Whoa!  Donkey Kong Country??  nice pic 🎵❤🎵

It's a great pleasure to welcome Japanese electronic music stronghold Kaoru Inoue (@kaoru324), also known as Chari Chari and founder of the Seeds And Ground label, to the mix series. Interview (excerpt) down below.

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MFM: Welcome on board of the series Kaoru. You're from Japan and are living in Tokyo. Do you find Tokyo, and Japan as whole, a positive place to be at as an artist?

KI: Tokyo is a fascinating city, full of crazy stimuli and exciting noise, but I don’t need it anymore as the years go by, especially after the pandemic. So now I feel like an outsider loving Tokyo and living a quiet life in its suburbs. I think it’s a positive place for artists in the sense that it’s still rich in nature and food, and the population is decreasing, despite having experienced the high economic growth and the high information society, but what we learned again after the pandemic is that government protection policies are fragile. 

MFM: Your musical output as a producer is quite large and rather versatile, from acoustic guitar sessions to more new age like soundscapes to broken beat and deep house. Where does this versatility come from? 

KI: I think it's because I've been deeply committed to music since my teens. From YMO to post-punk, ethnic, rare groove to deep house, I was already looking for and listening to music like a researcher from a young age. So I started DJing naturally as a way to mix and share my records, and my outputs could be a fusion of them. However, so to speak, I’ve been most influenced by the contextuality of House music, and when looking at everything from a bird’s eye view, I can say that my main interest is, in a word, in “Minimalism”.

MFM: Your music -regardless which moniker you use- sounds extremely organic, very earthly but also mystical and sacred. As if it was recorded far deep in nature amongst some indigenous tribe's ritual. Where does this signature sound come from, what are its origins?

KI: My early tunes were strongly influenced by the atmosphere of Bali & Java in Indonesia, where I used to visit in my twenties, and I think it still remains somewhere in me. I also have a cultural anthropological interest in folk or tribal music from all over the world, and I even am influenced by ecological ideas. (In recent years, I’ve been more into traditional & contemporary music from my own country than ever before.) I think that’s why it is.

MFM: Hence your own label's name Seeds And Ground too probably? 

KI: Indeed, and it’s a metaphor for sex and creation.

MFM: How about the instruments? There's guitar, lots and lots of percussion, marimba, field recordings, plenty chords too... Are you a trained musician and do you record all these parts yourself (with the real instruments)? 

KI: I had learnt to play piano as a child and taught myself to play guitar from the age of 13. However, after encountering DJ culture in my early twenties, I quit a band and didn’t play an instrument for a while. So I know a little more about harmony, chords and so on than the average DJ. I’ve also started to play the guitar again a little bit in a few projects since I started producing electronic music, but only in a very specific way. I’ve also recorded with many different musicians so far.

MFM: So, what can you tell about the mix you've made? Did you record it with a certain vibe or theme or purpose in mind?

KI: It’s a rethinking of “New Age”ish or “Obscure”ish music, past and present. Some Japanese music from the 80s and 90s has also been included with respect to Eiji & Norio who compiled “Heisei No Oto”. And two of my recent tracks as Chari Chari are also included.

MFM: By the way, by the look of your shirt you're a Jodorowsky fan? :)

KI: I look up to Jodorowsky as my mentor, especially after reading his autobiography. I got this shirt as a return from the Endless Poetry crowdfunding campaign.

MFM Mix 034: Kaoru Inoue

The first mixtape released on Best Effort is by Naarm (Melbourne) based DJ/ writer, Sophie McAlister. A Sooky La La at heart, this mix is comprised of Sophie’s most sentimental songs which seem to exude the palpable feeling of Saudade, a Portuguese word that can be described as ‘a pleasure you suffer, an ailment you enjoy.’ The tracks weave through 110 minutes of unrequited love and melancholic sounds that range from MPB, Psych, Folk, Middle Eastern Jazz and Soul, evoking a deep sense of nostalgia and longing.

Crafted with heartbreak from reel to reel, these feelings on tap(e) hope to offer tender respite to the listener’s jaunt down memory lane. With a nod to the past and anticipation for what’s to come, this tape invites you to welcome new spirits from the unwelcomed lull of recent despondency. Sometimes revelling in our most forsaken experiences can spark new life into what used to consume us with grief.

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Sophie McAlister - Sooky La La

SPIRITUAL OBJECTS RADIO EPISODE 12 W/ KALEB MARSHALL

Khotin has been a key figure in the developing Electronic music scene emerging from Canada - for over ten years he has been producing and releasing music.

His sound has evolved exponentially, weaving between sounds and styles with cohesive ease of which others might only dream of. His records have found a home somewhere between the heady 90's ambient and trip hop era, deep house and has drawn upon abstract influences from balearic roots, trance and a whirlwind of other other cultural guises.

