Hard to believe we’re at 40 episodes already. For this milestone Brandon Hocura has put together a mix of electronic and vernacular music from lounges, bar rooms, hotels, high schools, hippie communes, and small towns. This is music from the margins, straight from the heart. Full of dreams, lived experience, wisdom and heartbreak.

Diaz Bros. Plus One - Life of a Fool
Unknown Artist - Thai 45
Rene Ufer - Setuke
Christopher Banks - That’s Life
Jack & Kathy Henderson - My Last Year
Monica Behan - For a Reason
David Gonzalez - Her Love is Like Sometimes
The Spectrums - Keepin’ On
The Dreamers - Love Will Find You
Dean Richard - Aphelia
Cat’s Meow - Maybe You Can Fly
Leon Meau - My Mind
Dave James - Wheels Go Round
Peter Roos - I En Forandrad Varld
Michel - Ocean World
Palm Pizazz - Deliver Me
Nexus - Giving You All My Love
Don Armstong & Victoria Garvey - Japanese Clouds

Séance Centre Radio Episode 40 NTS - Maybe You Can Fly VOL 1(Sept 2021) NO BANTER

Taken from 'The Zenmenn - Bella Fantasia' (MFM057)
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Bella Fantasia

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Prins Emanuel presents Sif Nou #19 (07/08/22)

Fasaan Rec. Episode #3 @ Mutant Radio /Prins Emanuel, Golden Ivy & Inre Kretsen Grupp

Clio, muse of history, is invoked by an anonymous 12th-century woman. Her fragment of verse in Latin asks: what happens when poems no longer please our leaders and our art becomes crime?

Clio – faithful companion, we are driven out, leave!
With love and thanks to Ryan Skelton and Christina Petrie

Time is Away - Clio 200223

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'Morphing Polaroids' is the debut album by Japanese born Saeko Okuchi alias Saeko Killy for Hamburg-based Bureau B. After moving to Berlin in 2018 Saeko Killy found herself in the orb of Club Sameheads, where she made herself known as a DJ and live performer After releasing her first EP "嘘みたいな世界で踊れ – Dancing Pikapika" with the label Chill Mountain from Osaka in 2021, followed a fruitful Jam session during the pandemic lockdown, resulting in the eleven titles collected together here for the album 'Morphing Polaroids ' produced by Brussels DJ and selector sofa elsewhere. The LP is a contemporary leftfield club sound, effortlessly combining elements of dub, post-punk and kraut with electronic beats.

Back in Japan, Saeko Okuchi started to learn the piano as early as four years old and at sixteen she started to play the guitar. Through her parents influences, Saeko discovered Jazz and Brazilian music. Visiting Techno-Parties in Tokyo awoke her interest in the spheres of electronic dance music. DJs who played renegade club music to the mainstream played an important part in that. Through those DJs, Saeko discovered artists such as Cabaret Voltaire and Throbbing Gristle, who greatly inspired her with their Industrial sounds. Driven by those impulses, Saeko Killy became a DJ herself. During her time travelling in Brazil, she played at Underground-Parties, organised by the artist collective VOODOOHOP in São Paulo. A context that showed free artistic expressions and broadened her horizons, both politically and musically.

Alongside DJing, different band projects in Tokyo and Berlin became her way of experimenting vocally. A Lo-Fi-Improv-Snapshot of her krautrock-post-punk-esque voice is found on the Vax!-EP (2021) by des Sameheads on the track "Die in Seconds" by the group "Automattenfall". To produce music herself, for her either English or Japanese lyrics, she began to experiment with Synthesizers. 

After the release of the first Saeko Killy EP (2021), the Belgian scene DJ and producer soFa elsewhere asked her to contribute vocals on his song "The Dream" ("All My Friends Are Witches", Planet Trip, 2022). The musical collaboration worked out so well that he invited Saeko for an improv Session at his home studio in Brussels:

"The whole process was started during the pandemic – I was very depressed at home and soFa pulled me out of Berlin to Brussels. So I can see through the songs, it was also a process to find my own fire again. The fire looked out but was actually still burning silently; looks changing, and morphing, but still there, coming back, again and again."

The meandering described by Saeko Killy during the production process is reflected in the album title as well as in the lyrics and sound of the entire record especially the lyrics to "Sun Shower" and "Intimate Flame” which describe the resurgence of her artistic vigour after it being dulled down and paralysed by the pandemic lockdown. The two found out that they complement each other delightfully and had much fun recording many tunes, from which this album came into being. This interplay virtually challenges the intuitively emerging lyrics. Almost rapped the voice becomes an instrument. 'Morphing Polaroids' casts a spell as psychedelic dance music, which unfolds its magic through a certain form of opposing disturbance, similar to the Japanese avant-garde.

