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Chocolate Rain...Charlie Bit My Finger….Gangnam Style...The Ice Bucket Challenge...Kim Kardashian melting the internet….Flash Atkins’ and Massey’s Party for Two.

Prepare to be blown away as two men sit down and play records back to back on a brisk weekday morning. Paper Recordings’ main players snuck in to West Yorkshire’s finest bar, Barbary’s and brought the heat as they weaved through ambient, afro, wonk, desert blues, disco. street soul house and disco.

It's a party on a plate without having to leave your home.

Visualise it here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dOQeexXAiNg

Party For 2 with Flash Atkins & Massey

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Jose Padilla : Cafe Del Mar : Tape 19

“Cafe del Mar, summer 1992”

Compiled by Jose Padilla
Length: 64 mins

This mix dates back to 1992 and is one of several that were bought directly from the Cafe’s DJ booth.  It was one of an incredible series of mixes that we collected over the course of the summer, all recorded at sunset, live from the cafe.

The mixes were each simply labeled with a number and by the end of the year we’d managed to get hold of either original or fairly decent copies of most of them.

Sadly at the time I don’t think we realised the importance or relevance these mixes would have in years to come and most are now long gone, so I’m glad this particular tape has just about stood the test of time as it was a favourite back then and just listening to the opening few tracks for the first time in over 10 years brings it all flooding back!

Hope you enjoy it, more to come soon…

The Electric Disco 
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Jose Padilla live at the Cafe del mar 1992

Jose Padilla - Essential Mix - Live @ Cafe Del Mar In Ibiza (09-10-1995)

🍁 𝐖𝐚𝐭𝐞𝐫𝐤𝐚𝐧𝐭 𝐀𝐮𝐭𝐮𝐦𝐧 𝐐𝐮𝐚𝐫𝐚𝐧𝐭𝐢𝐧𝐞 𝐓𝐚𝐩𝐞 🍁

I remember one autumn in my life, which was really hard and emotional, because I was far away from home in a foreign country and I did not have time enough to build close relationships with people there, when I lost a friend back home. I was with myself, with the grief in a small room, listening to a lot of music, which had to comfort me instead of a real person, because I was not in the state to really open up to someone there. I was thinking about my friend, that I will never see again, thinking about what I would have done differently, if I would have known, what there was to come, how I would have said goodbye properly, because I didn’t.

𝗧𝗵𝗶𝘀 𝗮𝘂𝘁𝘂𝗺𝗻 𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟬 is a lonely one too. A different one for the most of us due to the pandemic, the political developments all over the world, the fear of losing important protagonists and places of cultural life, which are essential for a democracy. There are so many conflicts in society soaking up the vacuum right now. 

𝗜 𝗿𝗲𝗰𝗼𝗿𝗱𝗲𝗱 𝘁𝗵𝗶𝘀 𝗽𝗼𝗱𝗰𝗮𝘀𝘁 𝗶𝗻 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗻𝗶𝗴𝗵𝘁 𝗼𝗳 𝗡𝗼𝘃𝗲𝗺𝗯𝗲𝗿 𝟵𝘁𝗵 after a long walk through my neighborhood and lightening candles to remember this historical date. While I did this, there was another protest going on by right winged people, neonazis and corona deniers not far away from where I live. It was the fourth day of protest and violence in my hometown Leipzig. These last days made me and my close ones shake, because we are in fear for a not peaceful future and for our democracy. 
November 9th is, as I said, a historical date. That day Nazi Germany burned down synagogues in 1938 in the Reichspogromnacht. People were watching or looking away or even took part in it, when their Jewish neighbors got deported and killed and their homes and stores got destroyed. This happened in our streets here. The Stolpersteine tell the story about it. 

It happened, so it can happen again. For me it never felt so close like it does now. I am crying while writing this.

𝗣𝗹𝗲𝗮𝘀𝗲 𝗱𝗼 𝗻𝗼𝘁 𝗷𝘂𝘀𝘁 𝘄𝗮𝘁𝗰𝗵 𝗼𝗿 𝗹𝗼𝗼𝗸 𝗮𝘄𝗮𝘆 𝘁𝗵𝗲𝘀𝗲 𝗱𝗮𝘆𝘀. 𝗧𝗵𝗶𝘀 𝗶𝘀 𝗺𝘆 𝗱𝗲𝗲𝗽𝗲𝘀𝘁 𝘄𝗶𝘀𝗵.

