Spritz Mix 2 - It's Pizza Time

Up for the 27th installment in our mix series is dear friend and colleague Kennedy (@kennedyams) who's a keen member of the MFM crew and recently started his own label Dream Machine. Interview (excerpt) down below.

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MFM: Hey Nick seemed like a good time to finally get you to introduce yourself and join our mix series since you’ve been helping with MFM a while now. Can you let everyone know a bit more about yourself?

K: Hey hey. Thanks for the opportunity :) So, I live in Amsterdam where my life is (and always has been) centered around music. I've been helping out at MFM for some years now and besides that I have my studio that I religiously visit 3 days a week. In a normal world you'd also find me working at Red Light Records once a week and playing shows on the weekends where they'd have me.

MFM: You’re also working on your own productions, can you tell us a little more about your own music?

K: So it had always been a dream to release my own music on vinyl and after messing around for over 10 years the time felt right and I recently realized my own label Dream Machine. Both musically as aesthetically the idea was for each release to reflect a dream but in tangible form. As I tried to put it into words it is “A series of thoughts, sensations and sounds occurring from a person's mind, translated by machines”, and it really is just that. 

MFM: How has the situation affected your productivity with making dance music?

K: A bit double to be honest. Of course I've had my rough times, which can be frustrating. Quite often I wasn't feeling motivated or inspired at all, the purpose felt a bit misplaced or something like that... On the other hand and above all I felt relatively lucky to be able to go leave the house and get lost in the studio. Having the luxury to escape to a creative environment surely helped keeping calm. Eventually it did result in Dream 1 being released and with Dream 2 coming up.

MFM: What would you say does inspire your music? Is it very process based through jamming and so on or do you start with ideas and try and see where that takes you?

K: For me inspiration goes hand in hand with motivation, it's all very much based on how I feel. I don't work well at night for example, daylight is my natural battery. And anything can be a source of inspiration really. Often an idea comes to mind when walking through the park on my way to the studio, listening to music or just wandering off. A melody, a chord, something rhythmical, a vibe... Depending on what idea it brings I choose an instrument or tool and go from there. Mostly through jamming yes, and then see where the machines take me. 

MFM: What would be some ways you would like to see the world of dance music evolve and grow now we’ve all had a moment to pause and reflect?

K: I actually would rather see it all take a couple steps back first. It would be nice if (dance) music gets acknowledged and valued as an essential form of art more. Music really unites and it needs proper breeding grounds for people, free from any social, economical, racial or whatever context to express, connect, create, collaborate, learn, etc. It's essential, and it should be treated and used as such (not in the last place also by governments), with more care, necessity and sustainability. 

MFM: Tell us more about the mix and what vibe you were trying to bring here?

K: I sort of tried to reflect my perception of this recent change in life. As a big fan of Lonnie Liston Smith (and The Cosmic Echoes) the song 'Visions Of A New World' first came to mind and I just took it from there. If you're in for an atmospheric laid back magic carpet ride with lots of percussion, spiritual jazz, ambient techno and forest sounds, this is for you :)

MFM Mix 027: Kennedy

Mix, photos & text by Weird Walk (https://www.instagram.com/weird_walk/)

Full blog post : https://perksandmini.com/blogs/blog/positive-messages-66

Tracklist:
Heron – Yellow Roses
Trees – Glasgerion
Dark – Maypole
Julian Cope – Mic Mak Mok
Robert Wyatt – Pigs... (In There)
Badge Époque Ensemble – Zealous Child (Instrumental)
Vanishing Twin – Magician’s Success
Wild Island – Ice Cream No. 1
Mary Lattimore – Pine Trees
The Watersons – Hal-an-tow

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POSITIVE MESSAGES #67 - WEIRD WALK 'Bringing In The May'

On est super contents d'accueillir LeonxLeon pour ce 10ème opus. Voici quelques mots de sa part au sujet du podcast :

"J'ai essayé de réunir les différentes ambiances que j'aime avec des classiques et d'autres sons plus obscures, d'un peu toutes les époques. J'ai passé les disques que j'avais le plus écouté ces dernières années (d'où certains craquements et 2-3 skips), mais la différence par rapport à une écoute classique est que là je me forçait à changer de morceau à chaque fois, tandis que mes disques d'écoutes sont souvent plutôt laissés toute la face, et par flemme j'écoute bien plus souvent des simples que des doubles LPs, ça m'énerve même un petit peu cette tendance quand on sait qu'on peut graver jusqu'à 20 minutes par face en qualité tout à fait correcte.

La sélection commence par une selection plutôt "early electronics" avec des morceaux moyennement connus de Art Of Noise ou Frankie Goes To Hollywood, puis ça part sur plus rock/reggae avec ma préféré mais pas super connue de Bob Marley et une classique de Michael Franks. Un peu de rock ricain par Cass McCombs, Kurt Viles ensuite puis anglais avec du Pink Floyd de 1994. Duo de divas avec Grace Jones et Sade. Je vais pas tous les faire mais ensuite ça part en slow disco, 80's et modern funk, disco psyché française, new wave, Italo qui craque sérieusement, et enfin pop et slow funk de lover. Écoutez ça tranquillement chez vous seul ou accompagné, au boulot ou dans la voiture !"

Les Vinyles du Dimanche #10 - LeonxLeon / Cracki Records

Roberto S on Invisible City Radio 2021-08-20

new tunes and fresh digs!

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Naomi Asa on the NTS airwaves, delivering soothing soul and spiritual jazz.

