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Interview and lecture Archives | 2017 No. 2

May Show Summary (2017)

Before performing one of his rare gigs at this Avatar Events' party, Daniel Segerstad a.k.a. SYNC24 of the one and only Ultimae Records' Carbon Based Lifeforms is joining us live from the studio to get us in the right mood for celebrating.

Started in early years experimeting with tape recorders and simple music players on the Commodore 64 and gradually upgrading equipment and techniques. Having CBL as his main focus and some other projects on the side there’s always room for personal reflections.

SYNC24 is the result of sudden impulse of inspiration, late nights without interference from others.

Official Page: http://sync24.se/
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/sync24/timeline?ref=page_internal
Avatar Events: https://www.facebook.com/Avatar.Events

Interview with SYNC24 | Before Party | 06/11/2015

Itay KUKAN DUB LAGAN is bringing some sunshine for smiling people into the first edition of a new radiOzora show, the Sofa Beats series with a special mix following the talk.

KUKAN-DUB-LAGAN is the project of Itay Berger. Itay is 40 years old, located in Barcelona, Spain. He has been listening and playing electronic music since he was 16 years old. He spent over 3 years working as a sound engineer in one of the top sound and light companies in Israel.
His decision to make music was strongly influenced by his trip to Ibiza in 1997-8. At that time he also started to preform in Israel and abroad at mostly underground parties. Itay's general musical influences are wide-ranging. His journey into chill-out djing started in 2002 in Israel. During that time he was also signed by a UK techno-house label (www.klubdj.co.uk) under the name DJ Itay for a year and flew to Japan to play at parties in Osaka and Kyoto. Returning back to Israel, he enrolled to sound engineering college for one year and totally committed himself to music composition. Drawing from his djing experience, his early family musical influences as well as his own musical background he created his chill-out project: KUKAN-DUB-LAGAN.

Facebook: www.facebook.com/KukanDubLagan
SoundCloud: @mikelabella-records
Sofa Beats: sofabeats.com/

Interview with KUKAN DUB LAGAN | Sofa Beats Series  Vol 1 . | 11/11/2015

We’re on Festival Frequency with the crew of Dakini Festival, the biggest musical event ever happened at the Black Sea Coast. For mood-makers, we’re airing one mix from all three stages representing by Logical Elements (Chill Stage), sepp (Micro Stage) & Atma (Psytrance Stage).

Dakini Festival
http://dakinifestival.com/

Interview with DAKINI FESTIVAL Crew | Festival Frequency | 21/04/2017

This week on our way to Ozora we’ll be guided by Michael Hodgson, the ‘dark dub-meister’ of PITCH BLACK and MISLED CONVOY who you can catch this summer both at The Dome (as M.C.) and the Dragon Nest (as P.B.).

MISLED CONVOY Excursions into electronica, noise, dub and beyond
In 2015 Dub Mission released Michael Hodgson’s debut studio album as Misled Convoy, ‘Tickling the Dragon’s Tail’. Michael is a prolific music producer who under various band names including Tinnitus, The Projector Mix and Pitch Black.

In 2016 he follows up ‘Tickling the Dragon’s Tail’ with a new release entitled ‘Translations’, a selection of remixes he has created under his artist name Misled Convoy in the last four years.

The acts he has worked with are drawn from a wide geographical and musical net: Feral Five an East London duo, raised by wolves on a diet of punk rock, disco and roots to form biting lyrics and dark pulsing beats, Holotronica which is the solo project of Stuart from Hexstatic, a retro futuristic syneasthetic trip; hailing from Tokyo, Super Cozi, one half of Zen Lemonade known for it’s Psychedelic & Progressive Trance; The Adults, a New Zealand rock supergroup set up by Shihad’s Jon Toogood with the haunting voice of Ladi 6; Flies + Flies, an up and coming London band described as “suffocating, disquieting and claustrophobic – yet, somehow, completely irresistible”; Animat, Down tempo dubby electronica duo from Sheffield; and finally Banco de Gaia, one of the worlds leading exponents of globally inspired eclectic electronica.

As you might then expect, the collection ‘Translations’, traverses a huge variety of genres, from electro house to dub techno, industrial ambience to broken beats all now awash in a sea of dub effects, delay and reverb in Hodgson’s distinctive style.

“I really love taking other peoples melodies and ideas and working them into completely new tracks with my production process. Because there is already a body of work and the idea then, is not in the original concept or origination, but in the how I re-imagine that track into a new work, a new sound, a new state.”

