Pohang/SK/May/2020

Melting Point show 06 for RedLightRadio  22.08.2013

illusione mix by Siba

Mix #7 Midnight Tenderness
Artwork by Maryos Syawish

Tracklist:
Sugar Minott - Sound Design
Jaye Williams - Let Me Be The One (MTMU Edit)
Antione Rocky-Horror - Machine Gun Boogie (feat. Adriana Molina)
Dreamcastmoe - Deserving
Leisure Dub featuring Armanious - Weekend Waiting (Jeep Beat Mix)
J.B. Rose - Time 4 Love (The Jam)
Carla Thomas - Things Ya Make Me Do (Autumn Mix)
Mary Pearce - Love Away
Aisha - Can You Feel It
Projection  - I Don’t Fake My Love
52nd Street - I’m Available
Figmore - Wormhole Teatime
King Pari - Ya’llright?
Isabel Roberts - Love Situation (Vocal)
Bugz In The Attic - Consequences
Van Twist - Hot Wax
Terrance T - The Power
Psychic Mirrors - Thunderstruck
Twilight - You’re In Love
Kent Jordan - No Question About It
Alex Fernet - Tornerai

TASTING TONES #7 Midnight Tenderness

Right when you thought the 80's had been mostly dug out, the "Night City Life" compilation hits the shelves. 
Ever since we heard his compilation for Spacetalk we were blown away: one of the best curations of early MIDI dancefloor/radio oriented productions we'd heard in a while. Truly refreshing to the human ear, not to mention the heavy research behind it. As such, we've wanted to book Ilan ever since but then COVID happened. Still a wet dream to see him do his thing live but for now here's this amazing bit of aural goodness to get you in the right mindset. 

Ilan is a London-based record collector. He can often be found posting the artwork of 80s vinyl from his collection on Instagram; a patchwork of nostalgia from musical days gone by.

Check him out on IG and listen carefully - your discogs wantlists will never be the same.

H.A.N.D. MIX 027 - Ilan (Night City Life)

@sankywashere

https://undertheapricottree.net/sanky/

Apricot 45: Sanky

From Oakland with love comes the 50th submission in the mix series comes by the hand of prolific producer and deejay Space Ghost (@space-ghost-1). Interview (excerpt) down below.

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MFM: Hey Sudi. How's life in California, what's been keeping you busy?

SG: Hey, not much! Just trying to enjoy the summer with friends and get in the studio when I can.

MFM: Looking at your discography it seems that you favor the LP over the EP format, having released well over a dozen albums. How come?

SG: I can’t say that I favor one over the other, just seems that as a musician you strive to write full length LPs. I enjoy LPs for home listening and it feels good to create a nice body of work that flows through a journey. Writing dance singles and eps are trickier for me. It feels harder to write 1-4 really good stand alone songs.

MFM: With such a prolific output, does writing music come easily to you? Can you tell us a bit about how you go about writing and recording, is there a certain flow or method?

SG: Hmm I wouldn’t necessarily say it comes comes easy but I’ve definitely gotten a lot better at getting ideas in my head out into my recordings. It’s still a process of getting into the studio and spending time on it. Sometimes I can spend a whole day or two just spinning my wheels and not being able to get my ideas out. But once I get that perfect dose of creativity and I’m in the right mood, then things can definitely start flowing out. When writing music I often need to start with a very specific idea based on a song I’m listening to at the time. It’s helpful for me to start out with that initial inspiration, whether some chords, style of drums, bassline or a tempo or something. Once I get a few elements working around that idea the song can start to morph and move in any direction, but I really need that specific direction to start. I find that I can often make a rudimentary idea fairly quickly this way and then if it’s inspiring me, I’ll start to try a little bit harder and flush out more of the idea.

MFM: How do you cope with not being inspired or motivated when in the studio?

SG: Honestly it can be a bummer to be in the studio and the ideas aren’t flowing. I’ll just have to step away and do something totally unrelated for a few days.

MFM: Your sound overall has a very soft and melodic touch. The mellow part may be from living close to the Pacific and nature, but where does the melodic part come from? Did you ever learn how to read and play notes?

SG: You know I’m really not sure if I can pinpoint my melodies and where they came from but ya I grew up taking music lessons of all sorts. Piano, drums, guitar, band class, all that stuff. I wasn’t the best at reading music, I learned basic stuff but eventually didn’t progress much farther. Now everything I do is by feel.

MFM: Is there some kind of masterplan for Space Ghost? Like, do you have certain goals to achieve or dreams to chase?

SG: I think my master plan would involve me getting to focus on writing music full time. Honestly I’m not really sure how to get there specifically, seems like everyone gets there on their own path so hopefully mine will end up there as well.

MFM: Tell us about the mix. How did you go about selecting and recording it? Does it have a certain theme or idea to it?

SG: I’ve been wanting to put out a nice lil ambient sort of electronic mix for awhile. Really soft deep introspective vibes. I’ve been holding on to a lot of these tunes for awhile and just listening to my playlist of ambient tunes while traveling or relaxing with friends. After coming back from my NZ/Australian tour, I was ready to play some non dance music for a sec and listen to some other stuff. This mix is just a nice break from DJing a party. I also really want to make an ambient album soon if I have the time, so there are a lot inspirations in this mix.

MFM Mix 050: Space Ghost

Live recording from the 20th of January 2024 at Club Zukunft.

