Kasheme Conversations

Try And Try [Mix, 2014]

Listening Session w/ Luke Una

As a DJ, a part of the Unabombers and as promoter of the legendary Electric Chair nights, Homoelectric, Electric Elephant Festival and Homobloc, Luke Una was not only contributing massively to Manchester’s 80s and 90s club scene but still carries a deep passion to share his music in clubs around the world. He is the curator of seminal compilations such as the Electric Chair and Electric Soul series as well as his latest É Soul Cultura project and label.

This Session was recorded for "Kasheme Conversations", an interview series from, with and for music lovers. This month with Luke Una.
In our conversation, Una shares what caused his relentless pursuit of music, why he would not call himself a record collector and why he is, as he calls it, so evangelical about music.

Watch here the Conversation of Luke Una:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ei18vBynCKo

Stay tuned for more!
Kasheme Conversations next month with Kahil El'Zabar

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Listening Session w/ Luke Una

Live Session w/ Kahil El'Zabar (solo)

The Chicago born jazz multi-instrumentalist and composer Kahil El’Zabar produces healing music for the soul. Born in 1953, the talented percussionist collaborated with musical legends such as Dizzy Gillespie, Stevie Wonder, Nina Simone, Paul Simon, Pharoah Sanders, and many others. El’Zabar continues to mesmerize audiences worldwide with his meditative yet invigorating sound, aiming to promote wellness and spiritual empowerment through his music. With his main musical groups the Ethnic Heritage Ensemble and the Ritual Trio, he released more than 30 albums. 

This live solo performance was recorded back in November 23 for "Kasheme Conversations", an interview series from, with and for music lovers. Kahil shares about his latest album A Time for Healing and how he, as a young jazz musician got connected with the DJ culture back in the 80ies.
“Beneath the party is the ethos of interaction. … And the DJ is the curator of what all of those cosmologies, what all of those energies are.”

Watch here the Kasheme Conversations of Kahil El'Zabar: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kyZxjg4lx7g

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Kasheme Conversations next month with Millie McKee

Live Session w/ Kahil El'Zabar (solo)

Live Session w/ Greg Foat

Playing the piano since the age of 10, Greg Foat is called one of the leading jazz pianists and composers in the UK. Inspired early on by the English pianist Gordon Beck, Foat decided to devote his life to jazz music and composed and released around 28 albums in the last 12 years evolving effortlessly from soul-jazz fusions to cinematic, haunting compositions, pastoral acid folk and electronic soundscapes. In recent years Foat has recorded for Jazzman Records, Athens Of The North and Strut and collaborated with a diverse selection of musicians, including Bob Lind, Moses Boyd, Gigi Masin, Ayo Salawu, Curtis Lundy, The Kooks and many more. 
In our conversation, Foat shares about how he got into jazz music and how records played an essential part in his development as a musician and composer.

Watch here the Kasheme Conversations of Greg Foat: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-_i7nAzmR3k

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Kasheme Conversations next month with Elina Duni & Rob Luft

Live Session w/ Greg Foat

Live Session w/ Elina Duni & Rob Luft

Born in Albania’s capital Tirana, Elina Duni first set foot on a stage at the age of five, singing for the National Radio and Television. After the fall of the communist regime in Albania, she moved to Geneva, where she started her education in classical piano and went on to study on the jazz programme at the Hochschule der Künste in Bern. With her first Quartet and the following releases, she found her signature sound as a singer and songwriter, fusing jazz with Balkan folk music from her homeland.
Since meeting London guitarist Rob Luft in 2017, they express their love for jazz and various other genres by composing as well as playing stages all over Europe together. On their latest album A time to remember, Duni sings in Albanian, French and English, which reflects her rootedness in different European countries and cultures. 
In our conversation, Duni and Luft talk about how they met, their first memories of music and their hopes for the future.

Watch here the Kasheme Conversations of Elina Duni & Rob Luft: https://youtu.be/AVjjuRBG3O8

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Kasheme Conversations next month with Donna Leake

Live Session w/ Elina Duni & Rob Luft

An extendo mix at one of Eora's finest, Cafe Fredas. 
Featuring a mixture of records that have had plenty of rotations for us lately, including a few sneaky Proto edits sprinkled throughout 👀🪄

Cafe Fredas 29/06/2024

No.50 

Celebrate our 50th friendly mixtape, curated with a beautiful blend of Jazz, ambient, street soul and balearic feels. 

