Any clues on this one @organicchee? Beautiful.

Ambient

Up for the 27th installment in our mix series is dear friend and colleague Kennedy (@kennedyams) who's a keen member of the MFM crew and recently started his own label Dream Machine. Interview (excerpt) down below.

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MFM: Hey Nick seemed like a good time to finally get you to introduce yourself and join our mix series since you’ve been helping with MFM a while now. Can you let everyone know a bit more about yourself?

K: Hey hey. Thanks for the opportunity :) So, I live in Amsterdam where my life is (and always has been) centered around music. I've been helping out at MFM for some years now and besides that I have my studio that I religiously visit 3 days a week. In a normal world you'd also find me working at Red Light Records once a week and playing shows on the weekends where they'd have me.

MFM: You’re also working on your own productions, can you tell us a little more about your own music?

K: So it had always been a dream to release my own music on vinyl and after messing around for over 10 years the time felt right and I recently realized my own label Dream Machine. Both musically as aesthetically the idea was for each release to reflect a dream but in tangible form. As I tried to put it into words it is “A series of thoughts, sensations and sounds occurring from a person's mind, translated by machines”, and it really is just that. 

MFM: How has the situation affected your productivity with making dance music?

K: A bit double to be honest. Of course I've had my rough times, which can be frustrating. Quite often I wasn't feeling motivated or inspired at all, the purpose felt a bit misplaced or something like that... On the other hand and above all I felt relatively lucky to be able to go leave the house and get lost in the studio. Having the luxury to escape to a creative environment surely helped keeping calm. Eventually it did result in Dream 1 being released and with Dream 2 coming up.

MFM: What would you say does inspire your music? Is it very process based through jamming and so on or do you start with ideas and try and see where that takes you?

K: For me inspiration goes hand in hand with motivation, it's all very much based on how I feel. I don't work well at night for example, daylight is my natural battery. And anything can be a source of inspiration really. Often an idea comes to mind when walking through the park on my way to the studio, listening to music or just wandering off. A melody, a chord, something rhythmical, a vibe... Depending on what idea it brings I choose an instrument or tool and go from there. Mostly through jamming yes, and then see where the machines take me. 

MFM: What would be some ways you would like to see the world of dance music evolve and grow now we’ve all had a moment to pause and reflect?

K: I actually would rather see it all take a couple steps back first. It would be nice if (dance) music gets acknowledged and valued as an essential form of art more. Music really unites and it needs proper breeding grounds for people, free from any social, economical, racial or whatever context to express, connect, create, collaborate, learn, etc. It's essential, and it should be treated and used as such (not in the last place also by governments), with more care, necessity and sustainability. 

MFM: Tell us more about the mix and what vibe you were trying to bring here?

K: I sort of tried to reflect my perception of this recent change in life. As a big fan of Lonnie Liston Smith (and The Cosmic Echoes) the song 'Visions Of A New World' first came to mind and I just took it from there. If you're in for an atmospheric laid back magic carpet ride with lots of percussion, spiritual jazz, ambient techno and forest sounds, this is for you :)

MFM Mix 027: Kennedy

Isolée - Initiate 2 
Soylent Green - After All 
C-Rock – Night Falls 
Whirlpool Productions – Nothing 
Frankie Patella – Sunshine 
Jürgen Paape – Triumph 2 
Marvin Dash - Small's Paradise 
Der Marschall & Herb LF - Rizzla Tune 
Hair - Blances 
Random Factor – Broken Mirror (Italo) 
Hair – Polykur 
System 360 – Canon 
Losoul - Ex.or.zis.mus One + Hans Nieswandt - Freakapella

Hausmusik 29 (1998)

'For home use only’ is an anti-club social, a chance to get to know someone/something. A series of transmissions purely dedicated to exploring the other side.

As we build up momentum and start to get our lives back on track, something (life) might be moving a little too fast. It would be wise to take note, take some time out, and slow down for a minute (or 127). It just so happens that I have the ultimate reality stabiliser in the form of an emotional tapestry to help you do this, woven by none other than Mr. Kev Danzey, one of the unofficial mascots of Naarm. 

Now, this bloke is a bit of an enigma, a big heart with a smile to match always got time for everyone else, someone you’d like to have a beer with. Incredibly talented on both sides of the decks, his net casts deep into every corner of the audible universe. He can mix his way into and out of a baking competition. A founding member of the Sunset Sounds movement (TIP!! (Of the hat to k-hole disco)), Wether a 5 am D-floor destroyer or dinner time digestive discourse in all things non-dance, his grasp on all things musical is second to none, and this little recorded piece of time is a resume to back this up. 

Never has there been such an acute collection of emotional pieces put together in such a way that has the potential to move mountains. I’ve listened to this mix so many times and it hits every-fucking-time, at certain points reverberating through the body, in-between those points, coursing through the body like blood. Maybe I'm a bit dramatic but I'm just trying to get the point across, maybe I’m also biased, but fuck it. Anyway, this is something you send to your parents and play to your children, it transcends most things and ascends most situations. Perfect for road trips down the coast with people you hold dear. On that note, go for a drive, press play, get out of here, cya when you get back.

Be as good as you can be. 