Drawing by Anna Hilti

Parallel Universe @ Zukunft 20/1/24

Morning Mix

Despite missing the last two and a half hours we still managed to record a good bit of our all night b2b2b2b2b2b session for AUF LEIWAND at Celeste on 9.11.2024 with Alaska Al, Heap, Julian, Luziprak, Marc Graebnor and myself playing only Austrian tunes all night. In its slightly chaotic amateurishness, i think its a great representation of the giant potpourri that is the more obscure side of Austrian pop and dance music history of the latter part of the last century ;)

https://soundcloud.com/digatone
https://soundcloud.com/heapvienna
https://soundcloud.com/giuliodj
https://soundcloud.com/luziprak
https://soundcloud.com/goldcutcrates

Alaska Al, Heap, Julian, Luziprak, Marc Graebnor, Mike Burns - Auf Leiwand @ Celeste 9.11.2024

Step into The Chrome Garden 🌌 – a 19-track journey through shimmering textures, hypnotic grooves, and deep electronic soundscapes. Each track is like a living element in this futuristic garden — metallic, organic, alive.

This album is my gift to you: 100% Free Download.
Because music should be shared, felt, and experienced without limits.

✨ What to expect:

19 tracks of deep, atmospheric house music

A spectrum from dark, driving rhythms to lush, cinematic soundscapes

Perfect for clubs, late-night sessions, or headphone escapes

🌿 The Chrome Garden is more than an album — it’s a sonic landscape where technology and nature intertwine.


If you enjoy the ride, share it with your friends, DJs, and crews — that’s the best support you can give.
Let’s grow this garden together. 🌱

— and don’t forget to leave a like ❤️.

John Franklin

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Night Mango

No. 9

Panduh (1 FOR BUBBA)

"There is no specific theme or thought to this mix, but here’s a little background on this recording. I often study my records to learn the smoothest  entry and exiting points for mixing. I normally handle this process by mixing and experimenting in my basement. Sometimes I record these sessions, this happens to be one of those recordings. Most of the sessions aren’t playable because there’s generally quite a bit of starting and stopping, but this particular recording lasted almost an hour. The track listing is all over the place, but they normally are." - Tone B. Nimble

Drift Podcast 052 - Tone B. Nimble

Recording for H.A.N.D. by Bill Spencer, April 2020.

H.A.N.D. MIX 021 – Bill Spencer

One from the archives: Tako and Jamie on Red Light Radio from 2012.

Tako & Jamie Tiller @ Red Light Radio - 01/26/2012

Hailing from Zurich here's Zukunft resident and Phantom Island man Kejeblos (@kejeblos) serving the 15th MFM mix. Interview (excerpt) down below.

www.musicfrommemory.com

MFM: Hi Michael, welcome to the series. How are you holding up during these pandemic times?

K: Actually very well, thank you! I’m spending more time with my son than I usually do and I’m getting better at cooking. Besides that we are preparing some new releases for Phantom Island and I’m helping to keep the record store (Hum Records) I work at alive.

MFM: So the internet says you're a man of big taste and that you could write a doctoral thesis about the art of record digging. Can you take us back a little to where and when all that comes from?

K: First I have to thank Bjorn Schaeffner for those kind words. I was interested in music from a young age, but the record digging really started after I moved to Zurich. Here I was exposed to a lot of great record stores and I took an obvious route from House to Disco and got into it deeper and deeper. Lexx was definitely an important figure for me. He was working at a record store called Zero Zero and I was hanging out there a lot. And through that our friendship grew. At one point he invited me to join him to go t a warehouse that was connected to Zero Zero and housed half a million records. After that first visit I definitely spent a lot of time there and everything took its course.

MFM: Zurich is not particularly known for having a vibrant music scene and it's fairly remote from the cities that are. How did you get your fix as a big music appreciator pre-internet? 

K: I grew up in Liechtenstein and went to school in Feldkirch, Austria. Feldkirch is a small city, but there was a bar called Stone Club where you could listen to proper house and techno. I guess that brought me on the right track and sparked my interest. That’s also where I started djing and learned a lot about it before I was introduced to the Zurich club scene. Anyway, I guess I’m not a music appreciator pre-internet as I’m not that old :) But it was still different back then for sure. I was exposed to all the certified classics before getting deeper into more obscure music from there.

MFM: You're kinda connected to club Zukunft, correct? 

K: Yes, that is correct. That started through Lexx as well. He invited me to play there in 2008 and it really meant a lot to me. I used to visit the club regularly and it was always a dream to play there and it still is. For me it has been Zurich’s best club since it opened its doors and it still is after all these years. First and foremost because of always sticking with quality music. But another key factor is probably the diverse group of people who run the place.

MFM: At what point did you get involved in music production? 

K: Some of my old friends from Liechtenstein who also live in Zurich have been producing for a long time. I always hung out at their flat and out of this we formed Wavetest – but I always saw myself as the DJ in that group and still do. Unlike the others I’m not a trained musician. After some time we started to share a studio with Tobi and Ron (Fuga Ronto) and one day, as Flo (Florin Büchel, CCO), and I were jamming suddenly I was kind of guiding the project. That’s how the first Kejeblos record started. Without Flo, Tobi, Sandro, David, Moritz and Lexx that record would never have happened. I learned more about production during and after this first release but I still see myself predominantly as a DJ. If I have an idea, I try to pursue it. But I’m not constantly thinking about making music. 

MFM: Thanks a lot for contributing a mix! What can you tell about it?

K: Thanks for having me! I wanted it to be a reflection of different influences which turned me into the DJ I am now. A mix which flows well and is not just about track IDs and unshazamable tunes. In the best case you want to listen to it more than once. Also there are some upcoming Phantom Island bits featured.

MFM Mix 015: Kejeblos

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MFM Mix 015: Kejeblos

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