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Hey lovely mix, so many gems, what's this one please?

Hailing from the Belgian capital and as 1/3 behind the Şelale record on Second Circle, it's our friend soFa (@sofaholic) on mix 32. Interview (excerpt) down below.

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MFM: Hi Chris, can you tell a bit about how you made your first steps in the scene as a DJ/producer?

SE: That was first by playing school parties only, and later by organising parties and getting booked by others in return. The usual game, but it was a bit easier as today since there was less competition I think. On the production side I am quite new to that. I started in 2018 only because I lacked time before that, I used to have a job as curator for an art festival and also digging for records kept me busy and excited for many hours every day. 

MFM: Earlier this summer saw the release of Selale on Second Circle, a collaborative project between you, Okay Temiz and Houschyar. Most releases you've worked on are collaborations. Is there a reason for that? 

SE: Yeh different reasons. It's much more fun to share the fun! I'm not a properly trained musician, I like to break rules, rather than applying them. Collaborating with people who know notes and harmonies allows to combine those 2 visions and the results are more exciting to my ears. I feel I have more to say by helping others to get their music right (or wrong) cause that's what all those years of digging after very specific records have taught me.

MFM: Any more projects lined up already?

SE: Yes, quite a bunch I produced with dear friends, Nyati Mayi, soon on Bongo Joe, CCCVVV with Clara Vellin on Strangelove Music and Sexo Y Fantasia with Da Boochie from Kiosk Radio on Glossy Mistakes coming up. There is also a solo record going to the pressing plant next week, coming out on Planet Trip in spring. It has guest singers, but I call it my solo record since I played the whole beats and synths by myself. Its probably gonna remain my only solo record for a while. I slipped into so many collabs and I'd like to focus on that. I especially love working with singers/voices and hopefully some day I get to produce a whole band project!

MFM: What are you hoping for to find in nightlife now that dancefloors are opening up again? Have you been thinking about this whole situation a lot at all?

SE: I am looking forward to seeing people smile and dance again! Party wise I would especially hope to find more groove and less hard music everywhere. I have the feeling the youth of today can only dance to hard stuff, I find that sad. Real music lovers can dance to anything. The whole situation is/was of course tragic for the nightlife sector. Especially for younger people who are in their best years to create a network of friends and experience adulthood for the first time. On a personal level I liked the time off. It allowed me to focus on a more healthy lifestyle and on making music. 

MFM: Cheers for contributing your mix! What can you tell about it? 

SE: I glued together the first half of it while on a roadtrip in Albania last month. Second half I did this morning in a rush. It's nice tunes, diverse and odd enough as I love. I don't care too much about the technical aspect, I just recorded a bunch of records I felt for sharing. In my opinion all that Dj thing is a bit overrated and way too serious. We are just playing other people's music afterall. There is an art behind that, but I feel it's getting lost more and more. For me it's not about the technical side of it, it's about adapting to people and still surprising them in an original way.

MFM Mix 032: soFa elsewhere

Delighted to host @neubauwien Influence Mix on Oddity Radio.

@heapvienna : Influences are constantly changing and in my mix I tried to display this ever-evolving process of getting influenced by my surroundings. That’s why I included recordings that helped forming my music taste years ago, as well as tracks that have an influence on me at the moment.Turn on, tune in and don't drop out!

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Amsterdam selector Orpheu The Wizard connects oddball and straight forward jams from different decades and different record shelves in a monthly two hour show.

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Orpheu The Wizard 190822

Новий епізод щомісячного подкасту Hunt The Unknown, який знайомить слухачів з різними представниками сучасної діггерської спільноти. Цього разу мікс підготував Basso – один із знакових діггерів Європи, який ще у 90-х присвятив своє життя колекціонуванню еклектичної музики, а зараз стоїть за лейблом Growing Bin та одноіменним магазином платівок. 
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A new episode of the monthly Hunt The Unknown podcast, which introduces listeners to various members of the digging community. This time the mix was prepared by Basso – one of Europe's iconic diggers who dedicated his life to collecting eclectic music back in the 90s, who started the Growing Bin label and the record store of the same name.
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For this instalment, we couldn’t be happier to host a mix by our dear friend and R.I.O. label cofounder Menqui :)  
He has been a huuuuge inspiration for us since the very beginning of our digging journey, and when you listen to this mix you’ll understand why. 
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Delighted to host Arne Bunjes Influence mix on Oddity Radio for @themes-for-great-cities

Arne Bunjes : The Mix I made draws its inspiration from the moment I began to go out at night regularly, when I moved to Düsseldorf to Study Social Work at the Fachhochschule Düsseldorf.

In my hometown my musical Influences were US Punk/Hardcore, Hip Hop and whatever pop music was hot on local Radio or MTV. After randomly ending up at the Salon des Amateurs (in the early noughties) where the music was completely different I started to dig deeper: going out at night then trying to find what I was hearing in flea-markets and record stores. 

SDA became the main Influence in my musical life as well as being a huge Influence in starting the record label.

The Mix tries to showcase the musical spectrum at the Salon in these early days, from my perspective: the 2007-2011 era! This is different to the sound that came later and for which most people identify what Detlef Weinrich aka Tolouse Low Trax was playing. But of course other regulars like Vladimir Ivkovic or Tako where also a huge inspiration.

