Mixes

Today, we welcome our thirteenth guest mix selection on @subcityradio - this time from Tokyo-based DJ, unrivalled bizzaro-music collector, hair-stylist and reissue label maverick, Tatsuhiko Sakamoto.

Tatsu is the owner of a very cool hair salon in Yoyogi-Hachiman, Tokyo called TANGRAM, founder of Tokyo’s Ideala crew, who organise regular ‘deep listening parties’ at Forestlimit in Hatagaya, and label co-head behind Conatala, one of the best new reissue labels, whose latest archival record, Fishy Tails, compiles tracks from The Dead Goldfish Ensemble.

This guest mix melts sources and samples into an unfathomable pile of rainbow candle wax. Extended thickets of electronic whispers devolve into creamy xylophone-like refrains - massaging synth updrafts free fall into dark ambient communal baths that offer entire universes to idly float through at varying lengths. The first hour is all pealing ripples and imitation bells, cascading hiss and meditative drift, plus a great deal of unstated, baleful fun bridging sounds and subcultures.

The marvellously psychedelic churn changes tempos in the second hour - hypnotic krautrock-inspired repetition, snaking and surging on a dime Jazz-chord skree, proggy synth-pomp and far East tonalities, ultimately hydroplaning into a thicket of bracing, exclamatory effects; think of it as primal lamentation therapy for the lockdown soul.

Originally aired LIVE on Glasgow's Subcity Radio on 14/03/21 - Tracklist available here - https://www.subcity.org/shows/choon/e49e9

chOOn!! with Tatsuhiko Sakamoto [Guest Mix]

ch00n!! (10/4/21)

Today we welcome our fourteenth guest mix selection - this time from Melbourne-based DJ, cultural connector, mercurial tastemaker and proprietor behind the burgeoning outernational mix series @undertheapricottree, Nathaniel.

In a sea of head-banging mix series, Under The Apricot Tree has become one of our essential stops for transformative outernational listening, showcasing diverse experimental music from around the world. Not only does it consistently cater for moods not often covered by other platforms, but it provides DJs an opportunity to express other shades and sides to their tastes away from the club. As such, they’ve welcomed international luminaries like Indonesia’s Midnight Runners alongside Antipodean selectors admired more locally to their Melbourne base. Curation doesn’t stop with the music. Global connectivity, metaphysical traveling and transitional listening habits have helped form an aesthetic that’s both a creative and comforting accompaniment to the mixes.

Behind it all is Nathaniel Rose, the unassuming and studious record collector who has built something that both listeners and DJs are championing in equal measure. Rarely one to step to the fore, we welcome the opportunity to explore his recent listening habits, detailing what we love about the UTAT philosophy and aesthetic.

A hypnotic, mystical theme seeps through this mind-bender of a guest mix, which is essentially an intriguing souvenir of Nathaniel’s interest in the literature and music of the post-Soviet world of the 1980s and 90s. Estonian psych, Slavic improv and Eastern-European night music are sewn together in a dreamlike, cosmic tapestry, crafting a unique cultural geography of landscapes and atmospheres: real and imagined, natural and man-made.

Originally aired LIVE on Glasgow's Subcity Radio on 11/04/21 - Tracklist available here - www.subcity.org/shows/choon/de111

chOOn!! with Nathaniel - Under The Apricot Tree [Guest Mix]

Today, we are celebrating the impending release of our fourth/fifth reissues - the archival compilation 'Tsonga Tremors: Explorations in Tradition, Technology & South African Dance Music (1983-1991)' and its companion release 'Tsonga Tremors: Remixes.'

We are presenting this reissue compilation featuring early Shangaan-influenced dance music from legendary producers Paul Ndlovu, Thomas Chauke and Richard Siluma alongside lesser-known Tsonga Disco and neo-traditional rarities from South Africa (1983-1991). The compilation will drop digitally on July 2nd - and physically on Sep 1st. 

