When you are Free

Tracklist:
Jon Lucien – Kuneda
Modha – Harzer Straße
George Duke – Sister Serene
Khruangbin – Summer Madness 
Mato – Summer Madness
Mildlife – Citations 
Will and James Ragar – Melting Pot 
America – Tin Man (Track Mix with Backing Vocals) 
Quinn Lamont Luke – Verano 
Shuggie Otis – Special 
Mixed Company – You've Got That Something 
Jayme Marques – Hooked on Green
Ricardo Bomba – Flutando
The Blackbyrds – Lady
Prince – I Feel For You (Acoustic Demo)
Sam – American Cars (Acoustic Mix)
Marker Starling – The Smiling Hour (Abre Alas)
Benny Sings – Sunny Afternoon

Photo: Jon Lucien

Summer Gladness

9-24-21 Mix for "High Noon" on NTS Radio with Dinanoir.

High Noon mix on NTS Radio

“Sing that summer song - soon it will be gone.”

Tracklist
Everybody Dubs the Sunshine
General Lee & The Space Army Band – We Did it Baby (Edit)
Frank Reynolds & The Re-Generations – Searchin'
Glue Trip – Lazy Dayz feat. Arthur Verocai
Jack J – I Saw Fire
The Golden Section – Shadows (Edit)
Phillips – You and Me, Me and You
World Quake Band – Closer
Esperanto – Kenny’s Place
Frank Hatchett – The Lover in You
Matthew Larkin Cassell – In My Life
Saucy Lady – São Paulo
Ed Kelly & Friend – Pippin
Grover Washington, Jr. – Summer Song 
Reggie Lucas – Tender Years

Summer Song

Tracklist
Yasuaki Shimizu - Umi No Ue Kara
Little Tempo - Tzena Tzena
Tamami Koyake - You Wanna Rain
Sugar Plant - Thunder
Mikio Masuda - Let's Get Together ft. Emeson
Kazumi Watanabe, Ryuichi Sakamoto & Akiko Yano - I'll Be There
Yuji Ohno - Take it to the Sky (Edit)
Chikara Ueda & The Power Station - Cloudy
Terumasa Hino - Send Me Your Feelings
Kiyoshi Sugimoto - Night Train
45trio - All Because of You
Colored Music - Colored Music

Image: Tamami Koyake

Let's Get Together - Back to Japan

Spacewalker's back in the driver's seat with the first Balance of 2025!

Featuring music from Sholto, Butcher Brown, Igor Jadranin, Pau Roca, Eternal Love, and a whole lot more. Also taking a moment to pay tribute to a few legends we lost — Roy Ayers, Yam Who?, and Angie Stone. 

Buckle up!

Show 579 > https://soundcloud.com/musicismysanctuary/balance-579-hosted-by-spacewalker

BALANCE #580 (Hosted by Spacewalker)

Hello friends,

This Thursday, August 14th, I’m back at my summer residency at La Milagrosa in South Williamsburg - a tiny speakeasy with just enough space for the music to wrap around us. I’ll be joined by some of my friends behind the decks, and we’ll play from 10PM until the night decides to end.
Milagrosa is one of those rooms where you feel every record. A handful of people, close enough to exchange smiles, close enough to hear the air between the notes.

I’ve been DJ-ing for over 25 years, collecting music from all corners of the world - each track carrying its own story, its own heartbeat. On Thursdays, I get to stitch these moments together: fresh discoveries, long-lost gems, and sounds that still give me goosebumps after decades. No hype, no big expectations, just a night for those who love music, connection, and the beauty of getting lost in a groove.

And here’s a little taste - I recorded my Sunday set at @Brooklynpopup at @Brooklynmuseum. Think of it as a warm-up for what’s coming this Thursday. 

PS: Friday I am back for early 2-hr set at Public Records Upstairs. 8-10PM. DM for the guest list (it’s limited)

Saturday at Soho House New York 10PM-2AM. DM for the guest list.

