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IRVRSBL Mix 1: Louis McCoy FHUO

007 Callum Vass

Callum has sewn his presence into the fabric of our musical journey. We're sure he clocks in more hours than some of our casual staff, and he’s probably switched off the lights for us too. When someone as passionate about music and discography as Callum hangs out in our bar, it makes us feel like we’re doing something right.

Callum’s curations are a loving homage to his years spent travelling to Japan. Patient selections of jazz, soul, funk, and rare groove pair a 'Kissaten' experience with a "look at what I've just pulled out of a dusty crate in back-street Tokyo" humblebrag.

Callum has stayed on beyond his month-long residency to curate our Sundays as 'Rotary Connection'. Every Sunday, Callum invites a special guest to play at Waxflower for the afternoon. 

Kampai my dude!

TASCAM DR-40

007 Callum Vass

https://www.nts.live/shows/peach/episodes/peach-18th-june-2021

Peach 180621

An absolute summer sprinkler that blends sweet brazilian music with smile & groove over a span of 60 minutes mixed by a veteran leipzig DJ and record / discogs shop trader. Grande!

apple.co/3dDbgOv

KANNMIX 43 - Windy - 60min

KANNMIX

KANNMIX 43 | Windy

Italians have a reputation for being passionate about everything they do, as the intensity with which they care about something is unrivaled. So, when the topic revolves around these wonderful aural offerings we tend to love so deeply, the stakes are even higher and the feeling grows even stronger. Such is the essence of the relationship this Milanese duo developed with music from the outset and exactly what nurtures their unwavering sentiment towards these elements that move us so effortlessly. After all, it is nothing but true devotion that you could expect from anyone naming their project Eternal Love, one that is present in all of their endeavours, from the prolific partnerships with fellow countrymen from Burro Studio to their lovely edits of rare rhythmic nuggets to splendid mixes such as this one. The pulse throughout is constant without rendering it strenuous, thanks to the attention to detail that turns linearity into energy and a delicate sensibility attuned to the ebb and flow of what makes an enthralling narrative something absolutely mesmerising.

Gop Cast 069 - Eternal Love

Микс 003 - Гоша

Playback of our most recent Noods show with Inner Varnika head honcho Louis McCoy.

A.E.S.T. with Finding Figaro & Louis McCoy - 24/6/2021

SIDE A: PRAISES

SIDE B: NEW FOR U (LIVE)

forthcoming @dezandres 12" vinyl (M.M-48)
Release Date: July 17, 2021
snippet by @floreal1

PRAISES / NEW FOR U (LIVE)

ANDRÉS - Praises / New For U (live) (12"snippet)

TESTFM Bandcamp

TESTFM x Masts w/ Ken Kuusk — 12/06/2021

pride forever @ best in town

long live queer dancers

Pride Forever

Louis McCoy is a master craftsman in every sense of the word. A legend of a human behind much loved local underground institutions the likes of Inner Varnika and For Home Use Only, and an expert on the tools be it in the kitchen or on a building site, Louis first and foremost is a passionate music obsessor with a savant like ear for records that cut deep. 

Sometimes found under the cheekier guise of hndsm, Louis seriously knows whats up when it comes to 90s music from the UK, and focusses his attention here on the massively influential sound of trip hop that he grew up nodding his head to as a teen. Treating us to near-on three hours of raw and dusty underground classics from the roots of the 90s Bristol trip hop movement, we find ourselves deep beneath the murky waters of the reggae and the shoegaze infused, to moments of heavy, emotion packed atmospheric soul and a healthy dose of the all out experimental. One for the OG chillout heads, this really is a trip like no other!

