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Live from Lost Village www.lostvillagefestival.com

Lost Village 28th August 2021

Kyoto-born, Berlin-based DJ, producer and artist, Alex Kassian has become a firm favourite of ours over here at Phonica over the past couple of years. His sophisticated, lush and organic sounding productions have been picked up by labels such as Paramida’s Love On The Rocks and Alex Bradley’s Utopia Records in recent years. His most recent release, Leave Your Life, was released in 2021 via Pinchy & Friends, and we can safely say it was one of our most-played, and bestselling, records of the year.

Together with Hiroaki OBA, Alex is also one-half of Opal Sunn, who have been operating their own imprint Planet Sundae since 2017, through which they self-released a number of EPs, catching the attention of and support from dance music luminaries such as Andrew Weatherall and DJ Sprinkles.

Check out the full feature & interview over at offtherecord.net

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Phonica Mix Series 93: Alex Kassian

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recorded @RexClub Paris - Club Secreto (April 9th 2022)


TRACKLIST :
PASSION IN FASHION - You Make Me Wanna Make Love (Perpetual Mix) - 1992 (Bottom Line Records)
ONA KING - Premonition Of Lost Love (Extended Adult Mix) - 1995 (La Casa Records)
WILLIE COLON - Set Fire To Me (Inferno Dub) - 1986 (A&M Records)
VERA - Don’t You Want My Love (Disconet Remix) - 1982 (Rams Horn Records)
POP ROCKS - Fog - 1997 (Acid)
BARBARA MASON - Don't I Ever Cross Your Mind Sometime - 1984 (West End Records)
WAS (NOT WAS) - Tell Me That I'm Dreaming (Traditional Remix) - 1981 (ZE Records)
MR. FINGERS - Waterfalls - 1989 (Jack Trax)
LOOSE JOINTS - Is It All Over My Face (Female Vocal) - 1980 (West End Records)
ARNOLD JARVIS - Take Some Time Out (Dub) - 1987 (Fourth Floor Records)
LITTLE ANNIE - Prisoner Of Paradise - 1992 (On-U-Sound)
SECRET WEAPON - Must Be The Music - 1981 (Prelude)
MELODY STEWART - You Don’t Know What You’re Missing Tonight - 1980 (DJ)
DAPHNE - When You Love Someone (Groove Instrumental) - 1993 (Maxi Records)
MATSUBARA - S.O.S. - 1984 (D&D Records)
FEELIN’ VIBES - Feelin’ Vibes - 1992 (Bottom Line Records)
D.O.S. - Moira Jane's Café (Maurice's House Mix) - 1992 (Cardiac Records)
THE FUNKY WORM - Hustle! To The Music (T-Coy Mix) - 1988 (Atlantic)
ATLANTIC FUSION - Don't Fail Me Now (Sunrise Mix) - 1995 (Fluidity)
SPATIAL UNDERSTANDING! - Heartbeat - 1992 (Other Side Records)
THE BEAT JUNKIES - All Mine - 1995 (Ugly Music)
MYAKKA - City Jungle City - 1993 (Bottom Line Records)
ELEMENTS OF LIFE - Still Holdin' On - 1994 (Oxygen Music Works)

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You don't get the nickname "King of the Cut" for nothing...

Over the years, Danish DJ and producer Flemming Dalum has built a reputation for being a dab hand at the edit. Italo is his life-long passion: he's been dedicated to the darker, underground shades of the sound since the 1980s.

His impact on the genre is remarkable: he's made nine edit packages for Centre Neptune; created mixes for Mothball Records, Bordello A Parigi and Roller Disco Records; and reworked tracks by Klein & M.B.O, Koto, Steel Mind, Mono Band and so many others.

He's also a longtime affiliate of Red Laser Records, the Italo-indebted Manctalo imprint run by Il Bosco, which he's contributed a ton of edits and remixes to. The Manchester label reached the ripe old age of 10 this year and to commemorate the imprint reaching a milestone anniversary, Flemming has whipped up a special mix of his favourite label cuts to take the listener on a journey. In his own words, "the sound of Red Laser will show you the way."

