OOFT! - MAREH NYE Festival in Fortim, CE (Jan 2nd _ 2023)

"SEMPRE IN PISTA" GUEST MIX by  LUCA SORRENTINI.
Last mix of the year by the one and only "enfant prodige" our beloved Luca Sorrentini.
Italian Special Mix, odds and rarities as usual.
Dig time!
Happy New Year ya ' all and Stay "Sempre in Pista" whatever 
you love.

"SEMPRE IN PISTA" GUEST MIX by  LUCA SORRENTINI

Great music is often about chance meetings and impromptu creative sessions and so it is that Hell Yeah proudly serves up Sensory Blending, a new collaborative album from Italian collective Aura Safari and Finnish musician Jimi Tenor. The nine-track record arrives on 26th April 2024 and is a lush and luxurious fusion of jazz-funk styles.

This glorious record came about after Tenor was playing a Hell Yeah party at Tangram in Perugia. Aura Safari were local and, in some free time the day before the gig, everyone jumped in the studio together. They had never met before but soon found plenty of free-flowing common ground and the result of that one-off session is now served up on this vibrant new album that brims with musicality, indelible melodies and subtly uplifting vibrations.

Tenor has toured the world and previously collaborated with the likes of Japanese master Calm. He is a psychedelic space-jazz-funk king, skilled musician, composer and producer who, since the mid-nineties, has released more than 25 albums and 45 EPs. Aura Safari is made up of bass, synth, guitar and keys players Lorenzo Francioli, Ruggero Bonucci, Nicola Pitassio Andrea Moretti, Lorenzo Lavoratori, Daniele Melloni and Nicholas Iammatteo, and they are label regulars who served up their sublime Island Dreams album here last year.

Says Jimi, who enjoyed his time in Perugia and adds that "the studio session was 100% efficient. I showed up and we started to play. Almost all that was made was material that we could use for the album. I love to work fast. Quick brushstrokes. Finish! I was amazed at how intuitively the Aura Safari guys could come up with new parts for songs. I mentioned some feeling or approach and they seemed to find it just like that.”

'Bodily Synesthesia' is the seductive opener with steamy sax notes and gentle grooves that are topped by aloof vocal whispers. 'Lunar Wind' is another slow and steamy mix of jazzy keys and soulful vocal hooks, 'Bewitched By The Sea' is a more tropical and percussive number with majestic melodies and 'My Bluebell' picks up the pace with jazz-funk grooves and hustling chords. 'Last Waltz In Perugia' has freeform sax lines soaring over meticulous drums that ebb and flow and 'Gimlet' brings a playful, samba-tinged rhythm and sunny flute leads straight from South America. There's a laidback, carefree mood to 'It's Too Easy To Love You' while 'Your Magic Touch' is a dancey number that exudes melodic joy, and 'Indigo' closes in dramatic fashion with a conversational sax that sticks long in the memory.  

Sensory Blending is a seamless fusion of collaborative minds from Aura Safari and Jimi Tenor and it could well be performed live at some special select shows later in the year.

Sensory Blending

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Aura Safari & Jimi Tenor - Lunar Wind

Full umixed comp is here: https://highhopesrecordings.bandcamp.com/album/various-edits-remixes-2011-2020-pt-2-hhd02
Pt 1 is here https://highhopesrecordings.bandcamp.com/album/various-edits-remixes-2011-2020-pt-1-hhd01

Ok so here we go: Part 2! Hope you dig them, it took half a day to upload (and a lot longer to write). 

 Making tracks has always been an experimental and fun escape for me, a way to engage with music on a level that was separate from DJing, which after 20 years often felt like work - the occasional fun gigs or radio shows aside. A way to keep inspired, interested and dream of one day sharing this with a crowd who'd be into my own weird personal take on things. One day! 

So these aren't your standard edits and tracks but I promise that's also something I'll never make. 
Part 1 is here https://soundcloud.com/hober-mallow/hober-mallow-various-edits_remixes-2011-2020-mix-pt1-full-unmixed-comp-in-description
Part 3 coming sometime (probably)

Unmixed track DL

Hober Mallow - Various Edits _ Remixes 2011-2020 part 2 mix (Full unmixed comp in description)

Here's the short version of my weekly podcast, where I play you a sampler of what's on my menu this week. To get the full fat pod you need to go here (it's over two hours of new music this week): 
patreon.com/billbrewster

The Bill Brewster Podcast #757 (Short Version)

Name : SOUL IMAGO VARIOUS ARTISTS 001 
Cat# : Soul Imago 1201-04
Release Date : 25 May 2015
Format : Vinyl

Tracklist: 

A.1 Soulphiction - Swing Low 
A.2 Lay-Far - Looking for Changes (Pablo Valentino Remix) B.1 Noa Siano - Rhodesy 
B.2 Duktus & Blunted Monkz - Tokyo Hotel 

A & R : Blunted Monkz // P&C 2015 // All rights reserved. // Manufactured by Soul Imago (A subdivision of Faces Records) Mastering by Steffen Baldo a.k.a Ugly Drumz // Cover design by Stefan Lange. 

 Soul Imago is coming up with a killer deep House 4 Tracker featuring Soulphiction,LayFar,Pablo Valentino, Noa Siano,Duktus and Blunted Monkz. Don’t sleep on this one ! 

A.1 Soulphiction - Swing Low(SI1201)

BANANA PEEL

A soulful smooth jazz journey where warm saxophone improvisation flows effortlessly over groovy rhythms and mellow keys. Perfect for late-night vibes and relaxed moods.

Moire

Edit I did a couple of years ago of this 1986 proto-house classic.

I adore both the vocal and dub version and simply combined both into this 10mins version.

Hope you like it.

Willie Colón - Set fire to me (TJ Kong monster edit)

Rinse FM Podcasts

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Demuja b2b Pontchartrain (Live Outta Detroit) with Ruff Stuff - 19 August 2019

O podcast da semana é do novaiorquino J.A.Z (John Arthur Zahl) que além de DJ, colecionador e conhecido pelos seus edits (Beard Science, Claremont, Spacetalk, Pinchy & Friends, Passport to Paradise...) ainda atua como padre na igreja episcopal de NY.

@j-a-z-1

J.A.Z. - Alter Disco Podcast 70

DJ // Producer // Radio guy 2SER 107.3
Apparel Music/Resense Records/High Hopes/Rollover Milano / Midnight Riot


*"Mighty Reel" 2ser 107.3 FM Sydney Fridays 2-4 pm aedt (and on 2ser.com streaming and on demand)
Compiling: That's Not An Edit https://soundcloud.com/thats-not-an-edit
Bookings/Contact/Remix requests/Horoscopes: 
Mightyreel (at) 2SER dot come (or PM me HERE!)


+so much more.