Absolutely loved this mix! what a journey! 😊✨🫶

For our final mix of a relentlessly difficult year we can think of no greater duo to see us into a new, hopefully brighter one than Time Is Away.

https://www.factmag.com/2021/12/27/fact-mix-840-time-is-away/

Fact Mixes

Fact Mix 840: Time Is Away (Dec '21)

It's a real pleasure to welcome highly respected and experienced musical selector, DJ, radio host and curator Colleen 'Cosmo' Murphy (@colleen-cosmo-murphy) with a special 'audio yoga mix' to our series. Interview (excerpt) down below.

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MFM: Hi Colleen, thanks for sharing your thoughts and music with us. Hosting your weekly online radio shows, making plenty mixes for several outlets, DJing clubs and festivals... How do you keep motivated and inspired?

CM: Sharing music has been focal to my life since I was a teenager hosting shows on our 10-watt high school radio station and working in a record shop after school. Turning people onto new tunes and artists gives me immense joy and courses throughout every aspect of my vocation. I’m a communicator at heart. That’s balanced with the more internalized creativity of music productions and remixes. Being in the studio and playing with ideas and sounds is very focusing and the rest of the world seems to fall away. It’s therapeutic. And playing records as a DJ or musical host is like a lively musical conversation in which I draw energy from the dancers and give it back in turn. A great party is a collective creation. Throughout all of my endeavours I try to impart the life energy of music, a healing and motivational force that inspires me every day.

MFM: In a time and place where the context of a DJ seems to have changed over decades, do you feel your “classic” approach of DJing gives you an advantage in keeping relevant and reaching a crowd?

CM: It's important to have your own point of difference. I have never been a ‘cookie-cutter’ type DJ and used to struggle with the idea that I didn’t fit in. But then I recognized that all the different aspects of my vocation had one thing in common – myself. Once I integrated everything and became more holistic in my approach, I felt happier and more confident. Being authentic to oneself is first and foremost and then it is up to others to decide whether or not they like your creative output. You can’t please everybody, but you have to try to please yourself otherwise there is no point. I get immense pleasure in what I do and hope that it brings joy to others. I do have a classic approach to DJ-ing but I’m also always looking for new sounds that resonate. I also admire other DJs styles even if it’s quite different to my own. There’s room for everyone.

MFM: You're a DJ who encourages the listener to open up and really listen to music, its definitions, context and aesthetics. Probably one of the foremost reasons why you tend to let a song run from beginning till end. With such strong values, what's your view on the modern way of “consuming” music?

CM: There are many different ways to enjoy music and none are the wrong way. Any experience of music is good. When I started Classic Album Sundays in 2010, it was a response to music only being ‘consumed’ rather than experienced and I wanted to share the way the I often listen to music with others to provide an alternative. At that time, we were in the midst of shuffle culture and the almighty MP3 and whilst both have their place, it shouldn’t be the end-all experience. When people come to a Classic Album Sundays event and hear the subtleties and nuances of an entire album played without interruption, on one of the world’s best sound systems and in a communal setting, they experience music in a different way and most find it transformative. But listening to music in a car or dancing to a DJ who scratches and cuts up songs can also be inspirational. I can only try to offer what is authentic from me.

MFM Mix 045: Colleen 'Cosmo' Murphy

Bristol based Noods resident, Junior, trudges us through an hour and a half of what he describes as the fruits of "a years worth of procrastination" that he would have named "Delay and Deliberation" had it not clashed with the title formatting tradition we've established. Dive in.

Forecast 064: Junior

Once in a blue moon cafe brought together the crew to celebrate their 10th year anniversary at Three Pools permaculture farm in Wales.

Once in a Blue Moon - Wales

@onceinabluemoonradio show live on @noodsradio - 12-1pm 10/07/23. 

A selection of records put together for OIABM Cafe's 10th birthday, some of which I also spun on the decks at our Midsummer Gathering event in Wales to celebrate a couple of weeks ago :) 

Showcasing sounds inspired by our travels across Latin America, Africa and the Caribbean, with a little trip to Asia and the Middle East in the mix there too! Hope you enjoy the music and big shout out to @analog-africa, @fortunarecords, @finderskeepersrecords and all the other labels (re)releasing so much of this amazing music.

