Long time dear friend Jonny Rock (@jonnyrock) from London up in the mix for the 33rd in our MFM Mix series. Interview (excerpt) down below.

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MFM: Thanks for the mix and for taking time to answer these questions Jonny. Whatsup? 

JR: It is an absolute honor to do the mix and thanks for twisting my arm for the interview. Surfin’ the wild waves of the times at the moment… hanging tight on the board, but like water.. finding my way, with huge amounts of entertaining falls.

MFM: I once read you saying wanting to go “...fucking off from London, moving to LA or somewhere else”. Why would you want to trade London for another place?

JR: London is an addiction. been here since ’91 so hard to get it out of the system. working on a sunnier outlet to share the time which on its own puts a smile on my face but still enjoying London for its dirt and being versatile. LA is still and always in my heart for its sun and people.  

MFM: Looking at your discography your studio outcome is an almost equal balance of your own works and edits. Would you say other people's music is a major source of inspiration and motivation? Do you have a steady pace/rhythm of producing or...?

JR: Other peeps music I listen to is of course a huge inspiration or motivation. Even with ‘original‘ works I always have a trigger point. An inspiration from a record.. a dusty loop from somewhere. I play guitar but I am not an analog machine man (burn him burn him). I love samples, loops, rolandcloud on the go… but no particular pace tbh. sometimes a random focused period comes out fruitful. Sometimes it just doesn’t work so I leave it. It’s a sign that I need to have a break in my head. Edits come up as I find songs so the balance must be coincidental. 

MFM: You're the first guest on the mix series who actually requested to keep the comments off. Does it have to do with the 'music like water' principle these days?

JR: Well this idea also came out of the lost year. I was away from mixing for a while and podcast to-do pile had grown. And thought maybe one can try to rebalance listening to music and the way music is shared and searched. While the world is taken over by clicks and likes and online hangouts, thought maybe we push the talks and search back on real people interaction. From my side I asked kindly to the people I did the podcasts for, as an experiment…. let’s try it. Move away from ‘track id’s’ etc.     

MFM: You seem to be a romantic kinda guy with an old school approach when it comes to exploring and experiencing and valuing music. Does the '2021 way' offer only downsides from your point of view, or...?  

JR: I try to hang on to my own journey with belt and braces, so not to lose my values, and mind. A daily exercise sometimes to stop time and re-align to keep on staying true. Like all artforms there is controversy bubbling up in the speed of light everywhere with ‘kind’ help of the ‘social media’…  

MFM: Word on the street is that you've got a new thing coming up, a new label. Tell us all about it!!!

JR: Yessss its true … ‘Jonny Rock Orijinal’. A label for me by me featuring me. ‘Not an edit’ will probably write at the back of a t-shirt at some point. I felt it was the right time to have an outlet for the various explosions of my mind. Hopefully out in the wild by January. Hamam series is also branching out to a ‘Hamam Originals’ imprint too. 

MFM: Thanks too for the mix! Any specific theme or records or vibe you had in mind before or while recording it? 

JR: Not really to be honest. Tako is a huge influence and a great bud so when he asked, woke up instantly from my cosmic hibernation and wanted to do a dj mix with some of the grooves I found lately. I don’t think I played any of those records out yet so was also an excitement of playing them for the first time. I hope to get a few 👌's 🤟's 🔥's 💥's. Ah wait …comments are off so probably not.

MFM Mix 033: Jonny Rock

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Eric Duncan started DJ-ing in Manhattan’s Downtown bar and club circuit in the mid 90’s.

In 1996 he stepped out of the DJ booth to curate the music for the Girl Skateboards movie titled ‘Mouse’. A couple of years later, Eric along with Thomas Bullock formed the AfterHours party outfit ‘Rub-N-Tug’. 

After a few years of HARDCORE party providing to NYC’s left field underground. Eric began hitting the road with Rub-N-Tug, the rest is a blur.. ;)

In 2006 Eric & Liv Spencer started ‘Still Going’ releasing 2 singles on DFA Records including ‘Still Going Theme’ & ’Spaghetti Circus’ the later featuring Ultra talented Reggie Watts on vocals. Eric also has production collaborations with Dean Meredith of Chicken Lips fame and New York’s Justin Vandervolgen leader of ‘My Rules’

Eric Duncan aka Dr. Dunks has remixed as himself or as part of his collaborations: Daniele Baldelli, Locosolus, Bryan Ferry, Robbie Williams, Laid Back, Grace Jones, Cold Play, Roxy Music, LCD Soundsystem, Canyons, TV Baby, Beastie Boys, Zero 7, Material, The Presets, Lindstrom, Doves, Todd Terje, Groove Armada & the list goes on.