Interview here: melbournedeepcast.net/portfolio/louis-mccoy

@louis_mccoy
@for_home_use_only

https://innervarnika.com

www.melbournedeepcast.net

Interview

MDC.264 Louis McCoy

Anyone who ventures southward into the country is rewarded by many things that the region presents to its visitors: gorgeous landscapes both in the countryside and the coast, a myriad of vibrant cultural outposts that are the result of the encounters among many fluxes of internal migration and foreign immigration and vibrant music scenes that manage to conjoin the best of both in wonderful festive occasions. After all, music has always been at the core of the processes that galvanised movements around identities and gave each of those capitals a very distinctive yet diverse soundscape. Such is the case of Porto Alegre, a bustling metropolis whose environment of creative effervescence nurtured many generations of revellers as well as the events that sustain their activities and, as such, the perfect place for a collective as innovative as NEUE to blossom. Here we welcome one of its founding members to bring a bit of the magic of these parties to our collection of sonic journeys. For this episode, our guest JP concocts a spellbinding mix of different moods and diverse grooves, conjuring up dear memories of dancing moments at these wonderful events. @neuepoa

Gop Cast 077 - JP

Latest mix by Public Possession DJs for the "New Modernity" project in collaboration with The Futures Collaborative.

New Modernity

‘For home use only’ is an anti-club social, a chance to get to know someone/something. A series of transmissions purely dedicated to exploring the other side.  

for our inaugural transmission, it is a great honour to bring you an hour long tape only mix by Rings Around Saturn, aka Dan White (rip) aka 2200 aka Pickleman aka 1/2 of Turner Street Sound and known to his mum as Rory Mcpike, it doesn’t really matter what you call him, his talent speaks beyond this planet. Going from strength to strength, Rory has released on some of the best local and international record labels such as Butter Sessions, Analogue Attic, Forbidden Planet and his latest on Unthank. Personally, Rory has had a big influence on me and my musical direction ever since that first live set at Inner Varnika 15 and has been a pivotal player in taking Australian music to an international audience. So please, without further ado, dim the lights, put on your headphones (anything but laptop speakers), pour the chamomile and sit back and R E L A X, you're at home. 

his words. 
"Mix was recorded on a drizzly day with 2 cassette decks and an analog delay so it's full of mistakes and over the top use of delay.  But that's how I do it when I wake up a little fuzzy on the weekend and I'm having a mix or a digging through music to help inspire some ideas I can explore in my own way."

his music. 

https://soundcloud.com/rdjm0

Unthank 11
https://firecrackerrecordings.bandcamp.com/album/unthank011

Hidden Waves
https://hiddenwaves.bandcamp.com/album/hidden-waves-vol-1

enjoi.

FHUO # 1 // Rings Around Saturn

‘For home use only’ is an anti-club social, a chance to get to know someone/something. A series of transmissions purely dedicated to exploring the other side.

Sup! We back! 

So, we’re up to number 5 and who better to celebrate with than Dj Fett Burger! The Norwegian land dolphin aka Captain Sarcasm aka DJ anti-establishment aka possibly one of the nicest guy’s you’ll ever meet. 

Founder of the legendary ‘Sex Tags’ record label and the always faithful ‘Trushmix’ series, An extremely talented being across all forms of ‘art’ (loose term), from remixing tracks to doodling on a used napkin the man oozes a frustrating amount of genius without ever sacrificing his own ethics. 

Fett Burger and his equally talented brother, Dj Sotofett have worked their asses off over the last 15 years to get where they are now, building Sex Tags literally from the ground up, it took years of hard work to shape the label, nowadays we’re at the mercy of asshole discog’s resellers to even get a sniff of an old release. 

Mr. Burger himself as a DJ is pretty close to god level, the way he plays is like none other, A journeyman that can only be matched by a sherpas donkey running rings around the summits of Mt. Everest. If you’ve been lucky enough to see him play then you know exactly what I’m talking about. 

The mix itself, a toxic blend of disco, funk, soul and reggae, a perfect soundtrack to dancing in the kitchen. A guaranteed mood heightener, A contagious trip amongst the stars, even your mum will enjoy. Scientifically impossible to not nod your head for an hour and a half, this won’t leave your portable media player for years to come. 

I’ve been lucky to get to know the burg’s over the last couple of years as we’ve had him at Inner Varnika for the last 3 and he’s helped us evolve the festival into something we only dreamed of, he truly ‘gets it’ more than most and he’s always happy to help in any way possible with a side of the driest humour known to man. It’s an absolute honor to put this mix out, it brings to light exactly what we’re about, which is completely open to interpretation. 

ha det gøy og nyte trygt!!!

