1800 triiip mix series

"A mellow collection of melodic tunes, including many personal favourites from my original, Toronto-based Good Timin' night and radio show (RIP). It's an all-vinyl session, and I had a lot of fun going through a bunch of my records that I just got out of storage. I was a little rusty on the Technics, so the blends are loose and carefree; a bit like how I might mix after a few glasses of vino! " - @jexopolis

B.P.T. Radio 020: Jex Opolis

Long time pal and driving force behind Invisible City it's Gary Abugan (@invisible-city) from Canada serving up the 29th mix in the series. Interview (excerpt) down below.

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MFM: Hey Gary. How's life in Toronto today? Did you manage to do some more gardening? :)

IC: We have a really nice garden in front of the shop and also at home in my backyard, both get some nice sun and shade and are where I spend all my time. So yes, gardening everyday ;)

MFM: (Before the pandemic hit) You've seen quite a few bits of the world by now while touring. How would you describe Toronto as a city if you had to promote it to the readers who haven't been there yet? 

IC: It’s summer here now in Toronto and we’re in the middle of a heatwave. We’re lucky to have an island with nice beaches as a nearby getaway via ferry. Toronto is a very large sprawling city compared to most European cities. Our multiculturalism definitely sets us apart. We have heaps of reggae and island music here along with lots of record shops, and the variety of food here can’t really be beat. I miss giving guided Invisible City tours of the city to any traveling DJs passing through.

MFM: Would you say it's a good place for an artist to be, whether being a young upcoming talent or professional and all in between?  

IC: Sure you can make it here if you’re skilled/talented and not overbearing, the problem is that there isn’t that many music venues to play. Between the crazy expensive visa you need to play the USA and the costs of flights to Europe, we are kind of isolated musically. Rent is crazy expensive here and most artists have another job, but I’m not sure if Toronto makes it specifically harder or easier compared to other cities. 

MFM: People may know you as the driving force behind Invisible City, the record store and label. How much time do you spend with the one compared to the other? 

IC: I would say pre-Covid more focus was on the shop and getting that to a sustainable level and stocking the store. We didn’t even have a sign for years until recently. During Covid, when the shop was closed for about a year and a half, a lot of focus was on development and signing artists paying advances and getting back into production. I learned alot about Music Publishing too… Laura helps me a lot with organizing everything, label and shop, I would be lost without her.

MFM: Looking back on running a record store and label for over 10 years now, what would you say are some key changes that took place over time?

Back then there were not that many reissue labels and it wasn’t as competitive or extensive, now everyone has a reissue label. I only wanted to put out records that I was strongly connected to or somehow found on a whim. If someone showed me a record, I would ask them if they were planning on reissuing it, now people just go ahead. It’s crazy how many reissues there are so it’s challenging now as a label to dig even deeper. The record shop also was really niche and specialized in the past and now there’s just more in each genre. It’s still pretty curated, but I am finding that I didn’t know a lot of good common records, so we like having “high end cheapos”. I like that most people can just come off the street and buy records now, although we still have some niche stuff too. It feels overall more balanced and varied and for the people.

MFM: The label seems to run at a nice and slow pace. Is it on purpose to not have a heavy and steady output? 

IC: I like to only do a couple records a year, it’s only me and Laura who do it all and it takes me ages to figure out artwork, I’m very picky. The shop, DJing, and occasionally throwing parties also takes up a lot of our time. We always have a lot on the go. I also like to focus on one or two artists at a time, but also it costs a lot of money to make a record! Now things are totally slowed down and our plant says I can’t get pressings out till next March!

MFM Mix 029: Invisible City

We're back with another mix. This one is courtesy of Melbourne's Daniel Pisano (@daniel_pisano), who runs the always fantastic mix series @rhapsodise. Tune in for nearly two hours of street soul and groovy chuggers. We're very happy to have him on board.

Isle of Wax 012 by Daniel Pisano

From Amsterdam with Love  ☁️ 💕 @kleodisco delivering an hour of sweet rainy music to keep us together during these difficult times (precisely what music is about) 🤕 🫂 we made the usual intro:
00 - 29 us 
0.29 -1.28 Kléo

Eternal Love With Kléo / Rocket Radio

First contribution to our Spring/Summer mix series by LA's very own, @suzannekraft . Check out our short interview with him on our website! https://www.homagebrewing.com/spring-summer-mix-series

Homage Mix Series: Suzanne Kraft - 001

This month we were joined by NYC vibesmith, dope DJ and killer producer @gregdroggitis on @worldwide-fm with an exquisite hour of dubby downtempo, chillout business 💆‍♂️

Resident at Good Room and Public Records, 1/2 of Infinity Machine, 1/3 of Earth Beat and with releases on firm favourites Planet Trip and Superior Elevation this man knows a thing or two about weaving together a bit of magic for your mind 🪄

We ease you in with some ice-cold chillers for the first hour with Greg steppin up in the 2nd.

Heels & Souls with Gee Dee (WWFM)

NTS - Doing Time With Musiques Imaginaires

For our InnerDisc Radio number 5 we are super happy to welcome long time friends who run our favorite austrian label. Edition Hawara is a record label from Vienna specialized in re-issuing long-forgotten jazz and soul from Austria. The heavyweight selectors sent us 70 minutes of beautiful music sliding through genres, styles and obscure tunes. Enjoy this selection and put it on heavy rotation to get you in the right mood!

