Sofa Beats - Sofacast 67 | KEY ERA

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##SHORT INTERVIEW IN ENGLISH BELOW :)##

Vorsommerliche Frische breitet sich aus und mit viel Sonne im Sound lässt sich ein verträumtes grinsen nicht vermeiden. Leise wie eine Eule schleichen sich die wunderbarsten Soundschnipsel ein und verbreiten eine wundersame Wohlfühlstimmung. Es fühlt sich warm und bekannt an. Wir sagen danke an die Eule El Búho und segeln weiter Richtung Sonnenuntergang.

Gut Ding braucht ja bekanntlich Weile. Das lange Warten hat sich aber so was von gelohnt!

Wie dieser Mix entstanden ist und was die Idee dahinter war, könnt ihr weiter unten gerne selbst nachlesen. Derweil mal viel Vergnügen beim Hören :)


HML: Can you tell us what the idea was behind this mix?

EB: This mix has been a whole process haha. When the Heimlich crew reached out over a year ago I felt I wanted to do something different. It kind of bores me to make just mixes of music I like and I always like to have a bit of a challenge. I realised at the time that I have grown this amazing collection of remix stems from a bunch of talented artists who asked me to make a remix and so I thought, wouldn’t it be fun to make a mixtape only using these stems - kind of like using them as a sample bank and create an hour of original music from them. 



HML: You put a lot of effort into this mix, how was your approach of working on this one?

EB: I’d called it a recycled music mix. You can maybe recognise little snippets from like Chancha Via Circuito or the vocals like from Eat My Butterfly are a bit more obvious but at the same time they are completely new songs. All of the music from this mixtape has never been released and only exists in this mix. It is also all at 90 BPM which was another fun challenge pitching down all these stems from other BPMs and keys to take them to a whole new context. The only issue was I underestimated just how long it would take to make a one hour mix of completely original music and tracks and I ended up dipping in when the inspiration struck and adding a new movement or song. By the end the project was over 350 channels and my Ableton was totally fed up with me opening it and making even small changes at the end was a total headache haha. So a big thank you to Martin and the Heimlich family for their endless patience and letting me indulge in this odd way of making a mix :P 



HML: After working for so long on this mix, how would you describe the work afterwards?

EB: It’s funny to listen back. I have no idea what musically it was going to sound like and I still don’t really know how to categorise it but I suppose that is what creativity is about, just feeling it, going with the flow and seeing what happens. I would also like to make a big shout out to all the artists that contributed to this mixtape without realising it ;) Hard to make a tracklist but I can definitely share a picture of my folder of remix stems to give you an idea oh and of my Ableton project (if I can open it hahaha).

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Heimlich Podcast #73 by El Búho (LIVE)

For our 67th Sofacast, we are featuring an emerging artist at Sofa Beats, KEY ERA.  
This cryptic creator explores what she coins a psychanglic sound in her own productions, and now she curates for us a deeply harmonic flight that goes all over the map and lands in a field all its own. 

Find our upcoming Sofa Beats/ IbogaTech exclusive remix collectables here to explore the warm analog dreamworld of light, colour and sound that is KEY ERA. Don't be afraid to feel in full spectrum.  Ride the waves, day by day. Live the story, page by page.  Take your time, it's ok.

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Tracklist:
Lush Cacophony; Bassically
Focusing on Stone; Mike Grabarek
The Long Danish Morning; Dylan M. Howe
Solvitur Ambulando (Pt.2); Remo Sh
Zöe; Duke Hugh
We; Paulor
Son Anadolu Parsi; Beyhude
To Eu Aqui Canto No Meu Quieto; Urubu Marinka
Instabubu; Cass. & Gianni Brezzo
Find It In Your Eyes; The System
Der Wunsch Service; SoFa, Houschyar & Okay Temiz
Mentalist (Kapoor Catching Sun Remix); Thommie G
Candela Y Trón; Quixosis
Perpetual; Taroug
HAHA; Charlotte Adigéry & Bolis Pupul
Monterrey Paris Texas feat. Daniel Maloso; Superpitcher
Who Are They?; Hedonics
Cool Trainer (Iorie's 'Consensual Remix'); Madmotormiquel
(Jeena); Mogambo
Small Talk (A Balter Remix); LOUD
A Simple Beautiful Truth (Djrum Instrumental Remix); Wild Beasts
Parallel 2; Four Tet
Turquoise Drums (Moody Mix); Electric Archaic
The Mountain (Chris Coco Remix); Cantoma
Aire Nocturno; Pablo Color & Lexx

This podcast is hosted by Syndicast.

Sofacast 67 | KEY ERA

There are places on this beautiful planet where immensity is the only dimension, places where the clouds come so close that they seem accompanying your wandering. Places so infinitely empty that fulfil the spirit. The African plains and deserts are undoubtedly among those, and today we undertake an adventurous journey across their rhythms and flavours. These were the inspiring forces guiding Pedro Canale in the selection of the sounds for this beautiful mix. Pedro is the self-defined ‘joyful monkey’ which in 2005 started the music project Chancha Via Circuito(https://soundcloud.com/chanchaviacircuito). Back in the day in Buenos Aires, he was one of the pioneers who started combining the folk Latin-American rhythms of cumbia with electronic sounds. As his horizons expanded, different sonorities entered his sound palette and led him to become the ecletic musician and producer which we have the pleasure to listen to today. 
Besides featuring instruments and motives of the African continent, the mix he preapared for UCR captures the spirit of that land. Sparkling and vibrant sounds conceal dark tones, as lights and shadows on the dunes move together in a sinuous dance. Talking about the set Pedro said: `There was nothing for miles around; it was a wilderness`, and in that desert we roam. May its infinite emptyness fulfil our spirits.

