Pescado Colorado Guisado ❤️ any id on this one? 🥹

IBU 600 from Imaginary Friend crew - very special guest mix and refuge debut. check out more bits here: https://soundcloud.com/user-785368649

PLO_radio // drizle.FM - Ep:003 PLO man, IBU 600 - 13.12.23

After a long hiatus, we're kickstarting this series back up, with the recording of Vladimir Ivkovic's DJ set from the Nov 19, 2023 Weird Science.  What an evening it was. Now we can relive it and shed some tears once more.

Weird Science With Vladimir Ivkovic

Full recording of DJ Sotofett's closing set at Brave! Festival in Kyiv, 27th of August 2023. Slava Ukraini!

SO-PHAT-MIXES

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SO-PHAT-MIXES-36: DJ Sotofett - Live @ Brave! Festival Kyiv (2023-08-27)

Captured live at Club Digital @ OHM
6.07.2024 with the crew

Flørist
roadkill
PLO Man
c3D_e [live]

excuse the dust

Closing Club Digital @OHM 6.07.2024

London’s Customs duo are connoisseurs of finely crafted garage music, two life long devotees to the sound’s deeply swung rhythms and unifying dancefloor vibrations.

Finessing their take on all things garage (not garage) through their regular spots on Kiosk Radio and at London's Giant Steps, the guys join us with a swinging smorgasbord of 90s and early 00s records from the UK, dabbling in top notch garage and some of the sounds that anticipated broken beat and early grime productions. 

@customs_ldn

Q. What inspiration did you draw upon when combining for this mix, and what kind of setting might you imagine it being enjoyed in the most?

Guy: 

Firstly, thank you Myles so much for sharing this mix. Longtime fans of MDC! Both of us answered “driving” as the best setting, which is funny since neither of us drives. So maybe “riding” rather than driving. Lots of thoughts percolated for me on night drives to inner city Manchester a few months back. Definitely inspired by the All Bad Boy & All Good Girl archive work of Death Is Not The End, resurfacing the sound of Moss Side blues parties like Soul Control. Reading Ed Gillett’s new-ish book Party Lines also gave a push further into alternate UK dance histories, specifically Black club scenes and music that ‘swings’.

Tom: 

I’ve been bingeing on a bunch of old club recordings from the ‘speed garage’ era lately - sets from places like Club Koo and The Colosseum - and I think some of the energy from that early blend of UK and US sounds has definitely bubbled over into this mix.

Q. With the mix showcasing your shared appreciation for deep garage music and its many adjacent styles and offshoots, could you give us a brief insight into your journeys with the sound, and what years, artists or labels have you found to be responsible for the most timeless cuts in your record bags?

Guy: 

It was a nocturnal radio sound for me as a young teenager I guess, largely mysterious, coming largely from London when I was growing up in the north west. But the sampling of R&B vocals from stuff I knew made it immediately accessible. In more recent years, digging in London, I’ve tended to get most excited by either one-off/ white label riddles that are sometimes garage-not-garage, and also alias stuff from bigger name producers across bigger labels in the genre - G-Spot Records, Nice ‘N’ Ripe, Unda-Vybe etc. 

Tom:

I actually started out as a bedroom garage DJ, so it’s a bit of a full-circle moment for me. I had a mate at school who wanted to be an MC, and on Saturdays we used to hit up Music & Video Exchange to pick up whatever white labels we could find before heading back to his flat in Ladbroke Grove to practice a set that nobody would ever hear. Shout out to Nick The Greek, wherever you are! Twenty-something years later, I’m still finding exciting stuff from the same producers we loved back then - guys like Jeremy Sylvester and Mike Millrain who have these unfathomably deep back-catalogues.

Q. Are there any songs in the mix that are especially close to your hearts, and what is it about these tracks that resonate with you so much?

Guy: 

I’d call out 2. Artist Formerly Known as PP - When I’m Down, from 1998. Bit of a private press oddity from a producer who’s prolific but mysterious (the PP = ‘Persian Prince’). It’s a kind of rolling, morphing megamix type cut that samples Brandy - Best Friend but also features raw toasting style MC bits the likes of which you hear from the live party recordings in All Bad Boy & All Good Girl. The other is Colour 3 - La Femme, a beautiful, melodic white label that’s been so versatile for me since I picked it up from Crazy Beat in Upminster. Has worked a treat on sound systems like Giant Steps and after parties alike. 

Tom:

The penultimate track, Drivers Anthem, is a special one for me. Super deep and melodic production, but with that trademark UK bump on the bottom end.

MDC.299 Customs

Nosedrip & OKO DJ At Solstice 2024

PP#44 BY ORPHEU THE WIZARD

1hour radio show from E-S-Radio in Lisboa presenting "Resonance of Dub"  - the new Dub Club concept of DJ Sotofett as well as brand new records from the WANIA label and the "Dr. Afrodub" album by Ekowmania.

ESR
https://esr.li

Sala Lisa
https://ra.co/events/2019224

WANIA mk3 / Dub You Loved Me?
 https://hardwax.com/49942/dj-sotofett/did-you-love-me/

Ekowmania / Dr.Afrodub https://hardwax.com/49941/ekowmania/dr-afrodub/

DJ Sotofett presents "Resonance of Dub" at E-S-Radio Lisboa (2024-10-24)

ßetamax presents LNS & DJ Sotofett and their ❝スパッターズ日本ツアー / Sputters Japan Tour 2024❞. The two Tresor resident DJ's will be playing Detroit-Techno, Electro and Real House Music on five gigs in Sapporo, Osaka and Tokyo between November 11th and December 7th 2024. The tour is accompanied by a special edition Japan Tour 12" featuring DJ Gizzard + LNS + DJ Sotofett. The 12" released on WANIA will be available on all venues throughout the tour for Yen 1500.