Some of the remixes simply re-present a new way to access and appreciate the original track, sometimes they produce completely different songs completely reimagined. Flies + Flies said the Misled Convoy remix hugely influenced how they play their original track live and Hodgson had the opportunity to hear them play his version back live on stage.
The last track on the album is a new remixed interpretation of his own original work from the album Tickling The Dragon’s Tail.

Facebook
Misled Convoy: https://www.facebook.com/misledconvoy/
Pitch Blackhttps://www.facebook.com/pitchblacknz

SoundCloud
Misled Convoy: https://soundcloud.com/misledconvoy
Pitch Black: https://soundcloud.com/pitchblacknz

Interview with MISLED CONVOY | On the Way to Ozora 2017 | 29/04/2015

On our way to Ozora this Saturday afternoon our guide will be GABRIEL LE MAR of Saafi Brothers, who you can catch this summer both at Pumpui and The Dome.

GABRIEL LE MAR is a music producer, living in Frankfurt/Germany, releasing electronic music with a special focus on deep DubTech sounds and Dub inspired TechHouse.His mission remains the same today: exploring electronic music with a dub mindset. With an open mind and always in a search for fresh musical experiences, Gabriel Le Mar likes to integrate himself in different artistic constellations with his dub-inspired TechHouse project Dublocation as well as with the artistic collaboration with Dr. Motte. With his projects Saafi Brothers and Aural Float, Gabriel composed ambient, space and experimental sound scapes.
With Aural Float he worked on audiovisual concepts: as a team they did the artistic supervision of SPACENIGHT, a prototype of a TV-concept, utilizing spectacular film- and documentary footage from outer space with music made on earth. SPACENIGHT became a success on german television and soon reached cult status among the young night watchers until today. On his albums Gabriel produced tracks that are tailored for the dub inspired clubber, combining different playful approaches of Dub with the functionality and stringency of techhouse music. Bridges are built by energetic and minimal grooves. Solo and with his projects Gabriel Le Mar appeared at festivals like Time Warp, Deichbrand, Merkwürdiges Verhalten, Pollerwiesen, Reworks, Roskilde, Sziget, Tribal Gathering, Fusion, Hadra, Ozora…

THE SOUND OF GABRIEL LE MAR On the floor Gabriel is playing a set with live-overdubs that always celebrate the moment in a jam from DeepTechHouse and Techno. His DJ sets are traversed by soulful and minimal nuances. “Live i like using little mixers and other sound control tools in order to do real-time sound changes paying respect to the fact that every live situation has it´s own dynamics concerning the people, the acoustic situation in the room and of course emotional states of the people and me. I like using both: analog media like turntables and cd-players as well as digital equipment that makes it easy for me to bring the sound of my studio to and on the floor. Concerning energy and flow I love going through waves – flowing grooves, sometimes pushing and forcing, and deep soundscapes that make you dance and feel.”

Bandcamp
https://gabriellemar.bandcamp.com/album/flashin-on
Website
https://www.le-mar.de/gabriel-le-mar/
SoundCloud
https://soundcloud.com/gabriellemar
Mixcloud
https://www.mixcloud.com/subsonicpark/
Facebook
https://www.facebook.com/gabriellemarofficial

Interview with GABRIEL LE MAR | On the Way to Ozora 2017 | 22/04/2017

We are warmly welcome Digital Structures on board. The first show of the label on radiOzora will be presented by DIAMANDY. “Digital Structures’ agenda is to provide solid dance floor material for the new age, where boundaries between different genres have melted. No genres. No definitions. Just good music that hits where it counts.”

DIAMANDY Producer, Remixer, Dj, Sound Engineer, booker and A&R based in Sweden. Born in Russia 1987 and raised and brewed in Israel. Co-Partner of Friday Lights Music Records.
Labels: Digital Structures, Iboga Records, Undergroove Music, Funk n Deep Records, Rusted Records, CatsLoveBass Records, Friday Lights Music.

After more than a decade of Producing Techno music and performing around the world, Diamandy established himself as a producer with ‘’outside of the box’’ approach. Because of a spicy mix of cultures, music and sound education, Diamandy’s production brings a new ideas to Techno. This approach has brought him support from artists like Perfect Stranger, Roy Rosenfeld, Tocadisco, Gabi 2B, Slam, Eitan Reiter, James Monro, D.O.N.S, Jos & Eli, Luis M, Jossie Telch, MYDA and many more exciting and inspiring names.

