In this episode of the Perfect Blue radio show for Refuge Worldwide, I explored ideas around "Spaces and Places" in music (including contributions be Moe, Julian and Julien). I enjoyed this episode a lot, thanks for tuning in! (Originally streamed live on March 11, 2021)

You can find the playlist on my Patreon (public post): https://www.patreon.com/posts/48654798

Refuge Worldwide is currently running a crowd funding campaign to support their physical community radio studio in Neukölln, and they have all kinds of great plans for the space. So if you can, please consider supporting via
https://www.gofundme.com/f/help-build-refuge-worldwide-community-radio

HUNEE - Perfect Blue #2  - Spaces & Places

Enigmatic Japanese producer Shinichi Atobe evokes a range of sensations in his music that few others can. Whether he's listened to in headphones on a long journey, on the sofa on a lazy Sunday, deep into an afters or during a peak time reprieve, the rich, vivid strokes of his heady work has equal power to relax, heal, move, energise, envelop and flaw. 

Another scholar of patient tension-building in electronic music, Prins Thomas included Atobe in the footnote homage of his sixth album, alongside luminaries from all sounds and ages. As a mark of how much Atobe's work has impacted on his own, Thomas has paid tribute with an hour mix.

Read a mini-essay from Thomas: http://www.stampthewax.com/2019/04/16/praise-you-a-shinichi-atobe-tribute-mix-by-prins-thomas/

Praise You: a Shinichi Atobe tribute mix by Prins Thomas

Honey Soundsystem Potcast

HNYPOT 383: Stathis' Ascent of Persephone Mix

Full feature and interview coming soon... check back!

Phonica Mix Series 84: Young Marco

“For Scott Zacharias’s No Way Back: Streaming From Beyond set we asked him to bridge the 24 hour continuous NWB into the Outer Space room, coming on directly after Mozhgan’s deeply mesmerizing set. At the physical event, No Way Back has 2 rooms. The No Way Back room, and the Outer Space room. Scott has a unique function unseen anywhere else in the world, coming on at dawn in the Outer Space room after a night of ambient and experimental music, taking an audience that is often laying on the mats on the floor in a blissed out state, and elevating them first in mind, and then in body as he channels his own freeform take on the sleaze tradition. He starts formless and then begins to bring in compelling and psychedelic gems, inching the tempo up so slightly over the course of many hours until the whole floor is pulsating in an under 110 bpm heaven. After nights of major psychedelic experiences, this allows for a kind of mental freedom. This is so crucial, the weekend is a marathon, and you come in to hear Scott to be recharged, it is food for the mind and soul, as he goes from ambient to everywhere you need to be. For the stream, we asked our favorite dharma bum to do this in reverse, since it was a one room stream, starting with NWB and ending in Outer Space, he began with the deep groove and slowly disintegrates it into oblivion, leaving you in Outer Space as only he can. We asked for a 3 hour set and got 4 hours, and we couldn’t edit one out, it's just too pure.” — BMG

video: https://youtu.be/iIoy4x8USF8

No Way Back: Streaming From Beyond

A 36+ hour take on No Way Back, with 24 hours of the No Way Back room residents and 12+ hours of the Outer Space room immediately following. An excess of the mindmelting wormhole dance experience followed by many hours of floating in space and beyond. When we considered podcasting some sets, we decided to just release them all, one week at a time, in an order different than their original broadcast, with the concept of bringing further ideas with the continuum to light.

For us the toughest moment of the pandemic shut down was the thought that we could not gather on Memorial Day weekend for our annual rite of No Way Back. We need our community now more than ever, to connect and to feel free, in a world of shifting real and unreal realities, sequestered in isolation, how can we get together? Time feels different now, we have more patience for everything, so we applied that space for exploration to the sets at No Way Back, extending them to 3 hours so the DJs can fully explore their ideas.

The Electrifyin' Mojo would say "if you reach the end of your rope, just tie a knot and don’t let go" and this stream and podcasts are our knot. This was the first ever NWB without a defined space, without the transformational art of Amber Gillen and crew, let's hope we can get together in the future safely. Grab a little bit of netting or a parachute, turn on some red lights, move into another dimension. Please stay safe and live to dance another day.

Interdimensional Transmissions Podcast

IT Podcast

IT.podcast.s09e05: Scott Zacharias at No Way Back Streaming From Beyond 2020

Guest-mix for Jamie Tiller's radio-show at NTS, broadcasted 21.12.2020. Balearic, dubby vibes, ambient, breaks and house to round off the akward year 2020. Peace and hope to see us all in a better place next year!

TRACKLIST + INFO:
https://www.nts.live/shows/jamie-tiller/episodes/jamie-tiller-21st-december-2020

NTS Radio Show - Episode 18 w/ Telephones

The last mix of 2020 comes from Jonah Sharp (@reflecto), electronic mainstay and part of 'Virtual Dreams' as Space Time Continuum. Interview (excerpt) down below.

www.musicfrommemory.com

MFM: Welcome to the series Jonah. Originally from Edinburgh, San Francisco resident since 1992, do you still live in San Francisco?

JS: Actually I recently just moved back to SF after spending most of 2020 in the UK. I had planned to be in Europe for an extended break from the US but Covid saw an end to that and my plans had to change. I miss British and European culture. I have family and friends there so I intend to be back over as soon as I can!

MFM: According to your discography the majority of your output started to shape up right after you moved abroad, in '91. How would you explain this creative outburst? 

JS: Before I arrived in San Francisco i was still figuring out how to produce the music that I wanted to make so when I got here I started to collect gear in earnest - it was a little moment in time when most people thought analog synths and drums sounded shit so I managed to find a TR-909 for $150, a Roland SH101 at the flea market and so on. So yes, suddenly having some decent gear and fun gigs to play was very inspiring! I did feel a kind of creative freedom being so far from South London and the pressures of living there as an artist. SF in the 90’s was very affordable for artists and it gave us the freedom to really focus on the music.
 
