Hailing from the Belgian capital and as 1/3 behind the Şelale record on Second Circle, it's our friend soFa (@sofaholic) on mix 32. Interview (excerpt) down below.

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MFM: Hi Chris, can you tell a bit about how you made your first steps in the scene as a DJ/producer?

SE: That was first by playing school parties only, and later by organising parties and getting booked by others in return. The usual game, but it was a bit easier as today since there was less competition I think. On the production side I am quite new to that. I started in 2018 only because I lacked time before that, I used to have a job as curator for an art festival and also digging for records kept me busy and excited for many hours every day. 

MFM: Earlier this summer saw the release of Selale on Second Circle, a collaborative project between you, Okay Temiz and Houschyar. Most releases you've worked on are collaborations. Is there a reason for that? 

SE: Yeh different reasons. It's much more fun to share the fun! I'm not a properly trained musician, I like to break rules, rather than applying them. Collaborating with people who know notes and harmonies allows to combine those 2 visions and the results are more exciting to my ears. I feel I have more to say by helping others to get their music right (or wrong) cause that's what all those years of digging after very specific records have taught me.

MFM: Any more projects lined up already?

SE: Yes, quite a bunch I produced with dear friends, Nyati Mayi, soon on Bongo Joe, CCCVVV with Clara Vellin on Strangelove Music and Sexo Y Fantasia with Da Boochie from Kiosk Radio on Glossy Mistakes coming up. There is also a solo record going to the pressing plant next week, coming out on Planet Trip in spring. It has guest singers, but I call it my solo record since I played the whole beats and synths by myself. Its probably gonna remain my only solo record for a while. I slipped into so many collabs and I'd like to focus on that. I especially love working with singers/voices and hopefully some day I get to produce a whole band project!

MFM: What are you hoping for to find in nightlife now that dancefloors are opening up again? Have you been thinking about this whole situation a lot at all?

SE: I am looking forward to seeing people smile and dance again! Party wise I would especially hope to find more groove and less hard music everywhere. I have the feeling the youth of today can only dance to hard stuff, I find that sad. Real music lovers can dance to anything. The whole situation is/was of course tragic for the nightlife sector. Especially for younger people who are in their best years to create a network of friends and experience adulthood for the first time. On a personal level I liked the time off. It allowed me to focus on a more healthy lifestyle and on making music. 

MFM: Cheers for contributing your mix! What can you tell about it? 

SE: I glued together the first half of it while on a roadtrip in Albania last month. Second half I did this morning in a rush. It's nice tunes, diverse and odd enough as I love. I don't care too much about the technical aspect, I just recorded a bunch of records I felt for sharing. In my opinion all that Dj thing is a bit overrated and way too serious. We are just playing other people's music afterall. There is an art behind that, but I feel it's getting lost more and more. For me it's not about the technical side of it, it's about adapting to people and still surprising them in an original way.

MFM Mix 032: soFa elsewhere

Part 2 recorded live from our electronic jaunt into space earlier this year, courtesy of Sprechen's very own Massey!

No stranger to DJing alongside ALFOS's Sean Johnston as per scenes back in the days of Electric Elephant at Barbarellas, this was actually Massey's very first time playing for ALFOS.

Picking things up right after Rinny's superb opening set, this is a diverse & genre hot footing selection of chuggy rave based antics (including a few choice Sprechen releases!) which lay down the foundations before Sean took over. 

We return to The Yard, Dec 28th for some end of year action of an earlier setting from 4pm - 10pm...ticket waiting list is open now and already getting hefty: skiddle.com/e/38091220

TASCAM DR-40X

Dec 28th Tickets

Sprechen Mixtape: ALFOS @ The Yard: Massey Mix

THE MANIFESTO OF BLISS - with David Keenan & Brother Joseph AKA Deathwish & Bloodstain bringing The High Baptismal Flow live At BAR A VIN Friday 27th Sept  Convenanza Festival / Carcassone

MANIFESTO OF BLISS Bar A Vin Convenanza Festival  Part 1

Balearic Disorder Nr. 61

A live cut of a new Sameheads sister Martha Pinel... Playing for that quite lovely Banana Dance double act after their recent early June Summer open air....

Get stuck in x

Martha Pinel - Banana Dance @ Sameheads 07.06.25

Fade In Gently, 9 September, 2025

Vladimir Ivkovic b2b Sean Johnston live from The Olive Grove at Love International festival 2025

Live from the Adriatic 2025: Vladimir Ivkovic b2b Sean Johnston

HELENE HAVRO/JOHAN RESSLE/ MAX BUNT livingroom session

Terra Silvis Operire 

Step by step I crept upon a greener ground
looked around for urban sights or city lights fight the urge to search for words of hurt familiar words I heard in broken towns that had I found I wondered how the place I left behind had kept a space inside my mind

despite the time, despite that I’m not in the city anymore the door I thought was shut for sure inside my head was cracked instead I nearly turned my back but then a man was standing next me I heard a word as sure as death said with soft sincerity

you’re inside the Forest now so go and feel the forest floor these parts are for the hearts that mourn and grieve, the green for those In need the trees and everything was made specifically to be a place of peace a place pause and a place of calm as you go along you way”

fin-ally my feet were free to run and roam home that now I know a woods he shown where grass was grown and where the wind is only blown a gentle breeze between the trees 
A softer green and subtle glow 
A momentary peace I get to know when I’m in forest


You can feel the air 
Begging for you to stop dead in your tears
It whispers, but you sing 
You can feel the air 
Tearing at the skin of your ears 
Addicted to the sting 

It whispers but you sing 
As you run in forest

Cover all the lands in forest
Cover all I am in forest

In Forest

Proper Pull proudly presents: PROPEP002 – this time introducing our more rave-focused side. For this, we invited several friends and producers we admire to create a collection of mutable plains woven from psy, tek and tribe influenced sounds.

Artist: @bratanova
Mastering by @afgangtil
Artwork by instagram.com/diemitdemdoenertanzt

PROPEP002 - Mutable Plains

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bratanova - Introspective [PROPEP002]

A descent into the Akasha — the field where sound, memory, and matter converge.
This piece moves like a ritual: slow, breathing, resonating with the hidden frequencies of the void.
Each layer unfolds as an echo of consciousness — ancient, sacred, and infinite.
Close your eyes, listen, and dissolve.

akasha

Archives featuring mixes old and new from myself Brother Joseph including Stephen Haldane and David Keenan with multiple guests throughout the years from my SONIC TREASURE SHOW and our new adventure THE MANIFESTO OF BLISS