Right jam, haven't heard this in ages! Great mix

@mrdrake great music. Whats this one plz?

Guava Jelly! What's this version @mrdrake please? Lovely mix brother

Please meet London based DJ and producer, former Cafe Del Mar resident, and our long time close friend Phil Mison (@cantomamusic). Interview (excerpt) down below.

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MFM: Hi Phil, many know you as one of the DJ's who has played all the best sunset spots across the globe. How did your summer look this year, still been scoring sunsets here and there?

PM: My summer was great. I travelled to Amsterdam, Cork, Copenhagen and Barcelona and had some nice gigs in the UK. My friend Deke has opened a bar on the seafront in Margate, you get pretty epic sunsets down there. I played a few records one evening and managed to fit in a few old cafe classics as the sun disappeared into the sea. 

MFM: Please tell us a bit about how it all started for you?

PM: I grew up in the 70’s, so there were quite a few different influences. David Bowie ‘Life On Mars’ was an early memory, and I was obsessed with Blondie. Parallel lines was the first album I bought. Later it was Northern Soul, Electro, nothing really that mellow! In 87 I met a couple of people who were really into House. I started going to groove records in soho to buy records like Adonis - No Way Back, Ten City - Devotion. Then as 88 rolled around I got into the more Balearic side of things. Later in 89 I’d pop into Reckless Records for second hand stuff and started to browse the New Age section where I got things like Kitaro  ‘Tunhuang’ and Paul Greaver ‘Joy’. Those records were the starting point really. 

MFM: DJing in clubs to make people dance never really attracted you?

PM: I’d say pretty much most of my DJing has been in clubs. I started at the Milk Bar in Soho in 1992 after giving Darren Emerson a tape. Even though I was doing the warm up and playing mellow stuff at the beginning, you had to build it up to a full dance floor by the end. In 1996 and 2000 I was the tour DJ for Lefttfield, playing in front of 1000 odd people. ‘Just get it going before we come on!’ Alongside Ross Allen and Rob Da Bank, I was resident at Bar Rhumba for our Next Level night in 1997. It lasted a year and we opened with Harvey and closed with Andrew Weatherall. I Have to mention Moonboots and Jason Boardman’s night Aficionado too. I always enjoyed playing to a dancefloor there, they’ve kept the Balearic flag flying since 1998. 

MFM: At what point did you got into making music on your own? 

PM: I’d worked on a project for Kenneth Bager in 1994. Then later on he started his Music For Dreams Label, and asked me if I would be interested in making an album.  So the first Cantoma album was started in Copenhagen in 1999, and finished in London in 2003. 

MFM: How do you come up with a new song, is there a certain Phil Mison way to it? Do you write the parts for the musicians?

PM: It usually starts with an idea that pops into my head. Sometimes a memory or travelling will get a melody going, and I’ll sometimes hum it into my phone and use that as a starting point. Ive worked with Engineer/Producer Robin Twelftree on all the Cantoma albums. I’ll go into Robin’s studio and usually start with some basic keyboards, then I’ll play a bassline in. I’ll take the demos away and think about what would work on the tracks. For some musicians the music is written down. Ive worked with Robin Lee from Faze Action on a few Cantoma tunes, and he usually transcribes my basic melodies onto sheet music. Other times I’ll play the melodies on a keyboard or hum the tunes for the musicians to follow along to. On some tracks I’ll write the lyrics too and get a singer to record on a track. There’s a lot of going back and forth until I’m happy with the final cut. The music rarely ends up sounding like the first version.

MFM: Making a mix must have been a piece of cake for you :) What is this mix like?

PM: I went back through my 92-94 selection and picked a selection of the lesser played records. Memories of magic times at the Milk Bar and warm summer evenings at the Cafe del mar.

MFM Mix 044: Phil Mison

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3h out of our all-night-long together with Trujillo and Norm (@bayetecontact and @memorabiliarecords) at @palomabar earlier this month. Joined by @user-826154001 &  @steven-hickey halfway!

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San Francisco's 45 king Mr. Big Happy jetted in on the first leg of his European tour packing a giant bag of small records and brought longtime sparring partner Ill Logic along to join us in the Brilliant Corners booth.

Buckle up for three hundred and twenty three minutes of transatlantic soul selections, recorded live in high-definition at Brilliant Corners on 27/5/2023.

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What’s Good? w/ Customs, Mr. Big Happy & Ill Logic

Raphael Top-Secret starts his first edition with a mix of inspiring and timeless music, somewhere between 1982 and 2003, from Brian Eno, I:Cube, Jimi Tenor, Daniel Wang, Chris Gray, Metro Area, Gino Soccio, Wamdue Kids, Pal Joey, Larry Heard and other favorites …

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Next up on Idle Cellars we have the very special, underrated and up and coming talent, Scandinavia’s best kept secret, Fritjof Drake.

Welcome to an adventure in the Archipelago where your cosmic guide will offer you an exclusive tour of dusty reggae 12 inches, LP’s, Street Soul, Boogie and Brazilian beauties he has scavenged up in the midsummer forest of Sweden. Possibly you’ve not heard many before but you can be sure to be blown away by this mind and body stirring, soulful selection.

Fritjof Drake:
I wanna give a huge shoutout to Danny for inviting me to this special mix series where I got to showcase a longer version of my balearic side in digging records. As well as drinking a glass of wine… I never realized it would come down to 2 hours and 46 minutes since I just kept on yo-yoing the discs from the sleeves to the turntables. Hopefully this mix will make you as hypnotized as I got when making it. Enjoy!

Check out his other mixes here: https://soundcloud.com/mrdrake

Fritjof Drake - Archipelago

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 To finish off summer in the best possible way, we got a mix from the Big Papi behind the exceptional Glossy Mistakes, and of course he does not disappoint!
 
Enjoy one hour of pure batuque psicodelia 🪘🌀🍄

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"This mix is a personal selection with lots of old favourites I love to play on Sundays at home. Also included is a track from the record we just released on @lovereactionfamily."

Apricot 51: La Roze

An end of summer soundtrack, tan lines obviously not accepted.

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Mix of the Week #501 is by Loveshadow
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"we turned in our next LP earlier this summer  https://loveshadow.bandcamp.com/album/ii and have been keeping things pretty low key while the release is in the pipeline. been revisiting lots of old favorites, making edits, trying to keep up on more new releases...there's little bit of all of that in the mix. enjoy!" - Loveshadow @loveshadowdjs

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Idle Cellars is a boutique winery located in Sonoma County, California. We are Ben Larks, a teacher and explorer from Los Angeles and Ari Heavner, an entrepreneur from Berkeley. Our shared affinity for world travel and adventure led us to connect in 2006 while working crush in Sonoma. Idle Cellars was born with our first batch of Cabernet Sauvignon reflecting, as in most harmonious relationships, a balanced yin and yang between city dwelling Heavner and country living Larks. We strive to produce an elegantly balanced wine through our grace of art. Our belief is that the essence of winemaking is getting dirty in the vineyard, ensuring the best of Sonoma. We make it from the vine to the bottle through hands-on craftsmanship. Our knowledge and deep understanding of our agricultural surroundings allows us to choose what we believe are the best processes for each varietal of wine. Working together for 17 years now, Ben and Ari’s winemaking bond is stronger than ever, escalating the Idle movement one glass at a time. 
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