Sunday I will do my 6.5-hr Sunday service at @brooklyn.pop.up @brooklynmuseum 11AM-5:30PM 

Straight after this marathon I am heading for my debut 2-hr vinyl set at   @thehoneycomb_bk in #parkslope

Love, Rustam

Rustam Ospanoff - Steps Ahead

The Vibrations of The World _ Selected by Makossa Brooklyn Lounge

sound(ge)cloud 013 X-mas Special by Tales From The Woods (Berlin) – swinging

Für Weihnachten sollte es einfach mal was ganz anderes werden. Deswegen hab ich „Tales From The Woods“ gebeten mir was Besinnliches für den 24.12. zu vermischen. Dabei herausgekommen ist ein Swing-Set der besonderen Art.  Danke Eric für deine kreative Umsetzung … erstklassig.

Und sonst … naja ich wünsch allen meinen geneigten Hörern, Follower, Freunden und anderen Menschen eine ruhige oder feierreiche Zeit. Aber keine Angst eine Folge gibt’s noch in diesem 2015 … lasst euch überraschen.

Tales From The Woods (Berlin)
Soundcloud Tales From The Woods --- https://soundcloud.com/waldschrat


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sound(ge)cloud 013 X-mas Special by Tales From The Woods – swinging

Download: https://www.xlr8r.com/news/2015/12/matthew-dekay-drops-new-fur-die-liebe-mix-download-here/

"I’ve always been sensitive to my surroundings and the world is in a very vulnerable place at the moment. I felt I needed to express my true emotions through something a little bit different to a conventional DJ mix and also that just writing one song was not going to be enough.

It was almost like composing a score, the only difference being that the pictures were only in my head. My ambition was for the music to evoke a visual response in the listener rather than just an emotional one. To do that I took some audio snippets of real life current affairs scenarios that really struck a chord in me and then used my DJ instinct to think of a track/musical piece that would fit well to that particular scene. Sometimes when I couldn’t find exactly what I wanted I added my own music over existing music or did my own sound design to create my own sound effects and also wrote some original pieces in the moment. It was very important to me to create ultimate flow and I felt this could only have been achieved without having any beats supporting the music. I also didn't want to make it eclectic nor constant as I felt that would disrupt the listener’s focus emotionally. There is a strong dynamic range throughout similar to classical music and also some parts that are almost meditative and then in contrast some more intense moments.

I hope you enjoy this as much as I enjoyed making it." - @MatthewDekay

Download: Matthew Dekay - Fur Die Liebe II

Here the full 3h Jazzanova DJ set by Alex Barck and Stefan Leisering, live recorded at Wedding Soul in Panke Berlin in Jan 2017. Many thanks to Alex, Stefan and Best Works! Enjoy listening!


JAZZANOVA

For almost twenty years the eclectic collective from Berlin has been busy producing, composing, arranging, remixing, djing and generally shaping our musical world – in the clubs, on the air, in the studio, live on stage, and with their label Sonar Kollektiv.

Their “very fertile musical world” (Time Out New York) “has dominated the jazz-dance and down-tempo scenes for the past few years, both with its own label and with countless remixes” (Phoenix New Times).

Spreading their sounds and ideas with inspired DJ sets, Jazzanova’s DJs were among the first DJs from Berlin in demand all around the world. Juergen von Knoblauch, Alex Barck and Claas Brieler broaden the music’s appeal as DJs, not only on tour through the best clubs and festivals around the world but also on their weekly Kaleidoskop radio show on Radio1.

www.sonarkollektiv.com/tag/jazzanova/


5YRS WEDDING SOUL

Five years of WEDDING SOUL, we look back on so far 60 shows of this small big event series. The jubilee is now celebrated according to the mood, with a two-day program, with exquisite guests, representing what WEDDING SOUL is: a well thought-out mixture of soul and funk-inspired music culture, the roots of these in the back, the present and the future in view. Always danceable and audible, surprising, new, and yet as if there had never been anything other than a connection between heart, dance, and soul.

www.weddingsoul.de

JAZZANOVA's Alex Barck & Stefan Leisering at WEDDING SOUL Jan 2017

A selection of some of my favourite Muse moments....