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Heartbreak Huns Vol. 1 w/ Naomi Asa 120223

This month Carhartt WIP radio features renowned radio host, label founder, and record curator Michael Kucyk from Melbourne, Australia. Kucyk rose to prominence in 2005 via independent Melbourne radio station 3rrr.fm, where he debuted his show Noise In My Head. The show later moved to NTS Radio, before evolving 2015 into what is now the @efficientspace, a reissue label committed to releasing rare and obscure music from Australia, covering everything from post-punk to folk and avant-pop.
 
The mix that Kucyk created for this month’s episode reflects the label’s wide and diverse catalog, featuring early influential releases, album closers, and often-overlooked gems. Read an accompanying interview with Kucyk, who reveals the story behind the label’s name, the importance of amplifying Melbourne’s musical and cultural history, and why you should never ask for guestlist. Visit www.carhartt-wip.com/journal/music.

tracklist:

1. Once - Joanna
2. The Superwomen - Lowlands
3. Carroll - The Boy Called Billy Joe
4. Tresa Leigh - I Miss You
5. Soft Location - Let The Moon Get Into It
6. Pel Mel - Fool's House
7. Moral Fibro - Take A Walk In The Sun
8. Wrong Kind Of Stoneage - Ravi Dubbi
9. Andy Rantzen - Will I Dream
10. Andy Rantzen - Fantasy Dub
11. Jeff Dread - Blazing Face
12. YL Hooi - Prince S Version
13. The Frenzied Bricks - Entropy
14. Braden Schlager - King of Comedy
15. Bellydance - 3 Days Man! (3AM Mix)
16. Waak Waak Djungi - White Cockatoo
17. Steve Hiett - More Rain In The Woods
18. Maria Kovic & The MK Sound - Trust Me
19. Slapp Happy - It Is You
20. Wilson Tanner - All Hands Bury the Dead

www.carhartt-wip.com/journals/music/radio/2023/11/label-feature-efficient-space

Carhartt WIP Radio November 2023: Efficient Space

Mixtape for Kit and Ace (Nakameguro,Tokyo) 17.12.2015
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Mixed/Art work by Cape(http://thecape.jp)

HIGHWAY WIND , INTO GOLD
track list:

HIGHWAY WIND , INTO GOLD- Cape 

1.Open Letter - Arca 

2.Midnight On Rainbow Road - Leon Vynehall

3.Walking in the Rain - Flash And The Pan 

4. Looking Back(Tornado Wallace Dub)- Andras&Oscar 

5.Set It Out - Omar S 

6.WARREN ON A SUNDAY (LIVE) - WARREN RAWW

7.Don't You Know - Jan Hammer Group

8.Lunar (Original) - Fingerprint

9.Blame It On Rea - Max Essa

10.Get Back Your Love (Samo DJ Edit) - Flyer 

11.  Disclosures (Coyote Uber remix) - GLASS COFFEE 

12.Dominica! (ft. Nev Cottee) -  RUFDUG

13.Purdie - Snacks 

14. Back At Ya (Neighbour DJ Tool) - Kerr 

15.  Its My Life (Max D Edit)-Watt Noize

16. The Ocean Is Teacher - Tom Furse

17.Aren't You Glad - lustre


HIGHWAY WIND , INTO GOLD

EARL GREY - SANPO 035

Casual. Social. Sexual. Free. A sensual selection to get you Thirsty for the night time. See you at the party Richter!

Thirsty in the day Vol 1

Spritz Mix Vol. 2 - It's Pizza Time

i wouldn't lie 2 u - it's a six hour recording of disco music that i played one night at @fredas-bar that turned out to be pretty dang fun. sorry for all the record skips, it was a rowdy crowdy.

Andy Webb at Freda's 12/5/18

Six Hours of Disco (@Freda's in May 2018)

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Get on board and put your feet on the seats for the live rollout, recorded October 2018 in Melbourne.
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Burning Rose Radio | Episode 38 | TRANSIT STATE (Pelvis)

🌞 💓 🌞 💓 Hello my dear friends 🌞 💓 🌞 💓

For this episode of The Sunset Lovers, I've invited John Zahl to be my guest. Well-known as J.A.Z. among music artists, John is an odd-ball synth-pop edit maestro, passionate record collector, and Episcopal Minister who resides in Bedford, Upstate New York.

Through his deep crate of records and tantalizing sets, we will try to find out what oddball italo-disco and the Church might have in common. And we will get to meet closer with the fascinating South Carolina Episcopalian minister, who leads a community from a Church pulpit by day, and from behind the turntables at night, where he plays an eclectic variety of gospel house, Christian italo-disco, and rare synth music.

Originally from New York City, John was influenced by his father's record collection, after spending some time studying in the UK, John moved to Charleston, South Carolina, where he threw Off/Beat which he co-DJs with his friend Tay "Party Dad" McNab. He continued to organize the yearly "Episco-Disco" parties in New York City, in the crypt of a centuries-old church. 

 As an extraordinary selector and an edit expert, J.A.Z. has been offering a unique perspective on underground club culture & dance music over the years, taking us every time on a very personal, transcendent, and spiritual journey through his record collection. 

Feel free to ask him for track IDs and to follow J.A.Z. for more quality obscure music.
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https://www.mixcloud.com/johnzahl7/

Big love to all and huge thanks to John Zahl for his contribution ❤️💛👩‍❤️‍💋‍👩🌅💏🌅👨‍❤️‍💋‍👨🌅❤️💛
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