FHUO # 5 // DJ Fett Burger

‘For home use only’ is an anti-club social, a chance to get to know someone/something. A series of transmissions purely dedicated to exploring the other side.

Buonasera!!!

How are we? We is good. We is so good!

We is back with numero sette! aka lucky number seven. I know we weren’t gone long enough but when you’ve got good news you really should share it. 

This time around its a team effort, brought to you by the gruesome twosome themselves Pjenné & Simon TK, two of Melbourne’s finest on both sides of the turntables, in preparation for their upcoming ‘Earth Tones’ party at the Fairfield amphitheatre. Which follows a similar vein with a familiar vibe. 

Simon TK aka the melodic jack russell aka the cosmic van-damme aka DJ Gravy-Fingers aka the guy that plays ‘good’ disco, he’s been one of Melbourne’s legs for many years, making and creating the scene we so comfortably know in the neu-modern era. The man has two pies for each finger (DJ Gravy-Fingers) a founding father of the ever fun Wax'o Paradiso, XOXO (rip), ¿Club D'érange? and now Earth Tones amongst a few more handfuls of tasty ventures. The man can mix though, by jove’s have I seen this bloke do some amazing shit behind the decks, can command a dance floor like a bloody blue healer on show day. All of this and he still manage’s to stay grounded, he’s a true ledg who will hopefully continue to steer Melbourne in the right direction for the foreseeable future. 

Now, Pjenné aka penne puttanesca aka the little engine that done did aka DJ Compact Disc aka the walking record bag, if there was a formula that Pjenné followed to start her foray into this ridiculous game of ‘play the music’ then I would bottle it all and drink it for myself. A classic case of ‘shut-the-fuck-up-and-listen’, she spent years hanging with her cohorts, digging through their tunes, taking notes on their train wrecks, taking samples of sweat from the crowd, only to apply her knowledge from the very beginning. I knew from the very first time she put a needle on a record it was meant to be. Since then, she hasn’t looked back, destroying dance floors Australia wide and leaving no souvenir. She is ‘on’ 

The mix itself is an absolute trip through your own mind. Perfect road trip soundtracking. Stopping off in every suburb in the state of genre, from dub, reggae, street soul, ambient breaks (it’s a thing) and every single step in between. Summer vibes through and through. listen to it. You probably already are. 

Go check out Earth Tones this weekend at the Fairfield Amphitheatre for much the same from the speakers from much of the same good people’s. 

addio. xo

Simon TK >>>  https://soundcloud.com/simon-tk

Pjenné >>> https://soundcloud.com/pjenne

la festa >>> https://www.facebook.com/events/1872244982996013/

FHUO # 7 // Pjenné & Simon TK

For home use only’ is an anti-club social, a chance to get to know someone/something. A series of transmissions purely dedicated to exploring the other side

eleven huh. Interesting. In Numerology number 11 is a Master number. A Master number is a double-digit number which also comes from a single root number. Saint Augustine stated that “the number 11 is the blazon of sin”. I call bullshit. eleven is number were up to, and this episode is brought to you by the enigmatic maestro Woz aka Perrindome aka the 3D dreamboat aka the acapella prince aka vanilla Craig David. 

I’ll start from the beginning, I met Woz in Hamburg, we clubbed, was dope, we chilled after, also dope, and then this mthfkr starts spitting out Quasimoto acapella’s bis die Kühe nach Hause kommen! I knew then and there that Woz is king. Possibly one of Melbourne best DJ’s in possibly one of Melbourne’s best crews, Loose Joint’s! I booked to him to play at a party once just so I could take notes and study him, didn’t work. This man can play anything and everything, from Amazonian trap to Vietnamese free jazz, jumping between each genre like an Olympic trampolinist. He was born to play records, it's just a bonus that we get to benefit from it. 

