A toast to summer

Parallel Moves

We start the year with a new scene. 

For the first fragment of the year, I want to share with you an immersive journey by Formant Value.

Living in London with Italian origins, Lorenzo’s music offers a wide range of sounds. Today’s profound experience is an invitation into an authentic and richly textured world.

‘’ Even if nature plays an important role in my creativity, also a different environment can be inspiring. London inspires me but in a different way, pushing me out of my comfort zone, experimenting with new genres and sounds. When I do music, I have the need to tell something, but it’s an unconscious process.  Other times it’s just from a rational process, coming from working and experimenting with new things. ‘’

We hope you'll enjoy the ride by @formant-value.

Tracklist:

١. Unreleased
٢. XYR - Middle of Nowhere
٣. Xll feat Sabina Kaufman - Senza Gamba Danza
٤. Unreleased
٥. Illuvia - Aura
٦. Cliff Martinez - Wrong Floor
٧. Warmth - The Infinite
٨. Martin Nonstatic - Vertical View
٩. Valotihkuu - Dusk 

Wishing you a wonderful week,
Canaanite Records

fragment21A: Formant Value

Deep Blue Bass

Wet Dub

The road ahead would never be clear, she knew that much to be true. It had already been an intrepid journey to get to this point; one fraught with twists and turns, near misses and last minute escapes. Each and every obstacle had taught her something, had in some way made her stronger, more resilient, more forgiving and more optimistic about what she might encounter next. A path without any bumps or hurdles would have made the journey far less memorable - after all this was all part of the rich tapestry of life.

Nathan Dawidowicz first album is, unsurprisingly, a very personal project. On Sanctuary of Ideas, the Berlin-based producer does exactly that by channeling a myriad of different influences and sounds into a collection of cerebral, spiritual compositions to sooth, stimulate and arouse. Neu Verboten's Lustpoderosa imprint feels like the perfect place for these psychedelic opuses, one of which is a transcendent and mind-expanding 23 minutes long (and took Nathan half a year to finish). Taking cues from Krautrock, jazz, cosmic psychedelia and organic electronica, these three tracks are a reflection of Nathan's diverse upbringing, his life experiences and memories, and maybe a glimpse at where he's heading next.

PREMIERE: Nathan Dawidowicz - Idea's Eve [Lustpoderosa]

Step into the enchanting world of Mirage, a journey through the tropical jungles and the heart of the unknown. This album is a blend of Downtempo, Tribal and Balearic styles, inviting you to lose yourself in its exotic and mysterious soundscapes, where you feel the breeze of the sun and the ocean.

Each track on Mirage is infused with tropical flavors, evoking images of lush jungles and distant shores. The rhythmic beats and tribal drums conjure ancient totems and sacred rituals, guiding listeners to a natural high that transcends the ordinary.

Mirage is a tapestry of sound that captures the essence of the mystical and the serene, embarking the listener on a sonic adventure that is both timeless and transformative.

Produced & mixed by Saphileaum
Mastering by Paulie Jan at Agit Prop Studio
Photography by Yushi Arimura
Artwork by BLNDR & DJ Varsovie

INTERVISION033

Saphileaum - Ooga Booga

All Mutant Disco Radio Show premieres available on :

Youtube : https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCLypdVb_SuSmL_C21MgXo2Q
Spotify : https://open.spotify.com/playlist/31NT4Oq48gcKdmttAFbx23
Facebook group : https://www.facebook.com/groups/170732496230
Facebook page : https://www.facebook.com/MutantDiscoRadioShow
Twitter : https://twitter.com/LeriAhel
Soundcloud : https://soundcloud.com/mutant-disco

Taken from "Procida Ritual Project  - Misteri LP (Salgari Records)". Out December 02nd 2024. Buy here : https://procidaritualproject.bandcamp.com/album/misteri