This first series of remixes from the 'Tsonga Tremors' compilation is spearheaded by three acclaimed producers - @hysteric, @monsieurbaba and @djturboboomboom and will be released digitally on June 4th. 

The 2LP compilation is available to pre-order on vinyl via @lightintheatticrecords and digital editions via the chOOn!! Bandcamp (www.tsongatremors.bandcamp.com). 

To mark the occasion, we are so very excited to welcome our fifteenth guest mix selection - this time from Eric Advo Liphadzi aka Eric the King Lipaz - a pioneering producer, director, audiovisual polymath and impresario based in Johannesburg, South Africa.

Eric’s not called the "King" for nothing, he is part of South African music royalty and his guest mix takes us on a wide-ranging survey through his varied career. The rapid dispersal of his productions for Mahoshi, Jekete and Mezaya Kids through global dance channels in the early 1990s introduced audiences to a unique talent and one of South Africa’s brightest stars. Over a career spanning more than 30 years, he has become one of the undisputed godfathers of the Afrosynth sound, a number one artist many times over, and now promoter and A&R for new talent.

His guest mix is a completely unique 2 hours of radio - recorded LIVE from his Johannesburg studio at LiveNetRadio, Eric is in the ideal spot to expand on how his music transitioned from the no-prisoners minimalist dancehall blitz that marked his international emergence to remixing huge pop stars like Madonna and Bryan Adams.

Originally aired LIVE on Glasgow's Subcity Radio on 09/05/21 - Tracklist available here - https://www.subcity.org/shows/choon/d8091

chOOn!! with Eric King Lipaz [Guest Mix]

Guest spot on Berlin’s Cashmere Radio, Thursday 27th May, representing Subcity Radio as the stations exchanged airtime as part of a two day trade and takeover.

This guest mix is an hour session of mutant poptones, cosmic odysseys, proggy synth-pomp and we preview some upcoming reissue projects from the label and its friends. 

Featuring amazing reissues from @allcitydublin, @intothelightrecords, @editionsmego, @futuraresistenza, @em-records-osaka-japan, @nadanadadiscos, @knekelhuis, @vinicioadames, @trueclassrecords, @tsuna-psychedelia & @igetrvng.

chOOn!! - Cashmere Radio [Guest Mix]

Today, we are celebrating the companion release to our next archival reissue, 'Tsonga Tremors: Remixes', which landed this past Friday (June 4th).

This precedes the release of our next reissue proper, the compilation 'Tsonga Tremors: Explorations in Tradition, Technology & South African Dance Music (1983-1991).'

We are presenting this reissue compilation featuring early Shangaan-influenced dance music from legendary producers Paul Ndlovu, Thomas Chauke and Richard Siluma alongside lesser-known Tsonga Disco and neo-traditional rarities from South Africa (1983-1991). The compilation will drop digitally on July 2nd - and physically on Sep 1st.

This first series of remixes from the 'Tsonga Tremors' compilation is spearheaded by three acclaimed producers -  two of which join us today and provide our sixteenth guest mix selection - the aforementioned duo are @monsieurbaba and @djturboboomboom, who together run the new Parisian label Stima Records (@stimarecords).

Their first release as Stima presents a selection of studio-slick and unfamiliar 1980s Guadeloupean-Parisian misses from Jimmy Blanche alongside a companion piece of remixes and edits – from keyboard-drenched sunshine electro-gwoka to yacht-ready synth groovers, no-frills boogie dubs and the syncretic, joyous bricolage that has been a defining feature of so much salsa and disco music. An expertly crafted insider selection of high-gloss oddities and tropical pop misfires.

Their guest mix follows suit - it’s questing music, and there is no mistaking the sense that a complex, untested set of sounds is being thoughtfully glued together from well-loved fragments of the past – always intriguing and frequently surprising – their selection displays a compulsive interest in rhythm that allows even the most curious explorations to return with engaging, accessible sonic artefacts to marvel at. 

