A compilation of all the exclusively compiled guestmixes for music blog NOTHING BUT HOPE AND PASSION that were produced and published between 2012 and 2022. Thanks a lot for everybody involved in these ones. 

The blog morpehd into the new name OFFKEY (via https://nbhap.com) but the Messy Mix took over its old Soundcloud profile.

Hope And Passion Guestmixes 2012 - 2022

The mixtape Berlin-based songwriter https://soundcloud.com/lucykruger exclusively complied for NOTHING BUT HOPE AND PASSION, like her latest album "Transit Tapes" , lives in the paradoxical state of intimacy and alienation that we find with strangers on the train. All going in the same direction, but how often do we break the silence? As if there were some common agreements amongst strangers to remain exactly that. Yet, for the duration of the ride we inhabit a shared space. On her record, Lucy examines those spaces, the in-betweens and the almost, the melancholia and promises that transit holds. Not really a search, but an ache for something else we hope to find even if it is just by moving the couch from one place to another.

Learn more about Lucy, her idea of "Transit" and the tracklist of this tape at: https://nbhap.com/sounds/exclusive-lucy-kruger-transit-mixtape

Exclusive: Lucy Kruger's Meditative Transit Mixtape

Creative Musicians

Creative Musicians (Waajeed Remix) [feat. Sean Haefeli]

"Ever since I was a child music has been a sacred space for me to dream inside of," says Adam Miller and his recently released solo debut "Gateway" underlines that with haunting meditative sounds. . His distinctive cinematic, neo-psychedelic wave guitar play we've all come to love from his work with Chromatics is still the heart of his sound but by being freed from conventional structures it allows the artist do dive deeper into the actual sound and its dream-like state. "Gateway" is an ambient album designed with and for guitars and that's something you don't see that often these days.

For NBHAP he compiled an exclusive mixtape that works like a companion piece to the whole "Gateway" concept and it's a joyful ride. About it Miller says: "Each song in my mix is its own little world to me, and each song here creates that space for me to dream. Some of these songs have been standbys for the majority of my life. Others have entered into my awareness only more recently."

More information and full tracklisting at: https://bit.ly/3HQ5jfi

Exclusive: A Meditative Gateway Guestmix By Chromatics Founder Adam Miller

Tony Minvielle

Tony Minvielle on Jazz FM : Sun 6th Mar 2022 w/ Robert Glasper

Curated once a month, sip and dance to a DJ set by local artists and discover our new favorite natural wine selection, curated by our Café Kitsuné Vancouver team.

For this October edition, discover @frankieteardrop1 exclusive Super-Series set recorded live at Café Kitsuné Vancouver.

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Frankie Teardrop | Café Kitsuné Super-Series | Exclusive Mix

Ahead of their first London show since playing the main stage at We Out Here, this coming Friday at London’s Colour Factory, we are excited to share a special mix by TRC founder and NRO curator Lex Blondin celebrating the musical influences of London’s premier Latin jazz big band, New Regency Orchestra, featuring their brand new debut single,“Mambo Rama”.

Lex: “This mix is a bit of a tribute to Tito Puente , showcasing his compositions, intricate horn arrangements, and of course his amazing skills as a timbale player and soloist.  The lyrics in Eddie Palmieri's 'Bajo Con Tumbao' asks a very pertinent question whilst laying it all down:
 
I invite you to enjoy this tumbao bassline, rich and flavoursome
A rhythm flavored with cane, tobacco, honey and rum
I dedicate to the Caribbean soneros
This tumbao bass line
Who doesn't like this tumbao?
Who!?
But who doesn't like this tumbao?'
 
I'm also going all the way back to the originator of Mambo , the OG Arsenio Rodriguez with two of his deepest tracks. 'Chinito' and 'Esas No ' have such hip hop energy to me... These two are on the waiting list awaiting to get the NRO treatment. There's a few extravagant mambos with the don arranger Johnny Richards, all the way to 70's NYC salsa via Puerto Rico... That Orquesta Colon is so damn sophisticated and groovy that it might have to land in the NRO set too.. And a touch of mean cha cha's for good measure. In a nutshell the sound that I'm trying to pursue with the New Regency Orchestra.”
 
New Regency Orchestra play NE London’s Colour Factory on Friday 16 December, with support from DJs Desta, Bushbby, Alma de la Selva, Tim Garcia, Lex Blondin, and Cosmo Sofi.  Find the ticket link and full track list on the MIMS website, and more info below on NRO, direct from TRC / ¡COMO NO! 