Come join us

FRIENDLY MIXTAPE - TELEPHONES

@nickcobby invites @soosisoos from Mexico City with an absorbing hour guest mix of downtempo 90's trip hop and throwback UK leftfield electronica, all delivered with his signature balearic touch. 

Soos released an EP with Mule Musiq in 2023 and has been steadily rising in prominence since then. A long standing resident at Mexico City's Sunday Sunday party, his recognisable productions and high energy (but often not bpm) DJ sets have been demanding attention with recent tours of Latin America, Europe and Asia.

Tracklist:

[1st hour - Soos]
ID's welcome :)

[2nd hour - Nick Cobby]
ID's welcome :)


Field Trips - Dreamy Trip Hop w/ Soos

London based producers, visual artists and DJ duo, Good Block have been throwing parties in the capital for nearly 15 years. Hosting the likes of Ramzi, Mogwaa, Jex Opolis, Gabrielle Kwarteng, Jamie Tiller, Zaltan, Bufiman, Jon K, Cosmic Slop, Bradley Zero, Apiento, Bahamian Moor, Trujillo, Jonny Rock and many more. 

In 2018 the duo started a very popular dropbox folder of free edits which slowly continues to expand. With a string of productions and remixes on the likes of Isle Of Jura, Emotional Response, Planet Trip, Heels & Souls and Duca Bianco they also released three EPs - 4 Corners, Aquaculture and Naiad / Dryad on their own imprint.

On 20th March 2025 the duo will debut their full length album ‘Window’ a collection of works recorded between 2017 - 2024 representing hours of musical experimentation and emerging from the many influences that have shaped their sound. The album will be available on limited edition double gatefold vinyl and full digital release, with artwork by the duo. 

https://goodblock.bandcamp.com/album/window

'This mix has been recorded to showcase the wide variety of influences that have inspired us over the years, we hope you enjoy'

Sound Metaphors Mix Series 33 : Good Block

Listening Session w/ DJ Amir

Amir Abdullah is a highly respected American DJ, curator, music historian, sample digger, and producer. His passion for jazz catapulted him into the spotlight as one half of the iconic mixtape and DJ duo, Kon & Amir. With his own label, 180-Proof Records, founded in 2011, he further solidified his place in the music industry and continues to push the boundaries of adventurous music, uncovering forgotten artists and sounds ever since. He recently executive produced Strata Records – The Sound of Detroit, reimagined by Jazzanova, a project that highlights his expertise and dedication to preserving musical history and fostering education.
In this conversation, DJ Amir talks about his profound connection to Hip Hop and lets us in on his exciting upcoming projects and collaborations.

“My friends at the same age of 7 or 8 years old would go spend money on ice cream and candy. I would spend money and go buy records.”

Watch here the Kasheme Conversations of DJ Amir
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cIRppk7FG6c

Stay tuned for more!
Kasheme Conversations next month with SHUYA OKINO

Listening Session w/ DJ Amir

Atshualpa - Luna de Sangre (Wind Version)
John Carroll Kirby - Tiptoe to the Grave 
Luci Battisti - Amarsi Un Po ( Ole Smokey Adriatic Sun edit)
Kenneth Nash - You’ve been there before
Teatron - Swing
Richard Mac - Told you so 
Jean - Claude Watrin - Game City 
Preludio - Mysterious Nights
Giorgio Moroder - Irena’s Theme (45)
Bob James - El Varano 
Grassskirt - Starry Night
Harry Mudie - Full Dose of Dub (Anton Klint edit)


Music For Dreams Radio Show 5.4.25

Next up with magic mix number eighty six is @larsfromearth

Host of 'Das Lebendige Radio' (formerly on rtm.fm) he popped into our inbox with the following message and mix -

'About six months ago I picked up a green record at a small art and vintage gallery in Pimlico. On the back of the sleeve I read that it was the culmination of a two day workshop focused on the exploration of hip-hop. The twist: The workshop happened at ETAT, a community group for the elderly.