Originally aired LIVE on Glasgow's Subcity Radio on 06/06/21 - Tracklist available here - www.subcity.org/shows/choon/5688b

chOOn!! with Stima Records [Guest Mix]

chOOn!! (2/7/2021)

Mains Courantes with chOOn!!

October 14th, 2021 // Mains CourantesTracklist

Part 1
Music by:
Khotin, Superpitcher , Slow Attack Ensemble,
Blackmail, S. channel, Radiante pourpre, Dj Spinelli, Faraï, Isabelle Mayereau and some dubplates
Guest Mix // tracklist part 2
ヘンリー川原 // In My Relationship with You, I Think
about Myself on the Bed (Panpot Version)
キングコングパラダイス // フジヤマ 平野文 // Funky Dreamer
Genji Sawai // Za
松前公高 // Hamisete/What Do You Say? Blue Papillon // Blue Papillon
喜納友子 // Tie Island (No Man's Island Dub Mix) 金沢明子 // 津軽あいや節 (Resort Mix)
Hoodoo Fushimi // もちつき
Tadahiko Yokogawa // 硬い人
Ecstasy Boys // Moon Dance (Club Ecstasy Mayuri Mix) トロイメライ // ...もっと深く
Light In Darkness // Sao
Midori // 宇宙の手

Dubpulse - Mains Courantes invite Choon (Octobre 2021)

ch00n!! (23/10/21)

New guest mix radio for @noodsradio
Invited by the great @choon_subcity, following text by him, thanks you once again.
"We are inviting Parisian micro-record label, purveyor of ultra-limited dubplates, proprietor of the amazing Dubpulse show on @egrego.re and good friend mains_courantes, to take the reins.

Expect a dystopian sound collage where primitive dub damage meets euphoric post-Kosmische hypnotic beauty. Fully embracing both analogue and digital sources and samples, worlds meld together through plunderphonics and musique concrète. Primal rhythms cut through with beams of massively potent cyber/synth destruction, brain-bombing automated steel-tone pulses and a heavy smear of sub-tropical ambience. A love letter to maximal minimalism.

Links:
https://www.mixcloud.com/NoodsRadio/choon-w-mains-courantes-21st-november-21/

Show on Noods radio for Choon Subcity (November 2021)

info and tracklist: https://noodsradio.com/shows/choon-w-tonal-oceans-3rd-april-22

Guestmix for chOOn!! (04/03/22) (Noods Radio)

chOOn!! began life as a notoriously wild radio show invested in niche musical subcultures. Now a newly formed reissue label, chOOn!! champions obscure and forgotten sounds with a string of top quality vinyl reissues.

This mix is dedicated to oceanic currents - from within you will find a collection of sprawling subterranean sounds. Laggy proto-electro - hypnotic, non-standard boogie - sub-tropical steel-tone pulses - brain-bombing percussive environments, floating pentatonic synth and an exclusive first listen to the next reissue from chOOn!!

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Today we welcome our our seventh guest mix selection - this time from Sanshiro Matsushita aka DJ Sanshiro (@toughguy_346) - Tokyo based DJ, rare vinyl collector and proprietor of the legendary Deep Dance Music Page.

Much like the rare musical antiquities he displays on his blog, Sanshiro’s mixes slide from the effervescent towards the unhinged. His guest mix creates a collage of evocative fragments drawn from deranged pop and Japanese experimental sound design, luring you into hallucinatory emotions through symphonic synthesis and cinematic echoes. Mind expansion by means of hypnotic repetitions, polished minimalism and avant pop.

We are also celebrating the recent release of our second reissue (landed June 1st) - Toshioki Matsumura’s A Visual Brain: 1986-1993.

For two decades, Toshi recorded soundtracks as a member of Visual Brains, a pioneering video-art collective based in Tokyo. This set of prime archival selections is a seamless mix of the organic and inorganic, the recent past and distant future. A Visual Brain is both damaged steel pan dub and hi-tech new wave balladry, damply ambient synth-pop and Reichian magnificence. Minimalist tropes wrapped in candy striped technicolor. Available on Vinyl via @lightintheatticrecords and Digital via the chOOn!! Bandcamp (www.toshiokimatsumura.bandcamp.com).