MFM: You started your own label Reflective in '93 and had quite a busy release schedule, especially during '95/'96, before it suddenly seemed to stop right after. What happened? 

JS: I started Reflective in '93, the year my first son was born. Flurescence EP was my first solo release and it got noticed around the world so that enabled me to keep putting releases out. With the momentum of the Terence McKenna collab album, things were going pretty well. But what we found was that even though there are lots of amazing labels in the US, it was actually pretty hard to sell them domestically so most of our stock was exported to Europe and Japan. We ended up pressing in the UK and running the label from SF and that presented problems so I had to put the release schedule on hold. At that time I had also signed a deal with Astralwerks so had contractual obligations to deliver albums and tour. It was a very busy time and by 1997 when our second son was born we decided to take a hiatus from the label. Not to say the label is gone forever though!
 
MFM: Flurescence, now found its way to the Virtual Dreams compilation, almost 30 years later. How does it feel that your older music is being re-released and rediscovered by newer generations?

JS: I am very happy and honored to be part of the Virtual Dreams compilation. Yes, there seems to be a bit of attention for this time period of electronic music at the moment, and the chill out thing in general. With so many online resources, everything is discoverable by anyone so all those tiny labels like Reflective that were putting out small runs of 1000 records (that was a small run then) are maybe enjoying some retroactive attention now. 
 
MFM: Does this new interest change your motivation and/or inspiration in the studio maybe?

JS: I follow my own interests and direction when it comes to making music but reaching new audiences has to gratify the artist whose work was made for sharing. My development as an electronic musician has come through thirty years of studio experimentation, initially with hardware and then incorporating digital software. When I made Fluorescence in 1993 there was no computer in my studio, but by the early 2000s San Francisco was the epicenter of computer innovation, people like my friend Josh Clayton were writing amazing software and so I went off on a long exploratory trip to integrate digital technology both in my studio and in my live rig. My aim right now in the studio is the same as always: make sounds and keep the good ones.

MFM Mix 023: Jonah Sharp

@khotin has served up a free flowing range of multi-genre experiments since announcing himself with a soft-hued acid album on 1080p back in 2014. Now involved with running Normals Welcome as well as releasing on DFA, Pacific Rhythm and Public Release, his music is united by a distinctive take on melody, post-club melancholy and love for downtempo sounds. He crafts blissful songs filled with nostalgic feelings and is exactly the sort of artist in whom we can all find some sort of solace.

And this mix is a perfect tonic for reluctant bodies with its slowly cascading rhythms and soft focus melodies serving as a gentle New Year wakener. It's laced with perfectly dreamy pads and ramshackle drums that are never too forceful but always compelling. While often invitingly sombre in mood, the clouds do break along the way to bring moments of real lightness and joy just when you need it.

Dekmantel Podcast

Dekmantel Podcast 314 - Khotin

A follow up/ prequel to a mix I recorded 2 years ago called "As The City Sleeps" (https://bit.ly/3ax7l5H). A collection of songs that have kept me company over this odd year and hopefully may keep you company during the late hours of the night, with some field recordings I took on my travels. Download link below the TL.

A love letter to getting new speakers after 16 years. 


Tracklist 

Yumiko Morioka - 潮風
Nina Simone - Black Is The Color Of My True Love's Hair [Live In New York/1964]
Nick Wales & Stereogamus - Learning Year
Kitchen Cynics - Beads Upon an Abacus
Fred Neil - Faretheewell (Fred's Tune)
Bill Withers - Make a Smile for me
Carlo Rustichelli - Erotycon
Car Culture - Club Soda ft. Dan Bodan
The Beach Boys - Surf's Up 1967 (Solo Version) 
Nancy Sinatra And Lee Hazlewood - You've Lost That Lovin' Feelin’
Miriam Makeba - Quit It
>>> Excerpt from Interview with Miriam Makeba (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wONkMpbl7N8)
The Flamingos - I Only Have Eyes for You
Bastion - Molitva
Janet Jackson - Someday is Tonight 
Patrick Cowley - Mockingbird Dream 
Torch Song - Shine on me
Massive Attack - Protection ft. Tracey Thorn (The Eno Dub) 
>>>Excerpt from the Phantom Thread 
Jonny Greenwood - Never Cursed 
Cocteau Twins & Harold Budd - Why do you Love me
10cc - I’m not in Love (Midland Dream Within a Dream Version)
Mary Lattimore  - Silver Ladders
Hamlet Gonashvili - Tsintskaro
Brian Eno  & Harold Budd - Lost in the Humming Air
>>> Excerpt from an Interview with Harvey Fierstein (https://youtu.be/osp1FN5-aVE)

Download - https://bit.ly/2N6xcbX

As The City Rests, a mixtape [February 2021]

https://www.nts.live/shows/carista/episodes/united-identities-26th-february-2021

This month Fafi Abdel Nour, DJ and founder of queer clubnight HOMOOST in Groningen takes over the United Identities show with a fierce guestmix dedicated to the early days of house for the next hour.

NTS - United Identities w/ Fafi Abdel Nour - February 26, 2021

Manchester-born, London-based DJ and producer Sophie Wilson, better known as Willow, joins us for the 81st edition of the Phonica Mix Series with an hour-long selection of off-kilter house, techno and electronic goodness, featuring tracks from Even Tuell, Parris, Sad City and more. Enjoy! 🔉 🔊 bit.ly/PHONICAMIX81

IT.podcast.s09e05: Scott Zacharias at No Way Back Streaming From Beyond 2020

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