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A weekly updated selection of my favourite mixes and artists, from around the world and limited to absolutely everything

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Nostromo Festival 2021

This set was recorded during the launch of Oddity Radio, which happened in Paris on the 2nd April 2022. A new project initiated by yours truly which is not a radio in the true sense of the word, more a collective hub which gathers a selection of our favorite record labels, showcasing playlists from each of their back catalogues and occasional exclusive mixes. These independent labels are some of the finest of their kind, filled with artists and attitudes that we believe exemplify a creative spirit for the future. Carving a niche in anything from the esoteric to the leftfield, global dance or laidback ambience alike. We strive to open a path into their psyches through sounds, words and visions. Bringing these like-minded folk together for the first time, allowing their tunes to breath harmoniously side by side in a continuous mix of complimentary aural delights.

More info and tracklist here: lyl.live/episode/the-other-side-55

The Other Side 55, Lyl radio 05/04/22 (extract from Oddity Radio Launch Party)

Patience/Impatience heads out beyond the break, this month with a guest mix for the first hour from Japanese producer Hoshina Anniversary.

https://www.instagram.com/patienceimpatience/ / https://www.instagram.com/hoshina_anniversary/

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Patience/Impatience with Hoshina Anniversary @ The Lot Radio 04 - 19 - 2022

For home use only’ is an anti-club social, a chance to get to know someone/something. A series of transmissions purely dedicated to exploring the other side.

Come one, come all, or don’t come at all but for those still paying attention, we have another treat for your senses. An aura fortifying frequency courtesy of relatively new Naarm local, DJ Possum aka Jolie. Skip the night out and extend the night in. 

Possum has worked hard to infiltrate the local scene and it’s starting to pay off, her take on all things music is fresh.  you can’t pigeonhole her style or genre. Her ability to play anything from serendipitous street soul to float tank techno is inspiring to say the least. The podcast she did with fellow FHUO hero Myles Mac (MDC #265) is absolute perfection (in my top 10 mixes of last year). I’m really looking forward to seeing where her trajectory takes her. 

Every time I listen to this mix I get this overwhelming sense of a good friend taking you by the hand and guiding you through their own life experiences, scene by scene, song by song.  Every movement has a feeling attached. A much needed reminder to feel all that you can, healing the weird emotional callus built up over the last two years. A guided tour at the perfect altitude, weaving in and out of atmospheric pressure systems, a trip truly worth taking as many times as possible. 

See for yourself. 

Her words >>>> 
“There are a few elements floating here.. the mix is composed mostly of psychedelic electronica sounds mostly from the the 70's, 80's & 90's of musicians and composers that I think are sublime. 

In sound aesthetics, nothing can top this sound for me. It's so touching, it forces you to go inside, it forces you to feel small in space, kinda like space dust, and to me this is the true definition of freedom. At times gravity pulls you down from space into your gene pool, your body. 

On a parallel path to this idea, I made this mix thinking about my mom and dad because it is truly an offer to them for my upbringing. They made what was truly a war zone into a magical place, taking us four kids out of the concrete jungle and giving us instead the sky and nature, recalibrating us. My dad was a star gazer and I watched the stars with him at nights until he passed away when I was 11. My mom is my spirit animal, a true contemporary philosopher. They both live in this mix because I connected them once again here.”

Her sound >>>> https://soundcloud.com/djpossums

FHUO # 69 //  DJ Possum

Princess P [Princess P & Cio Monthly Show]

https://www.nts.live/shows/space-afrika/episodes/space-afrika-22nd-may-2022

Space Afrika presents: mu tate 210522

A mix originally made for Kiev's 20ft Radio https://www.20ftradio.net 

Tracklist:
1. Paul Lansky - Word Color
2. Celia Hollander - 11:01 PM
3. Yolambi - VI
4. Madalyn Merkey - Click
5. Mark Templeton - Water Baptism
6. Brin & Josiah Steinbrick - I Feel / New Look
7. Giuseppe Ielasi - 04 (Its Appearance Reflected By Three Copies)
8. Mike Weiss - The Beach
9. Ned Lagin - Seastones 79 
10. Wild Card - Twighlight Disclosure
11. Andrew Pekler - unreleased 
12. Ludwig Berger - Hotel Bali-an Resort Shinjuku Island Tokyo
13. Takamitsu Ohta - Pichang-Pochang - Hide From the Rain 20190219
14. Yoshio Machida - Daydreams
15. Hideki Umezawa - Sinking into Silence
16. Andrew Pekler - unreleased 
17. Andrew Pekler - unreleased 
18. Andrew Pekler - Encounter

20ft Radio Mix

A study in ambience, pause and silence. Are we listening to a loop or going round in circles? Tension builds whilst release creates a rhythm through atmosphere. A journey through many soundscapes, an excuse to wander elsewhere...