The gallery was full with locals celebrating the opening of its latest art exhibition. As I went up to pay, someone shouted: 'Thats my record!'. A bubbly lady, probably in her 70s walked up to me and took the record out of my hand to proclaim to everyone in the small room: 'This is my record! I'm a rapper!'

This mix is inspired by a chance encounter with a chance piece of art. The record is a loose collage of even looser interpretations of hip-hop. It was the perfect start, middle and end point to explore my own - very loose - interpretation of the genre.' 

Question is, can you spot the record mentioned above? timestamp your guess to win a prize! Enjoy :)

M a g i c a s t - 0 8 6 🎇 - Lars From Earth

E ruscha V - reaching up
Gemini - away from earth
Inner space quartet - computer cals
John cale & terry Reilly - church of anthrax
Valcrond video - oh yea cop collar
Los ojos - spaced out (sax mix)
Sheer taft - cascades
Beppe loda - Elettronica Virtuale (Ivan Berko Remix)
Altz - gonno I got ya
Wah wah wino - heavy traffic
Conor scmutz - red lights only please
Daniel wang - file 7
Opal sunn - elastic phase 2
Felix Dickinson - widow maker
Sam redmore - woah!
Web web - apotheosis
Galambo - el dinero no lo es todo
Soft machine - soft weed
Fundido - take me to Mecca Masha mar
Fine tuning edit 11
Timetrap - yakayaka katakana edit
Mark 909 king - after dark
Lord echno - cosmic echos in dub
Dif już - no motion
Steve Jansen - the journey back
Hausfrau - dancehall days


Back before acid house changed the world, Jaye was already ploughing a unique path playing weird and wonky musics of all flavours at squat parties and industrial based do’s, she flung herself whole heartedly and without concern for her safety into the oncoming tsunami of what we would end up tagging as house, techno or the multitude of varying descriptive titles it has been given and has stayed true to ‘our thing’ ever since.

Dancing wildly at dirt box, the mutoid waste parties, the hacienda, ministry of sound, tonka, moist, sabresonic set her up for the ‘90s where, while Jaye was behind the counters of a number of soho record shops during the day and doing the ambient ‘creamy meat’ show as bish on the legendary chillin’ FM pirate radio, she was often found behind the decks at the legendary WANG parties, the back room at Golden in Stoke on Trent, her residency at London’s sadly defunct END with the ‘for your pleasure’ crew and numerous long gone all nighters and late into the night dark room parties. Getting her second wind at the start of the 00’s via the ‘softmachine’ parties she ran alongside George ‘black merlin’ and Kyle & Johnny from ‘land of light’ she’s been playing regularly across the country for numerous nights such as LOVE MUSCLE & COSMIC SLOP in Leeds, HOMO BLOC & KISS ME AGAIN in Manchester and further a field as a resident at the KALA festival as well as Field Maneuvers, Love International and dimensions in Croatia. She is also the resident at long running & fiercely loyally supported Bristol party PLU, alongside Ranks which has carved out a name for interesting left of centre guests and a distinctly gnarly music policy.

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Americano de Washington Dc, Dj Lloyd tem sido uma referência na cena club de Nova York há mais de duas décadas. Desde ajudar a iniciar a The Lot Radio até as infames festas Tiki Disco da qual faz parte, DJ Lloyd aborda tudo na vida com uma energia eclética. Seus gostos musicais não são diferentes. @enterthelloyd mix para o Mareh SC series, enjoy!

Mareh Mix - Episode#60: Lloyd

Here's episode 14 of our ongoing NTS Radio show. This time we're joined by our man in Paris, @raphael-top-secret ! This b3b session was recorded live at Mood Hut Studios when RTS was visiting Vancouver. 

Tracklist available - https://bit.ly/2PnMn0t

Please make sure to check out our last show with RTS, way back during our residency at Berlin Community Radio (RIP) - https://bit.ly/2mIZWKE

NTS Radio Episode 14 with guest Raphael Top-Secret (27/8/19)

Kasheme is where Music and People come together. Our vision is to create a culture around conscious listening not only to music but to each other.

A space that invites us all to slow down and enjoy the moment together. Always guided by the healing power of music that connects people beyond borders and cultures.

Listening Session w/ DJ Amir

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