Tracklist:

Steel An' Skin - Gadzo Drumming
Lokonon Andre & Les Volcans - Mi Kple Dogbekpo
Los Shapis - El Aguajal
Thomas Mapfumo & The Blacks Unlimited - Mabasa
Soulful Dynamics - Jungle People
Dionisio Maio - Corpim Sabe (Alma Negra Edit)
Frente Cumbiero - Pichito
Red Axes - Abidjan (feat. Yakomin)
A Mislayene - El Fen
Baris Manco - Aman Yavas Aheste
Ihsan Al Munzer - Belly Dance Disco
Ilaiyaraaja - Poo Poo Kkum
Derya Yildirim & Grup Simsek - Nem Kaldı
Sound Voyage - Golden Garuda
Wat Phnom Orchestra - Om Touk Knong Beung
Inti Illimani - Tinku
Tremor - Caracol (Chancha Via Circuito Remix)

Once In A Blue Moon Cafe - 10 Year Anniversary Mix (2013-2023)

Next up is a brace from a fan favourite. A cult hero. It’s the Bristol Berbatov, aka Winkles, putting it in the mixer as per his signature mercurial style. 

As longstanding admirers of the Greta Cottage duo, we strongly recommend dedicating some active listening hours to the countless radio shows Onlyz & Winkles have compiled over the years. There’s loads to get stuck into from this crew of Soundcloud journeymen. 

But maybe start here and follow it up with the imminent second part of the South West Double from @jimmywinkle. 

Check it: @greta-cottage-workshop

28 - Winkles (South West Double pt. 1)

Available on Audio Cassette and digital download directly from the label’s Bandcamp: https://cclurl.bandcamp.com/album/a-night-in-the-skull-discotheque

Side A: Bass is Eternal
Side B: 2-step Mutual Dream

A Night in the Skull Discotheque by the beloved underground selector CCL is the latest offering in the T4T LUV NRG label’s highly limited DJ mix series of cassettes. This immersive journey through a wonderland of proto-dubstep sounds from the late 1970s through the year 2000 is a sonic sibling to CCL’s acclaimed 2018 mix Ode to Queer Steppas.

Inspired in part by Eris Drew’s use of “old records to create new styles out of fragments” on her Raving Disco Breaks Vol. 1 mixtape (T4T LUV NRG, 2019), CCL approached this recording with a parallel frame of mind. Created with 3 CDJs, one Turntable, and a Boss Digital Delay 200, the tracks included in the mix are deconstructed from their whole, and constituent parts are intertwined, sampled, and dubbed out while being further stretched beyond their physical limits. CCL mixed many tracks at the 'wrong speed', pitched beyond their original recognizable tone; others are recontextualized through imaginative layering.

With a solid nod to seminal mixtapes of the early 90s, CCL references the namesake for Side A, Bass Is Eternal, an unreleased 1992 mixtape by influential Bristolian producers Smith & Mighty, an important sonic fulcrum amongst the musical tributaries of the hardcore continuum that continues to reverberate to this day. CCL experienced the after-effects of this ‘proto’ sound genesis in 2008, while living in Bristol, by which point its emergent whispers had coalesced into what became known as dubstep. Tracing a rich history of reference through the samples, basslines, moods, and drum patterns emanating from Bass Is Eternal while looking for connections that predate it became a long-term fascination for CCL. The result is a DJ mix that connects the oft-forgotten dots between proto eras and modern developments in bass and dubstep.

For the resulting sonic ride on A Night in the Skull Discotheque, CCL leads us to a fantastical place of timeless surreality – a majestic haunted dancehall soundtracked by a giddy rush of steppers and dubbed-out delights. Subs rattle through syncopated percs, and moody synths glisten in macabre glory. Fantastical dancers wriggle in wispy eternity, liberated from their corporeal forms in all their greatest spiritual wonder. Both extravagant and dusky, A Night in the Skull Discotheque is a world of seductive in-betweens, a place caught between the moodiest depths and the highest exuberance – A love letter to one of the most impactful formative sounds of the last decades.