Tracklist:

01. Confusion And Friction
02. Vitamin D
03. Belgium
04. Mars Rocks
05. Lullaby For Nightmare
06. Strawberry Flips
07. Alt!
08. Sun Shower
09. Red Moon
10. Intimate Flame
11. Insecure Drive

PREMIERE: Saeko Killy - Intimate Flame [Bureau B]

Tout tourne et pourtant la quête est lancée. Travaux psychédélique adjacents à l'étude des puits gravitationnels et de la recherche d'exoplanète. Recherche de l'autre, d'altérité, fragrance du hasard, temps arrêté, étendu en tous sens, démultiplié dans toutes les directions. Géométrie du temple dans les nuages...

Tracklist :
Gryphon Rue - Rainbow Serpent
YMO - Waterford (a303 One Lane Closed Mix)
Atrium Carceri - The Long Walk
Intertoto - Scanners
Kosmorama - Odyssee
Les Halles - Images Of Tecopa
Bourbonese Qualk - Knock
Metra.Vestlud - Dotekayu Do The Point Of Feeeling
Material Things - Grenoble
Kenneth Bager and Islandman - Betrayal
Gryphon Rue - Optical and Magnetic
Salamanda - Puddle Underwater
Banco de Gaia The Princess and the sky goat (Andrew Heath remix)
Charlotte & Reinhard, WECANDANCE - Mycelium
Sofie Birch & Johan Carøe - Sugi
Objekt - Nervous Silk
Nozomu Matsumoto - I
David Edren - Uurwerk
Nozomu Matsumoto - Vertigo
Umeko Ando - Atuy so Kata (RLHBSLCN remix)
Universal Being - Electric Torch
Suns Of Arqa - Durga Dub
Sussan Deyhim & Richard Horowitz - Got Away
Giraffi Dog - Outside
Vague Imaginaires - Le Temple dans les Nuages

Textes : 
Jean-Pierre Luminet - La forme de l'Univers
Jean-Pierre Luminet - Trous noirs 
André Brack - Exobiologie - La vie ailleurs dans l'Univers

Sieste Ambient #100 w/ Vague imaginaires - La vie gravitationelle

During the pandemic period, anxiety disorders of various kinds were increased and ambient music could be a treatment, a refuge against daily burnout, fearfulness and panic. 

Make Room! harks back to the sound universe of the first chill-out rooms and to the related movement of the 1988-95 era. It’s not nostalgia, but a lysergic mist of psychedelic music, ambient, techno, balearic, and dub records, melded with spoken words and field recordings. 

Make Room! is a retreat, a shelter, a crack of dawn avant garde soundscape.

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Losing My Marbles

Visionary “Rap” EP by precocious 18-year-old duo Eric Davis (ELV) and Chuck Prater (Chuk Chu) from 1989. Imagine if Schoolly D had joined Native Tongues and made an early hip-house EP produced by Larry Heard.

The story of Me & E took shape in Avalon Park in South Chicago, a vibrant, diverse, and politically active community with a rich musical culture. This was the fertile playground for producer Eric Davis (ELV) and lyricist Chuck Prater (Chuk Chu). The park itself was adjacent to Eric’s backyard and they would hop the fence to listen to music, drink beers, and freestyle, even in the middle of the notoriously cold Chicago winters. Eric’s dad, Arlington Davis Jr., was a jazz drummer who played in the legendary spiritual jazz group The Awakening in the ‘70s. Jazz ran deep in their family with proud connections to Miles Davis. Arlington would host weekly jam sessions at his home, and Chuck & Eric were in regular attendance. On those evenings, Eric and his brothers were able to take turns on the sticks alongside the veteran players, honing their fledgling chops. These experiences gave them the confidence to take music seriously, and start a group.

Channeling his drumming skills through an array of synths and drum machines, Eric produced tracks in his bedroom, inspired by artists like The Art Of Noise, Kraftwerk, and New Order. Combining their atmospheric electronic elements with his jazz background, and beat-making skills, he created a distinct sound that still sounds fresh today. Chuck was listening to Hendrix, Joplin, Public Enemy, MC Lyte, and Big Daddy Kane and developed a unique and uplifting lyrical flow. They met up after school almost every day to make music, and quickly produced the four songs that make up their Rap EP.

The music duo never lost touch, and continued to produce throughout the 90’s, forming Rich Boys, another rap group with their crew from Avalon Park. In 1995, Chuk Chu released a solo album, Memoirs of a Blue Light Special, focussing on a more sample based production style. Eric inspired by the house scene in Chicago, produced some ethereal and otherworldly electronic music, which Mixed Signals is compiling for future release. The Rap EP is just an introduction to the ongoing story of Me & E. 

Limited Edition of 100 with risograph printed artwork. Regular Edition of 350 with disco sleeve and sticker.

Tracklist:

A1 Whatcha Need (3:50)
A2 The Wrath (3:43)

B1 Swing On (4:03)
B2 Silent Is The E (3:37)

Release by Mixed Signals

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Me & E - Whatcha Need (MS07)

Mixed Signals

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