MIX05 - HANDY HICKFORD
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MIX05 - ANDY HICKFORD

Plastic Fantastic's LP mix on Music For Beaches - The Sound Of Chilled-Out Sydney. Broadcast every Sunday at 8PM on 2SER 107.3FM from Sydney, Australia

Environments - Pacific Ocean 
Falk & Klou - Sunshine 
Alex Goose/Matt Zara - Since I Lost You (7" single) 
Atlantis Jazz Ensemble - Enlightenment 
Greg Foat & Ayo Salawu - Solar Pirates (LP version)
The Pattern Forms - Dawn Chorus 
Alessandro Alessandroni Orchestra - Oceano 
Ìxtahuele - Colors Of Hawaiki (7" single) 
Haruomi Hosono, Shigeru Suzuki & Tatsuro Yamashita - Last Paradise 
L'Eclair - Coke Mountain 
Pierre Daven-Keller - Daïquiri 
The Sweet Enoughs - Marshmallow 
Ezy Minus - You Will Come Back To Me
Pneumatic Tubes - Summer's End
Piero Umiliani - Tanto Tempo (trumpet version)
Massimo Matrisciano - Ultima Spiaggia

Music For Beaches - Plastic Fantastic LP Mix

Resident Paul East invites legendary selector Jolyon Green for a guest mix in the second half!

LOOSE.fm

WORKING NIGHTS W/ PAUL EAST + GUEST: JOLYON GREEN - 20 SEPT 24

Blue Sky & Calm Sea

Delayed Reaction Mix...Coyote

Even by my standards, this is probably my most ”niche” mix ever. The tunes here all have more or less the same sound and feel. It is a sound I absolutely adore, and you all recognise it when you hear it. You can find it in ”Wichita Lineman”, ”Honey” by Bobby Goldsboro or in theme song to "Midnight Cowboy" - Nilsson's version of "Everybody’s Talkin’". Basically, it is the adult pop sound of 1968, or as I see it - soft rock for (middle-aged) hopeless romantics. 

It is all string-heavy folk songs with a slight country flavour and the best singers and musicians (mandatory Wrecking Crew-involvement) of the 60’s. I say country flavour because it sounds more like if country would have been born in the Hollywood Hills instead of rural Nashville. 

This sound was a perfect opportunity for some of the popular crooners and washed-up rock'n'rollers of the early pop era of the late 50’s to come back in search of a (slightly) younger audience. Around 1968 they all showed up in a dashing fringed suede jacket and a Jimmy Webb song about lost love to match.

I always imagined this is how ”americana” would sound, but of course, it never did… well anyway, here it is, Tinseltown Cowboys.

Tinseltown Cowboys

Plastic Fantastic feat. Sally Rodgers - Give The Light Back To The Night
Z/L - Kintsugi
John Stammers - Idle I’m
Simon Peter - Arc Of Lark (40 Thieves Dub Extension)
Santino Surfers - Sun Rise Swell (Chris Coco Dub Mix 4)
Aby Ngana Diop - Michael Ozone's Liital Rhythm
Dennis Wilson - Dreamer (Ole Smokey’s Heaven in a  car edit)
Dennis Stoner - Maybe Someday,Maybe Never
Nordsø & Theill - Nine to Seven 
Jon Hopkins - Wintergreen
Mackrory & Collier - Tu Sonrisa
Andres y Xavi - Bibbles (Mass Density Human Intergalacticos Del Dar Mix)
J - Walk - Black Lion Passage

Music For Dreams Radio Show 5.10.24

Outlaws Yacht Club turns 12.

100 min mix.

Press play and enjoy.

