This weeks episode is joined by my good friend Shape from the Vast/ Chopy Wood collective...here's the track list, for all you lazy motherf#ckers.

Binkbeats – The Healer
Evan Holt & Thelonious Martin – In The City
Jonwayne – Black Magic
Joey Badass – 47 Goonz
Flying Lotus – Aqua Teen 24
BBNG – Mass Apeal
Bishop Nehru – Fickle Minds
Soosh – Too Soon (fLako Remix)
J Dilla – Track 35
Steve Spacek – Look
Denaun Porter – Glass Eye Grassy Ass
Supah Mario – Until I Get There
Jeremiah Jae – Fish Bomb
Captain Murphy – Jalapenos
SpaceGhostPurrp – Osiris Of Tha East
M.D.M. – Waiting For The Call
MoGiLLaH – Sound Garden ft. V E S A


Sunday Sessions Nº184 w/ Shape

South London's Jianbo is in his own lane - he passes through the booth with India Blue, Hilts and Namani. His new EP is 'Everything for the Family' is out now on Eastern Margins.

Jianbo w/ India Blue, Hilts & Namani - Aug 2025

Monday Tsubaki: Mawkus - 25.08.25

High Jazz* is an independent record label specializing in 70s & 80s soul, jazz & funk. ill Dubio takes the reigns for the monthly High Jazz* show rustling up an hour of choice selections on a Wednesday.

 
Find the full tracklist and related episodes on NTS: https://www.nts.live/shows/high-jazz/episodes/high-jazz-10th-september-2025

HIGH JAZZ* w/ ill Dubio 100925

Telepathic Fish co-founder DJ Food, aka one part of Openmind, takes us on a trip into the world of 90s chill out.

Strictly Kev likes the company of plants whilst working on music so that's handy for us isn't it?! We're assuming he's talking about a beautiful Calathea sitting in the corner for inspiration, tho his dream plant setup - a conservatory packed with Romanesco broccoli, trippy Caladiums, and Persian Shields - is something we'd be well on board with too.

Enough of the plant talk for a second and back to the music, ambient music to be clear. For those that weren't squatting in South London back in the early 90s, Openmind were the four-piece behind the mighty Telepathic Fish - the legendary ambient afterparty that transformed chill-out rooms from dub-playing afterthoughts into proper destinations.

Kev, along with Chantal Passamonte (Mira Calix, RIP), David Vallade, and Mario Aguera, started in a shared house above a shop with no neighbours to complain/bash the door down. What began as art school parties quickly grew into Sunday afternoon sessions in squatted venues - a former dole office in Brixton and even the derelict Roundhouse on New Year's Day. They hosted everyone from Aphex Twin to Mixmaster Morris among wall-to-wall mattresses, UV installations, and  Coldcut's Matt Black with his boundary pushing video projections.

The idea was simple: recreate that post-clubbing comedown vibe but on a massive scale, as an "aural and visual blanket" for club-rattled minds. They even published a fanzine called Mindfood and worked at the scene's hub, Ambient Soho record shop, helping shape what Simon Reynolds called a "wombeldelic sound-and-light bath" in contrast to the current trend of hardcore and it's relentless assault.

Thirty years on, that spirit's having a comeback. Events like London's A Loose Ting are bringing back the bedding and the hushed reverence, while Berlin's Overflow is going full sensory overload with vibrating mattresses, fountains, and harpists. New York's Planetarium gatherings have people mostly horizontal, inspired by psychedelic therapy sessions. There's even and ambient sauna in South London you might have come across via the wonder of Music To Watch Seeds Grow By's recent takeover.  Our very own Watching Trees dabbled in said chill out space this year, pairing the abstract and the ambient with projected dappled sunlight visuals from the mighty Jamie House. Turns out people still need those little havens away from the madness, especially in this day and age!

Also handily 30 years on the Openmind crew have just compiled the first-ever Telepathic Fish retrospective for Fundamental Frequencies - a double vinyl love letter to those hazy early-90s mornings when the music finally slowed down.

For this Seeds Mix, Kev has leaned into his love of minimalism and systems music - repetition built from layers of loops offset against each other to form subtle polyrhythms. There's a deliberate avoidance of drum machines here in favour of organic percussion, and around the eight-minute mark, a section from Psychick Warriors Ov Gaia that captures the feeling of being deep in the forest, phone abandoned, discovering that paradise was just a forage away.

Full interview here: https://www.theransomnote.com/music/mixes/seeds-mix-005-openminds-leave-your-phone-at-home-discover-paradise-after-a-forage-in-the-forest/

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INTERVIEW

Seeds Mix 005: Openmind's Leave your phone at home & discover paradise after a forage in the forest

Cleaning hard drives, and found this one out. 
I was there, Steven signed my Los Angeles copy as well as a L.A. poster.

L.A. Times....
37 minutes of pure heat.

Flying Lotus // Live @ PURE WARP 20(10) [Paris, Elysée Montmartre 2009-12-08]

DJ & producer Shy One oversees the chatroom nonsense and brings that necessary get-up-and-go vibe every other hump day...  
Find the full tracklist and related episodes on NTS: https://www.nts.live/shows/soup-to-nuts-shy-one/episodes/soup-to-nuts-shy-one-1st-october-2025

Soup To Nuts w/ Shy One 011025

2025-10-29 - Benji B - Shlohmo Album Mode + Cassius In 3 Records + Alfa Mist Headphones Mix

Donsurf - 03 November 2025

Special edition of DTW FM recorded live from Amsterdam Dance Event at Sounds Australia's mixer/pop up. The show features 2 hours of strictly SEAsian + Australian producers / music.  

https://www.instagram.com/marcoweibel
https://www.instagram.com/soundsaustralia
https://www.instagram.com/darkerthanwax
https://www.soundcloud.com/marcoweibel



Sunday Sessions Nº184 w/ Shape

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