Oh my! this mix has some otherworldly music here. Really nice selection & mix. Props to you sir!!!

art:cast °110 | Jex Opolis

Jexy is around the corner. Jexy or rather It's Me, Jexy - the third album and successor of Jex Opolis' 'midlife crisis' album Net Worth that came out on his Good Timin' label in 2020. And it surely is a good timing for a new LP from the core artist, who choses various musical approaches for It's Me, Jexy without becoming arbitrary but making the ten-tracker sound like a smooth ride through his preferences. However, when producing the album Jex Opolis had just undergone several changes: he left New York City to move back to Edmonton and basically had to break with digging routines and being surrounded by music 24/7. But in every ending is a new beginning and Jex wouldn't be the artist he is if he didn't find a way to cope with the new situation and produce an album that hits close to being home – at least musically. Shorty before the release of the ten gems Jex, whose life seemingly circles around music to 99%, speaks about Tik Tok, Wayne Gretzky, bad timin', contracts with Sven, shitty movies and crucial topics like the won back freedom of producing music, the wish to be artistically heard and seen, the blessing and the curse of social media and phones on the dancefloor, what he wishes the scene to do once clubs open properly again, and of course how the album came about. Also Jex delivers the latest art:cast giving us a sneak peak of the album and its Gem(s).

Read the full interview here: https://torturetheartist.net/2021/05/05/interview-artcast-110-jex-opolis/

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Interview

art:cast °110 | Jex Opolis

While dropping their self-titled debut LP with us in August, Anya and Izaak from Loveshadow (@loveshadowdjs) were kind enough to also record a lovely mix and answer a few questions. Interview (excerpt) down below.

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MFM: Hi Izaak and Anya, nice to have you on board. Both living in Bay Area, how would you describe your daily surroundings? Is it a nice place to be as an artist?

LS: Right now we live in SF. We grew up one town away from each other near the airport, though we didn’t meet until much later. The landscape is inspiring for sure- we spend as much time as we can out in the parks and wild areas and draw a lot from that. The art and music scenes here run deep, though the cost of living and of course covid have made things tougher.
 
MFM: The songs on your debut album as Loveshadow -which will be out in August- sound incredibly fresh where they also remind to certain pop, boogie, funk and even house from the mid and late '80s. What were some of your main influences for this project? 

LS: Thanks! We have to mention the UK act Fashion after whose song we named the group, but our tastes range all over. You could say that Loveshadow is kind of a lap around the 80’s prehistory of today’s dance music, when things were still firmly rooted in pop songwriting but had a simultaneously psychedelic and funky sensibility- one that grew out of dub/disco/punk counterculture. Getting more serious about learning the records at the roots of the whole thing allowed us to see how we might contribute something new to it in a way that was more than a style exercise.

MFM: Of course also the use of specific instruments ad up to that flavor - it seems that for example the Linndrum plays an important role. Did you aim for that sound and gathered the instruments around it, or the other way around maybe?

LS: We had an overall idea in mind that definitely informed the instrumentation but we’re not purists. A lot of the sounds on the record are replications of or deviations from the iconic originals. Those famous drum sounds in particular are like symbols, they impart a particular meaning and we use them to set a mood.

MFM: What's the dynamic between the two of you like in the studio? Is there a certain steady structure or does this change all the time? Maybe you could tell a little about your writing and recording process?

LS: It changes all the time- we’ve lived and worked in so many places separately and together since we started recording. Either one of us might come up with an idea that we’ll design sounds around, demo, arrange, and then throw it all in the trash and start again. Most of the songs on the record have had a few lives.

MFM: It feels that the music from the LP could work really well live on a stage too. Are there any plans for you to go touring? 

LS: We’re going to play a gig in Detroit later this summer that will be sort of a test run! After that, we’ll see. The project started out as an interest in records and recording, but anything’s possible.

MFM: Thanks a lot for contributing! It seems you quite regularly record a mix. Have you both always been busy collecting and sharing records? 

LS: Our pleasure, thanks so much for asking us! We’re always looking for new music. Sharing mixes online has helped us organize our favorites but playing parties is the best. We were gigging around before covid and we’ll hopefully get back to it as things continue to open up. This mix is definitely on the hype side of things- new digs, old favorites, some edits, tunes pals graciously sent our way, and what we’ve been dancing around our apartment to while we were stuck inside.