These are the tracks that I heard there, liked the most and wanted to include in my collection. I came back to them with joy each time and started to play them myself. Although most of them are not super obscure I don't hear them getting played out anymore. They are mostly real tracks, not specifically made for the dancefloor.

Huge thank you to Gregor Darman who helped me out with the technical and editing side of things.

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NO WEAPON IS ABSOLUTE is Cosmo Vitelli & Dj Sundae's monthly radio show on NTS2
Cosmo Vitelli recorded this one on November 16 of 2022
Picture taken by Christophe Mauberqué

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No Weapon Is Absolute on NTS by Cosmo Vitelli - 16/11/2022

Sacha doing what Sacha does.

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It's a Friday.
It's the turn of one of our longest serving lover / collaborators.... Monsieur @macadam_mambo @sachamambo .... Long overdue and joined by this easy breezy twosome @judithcrasser and @_axel_larsen_ LIVE....
You can expect to have your expectations tested. Ear ecstasy all night looong.. at @sameheads from 10.

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Sacha Mambo live dj cut - Macadam Mambo @ Sameheads (25112022)

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Alexis Le-Tan is one of the most consistent record collectors come DJ slash compiler and editor supreme of the Parisian underground.
Solo, he has delivered much sought after oddball versions under the guises of ALT or Alexis Le-Fan (Bahnsteig 23, Crowdspacer, Les Edits du Golem, Future Times, Black Disco, etc.) and is the purveyor of envelope pushing mixes for the likes of lovefingers.org, Noise In My Head, Test Pressing amongst many others …. A father of two Alexis' appetite for music is insatiable and he still playlists 30 new releases every months on Juno.co.uk.
Master of the bent, incanter of the psyched-out, purveyor of the leftfield as, anyone who knows him will tell you, there is something slightly off with Alexis. A readiness to unsettle, solidly camped behind tainted glasses and a belligerent smile the kind only the violently caustic can muster.
Such saltiness, however, did not prevent him from undertaking influential music collaborations, first as a co-selector of obscure cosmic and library music, Space Oddities which he picked in conjunction with Jess, of Jess & Crabbe fame. But also as concept band, Full Circle besides Crowdspacer founder Joakim. Alexis is also praised for his exciting back to back Dj sets among which his collabs with french disco apostle Vidal Benjamin, Vladimir Ivkovic or Misha Hollenbach and 2ManyDJ’s are amongst the most resounding.

From the halcyon days of Goa parties and the UK’s rave scene to the noughties’ specific blend of electro, disco and techno, it took twenty formative years for Alexis to fully establish his ever so distinctive signature sound: a mixture of all things slow and mental always with a touch of trance in a very cosmic ascension to uncompromising originality.
It sounds more complicated than it is and his monthly radio show on LYL (http://lyl.live/show/the-other-side/) will give you a good grasp of the cottonous splendor Alexis’ style has come to.

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Soundtrack for Summer's road trips, enjoy!

Summer Moods 2023 by Sacha Mambo recorded the 10th of June 23
1. Susan Mazer « Indigo-Gold » (Rising Sun Records)
2. June11 « Matter Is Alive (For Marthe Wéry) » (EE Tapes)
3. Neotropic « Inch Inch » (Mush)
4. Dif Juz « Soarn » (4AD)
5. Tim Cross « Undercurrent Three » (JW Music Library)
6. Roy Montgomery « Otherness » (Grapefruit Records)
7. Alex De Grassi « Sleeping Lady » (Windham Hill Records)
8. Alchimia « Non Lo So » (Industrie Discografiche Lacerba)
9. Lippie & Martin « Lettre au President » (Groovedge)
10. Frédérick Rousseau « The Opening » (CBS)
11. Nasca « Tolbiac » (cortizona)
12. Joe Mubare « I'm Not Afraid Anymore » (YAYA)
13. Fiesta En El Vacío « 엄마 (Avec Ji Min Park) » (Simple Music Experience)
14. Blueboy « The Joy Of Living » (A Colourful Storm)
15. Patrik Fitzgerald + 3 « Poor John » (Red Flame)
16. The The « This Is The Day » (Epic)
17. Everything But The Girl « Shoot Me Down » (Blanco Y Negro)
18. Matthew Cang / Eddie Chin « Touch » (KPM Music)
19. Gerry Rafferty « Right Down The Line » (United Artists Records)
20. Cisco « Oh Man » (Forager Records)
21. Suzanne Vega « Wooden Horse (Caspar Hauser's Song) » (A&M Records)
22. Roy Montgomery Featuring Martha Skye Murphy « Heart Restart » (El Ron Del Mundo)
23. Guido And Maurizio « Goodbye My Friend » (Private Stock)
24. ADN' Ckrystall « Mais Elle Est Passée Où La Mélodie ? » (Macadam Mambo)
25. B. Says « Amore » (Off The Track Records)
26. Startled Insects « Desert » (Sense)
27. Roland Hollinger « Revival's Things Of Dreams » (Auvidis)
28. Luciano Beretta with Walter Camurri « Dice Le Sue Poesie » (Bla Bla)
29. Cinema « Looking Into A Dream » (Beverly Hills)

Summer Moods (10.06.2023)

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