumba (Pepe Bradock Remix)
19 - Coldcut & Roots Manuva - Only Heaven (Matthew Herbert Remix)
20 - Bryan Ferry - Alphaville (Todd Terje Remix)
21 - Iz & Diz - Mouth (Pepe Bradock Remix)
22 - Die Vögel - Everything
23 - Harald Björk - December (Axel Boman Remix)
24 - Mount Liberation Unlimited - Double Dance Lover (Radio Edit/Disko Dubb)
25 - Deee-Lite - Frenchapella/Groove Is In The Heart (Bootsified To The Nth Degree)
26 - Gichy Dan - Cowboys & Gangsters (Social Disco Edit)
27 - Annie - The Greatest Hit (Dub Mix)
28 - The Persuader - Slussen (Erot Remix)
29 - Jean Claude Gavri - Off Broadway
30 - Tore - Battlestar XB-7

Orange Sunshine 2020

Herr Uggla Vet 2013

Meditative, no-bullshit ambience for reading purposes. Safe travels <3

Functional Music - Reading 2020

"If you can't even clean up your own room, who the hell are you to give advice to the world?" // JBP

Functional Music - Cleaning 2020

Simma lugnt, flyg högt, landa mjukt.
Swimming peacefully, flying high, landing softly.

Functional Music - Afterglowing 2021

Another mix from the vaults. This was the first hour of a closing set at Forest Star Festival in 2017. This was probably around midnight. We continued for another couple of hours before police forced us to close down from one moment to another. Touche....
I haven't listened to this since those days, but I'm happy to say it's a damn fine hour of phutureprimitivism!

Functional Music - Dancing 2017

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