Originally aired LIVE on Glasgow's Subcity Radio on 28/05/20 - Tracklist available here and on request - www.subcity.org/shows/choon/1df6a

chOOn!! with DJ Sanshiro [Guest Mix]

@radio-choon

This mix is dedicated to Italian currents - our latest reissue resurfaces Bi Nostalgia’s minimal wonder Exemplum Rhythmicus from 1990 (originally released under the artist’s name Luca Rigato on the Veronese cassette label Diagrapho). It falls among the strange and definition resistant artefacts of Italy’s remarkable avant-garde music scene of the 1980s.

From within you will find a collection of sprawling Mediterranean sounds - a sonic exploration into many underwater worlds and dreamscapes: gleaming fantasy jams, softly piped synths and chiming cosmic melodies.

A laggy, sub-tropical mirage of Italian avant-garde gems.

Tracklist:
Sandro Brugnolini // Dreamed Horizon on Abstract Forms
Fabio Dovigo // Erbario on Mirò
Alchimia // Non Lo So on Architettura Sussurrante Di Alessandro Mendini
Franco Leprino // Integrati... Disintegrati on Integrati... Disintegrati
Roberto Mazza // Esperidi on Scoprire Le Orme
F.P. & The Doubling Riders // Chinese Rain on Doublings & Silences, Vol. 1
Sandro Brugnolini & Stefano Torossi // Effetto Notte on Strumentali
Giorgio Cantoni // Invocazione Dell'Oblio on Pianeti Di Lana 2
Strumentoconcerto // Klung-Klung Grillo on Lo Strumento Fa Concerto
Luigi Ceccarelli // Tea Rapsody on Dark
Claudio Cojaniz // Yeti on Ramo Ramo (Ypnosisetnomuzik)
Vagal Group // Bee Queen on Exciter
Andrea Centazzo // Nausicaa on Cetacea - L'Odissea Dei Suoni Perduti Tiziano Popoli & Marco Dalpane // This Is The Time on Lezioni Di Anatomia
Dissòi Lògoi // Delfini on Da Occidente A Oriente
Gianni Gebbia // Cud on Gianni Gebbia
Bi Nostalgia // Parte Seconda [Extract] on Exemplum Rhythmicus
Valerio Gallo Curcio Group & Franco Bonfanti // Moonsamba on Strumentali
Rimauri // I Folletti on D.O.C.

https://undertheapricottree.net/choon/

Apricot 08: chOOn!! - 'Finzioni del Mare'

Today we welcome our eighth guest mix selection - this time from Cesare Barbetta aka @gianni-aka-cesare-b - DJ, rare music curator and proprietor behind quite possibly the world's greatest record blog, the legendary Boxes of Toys.

Now label head of Orbeatize, a relatively new Italian imprint, Cesare champions the rare musical antiquities showcased across his blog and celebrates new artists drawn from a vast spectrum of curious, unique, deranged and experimental sound design.

His guest mix takes us on a wide-ranging survey of Italian electronic experimentation featured across the Orbeatize label (including forthcoming releases), turning up pieces influenced by ambient and ethnographic musics, the hallucinatory worlds of distant deserts, remote civilisations and Italian occult psychedelia.

We are, of course, also celebrating the release of our third reissue which landed at the start of the month (October 1st) - Bi Nostalgia’s Exemplum Rhythmicus.

Originally released in 1990 under the artist’s name Luca Rigato, Exemplum Rhythmicus has long been coveted and hunted by collectors due to the scarcity of the original cassette. It falls among the strange and definition resistant artefacts of Italy’s remarkable avant-garde music scene of the 1980s. An emblem of sonic diversity rendered through electronic sound, distilling a daunting number of traditions and ideas, while sculpting its own world of creative singularity, standing apart from the rest. Available on vinyl via @lightintheatticrecords and digital via the chOOn!! Bandcamp (www.binostalgia.bandcamp.com).

