Full track list and feature here: https://shrptyp.co/SharpFM009

“The feel-bad mix of the summer!”

From Tornado Wallace: 
"It contains only music used in films from 1987-2001: Chungking Express, Lost Highway, Opera, Perfect Blue, Trainspotting, Leon: The Professional, Fallen Angels, Cruel Intentions, Hackers, Johnny Mnemonic, Cool World, Strange Days, Ghost In The Shell, and more. Perhaps there's some commonality there. I wanted to conceptualise this mix in this way as movies have really been resonating with my songwriting at the moment, and I wanted to celebrate particular films that have been extra inspirational for that process.”"

Tornado Wallace aka Lewie Day is a Berlin-based producer, DJ, and musician whose genre-spanning dance sets and studio releases are loosely defined by their generous ambience and cinematic immersiveness. Appropriately, every song here is pulled from a Letterboxd lover’s delight of international films.

You'll find your memory pleasantly jogged as these songs are given new context here. Sensual trip hop lamentations and shoegazing walls of guitar find common ground, and when’s the last time you heard Faye Wong and U2 in the same mix? These songs pull from the well of cultural nostalgia and, yet, the sum of their parts feels half a step ahead of the zeitgeist.

009: Tornado Wallace

From Oakland with love comes the 50th submission in the mix series comes by the hand of prolific producer and deejay Space Ghost (@space-ghost-1). Interview (excerpt) down below.

www.musicfrommemory.com 

MFM: Hey Sudi. How's life in California, what's been keeping you busy?

SG: Hey, not much! Just trying to enjoy the summer with friends and get in the studio when I can.

MFM: Looking at your discography it seems that you favor the LP over the EP format, having released well over a dozen albums. How come?

SG: I can’t say that I favor one over the other, just seems that as a musician you strive to write full length LPs. I enjoy LPs for home listening and it feels good to create a nice body of work that flows through a journey. Writing dance singles and eps are trickier for me. It feels harder to write 1-4 really good stand alone songs.

MFM: With such a prolific output, does writing music come easily to you? Can you tell us a bit about how you go about writing and recording, is there a certain flow or method?

SG: Hmm I wouldn’t necessarily say it comes comes easy but I’ve definitely gotten a lot better at getting ideas in my head out into my recordings. It’s still a process of getting into the studio and spending time on it. Sometimes I can spend a whole day or two just spinning my wheels and not being able to get my ideas out. But once I get that perfect dose of creativity and I’m in the right mood, then things can definitely start flowing out. When writing music I often need to start with a very specific idea based on a song I’m listening to at the time. It’s helpful for me to start out with that initial inspiration, whether some chords, style of drums, bassline or a tempo or something. Once I get a few elements working around that idea the song can start to morph and move in any direction, but I really need that specific direction to start. I find that I can often make a rudimentary idea fairly quickly this way and then if it’s inspiring me, I’ll start to try a little bit harder and flush out more of the idea.

MFM: How do you cope with not being inspired or motivated when in the studio?

SG: Honestly it can be a bummer to be in the studio and the ideas aren’t flowing. I’ll just have to step away and do something totally unrelated for a few days.

MFM: Your sound overall has a very soft and melodic touch. The mellow part may be from living close to the Pacific and nature, but where does the melodic part come from? Did you ever learn how to read and play notes?

SG: You know I’m really not sure if I can pinpoint my melodies and where they came from but ya I grew up taking music lessons of all sorts. Piano, drums, guitar, band class, all that stuff. I wasn’t the best at reading music, I learned basic stuff but eventually didn’t progress much farther. Now everything I do is by feel.

MFM: Is there some kind of masterplan for Space Ghost? Like, do you have certain goals to achieve or dreams to chase?

SG: I think my master plan would involve me getting to focus on writing music full time. Honestly I’m not really sure how to get there specifically, seems like everyone gets there on their own path so hopefully mine will end up there as well.

MFM: Tell us about the mix. How did you go about selecting and recording it? Does it have a certain theme or idea to it?

SG: I’ve been wanting to put out a nice lil ambient sort of electronic mix for awhile. Really soft deep introspective vibes. I’ve been holding on to a lot of these tunes for awhile and just listening to my playlist of ambient tunes while traveling or relaxing with friends. After coming back from my NZ/Australian tour, I was ready to play some non dance music for a sec and listen to some other stuff. This mix is just a nice break from DJing a party. I also really want to make an ambient album soon if I have the time, so there are a lot inspirations in this mix.

MFM Mix 050: Space Ghost

‘For home use only’ is an anti-club social, a chance to get to know someone/something. A series of transmissions purely dedicated to exploring the other side.

The unofficial mayor of Naarm aka Dawn Again brings us a gift from above, a three hour stopover filled to the brim with the deepest of chill core cuts and mind-bending principles. The literal embodiment of the soundtrack to spring. This is made for the sun. Slip, slop, slurrrrrp. Xo 

his sounds >>>> https://soundcloud.com/dawn-again

FHUO # 89 // Dawn Again

‘For home use only’ is an anti-club social, a chance to get to know someone/something. A series of transmissions purely dedicated to exploring the other side.

Naarm’s very own god-daughter Adriana comes correct with the most marvellous assemblage of mid-day lullabies. A beautiful insight into one of the very best DJs in the country, if not this galaxy. The results culminate into a delicate selection of songs to fall in love with/to. Dance around the house/car/beach/supermarket any way you like, this mix is for the (all) ages. 