Jimmy Heath - Heritage Hum (The Gap Sealer) [ Muse Records]
Roy Brooks - Will Pan’s Walk [Muse Records]
Cecil Payne & Duke Jordan - No Problem [Muse Records]
Harold Ousley - Little Virgo [Muse Records]
The Visitors - The Visit  [Muse Records]
Buster Williams - Pinnacle [Muse Records]
Woody Shaw - Love Dance [Muse Records]
Mark Murphy - Effendi [Muse Records]
Joe Chambers - Jihad [Muse Records]
Dave Pike - Swan Lake [Muse Records]
Neal Creque - Watcha Wanna Do Do It [Muse Records]
Carlos Garnett - Mother Of The Future [Muse Records] 
Michael Carvin - Demon Upstairs [Muse Records]
Cindy Blackman - Arcane [Muse Records]
Louis Hayes - St. Peter’s Walk [Muse Records]
Charlie Earland - Murilley [Muse Records]
Chick Corea - Bliss [Muse Records]
Ricky Ford - Olean Visit [Muse Records]

Muse Records Mix

Gilles Peterson & Alex Barck (Jazzanova) 11th April 2001 (One Live In London)

Possibly recorded off an old cassette!

Tracklist

++ Gilles Peterson ++ 
Bugge Wesseltoft - 'Changes' (Universal(White)
 Block 16 feat. Jhelisa Anderson - 'Find an Oasis' (NuPhonic)
 DJ Gregory - 'Block Party' (White) 
Osunlade - 'Ocho' (Soul Jazz White)

++ Alex Jazzanova ++ 
Blaze - 'Get Up' (Motown)
 King Britt Presents Sylk 130 feat. Capitol A - 'All the Way' (Live)(Six Degrees) Voom Voom - 'Ginger & Fred' (Compost) 
Jazzanova - 'That Night' (Acetate) 
Frank Zaffa - 'By Garsaaidi'  (Orange Egg)
 Underwolves - 'In The Picture'(BBE)
 Eternal Sun - '6/8 Drumz' (Pathless Remix)(Talkin' Loud)
 Vikter Duplaix - 'Messages' (acapella)(MAW) 
Victor Davis - 'Sound Of The Samba' (Afro Gigolo/JCR) 
Zito Righi - 'Berimbeau' (Hot) 
Plaid - 'Scoobs In Columbia' (white) 
Nebraska - 'My Father'  (Player)
 Izm - 'Outa Space' (Meitz Remix) (White) 
Unknown - 'Spritual' (Late nightclub dub)(Papa)
 E.W. Wainwright - 'The Healer' (Beatless remix)(Ubiquity) 
Unknown - 'Untitled' (White) 
Jazzanova - 'To Come'   (Acetate) 
Bahamadia - 'I Confess' (EMI) Phoojun - 'Rainbow' (BBE)

++ Gilles Peterson ++ 
Petalo 86 - 'Este Lado' (Novaphonic) 
Cara - 'O Sapo' (RCA Victor)
 Big Bossa - 'Carnival Espirito' (Viktor)

Check out the pics >> www.bbc.co.uk/radio1/london/peterson.shtml

Gilles Peterson & Alex Barck (Jazzanova) 11th April 2001 (One Live In London)

To celebrate the 60th anniversary of Motown, the iconic record label launched in 1959 in Detroit, Michigan by Berry Gordy Jr., Carhartt WIP will release a thirteen-piece capsule collection in the coming weeks. The collaboration honors a label that reshaped the sound of American pop music, diversifying its airwaves in the process. 

To mark the collection launch, we reached out to Detroit native Kenny Dixon Jr. aka Moodymann and asked him to prepare a strictly Motown music Carhartt WIP Radio show, that displays his personal love for the label.
 
