starting your mix with the sound of nature is magic for your ears....house music till i die

ez gentle flow

Right when you thought the 80's had been mostly dug out, the "Night City Life" compilation hits the shelves. 
Ever since we heard his compilation for Spacetalk we were blown away: one of the best curations of early MIDI dancefloor/radio oriented productions we'd heard in a while. Truly refreshing to the human ear, not to mention the heavy research behind it. As such, we've wanted to book Ilan ever since but then COVID happened. Still a wet dream to see him do his thing live but for now here's this amazing bit of aural goodness to get you in the right mindset. 

Ilan is a London-based record collector. He can often be found posting the artwork of 80s vinyl from his collection on Instagram; a patchwork of nostalgia from musical days gone by.

Check him out on IG and listen carefully - your discogs wantlists will never be the same.

H.A.N.D. MIX 027 - Ilan (Night City Life)

As part of our celebration of 21 years of club culture, we're featuring some of our favourite DJs from around the world, highlighting the parties and clubs most important to their lives in dance music. 

The Loft is one of the most storied and sacred spaces in dance music history. Founded in Manhattan in 1970 by the late David Mancuso, The Loft was a party unlike any other: relaxed and gently psychedelic, with pristine audiophile sound played at a medium volume level kinder to the ears. You didn't need to blast the music to appreciate the sonic perfection of the music and the system it was played on. Over the decades, Mancuso invented his own influential style of DJing, letting the records breathe rather than mashing them together. Mancuso, who died in 2016, had many acolytes over the years, perhaps none more prominent than Colleen 'Cosmo' Murphy, who provides our final 2122 birthday RA Podcast: a tribute to The Loft.

Murphy has an impressive resume without The Loft: she's a long-time radio DJ, founded the Classic Album Sundays series and started her own Lucky Cloud Loft Party in London, in collaboration with Mancuso. Her DJing style, slow, steady and respectful of the music, channels those years spent at The Loft, and her RA Podcast embodies the disco-influenced sounds that define the party, played with care, love and reverence.

RA podcast

RA.859 Colleen 'Cosmo' Murphy

Enya - Only time

A live recording taken from one of our opening sets up on the Globus floor at Tresor

Sanctuary Live at Tresor 2023

Me playing the opening movement of Beethoven's Pastoral sonata. LVB walking through nature, wrestling his demons, being all immortal... Hope you like.

Beethoven Piano Sonata In D Major, Op. 28 - 'Pastoral'  I. Allegro

A live recording of David Moufang at Brussels club La Cabane last month. 

🌐 "Outsiders" is our daily show hosted by labels, collectives, agencies, venues, clubs, ... worldwide
📡 Connect with the Outsiders, every day, at 9 am or 9 pm CET
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Outsiders: Move D (Live at La Cabane) @ Kiosk Radio 07.11.2024

Deep house with heaps of soul to guide spring into summer.

"House music to me is about emotion… it's about how it moves you," says Suze Phaff, better known as Suze Ijó. Emerging from a thriving Dutch scene, Ijó belongs to a generation of DJs reshaping dance culture from the ground up, restoring soul and musicality to the centre of house music. It's a conversation happening not just in her home town of Rotterdam, but globally, among kindred spirits like MUSCLECARS and Dee Diggs in New York, Errol and Alex Rita of Touching Bass in London, and OMOLOKO in Belo Horizonte.

You could call Ijó a deep house DJ, but it's much deeper than that. Her sets embody house music in its most musical sense, rich in nimble percussion, woodwinds, calypso drums, gospel vocals, and romantic string sections. They channel the jazz-inflected heartbeat of the East Coast, the breeze of Balearic shores, and the light-footed rhythms of the Caribbean.

As Ijó explains in her Q&A, her RA Podcast "hopefully feels like a loving embrace." Opening with Key Trunks Ensemble's "Calypso of House (Paradise Mix)," she sets a buoyant, life-affirming tone that carries through the next 90 minutes. As the mix unfolds, her affinity for timelessness is clear, with selections that hark back to the golden age of house, from Lonesome Echo Production's "Sweet Dream (Shrine Sweet Mix)" to the euphoric swell of Blaze's "Klubtrance."

Listening to RA.986, it's no surprise that The Loft—David Mancuso's legendary, much-missed New York party—serves as a key influence for Ijó. "He wasn't confined to just one genre but would just play 'good music' in the right context," she explains. "He allowed the music to breathe."