Enjoy responsibly. Forever (y)ours. xo

her sounds >>> https://soundcloud.com/goodlucktoyourdad

FHUO # 90 // Adriana

B.P.T. Radio 074: Ramzilla

From 10am until noon each Friday pour yourself a cup of the good stuff and tune your electric radio dial to Skylab for a morning dose of steeze to usher in the weekend. 

Raymond Scott Woolson - Tranquility Base
David Cane-Hardy - Hypnotic Vibes
Martha & The Muffins - Garden In The Sky
Ultramarine - Equatorial Calms
Sexy Soxy - Slow Very Slow
Spiritualized - I Think I’m Falling In Love (Acapella)
Autumn - Kill My World
Bread - Baby I’m a Want You
Spirit - The Other Song
Gregor - This Heat
Rocky - Plastic Bottle
Sandi - Zoot Kook
Tom Petty - Love Don’t Come Around Here No More
Virna Lindt - Underwater Boy
Cousin Kula - Prototype
Bahamadia - True Honey Buns 
CD - Catcha Grip
Robert Glasper - Smells Like Teen Spirit
Jimi Tenor & Tony Allen - Darker Side of Night
Broadcast - Before We Begin
Tornado Wallace - Voices
Chris Rainbow - Girl in Collision
Paul Dawkins - Dubonic Movemente dub of ebony eyes
Queen - Cool Cat
Venture - Love Come Around
Mike Midnight - Dido Riddim
Ashaye - Dreaming (Jungle Mix)

Good Morning Skylab with Simon | September 22nd 2023

Chief of the undercover cross over jam, the humble downtempo don and Rhapsodise head honcho @daniel_pisano adds his own slice of paradise to the series, with a dance focussed blend of beachside 90s breezers dusted off and smuggled from their mysterious cyber caves. Cruise control >> on! 

Q. Hey Daniel, what inspiration did you draw upon when putting this mix together? Is there a sound, feeling, or time/place in dance music history that connects all the different elements in one way or another?

A. The mix is inspired by my love of 90s dance music. As with most of my mixes, the records used are exclusively from this era, or at least draw inspirations from it. The sounds I like from this era tend to have a similar feel to them - breakbeaty, progressive and always with a touch of balearic energy. I haven’t recorded a dance-floor mix for a couple of years so it was fun putting this together with some of my favourite records and CDs I’ve collected since then.

Q. Are there any records in the mix that are especially close to your heart, or new or old favourites that you’ve been keeping up your sleeve for the right moment?

A. The first track I used in the mix is from a remix CD by Australian electronic music project ‘Kiva’. I went blind on their self-titled album last year and soon realised how good all of their other CDs were. I think I had naturally been drawn to look for music from the UK, Europe and the US and around this time I started researching a lot more into local artists. My appreciation for home grown electronic music definitely started to shift, which you could see in mixes and uploads to my YT channel.

Q. We’re big fans of your Rhapsodise YT channel over here, with some extraordinary finds being uploaded frequently over there by your good self! Tell us a bit more about that project and how you go about curating it, and what characteristics might you be looking for when deciding what tunes to share?

A. Thanks so much for the kind words :) The project was inspired by the other channels in the community that upload amazing finds. Internationally I was always blown away by No Frills, Customs, oddSample, Modern Art and local friends such as Mike Who, Daniel Lupica and Mirren. In terms of curation, I really just upload things that I enjoy that haven’t yet hit YouTube. Most of these uploads form part of mixes that I put together so the uploads I find are generally similar in style to the mix I’m preparing at the time. I’ve recently moved to London, so hopefully there’s some new uploads in the coming months!

MDC.288 Daniel Pisano

@myles-mac and @djpossums closing out The Grove, 4:00-6:30am Friday night at Sustain-Release Year 9.

@sustain-release-nyc

Myles Mac & DJ Possum @ Sustain-Release 2023

The breezy sound of the Canadian Riviera, from Mood Hut's Pender Street Steppers.  
https://www.nts.live/shows/pender-street-steppers/episodes/pender-street-steppers-17th-october-2023

PENDER STREET STEPPERS w/ Doc Jay 171023

John Gómez brings two hours of selections from Jamie Tillers friends and Family. A fundraiser to support Tiller's family can be found here : https://www.gofundme.com/f/support-jamie-tillers-family 
https://www.nts.live/shows/soup-to-nuts-john-gomez/episodes/soup-to-nuts-john-gomez-30th-october-2023

Soup To Nuts w/ John Gómez (Jamie Tiller Tribute) 301023

Sunken Rock is back with the second episode of the Mutant Radio residency where we for the coming months will bring in some of our favorite people to share their musical knowledge with you.

When deciding on guests to invite for this show, our first pick was easy. 
Being a Sunken Rock key figure as our always very reliable distributor @Safe-distribution (go check out safedist.ro) and responsible for one of our most popular releases to this day, we are very happy to share a guest by our great friend @Ck_sounds from Århus, Denmark.
As a producer, C.K´s extensive back catalogue features a whole stack of top shelf dance 12”, remixes and ambient albums and just keeps expanding on his own imprint PRS and other reliable labels.
Apart from being a great producer, Chris is also a flawless DJ that always seamlessly weave them unknown jams together in the most classy way possible and is also running his well acclaimed underground mix series “Safe Radio”.

For this second episode of Sunken Rock @Mutantradio he shares a two hours selection of contemplative downtempo music, or as he put it himself “music I just like to listen to”.

Enjoy!

SUNKEN ROCK @ MUTANTRADIO with C.K S1E2

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