March

softi - Hör Berlin [March 25th 2023]

Pleased to host the brilliant https://soundcloud.com/katemiller of Body Verse. 

Now based out of of Australia, the sound design enthusiast, artist & digger joins the guest mix with a consuming and deep dug blend of shared sonics from all steps. Pushing different directions with their solid productions & ambient works including an excellent remix of "Qlu" by Kate on the single EP from XADES released in '23. Enjoy the ride, Silver service inside. BPR x

Banoffee Pies Records Mix Series

Banana'Cast 53

BPR Planet

Banana'Cast 53 ➤ Kate Miller

Glossy Mistakes presents this month's guest mix by Spanish DJ TRS, mainly inspired by breakbeat, bass, jungle, IDM and Detroit, moving seamlessly between different styles with the goal of creating sets full of moments, details and contrasting textures. 

She is the curator of 2 girls 1 deck, an event that aims to connect female artists within the Spanish community, which has already taken place in different places of Spain such as Madrid, Barcelona and Valencia.

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Outsiders: Glossy Mistakes w/ TRS @ Kiosk Radio 09.05.2024

If there are any DJs I want to uplift here or else, it's the ones who I know have a deep knowledge of the histories and many sounds of 'dance music' -- not for want of being a know it all, but of gaining histories and contexts that would be otherwise lost in the algorithmic shuffle. Nashville-born, Montréal-based @esme3xtace is one of the best DJs of late I've heard make pure wormholes of techno, the kind that you can properly shut out the world and lose your body in. As someone who was also into this sound when I was their age, it gives me joy to see early-to-mid 20-somethings have the chances to share that kind of knowledge. Esme's mix feels like you're on cruise control, it's gone midnight and the air smells of petrichor, faint diesel, and distant flowers. Many shades of techno flow across each other like paint. You neither know nor care what tomorrow will bring. 

“Moonshine Bluegrass” [unknown]
K Wata - Seltzer [2020, Slink]
Helical Scan - Index 1 [1996, Chain Reaction]
Elise - Seropram (Forest Drive West Remix) [2018, Man Band]
Viiaan - Dun Dun [2022, Voragine]
natural/electronic.system. - Pegaso [2020, Midgar]
Neel - Naeba [2022, Non Series]
Materjal - Endless Walk  [2021, Egregore Collective]
Caldera - Pilzi [2022, Pressure Dome]
VC-118A - Aurora [2021, Chain Data]
Bas Dobbelaer - T2310 [2020, On Board Music]
Star_Dub - Digidub 7 [2022, self-released]
Konduku - Emerald Island [2018, Nous’klaer Audio]
DJ Shufflemaster - Escalation (Mayudepth Remix) [2016, Shiki Kyokai]
Robert Fleck - Soft Focus (Gasometric Run Remix) [2018, Well Street]
Kettenkarussell - Konstant Sleep [2014, Giegling]

Unknown Album

Days Of Steam 014: Esme

Kitsta runs through some finds from the last month featuring fresh releases and a few upcoming and unreleased gems. A ride through summery house and euphoric prog.

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Wave Rider: Volume 1

Kitsta - August 2024

1. Herbie Hancock - Rain Dance
2. Lonnie Liston Smith - Satin Doll
3. John Coltrane - Moment's Notice
4. Sun Ra - Velvet
5. Yusef Lateef - Chang, Chang, Chang
6. Buck Clayton - Tangerine
7. Thelonious Monk - Ask Me Now
8. Alice Coltrane feat. Pharoah Sanders - Stopover Bombay
9. Sun Ra - Ancient Aethiopia
10. Joe Henderson - Black Narcissus
11. John Coltrane - I'm Old Fashioned
12. ジョージ川口 - Maiden Voyage
13. Lonnie Liston Smith - Cary Paul And Louisa
14. Pheeroan Aklaff–Tzaddi Vau (Part 1)
15. Tyrone Washington–Universal Spiritual Revolt
16. Alice Coltrane feat. Pharoah Sanders - Journey To Satchidananda
17. All The King's Men & Maceo - Something

utopia & visions

Live @ Kajunga World - The Great Beyond 2024

Special guest shows from around the world. 
Find the full tracklist and related episodes on NTS: https://www.nts.live/shows/guests/episodes/sumac-19th-august-2024

