Returning to Smartbar was an absolute pleasure. Closing the night was soo much fun. Massive thank you to @Manifestchicago for welcoming me back to play alongside them.

Live @ Smartbar 01.15.22 [Manifest]

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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.

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Recorded Live at Industrie - the warm up for Candjane

2022-08-27 Live at Industrie Paloma Bar (Mike Starr)

Our 93rd Truancy Volume is delivered by Berlin expat Jay Donaldson. Having previously produced music under a variety of monikers, 2013 marked the release of the first Palms Trax EP on new London-based label Lobster Theremin. Equation nodded to both Chicago and Detroit in equal measure with three floor ready house jams that have never failed to get us grooving. With the end result coming in as one of our favourite debut EPs of last year, it made perfect sense to get in contact with the man himself and have him deliver us a mix. We also found time to sit down and have a chat; discussing his earliest musical experiences, his live performances and the merits of German Haribo.

For the full interview head to http://truantsblog.com/2014/truancy-volume-93-palms-trax/

Truancy Volume 93: Palms Trax

LOVEY - Work My Body

Peace to Miilkbone (Keep it Real - Moody Edits 002) [Bandcamp]

We always feel hyped when we're due to open up to booth to NTS/BBC Radio 1 host and revered selector, Moxie. The vibes she provides each time she steps inside is forever on point. Hers is a kind of dancefloor dexterity that's rare to find, being able to seamlessly fuse together an array of genres whilst at the same time constructing it perfectly for the given space and soundsystem. It's why she frequently warms up our Martin Audio rig on Friday nights and no doubt why she's relentlessly invited to play at fellow clubbing haunts and festivals ranging from Brixton's defining DMZ dance to Croatia's Dimensions festival.

A good few years since Moxie first played at our Charterhouse hub, she's since contributed her adept musical expertise to our fabric blog on numerous occasions, but with an upcoming set on Friday 18th September, we deemed it time that she permanently demonstrated the sonic dynamism we experience every time she plays for the people of the internet. While kindly answering a few of our probing questions in the midst of Outlook Festival this week, she also fired over an exclusive and long overdue mixtape.

Tracklist:

Chaos In The CBD – Observe
Bicep & Hammer - Go (Bicep’s Liquid Mix)
A1 Bassline – Reinforced Texture
Martyn – EF40
Midland – Stop (Don’t Let The Beat)
Oli Furness – Crash Gordon
Leon Vynehall – Of You
Session Victim – Never Forget
Jean Nipon – Tecpo Cunts
The Marghreban – Now Easy
ACP – Missing Watch
Mateo Matos – New York Style
Dan Shake & Medlar – Walk

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KAF- After Hours Mix for BBC Radio 1's Pete Tong! 

Kim Ann Foxman_BBC Radio 1 After Hours Mix

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