Also the German wall fell on November 9th in 1989. The country I was born in, did not exist anymore shortly after this. West and East Germany got reunited. But Germany still feels so divided, even after 31 years, even if the map tells something else. 

All this history and guilt is in us. Most of our parents, grandparents and great-grandparents experienced all this. It is part of us and our culture.

𝗪𝗲 𝘀𝗵𝗼𝘂𝗹𝗱 𝗿𝗲𝗺𝗲𝗺𝗯𝗲𝗿 𝗮𝗹𝗹 𝗼𝗳 𝘁𝗵𝗶𝘀 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗻𝗼𝘁 𝗳𝗼𝗿𝗴𝗲𝘁.

After the incidents of the last days, this is more important than ever.

I am trying to be positive. I really do. But sometimes in nights like this, it is just hard.
We are in a middle of a pandemic. We are trying to keep track, we are online too much, we are trying not to get lost, we are missing our families and friends we cannot be with due to the lockdown.

𝗕𝘂𝘁 𝘄𝗲 𝗮𝗿𝗲 𝗶𝗻 𝘁𝗵𝗶𝘀 𝘁𝗼𝗴𝗲𝘁𝗵𝗲𝗿!

There is a lot of going on in this complex world and my mind is spinning. And like back then, when I was in pain when I lost my friend, I listen to the music that comforts me and I want to share it with you. So I made a spinning sound collage of this November with the themes, that were moving me and I picked some music from back then, when I felt very lonely and some music I used to listen to with my friend in the earlier days, some newer up lightening and melancholic stuff 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗮 𝗻𝗲𝘄 𝘁𝗿𝗮𝗰𝗸, 𝗻𝗼𝘁 𝘆𝗲𝘁 𝗿𝗲𝗹𝗲𝗮𝘀𝗲𝗱, 𝗯𝘆 𝗛𝗲𝗿𝗺𝗮𝗻 𝗧. 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗺𝗲 about where a part of my heart is and will always be – at home at the “Baltique”. 

This is a map to guide you and me a little through this era with an "Autumn Waterkant Quarantine Tape" for mellow. 

𝗦𝘁𝗮𝘆 𝘀𝗮𝗳𝗲. 𝗕𝗲 𝗴𝗼𝗼𝗱 𝘁𝗼 𝗲𝗮𝗰𝗵 𝗼𝘁𝗵𝗲𝗿.

✍️𝑱𝒖𝒅𝒊𝒕𝒉 𝒗𝒂𝒏 𝑾𝒂𝒕𝒆𝒓𝒌𝒂𝒏𝒕
@lady-youdid

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mellowcast #022 | judith van waterkant´s 🍁𝐀𝐔𝐓𝐔𝐌𝐍 𝐐𝐔𝐑𝐀𝐍𝐀𝐓𝐈𝐍𝐄 𝐓𝐀𝐏𝐄 🍁

@jum-sa

Style: Singer&Songwriter 
Lenght: 00:59:09
Quality: 320 kBit/s

Tracklist:
01 Nina Simone - Feeling Good 
02 The Lively Ones - Surf Rider
03 Sophie Hunger - Sliver Lane
04 Jumana - Fuck PMS
05 Faber - Es Könnte Schöner Sein 
06 Tame Impala - The Less I Know The Better
07 Patti Smith - Dancing Barefoot
08 Tom Waits - All The World Is Green
09 Alisha Batth - Why Don't You
10 Quantic - Time Is The Enemy 
11 Yaima - Gajumaru
12 Acid Arab - Stil
13 Valeron - Morocco Night
14 Baz Luhrmann - Everybody's Free (To Wear Sunscreen)
15 Nils Frahm - Sweet Little Lie

Das KFMW Adventskalender 2020

2020 #16: Jumana  -  Es fängt alles mit einer Idee an

Paper has been pushing all things deep house and disco from the furthest reaches of the world via the good old North of England since the early Nineties.

The label has already featured a new series of EP's showcasing the best new dance music and future funk, house and disco from the world's finest producers.

We kicked off in 1994, leading the upsurge in popularity of UK house music within an underground scene previously dominated by a soundtrack from US cities like Chicago, Detroit and New York. Enhanced by a strong visual identity, as well as impeccable musical quality control PAPER was, and is one of the world’s most treasured record companies.

It continues to be funk-fuelled and bottom heavy!