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Here's the guest mix I recorded for the monthly Ladies On Rotation's Show on Stream 101 Radio, broadcasted on Sunday 28.03.2021

Ladies On Rotation, Stream 101 - Guest Mix

@imadfromlove
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1 . The ratio of songs with vocals is much higher than the ones without, what is your relationship to words, singing and/or human made sounds when you approach a set?

Anyone that’s ever heard me play knows I’m a really big fan of vocals. The main thing that gets me about vocal trax is the meaning; I often play songs that reflect how I feel, or that express something that resonates with me.
It’s rare for me to find a vocal track that I don’t like, but it does happen. In that case I play the instrumental/dub and mix it with another vocal track instead.
 
2. We recognise some songs where samples have been taken from, I am thinking of Juicy from Notorious in particular - are you an avid digger of sample based songs?

Haha, definitely. Growing up on 90s hip hop in the early 2000’s and 2010’s I was schooled by many NY producers who would flip soul, funk, jazz samples left and right. At some point I started to recognize samples and was mindblown when I realized the favourite section of a hip hop track was actually a full song. One of the first records I ever bought was indeed “DeBarge – All This Love '' which was sampled on trax by Biggie, The Wu Tang Clan and AZ.
 
3. Coming back to the current situation, how has the last year been treating you in terms of musical approach?

Since I stopped gigging, I realised there was no big need to keep digging through dance music, and I spent quite a bit of time cleaning out my collection and digging through listening music I was familiar with but didn’t yet own.
 
This led to me falling into a rabbit hole of soul, jazz, funk, latin, soundtrack, reggae, hip hop and so much more. I still actively mixed dance music on a regular basis, but my sets tended to revolve around disco, jazz-funk, electro/electro funk and proto house.

Paradisco 001 // Imad

Turmbühne has always been the heart of Fusion Festival. I am extremely grateful to be given the opportunity to play this fantastic stage.  

Thank you to everyone who is involved in these magical hours. <3

Sarah Wild @ Plan:et C Beta 2021 I Turmbühne I Fusion Festival

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1) You have some special version(s) of disco classics, are you playing them digitally or on records? How do you approach your very smooth transitions? Via percussion & transition effects?
Sometimes I make my own edits which I tend to make a bit more DJ friendly with a nice drum intro/outro; you know that this disco stuff is often pretty hard to mix - that is why I also only play it digitally, then it is a bit easier to play, but you can mess it up too with CDJs LOL (house music on the other hand I love to play with vinyl). As for transitions: I think the way you make your track selection is key, e.g. if you want to mix a techno track with a disco tune chances are that the transition will sound rubbish. :) Also, I love to make rather short transitions, e.g. by using the filter-cutoff or just opening/closing the faders at a certain point of the track, because IMO often this will have more impact and might sound cleaner which is however not always possible of course.

2) All your songs have vocals (or vocoders) - what is your relationship to singing?
Well-spotted. ;) Don't know why, but I'm a sucker for good vocals - maybe because when I started out as a DJ around 2000 and/or was collecting vinyl, DJ music was becoming very electronic/dark for more than a decade maybe; consequently rather cool vocal tracks were almost not available anymore at that time.

3) Most, if not all, of the tunes you play are coming from the late 70-80s - how do you connect with this golden era?
Basically, many of those tunes I got to know through house music at some point in the 2010s or even later when I realized something like: "damn, that house track is not the original and was already there as a disco tune". So this disco music definitely opened my eyes, and also for other music genres which evolved from there.

4) Some DJs trying to convey a storytelling via the lyrics of the songs put one after the other, do you also have this approach?
Yes, me too - a sort of journey with some peaks and lows throughout the entire mix is something what I often have in mind while mixing; also I love making mixes where the majority of tracks is a bit of the same kind.

Paradisco 007 // DJ With Soul

Skate Samba

And it continues at a very high level and with aesthetic house music. groovyjuri (@groovyjuri) from Berlin entertains us with a wonderful vinyl mix. For the love of house music <3

BH Mix #6 // groovyjuri

1 of the 3hrs set of myself b2b @imadfromberlin opening the 2nd ELSI party at Aeden Berlin

ELSI Invites w/ Luca Carluccio B2B Imad @ Aeden Berlin (11.11.21)

born in Canada, based in Berlin for decades: Imad delivers 60 minutes of pure house heaven in our Mix 003.

