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Off The Record Mix Series 23: Suzanne Kraft

the joy of cooking from december 2011:
in winter i stay next to the stove where it's warm and cozy and i live from cookies only...

The Joy Of Cooking #16 Baking Cookies

PP Chill Pill III 80000 Takeover (SUZANNE KRAFT)

It's a great pleasure to welcome Japanese electronic music stronghold Kaoru Inoue (@kaoru324), also known as Chari Chari and founder of the Seeds And Ground label, to the mix series. Interview (excerpt) down below.

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MFM: Welcome on board of the series Kaoru. You're from Japan and are living in Tokyo. Do you find Tokyo, and Japan as whole, a positive place to be at as an artist?

KI: Tokyo is a fascinating city, full of crazy stimuli and exciting noise, but I don’t need it anymore as the years go by, especially after the pandemic. So now I feel like an outsider loving Tokyo and living a quiet life in its suburbs. I think it’s a positive place for artists in the sense that it’s still rich in nature and food, and the population is decreasing, despite having experienced the high economic growth and the high information society, but what we learned again after the pandemic is that government protection policies are fragile. 

MFM: Your musical output as a producer is quite large and rather versatile, from acoustic guitar sessions to more new age like soundscapes to broken beat and deep house. Where does this versatility come from? 

KI: I think it's because I've been deeply committed to music since my teens. From YMO to post-punk, ethnic, rare groove to deep house, I was already looking for and listening to music like a researcher from a young age. So I started DJing naturally as a way to mix and share my records, and my outputs could be a fusion of them. However, so to speak, I’ve been most influenced by the contextuality of House music, and when looking at everything from a bird’s eye view, I can say that my main interest is, in a word, in “Minimalism”.

MFM: Your music -regardless which moniker you use- sounds extremely organic, very earthly but also mystical and sacred. As if it was recorded far deep in nature amongst some indigenous tribe's ritual. Where does this signature sound come from, what are its origins?

KI: My early tunes were strongly influenced by the atmosphere of Bali & Java in Indonesia, where I used to visit in my twenties, and I think it still remains somewhere in me. I also have a cultural anthropological interest in folk or tribal music from all over the world, and I even am influenced by ecological ideas. (In recent years, I’ve been more into traditional & contemporary music from my own country than ever before.) I think that’s why it is.

MFM: Hence your own label's name Seeds And Ground too probably? 

KI: Indeed, and it’s a metaphor for sex and creation.

MFM: How about the instruments? There's guitar, lots and lots of percussion, marimba, field recordings, plenty chords too... Are you a trained musician and do you record all these parts yourself (with the real instruments)? 

KI: I had learnt to play piano as a child and taught myself to play guitar from the age of 13. However, after encountering DJ culture in my early twenties, I quit a band and didn’t play an instrument for a while. So I know a little more about harmony, chords and so on than the average DJ. I’ve also started to play the guitar again a little bit in a few projects since I started producing electronic music, but only in a very specific way. I’ve also recorded with many different musicians so far.

MFM: So, what can you tell about the mix you've made? Did you record it with a certain vibe or theme or purpose in mind?

KI: It’s a rethinking of “New Age”ish or “Obscure”ish music, past and present. Some Japanese music from the 80s and 90s has also been included with respect to Eiji & Norio who compiled “Heisei No Oto”. And two of my recent tracks as Chari Chari are also included.

MFM: By the way, by the look of your shirt you're a Jodorowsky fan? :)

KI: I look up to Jodorowsky as my mentor, especially after reading his autobiography. I got this shirt as a return from the Endless Poetry crowdfunding campaign.

MFM Mix 034: Kaoru Inoue

As you all know we’re re-launching the radio with a brand new identity & content objectives. One of our new broadcasting system is called “Tiger Tapes”, this series will focus on international artists from every corner of the world. For our birthday & 1st of the series, we wanted it the be a very special mix. That’s why we went & got in touch with one of our biggest inspirations since our inception as a radio. 
He’s a big but hidden stage player, Amsterdam’s best-kept secret, an important figure in his native scene, you’ve guessed it, his name is Orpheu The Wizard.

And oh boy, how happy we are to have asked him to inaugurate our podcast series, he had carte-blanche for this mix & you can feel he went & dug up as deep in his record collection as he did his personal emotions. At first listen you are taken away by the mixtures of emotions that run throughout the 3 and half hour mix, a highly addictive touch helping you to unlock all spectrum of feelings. 

Filled with textures, glitchy but enticing drum patterns, voices from another dimension, pads that shine higher than the heavens, basses that reach untold frequencies. The mix is abundant with tracks that you will definitely be hearing for the first time, even us, diggers in the team, barely recognized any songs & that’s why he is called Orpheu The Wizard, his wand is the needle & we are his subjects.