“Procida Ritual Project is not the romantic and visionary idea of an island anchored to its roots, but a convinced path aimed at giving new life to the sounds of ritual celebrations of the Procidan community.”
Pier Paolo Polcari, composer, producer and co-founder of the iconic Neapolitan band Almamegretta, returns with a new musical work “Procida Ritual Project.”
The project, with a strongly anthropological and Mediterranean feel, conceived together with Leonardo Scotto di Monaco, an artist and scholar of local traditions, is developed within the “Procida Capital of Culture 2022” program and was created with the aim of enhancing tradition, protecting the past by projecting it into the future, preserving identities, making generations dialogue, with the aim of saving the enormous intangible cultural heritage of the island of Procida from extinction.
The key to the project is a database of “field-recordings” in the core of which we find the celebrated rites of Settimana Santa and the Processione dei Misteri: a veritable mine of identity made up of symbols that advance on the traces of centuries-old echoes.
The ancient matrices, which will remain recognizable, give rise to evocative paths of authorial reworking in an electronic key, with the contribution of important musicians such as Daniele Ubik (sax, percussion, hang and voices) and Marzouk Mejri (darbouka, Tunisian flute, voices and percussion).
Among the most evocative sources of inspiration is the “Menerio,” a large peasant bonfire that the people of the island used to light, ideally greeting the beginning of spring: a purification rite that in the past was introduced by invocations and drum rolls and that Procida Ritual Project brings back to life.
The first single “Ritual” resonates with devotional songs dedicated to the Madonna delle Grazie, which the faithful chant in July: a kind of dialectal rosary with ancestral sounds and tones. And again, cues for the construction of this project come from the dialect novena that, at the end of October, on the long eve of the celebration of the dead, the faithful are wont to sing in a collective rite created to exorcise death.
RITUAL PROJECT PROCIDA also becomes the name of a live band, which aims to continue experimenting and researching, live and in the recording studio, from now on, through the publication curated by Salgari Records in digital format and on vinyl, in a limited edition of three hundred copies.
The graphics are by Federico Spini, who reworked the valuable photographic material by Roberta Riccio, in which the Turchini are portrayed during the Venerdì Santo procession.

Artist social media :

https://soundcloud.com/procidaritualproject-music
https://www.instagram.com/procidaritualproject

Label social media :

https://soundcloud.com/salgarirecords
https://www.facebook.com/salgarirecords
https://www.instagram.com/salgari.records

Misteri

Regina de lu cielo

PREMIERE : Procida Ritual Project - Regina De Lu Cielo (Salgari Records)

Out of use

Superhouse

Joe Davies commended for the depth and quality of his 2023 album »Shields in Full Sunlight« on 𝗦𝗺𝗮𝗹𝗹𝘃𝗶𝗹𝗹𝗲 𝗥𝗲𝗰𝗼𝗿𝗱𝘀 and earlier work with 𝗟𝗲𝗵𝘂𝗹𝘁 and 𝗞𝗔𝗡𝗡 under the @djassam alias, now partners with 𝗖𝘂𝗯𝗲𝗺𝗼𝗱, one of the heads behind the @fastcastle imprint. The duo has been cooking up a dozen tracks, focusing on spontaneity and fun over perfecton that instantly embody the core spirit of the label. From those sessions, the first three dubbed out analogue house jams now come to light.

Dig it: https://kann.bandcamp.com/album/framework-dubs-vol-1

Music: Felix Wieneke & Joe Davies 
Mastering: Marco Pellegrino @ Analogcut 
Artwork: (っ◔◡◔)っ ♥ Schnubbzer ♥ 

Cat#: KANN58

Framework Dubs Vol.1

Framework Dubs Vol 1

KANN58: Cubemod & Joe Davies »Framework«

Pantha Du Prince - Moonstruck

A Tribute to my time with Thomas Lizzara ! Thx for 3 beautiful and funny years ......
Thanks Thomas <3

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Triggerfinger - I follow rivers (Oliver Tatsch Bootleg RMX)

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Bon Iver - Holocene (Indian Wells Remix)

Ben Pearce - What I Might Do (David August Diynamic Neon Promo Mix Snippet)

Representing the city of Geneva here is Second Circle affiliate Androo (androo-3) with his "m'enfin?!" mix in the MFM series. Interview (excerpt) down below.