All of this makes his music remarkably interesting and hard to pin down.

His forthcoming album "Release Spirit" is forthcoming on acclaimed label Ghostly International. It features a collection of ambient soundscapes, tape recordings and off piste samples as Khotin draws inspiration from far reaching influences such as World of Warcraft, train journeys through Europe and Japan, family vacations and beyond.

We asked Khotin to record a mix which reflects a similar nature of the new album - the result is a delicate assortment of textures which lend themselves to a brooding optimism for the year ahead. At least we hope..

Khotin: The Ransom Note Mix

SWAYMIX 006 - Ramzilla

Bill Spencer shares weekend recordings from his living room studio in Detroit, Michigan, from where he brings a range of soulful jazz rock, and ambient sounds, spanning to electronica and psychedelic dub.
 
https://www.nts.live/shows/bill-spencer/episodes/bill-spencer-17th-september-2023

A Month of Sundays w/ Bill Spencer 170923

Episode 72 is an archival dive into the audio works of Kyoto based multi-media collective Dumb Type. Founded in 1984 by Teiji Furuhashi the group’s work includes exhibitions, performances, video pieces, computer programs, print publications, and conceptual audio albums. Furuhashi, who passed in 1995, claimed the name represents “a society overstuffed with information but cognizant of nothing.” The group continues under the stewardship of longtime members Toru Yamanaka and Shiro Takatani. Over the years many artists have collaborated with the collective including Ryoji Ikeda and Ryuichi Sakamoto. Dumb Type’s work addresses a variety of socio-political themes including nationality, identity, communication, AIDS, civilization, media control, and explores the undefined borders of the information society for new visions of human / technological interaction. The pieces on this mix were selected from 4 decades of work including demo versions, interviews, performance soundtracks, archival sketches, and a few stunning solo pieces from Toru Yamanaka. 

Special thanks to my friend Michael Klausman for tipping me off about Yamanaka’s Bandcamp page where he’s being releasing incredible compilations surveying the group’s audio archive.

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Séance Centre Radio Episode 72 -- Dumb Type Special

Jungle Gym Records' Caleb Dravier revisits 2 early live recordings from 2017 via his semi-retired Dravier alias... a full hour of parrot- mouthed exotica, mahogany-wood ambient and esoteric incense smoke, exclusively for Rinse France.

Rinse France Podcast

Jungle Gym Records : Dravier Live (2017) - 03 Juin 2024

This Friday @khotin came through smooth and covered for D.DEE and boy did he deliver. Please enjoy this special selection of interesting audio from the four corners of Planet E and be on the look out for Dylan's new 12" coming soon on Public Release. It's something else!

Originally broadcast on @nofunradio on Friday, April 13, 2018.

Tune into Pacific Spirit every Friday from 4-6pm PST on nofunradio.com

CIM - Warm Data
Inspired School Of Astral Music - Accent
Les Halles - Skies That Soar
Jason Kolàr - Clairvoyance
Cloudface - j p
Tess Roby - Glimpse
New Composers - Sirens Of Titan
Bugbus Piano - 300 Paintings
Khotin - ?
David Wise - Aquatic Ambience (Donkey Kong Country OST)
Khotin - ?
Cocteau Twins - Watchlar
Blithe Field - Grotto
Yu Su - I’ll Say When I Can
Black Sabbath - Planet Caravan
Dub Tractor - Pull Dub
Uon - J
Hysteric - Camino (Edit)
Satoshi & Makoto - Crepuscule Leger
V.D.B. Joel / M Monsen - Road 101
Khotin - ?
Project Pablo - Fine Match
Maciek Sienkiewicz - Song For Mohindar
Ludwig A.F. Röhrscheid - Exoplanet
Unknown Mobile - Oenology (ft. CFCF)
Pablo’s Eye - AMB 9
Roza Terenzi & DJ Zozi - World Off

Pacific Spirit 026 | Khotin

Click here for the tracklist & interview with Khotin: melbournedeepcast.net/portfolio/khotin/

It's with real pleasure that we welcome Vancouver's @khotin, CEO of Khotin Industries and the mind behind some of the finest downtempo experiments to come out of Canada in recent times. With blissed out ambient LPs the likes of New Tab and Beautiful You brilliantly channeling feelings of stillness and after hour melancholy, here we catch Khotin back in deep dance mix mode for the first time in two years and chat about finding himself on Ghostly International, working at the Pacific Rhythm record shop and his approach to self-releasing cassettes.

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Interview & Tracklist

MDC.240 Khotin

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Ghostly with Khotin @ The Lot Radio 04 - 20 - 2020

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Pacific Spirit 026 | Khotin

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