The Mix, an unbelievably well curated selection of modern classical hip/trip hop, bugged out funk and the non HMV section of ‘world music’. An instant classic in every which way, if you don’t like it you’re in the wrong place and there’s a chance you might be an idiot (see a doctor) Its pairs particularly well Sunday afternoons or any afternoon really. 

His words >>>
"I thought of this mix starting off on a journey home rolling down the highway on a late afternoon, then bunkering down in the Perrindome HQ for the rest of the night. Took a couple tracks from what my Dad likes to play when he’s throwing together a jazz-funk-fusion stir fry at home. Also drawing upon a few of my favourites before I became the badman bass boffin that I am today"

his sounds >>>> https://soundcloud.com/woz

genießen

Loose Joints crew!!! >>>>> https://soundcloud.com/loosejointsmelbourne

Photo By Ian Strange

FHUO # 11 // Woz

Here it is! Roza Terenzi in the Butter Mix sharing her debut live set recorded at Inner Varnika 2018! One hour of killer bleep infused, trance inducing bangers from the Perth > Melbourne transplant. If you dig this make sure to check her recent records on Good Company, Kalahari Oyster Cult and Planet Euphorique, her own newly christened label with D.Tiffany. Big ups one to one of the rising stars of the Aussie underground!

Butter Mix #66 - Roza Terenzi (Live from Inner Varnika 2018)

For home use only’ is an anti-club social, a chance to get to know someone/something. A series of transmissions purely dedicated to exploring the other side

Ladies and Gentlemen, I give you number 14. not much lore around the number so lets dive straight into the mix to create that future lore, as this mix will change the meaning of the number for years to come. 

Your sherpa for this transmission is local pin-up pool shark Elliot Ofmarco aka Snooker Steve aka the Robin Hood of house music aka the governor of funk town. The kindest soul on both sides of the turntables, the man can mix his way out of paper bag and into the fry pan. A constant in the Melbourne nightclub scene and a subconscious staple in everyone's diet, he’s one of them ‘Dj’s’, true to the term in every way possible, can play anything, any time to anyone and this mix is the perfect example. 

Like having a bottomless stomach at all you can eat buffet, there’s everything you could ever want in an audible feast. Like changing lanes on the M1 in a 2009 Camry, this ride consists of smooth cruise speeds, effortless overtaking and supreme comfort all whilst enjoying the majestically sufficient interior. 

The mix pairs perfectly for a dinner party with close friends and maybe some new ones who you want to impress, time to bring out the fondue set and pre-order your ubers. 

Bon apititty

his noise >>> https://soundcloud.com/elliotofmarco

image: MASSERIA MOROSETA
Puglia, Italy

FHUO # 14 // Elliot Ofmarco

My first foray into the 'non-dance-mix' from many years ago. an oldy but a goody

Louis McCoy's Album

gin & deuce

Melbourne based Darcy Justice reemerges for her second Butter Mix and it's a special one! Almost two hours of her signature chuggin' space trips and RnB injections recorded live at this years Inner Varnika festival. Re-live what's been claimed as one of the best sets from the weekend シ

Butter Mix #83 - Darcy Justice (Live From Inner Varnika 2019)

Playback of our first show as Noods residents - Australian Eastern Standard Time - an hour of all Australian tunes, old and new.

A.E.S.T. with Finding Figaro - 13/12/2019

Playback of our second Noods show - Australian Eastern Standard Time (A.E.S.T), this time with a b2b between Finding Figaro and DJ Yassas - an hour of all Australian tunes, old and new.

Tracklist: 
Footy - Endless Selection of Channels
Nice Girl - Sugar 
Thomas Gray & Liam Ebbs - Heatherbrae
River Yarra - Oiseau Et Moi 
Maroochy Barambah - Andras and Instant Peterson -Mongungi (Dance Mix)  

Logic 1000 - Therapy (Edit)
Tornado Wallace - Start Again 
Francis Inferno Orchestra - Amber Express 

Diving Board - Cop Envy
Rave Material - Escape Artist 
DJ Plead - X5
Andras - Honey Bird


Many of the tracks heard in this mix were released to help those affected by the Australian bushfires, you can purchase them here: 

https://copenvy.bandcamp.com/album/z-sides

https://escapeartistaus.bandcamp.com/album/bushfire-relief-ep

https://sumactrac.bandcamp.com/album/massari-for-relief

https://logic1000.bandcamp.com/album/australian-bushfire-relief

A.E.S.T. with Finding Figaro & DJ Yassas - 10/01/2020

Another batch of tunes released in support of the bushfires, some INXS, new Jazz and pieces in between.