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kickin' up dust mix series 003: Imad

HOUSE IS A FEELING #002

We're back in 2022 with another episode of our NIMH Podcast.

Italian born dj/producer, FLAZE grew up in the South of Italy where he was exposed to a variety of underground beats from an early age.
The electronic sound - specifically techno - were his beats of choice from the early ‘90s; paving the way for his future career and artistic growth.
His live début at the decks came in 1995; he started out DJ'ing at parties and subsequently he joined the Studio One Radio team participating in their popular house night.

In 2013 he joined forces with his old hometown friend Nanni, creating Ruff Stuff and the connected label Ruff Stuff Music Ltd, with the intent of spinning a more raw and groovy sound.

As Ruff Stuff he has released tunes on different labels, such as Shabby Doll Records, Silence in Metropolis, Rough Recordings, Rarehouse Records, King Street Sounds, RM Records UK, Cahoots Records, Quality Vibe Records, and more, gaining support from Marco Carola, Laurent Garnier, T. Williams, B. Traits, Marco Faraone, Javi Bora, Roger Sanchez, Ben Sims, Black Loops, Cinthie and more…

Flaze is now pursuing a solo career. In 2021 he released "Brigade EP" under Entrepôt Records, which marks his debut effort as a solo artist.

@flazemusique

NIMH Podcast 006: FLAZE

This time, we get a little bizarre with @limpodisco . A passionated DJ and producer duo sharing their good music taste and sexyness with the world. We are so happy to welcome them into our little Podcast series 💕 Enjoy the mix and make sure to follow:

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A Little Bizarre w/ Limpodisco

@siggatunez
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1. Superb selection, may we ask what your relationship is to soul, funk, jazz etc?

Thank You very much! I basically grew up with an access to my fathers funk and soul record collection. I heard all the Motown classics from Marvin Gaye to Stevie Wonder but also listened to Aretha Franklin and Ray Charles really early in my life. Later my interest was caught by some diamnonds from the eastern German/Europa Jazz and Krautrock era that I found in that collection. It was just insane that I had the opportunity to just go to the living room, grab a record and turn on the record player. I am really thankful fort hat.
 
2. We’re big fans of your GOOEY edit series, how did that start?

I started digging edits in 2008 when I began Djing with Vinyl records. At that time I was obsessed with the UK House scene and artists like The Revenge (6th Borough Project) and Ooft! who I was introduced to hat whole editing cosmos by. Since that time i cannot get off it J Another aspect about edits ist hat you can transfer the vibe and athmosphere of he past into the presence and the current club context. My intention is always to find the perfect balance betwenn keeping the original vibe and sound of an original and make it accessible for he modern dancefloors by using todays technical possibilities. In 2020 I‘ve sent my first edits to my friend Oliver Bernstein who runs the Inch By Inch distribution and he instantly came up with the idea to start an edit series…so I was quite lucky and I am really thankful fort he opportunity to just have that platform to express myself in that kind of way. Thank You Oli, I love You!!!
 
3. We also hear that you’ve put together a nice analogue studio over the years, could you tell us how that came to be? Is there anyone in particular who inspired you to dive into that world?

I started producing in 2004 with my brother on a very cheap DAW program and since that time I’ve evolved my techniques constantly. My big dream always was to be able to root all the digital information out of the computer onto an analog mixing desk and work on my music like that. During the time I bought analog gear and instruments but in 2018 I decided to move my studio out of my flat into an external room. This was the perfect time for me to fulfill kind of a lifetime goal and to buy a mixingdesk, a very good 32 channel converter and some very good analog dynamic processors…so there I am now J I really love beeing in the studio and producing own tracks but also work on other artists music and help them out to get the best possible result. I was inspired by the great Andreas Schorpp who sadly passed away last year. I had the chance to mix a whole EP with him together in his insane studio in Karlsruhe. From that moment on I knew I also had to do that. Just a little sideinformation: he was the engineer behind Ame’s amazing superhit „REJ“. 