Inspired by New York’s dynamic collision of jazz and Latin music from the 1950s to the 1970s, New Regency Orchestra grew from Lex Blondin’s “obsession” with record digging and the importance placed on creating community, two things at the heart of his work as founder of now studio/rehearsal space and former influential London live music venue, Total Refreshment Centre (TRC).

Having reconnected with percussionist Crispin Spry Robinson, at a session recorded at TRC in April 2021, Blondin and Robinson realised both shared the same dream of making an Afro-Cuban big band, fused with the sounds of contemporary London. They enrolled Cuban-Argentinian pianist/arranger Eliane Correa, and renowned arranger/composer & conductor Nathaniel Cross (SEED Ensemble, Zara McFarlane), to flesh out a high-energy, bustling setlist, brimming with Nuyorican basement club atmosphere. Seeking to pay homage to the sounds and Afro-Cuban musical saints of yesteryear but reinvent it through a 2021 London filter and present it to a new and engaged audience, New Regency Orchestra was born.

Featuring an eight-piece rhythm section and a storming twelve-piece horn section that includes trombonist Rosie Turton, saxophonist Tamar Osborn (Collocutor) & trumpeter Nick Walters (Ruby Rushton, Riot Jazz) alongside Latin music protagonists, Ernesto Marichales (timbales - Waaju, Yelfris Valdes, Ska Cubano), bongo player Flavio Correa, and bass player Frank Portuondo, New Regency Orchestra’s high-impact and dancefloor-inspired repertoire covers a uniquely fertile period between 1947-1979 for Afro-Caribbean big band experimentation.

With fresh arrangements on timeless classics written for each performance, and a lineup of London-based musicians raised on a steady diet of Coltrane, reggae/dub soundsystems & Pirate Radio, New Regency Orchestra breathe new life into decades-old music.

“We’re going to hit the refresh button every time. We’re going to come with new tunes, new edits, new soloists. Basically there are no limits. We want to surprise people and get creative. We might throw a grime MC right in the middle of it.” - Lex Blondin

MIMS Guest Mix: New Regency Orchestra (TRC + ¡COMO NO! / London, UK)

a live mix featuring some recent favorites i've been playing out and a few unreleased tracks i had lying around...enjoy!

tracklist: https://www.instagram.com/p/ComssesuAgm/

Live from Darcy's Room - Austin, TX

Did a 2 hour specialist mix for Foundation FM.
Run it!

1. Zemög - Derin
2. Instant House - Lost Horizons Version
3. Reggie Dokes - Feelings
4. Felipe Gordon - For Martha (Kai Alce NDATL Club Mix)
5. Scott Grooves - It Doesn't All Have To Be Techy
6. Susumu Yokota - Galactic Form
7. Takuya Matsumoto - Regal Chant
8. Dino Lenny - Did This
9. UNOS - Flavourtown
10. Aroop Roy - Ebadile (original)
11. Bina Mistry - Bol Jaani
12. 51 Days - Paper Moon
13. Fluxion - Passing Thru The Surface
14. Eden Burns - Shaker
15. Tom tom the iron E.P- "480" Tribal mix
16. Malik Hendricks - Praise (Eli Escobar Remix)
17. Levon Vincent - The Medium is the Message II
18. The Maghreban - M25 (ft King Kashmere)
19. Anoesis - Heavy Water (Original)
20. Leonce - In Ha Mood (Instrumental)
21. Dj Swisha - Aquarius Swing (DJ SWISHA's Libra Bootleg)
22. Dexter Colt - Off The Brons
23. Malik Hendricks - UPB (James Bangura Remix)
24. Cassioware - Wanna See You Freak
25. Spray - Slipped
26. Pura Pura - Feel the 808 (Sarah Farina Remix)
27. Sarayu - E30 Track
28. Silvestre - Patty
29. Prince Pasensi - RUTU
30. DJ Trace - Coffee (Harmony Remix)
31. DJ SoFa - Junglist Respect
32. Doctor Jeep - Icy Lake VIP

FOUNDATION FM "SPECIALIST" MIX

Queen Of Effect

Come Back Home (Agora)

Divalash Featuring Rooted Soul - Come Back Home (Agora)

Our Track and Message for "DAS|DA auf der Insel".

Meeting friends,
having shared friends,
playing together,
hanging out together.

Our Motto for our electronic come-together.

A place where we could
really enjoy ourselves and
be free.
Whoever was there,
was there for great music.