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A portion for the proceeds from this release will go to fundraiser "SUPPORT PALESTINIAN SOLIDARITY IN EUROPE!". You can also directly donate via:
https://www.gofundme.com/f/support-palestinian-solidarity-in-europe
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Tape design: Nina Muro
Mastering: TJ Hertz
Additional tape mastering: Eris Drew
Photography: CCL 
Linear notes: Nevan Jio

A Night in the Skull Discotheque [T4T015]

CCL - A Night in the Skull Discotheque

Trushmix presents Bristol's own Curly Waters. No stranger to the Trushmix series. This time Curly was on a visit in Berlin, and played a smashing set at DJ Sotofett's  Tresor x Wania night at Globus/Tresor!

Here a three hour set consisting of quality mostly house and techno music. As an opening set for an amazing night, Curly starts easy and gradually builds up a consistent strong vibe and energy. Some dubby sounds, US style, UK sounds, electro, hints of breakbeat, and some good shifts in tempo and groove. This is it!

Music from the top from Curly Waters!

Enjoy!

Trushmix.com

Trushmix 221 - Curly Waters

A compilation of music by female singers and musicians for the Bristol Women of the World Celebratory Feast, March 2024

Women Of The World Compilation

eyes tearing up, an uncomfortable dryness in the back of the throat, a wet sniffly nose...this mix of bedroom outsiders, loner folk, ambient jangle pop and balearic heartmelters conveys a hayfever sensibility that's both flowery and sunny, whilst crying your eyes out xxx

Terre Thaemlitz - Fat Chair
Manuel Troller - DNA
KiMiMi - Ko Ta Bi Soshigaya
Kevin - staying
Bark Psychosis - I Know
James Buckley - These Days v3
Plume Girl - clean
Joanne Robertson, Dean Blunt - PUSHER
You'll Never Get To Heaven - Dust
Ruth Goller - Reach down into the deepest white
Satomimagae + Duenn - wave
A Happy Return - Clewe
Cowboy Sadness - Ten Paces
Jauche - Never Sever
Rat Heart & The Peanuts - HERE WE ARE (LAAAAAA)
Parker Allen - An Award
Tracy Thorne - Seascape
Moon Duo - Planet Caravan
Seal	- Violet
Terre Thaemlitz - Hovering Glows (Vinyl Mix)
Northern Picture Library - Lucky
tibslc - many tickets
Soft Location - The Whistling Song
Horsebeach - It's Alright
Naomi Klaus - Walk With Your Romance
Joe Crow - Complusion
The Sundays - You're Not The Only One I Know

Noods Radio

Early Doors w/ Dan Thorman & Curly Waters (Hayfever Music Special) 27.5.24

1. Pascal Comelade - Chanson
2. Ssaliva - geo
3. Margot - το μαύρο φονικό
4. Katzenwerk - the younger sister who takes a nap
5. Mirka Krivánková, Jirí Stivín & Co - Mlhavé Doteky
6. Sprayers - Cities
7. Anna Arazzini - Sveglierai la luna
8. Freundliche Kreisel - Alleinesein
9. Caroline K  - Chearth
10. L'Air Maureen - Silent Sailing Night
11. Cardevore - la nana de la decadencia barroqa
12. Congregacion - Arrebol
13. NAVE - Montesail
14. Claude Vasori - Folk Guitar
15. Isorinne - Closing Window to the East
16. Hessel Veldman & Nick Nicole - Untitled 9
17. Baldruin - Verlassen
18. Rita Abatzi - tha ' fiso ghenia ke mal

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Painting by Christian Schoppik

Die halluzinierte Welt

Wavering Forms 31 - Brannten Schnüre

Resident DJ for Once In A Blue Moon Cafe (www.onceinabluemooncafe.com) - spinning records at festivals, parties, the odd pub / club and internet radio.

Check out more:

https://www.mixcloud.com/pxm
@onceinabluemoonradio
https://www.noodsradio.com/residents/once-in-a-blue-moon-cafe

Contact: pat@onceinabluemooncafe.com

Once In A Blue Moon Cafe - 10 Year Anniversary Mix (2013-2023)

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