this set feels like that moment when you randomly meet your 11 years older self on a cruise, he smiles at you kindly, sends you a blink full of understanding, and the two of you then quietly sail off towards the tender evening sunshine while sipping a semi-cold pepsi

Sounds like fresh bread this one ;). Thank you for this mix, this is exactly why i love to listen to curated selections with a story. inspiring

recording from Mėnulio Smūgis Festival  30.07.2021 in Lithuania

https://ra.co/events/1451240
https://soundcloud.com/digitaltsunami

Menulio Smugis

Philip Berg at Mėnulio Smūgis Festival 2021

https://www.nts.live/shows/elena-colombi/episodes/elena-colombi-27th-december-2021

https://soundcloud.com/pinknoisedisco

Elena Colombi w/ Pink Noise - 27/12/2021 - NTS Radio

Words from E. Varius:

"The inspiration for this mix can be traced back to a little jazz club called Melt in San Francisco. Melt was perched atop the Russian Hill neighborhood on the corner of 700 Columbia Street. Actually, it wasn’t even a jazz club. It was a fondue restaurant painted purple that was shaped like a coffin and could barely fit 20 people. For about a year, circa 2015, I would religiously go to Melt every Friday night to listen to the sound of West Coast Cool Jazz played by a man named Top Cat and his gang of characters. 

Top Cat was a beautiful old black man with freckles who wore a flat cap and had a wayward eye. Between sets I would join him and the other old cats in the back alley to smoke weed and talk music. I was 18 at the time. I loved it—and they loved me, probably because I always had good stuff to share with them. Anyway, being there was like stepping back in time. I adored that feeling because I fucking loathed the new American sprawl that could be seen just around the corner. Now I’m not trying to be all J.D Salinger up in here, but at the time I was a bit of a flustered teenager (though I was probably more mature then than I am now). Most of the friends I had in High School had gone off to fancy universities only to become absolutely idiotic, drinking from the flask of hyper-masculinity that permeates collegiate life in America. Meanwhile, I was commuting daily to a crumbling community college and working 6 days a week. It wasn’t a matter of merit that I didn’t end up at a fancy university. It was simply that daddy wasn’t going to fork the bill—this is America after all. In hindsight, I couldn’t be happier that I went my own way.

Anyway, there was a lot of bitterness within me at that time and the rapidly rotting political climate in the US wasn’t making things better. But when I was at Melt, none of this shit would matter. Not for a moment. These old cats had a whole lifetime behind them, rich with stories and seemingly amused that this young kid willingly spent his Friday nights in a back alley with them getting high and stumbling back into Melt to listen to them play. And when they did… I’d melt away. I’d sink into my chair, close my eyes and see paint brush strokes of color over a black canvas. It was pure catharsis, just sitting there as the sound of West Coast jazz (ref: sounds like Paul Desmond) poured out the open windows and onto the streets of San Francisco for the people passing by to hear. I had once been one of those people, but that precious sound pulled me in and kept me coming back.

Eventually I decided to move away from the San Francisco Bay Area, choosing Rotterdam as my next destination. I said my goodbyes to Top Cat and his gang, and promised to visit the moment I came back. But when I returned the next year, Melt was no longer there. It had been replaced by some sort of boutique pancake place designed with Instagram in mind. The cosmopolitan sprawl had taken one of the last relics of West Coast cool jazz, and once again I was confronted with the feeling that I was born a few decades late. 

Over the years in Holland I lost a bit of touch with that sound. I got sucked into all the sounds of Dutch West Coast Electro and the dance scene here. But once the pandemic hit, alone in my apartment, I kept returning to one record: Glad to be Unhappy by Paul Desmond. Night after night I’d lay on my couch and put it on—and immediately I would be catapulted back to Melt—back to all those feelings of catharsis and ease I had back then. All the colors would return. Since then I’ve continued to lean into all those feelings, seeking tracks that get me into the mood of Melt. Tracks that create space in my mind, tracks that I can sink into.

This mix is an ode to that desire to return to Melt. An ode to all kinds of music that help feelings of angst dissipate, music that reminds you how to think and to feel. I think we can all do with a bit of that."

Artist: @varmanius

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Thank you Pedro F. and Lux for letting it happen just like that.
Timmy & Tummy

Vladimir Ivkovic b2b Switchdance at Lux Frágil (18.03.22)

Tracklist: 
Ana Roxanne - Venus (Kranky)
Arthur Mine - Infowaves (Muscut)
Beautyon - Rustless (Kudos)
Ruda - Psique (unreleased)
Ignatz - I live in a Utopia (Goaty Tapes/ Aguirre)
People Skills - Aiming at God (Kashual Plastik)
Coil - Her Friends The Wolves... (Cold Spring)
Jodey Kendrick - Hidey EE1.2 a (Djak-Up-Bitch (DUB)
Tom of England - Germans In The Jungle (STD)
Beau Wanzer - Groove’s No Zone (self-released)
Panasonic - Untitled (Muslimgauze remix 1) (Sähkö)
Velvet Season & The Hearts of Gold - The Special Place (Lucky Hole)
Black Merlin - Stalky Tarkovsky (SORN)
Fasenuova - Cachito Turulo (Marc Piñol remix) (Hivern Discs)
Gavilan Rayna Russom - e008b
ZSOU - Wild Honey (LN-CC)
Live For Each Moon - World Inside
Barking - Superstition (brkntoys)
MC Slammah & Digital Hooliganz - Reach For Your Lives (self released)
Coil - Teenage Lightning (demo version)
The Tapes - Nervous Breakdown (Ecstatic)
The Residents - Diskomo (Torso)
Barking - Latent (brkntoys)
µ-Ziq - PHI*1700(u/v)
Gardens (Relaxer edit)
TwO - Revolution (Jigit)
Ana Roxanne - untitled