Grover Washington Jr., Ralph Mc Donald, William Salter-Mr. Magic-Motown
Patti Labelle-It's Alright With Me-Epic
Menahan Street Band-Since Our Last Goodbye-Daptone
Brass Construction-Now Is Tomorrow-United Artists Music
Master-Funk-Lady Voo Doo-DJM Records & Tapes
Rhythm Heritage-Theme From Rocky (Gonna Fly Now)-ABC Records
Prince-Forever In My Life-Paisley Park Recordings
Charles Bradley-Stay Away-Daptone Records
Revelation-Feel It-Handshake Records & Tapes
Nightbirds, Labelle-What Can I Do For You?-Epic
The Two Tons-Can't Do It By Myself-Metronome Musik
D/Troit Soul Sound System-People Need People-Crunchy Frog Records
D.D. Sound-Slow Motion-Baby Records
The Choice Four-Everybody's Got A Story-RCA
Puzzle-Haiku-Motown

Paradisco 015 // Siggatunez

@cracked-a
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1. Thank you for the amazing mix! We heard quite a lot of great new music in your mix and wanted to ask, what are your biggest influences?

Thank you, I‘m glad you like it. My biggest influences as a DJ are definitely clubs I went to and their DJs, that is Stammheim / Kassel with the late great DJ Pierre, Robert Johnson / Offenbach with a lot of underrated boss DJs like Thomas Hammann, Paul David Rollmann and (the of course well known but imho mis-categorized) Ricardo Villalobos. And then Panoramabar obviously with Ryan Elliott, Oracy and my personal hero Boris. 

I gotta say though that this mix does not contain anything new. It entirely consists of Disco tunes from 1976…1980 that are unavailable in digital form and will not be picked up by Shazam. This music would be lost if no one would play it out on vinyl. It's really the aura of a good Club and a dj that understands, nurtures and boosts it that is my biggest influence. That's the essence of a Club. The spirit!


2. Considering your incredible collection, how do you go about the digging process? Is there a particular way you find and organize your records?

I developed various ways of digging. Maybe the most important one is listening to old DJ sets from clubs and DJs I like and pick out the gemstones that really shine. I stopped going to record stores to be frank. The “Discogs pricing scheme” prevents you from making any lucky finds. Some stores wouldn’t even price or clean records so in fact you’re doing their job.

Another digging mode is just digging through my own collection. There’s so much stuff I’ve never played, some I’ve never even listened to, so there’s always a surprise round the corner…

Last thing is, I copy a lot. If one of my guest DJs plays a bomb, I never hesitate to adopt this tune. Most music enthusiast DJs do this. For many of my favorite tunes I remember whom I heard playing this first!


3. We’ve been a big fan of your “Smile For A While” label, with superb releases by Move D, DJ Duke and more, and were wondering, how did that get started?

in 2013 me and a friend heard a lot of nice house tunes on bandcamp that friends of ours from Frankfurt did. There was no way though they could get through to the well known local labels like Perlon, LARJ, etc. Thus we decided to put two four trackers out by ourselves. The rest came just naturally over the years.

Paradisco 016 // Mr. Fonk

BLVSH x HÖR Showcase: Triqi // 28.09.22

recorded live at CLUB IMMORTAL at Produce Row, Portland OR

CLUB IMMORTAL

A mixtape I've done for the contemplative season with many beautiful records, I wanted to share for a long time. ❤

Vinyl only.

PN me for the mixtapes: https://www.instagram.com/p/CIpwGxVnari/

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Don Cherry; Marvin Gaye; Curtis Mayfield; James Mason; RAMP; Gwen McCrae; Bill Withers; Moodymann; Eddie C; Reuben Wilson; Nohelani Cypriano; Michael Boothman; Anthony Watson; Azimüth; Floating Points; Dorothy Ashby; Joe Henderson; Fatima;

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Ultimate Rave Album Disc 3

Rhythm On The Loose - Break of Dawn [Original Mix]

recorded on friday the twelfth of april in the year two thousand and nineteen at the prettiest venue in amsterdam's science park; the heavenly ~ apollos corner ~ alongside a lovely crowd, the finest collection of photosynthesizers, the best sunset viewzzzz, good ginger tea and the dankest pancakes (see picture)

some funky/groovy/garage house classics, some deep shit, some techno, some pancakes and a game of thrones banger :) excuse the crackles and the glitches!!!

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triqi @ apollos corner

Hara Katsiki at Wrong Era / Diskothek Melancholie / Berlin /   8.11.19

Hara Katsiki / Wrong Era / Diskothek Melancholie / Berlin

Rubi & Etapp Kyle b2b recorded live in Berlin Friedrichshain.
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