More info and tracklist here: lyl.live/episode/the-other-side-58

The Other Side 58, Lyl radio 28/06/22

July's own with a guest mix from @sun-an -- one of my favorite artists for who knows how long. Commemorating a decade of his project with a mix of new, old & unreleased material. What more can I say but.. I love it. Enjoy forever xoxo

Fifth World w/ Ian Kim Judd & Sun An on NTS Radio ~ 07.06.22

A Concert celebrating Paul's 90(!) semesters at Princeton University

Her Song (Paul Lansky)

From Oakland with love comes the 50th submission in the mix series comes by the hand of prolific producer and deejay Space Ghost (@space-ghost-1). Interview (excerpt) down below.

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MFM: Hey Sudi. How's life in California, what's been keeping you busy?

SG: Hey, not much! Just trying to enjoy the summer with friends and get in the studio when I can.

MFM: Looking at your discography it seems that you favor the LP over the EP format, having released well over a dozen albums. How come?

SG: I can’t say that I favor one over the other, just seems that as a musician you strive to write full length LPs. I enjoy LPs for home listening and it feels good to create a nice body of work that flows through a journey. Writing dance singles and eps are trickier for me. It feels harder to write 1-4 really good stand alone songs.

MFM: With such a prolific output, does writing music come easily to you? Can you tell us a bit about how you go about writing and recording, is there a certain flow or method?

SG: Hmm I wouldn’t necessarily say it comes comes easy but I’ve definitely gotten a lot better at getting ideas in my head out into my recordings. It’s still a process of getting into the studio and spending time on it. Sometimes I can spend a whole day or two just spinning my wheels and not being able to get my ideas out. But once I get that perfect dose of creativity and I’m in the right mood, then things can definitely start flowing out. When writing music I often need to start with a very specific idea based on a song I’m listening to at the time. It’s helpful for me to start out with that initial inspiration, whether some chords, style of drums, bassline or a tempo or something. Once I get a few elements working around that idea the song can start to morph and move in any direction, but I really need that specific direction to start. I find that I can often make a rudimentary idea fairly quickly this way and then if it’s inspiring me, I’ll start to try a little bit harder and flush out more of the idea.

MFM: How do you cope with not being inspired or motivated when in the studio?

SG: Honestly it can be a bummer to be in the studio and the ideas aren’t flowing. I’ll just have to step away and do something totally unrelated for a few days.

MFM: Your sound overall has a very soft and melodic touch. The mellow part may be from living close to the Pacific and nature, but where does the melodic part come from? Did you ever learn how to read and play notes?

SG: You know I’m really not sure if I can pinpoint my melodies and where they came from but ya I grew up taking music lessons of all sorts. Piano, drums, guitar, band class, all that stuff. I wasn’t the best at reading music, I learned basic stuff but eventually didn’t progress much farther. Now everything I do is by feel.

MFM: Is there some kind of masterplan for Space Ghost? Like, do you have certain goals to achieve or dreams to chase?

SG: I think my master plan would involve me getting to focus on writing music full time. Honestly I’m not really sure how to get there specifically, seems like everyone gets there on their own path so hopefully mine will end up there as well.

MFM: Tell us about the mix. How did you go about selecting and recording it? Does it have a certain theme or idea to it?

SG: I’ve been wanting to put out a nice lil ambient sort of electronic mix for awhile. Really soft deep introspective vibes. I’ve been holding on to a lot of these tunes for awhile and just listening to my playlist of ambient tunes while traveling or relaxing with friends. After coming back from my NZ/Australian tour, I was ready to play some non dance music for a sec and listen to some other stuff. This mix is just a nice break from DJing a party. I also really want to make an ambient album soon if I have the time, so there are a lot inspirations in this mix.

MFM Mix 050: Space Ghost

SKETCHBOOK RADIO DILLA  TRIBUTE 5 MIXED BY KUTMAH

Order a physical copy tape cassette here: https://linafornia.bandcamp.com/album/yung

TRACKLIST:

SIDE A: beats, snippets & dusty loops...
1. intro [Get Ready!!!!] --0:00--
2. mafmaticbapp --1:22--
3. hi shrimp --3:38--
4. brownies --6:07--
5. nagchampa [in the vortex] / beat F --8:00--
6. wussup (feat. Jack Bastian) --10:44--
7. wetttt --12:55--

SIDE B: raps, remixes & oracles...
8. wrdfrmjazzoh [the oracle] --16:07--
9. Dot Wav (feat. Devi Wonder) --18:18--
10. xtrctions --20:33--
11. rargroovs --23:05--
12. gotchuallinCHECK!!!! --26:35--

SHOUT OUTS!!!!
Always Prolific [Swingy Rec], Wylie Cable [Dome of Doom], Gibb, Jazz Oh, Verbs [#DeaThLA], Nate Hollister Jr., Rxdio, Anjik, Kahil Saadiq, Ivan Jahn, Juanita Anderson, Cesee, Beat Cinema

PEACE!!!!