A.E.S.T. with Finding Figaro - 07/02/2020

Playback of A.E.S.T. ft Loure ahead of his sunset set at Echo Beach 2020

A.E.S.T. with Finding Figaro & Loure - 6/03/2020

A soothing session in troubled times.

More info: http://bit.ly/XLR8Rpodcast_TornadoWallace

@tornadowallace

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XLR8R Podcast 636: Tornado Wallace

<<< As the coronavirus crisis rips up all DJ income across the world, we are asking you to send $5 to our podcast DJs from now on. To support Bianca, their Venmo is @bianca-lexis, and PayPal is bfragoso@usc.edu >>>

For the 75th entry in the Honcho Podcast Series, we welcome LA's @biancalexis. Dedicated to the importance of online community radio, diehard digger Bianca Lexis is the kind of DJ that can transcend distances and timezones with ease. From a steady radio slots on Dublab and NTS Radio, to the POC-focused party Directory, everything she does carries a unique collecting sensibility, care for the audience, and a commitment to share her favorite treasured finds. 

For this mix, she states, "I wanted to blend fun dance music cuts from across the world to hopefully unite and uplift everyone’s spirits <3".

Honcho Podcast Series 75: Bianca Lexis

Playback of the latest A.E.S.T show that featured on 03/04/2020, consisting of only Australian tracks released in response to the COVID-19 pandemic.

A.E.S.T. with Finding Figaro - 03/04/2020

A stunning time in the Grampians a few weeks back at one of our all time favourite festivals. 

Recorded live 2-3am Sunday night @ Pitch Black, Stage 3

Tracklist:
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Lockjaw (Akkord Remix) - Special Request
Sand Progression - Qnete
Time Flies - Chiba
The Ventus - Desert Sound Colony
Jara - Lewski
N35 - Two Shell
Source Experience - Synaesthesia 
Body Healthy - Al Wootton
Idealog - Throwing Snow
Lightning Ridge - DJ Life
Brenner - De Dritte Raum
Ciara Drum Dub - Ahadadream
Tunnel Vision - J-ZBEL
Girlz From Da Neighbourhood - DJ これからの緊急災害

IN2STELLAR - Pitch Music & Arts 2020

Skylab Radio 17.04.2020. Recorded in Isolation.

Skylab Radio - Brekstacy

We're very pleased to share with you this long, saucy mix straight from the soul of Louis McCoy, founder of renowned Inner Varnika festival and all-round Naarm music aficionado. 
As Louis writes:

"I've been subconsciously compiling this mix for years now, but it's made a lot more sense during the last 6 months. I think it's important to remember to feel something, whether it is pure joy or overwhelming melancholy, I wanted to cover both aspects in this and everything in between. A lot of the music in this mix really means a lot to me, from my mother's jazz influences to my teenage years on a strict diet of emo trip-hop. I wanted to make a soundtrack from literally putting the kettle on first thing on a cold Sunday morning to hopefully take you through to a semi-productive day in the kitchen with someone you love. To be honest, just enjoy it, any way you can."

Louis curates the fantastic series, For Home Use Only:
https://soundcloud.com/for_home_use_only

Inner Varnika
https://www.facebook.com/InnerVarnika

Music To Drink Tea To - 002 - Louis McCoy

This is a mix I must have made somewhere mid 90ies and were already classics back then (tape is called De Mijnes Classics II). Most of the tracks are still tracks that I like, which is not always the case with old mixes. Influenced by my time in iT Amsterdam mostly these vocal tracks were the tracks that coloured my nights and shaped my musical memories

De Mijnes Classics II

www.findingfigaro.com

Naarm.

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