Whole mix was a wonderful, balanced ride.  Thank you for sharing.

Can u tell me the name of the song that starts at 51:56, im trying to  find it for days 

the joy of cooking from december 2011:
in winter i stay next to the stove where it's warm and cozy and i live from cookies only...

The Joy Of Cooking #16 Baking Cookies

Up next are our dear friends The Zenmenn (@user-847972032) with whom we have a new 7" and more coming up soon. For the special occasion they came up with an unexpected mix extraordinaire while being generous in answering our questions. Interview (excerpt) down below.

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MFM: When did the first idea for The Zenmenn project present itself? Did it start with a few existing songs, or is it a conceptual project?

ZM: A couple of years back we got the opportunity to join this cool studio run by a gentleman called Franz. We did some stuff with friends and at the same time we just began jamming and recording what we did, and eventually we had a couple of songs in our hands, that we thought sounded interesting, and it dawned upon us that we should spend our time working on our own stuff. The name The Zenmenn came later, probably most of the album was recorded by then. There are still some old jams on the Zenmenn hard drive filed under Pharaohs Lounge, which is one of the earlier name ideas stolen from an alcohol free coctail bar near the studio.

MFM: Quite some fans refer in their comments on the LP to the '80s and include terms like 'melancholic' and 'nostalgic'. What are your thoughts on comments like these? 

ZM: Oh that’s nice. It’s generally very nice to hear people describe our music. Today a guy told us he thought we sounded like an Ethiopian band played on 45 with John Mayer on top… could be something to it. 
But true - it’s not really a party record and some of the songs like topaz or homage to a friendship certainly have a nostalgic, melancholic tone. Also the 80s vibe is well helped along by the Dx7 that features on every song. The presets we use are mostly the legendary e piano which features in all the 80s power ballads and the amazing fretless bass that still sounds better than any of the other fretless bass presets we’ve come across. Harp and steel drum are also great.

MFM: If all your current equipment would break down and you'd have to work with newer instruments of modern technology instead, how would that affect your music? Do you think you'd still non-mistakenly sound like The Zenmenn?

ZM: Most of our keyboards are from the 90s or even early 2000s, like the Triton Le and the Casio Ctk900 with which we recorded this whole mix. The 90s stuff is way more affordable. In some way we would probably sound the same cause we don’t loop, quantize or produce music in a contemporary fashion, and we’re into certain chord progressions and grooves. If we wanna play one pattern for 5 minutes, that’s what we mostly do, and then you always end up with some embellishments and quirks. But making music comes a lot down to workflow and if we had some fancy new synth in your hands with a thousand effects, sequences and menu diving we would probably do something different. That could be cool too,  but at the moment we prefer the old school approach. 

MFM: Thanks so much for this very special "mix". Tell us about it please?!

ZM: We made a mix of tracks we liked but it didn’t really come across too original so we decided to take another approach. Magnus plays around on keyboards whenever he can, and the way we make music is mostly just jamming something and then giving it structure as we go along. Magnus made 2 jams and we put them together and chopped out things that didn’t seem to fit, but mostly everything is recorded in one go. Our friend Helen Wells came by and played some harmonica, guitar and tweaked some pedals. We overdubbed some Casio, cool voices etc. Ben had a couple of curatorial suggestions in the end and did some great spoken words. Since our first little tour this summer Magnus has been carrying around some small drawing books and has been noodling away. This has been a great influence on this mix where all the decisions have been quick, with a loose hand and not too many layers. We’re happy to have the opportunity to make a mix and we’re very inspired to do more just like this.

MFM Mix 037: The Zenmenn

Üllar Siir - Season For Surprise

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Curious Music crosses boarders with this Coastal Guide through unpredictable landscapes. 

I had the pleasure of meeting the Pembrokeshire native at this year's @westivalrecords and am fortunate to present his guide through uneven paths of Synth, AOR, Folk & More!

Coastal Cruising - Curious Music (#10)

https://www.nts.live/shows/doing-time/episodes/doing-time-18th-september-2022

NTS – Doing Time (Again) w/ Asger Behncke

Efficient Space's Swiss connection Ivan Liechti expands on his Ghost Riders compilation with an hour of North American coming of age garage ballads, salad day hymns and small town criers.

Image Credit: Elise Gagnebin-de Bons

https://www.nts.live/shows/efficient-space/episodes/efficient-space-20th-october-2022

Efficient Space w/ Ivan Liechti 201022

Saying It With Music: a gathering of electronic soul ballads and antidotes. After finishing Dan Charna’s fascinating Dilla Time and overcoming an obsession with Montreal producer Nicolas Craven’s astonishing sample based work for Mach-Hommy (along with an enduring love of Pink Siifu, MIKE, Billy Woods & Slauson Malone), I visited my soul 45 box and selected some favourites that I think contain harbingers of their work.

Image: David Hammons, The Wine Leading the Wine, c.1969, body print.

Séance Centre Radio Episode 56 - Saying It With Music: Electronic Soul Ballads & Antidotes (Vol 1)

https://www.nts.live/shows/panorama-heaven/episodes/panorama-heaven-w-bianca-lexis-20th-may-2020

Panorama Heaven w/ Bianca Lexis 200520

01 — Nilton Castro — Ondas (Les Vagues)
02 — Arrangement — Coconut Mango
03 — Harry Case — Air Dancer
04 — Roedelius — Wenn der Südwind Weht
05 — Hiroshi Yoshimura — Kotoritachi No Kafe (Café)
06 — David Sylvian — Answered Prayers
07 — This Mortal Coil — Barramundi
08 — Manual — Open Skies
09 — Interior — Park
10 — The Durutti Column — Lullaby 4 Nina
11 — Yoshio Ojima — Biodome
12 — Yoshio Ojima — Sealed
13 — Tom Kazas — Vision of Serenity

Leonid Treskunov - SANPO 165 (Lockdown Series)

Celebrating Chill Pill II w/ a Radio 80000 takeover. Starting at noon going all the way until 9pm. Only the best music with contributions from Nice Girl, Bell Towers, Laura Groves, Andras, DJ Chrysalis, Eden Burns, DJ City & Secret Circuit.

PP Chill Pill II 80000 Takeover (ANDRAS)

For our second installment of the Musik Mix series we are joined by 5ive from japan and Samo from Sweden in a remote joint effort.
Tupplur simply means - to take a nap in swedish. 
Taking an afternoon nap is happiness!

artwork by Tobias Centerwall

Sattaoja Musik Mix - Episode 2-  5ive & Samo - TUPPLURS MIX

NO DEMOS PLEASE! 
growing bin records is a micro-label and online record store. With lots of love and affection we bring you music that is special to our ears. Well actually we're a one man business, but "we" sounds a bit more professional, or maybe even royal. Forget about that. We're small and not a bit royal and we'll stay small and loyal. Cheers!  If I should not react to your demo I probably didn't feel it, and I'm too shy to tell you.  Sorry but life is short and I don't release stuff that i feel 100%. Keep on keeping on! 
I am actually not releasing much at all at the moment as I am focussing on selling the thousands of used records in my studio (that has to move later in the year) so do me a favour and come over to the bin aka www.growingbinrecords.com and help me get rid of the gold ...(no not my own collection!)

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