Name: M August - Meridian Figures by M August in pico sten
Duration: 1 h 51 min 17 s
Description: Cigarettes and wine on the terrace at dusk. Lots of bug spray.

Wait! What! How did this haunting number go unnoticed

pico sten

Our new captains are the Customs lads, sailing from London and navigating through a sea of lover soul, g-funk and garage house. 

Get in, sip your gin and juice, and enjoy the cruise !

@customs_ldn

Cruisin' with... Customs

Memories of memories from the future ❤️

Down To The Water's Edge

Groove Diggers Vol.2 : Sea Wind(Midas Beats)

Groove Diggers Vol.2 : Sea Wind (Midas Beats)

LIBRARY MUSIC MIX BY DJ SOULSCAPE - LIVE AT SIMMONS GROCERY STORE

Total 32m19s

Andrew Jackman - Floating
John Borthwick / Richard Tattersall - The Mood of Twilight
Daniel Janin / Robert Viger - Nobel Tower
Martial Solal - Locomotion
Werner Drexler - Be Good
Claude Perraudin - Gainsbooker
Sauveur Mallia - Funky Bass
Frank McDonald and Terry Devine-King - Second Ordeal
T.Cox - Strolling Happy
Jacky Nodaro et Rovert Hermel - Understood
J.-P. Decerf - Litha
Pierre Dutour - So Glad To Meet You
Guy Pedersen - Au Temps Ancien
A. Riccardo Luciani - Notte A Plaia Blanca
Dick Boyell - Allied Moves Its Hips
The Swingers - Nostalgia
E. Marving - Aquasun

LIBRARY MUSIC MIX BY DJ SOULSCAPE - LIVE AT SIMMONS GROCERY STORE

@evieweily

https://undertheapricottree.net/evie/

"This was a really fun mix to make and moves through a heap of different sounds and tempos that I don’t usually go to when I’m playing out. It’s the kind of selection that I love listening to when I’m just at home - lots of soft rock and 80s synth pop!"

Apricot 47: Evie

Antes da monção(before the monsoon)

Residency show broadcasted live at Radio Tempo Não Pára (17.05.2024)

Artist: @marwanfilali

Salon De Musique w/ Marwan Filali @ Radio TNP 17.05.2024

Cigarettes and wine on the terrace at dusk. Lots of bug spray.

M August - Meridian Figures

Residency show broadcasted live at Radio Tempo Não Pára (20.09.2024)

Artists: @memorabiliarecords & @kiernandj

Faking Jazz Together w/ Norm & Kiernan Abbott @ Radio TNP 20.09.2024

PLASTIC FANTASTIC is very pleased to be relaunching the series with an exclusive guest-mix from Sanky Was Here.

For the uninitiated, would you please tell us a little bit about yourself?

‘Hola, my name is Sanky, I can't seem to shake a childhood nickname at 52..! Anyway, I grew up in Newcastle amongst some nerdy soul and jazz types which was kind of my first and probably last love. I live in Mexico currently’.

Can you provide some insights to your mix, its inspiration, location of recording, or perhaps a few words about some of the records you’ve included?

‘As I don’t have an address here, I spend a while building up (my record collection) either back in the UK or in NYC, and a few times a year I’ll rip them all. So the mixes take a while, but I like that it’s another ‘edit’ to what I really like longterm. I think this mix is genre-free and focused on mood. I do think of it as a mix of two halves, really focused around what’s in the bag for the summer, and with a few places I’m playing in mind. Just trying to send out some love and emotional connection. There's a couple of new discoveries and weird rarities, alongside some all-time winners that I just feel are good for a summer kick-off. Mama Milk (the 2nd track on the mix) just reminds me of some hazy Ibiza afternoons, and who would’ve thought there’s ANOTHER William Pitt record worth a late night dance too!’

Are there any upcoming projects you have in the pipeline which you would like to share?

‘Well, good question. Covid got me fiddling with Ableton and learning (failing!) to play some keyboards. I made a few sketches which I have told myself I should finish this year. It’s about as close to naive pop as you can get. I played some to a couple of people and they were more enthusiastic than myself about them for sure!
Other than that, playing a couple of festivals, the mighty Love International in Tisno/Croatia in July, and the We Out Here Festival in August.’

A big thanks to Sanky Was Here for providing this awesome mix for The Sunrise Mixtapes, and for taking time out to speak to us

Track ID requests @soundcloud.com/sankywashere 

Artwork courtesy of sankywashere.wtf

Sanky Was Here (Love International)

And now, a little bit of JAZ

John Zahl, also known as JAZ, is a DJ and record collector based in New York, USA, well-known for his eccentric edits and oddball mixes. We managed to connect with John after he'd arrived back in NYC after a few months spent travelling.

