Mixes for Friends

Every Wednesday since we opened, we’ve hosted a listening session at migas—one album or performance played in full, in silence. These are recordings from those performances.

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For our latest Island Time episode, we introduce French-born & Berlin-based Boris Paillard a.k.a. @djmixanthrope, who has been shaking up dancefloors from Canada to Ghana since 2015 with african, afro-diasporic and afro-caribbean songs & sounds. After working for Akwaaba Music in Accra, he started the monthly event series “African Beats & Pieces” in Berlin in 2017, inviting passionate DJs and underground live acts to explore specific musical themes.

This mix focuses on the music made & sung by women on the continent, whose powerful voices are too seldom heard. It features many hidden gems found during sleepless clicking nights on YouTube, one of Mixanthrope’s favourite digital digging grounds.

Tracklist

00:00 · Hadiza Mangou ft. Kaidan Gaskia - Dan Adam (Niger)
03:30 · Nana S Bibata - Stop Coronavirus (Burkina Faso)
05:47 · Linda Ayupuka - Ndaana Eera Ymah (Ghana)
08:24 · Djélika Diawara - Kamalemba (Mali)
10:48 · Koro La Diva - Yayoroba Yoroba (Mali)
13:15 · Hamsou Garba - La Guireto (Niger)
16:07 · Lady G - Sê hômi démin (Benin)
18:33 · Kaltuun Bacado - Gabdhaha Laguma Dheele (Somalia)
20:49 · Halimo Gobaad - Iga Jooji (Somalia)
23:11 · Natou - Maka (Burkina Faso)
25:15 · Ensaf Madani - الحوبا - جديد الاغاني السودانية (Sudan)
27:12 · Ensaf Fathi - إنصاف فتحي الزهي برنامج قهوتنا (Sudan)
30:18 · Fati Mariko - Dunia (Niger)
33:32 · Maïmouna Soumbounou - Dakan (Mali)
38:58 · Marizo - Amour Condiment (Guinea-Conakry)
42:59 · Meizah ft. Dedake - Manekiteky (Madagascar)
47:33 · Bitsat Seyoum - Tewmaneh (Ethiopia)
52:31 · Waayaha Cusub - Dhiilada (Somalia)

Island Time Radio:  Mix 34 with Mixanthrope

Ciao tutti, 
For this episode of my NTS radio show, I am in Asia / Japan all month and invited the Tokyo based painter of sophisticated techno, Haruka. 
For this hour we go deep within and hop of the slow groovy train of time and space for a beautiful reflective journey with a pallet of feels and kinda right on point with the eclipse season & our cosmic skies as Pluto goes direct and marks the end of its stay in Capricorn, prompting reflections on transformations since 2008.  

Hope you enjoy ! ❣️

@haruka_ptc

NTS RADIO GiGi FM Presents Haruka October 2024

@ben-osborn‘s Memories of Circular Time is a new series of interconnected works for electronic sequencers, samples, field recordings, layering looping sequences of different lengths, patterns of change and return, exploring how time is perceived when it is considered as a series of interlocking circles rather than a progression.

Ben Osborn presents Memories of Circular Time listening session at migas 19.06.25

@morgan-greenstreet (Is This Afrobeats?) & @djmixanthrope (African Beats & Pieces) took the listeners on a musical journey to Zambia with a selection of rare tracks on July, 31st 2025.

Tracklist:

Alick Nkhata - Chiperoni (1959)
Alfred Chisala Kalusha Jr - Ni Maggie (1989)
Mulemena Boys - Pamuzhi Palubabo (1984)
Amayenge - Mulumbwe (1988)
P.K. Chishala - Mutete (1988)
Short Mazabuka - Maggie (2003)
Paul Ngnozi - Anasoni (1976)
AMANAZ - HISTORY OF MAN (1975)
Smokey Haangala - Nazo Nkhani (1981)
Greg Miyanda - Ndatambula Lugwalo (1981)
Black Power Band - Imisango Ya Ba Chairman (1981)
Afunika - Piki Piki Skirt (2018)
Brian Chilala - Chitinti (feat. Ngoma Zasu) (2015)
Mukuni Palace Women's Choir - Shungu Namutitima (2003)
Mashombe Blue Jeans - See ba dadi (1995)
Amayenge - Chifuchi Cha Zambia (1988)
Alick Nkhata - Mayo Na Bwalya  (1950)

modrums & Mixanthrope: Zooming In · Zambia listening session at migas 31.07.25

Shinji Wakasa‘s live ambient performance with electronics and Buddhist bell.
A contrast between complexity and minimalism, like a dry garden.

(only first 15mins of the performance since the recorder broke)

Shinji Wakasa: Resonance of a Drop listening session at migas 10.7.25 (recorder broke after 15mins)

@servando presents an ambient, experimental, electroacoustic listening session.

http://servando.teks.no

Servando Barreiro listening session at migas 25.09.25

@sonomayrit guides us through an exploration of interfering radio transmissions, field recordings, and analog artifacts from the Strait of Gibraltar.

"In September, I traveled to Cádiz and Tangier to record the interferences created by Spanish and Moroccan radio stations broadcasting on the same frequencies of the Strait of Gibraltar.

I made field recordings of the Atlantic Ocean and the Mediterranean Sea colliding, the strong winds that shape the landscapes on both shores, and the night sounds of both cities. Using self-made radio receivers, I captured overlapping AM and FM signals to create a soundscape of the 14 kilometers that separate the two continents."

More info at:

https://sonomayrit.xyz/interfenreces-gibraltar

sono mayrit: radio interferences listening session at migas 01.10.25

This is my full Set from Saturday night in Sisyphos. Thank you to everyone who was a part of it, lots of love (and fog) was in the air <3
If you like it, feel free to follow me on FB:
https://www.facebook.com/eliasdoremusic 

Elias Doré @ Sisyphos Wintergarten, 12.12.15

go support your favorite artists by buying their music and seeing their shows.

Nicolas Jaar - DJ Set at Sub Club 11.15.15

Recorded at Modern Cathedrals pres. Eden IV at Tangent Gallery in Detroit 2018-05-25.

Evigt Mörker at Tangent Gallery, Detroit 2018-05-25

Music from one of the most beautiful mornings of my life. Thank you to everyone who danced into this perfect day with me.. 
Having been going to Fusion for 10 years, this was a dream come true and I probably never was so excited and nervous before a set. Although I imagined how it hopefully would be, the moment itself exceeded my expectations and I just couldn't stop smiling. I feel very grateful that my vision of what a sunrise at Fusion can sound like resonated so well with you all.. 
Please excuse the occasional audio glitches - there was a voltage problem with the mixer which made the audio cut out at random moments. There aren't too many of those though :)

Feel free to follow..
https://www.facebook.com/eliasdoremusic/

A Sunrise at Fusion Festival - Seebühne, 2018

Every week in Berlin, we invite artists to share the music they love. These recordings come straight from our space, just as they were played.

All sets at migas are captured from the output of our Isonoe ISO420 mixer into a Tascam FR-AV2 recorder via balanced cables, in WAV 48kHz / 32-bit float.

The mastering chain includes only a touch of analog-style saturation (BB Tubes), applied in parallel to add warmth and cohesion, followed by a transparent limiter (L2) to gently control peaks.

The final file is exported as FLAC 48kHz / 16-bit.

modrums & Mixanthrope: Zooming In · Zambia listening session at migas 31.07.25

migas, a listening bar