Flemming Dalum: The 'Ransom Note' Mix

It's amazing that I found this recording. One of the best weekends of my life, playing in some dingy basement in NYC in the summer of 1998, where I was living to record the Chaser LP "Game On" and ended up carrying around my AKAI MPC3000 in it's flight case and bringing it out at any opportune moment for a party. Here's the set, a samplebox mash-up performed with only 32mb of internal memory for the whole set. How did I do it back then? I was young and hungry... ;)
ps Excuse the sound quality, it's from a mini-disc I found!! Remember them?



LIVE! New York City basement party 1998 (MPC3000 show)

This mix was created for Overfitting Disco's 4th Annual Birthday Party. The lineup also included disco greats Mark Boon, Chris Kontos, Carlo Simula, Jussi Kantonen, SpAceLex, Loud-E, okay_awright, Casionova, The Robot Scientists, Rob ‘n’ Zoopsie, How_Beezar, and Mystic Rock.

Being the only submitter from the US this year, I thought it would be fitting to attempt using a majority of US disco obscurities.

Spaziale - Disco Reincarnation (2012)

Southern Exposure

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records complied from my recent trip to Sao Paulo, <3 Brazil

Records from Brazil, LPs, B sides, & 7”s, Pt. 1

Really happy to share a quick low resolution preview of this new edit I've been working on over the last few months. 

It's a real pleasure & honor to have been asked to propose my own edit of this killer private disco song from the original stems. Originally released on the Various Artists Hometown Album II, this has always been a huge favorite of mine over the last years. 

This will be out soon (more news asap!) on Rain & Shine Records.
https://rainandshinerecords.com/

MIXED COMPANY - Let's Go Disco [Waxist Dubby Stem Edit] | Out Soon on Rain & Shine Records

I was lucky enough to be asked by @cree-records to dig into their  "Trinidad" catalog & propose an edit of my choice. I decide to go for that banger which is ZODIAC (feat D. Plummer) "I Believe". 

It will be featured on a 12" on CREE RECORDS to be released on November 29th, along with other remixes / edits from Nomad @nomad-one, Jus Now & Al Kent @milliondollardisco ! 

Beautiful artwork by Nomad too!

Stay tuned!

ZODIAC feat. Denyse Plummer - I Believe (Waxist Edit)* Low Res * | Out Nov 29th on CREE RECORDS

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Lovers @ The Lot Radio 09 - 10 - 2019

Lovers @ The Lot Radio 10 - 17 - 2019

We're all in for a very special treat with this week's mix from NYC based @friendsandlovers! We've known Harry for years now and have always been into his music taste and productions under various guises during the good ol' bloggin' days. He's really outdone himself though for his SB mix with an expertly crafted trip through his Japanese Boogie collection... This is definitely one for the nerds amongst you to get creative with the IDs!

Be sure to check the Lovers release via buddies @lphnyc and his own imprint via all good record stores. There's also some forthcoming music with Axe on Wax to look forward to!

SlothBoogie is now on Spotify - Make sure you follow the podcast series!
https://open.spotify.com/show/6Ys7XAwUNrtv7ETuRZpoif?si=nQBbJtM4SW-uyYnsIr_JfQ

Next London party - 9th Nov with Black Loops
https://www.residentadvisor.net/events/1274703

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SlothBoogie Guestmix #210 - Lovers

Bookings/Remixes: harry@grandstblues.com

Lovers (Harry Benson) grew up in a small, very boring town outside of London - like any frustrated teen he wound up playing in punk bands, but after visiting legendary clubs like Turnmills and Fabric in the early 2000s, electronic music soon took hold, and he moved over to throwing parties and DJing from the age of 17.
 
Whilst studying in the historic house city of Leeds, he bought his first pair of Turntables for a measly £300 and quickly began a lifelong love of crate digging and vinyl collecting, influenced heavily by his Mum’s teen taste of Motown, Jazz-Funk and Disco. A self education in the ways of Levan, Knuckles and Kervorkian would become the guiding inspirations behind Lovers.
 
Cut to 5 years later and a move to New York, with various production aliases and the experience of DJing around the world under his belt, Lovers connected with old friends Let’s Play House who picked up his debut EP Grand St Blues. Now with his second EP just dropping, he’s focussing on his own label, doing things his own way and releasing music when it feels right.

5/3/19 - Phonobar, SF
5/16/19 - Halcyon Instore, NY
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6/17/19 - Milagrosa, NY

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