His mix, which was actually recorded nine years ago for Sanpo Disco on NTS Radio, features many of his all-time favourite records. He tells us these are songs that he still loves, and which remain in constant rotation. We'd like to mention a few of the tracks, starting with the lovely slo-mo/Italo disco record 'Non Ricordo, Ma Piangendo', B-side of a rare 7" by Giancarlo Aspromonte. Pit Troja's 'Der Voodoo Mann' from 1985 can only be described as German hip-hop over a Moroder-esque bass-line, wonderfully eccentric, as advertised! The late great Björn Holm's 'Tid At Stå Stilla' from his 1984 LP Bortom Gränsernas Hav, takes us into Swedish synth-pop territory. The mix features a few of JAZ's own edits, including 'Cloud Worship' which has to be one of our favourite edits of all time, just superb. This is an exceptionally well put-together mix, and despite the wide range of material, it flows perfectly and naturally, as a good eclectic mix should do.

Check out his brand new 12" edit release on the Death On Wax label:

https://store.deathonwax.com/collections/catalog/products/dw-00-00-04

Another vinyl EP featuring some more top-shelf edits is forthcoming on the Pinchy & Friends label, and a compilation album entitled Forbidden Fruit is also in the works with Portuguese label Secrets Of Sound, so be sure to check that out too when it's released.

Big thanks to JAZ for his kind permission to include this awesome mix in The Sunrise Mixtapes

Track ID requests @soundcloud.com/j-a-z-1

Artwork courtesy of sankywashere.wtf

A Little Bit Of JAZ

A one-hour trip, off the grid, drifting through the shadows.

In The Shade

01. Go Kurosawa - Autowalk 
02. Bison - Traveller
03. Torch Song - Ballad of Pearl and John
04. Hybrid Man - Eternal Nightglow
05. Alex Kassian - Trippy Gas
06. Psychederek - Thinkin’ Bout U Pt.2 (Venus)
07. ddwy - Stars Stars
08. Feater - Running Out
09. Now Always Fades - Into The Doldrums
10. Saint Etienne - Carnot Sleep 
11. Durutti Column - Nina (No Guitar Solo Edit)
12. The Verve - A Man Called Sun 
13. Ash Ra Temple - Day-Dream

In The Shade [Mix/Oct. 2025]

Singularity  - Self Discovery

Soft & Sweet Vol.2 (Easy Listen Series : Exotic Instrumental)

Soft & Sweet Vol.3 (Easy Listen Series : Lounge)

Ahead of Outro Tempo II close friend John Gómez (@johngomezldn) contributes to the MFM Mix Series with this wonderfully soothing second episode titled Spring Awakening (photo credit: @marionavilaros). Q&A here below.

www.musicfrommemory.com

MFM: Hey John! So, before we talk about the present and future let's briefly flash back. How do you look back on the first Outro Tempo compilation? It seems that it has opened up quite a lot of ears and doors, do you think it had the same impact in Europe as it did in Brazil?

JG: It had different sorts of impacts, in the sense that in Europe Outro Tempo was very much an introduction to a world of music most of us didn’t know about, but in Brazil it offered an alternative take on its own musical history. It generated a lot of interest in that period – I mean, you can see how many reissues of music with a similar sound have come out in the past two years. I was amazed at how much it resonated in Brazil: I still get emails, occasionally from quite prominent musicians and journalists, thanking me for my work promoting Brazilian music. I never could have expected that kind of response and, to answer your first question, on a personal level Outro Tempo generated a lot of good will for me in Brazil. 

MFM: Outro Tempo II the full compilation will be out in May but first there's the Single Promocional teaser EP, containing 2 exclusive tracks. How did you decide these 2 tracks had to be on it? Do they connect both the compilations in one way or another?

JG: Yes, naturally they connect, as two of the members from Bruhahá Babélico were in another group that features on the compilation and were part of the São Paulo scene. The idea for the EP came from being blown away by the incredible Babélico II when I first heard it. It was actually a 26 minute jam that was recorded directly to cassette and it would have been difficult to release in its original form. I edited the music in a way that was true to the original, but as it was taken from cassette it had very different sonic qualities to the rest of the music on the compilation. I felt this would interrupt the overall flow of the comp, so I thought it would be a nice idea to release it independently as a teaser EP. It’s totally bonkers and I’m thrilled that people seem as excited by the track as I am! 

MFM: Would you say Outro Tempo II is the logical or natural follow up to its predecessor, does it really continue where the first left off?

JG: Initially I didn’t really want to do a follow up. I thought there was no point in just compiling the tunes that didn’t make it on to the first. But eventually I distanced myself enough from the compilation to see another narrative emerging in Brazilian music of the time. There are points of intersection but it feels like an evolution from the first, moving in a different direction towards the experimental soul of Brazil’s gigantic cities and the relationship developed with new influences from outside. 

MFM: So, thanks for contributing to our new mix series! When we first asked, you said about maybe doing a more 'chilled' mix. Did you have a specific purpose in mind with that? 

JG: I just wanted to record something less functional and self-promoting than the hundreds of dance mixes that are uploaded each week. Last year I did an RA mix and a Beats In Space but it feels like ages since I’ve simply put together some nice songs. I like saving my dancefloor tunes for the dancefloor as I think they lose some of their magic or impact if they’ve been heard many times before. This is definitely not geared towards the dancefloor: it is deep music for listening and features outsider folk from North Carolina and the Basque country, fusion from Mexico and Argentina, cosmic sounds from Martinique and Nigeria, and hypnotic rhythms from Brazil, with a little nod to Outro Tempo II.

M August - Meridian Figures

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