You are very welcome to enjoy part of Prima Musica podcast series with Sim Fossil. Just one crack of the whip.

@simfossil - Paris

Prima Musica with Sim Fossil

For this episode we present the inaugural episode of the Wichita Lineman project, an homage to the processual nature of song. In 1968, while driving through the high plains of the Oklahoma panhandle past a long line of telephone poles Jimmy Webb spotted a lineman perched up on one of the poles speaking into a handset. The songwriter had received a phone call earlier that day from Glenn Campbell asking him to write another hit — seeing the lineman gave Webb an idea, he imagined the man was talking to his girlfriend through the wire and he wrote a song around that image. An existential ballad, a modernist love song transmitted across great distances through long thin wires. A self-reflexive ode to the globalized subject, capturing both the fragmented connections and physical isolation inscribed in telecommunication technologies.

Glen Campbell made the song a hit and it became something more than just that. Something about it resonated across great distances and it has been covered all the across the world over many decades, and is still transmitting today. This project attempts to trace some of the lines created by this capacious song. The idea for this project came while listening to the Dick Slessig Combo’s stunning 45 minute distillation of the song from their 2004 CD. The song was recorded shortly after the passing of Mark Lightcap’s Acetone bandmate Richie Lee and somehow the song seems capable of holding and absorbing this grief. 

“I hear you singing in the wire / I can hear you through the wine / and the Wichita Lineman / is still on the line.”

Séance Centre Radio Episode 74 - The Wichita Lineman Project

You are very welcome to enjoy part of Prima Musica podcast series again with Daniele Giustra. 44:44! Recorded live @ Undead (Reggio Calabria) 



@danielegiustra - Reggio Calabria
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Prima Musica with Daniele Giustra

Our latest Séance Centre Radio episode is a very special mix from Toronto wunderkind Raf Reza. I don’t know how he does it, but he’s seemingly everywhere at once, playing live in Montreal, DJing around the city and across the pond, running the record shop at Standard Time, and most recently releasing wild dance floor dub mutations on 12th Isle, as well as an upcoming LP, Bangla Dance Fusion on Telephone Explosion. For this episode Raf has compiled a mix of songs from Bangladeshi cassettes from the 80s and 90s.
 
Here’s what Raf wrote about the mix: “Bangladesh only a decade after its 1971 independence war with Pakistan created a number of bands who combined the traditional songwriting techniques with influences from western acts. There is an obvious touch of Reggae, New-Wave, Funk and Psychedelic Rock throughout most of these recordings. Most of these bands released directly to cassette since there wasn’t much of a budget to produce vinyl LP’s. However this low barrier of entry resulted in many bands picking up their instruments to have a go at stardom and make their voice heard. This mix here is a selection of the vast variety of 80s and 90s Bangladeshi bands who created a unique sound of melancholy yet infectiously funky tunes. These recordings reflect the heart and minds of the Bangladeshi people still torn by war but also holding on to the hope of a brighter future.”

Séance Centre Radio Episode 78 w/ Raf Reza (80s & 90s Bangladeshi Cassettes)

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Dreaming of another world, I put together a gathering of autumnal folk for this month's NTS show. The mix is a somnambulistic journey, wandering through melancholic and reflective moods; an oneiric tonic for uncertain futures.

Séance Centre Radio Episode 80: Hey Dream (Autumnal Folk Special)

One of the truest stylists in DJing.

Although leaving behind only a small repertoire, sadly cut short by an early and unexpected passing, what we have left as evidence of his deep dedication to the pleasures of music is so unique and designed with such charming consistency, that when listened to, can only be Zecky’s selection.


Since the late 2000’s we studied the few mixes we could get our hands on obsessively, to the point where for example: we will never be able to hear Pats and Pat “Tobago” without the expectation of “City Lights” to be mixed in next, courtesy of the 2008 Ebisu Bar Jam recording. To us, Zecky became a sub genre of music — "Zecky style tracks" — something in the realms of what we might consider as Balearic, but still somehow blurring the borders of acceptable Italo-disco, and then coming way out of left field with something contemporary like Simply Red...and somehow it all made perfect sense. A lot of these tracks may seem obvious now, but keep in mind this was mid 2000’s, a lot of these tracks were still not known, discogs was not what it is today: contextually, the calliber of his research was heavy. Imagine living in a time when the idea of what a good DJ should be doing is minimal techno yet you’re a Japanese guy going to Italy to look for completely expired Italo material, one can only imagine the facial expressions and dialogues that might have emerged between Italian record store owners and Zecky throughout his digging travels.