The Magic of the Island (The Message III)

I got my 'home alone'
aint nobody been out here 
besides my n*gga gnome 
and if you can't be understanding 
what I would've done 
to keep you down babe 
to keep you 'round babe
it aint nobody who can tell me like you tell me
aint nobody who could help me 
aint nobody who could stress me 
but f*ck dat gone head and undress me

she's so sweet like jasmine 
I just gotta have it 
oh you, oh you

I hate that I'm not strong enough to rid what they say
I'm only getting in my way 
there's a part of me that wants to start over 
this aint no "sis" shit 
you get me lifted 
princess riding 
you find it

she's so sweet like jasmine 
I just gotta have it 
oh you, oh you

gotta have it (jasmine)

Just in time for the high times of the hot season, https://soundcloud.com/washedoutofficial mastermind Ernest Greene compiled an exclusive summerly mixtape for us that perfectly works for an afternoon at the pool by yourself on a hot summer day.

Find the full tracklist along with a short Q&A with Greene at: https://nbhap.com/sounds/exclusive-washed-out-summer-mix

Exclusive: Washed Out's Laidback Summer Mixtape NBHAP

Canadian dream electronica duo https://soundcloud.com/southernshores delivers a much needed boost of positve energy with their eclectic exploration through a collection of songs, sounds, and artists that are currently inspiring them and their latest album "Siena".

Further information on the mix and band at:  https://nbhap.com/sounds/southern-shores-thinking-of-tomorrow-guestmix

Exclusive: Southern Shores' Uplifting "Thinking Of Tomorrow" Guestmix

Now, this is a special mix by two special artists. https://soundcloud.com/ultraflexband aka https://soundcloud.com/faraomusic and https://soundcloud.com/special-k-special-k just released their fabulous debut LP "Visions Of Ultraflex" which is an irresistible tribute to pop and disco. And same goes for their lush and groovy mixtape they compiled for NBHAP.

Find the full tracklist and learn more about some of these tracks on our blog: https://nbhap.com/sounds/exclusive-ultraflex-guestmix

Exclusive: A Lush Disco Mix By Ultraflex

2020 sees Jazz & Milk celebrating its 15th anniversary! For this special occasion we have invited Àbáse for an interview. The musican and producer from Hungary, based in Berlin, also contributed a dj guest mix. Dusty is presenting to you various exclusives from the forthcoming vinyl compilation "COMMUNITY - 15 Years of Jazz & Milk" which will be released on Nov 27th on Jazz & Milk.
pre-order: https://jazzandmilk.bandcamp.com/album/community-15-years-of-jazz-milk
Thanks for tuning in!

Label head Dusty is broadcasting live every 3rd Tuesday a month from 6 - 8pm (CET) from the dublab.de studio in Cologne, Nippes! In his monthly show Dusty presents his favourite musical discoveries as well as forthcoming exclusives and guest mixes – soulful, spiritual, electronic, cosmic… you name it, Jazz & Milk got it.
www.jazzandmilk.com

Tracklisting:
Mtume - Theme (For The People)
Bongani GiveThanks - Indoda (African Repraise) / exclusive - Jazz & Milk
Sam Irl - Changes / exclusive - Jazz & Milk
Feater - Cosmic Dust / exclusive - Jazz & Milk

Àbáse Interview:
Àbáse - Align ft. Wayne Snow
Àbáse - Fallen Statues / exclusive - Jazz & Milk

Àbáse Vinyl Mix:
John Coltrane Quartet - Alabama
Cannonball Adderley Quintet - Arriving Soon
Baden Powell - Sarava
Art Blakey Quartet - Cafe
Waaju - Kaolack
Klaus Doldinger - Raga Up And Down
Dumama + Kechou - Wessi Mama (feat Siya Makuzeni)
Roland Kirk - Fly By Night
Dévai Nagy Kamilla - Zöld Erdőben
Gonda Sextet - Profán Ünnep
Luedji Luna - Um Corpo No Mundo

Jazz & Milk - 15 Years Anniversary Edition w/ Dusty & Àbáse (November 2020 / dublab.de)

Inspired by the hypnotic groove of their recent single "Vendetta", we asked Danish post-punk heroes https://soundcloud.com/iceage-official to put together a mix for us on the loose theme of Dark Disco. What they came up with is an impeccably-curated mix of tense, nervy sleaze, glossy synths and euphoric soul and funk. Like the best mixes, it's a real journey and a must-listen experience for all lovers of adventurous party nights.

Check out the full tracklist for the mix along with an in-depth interview with ICEAGE on our blog at: https://bit.ly/3grfYlC

Exclusive: A "Dark Disco Mix" From Iceage

Telling stories through sound and music. This is an onging mixtape project - from music lovers for music lovers, curated by https://soundcloud.com/burnout-sumner along with friends and admired artists. ♥

Meant as an alternative to the fast-paced, algorithm-driven age of playlists this is an in-depth journey into hand-picked music and sound-driven storytelling. ♫

Exclusive: Washed Out's Laidback Summer Mixtape NBHAP

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