Outlaws 12th Birthday Party - Sunshine in the Afternoon

Gene Wilder - Pure Imagination 
The Time & Space Machine - Vision Om
Carlos Santana/Mahavishnu John McLaughlin - Meditation
Leftfield - Melt 
David Crosby - Traction in the rain
Suzanne Vega - Calypso
Hiroshi Sato - Jo - Do 
Jonathan Wilson - Desert Raven 
Bob James - Rain 
Kenneth Nash - You’ve been there before 
Michael Kiwanuka - Tell me a tale 
Angophora - Interchange (Santilli)
Vidderna - Utanfor
Ruf Dug - Pomegranate Dub 
Geller & Kaya - Wham dub
Maxine Nightingale - Get it up for love
Pablo Color - La Ventana
Haruko Kuwana - 蒼い風
Torsten Wallin - Vinter Manniskan
Hiroshima - One Wish 
Paul Mauriat - Sea Shell Shore
Sidi Bou Said - Babbaluci

Sunshine in the Afternoon (Outlaws Yacht Club 12th Birthday) - Andy Pye

Andy x Rich tune for tune at The Standard London, Library Lounge!

Next Sweeties: Fri 1st Nov with ddwy - send over names for guestlist to goodblockhello@gmail.com

https://ra.co/events/2024946

Good Block recording from The Standard London, Library Lounge

Coyote - Live Bodega Nottingham October '24

Latest mix recorded live at Lady Libertine, Edinburgh - 25/10/24.

Scott Proper : Music For All Of Us

Plastic Fantastic is the alias of Oslo/Norway-based DJ and producer John Clements. Originally formed as a duo with Eirik Wulff-Engh in 2012, Eirik decided to step away from the partnership in 2020 leaving John to continue Plastic Fantastic as a solo project.

Plastic Fantastic’s first record Here Comes The Sun was released on Spanish label Our Nights Recordings in November 2014. The digital bundle featured remixes from Ilya Santana, Beatfanatic and Dynamicron. Response to their debut was favorable with music blog Como Las Grecas offering a particularly warm review of the record. Remix-wise, the Ilya Santana remix faired especially well, making it into the top ten on the Traxsource Essential Nu Disco/Indie Dance Chart within two weeks of release. In 2015 the boys agreed to license the Beatfanatic remix of​ Here Comes The Sun ​for an exclusive 12" vinyl release on the highly regarded Aficionado Recordings imprint. Released in July 2015, the record reached the number two spot on Juno Records Vinyl Singles Chart,​ a​s well as number five in the Balearic/Downtempo Chart. It was Bestseller Of The Week and Piccadilly Records Genre Pick Of The Week. The record enjoyed heavy rotation and support, particularly from Coyote (Is It Balearic),​ Faze Action and Kenneth Bager (Music For Dreams).

A collaboration with Sally Rodgers from A Man Called Adam in 2017 resulted in Give The Light Back To The Night, released exclusively on vinyl on Andy Pye’s Balearic Social Records. This 12” release also became Piccadilly Records Genre Pick Of The Week.

Reflections Of The Sun was released in 2019 on Ibiza based label NuNorthern Soul. Released under the duo's Mirage-alias, the two-track EP took almost five years to complete. The track Endless Ocean appeared on the 12" vinyl Summer Selections One, released in May 2019. The record also featured brand new tracks from Nick J Smith and Bonnie & Klein. The record was given much love and support, particularly from Chris Coco (Melodica) and David Pickering (One Million Sunsets Radio Show), and the record became something of a sunset staple at La Torre in Ibiza that summer.

Released in November 2022 on the French label Golden Forest Records, Dusk was the very last record that John and Eirik produced and collaborated on together. Recorded between May 2020 and June 2021, this epic masterpiece is arguably the duo's finest work, with reviewers drawing parallels to Tangerine Dream and The Future Sound Of London. The record features a remix by veteran Norwegian DJ and producer Rune Lindbæk. Feedback on the record was overwhelmingly positive with words of praise coming from Ryan Bishop (Dream Chimney), Chris Coco, Coyote, Mike Salta (Music For Dreams) and many others.

Plastic Fantastic is predominantly a studio project, but has been known to play live on occasion and frequently guests on select radio shows and podcasts around the globe. Plastic Fantastic also curates the mix series The Sunrise Social.

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