Sumac 190824

L.F.O. 002 w/ Elektor

Dream Sequence 04, Noods Radio 08/12/2024 

Tracklist: 

winesome - Who
PDPIII - Calendar Of Days
Objekt - Ganzfeld (Ulla "Girl at Müller Remix)
Josh Mason - One man's trash is another man's garbage 
One Million Eyes - Samovar
nimu - Ultramarine 
Int/r - Yed Prior 
A Lily - Nitolbu Lil Dawk Lejlu
Apart x Sputnick - Consequences (Original Version) 
Biosphere - Audax 
Perko - Interlude 
Ishq - El Morya 
Tarotplane - Omayyad
Mikkel Rev - Age Of Plastic
LOIF - Stealth
Native Dog & Loud Zoo - Dragon 
Rainsoft - Nature Resonance 
Voyage - OAF (Chord)

Dream Sequence 04

Richard Koch did it again! One of the most independent and unmistakable jazz trumpeters of our time is back with his fourth studio album. After three quartet records, he now presents us with a new work as bandleader in a new quintet: “Rays Of Light”. It will be released on 04.07.2025 by Fun in the church. 
In terms of instrumentation and instrumentation, this acoustic work could have been performed in the 19th century. We hear Fabiana Striffler on violin, Valentin Butt on accordion, Andreas Lang on double bass, Nora Thiele on frame drums and Richard Koch on trumpet. However, Koch's compositions are interspersed with the transatlantic history of pop music over the last 150 years: from the American Folk Book to Internet radio - and back to the village festival in his adopted home of Wustermark, from where he can always travel quickly by regional train to the jazz capital of Berlin. 

At a time when the transatlantic relationship is threatening to tip politically, Koch's “Rays Of Light” are just the right thing to counter the whole madness culturally as a European musician. After all, it is particularly evident in music how our cultural DNA is similar and has always influenced each other. Just as all kinds of European folk and salon music, crossed with Afro-American and oriental influences - influenced by Christianity, Islam and voodoo - have given rise to a magical, earth-spanning, creole music: jazz.
And we haven't even talked about Bach, Dylan or the Beatles yet. 
Koch's pieces in the year 2025 cannot be assigned to a specific region or tradition either: It is music that is just as suited to the Austrian Alps as it is to Provence or New Orleans. It is understandable in both urban and rural settings. It incorporates Balkan elements such as klezmer, we hear oriental percussion in its origins, and the double bass adds a good dose of swing and bop from the nervous metropolises. The accordion offers plenty of harmonic scope for interpretation and the violin shares this with the trumpet, without getting lost in metaphysical speculation. 
Koch's compositions are as light-footed as they are colorful. As if he wanted to say: Listen up, dear people! All the music in the world is here, everything is good! But the lightness of his playing, which seems to rub off on his fellow players, remains his creamy secret. When Koch and his quintet leave the stage, everything quickly becomes as gray as it was before. 

So it's no wonder that successful rock & pop acts such as Peter Fox and the Beatsteaks, as well as musical mavericks like Nils Frahm and Jimi Tenor, have long sworn by Richard Koch's trumpet playing. Everyone likes to have this very special swag at their party. And party is indeed a good keyword. Because “Rays Of Light” is extremely party-ready. It is perhaps the most party-ready album in the Berlin jazz world in recent years. An album that would like to bring the whole quarrelling family back together again in these times, plagued as they are by ultra-diversity on the one hand and fear-filled, categorical, anti-woke rejection on the other. 

You can't think of many jazz musicians who can pull music off their sleeves as easily as Richard Koch and his “Rays Of Light”. Musicians who really aspire to be understood by everyone out there. Without being camp or kitsch. This instrumental jazz-folk music is celebrated with great seriousness and full concentration. With great passion and infectious joy of playing! Chapeau! 


utopia & visions

Dan Lodig

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