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MFM: Hi Androo, thanks for contributing. For the readers who haven't been to Geneva before, could you describe the city a bit in terms of culture?

A: Mmmh, there are many things to say about the city. I feel that my generation came just after a certain “golden age” of the “underground” music culture. Geneva had a lot of squats during the 90s and early 2000s but now the political situation isn’t the same. Today we don’t have many non-normative venues allowing experimentally and who aren’t based on economic profit. For me, there is a certain vision missing from various clubs in the city. It feels sad that filling the room seems more important than exploring and defend other ones. I feel the potential of night culture and dance which is based on the collective energy of a certain youth is channeled into a kind of apolitical and dull consumption. I wish one day, the night may serve to create more spaces for political and experimental moments! But there is something amazing going on in Geneva, it’s the sound system scene. 

MFM: Your music as Androo sounds quite melodic and touches many different styles in an oddball kind of way. Where does all that come from? 

A: I was playing the piano when I was a child but I wasn’t working really hard (what’s work when you play?), I always preferred composing little things. There was also music in church. Later, I’ve had some reggae bands. I have always been a bit romantic with music. But the real explosion was the discovery of the sound systems culture. Every two months there was the Dubquake organised by OBF in Geneva (it’s still going strong!). Their style was informed by new wave melodies and futuristic dub sound, their sound and musical explorations created something really physical, experience! Around the same time I discovered what the music studio can be. You mix a new song and the same night you play it out, without a fuss, dubplate style. Later I opened up to other stuff and soon tried to bring together irreconcilable things. For more than a year now, I dived deep into jazz piano and contemporary music. Every day I do exercises, scales, etc, some of them become musical compositions. 

MFM: Could you take us on a tour through your studio? What's the vibe like, what's in there?

A: There is a mixing console with external effects, everything is done live. This is how I learnt it from the dub. I don’t do much arrangement on the computer, the track is being built at the console: you remove the bass now and then put a delay on the piano, everything is recorded in one take. It’s about the hands. There are some mistakes and you let them be, that is what makes music alive. There are some synths and drum machines, boxes of matches, wood pieces. I am just trying things out, it’s kind of a space for experimentation. It’s about researching, letting problems appear, chance is also important. Not everything is smoothen out, it’s about acceptation. You throw stuff on the floor, you accept them and then start from there.

MFM: Are you keeping it strictly to writing and recording music?

A: For now I don’t do electronic live acts. But I do piano lives. I keep them raw and experimental, so in a way it’s also influenced by the dub. I have been DJing since quite some time now. I approach mixing a bit like editing in cinema, I try to do cuts, rapprochements and loose associations. DJing is also somehow about friendship, the fact of doing, of organising parties together. Djing is great but feels a bit repetitive most of the time so I try to propose other things with DJ May and other. We are both drawn to cinema and theatre. So we started to read texts in the middle of a set, adding small dance pieces or even mixing silence. For us it’s about proposing simple and non extraordinary little experiences.

MFM Mix 014: Androo

1 of 5 previously unreleased tracks included on the TRUST XX :: silver future compilation, which is available here: https://trust.bandcamp.com/album/trust-xx-silver-future
recorded in the summer of 2006 at the former TRUST hq in vienna's franzensgasse. 
ph03 is MICROTHOL's philipp haffner and DJ GLOW.

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ph03 - elektrisch [TRUST XX exclusive]

I went for a proper oldschool deephouse feel for the remix of Riva Starr & Dj Sneak.
This is where the vocals took me. Good old dusty, synth layered deephouse.

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