Performing on big stages with names like Boris Brejcha, D-Nox & Beckers, Alex Tostoy, Da Fresh, Ann Clue and smaller underground intimate events gives Diamandy an ultimate DJ experience, enabling him to deliver ecstatic music to any crowd in anytime.

Diamandy
radiozora.fm/music/digital-stru…es-vol-1-diamandy/

Digital Structures
www.facebook.com/DigitalStructures/

Interview with DIAMANDY | Digital Structures Label Series Vol.1 | 29/04/2017

Don’t miss a Nano-style psychedelic celebration in this edition of the label showcase with Angus Young aka MANDALA, joining us on air and sharing some divine inspiration and Goa-ripened vibes.

Angus Young is a Producer from the U.K. whose passion is creating high quality psychedelic trance with an original organic twist. MANDALA is a new project which aims to express the full-on psychedelic sound in a fresh formula. Since the early nineties Angus has been at the heart of the underground psychedelic scene, and was often to be found loading up pack horses or camels with sound systems to play 14 hour dat sets in various mountain ranges, deserts and roadless beaches around the world. His music reflects his genuine passion for life itself and his love of pushing the boundaries of experience with faith and relentless positivity wherever he goes. Now firmly on board with The Nano records family with more collabs and solo releases in the pipeline… the future looks like a whole lotta fun!

Mandala
FB: https://www.facebook.com/Mandalafrequencies/
SC: https://soundcloud.com/user-406145021

Nano Records
https://www.facebook.com/nanorecords/

Interview with MANDALA | Nano Records Series Vol.30 | 29/04/2017

Fright Rate is a Psychedelic Trance project of Seth Human from Cape Town, South Africa.
After years of experimenting with audio manipulation, the resonance of fast paced high tech psychedelia has become his recognizable sound. Taking inspiration from many artists and genres results in his own version of melodic, futuristic, glitched music creating an unique approach to Psychedelic Trance.

Now proudly representing Kamino Records and blasting dance floors around the world.

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/fright.rate
SoundCloud: https://soundcloud.com/fright-rate

FRIGHT RATE – Turbo Frequencies | 05/05/2017

Families, tribes and inviduals, wherever you are, shine on. This part took me back to my turntables, and vinyls on the shelves. Was really feeling africa and the new world representing brasil, so my selection for this time was from those parts and of course the electronic aftermaths of the rhythms created by them. Vinyls sounds better they say, but not always. Usually i make these podcasts from wav and mp3 files, and they sound full and cristal clear. Vinyl sounds less loud, different, warmer and if its old, rusty and dusty. Like life is, sometimes high definition, sometimes low fidelity, our perception of reality changes, like the quality of the music we listen. We start with a hungarian record from 1963, Ines Taddio and the Club band, than the original composition from 1959. A classic jam from Sérgio Mendes, and other sweet melodies from that era. The waves of Brasil are slowly taking us to the future of dub and back in time to India and France for a final meditation.

Antonio Carlos Jobim | Club Egyuttes | Sergio Mendes | Luis Carlos Vinhas | Andrea Daltro | Jazzconductor | Carrot Green & Selvagem | Lucky Charmz | Chaos in the CBD | Fantastic Man | Vakula | Trevor Deep Jr. | Deuter | Brian Bennett.

Bodoo is in music since 1992 as drummer, 1996 as dj, played all over the place (Vienna, London, Porto, Lisbon, Brussels, New York, L.A., Istanbul, Sri Lanka, Romania, Beograd, Barcelona, Perm, Boom festival, and all over Hungary.) currently seeking for new ways on the wide path of soulful beats. Co-founder of FPT Sound System in 2001, radio host since 1996, now every tuesday in Budapest @ Radio Tilos 90.3FM (also at tilos.hu) 2pm-3pm CET and monthly in beloved RadiOzora with the Observation Radio Show that gathers a wide spectrum of music from around the globe. Perhaps from outer space too.

SoundCloud: https://soundcloud.com/bodoo
Flickr: http://flickr.com/bodoo

radiozora

BODOO – The Observation Radio Show Vol.38 | 03/05/2017

Take the next level by ♯3 of NATURAL SELECTION, bringing you the finest Hungarian artists showing off pieces of their secret weaponry to the radiOzora public. Performing at the festival is a highlight for most of us because we finally those special records can be played, the ones that just don’t fit into our regular night clubber DJ sets through the year…

Natural_selection podcast is a project thought out by DJ Roocha [LAB], curated by the radiOzora crew and dedicated to all of you fellow souls out there. The inspiration we receive at the valley from this global community has become an everyday subject in our Budapest home base and has affected us to the core both musically and mentally.

