Name: № 103 - Hadj Sameer by EDWIN
Duration: 59 min 12 s
Description: The EDWIN Music Channel welcomes, Parisian researcher, DJ, and record label runner @hadjsameer who has produced another all vinyl set, bringing us a soulful journey of house, techno, hip-hop, soul, and funk from artists such as Madlib, Ron Trent, Glenn Underground, and Mark De Clive-Lowe.

The EDWIN Music Channel welcomes, Parisian researcher, DJ, and record label runner @hadjsameer who has produced another all vinyl set, bringing us a soulful journey of house, techno, hip-hop, soul, and funk from artists such as Madlib, Ron Trent, Glenn Underground, and Mark De Clive-Lowe.

№ 103 - Hadj Sameer

for https://soundcloud.com/radioalhara 'Pomegranate Moon'

20220222@Radio Alhara 'Pomegranate Moon'

Edinburgh based party and reissue label present rarities and classics every month.

https://www.nts.live/shows/athens-of-the-north/episodes/athens-of-the-north-19th-january-2023

Athens Of The North 190123

https://www.nts.live/shows/early-bird-show-jack-rollo/episodes/early-bird-show-jack-rollo-3rd-march-2023

The Early Bird Show w/ Jack Rollo 030323

Taking his cue from seminal mix albums of days gone by, Glenn Astro is back with a compilation of original productions from a cast of fictional artists on Nothing Is Real, releasing May 4. 

Across 13 tracks, the Tartelet mainstay celebrates the thrill of discovery which came as standard listening to new entries in series’ like X-Mix and DJ Kicks, moving between head-nodding downtempo, ambient techno, broken beat and all manner of chill-out room delights. You might be left wishing artists such as DJ 1999, Mental Trance and Eye Soul8r had actual discographies to go and explore, but as Astro himself is keen to point out, “nothing is real.” 

Astro has never been shy to embrace classic tropes and tones in his past albums for Tartelet, Apollo and Ninja Tune, but he’s drawing on a different set of influences for this album and embracing the flexibility afforded by using imagined aliases for varied production styles. 

“I had the idea to do a mixtape, preferably with unknown dance tracks that also reflect that whole 90s/early 00s vibe,” Astro explains. “Instead of digging for some records that haven’t been sourced yet or trying to find those ‘forgotten’ treasures, I made the tracks myself. That way I had full control over BPMs, feel and the whole arrangement of tracks. I thought of a few alter egos and started producing the tracks in the order that I intended to play them in a mix. In the end a whole compilation of tracks emerged.” 

While the concept might suggest you’re going to hear a lot of over-familiar sounds, don’t be fooled. Astro is inspired and inquisitive, channeling the experimental spirit of the 90s and early 00s when electronic music was still continually being redefined in all kinds of micro-scenes. In many cases, Astro’s productions slip into the cracks between genres rather than specifically mimicking a style. 

In the run up to its release on May 4, the album will be framed by four key single releases which embody the omnivorous attitude Astro brings to the album. As Crystalline Reality, he explores classic breakbeat in detail, fusing it with starry eyed ambient techno synthesis in an unlikely but wholly convincing combination. Eye Soul8r’s ‘Autumn Subs’ injects ambient synth work in a Fax Records style with a rolling drum funk calling back to the trip hop era. ‘Steppers Worldwide, Unite!’ by The Foundation lands somewhere between pitched down breakbeat hardcore and dubstep, echoing the seldom-mentioned breakstep sound but injecting it with a subtle touch of dub techno. Brain Liquor’s ‘Jaque?’ revels in beatless, Detroit-informed machine funk, laces in some wriggling 303 squelch and gives everything a generous dubbing, but hold tight for the plot twist. 

Even if the reference points are detectable, the end result is a curious blend as indebted to ambiguity as the overall concept of the compilation. Like the spine-tingling sensation of hitting play and awaiting the waves of unknown sonics on one of those seminal mixes, you never know exactly what you’re going to get as you take the trip through Nothing Is Real. 