Capablanca pres. Psychedelic Research Dept. [18.08.2022]

@legowelt-official
There are many outstanding artists within Electronic Music, however, from another galaxy far, far away there is a human named Legowelt who has created his own world separated from all others. We had the pleasure of releasing a Legowelt remix on our Dim Garden Album release some months ago and now we've released a very special mix where you can listen to unreleased Legowelt tracks and a lot of tracks that he loves.
We believe that we live in a magnificent era being spoilt for choice and that’s how I feel when listening to Legowelt live sets. I'm not exaggerating when I say that Legowelt is one of the most influential artists of our time and a top artist who has always been identified as being in the Underground scene.

Perennially fascinated by old and battered noise-making machines, his dizzying output is defined by analogue textures and classic values ​​as well as an ever-roaming sense of sonic investigation that veers from techno to freaky house deepness via old school acid. A producer with a rare sense of humor.

They land on labels like Clone, L.I.E.S., Peoples Potential Unlimited and Nightwind Records in the form of myriad EPs but also well received full lengths like The Paranormal Soul and Pancakes with Mist.
 Enjoy this special set for Italo Moderni by the goat LEGOWELT!"

IM MIX 93: Legowelt

this 3 hours and 45 minute selection showcases 
musical blueprints of all rare Chicago and New York 
like the days of old mostly from the radio shows 
with disc jocks playing music mixes.

the 1st chapter is from the definitive days of 
house music from Traxx playing from the 
early 80s,90s and today from vintage and 
out of print  record labels trax, jes say and 
dancemania to multiple boyd jarvis and
timmy regisford productions but also 
material from Delroy Edwards, Steve Summers,
Modern Analysis and new material.

many thought this type of sound would never 
come again but we’ve been giving hints over 
the years that we hope this will give people 
the chance to listen to music many may have 
never heard on this side of sound that provides 
a provocative and thoughtful musical workout 
in your mind..

this musical timeline is literally all over the 
rhythm 🎵 scales ⚖️ with vinyl turntables.
a vintage mix console.effects box and cd players.

****more chapters to come in due time*****

{Traxx} Presents- The Definitive Articles of House Music Chapter 1

My new ' A LONELY LARPER ON LARPA NET' album in one full mix for you to enjoy. Available here on bandcamp:  https://legowelt.bandcamp.com/album/a-lonely-larper-on-larpa-net

This is the follow up the 2021 ALCHEMULATOR – “LARPING AT FAIRSNAKE HAMLET” album that was released on Hunger! records.  The sound goes in a bit of a different direction, the cheap digital FM  homekeyboard is replaced with simple FM synths, old “obsolete’ samplers and some other stuff.  There are a lot of vocals, I would describe them as synthesizer ballads…or hauntological hypnogogic synthesizer folk songs???…..a bit of devotional psychedelic spacejazz influence…you can find the lyrics behind the tracks on bandcamp. It is pay what you want so anything you can miss is welcome. Please spread the word and enjoy 🙂

Stuff used as far as I can remember: AKAI X7000, Yamaha DX100, Yamaha DX21, Arturia Microfreak, Korg Microstation, Yamaha PSR373, Alesis Quadraverb, Alesis Midiverb II, ZoOM MS70CDR, AKG microphone, ART limiter, Behringer ultragain mic pre-amp, Soundcraft Mixing desk.

'A Lonely Larper on LARPA net' full album in one deep listening mix

Ron Morelli mxing live from La Station, Paris October 2017.
This originally aired on Intergalactic FM last month. Respect to the IFM crew.

Ron Morelli at La Station Paris Oct. 2017

Recording of Elena Colombi & Interstellar Funk's set at Dekmantel Festival São Paulo 2018.

Dekmantel Festival São Paulo 2018

Elena Colombi & Interstellar Funk at Dekmantel Festival São Paulo 2018

After starting the mini Dekmantel Selectors podcast series two years ago, it feels like a tradition to bring it back to life. In the next couple of months, we will release 6 podcasts by some of the exciting artists from the line-up. This year’s podcasts challenges the artists to work around a theme or idea they picked theirselves. After Strange Boutique, it's Lena Willikens turn, who just released her brand new Selectors Compilation on Dekmantel Records as well.

It's safe to say that Willikens is one of the most delightfully unpredictable selectors we know. An affiliate of the exuberant Cómeme camp as well as Dusseldorf's renowned Salon des Amateurs establishment, Willikens' sets are built around her unceasingly eclectic tastes and ongoing infatuation with unusual sounds, making her primed again to move the Selectors dancefloor with the best bits of audio she's been able to dig up from the more twisted caverns of electronic music.

In anticipation of that, she put together a stunning mix which include heavy hitters from artists like Meat Beat Manifesto to Metamorphosis, towLie, Single Cell Orchestra and many, many more fantastic artists. Lena on her contribution: "I recorded this mix while moving from place to place in Amsterdam, trying to settle down. Huge thanks to De School which gave me access to their basement when I was trying to find a place to record."

Selectors Podcast

Selectors Podcast 020 - Lena Willikens

"Sounds & Stories For All Ears"
Live on Fridays and Saturdays

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