Natural_Selection 006 – d.y For our 6th edit we give you d.y – the wizard behind Natural_Selection no. 1, who set the bar quite high for the rest. The Chill Dome artist continued in the same spirit with podcast no.6 by blending various moods and fantasies so fluid it almost tricks the listener to mistake the mix for a single soundtrack. Sink in your seat for the second hour and let the magic in.

d.y. aka. Delay aka. Marton Pinter
https://www.facebook.com/marton.pinter.delay/

d.y. - Arthür | Natural Selection Vol.3 | 05/05/2017

Take the next level by ♯3 of NATURAL SELECTION, bringing you the finest Hungarian artists showing off pieces of their secret weaponry to the radiOzora public. Performing at the festival is a highlight for most of us because we finally those special records can be played, the ones that just don’t fit into our regular night clubber DJ sets through the year…

Natural_selection podcast is a project thought out by DJ Roocha [LAB], curated by the radiOzora crew and dedicated to all of you fellow souls out there. The inspiration we receive at the valley from this global community has become an everyday subject in our Budapest home base and has affected us to the core both musically and mentally.

Natural_Selection 005 – Roland Handrick Podcast no.5 is recorded by Roland Handrick: beloved Pumpui artist, contributing to the local techno/house scene for ages. In his mix he recalls the memory of being enchanted for the first time by the fragile balance between music, atmosphere and audience that is so unique to O.Z.O.R.A festival. Relive the feeling by listening to Roland Handrick’s take no.5 on Natural_Selection.

Roland Handrick
https://www.facebook.com/Roland-Handrick-117861574948534/

ROLAND HANDRICK | Natural Selection Vol.3 | 05/05/2017

The 20th episode of Parvati Records series we will be presented by Denmark-based RedEyeJedi.

Redeyejedi is Stephanus Johannes, from South Africa, thou he now lives in Denmark in one of the worlds last true hippie communities, He has been producing electronic music since 2002 releasing tracks and playing many parties around the world, he have been a part of the Parvati Family since 2006.
Redeyejedi seeks inspiration in nature and life, but most of all in the boiling hotpot of the nighttime dancefloor, where there is no difference between madness and tranquility.
Redeyejedis music is party music! Rythmic grooves, growling basslines and fractal leads mixes the essence of tribal extacy with futuristic high fidelity, imagine cavemen in ufos.

Redeyejedi aims to please, but at the same time to provoke the mindset of his listeners into new directions, expanding counsiouness through music.

It is best enjoyed outdoors, but can transform your perception of a dull clubbing environment into a safehaven for mindexpansion.

His first solo EP – Cernunnos was released during the summer 2016.

So open your ears, turn off your ego and let you freakflag fly high!

Parvati Records
https://www.facebook.com/ParvatiRecords/

RedEyeJedi
https://www.facebook.com/Red-eye-jedi-1533705890186340/?fref=ts

REDEYEJEDI | Parvati Records Series #20 | 27/04/2017

This Saturday afternoon we’re focusing EROT from Denmark.

Erot is Tore Kofod born in 1986 in Aalborg, Denmark. As a child he played recorder and drums, but stopped at the age of 9. In an early age he showed interest in electronic music: first it was Kraftwerk, and then later, he expanded to the sounds of Prodigy, Chemical Brothers and such. In the age of 10 he heard his first goa track, and was fascinated and thrilled with this type of music and the emotions he felt.
So in 2004 he started making his own music with FruityLoops, to explore his own inner call of music production, but in the following year he moved to Reason since it offered a wider range of musical possibilities. Finally in 2008 he started using Ableton which he is still using.

In 2007 he was offered a gig at the Danish festival Middle-earth. This planted the seed for his great passion: the love for chill-out music – in the festival he found the sparkle that egnited the flame, and the whole experience changed the perspective of the way of life Tore felt attracted to.

So in a logical evolution, following his inner call, Tore started to create more and more tunes, tracks and sounds, till some labels and the world payed attention to his work. The result was a release under the Danish label Zealotry Music and two tracks on the compilation “Relax Mode” by Blue Tunes rec. Afterwards he had more releases on Zealotry including an EP. But the future seems bright with more releases in his agenda and many more to come.