“In terms of dance music, the 90s and early 2000s are pretty much the blueprint for everything that I’ve later on made myself,” Astro admits. “At the same time, I don’t want to be overly nostalgic about it. We often look at those times, specifically the Y2K years, as being a lot simpler, realer, more honest, which in some cases might even be true. Simultaneously, it's insanely naive. Everything plastic isn’t necessarily futuristic, you know?” 

Nothing is Real drops May 4th on vinyl and digital. 

All tracks written and produced by Glenn Astro

Nothing Is Real V.A. - DJ MIX - Mixed by Glenn Astro

TSUBAKI FM KYOTO: SHUN145 – 02.05.23

Roaming Course Nr. 38 w/ Mio (Tangle, Shibuya) (23/06/30, Radio 80000)

Carolina Soul is a record seller based in Durham, NC, USA. They specialize in rare and classic soul, boogie, gospel and modern obscure tracks from the Carolinas and beyond, mixed with all-time bangers and ballads.

https://www.nts.live/shows/carolinasoul/episodes/carolinasoul-28th-july-2023

Carolina Soul - Funky, Spiritual, and Free Jazz 280723

"OK so I have been struggling for a while with describing the aesthetic that this mix is communicating. The placeholder for me has been post-balearic which is fine in my own internal vocabulary because I know what I mean but fuck me in the outer world it’s even more abstract a concept than the bloody B-word itself.

I’m coming at this from a few angles; Ibiza, obviously, but also Manchester, and that moody cyberpunk place where dub echoes fade into city smog. Gigs at the Salon Des Amateurs showed me the direct link between Baldelli’s cosmic tapes and all the wonky punky drums that spill out of Düsseldorf these days and I want to push the Balearic lineage that way.

But what to call it? It came to me this morning as I was washing the dishes listening to Klaus Weiss - it’s the BALEARIC-INDUSTRIAL-COMPLEX. Ur new favourite sound." Ruf Dug.

Ruf Dug

DJ SOTOFETT's "House Gadding Vol. 1" feat. UNIT 6Q was a promo-give-away CD-R for DJ Sotofett's UK debut show, presented by Brian Not Brian February 2012 at the Baby Bath House in London.

The night also featured Jonny Rock and Keyboard Masher on the bill – and the mix incl. a white label bonanza with then unreleased promo 12inches of "New For U" by Andrés, Krisp's "Truck Stomp" and Fit Siegel's "Tonite (feat. L'Renee)". Three modern house classics in good company by other Detroit, Chicago, Boston and London prime cuts.

Flip side of this CD cover was an order form for the early & obscure release on WANIA entitled "DJ Sotofett presents Bhakti Crew" a record only available though mailorder. Watch out for a incoming repress of exactly that record... support your local vinyl record shop!

Thanks to Brian Not Brian for breaking the UK seal, Sal for watching the door, Jonny and Keyboard Masher for quality digs, Fett Bolla and FIT Siegel for white's, and last a big shout to The Unit 6Q!

SO-PHAT-1-CD

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DJ Sotofett - House Gadding Vol. 1 feat. UNIT 6Q

Thank You @CHIDA73 for Support Renegade Radio Camp / St.Petersburg / Russia

Very glad to invite our friend from Japan again. Thank you for fantastic mix. Support & Listen & Repost.

Tracklist:
Zodiac Free Arts Club - Celephais
Workdub - Caravan
Tiago - Emotional Poverty 1
Seahawks Edit - ?
David Moufang - Sergio Leone's Wet Dream
Private Press - Na bieżnię
Black Merlin - Time In Motion
PHEW - Signal (Re-edit)
Liquid Mask - Just A Moment(Sisi Edit)
Bison - Way To LA
Cosmo Vitelli - Groupe Surdose 
The Primitive Painter - Levitation 
Lemon Jelly - Soft

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