Originally aired LIVE on Glasgow's Subcity Radio on 25/10/20 - Tracklist available here - www.subcity.org/shows/choon/01511

chOOn!! with Cesare Barbetta - Orbeatize // Boxes of Toys [Guest Mix]

Guest Mix - 'Cuore Di Tenebra' by chOOn!! for @nnwradio 

This mix is dedicated to Italian currents - our latest reissue resurfaces Bi Nostalgia’s minimal wonder 'Exemplum Rhythmicus' from 1990 (originally released under the artist’s name Luca Rigato on the Veronese cassette label Diagrapho). It falls among the strange and definition resistant artefacts of Italy’s remarkable avant-garde music scene of the 1980s.

From within you will find a sonic exploration into many inner worlds and dreamscapes: gleaming fantasy jams, softly piped synths and chiming cosmic melodies.

An analogue mirage of Italian avant-garde gems.

Originally broadcast on 01.10.20

Strumentoconcerto // Folaga on Lo Strumento Fa Concerto 
Bruno Nicolai // Bodo on La Muraglia Asiatica
Bruno Due // Woissa on MS
Canzoniere Del Lazio // Zandamela (Timbalas) on Miradas 
Luigi Ceccarelli // Twelve on Dark
Zeit // Kalimba on Il Cerchio Degli Antichi Colori
Magam // Quando Suona L'una / Otto Campane on Suonando L’allegrezza
The Doubling Riders // Triboli Gao on Garama
Alessandro Ravi // Lo Scrigno Dei Venti on L'Offerta Dell'Acqua
Franco Bonfanti & Valerio Gallo Curcio // Animali Nella Savana on Strumentali
Pivio & Aldo De Scalzi // Rinuncia Agli Averi on Mirag
Claudio Cojaniz // U.T. "Ghandi" on Ramo Ramo (Ypnosisetnomuzik)
Carnascialia // Cruzeiro Do Sul on Carnascialia
Nicola Frangione // Mystical Technology on Contactdisc 2
Futuro Antico // Sinikorò Kumà on Dai Primitivi All'Elettronica
Nirodh // Market Place on Suoni Immaginari
Fortini, Maioli, Gales, Serra, Zandijk, Luyken // Untitled [Extract] on Ethnoelectronics
Frammenti d'Immagine // Exotic Tk.1 on 391 | Vol.5 Liguria 
Andrea Centazzo // Dances: Fifth Movement on Indian Tapes 
Bi Nostalgia // Parte Prima [Extract] on Exemplum Rhythmicus 
Vinize // Magico Suono Da Un Caravan on Percorsi Immaginari 
Midi Duo // California on Init-Voice

chOOn!! - New New World Radio [Guest Mix]

Today, we celebrate our 70th episode on @subcityradio by welcoming our ninth guest mix selection - this time from New York based rare music enthusiasts Ultravillage (https://ultravillage.com).

Ultravillage are a collective and burgeoning community of new age music devotees, private press fanatics and underground ambient, minimal and progressive electronic aficionados.

Their guest mix, assembles music primarily collected from the US minimal and new age cassette tape underground of the 1980s. The sounds within reveal the dreams of utopia and rebirth that connect esoteric spiritualism; breakaway sects, backyard gnosis, stolen light, the mutable plasma of synthesised sound, new mediations meeting emergent technology. 

A switchboard for the psyche: plug in, tune up, drone on. Your body stays in the armchair, time dissolves, the mind wanders a thousand miles in every dimension. An apt (and rapt) trope for the act of listening itself. 