Links:
https://soundcloud.com/orpheuthewizard
https://soundcloud.com/wakedream

Tiger Tapes 001 - Orpheu The Wizard

Volume 82 is a tribute to the great Simon Fisher Turner, put together by Leonid Treskunov who is based out of New York. S.F.T has been involved in an unusually wide range of music projects over his career (not to mention his success as an actor).  His work in music has ranged from composing soundtracks for films, playing in bands (most notably “Deux Files”), as well as recording and releasing material (to this day) under his own name and various aliases. Leonid has found a thread with this mix that highlights a particularly tender side of Turner’s catalogue. Much love to Leonid for putting some serious love into this one!

https://soundcloud.com/leonid-zhuravel

01 — Simon Fisher Turner — The End Credits
02 — Simon Fisher Turner — Pt. 1
03 — Simon Fisher Turner — Where Are We Going (For John Byrne)
04 — Simon Fisher Turner — The Last Dream
05 — Simon Fisher Turner — How Blue Sky Was
06 — Simon Fisher Turner — Sloane Square
07 — Simon Fisher Turner — Bishop and Dead Ed I
08 — Deux Filles — Los Estrellas
09 — Deux Filles — Drinking at a Stream
10 — Deux Filles — Our English Friends
11 — Simon Fisher Turner — Makalu
12 — Deux Filles — You Must Sleep Now
13 — Simon Fisher Turner — Last Sky
14 — Simon Fisher Turner — Lhotse
15 — Simon Fisher Turner — Cho Oyu
16 — Simon Fisher Turner — The Dog Star
17 — Simon Fisher Turner — Pt. 3
18 — Simon Fisher Turner — Love, Death, Avoid It
19 — Deux Filles — Preparing Wet Piano Tuna
20 — Simon Fisher Turner — La Scala Che Si Appendi
21 — Simon Fisher Turner — Colour Fullness
22 — Deux Filles — Fleurs Doll
23 — Deux Filles — Children of Clay

Motion Cast Vol. 82: Leonid Treskunov "Simon Fisher Turner Special"

Ari Balouzian – Comfort Or Freedom
Pool Boy – Closed for Renovations
Agosta – Don Alfio
Tracisgrey – Night Eyes
Leisure Centre – 食料品店
Wojciech Jagielski– Śniadanie Pod Palmą
Wichita LimeWire –  Be My BonziBUDDY
Lil Creepshow – Underwater Racetrack
Tracisgrey – Wet Night
Alina Baraz –  The Beginning
死夢Vanity – ソウルメイト
Desert Sand Feels Warm At Night – 第一次
DX-Digital – Magic Rose
Employee – Romantic Relax
Bahamadia – Interlude
swing slow - Voo Doo Surfer
Tibor Szemzo - Einstein-Express
Dick Hyman - I'm Glad There Is You (5ive bit)
Civilistjävel! – Untitled
Thomas Fehlmann – Wunschwechsler
Dentistry - bdw
Odopt - Orch Noise
Twin Peaks Angelo Badalamenti explains how he wrote Laura Palmer's Theme (piano)
Tonio Rubio – Dead Slow 

artwork by Hiroto Ise
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WFMU Radio Row | 03/24/24

A 59:30 continuous mix of ambient/deep electronix/vaporwave musics recorded at Sweetpup Studios for the folks over at Libra Mix. Check out more interesting mixes from Vancouver and the world at http://www.libramix.org/

tracklist: http://bit.ly/29XIzcZ

Home Music (Libra Mix)

Trujillo - SANPO 164 (Lockdown Series)

01 — Nilton Castro — Ondas (Les Vagues)
02 — Arrangement — Coconut Mango
03 — Harry Case — Air Dancer
04 — Roedelius — Wenn der Südwind Weht
05 — Hiroshi Yoshimura — Kotoritachi No Kafe (Café)
06 — David Sylvian — Answered Prayers
07 — This Mortal Coil — Barramundi
08 — Manual — Open Skies
09 — Interior — Park
10 — The Durutti Column — Lullaby 4 Nina
11 — Yoshio Ojima — Biodome
12 — Yoshio Ojima — Sealed
13 — Tom Kazas — Vision of Serenity

Leonid Treskunov - SANPO 165 (Lockdown Series)

Mix of the Week #339 is "About Sea Travel" by Leonid Treskunov
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Mix of the Week #339: Leonid Treskunov - About Sea Travel

For my Maika,

I miss you. 

Love forever, 
Lauren.

- - - - -

I pay my respects to the traditional custodians of this great southern land, the Gadigal of the Eora nation and their Elders past, present and future. I acknowledge their culture and relationship with the land and water. Aboriginal land; always was, always will be.

For Maika

For our second installment of the Musik Mix series we are joined by 5ive from japan and Samo from Sweden in a remote joint effort.
Tupplur simply means - to take a nap in swedish. 
Taking an afternoon nap is happiness!

artwork by Tobias Centerwall

Leonid Treskunov - SANPO 165 (Lockdown Series)

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