021 - Kiernan Abbott(@kiernandj)

Kiernan Abbott is a record collector & DJ who constantly pays homage to his Welsh roots like nobody else, uncovering lost gems from his homeland and beyond and selling them via his Fragments in Wax platform; a webstore,  YouTube channel and killer mix series.

For the podcast, Kiernan stuck to his guns with a hour journey, through all sorts of Welsh oddities, brushing on everything from washed out Wave to heavy Trance rippers.

Continuous Movement 021 - Kiernan Abbott(Fragments In Wax)

https://www.nts.live/shows/soup-to-nuts-john-gomez/episodes/soup-to-nuts-w-john-gomez-6th-december-2021

Tropical rhythms, devotional boogie and soulful shenanigans with a heavy jazz undertone, Patrick Forge gathers it all up for your listening pleasure.

Soup To Nuts w/ John Gomez - 6th December 2021

Annual review translated into my musical journey of 2021. All gravy baby!! Skål!!
 
                                            

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Mix # 02

Jimmy Got Jamz - that man changed [Jazz House]

2025 Radhastami Weekend Festival kirtans, recorded at Sri Sri Radha Radhanath temple, Chatsworth, on August 30-31, 2025.

Hare Krishna - Radha-rasa-sudha-nidhi

Contribution number ten comes from long time label friend and multi instrumentalist Michal Turtle (@michalturtle). Q&A (excerpt) here below.

www.musicfrommemory.com

MFM: Hi Mike, how's life in beautiful Swiss? What's the story of you leaving the UK for Switzerland actually?

MT: Life is sweet thanks :)I've been here since the end of 1987, of course it was a lady story that brought me here.

MFM: Do you think that moving places changed you as an artist or maybe your approach to (writing) music?

MT: Once I got here, things quietened down a lot. I found a job in a recording studio, and started working with local heroes, some of whom I still do work for. The music scene here, compared to what I was used to in London is very low key, and I soon found quite a lot of time for writing my own stuff. The public has yet to hear (maybe one day) my early 90s output, but I carried on much in the same vein as the London years, albeit with improved technology. (this was my bronze age 
output, as opposed to the stone age London recordings)

MFM: Imagine if your inspiration or motivation ever runs dry, what place would you move to in order to find new?

MT: Geographically, it doesn't seem to matter to me where I work, if I'm on the road or on a long plane flight, I can work just as easily. If I don't have a (piano) keyboard, the writing style changes a little, and becomes more mathematical perhaps.

MFM: You have quite a background in musical education, correct? If you'd have to name one thing studying academically has taught you and which you still value today, what would it be?

MT: For much of the work I have ended up doing, I am grateful for my studies in orchestration and notation. I have written (physical) orchestral parts for real players, and they always worked just fine, and sounded as I imagined.

MFM: Experiment seems to play a vital role in your music, which never sounds the same and always rich of unconventional textures and musical combinations. Is that something you inherited from studying music at academical level?

MT: I would say no to that. My classical education was very traditional, and during it I was also experimenting at home and with other people, but the 2 elements never really overlapped. Luckily in college was a “state of the art” (8 track analog) recording studio, and the guy in charge of it was looking for projects to record. I ended up doing 7 or 8 pieces, multi-tracking everything. After that I was hooked on the recording process. (which I still am)

MFM: Did it ever cross your mind to work on a new album after your first and only one from 1983?

MT: In the late 90s I was discovering my production skills, and did 5 albums with my own project “wearedust” It was very much of that time, but some songs still get airplay on swiss radio, but as you say MFTLR was my only album under the name “Michal Turtle” I have written much new stuff in the intervening years, and there may well be a solo project of new material at some point.

MFM: Such a nice thing from you to join our mix series, thanks. You're not really a DJ right? How then did you approach making the mix?

MT: I've done several now, sometimes they are theme based, and other times it can be stuff I like and that has influenced me. This one is basically that, plus a couple of tracks from old projects (you may spot Lucianne and Tim in there) and a couple of more recent tracks by me.

MFM Mix 010: Michal Turtle

Tracklist

Rasmus Alkestrand - Auto Reich
Entten - Fonts Ufanes
David Morley - Nab
D.K - Going Into Trance
Simo Cell - A Wink Gone Wrong
Pablo's Eye - Today
Vector Trances - Uranus Cryp Haunt
Brodinski & Low Jack - Andaman Sea
Xen & Yovav - Shavit (Tolouse Low Trax White Smoke Remix)
RMP - 3'32-
Coil - The Hills Are Alive
Rouge Mécanique - Skate & Distort
Low Jack - Virgin Traf 22
The Rootsman - Amahar
Legowelt - Svolvaer
Thieving Dreamer - Lay
Harmonius Thelonius - I Found  A New Way Of Loving You
Sweet Energy - Feel Of Reality

Prins Emanuel @ Mutant Radio 2020-05-20

Adriana, as part of the Crown Ruler crew has had a serious string of outings, touching down in sacred spots such as Brilliant Corners, Red Light Radio & NTS whilst touching elbows with the best loved heads in the game like Lauren Hansom, John Gomez & Millos Kaiser - to name a few. 

Naturally, you can understand my excitement. Go grab your lounge chair and slip into this seriously personal journey to jam central!!

@goodlucktoyourdad

Adriana ... #20

90 plus minutes of deepness from Sobriety aka Chloé Juliette moving effortlessly through soul, backseat boogie, IDM, hypnotic cumbia & MPB all the way through to house, Italo and machine funk freakouts. Biggest of tips to check Chloé's regular transmission on LYL radio via the Greater Good show.

ID Requests - @sobrietymusic

1800 triiip - Sobriety - Mix 015

Track ID: @danza

We've made high-precision calculations and found out that most of the our guest mixes were recorded by collectors from London and Stockholm. So we decided to continue this glorious tradition and invited a person with an incredibly developed musical erudition to participate in our show - Mr. Filip Esaiasson (the man behind "hand picked selection" labels - Fri Form & Dubbla Budskap). So laid back, press play, open a Google Street View and take the 61-minute soothing journey around Tyresta National Park, for example.

P.S. Artwork is the property of  Filip's beautiful daughter - Uma! Hooray!

De Kat Memwa #33 w/ Danza

Different Thursday, same story...sit-in-only music for takeaway and walk around...(excerpt)

TASCAM DR-05

Bufiman & Marathon Man @ Salon Des Amateurs (Part 2)

PLEASE DON'T SEND DEMOS, thanks...

Webshop: https://www.musicfrommemory.com

Amsterdam based record label releasing visionary electronic music from both past and present.

Sublabel: @secondcircle

MFM Mix 010: Michal Turtle

Music From Memory

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