Originally aired LIVE on Glasgow's Subcity Radio on 22/11/20 - Tracklist available here - https://subcity.org/shows/choon/a3c24

chOOn!! with Ultravillage [Guest Mix]

Today we welcome our tenth guest mix selection on @subcityradio - this time from Scandinavian autonomic sound savant Mona Sigler (https://monasigler.bandcamp.com)

Mona Sigler turns his third eye to the bountiful fruits of "the worlds beyond the horizon", both real and imagined. Travel was conceived via a tense, beautiful blend of cosmic pop, mangled samples and magical instrumentation played by musicians neck-deep in a lagoon, gargling water, blowing glass bottles and playing flutes while dipping under the surface. This is faraway fantasy music: buzzing insect drones merge with mosquito-like electronic jabs, otherworldly washes of warped pop-tones roll and sway in blissed out spectral waves. An inspired oddity of cyberspace melodies.

Originally aired LIVE on Glasgow's Subcity Radio on 12/12/20 - Tracklist available here - https://www.subcity.org/shows/choon/951f4

chOOn!! with Mona Sigler [Guest Mix]

Today, we welcome our eleventh guest mix selection on @subcityradio - this time from Japanese New Age music guru and obscure Anime soundtrack specialist Tsunaki Kadowaki.

Tsunaki is a Tottori-based collector, writer and new age music enthusiast. He works at Meditations record store in Kyoto - arguably the best spot for vinyl in Japan and recently published New Age Music Disc Guide, a book of 600 new age and ambient album recommendations. The guide provides a comprehensive overview of new age music, covering releases from the ‘70s all the way up to the genre’s recent revival. For now, it’s only been published in Japanese, but thanks to the album artworks that beautifully adorn each page, it’s still an absolutely essential document for devotees of the genre.

Tsunaki’s guest mix is titled Japanese Obscure Anime Music for Experimental Music Freaks and it does just that - assembling music primarily collected from rare Japanese anime and manga image albums and soundtracks of the late 1980s/90s. It’s a collection of many moods; mysterious and intricate, delirious and luxurious. Revisiting the halcyon days of such movements is always interesting – the amateur enthusiast hasn’t yet been banned, or bartered out of existence; distribution is among friends. Rough edges remain, are encouraged. Odd characters linger on the circumference engaged in extracurricular experiments and unlikely crosscurrents.

For enthusiasts, this is a seductive prospect of both escape and compensation, insight and freakout. A unique collection of sounds that leaves you wanting more.

Originally aired LIVE on Glasgow's Subcity Radio on 17/01/21 - Tracklist available here - https://www.subcity.org/shows/choon/4183f

chOOn!! with Tsunaki Kadowaki [Guest Mix]

This week, we welcome our twelfth guest mix selection on @subcityradio - this time from the enigmatic collector behind the legendary Japanese ambient and environmental music YouTube channel, Should Be Asleep (https://www.youtube.com/user/WestCoastEaglesFan).

For many years, Should Be Asleep has been engaged in an idiosyncratic exploration of Japanese interior design - percussive timbres, unusual drones and intricate rhythms; sounds that have recently exercised such a grip on the imaginations of amateur enthusiasts and curators alike. Functioning as a social hub of sorts for kankyō ongaku environmental music and its many offshoots, this rarefied collection stands as one the most cohesive and impressive archives of its kind freely available online.

This guest mix assembles a collection of music and field recordings in tribute to Kamikōchi (a valley/national park in the Japanese Alps) in the summertime, thrusting the listener into hyperreal yet phantasmal realms with its fusion of synthetic and organic elements. There’s a self-effacing preciousness to the ambient works that’s felt in their simplicity and spaciousness; uniquely strange and beautiful tracks that feel pastoral and mystical all at once. A meticulously crafted collection of musical tints, dulcet minimalism, melancholic shimmer and crystalline purity that tiptoes gently backwards in time, time travelling to an untroubled place of serene beauty.

Originally aired LIVE on Glasgow's Subcity Radio on 14/02/21 - Tracklist available here - https://www.subcity.org/shows/choon/3e992

chOOn!! with Should Be Asleep [Guest Mix]

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