MFM Mix 030: Loveshadow

Another freshie for you all and it sure is sweet :)

London-based DJ duo, reissue record label and not for profit party starters Heels & Souls light up the incense and settle in for a 90 minute dreamscape, taking in ambient, downtempo, Balearic and beyond. Sit back, unwind and give yourself some space from the madness.

Gigantic cuddle to H&S for this <3

Heels & Souls @heelsandsouls


Recorded using:
1 x Carmen V 
2 x Technics 1210 MK3D
2 x Pioneer XDJ-1000 MK2
1 x Boss RE-20 Space Echo Pedal
1 x Zoom H2N Recorder

Artwork by Peita Blythe

Discrete Circuits w/ Heels & Souls

NO FRILLS ARE BACK @ THE BIN!!
Smooth V and Silky L are dancing with us under the moonlight. 
Listening to this all morning already put a neverending smile on my face. 
Let's praise them for this wonderful vibration station !!! 
@No_frills @5918mins.

No Frills - Knee Deep In Molten Butter (Guest Mix, 2021)

Prun' Radio (Nantes, FR) - Boum Bomo 225 (03.03.22)

À l’occasion d'une virée nantaise, on s’est égarés sur les routes bordant la musique électronique francophone jusqu’au carrefour des années 2000...

Boum Bomo 225 ~ Maybe Tonight (03.03.22)

Listen back to Saturdays DJ set by the one and only Samo DJ. Expect the best from genres like reggae, hiphop, electronic, beats and underground. Tuck in!

@samo_dj for IDs

Nitty Gritty Store Hours - Samo DJ

Jamie Tiller & Lauren Hansom @ The Lot Radio 07 - 24 - 2022

Guest mix from https://soundcloud.com/juanizguerra :)

https://www.nts.live/shows/jamie-tiller/episodes/jamie-tiller-26th-september-2022

NTS Radio Show - Episode 31 w/ Juan Izguerra

Magic Teapot Records is an exclusive online record store in Barcelona, but also a recently launched record label (run by Daniel Baughman— A&R at Hivern Discs, booker at audiophile venue Nica —, Marco Gegenheimer - who releases on Studio Barnhus as MLiR - and Jens Ingelstedt). The DJ duo though is made up of Baughman and Gegenheimer, and when they come together they unleash hidden vinyl gems that get you dancing and romancing. Their sound is one that has a lot to say and draws on steamy tropical delights and intoxicating world music that could be thirty years old or brand new. 

Their mix for us is a 90 minute live recording of them doing what they do best at Nica, namely taking us around the globe on a real adventure that has a sense of musical wanderlust running right through it. There are intimate moments of acoustic heaven bleeding into soft, drunken synths and glorious passages of churning reggae and twinkling disco along the way. It’s music with meaning threaded together by a air of expert curators.

Dekmantel Podcast

Dekmantel Podcast 187 - Magic Teapot

Etelin - Been Really Good Today // The Ecstasy Of Saint Theresa - Vacuum Blow // Heavenly Music Corporation - Innerdimensional // Newworldaquarium - Levels Halo // James Booth - Locus // Tim Jackiw - Silicon Dream // Tarzana - Gemini Observatory Landingstrip // Ghostride The Drift - Untitled // Claude Young - Gates Of The Afterlife // Trans-4M - Amma // Modulator - Timmy’s Trance // INTe*ra - Aqueduct A 697 // Tim Taylor & Damon Wild - Lazer Worshippers

Driver's Eye

As we approach the end of year and Christmas celebrations I thought I should share this mix we released with Good Morning Tapes earlier this summer. 

The 'Trip to Knowhere' is a new mission. Our sounds haven’t changed, but as this tide spits us back out on to an uncertain shore, our knowledge and ambitions realise the potential of a world where No can become the New Know, and it’s a place for us all to find. It could be infinite locations, where the dust from a Goa beach in '92 takes you beyond the covid highway to a beauty-fuel path, or just that imaginary journey liberating us with an elsewhere of possibilities. Out hear in Knowhere we are the patchwork harmonies, we are the fluorescent heros of an old trip. For now, Full Circle is a destination to Knowhere. 

(Remember: beyond this trip, a vessel shall bring you some extracts From Knowhere... )

An hour can also be streamed here: https://lyl.live/episode/the-other-side-1

Driver's Eye

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