Name: Detroit Summer by iblame-summers
Duration: 1 min 4 s
Description: field recordings & g-stomper app experiment from Google Pixel 2 XL 128gb cellular device.

While dropping their self-titled debut LP with us in August, Anya and Izaak from Loveshadow (@loveshadowdjs) were kind enough to also record a lovely mix and answer a few questions. Interview (excerpt) down below.

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MFM: Hi Izaak and Anya, nice to have you on board. Both living in Bay Area, how would you describe your daily surroundings? Is it a nice place to be as an artist?

LS: Right now we live in SF. We grew up one town away from each other near the airport, though we didn’t meet until much later. The landscape is inspiring for sure- we spend as much time as we can out in the parks and wild areas and draw a lot from that. The art and music scenes here run deep, though the cost of living and of course covid have made things tougher.
 
MFM: The songs on your debut album as Loveshadow -which will be out in August- sound incredibly fresh where they also remind to certain pop, boogie, funk and even house from the mid and late '80s. What were some of your main influences for this project? 

LS: Thanks! We have to mention the UK act Fashion after whose song we named the group, but our tastes range all over. You could say that Loveshadow is kind of a lap around the 80’s prehistory of today’s dance music, when things were still firmly rooted in pop songwriting but had a simultaneously psychedelic and funky sensibility- one that grew out of dub/disco/punk counterculture. Getting more serious about learning the records at the roots of the whole thing allowed us to see how we might contribute something new to it in a way that was more than a style exercise.

MFM: Of course also the use of specific instruments ad up to that flavor - it seems that for example the Linndrum plays an important role. Did you aim for that sound and gathered the instruments around it, or the other way around maybe?

LS: We had an overall idea in mind that definitely informed the instrumentation but we’re not purists. A lot of the sounds on the record are replications of or deviations from the iconic originals. Those famous drum sounds in particular are like symbols, they impart a particular meaning and we use them to set a mood.

MFM: What's the dynamic between the two of you like in the studio? Is there a certain steady structure or does this change all the time? Maybe you could tell a little about your writing and recording process?

LS: It changes all the time- we’ve lived and worked in so many places separately and together since we started recording. Either one of us might come up with an idea that we’ll design sounds around, demo, arrange, and then throw it all in the trash and start again. Most of the songs on the record have had a few lives.

MFM: It feels that the music from the LP could work really well live on a stage too. Are there any plans for you to go touring? 

LS: We’re going to play a gig in Detroit later this summer that will be sort of a test run! After that, we’ll see. The project started out as an interest in records and recording, but anything’s possible.

MFM: Thanks a lot for contributing! It seems you quite regularly record a mix. Have you both always been busy collecting and sharing records? 

LS: Our pleasure, thanks so much for asking us! We’re always looking for new music. Sharing mixes online has helped us organize our favorites but playing parties is the best. We were gigging around before covid and we’ll hopefully get back to it as things continue to open up. This mix is definitely on the hype side of things- new digs, old favorites, some edits, tunes pals graciously sent our way, and what we’ve been dancing around our apartment to while we were stuck inside.

MFM Mix 030: Loveshadow

Renewal+ Episode 14, after about half a year of radio silence. They say that good things take time. Our patience is a practice not a skill. And now we are blessed for that patience. 

This episode is a rewarding perceptual journey from two artists with profound channeling and deep curiosity. 

We begin with a mix from February 2023, '(scanning procedure) when seeing is no longer believing', by bk. Bk (Benjamin Kendall) is a poet, performance, visual, and sound artist from Atlanta, Georgia currently based in Brooklyn NY concerned with revoicing and the reclaiming of stolen space, time, and histories. 