Find Chancha Via Circuito here:

Bandcamp:
https://chanchaviacircuitomusic.bandcamp.com/
Soundcloud:
https://soundcloud.com/chanchaviacircuito
Instagram
https://www.instagram.com/chancha_via_circuito/

Tracklist

UCR #058 by Chancha Via Circuito

Unlocking the Door of Infinity 003 ft. Rikke Brodin

Welcome to the third edition of Unlocking the Doors of Infinity, a musical journey created for practicing yoga, breath work, or anything else that this journey inspires in you.

I met Rikke this past January in San Marcos La Laguna, Lago Atitalan, Guatemala. We instantly connected with our passion for yoga, philosophy and science!

In this edition, Rikke shares some beautiful words to guide you into your practice and to return home in the end. She has blessed us with a glimpse into her knowledge and understanding of the quantum field as well as her profound connection to the body and mother earth.

Here you can read her beautiful transmission:

"Presence yourself to yourself.

Presence yourself to the movement of your breath, to the drum of your heartbeat.

Presence yourself to the grounding solidity of your bones as they echo the anchoring resonance of the earth.

Presence yourself to the fluidity and the deep sea intelligence of your organs.

Presence yourself to the electricity of your  nervous system and subatomic particles that vibrate as you.

There is aliveness here.

There is a pulse of creation.

Pour yourself into yourself, pour yourself into this pulse, into the currents that usher their way through the matrix you experience as “you”

Into the depths of you, into the deepest chamber of you, into the ground of your being.

Into the stillness, into the silence.

Here is a gateway, a portal from your being into your becoming.

There is a longing here, a longing for life to birth itself out of itself.

Give yourself to this desire.

This body knows it birthed itself, it made itself, it moves, it has always know how to move.

Out of a field of potentiality you vibrate into form; nothingness spiraling into everything-ness, pulsing between the opposites of expansion and contraction.

Waves of expression in an ocean of awareness and energy.

You are reality rediscovering itself
your body is the mystery awakening to itself 
you are emptiness, dancing


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Give yourself to the earth.

Offer the whole weight of yourself to the longing pull of gravity.

To let yourself be held, to resource yourself in the holding field of the earth, in the felt sense that you are not falling through space, but that you are deeply held.

Held within the web of living-ness that weaves you into itself.

Rest here.

Let your back body melt like wet clay to the fertile soil underneath you.

Let your front body dissolve open into infinite sky.

You are the channel between the two.

You are the earth sky vessel.

You are infinity vibrating as form.

Give yourself to this mystery."

Track list:

Indian Flute Meditation - Meditative Mind
La Voz de Nostalgia - Joaquin Cornejo ft Wabi Sabi
Kura Kura - Baptiste Sejourne & Kamila Sol
Naynaeo -Maywa (Binder & Steffen Ki Revision)
Mirissa - J.Pool
Nonahinee - Kailash Kokopeli (J.Pool Remix)
Cuñaq - Raio (Mose Remix)
Una Resuna - Lulacruza (Chancha via Circuito Remix)
Gratitude - Cellomano
The Jasmani Garden - Deya Dova

Find Rikke on Instagram @rikkebrodin

Listen on Youtube here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=lphSJA5aG44

Art by Adrian Callejas (@eltripador)

Follow my Spotify playlist of music for yoga and meditation here:

https://open.spotify.com/user/12169477157/playlist/2jNVl20HGcsGLaNlaZe5f5

Unlocking the Doors of Infinity 003: Music for Yoga Flows ft. Rikke Brodin

Flexibility is the the ability to continue dancing under raging thoughts and chaotic weather. Flexibility is openness to new perspectives and somersaults, willingness for transformation... and the pleasure of costume parties. 

Those who let the tears flow when the corset is tight; who swap their bikes for rubber boats in the event of a flood, are flexible. Keep on moving.

Mixed by https://soundcloud.com/akra_ondo

Tracklist: 
Faith’s Hymn - Beautiful Chorus
New World - Spryk
Glimpse - AFAR
Joga (M.RUX EDIT) - M.Rux
Rosa - Rainer Scheurenbrand
Naturaleza (Mose Edit) - Danit
Bye Bye Love - Madeleine Peyroux
Firesmoke - Kate Tempest
Rose Spell - Lemonella 
A Terceira Margem do Rio - San Ignacio
Abusey Junction - KOKOROKO
Warm Linear - Jan Hertz
Northern Lights - Fleassy Malay
Brilliant Mycelium - Beautiful Chorus
Quarantine Dream - Peter Power
La piel ft Nacho Rodriquez - Fémina
ina-na - Uschi and the boobs
The Pool Of Memories - Ras Kjaerbo
Apus - Danit
Inkululeko (Reprise) - Sibusile Xaba
Cuir Kora Edit - Mente Organica
She Rock I Roll - Chelou
Humano (El Buho Human) - Lido Pimienta
Post Hallucination - Lemonella
Then I Dream (ft. Binisa) - Wu-Lu
Prickly Pear - Portico Quartet
Komorebi ft. Wabi Sabi - Joaguin Cornejo 
Howling Around My Happy Home - Daniel Norgren
Walkin’In the Sun - Fink 
Texas Sun - Khruangbin
Mi Negrita - Devendra Banhart 
Derfi di hebe - Dino Brandao, Faber & Sophie Hunger
All Shades Of Blue - Gregory Alan Isakov
Live is Life - Opus

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