So dope Skor. Feels like the whole mix is built off the tone of “no Ebola”. Legendary

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Earlier this year, LA-based musician and producer Mndsgn (pronounced 'Mind Design') shared his third full-length for influential US indie label Stones Throw. Entitled Rare Pleasure, the album may well be Mndsgn's most expansive release to date, housing 13 slick and soulful cuts that veer between jazzy and psychedelic, deep R&B and something that could easily slot into a soundtrack or two.

For those who've yet to check out the album, or may be new to Mndsgn's work, his Sunday Mix offers an excellent primer into his sound and generation-spanning inspiration pool. With tracks from artists like John Fiddy, Don Blackman and The Ordells, it's a groove-led and mellow offering built for the summertime.

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Sunday Mix: Mndsgn

Last mix of the year 2022 comes from Rotterdam based Suze Ijó (@suze_ijo) who has been making heat across dance floors world wide. Interview (excerpt) down below.

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MFM: Hi Suze, welcome to the series. You used to work at Clone. Do you believe working in a record store has helped you as a DJ and the other way around?

SI: I think that the type of person that gets attracted to working in a record shop are usually music geeks(like I am). So it was wonderful being surrounded by only music geeks for three years and sharing with each other our influences, hearing all the records coming in and finding out about some cool releases on labels you would never even think of listening to if it wasn’t for it being played in the store. I did get a discount but in the end my salary was basically being spent on new records. I think as a DJ working there it did inspire me to dig deeper because you need to advice all different kinds of people about what’s in store. As for benefits for the record store, I guess having qualified music lovers is a good thing to have around.

MFM: By sticking to the more soulful sounds, such as gospel, soul, disco, broken beat and house, and also being outspoken in championing the black community, it seems like you're expressing a message through music. Could you please share your thoughts on this?

SI: Being a black Dutch-Caribbean woman is definitely a big part of my musical identity. I like to weave Afrodiasporic sounds together mostly because they have so much in common, whether it’s House music, Salsa, Boogie, Broken Beat or Techno. I can hear the connections so clearly. Each time I might have a different message but a lot of them have to do with: losing and finding love, letting go, finding community and expressing joy. 

MFM: With playing so many shows at different places on this planet, how do prepare for your gigs?

SI: Sometimes it’s hard to prepare because you won’t know where you’ll end up playing or for what kind of crowd. I usually bring a variation of new finds and old classics with me. Also I try to make a playlist per event in Rekordbox. I kind of see it like puzzling, you want to make sure the pieces fit together. It usually starts with me overpacking and then slowly taking out the records that aren’t necessary or most likely won’t be played. I used to spend a lot of time preparing but because I play so much these days, I am almost always in a state of preparation and that takes away the stress that used to come with it. It allows for more spontaneity.

MFM: Please tell us about this mix, was there a certain vibe or idea you wanted to capture?

SI: I wanted this mix to be slow paced and imaginative, to almost make it feel like a movie soundtrack when closing your eyes. I don’t want to say too much about it because I want every listener to have their own interpretation but the transmission of intergenerational trauma and memory is something that I had thought about a lot lately. Then I found a poem by Brazilian Maestro Milton Nascimento which is the guideline of this mix. The Poem “Era Rei e Sou Escravo” (translation: I was a king and I am enslaved) tells the story of an enslaved person, being taken from the African mainland and no matter how badly he is treated or wherever he is taken, he says that the memory of his country and the memory of the music of his people stays and never goes away. It keeps him hopeful, he ends the poem with: Sou Escravo Serei Rei(I am a slave, I will be a king). From that moment on we travel.

MFM Mix 046: Suze Ijó

Bucky Skank is my hobby. I've loved Jamaican and Jamaican inspired / influenced music for nearly my whole musical life. I don't consider myself an expert in any way but over the years I have amassed quite a lot of this music and it is one of a very few forms of music I can listen to all day without getting bored.

I have played about a half dozen full sets of this music and it has been like learning how to dj all over again. All those sets had a slightly shambolic edge to them as I found my feet but have been wonderful, if nerve wracking fun as I scrambled in the dark to find the right 7" to play next. It's definitely not something I'd like to do all the time but doing it one or two times a year is a true joy, so a big thanks to those who have come along and danced. 

There is also the Bucky Skank label, again very much a hobby which releases a couple of 12"s each year (the first one now sold out, the second one due shortly).

Anyway, here's a two hour mix featuring some of what I played at this year's Bucky Skank in Glasgow. Half of it was recorded on the night and half after the fact, at home. Hopefully the joins aren't too noticeable. A tiny handful of the tracks were on the mix I put up a couple of years ago (The Upsetters' "Bucky Skank" will of course appear in every Bucky Skank set I do and bookends this mix albeit in different versions). if you are looking for totally obscure, ultra rare Jamaican music, this is probably not for you but if you want to hear some of the myriad sounds that have come out of that small island or that it has inspired, hopefully it will be enjoyable; plenty of hits and lots of personal favourites from across 50 years (1964 - 2014), ranging from Barrington Levy, Bim Sherman, Prince Far I and Tenor Saw to Kahn, Cutty Ranks and Lady Saw.

The mix is "augmented" with my dub siren, some space echo and Maschine being used to trigger some additional sounds and samples.

The mix is a little over two hours long, is a downloadable 256kbps mp3 and is 230mb.

JD Twitch - Bucky Skank 2014 mix (NOT for laptop speakers)

https://www.nts.live/shows/abby-imperial/episodes/abby-imperial-4th-june-2024

Guest Mix for Abby Imperial NTS Radio

Live recording from Good Room in Brooklyn on 6 June 2024.

LEFTO EARLY BIRD B2B MARCO WEIBEL @ GOOD ROOM, BROOKLYN - 6 JUNE 2024

NTS Apron Show - 10th July 2024

The first live appearance on the decks back home in over 5 years.

Big shout to Saylem for inviting me onto Blue Moon Radio for the Liberation Song segment for an hour at Moondog Cafe Detroit, always a pleasure delivering quality to ya ears.

Set List
1. Black Magic (Hood Intelligence EP - Out Now)
2. Healing Spirits (HOME LP - Out Now)
3. Black Thoughts (Unreleased)
4. Roots (Blak Jazz EP - Out Now)
5. Kneel Arm Strong (HEAL EP - Out Now)
6. Blak Joy (Unreleased)
7. Ancestors Of Common Ground (Horizon LP - Out Now)
8. Dancing In The Sun (Unreleased)
9. Black Is DOPE (Previously Released)
10.The Power Of Voice (We The People EP - Out Now)
11.We Heal, We Build (Horizon LP - Out Now)
12.Thank U (This Is Family) (HOME LP - Out Now)
13.Rhythmic Liberation (Hood Intelligence EP - Out Now)

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Live @ Blue Moon Radio | Detroit (12.14.24) (RARE All Originals Set)

Sunday Sessions Nº444

Bright Patterns is a show about following an internal absolute while navigating endless options.

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BRIGHT PATTERNS with Vicki Siolos @ The Lot Radio 01-09-2025

The opening track from usof's forthcoming tape on Theory Therapy. Out Jan 31 2025.

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