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We are happy to present you Pâlm, music selector from Cannes (France) and currently living in between the French Riviera and Geneva. 
Pâlm's sound is a combination of his influences, having lived in Montreal, Mexico City, Tel Aviv, and Barcelona. He has now his own show 'Himno Aéreo' on Internet Public Radio (Guadalajara) where his mission is to showcase Mexican and international Dj and producers.

Hope you enjoy this mix!
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Lynx Italy is back!

@cosmic-rhythm-records ' s very own artists gather for the first time ever under the new Cosmic Rhythm Soundsystem project to deliver two hours of pure madness, recorded live last Saturday in a secret location nearby Bari (Italy). 

From r'n'b to deep house, house, techno and electro. Straight fire!

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We have been following the guest of this new episode of Canela En Surco for a long time, thanks to our friend Paul Marele from Subwax (one of the DJs with the best records and least pretensions that we know) informing us of the 2 (and only) mixes that Mandel had uploaded online at that time. From the moment we heard them, we became absolute fans of his selection of records and his way of playing them; one of them was a YouTube at HÖR where Mandel looks serious and starts to give a lesson in how House should be DJed, where the soul is more important than the technique, and with a love for your records as if each one of them were your best treasure.

After the pandemic, and with the doors of the clubs now open, Mandy visited Barcelona and our friendship went from 0 to 100 from the first moment. As we got to know him, our admiration for him as a person also grew; his way of seeing music and DJing is very similar to ours, and furthermore, he spends all his money on them just like us, LOL.

On one of these visits where Mandel came from Italy to look for records we were able to convince him to come over and record with us; it must be said that Mandy began to do a b2b with our director Breixo Martínez without ever having played any of his records, since he had just found them in a couple of warehouses in Italy. They had both just worked all day and were very tired, but the result is almost 3 hours of elegant House gems with soul

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Les Yeux Orange começou no início de 2013, quando Raph e Stan se uniram para compartilhar sua paixão e conhecimento sobre música eletrônica. 

Colecionadores de longa data e DJs, eles começam criando seu canal no Youtube e compartilhando podcasts de DJs internacionais.

Sua capacidade de cativar a pista de dança através de um amplo espectro dos melhores sons eletrônicos underground, sempre uma trilha musical que promete uma viagem mágica!

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If we think beyond the more obvious meaning the term “residency" holds in our culture as a platform that aims to provide stability for artists to create and regularity for the public to access their work, strengthening and deepening their relationship in the process, we realise that some of its most basic senses are lost. Here we tend to overlook or even forget the most essential ones, those that evoke feelings such as intimacy or shelter, as they relate directly to one of the most fundamental concepts of all usually attached to that word, that of “home”. And, even though it can be a lot of things to many people, for DJs it is a special place where the relation to their community can be nurtured on a regular basis and the trust that allows them to be bold in their selections can be fortified constantly. For one as devoted to his craft and dedicated to his audience as our guest for this episode, they are fundamental elements of a truly magical dancefloor that he can take anywhere and everywhere in his musical quests. This is precisely what Pascal Moscheni does at every opportunity he gets, be it through his own projects such as the celebrated Hands On Sand or in delightfully hedonistic mixes as this one in which he captures the solar bliss and the sandy textures of the Ibizan landscape and converts it into a brilliant aural journey that ends up proving that home can be more than just a comfortable place that maintains us protected, it can be an irresistible force that keeps us together.

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In anticipation for his upcoming visit to Lima and his appearance at our next matinée on Saturday 8th of July, we have the immense pleasure to welcome Harari for the next episode of our selector series. 

Harari is a music collector from Buenos Aires and one of the two curators of 'Síntesis Moderna' - a compilation of obscure and mostly synth-laden gems released on Soundway Records in 2022 that we enjoyed quite a lot. Harari draws on ample experience as a dj and selector, seeing him also frequenting booths in Europe. In his home country Argentina he steers the party Highlife. 

For the current mix of the selector series, Harari took a deep dive into his record collection and prepared a trip across a wide spectrum of sounds, from Argentinian and Brazilian Jazz, Funk and World music from the 70s followed by a more electronic theme covering 80s and 90s sound from Europe and some contemporary releases, guaranteed to get you moving!

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Selector Series 18: HARARI

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