If ambient music is defined by its ability to breathe in and reflect its surroundings, then Ijó's RA Podcast is ambient in the truest, most human sense: a deep, enveloping soundscape that feels like sunrise, like community, like home—wherever you may choose to listen.

@suze_ijo

Find the tracklist and interview at ra.co/podcast/986

RA.986 Suze Ijó

I‘VE BEEN

Been working on this one for a while…
So excited to finally share it with you!
Hope you feel the vibe.

Está quente

Just before the closure of or good ol’ store, we were honored to receive Shanti Celeste for a mix. The young Chile born, Bristol based artist brought a few friends and they went for a proper dig. It was her first visit to our store and she ran into a lot of stuff she wanted for a while. Wonderful! 

Shanti Celeste is a core member of Bristol’s Idle hands crew, placed firmly at the epicentre of Bristol's currently buoyant house music scene. From her work as a producer, DJ, vocalist, label-owner and promoter, she has already proved her salt as a multi-talented artist over a short period of time. Something we definitely taste from this mix!

This is the ninth in a series of Rush Hour Store mixes, where we invite our favorite artists and DJs to dig the bins and record us a mix on the spot. Click on the links below for more info on the featured tracks.

Jordan GCZ - Yetghua
http://www.rushhour.nl/store_detailed.php?item=86168
Frankie Reyes - Technoindigenous studies EP
http://www.rushhour.nl/store_detailed.php?item=76884
Egyptian Lover - The Alezby Inn (DMSR 00775)
Stump Valley - Magica Movida
http://www.rushhour.nl/store_detailed.php?item=84091
The Black Madonna - A Jealous Heart Never Rests 
http://www.rushhour.nl/store_detailed.php?item=    
Felix - Tiger Stripes
http://www.rushhour.nl/store_detailed.php?item=49422
Carmen - Time to Move
http://www.rushhour.nl/store_detailed.php?item=49422
Melodious Myles and Bo - Odyssey Love
http://www.rushhour.nl/store_detailed.php?item=73272
Ilo - By Special Request
http://www.rushhour.nl/store_detailed.php?item=77957
ESP - It's You (Instrumental)
http://www.rushhour.nl/store_detailed.php?item=76199
Vincent Floyd - I’m So Deep
http://www.rushhour.nl/store_detailed.php?item=74604
DJ Romain - All Day, All Night
http://www.rushhour.nl/store_detailed.php?item=82347
Ge-ology - Moon Circuitry 
http://www.rushhour.nl/store_detailed.php?item=86062
K Hand - Project 5 EP, track 1
http://www.rushhour.nl/store_detailed.php?item=79137
K’Alexi Shelby - K' Alexi's Vertigo 
http://www.rushhour.nl/store_detailed.php?item=82334
Debbie Deb - Lookout Weekend
http://www.rushhour.nl/store_detailed.php?item=85284
ROGER 23 - THIS - THAT ONE DESIRE
http://www.rushhour.nl/store_detailed.php?item=85798
Gene Hunt - Somebody Shake I
http://www.rushhour.nl/store_detailed.php?item=63952
Byron The Aquarius -  Aquarian Voyage
http://www.rushhour.nl/store_detailed.php?item=87821

Store Mix 009 | Shanti Celeste Digs Rush Hour

Recording of Pender Street Steppers and Beautiful Swimmers's back-to-back at Dekmantel Festival 2016.

Dekmantel Festival 2016

Pender Street Steppers & Beautiful Swimmers at Dekmantel Festival 2016

Enya - Only Time - (Violin Cover)

All compositions written, produced &amp; performed (not DJ'd) by A Guy Called Gerald using Propellerhead's Reason only.
  
Recorded live at Labyrinth Festival 10th Anniversary, Naeba, Japan Sept 18th, 2010. 

(C) 2010 A Guy Called Gerald 
info@guycalledgerald | http://guycalledgerald.com

LIVE at Labyrinth Festival Japan

Soyoung Yoon's debut album, released in 2012, contains recordings of two of most famous works for violin. The violin concerto in d minor, Op 47 of Jean Sibelius and well as Piotr Tchaikovsky's violin concerto in D major, Op 35. 
Th CD-album has been nominated to the International Classical Music Award (ICMA) 2013.

04 Tchaikovsky_ Violin Concerto In D, Op.35 - 1. Allegro Moderato.mp3

Live recording from Dommune RDC show on May 3rd 2013

RDC 008 - BEN UFO

I Need Your Love (live acoustic version)

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