The role that talent plays in the DJ "profession" can sometimes feel fuzzy, especially in the post social media/CDJ era. In our humble opinions however, listening to Zecky’s oeuvre gave this mystery a good amount of inspiring clarity. The aesthetic precision of his selection supported by his simple but flawless mixing created compositions so striking that the mixes became new stories or soundtracks to beautiful movies no one had ever seen before. It really felt like he was making something larger than the music he was using to compose these moments. A common (and disturbing) cliche one often hears when people go about describing a DJ’s work is the idea of being a “story teller”. To us Zecky genuinely put forth this idea on a meaningful level, his stories were some of the nicest of all.

We learned so much from Zecky.


Thank you for the music and happy birthday — Zecky would have been 54 today.


Thank you to Daisuke, his party partner, for making this possible ❤️
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DJ 界での真のスタイリストの一人。
残念ながら、予期せぬ早すぎる死によって残されたレパートリーはわずかですが、音楽の楽しみに対する彼の深い献身の証拠として残されたものはとてもユニークで、魅力的な一貫性をもってデザインされており、聴くとZeckyのセレクションを感じざるを得ません。
2000 年代後半から私たちは手に入れることができる数少ないミックスを執拗に研究し、例えば、2008 年の恵比寿バージャムのレコーディングのおかげでパットとパットの「Tobago」を聞くと、次に「City Lights」がミックスされることを期待せずにはいられなくなりました。
私たちにとってZecky は音楽のサブジャンル、つまり「Zecky スタイルのトラック」になりました。これは、私たちがバレアリックと考えるものの領域に属しながら、それでも許容できるイタロディスコの境界を曖昧にし、その後 Simply Red のような現代的なものによって予想外の形で登場しました... そしてどういうわけか、すべてが完璧に理にかなったものでした。これらのトラックの多くは今では当たり前に思えるかもしれませんが、これは 2000 年代半ばのことであり、これらのトラックの多くはまだ知られておらず、discogs は今日ほどではありませんでした。文脈上、彼のリサーチの質は高いものでした。優れた DJ が行うべきのことはミニマルテクノであるという考え方がある時代に生きていると想像してください。しかし、あなたは完全に期限切れのイタロの素材を探しにイタリアに行く日本人男性です。彼のレコード探しの旅を通して、イタリアのレコード店のオーナーと Zecky の間に生まれたであろう表情や会話は想像するしかありません。 DJ という「職業」において才能が果たす役割は、特にソーシャル メディアや CDJ の時代以降は、曖昧に感じられることがあります。しかし、私たちのささやかな意見としては、Zecky の作品を聴くとこの謎がかなりはっきりと理解できました。彼の選曲の美的精度と、シンプルでありながら完璧なミキシングが、非常に印象的な作品を生み出し、そのミックスは新しい物語や誰も見たことのない美しい映画のサウンドトラックになりました。彼は、これらの瞬間を作曲するために使用した音楽よりも大きな何かを作っているように感じました。人々が DJ の仕事を説明するときによく耳にする一般的な (そして不快な) 決まり文句は、「ストーリーテラー」であるという考えです。私たちにとって、Zecky はこの考えを本当に意味のあるレベルで提示しており、彼の物語は最も素晴らしいものでした。私たちは Zecky から多くのことを学びました。音楽をありがとう。誕生日おめでとうございます。Zecky は今日 54 歳になっていたはずです。これを実現させてくれたパーティーパートナーの大輔に感謝します❤️

H.A.N.D. MIX 065 : Zecky – Metro 1st

Put your best dress on and dance like there's no tomorrow. Claudia C delivers a super fresh mix of funk and disco groovies that will keep your feet moving from start to end.
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CLAUDIA C - From her strong passion for music comes a careful search for the perfect sound in every professional project she carries out. The easily recognizable style is characterized by a heterogeneous mix of house, disco, funky and acid – house which is intertwined with his ability to create always dynamic and never predictable mixes. Her main goal is to establish empathy with his audience through original and energetic sets.

"PRÊT-À-PORTER" GUEST MIX by CLAUDIA C

hope a hope 2025 - zT 🌞 🎵

am aware the audio levels of this recording are very weird

zOoTiMe - hope a hope 2025

A summery mixtape of European psychedelic folk & rock songs circa 1971–1981. Recorded with the aid of one (1) palo santo incense stick and two (2) cups of coffee. Put on your widest flares and discard all cares =)

The title is in reference to a recording of Gunnar Björling reading a selection of his poetry, translated here from the original in Swedish, Från Vår till Höst.

From Spring till Autumn

The enigmatic scandi is returning to NARR with a choice selection of odd wave, industrial ambient, italo cheese and library production music. There's no guilty pleasures here for open minds - just strictly pleasures!

Gumshoe Discjockey 01/08/25

you know, I'm something of a folk music enthusiast myself

From Spring till Autumn

Jaakko Rintala

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