@EditionHawara: "𝙏𝙝𝙞𝙨 𝙨𝙚𝙡𝙚𝙘𝙩𝙞𝙤𝙣 𝙤𝙛 𝙢𝙪𝙨𝙞𝙘 𝙝𝙖𝙨 𝙗𝙚𝙚𝙣 𝙘𝙤𝙢𝙥𝙞𝙡𝙚𝙙 𝙟𝙤𝙞𝙣𝙩𝙡𝙮 𝙗𝙮 𝙖𝙡𝙡 𝙩𝙝𝙧𝙚𝙚 𝙃𝙖𝙬𝙖𝙧𝙖 – 𝙅𝙪𝙡𝙞𝙖𝙣, 𝙅𝙤𝙣𝙣𝙮 𝙖𝙣𝙙 𝙁𝙖𝙗𝙞𝙤. 𝙄𝙩'𝙨 𝙢𝙤𝙨𝙩𝙡𝙮 𝙘𝙪𝙧𝙧𝙚𝙣𝙩 𝙛𝙖𝙫𝙤𝙪𝙧𝙞𝙩𝙚𝙨 𝙛𝙧𝙤𝙢 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝙫𝙖𝙪𝙡𝙩𝙨: 𝙧𝙚𝙘𝙤𝙧𝙙𝙨 𝙛𝙧𝙤𝙢 𝙙𝙞𝙛𝙛𝙚𝙧𝙚𝙣𝙩 𝙘𝙤𝙣𝙩𝙞𝙣𝙚𝙣𝙩𝙨 𝙖𝙣𝙙 𝙚𝙧𝙖𝙨 𝙩𝙝𝙖𝙩 𝙝𝙖𝙫𝙚 𝙡𝙞𝙩𝙩𝙡𝙚 𝙞𝙣 𝙘𝙤𝙢𝙢𝙤𝙣 𝙗𝙪𝙩 𝙗𝙚𝙖𝙪𝙩𝙞𝙛𝙪𝙡𝙡𝙮 𝙛𝙞𝙩 𝙩𝙤𝙜𝙚𝙩𝙝𝙚𝙧. 𝙒𝙚 𝙝𝙤𝙥𝙚 𝙩𝙝𝙖𝙩 𝙩𝙝𝙚𝙨𝙚 𝙨𝙤𝙣𝙜𝙨 𝙗𝙚𝙘𝙤𝙢𝙚 𝙮𝙤𝙪𝙧 𝙣𝙚𝙬 𝙛𝙖𝙫𝙤𝙪𝙧𝙞𝙩𝙚𝙨, 𝙩𝙤𝙤."

1. Graf Hadik - Old Man River
2. George Martin - Day Starting Symphony
3. Mogwaa - Sonrisa Del Mar
4. Native – Love ain't no holiday
5. Alex O – Say no
6. The Nights In Shining - Surfen’ Reggae
7. Banda Mel - Samba Reggae
8. The Matheus Combo - America (Psychemagik Edit)
9. Mike Okri – Okpeke Oghenekevwe
10. Wet Silk - Let Me Love You Baby
11. Felix Liberty - Better Be Sure
12. Patience Africa - By Hook Or By Crook
13. Nelson Brandt - Passepartout
14. Private Agenda - Ultramarine
15. JKRNDA - Males De Otro Lugar
16. Pablo’s Eyes - La Pedrera

https://www.instagram.com/editionhawara

InnerDisc Radio 005: Edition Hawara

June Jams 2017 ( Guestmix - DJ Vegetable  )

80 odd minutes of certified melters from the @good-block lads to kick off the first mix in our 1800 triiip series.

If you haven't copped their 4 corners E.P hugeeee tip to jump on it ~ https://goodblock.bandcamp.com/releases

ID requests ~ @good-block

Good Block

1800 triiip - Good Block - 001

An hour of wading in the deep waters of the Free Dots wormhole via the homie Harry from @free-dots

Dive into their mix series or trawl through heaters on their tube channel

ID requests ~ @free-dots

1800 triiip - Free Dots - 002

Soak up 60 plus minutes of steamy streetsoul, oddball rap, housey jams and future dog patting anthems from our fave Italian G's.  

Grazie mille to the Eternal Love for this one.

ID Requests - @eternalloveyt

1800 triiip - Eternal Love - 003

The Detroit dreamboat aka Cruce Grammatico delivers close to two hours of immaculate selects, including a forthcoming cut from PT002 via our homies @symptomsoflove ~ Find it for a virtual hug from us and them.  

In between turning out parties in the state of Michigan, he runs an amazing channel on the tube, hips us to mega jams every other day of the week, accepts packages as our US postal address and was the link to making PT002 our next record dropping in early Jan a reality. Endless respect and love for the G that is Cruce.  

ID requests ~ @cruce123

1800 triiip - Cruce Grammatico - 004

High grade selects from one of our favourite DJs in the game ~ Daniel Lupica. One half of the Freedom Sounds & Bodywork parties with Mike, extended Planet Trip family and a certified head with a range like no other. Soak up just over two hours of jams and what is a small snapshot into the heavy heavy Lupica crates.

ID requests ~ @daniel-lupica

1800 triiip - Daniel Lupica - 005

French homies Lorem Ipsum serve up 2 hours of ice cold jams.  As always a deeeeep trip and a big tip into the vaults of the Ipsum experience.

ID requests - @lorem-ipsum-yo

1800 triiip - Lorem Ipsum - 009

Joris Caloud and Pierre Hubert, who run the always reliable Lorem Ipsum mix and party series sent over 4 hrs of summertime, in the form of electric soul, balearic hip hop, and drum machine AOR. Sit back, have a mimosa and enjoy the flight!

Séance Centre Radio Episode 32 NTS feat: Lorem Ipsum (Feb 2021) NO BANTER

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