As Moodymann is not man for hasty reactions, he delivered a detailed mix featuring rare b-sides, interviews and live recordings by Motown artists like Marvin Gaye, Diana Ross & The Supremes, Steve Wonder, Kem and Dazz Band. Asked about his very own feelings towards his mix, Kenny Dixon Jr. simply says: “No matter where I‘m standing it’s good to hear home sometimes. These songs are woven into the soundtrack of my own personal movie.”  There is nothing more to add, only: enjoy the ride!

Tracklist:
1. Marvin Gaye - Poor Abbey Walsh (part 2 / take 2)
2. Odyssey - Our Lives Are Shaped By What We Love
3. Marvin Gaye - Outside Police Station (Trouble Man Original Film Score)
4. The Miracles - Do It Baby
5. The Undisputed Truth - Brother Louie
6. Andre Williams - My Imagination
7. Four Tops - Bernadette
8. Diana Ross & The Supremes - Forever Came Today
9. Marvin Gaye - “T” Plays It Cool
10. Commodores - Cebu
11. Marvin Gaye - Come Live With Me Angel
12. Marvin Gaye - There Goes Mr “T”
13. Smokey Robinson - Baby That’s Backatcha
14. Marvin Gaye - Soon I’ll Be Loving You Again (Alternate Mix)
15. Marvin Gaye - Sad Tomorrows
16. The Temptations - 1990
17. Syreeta - Keep Him Like He Is
18. The Supremes interview 
19. Syreeta - Keep Him Like He Is 
20. Marvin Gaye - Theme From Trouble Man
21. The Undisputed Truth - Big John Is My Name
22. Stevie Wonder - Everytime I See You I Go Wild
23. The Temptations - Message From A Black Man
24. Marvin Gaye - Checking Out (Double Clutch)
25. The Undisputed Truth - The Law Of The Land
26. Marvin Gaye - Stick Up (Trouble Man Original Film Score)
27. Jr Walker & The All Stars - Shotgun
28. The Supremes interview pt2
29. Teena Marie - Deja Vu (I’ve Been Here Before)
30. Rick James - Hollywood
31. Kem - If It’s Love feat. Chrisette Michele
32. Marvin Gaye - Police Break In (Trouble Man Original Film Score)
33. Erykah Badu - The Healer
34. Rick James - Sexy Lady
35. DeBarge - You Wear It Well
36. Dazz Band - Joystick
37. Dazz Band - Keep It Live (On The K.I.L.)
38. Dazz Band - Let It Whip
39. Rick James - Throwdown
40. Marvin Gaye - “T” Stands For Trouble (alternate version)
41. Erykah Badu - Hey Sugah (interlude)

https://www.carhartt-wip.com/journal/music/radio/2019/11/moodymann-plays-motown

Carhartt WIP Radio November 2019: Moodymann plays Motown Radio Show

Gilles Peterson remembers great artists who have passed in the last year with his annual RIP Mix for Worldwide Awards 2020.

Gilles Peterson: Worldwide Awards 2020 RIP Mix

burning drums (black history mix #1)

count ossie & the mystical revelation of rastafari - poem / 400 years
'prince' roland downer & count ossie with his band - a ju ju wah
keith hudson - hunting
ras michael & the sons of negus - rise jah jah children
jimmy cliff - bongo man (a come)
al vibrator wiht count ossie and his band - move up (nyah bongo)
count ossie & the mystical revelation of rastafari - samia
karl bryan - black up (feat. count ossie)
bongo hermann - tribute to the president
i roy - musical drum sound
dadawah - burning drums
u roy & peter tosh - earth's rightful ruler
ras michael & the sons of negus - we're marching on to victory
dadawah - run come rally
count ossie & the mystical revelation of rastafari - 400 years

a selection of nyabinghi reggae tunes.
one love !


black history mix #1 (burning drums)

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Muse Records Mix

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