Part two is an oneiric montage from DJ Chooch, currently Atlanta based and co-runner of Motorita Discs. “exploring more themes of the surreal/non-sequitur/dream-logic - in my dreams i think a lot ab landscapes w/ palm trees, being distant from south america, mostly mundane things like adjusting a wire or a stand or opening cd cases and filing them in my car, other things like bedrooms with gay posters (nondescript but definitely gay), and also my dreams are about 90%images,10%phrases so i wanted to convey that somehow"

bk '(scanning procedure) when seeing is no longer believing'

Mecanica Popular - Siempre Tú
Ras G + Afrikan Space Program - Primordial Water Formations 
B.I.L.L. - Under Water (Spielwiese Zwei)
Jon Rose + Otomo Yoshihide - Shopping Requiem 
Tony Papa - Water Works 
Arpanet - Lorentz Contraction 
Glenn Branca - Fapeedelaybop
Sun Ra Quartet - Moon People 
Agencement - Tegmen 
Acid Mothers Temple + Melting Paraiso U.F.O. - The Kiss That Took A Trip/Magic Aum Rock Again/Love is Overborne/ Fly
Brenda Hutchinson - Wordplay 
Barbara Ess with Barbara Barg - You Who Know No Pain
Cha Cha Guitri - Et La Terre Est Rouge 
7th Plain - Rize And Be Wize 
808 State - Reaper Repo 
Alex Nayes - Because One Is Always Forgetten 
Daily Fauli - Nobody Home 
Mingus - Passions Of A Man

DJ Chooch

Vinyl Blair - The Trancespotter
Xiame - Muito Swer
Black Lesbian Fishermen - Pigs Before Strawberries
Florian T M Zeisig - I [from You Look So Serious, remastered by Glyn Maier]
Water Melon - 2 Dimentional Pagoda (Indopepsychics Remix)
Jucifer - Nickel To Roll
Xiame - Rio De Janeiro
Ndagga Rhythm Force [prod. by Mark Ernestus] - Simb
Ian Pooley - The Times
Moody Waters - LA Without A Map
Lovetronic - You Are Love (Original Vocal)
Lovetronic - You Are Love (Jay’s Afrotonic Vocal)
Humate - 3.1.98 (Bedrock Ambient Mix)
Thomas Dolby - One Of Our Submarines (Akufen Remix)
A La Ping Pong - Zartbitter
Adam Raphael - Sometimes It Really Feels Like This
Float - Nothing Seems Real (Voodooamt Remix)
Hanz - Scramble
A La Ping Pong - Waidmannsheil?
Erik Luebs - Exploding Citrus
Them Are Us Too - False Moon
Alex Falk - U Wont
Laurent Garnier - The Man With The Red Face (Svek Remix)
Bluefish - One (Main Mix)
Orbital & Angelo Badalamenti - Beached (Long Version)
Unit Moebius - Dreamscape 500
Vincent Floyd - Hard To Love
Pauline Henry - Love Hangover
Sumo - Limpid
Xiame - Nosso Destino

Ep. 14 ft. bk + DJ Chooch

permvac 155-3 Woolfy vs. Projections - The Benjamin Fröhlich Versions out now

Woolfy vs. Projections - Not My Lover Benjamin Fröhlich Uptown Mix

America's attempt to separate Native children from their families didn't end with boarding schools. In the decades after World War II, the U.S. government created the Indian Adoption Project, an effort designed to place Native kids with white parents. In this one-hour documentary, producer Melissa Olson explores the personal and historical impact of this policy. Her Ojibwe mother, Judy Olson, was raised by a white family. So were the mothers of several friends. The emotional impact of the Indian Adoption Project — and similar state projects — continues today. Produced by Melissa Olson and Ryan Katz. Edited by Todd Melby. (Photo: Kip Moon, Courtesy of Kip Moon.)

Stolen Childhoods

Rubber Room - Take Me

field recordings & g-stomper app experiment from Google Pixel 2 XL 128gb cellular device.

Detroit Summer

https://soundcloud.com/m-e-s-h - Hart... Aber Fair!

M.E.S.H. - Undine
M.E.S.H. - Antechamber
M.E.S.H. - Dzonot
M.E.S.H. - 10 Alarm
M.E.S.H. - Rüstung
M.E.S.H. - Verletzte
M.E.S.H. - Complicit

Cover by M.E.S.H.

M.E.S.H. - Hart... Aber Fair! (JANUS008)

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