His sounds >>> https://soundcloud.com/jack-danzey

TASCAM DR-05

FHUO # 62 // Kev Danzey

One year ago today, @hannah-pezzack and me were scheduled to play at a secret open air in Berlin to celebrate Mayday. Sadly, due to polizei interference, our plans were foiled. So instead we set up shop at home, uncorked three bottles of champagne (did we? Or was it cheap Prosecco?) and played all of our most cosmically silly tracks. The result? 2 hours of Spring time psychedelic energy, very drunk transitions, mutant disco, saxophones, William Burroughs dub, and a track about pirates in a bathtub all alongside an FX called The Black Hole.

Hannah Pezzack & André Pahl Super Secret Tipsy b2b ~ 1st of May 2022 👩‍🔬🧪🧑‍🔬

Cosmic throbbers from the always in form Brian Not Brian @briannotbrian

23 - Brian Not Brian

Recently I’ve been thinking a lot about the spiritual end of the jazz spectrum and what collectivized forms of knowledge it contains. After playing a lot of these records at our local hifi bar, Little Jerry, I thought I’d put together a mix of some favourites from across decades and continents -- sounds from the UK, Finland, Sweden, and of course the US. From the early ‘70s right up to last year.

Image: Douglas R. Ewart's Eric Dolphy Sonic Dread, 2017

Séance Centre Radio Episode 57 - Notes on the Spiritual Jazz Continuum

Chee Shimizu - Guest Mix

Mysteries Of The Deep Podcast, Chapter XXXIII. Breathing-Sinking by Patrick Russell.

Tracklist:
1. Mika Vainio - Monumentti
2. Aleksi Perälä - UK74R1406060
3. Panabrite - Lagoon Resonance
4. Anthony Manning - Islets In Pink Polypropylene 1
5. Anthony Manning - Islets In Pink Polypropylene 2 
6. Ann Lislegaard - The Space Between Us
7. Ester Brinkmann - Leichte Schwere
8. The Caretaker - No One Knows What Shadowy Memories Haunt Them To This Day
9. Wolfgang Voigt - 10'04"
10. Füxa - Overture 2 
11. Cosey Fanni Tutti & Philippe Petit - Mist While Sleeping
12. Joey Beltram - Girk
13. CoH - Spiritoso, Con Amore
14. CoH Plays Cosey - Sin-King
15. Max Loderbauer - Slowrag
16. Imaginary Softwoods - Untitled

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Mysteries Of The Deep XXXIII - PATRICK RUSSELL | BREATHING-SINKING

Inner Oneness

Music, Osmose Expressive e, mixing, mastering, photo : Mekanik Mozz ' Art

E471

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"SHORT COLLECTION OF MUSIC I'VE BEEN ENJOYING OVER THE MONTHS PASSED. THANKS TO PAULO, IZABEL, MICHAL, AND A LITTLE RECORD SHOP SOMEWHERE DEEP IN THE SCOTTISH COUNTRYSIDE."

57 ◆ Fergus Clark

Deep Library 2016 Episode 1

1.	Bookworms Bank recordings
2.	Leif "Untitled" Galdoors
3.	Arthur Russell "Tower of Meanings"
4.	Jorge Valez "Tigerpool" L.I.E.S
5.	Rohs! "Babe Roots"
6.	A Certain Ratio "Rialto"
7.	Golden Teacher "On the Street"
8.	Eqwelze "Static Percs " Atypical Dopennes
9.	Ondo Fudd "Veto plank" Trilogy Tapes
10.	Lowtec "Blundar "
11.	Leif « Moment Beat »
12.	Brian Eno David Byrne Vocal Outtakes
13.	Malvito "Mirage"
14.	Manu Dibango "Ceddo"
15.	Brian Eno David Byrne "Number 8 mix"
16.	Ondo Fudd "Blue Dot"

Deep Library 34

Terekke - Guest mix

A special double CD album available with our traditional 100% recycled cd jackets. Sit back, close your eyes, and listen.

ASC - Time Heals All - [SSCD14] 2xCD 

Disc 1.

1. So Many Questions
2. Throughout the Years
3. Falling From The Sky
4. I Share My Secrets With You
5. Snow In Summer
6. Nothing To Lose
7. If Only For A Minute
8. Washed Away Over Time
9. Are We On The Same Wavelength?

Disc 2.

1. Vanishing Point
2. Shoals
3. The Derelict Outpost
4. Prayers For Abandoned Cosmonauts
5. Voices From Distant Stars
6. Infinity Pool
7. Array
8. Full Circle
9. Satellite's Final Voyage

Written, produced & engineered by ASC aka James Clements.
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Silent Season Canada
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info@silentseason.com

ASC - I Share My Secrets With You [SSCD14]

Julien Dechery & Ivan Liechti played Lossless. 
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Blueboy - Nimbus
The American Analog Set - Waking Up Is Hard To Do
Trembling Blue Stars - A Single Kiss
Northern Picture Library - Love Song For The Dead Che #2
Mojave 3 - You're Beautiful
Jessica Pratt - Aeroplane
The Shapiros - Gone By Fall
Lush - Scarlet (Long Version)
The Autocollants - Send Me Back
Sun Dial - Tremelo
His Name Is Alive - Underwater
Labradford - C. Of People
Spiritualized - Cop Shoot Cop (Demo)
The Verve - A Man Called Sun
Pure X - Heavy Air
Slowdive - Good Day Sunshine

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Chee Shimizu - Guest Mix

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