Linafornia- [YUNG] LP Cassette Mix

New, old and timeless faves, plus some works in progress mixed together for https://soundcloud.com/latency-recordings label

Otto Sidharta - Gongs
William Selman - Polysemy
Makoto Shinohara - Alternances 
Susan Deyhim & Richard Horowitz - Tear
Asa-Chang & Junray - Tsuginepu To Itte Mita
Paul Lansky - Word Color
Andrew Pekler - Untitled, unreleased (Cicada + Bass)
Bellows - Untitled track from Sander EP
Sugai Ken - Okera
Andrew Pekler - Untitled, unreleased (Remix of recordings made in Uganda by Alyssa Moxley)
Seth Graham - Mas Que Fin
Mads Emil Nielsen - Soundtales excerpt
Phil Struck - Klouds
Dawid Szczesny - Drafts 1.7
Otto Sidharta - Gongs
Bobby Hutcherson - Prints Tie
Sote - Santour sample from Holy Error 
Don Cherry & Latif Khan - Air Mail
Ahnnu - War Stage
Terry Riley - Music For The Gift (part 1)
© - He Was 
Vapour Gourds - Low Jack Miniatures excerpt
Jasmine Guffond - Post Human

Magical Nihilism

Release date: 15/07/19

If you would like to review this release, please email info@astralindustries.co.uk

Format: 2x12” 180g vinyl//mastered by Noel Summerville & Uwe Schmidt//original artwork by Theo Ellsworth.

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Dots written by Atom™. Recorded 1994 at "Sel I/S/C", Frankfurt/M. 
Under exclusive license from the AtomTM_Audio_Archive.

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C2. Dense

A mix assembled for the bi-monthly Temple of Faitiche show on LYL Radio: https://lyl.live/episode/temple-of-faitiche-17/

Hi - Tech World 1984-1990

A mix for @radiosygma. 
Info and tracklist: https://radio.syg.ma/episodes/pba-andrew-pekler-juxtapositions-ii

Juxtapositions II

This mix, originally made for @mysteriesofthedeep, features a few favorite (mostly unaccompanied) piano meanderings from Australia, Algeria, Ethiopia, Italy, South Africa and the US set against a shifting backdrop of nocturnal field recordings.

Tracklist:
1.  Joanna Brouk - The Space Between
2. Chris Abrahams - Roller
3. Abdullah Ibrahim - The Pilgrim
4. Mustapha Skandrani - Mode Ghrib
5. Tsegué-Maryam Guèbrou ‎– Golgotha
6. Domenico De Clario - June 5
7. William Duckworth - Time Curve Prelude III
8. William Duckworth - Time Curve Prelude XIII
9. Adrian Klumpes - Be Still
10. Raul Lovisoni & Francesco Messina - Prati Bagnati Del Monte Analogo

Pianos In The Wild

re-upload of this mix from 2015 – features some early drafts and snippets of material that would later make it onto the album tristes tropiques. part 2 can be found here: https://soundcloud.com/pekler/fourth-world-problems-ii

1. andrew pekler - feedback tt
2. unnamned burundian musician - chant avec citahare / toru takemitsu - water music
3. mike cooper - electricity
4. joel chadabe - yum yum
5. ryuichi sakamoto - ulu watu 
6. andrew pekler - synthetic birdsong / untitled
7. michael prime - the mouth of hermes / barbera benary - sleeping braid
8. chappel mood music vol. 15 - électronique / zazou, bikaye, cy 1 - m’pasi ya
9. andrew pekler - synthetic birdsong / madalyn merkey - archipelago
10. barbara kolb - solitaire / waisoni msusa - kung'anda kwa anyamata
11. dennis smalley - the pulses of time
12. peuls musicians - pakapak / mike cooper - tahiti green island
13. gordon monahan - large piano magnified / andrew pekler - untitled 
14. andrew pekler - untitled 
15. mbuti singers - iyo-o-o / david keane - in memorium hugh le caine
16. jon hassell - empire iv
17. unnamed burundian musician - take me back to mabayi / pierre henry - danse / andrew pekler - additional sounds
18. andrew pekler - untitled
19. nuno canavarro - bruma / unnamed burundian singers - akazéhé / andrew pekler - synthetic birdsong

Fourth World Problems I

Pitched corrected. 40th anniversary of HOTH remix.