Tore production skills varies to several ranges, creating mostly positive music with warm feelings, with great groovy and optimistic sounds, he manages to create music with a unique touch, with uplifting moods. But his range follows also more downside paths with reflective and contemplative music. Since the early releases Tore has been faithfull to his unique style, but always pushing new boundaries and experimentations, and the result is the wide spectrum of styles since pure Chill Out, to more ambient tunes, from psychill passing through the more uptempo part of chillout to even progressive music.

Influences:

His inspiration comes from daylife experiences. His creativity flows from the simplest moments in life to most exciting events, where he transforms those feelings in music loosing his mind to the multilayered leads that he creates to turn sounds into emotions.

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/erotchill/
SoundCloud: https://soundcloud.com/erot

Interview with EROT | In Focus | 06/05/2017

Mindspring Music is In Focus this time with Coam, followed by a mix highlighting the label’s releases, sharing the essence of the music and the stories they carry.

Mindspring Music is an Electronic, Psychedelic & Multi-genre Music Label.
From Downtempo to Ambient, Psybass to Glitch/Trip hop. We are into all things psychedelic, focusing on the deeper and meditative styles.
Founded in 2014 by Stephen Moon.
Coam is an electronic music live act based in Israel, The person behind this act is Amit Marco.The main style of "Coam" music is Downtempo, Psybient & Electronica blended with Tribal & live Instrument's worldwide.

Listen to the mix here:
https://soundcloud.com/radiozora/coam-mindspring-selection-radio-ozora

Mindspring Music on Facebook | Soundcloud
https://www.facebook.com/mindspringmusic
https://soundcloud.com/mindspring-music

Coam on Facebook | Soundcloud
https://www.facebook.com/coam8
https://soundcloud.com/coam

Interview w/ MINDSPRING MUSIC - presented by Coam | In Focus | 30/10/2020

The Psychedelic Jelly series is continuing with The Moonrakers brothers who have just released their debut EP to show what it sounds like if "It's psychedelic, but it's not trance". The mix following the talk will prove no less.

The MoonRakers are two brothers from Wiltshire UK who like to combine live instruments with squelchy SFX and digital basslines.

Listen to the mix here:
https://soundcloud.com/radiozora/moonraker

Moonrakers on Facebook | Soundcloud
https://www.facebook.com/Mo0nRrakers
https://soundcloud.com/m00nrakers

Interview w/ THE MOONRAKERS | Psychedelic Jelly series #2 | 15/12/2020

Up next on Feel Life Music series is GUMI, with an interview about "Underwater".

From the warm waters of the Mediterranean, to the perfect Australian swells, water has always been my home, my refuge, my very core. “Underwater” is an emotional collection of the deep feelings and journeys I’ve been blessed to experience by the vast ocean. "Underwater" presents nine original tracks, three of which are collaborations with Kaya Project, Symbolico and Soru. The album will be out on Jan 25th On Desert Trax.

Gumi is a downtempo elastic journey created by the prolific Tel Aviv producer Maor Hasbani.
In the late 90s Maor was engulfed by electronic music and started avidly collecting CDs and vinyl. Genres such as Ambient, IDM, Breakbeat, Acid, Space Rock, Jazz Fusion and so on, inspired him deeply and set him on a life mission of self- expression through music and sound. By elegantly fusing bold basslines, tribal rhythms, psychedelic atmospheres and ethnic melodies - Gumi’s modern production and analog sound has set a blaze some of the best dancefloors on the face of the planet. Also responsible for the internationally renowned psytrance project ‘Skizologic’, Maor has already rocked Boom Festival, Psy-Fi Festival, Rainbow Serpent Festival, Chill Out Planet Festival, Tribal Gathering Festival, Doof Festival, Samsara Festival and Dakini Festival to name a few, as well as extensively touring Japan and the USA. After releasing two critically acclaimed EPs, Gumi is set to unleash a full debut album in 2021 presenting his new spectrum of sounds and sophisticated storytelling.

Listen to the mix here:
https://soundcloud.com/radiozora/gumi

Gumi on Facebook | Soundcloud
https://www.facebook.com/GUMIPROJECT/
https://soundcloud.com/gumiproject

Interview w/ GUMI "Underwater" Launch Show | Feel Life Music series #36 | 15/01/2021

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