LNS from Calgary/Canada releases music on Tresor Records, WANIA, Counter 99 and has an upcoming double 12" project ready for UK's Emotional Response. With a classic touch of Electro, Detroit + UK Techno and Braindance she also runs the club concept ❝LNS-id❞ which will also be featured at Tengu Shokudo in Tokyo, December 6th.

DJ Sotofett from Moss/Norway runs labels Sex Tags Mania + Amfibia, and WANIA where he just released the album ❝WANIA mk1❞. His Electro/House/Techno productions are released on Tresor Records, and the Afro-Dub on Honest Jon's Records. He's just about to release the album ❝DJ Sotofett & The Colours of Computer Generated Instruments❞ on Clone West Coast Series, and also runs the Dub Club series "Resonance of Dub" which will also be presented at Forestlimit in Tokyo, November 22nd.

LNS & DJ Sotofett warp the music from their 2021 Tresor Records album ❝Sputters❞ into a Japan tour at the venues

22NOV : Forestlimit, TOKYO
https://ra.co/events/2033166

29NOV : Precious Hall, SAPPORO
https://ra.co/events/2035741

30NOV : Compufunk, OSAKA
https://ra.co/events/2036220

06DEC : Tengu Shokudo, TOKYO
https://ra.co/events/2035875

07DEC : Forestlimit, TOKYO
https://ra.co/events/2035877

And if it's not played from vinyl it's new unreleased music!


Music: LNS & DJ Sotofett - The Reformer Mix Vol. 1

WANIA mk1

LNS & DJ SOTOFETT : スパッターズ日本ツアー / Sputters Japan Tour 2024

Dubwise dreams and groovy percussive house with the low end dwelling Moonshoe producer @angusmills

Q. What can you tell us about the mix?

A. Thanks so much for having me on the series, I've been a big fan for over a decade now 🙂 So the mix has been curated with my interpretation of the MDC spirit in the front of my mind. I’ve loved how so many mixes over the years have danced thoughtfully between home listening and warm fictional dancefloor settings. I wanted the music to reflect some of the sounds and feelings that I love and which you’ve touched upon in your next question. Hopefully the music translates back to the listener in whichever setting they happen to be in. Recently I’ve been listening back to the mix at home while standing in our light filled kitchen making dinner, looking over at our whippet Olive while she snores on her bed. 

Some of my favourite tracks in the mix include Erzulie (Temple Dub Mix) by Mind Over Rhythm from 1992, Tranquillity by Bamboo Curtain, Nick Kelly’s Track – Dew U Feel Me from Trip ‘N Spin Recordings from San Francisco and the track I close out the mix with is a song that really resonates strongly with me, Soundtrack to a Dying by Phil Western. 

Q. You’ve clearly got a real appreciation for deep hypnotic rhythms, tell us about how you became entrenched in this sound, and how long had you been refining things before your debut Moonshoe release came out?

A. Thanks Myles, that’s very kind of you to say. Yeah, I’m pleased with how that release turned out and am just starting to get back to writing some new music again after a busy work period which feels exciting. Shoutout to Jackson as well who heard a couple of early iterations of those tunes and decided to take a risk on working towards a release for me, couldn’t have imagined a better home for the music than Moonshoe.

I’ve been producing music since the start of 2011 and released some stuff under a few different monikers over the years but wasn’t completely confident with my productions until about 2020. I started studying architecture in 2018 and during the degree, didn’t really have much capacity to work on my own music. I was still heavily listening to music throughout the degree and found that having a break from producing during this time helped me to relearn to love making music again. Perhaps there was something about shifting some creative energy away from music for a period?

Q. On your Moonshoe affiliations, I know you have been working with the label for a little while now, tell us about that experience and what have you got in the works?

A. Yes so, Jackson/ Cousin and I have known one another for a while now through going out to parties around Sydney, I used to go and see him and Brad play a lot around town. He met my partner Claudia years back before we’d even started dating and funnily enough, she suggested that we’d probably get along well. I was sending Jackson a bit of music around 2018/2019 and one of the tracks, Transient ended up coming out on the second Limbs compilation, From Inside Out. Jackson ended up getting a job at Sydney University with me in the AV team which hilariously employs many creatives from the Sydney music scene, and we just started hanging out more and regularly grab lunch together. One thing led to another, and he started helping me put Alva together, doing an excellent job of A&R, giving me regular feedback and suggestions for improving the music. I was also giving him some feedback on his own releases for some other labels, which kind of shifted organically into helping him narrow down some music for his upcoming EP on Moonshoe ‘Wake the Town’ which is a 6 tracker coming out in the next couple of months. In the meantime, Cousin has some individual tunes that didn’t quite make the EP coming out through the Moonshoe bandcamp over the next couple of months which I’ve done some mastering work on. Definitely keep watching this space for music coming out on Moonshoe over the course of next year!

MDC.301 Angus Mills

Techno-punk legend Andrew Weatherall plays his favourites past and present; ranging from contemporary indie bands to the pounding 909s of early acid house.   
Find the full tracklist and related episodes on NTS: https://www.nts.live/shows/andrewweatherall/episodes/andrew-weatherall-30th-january-2020

Andrew Weatherall Presents: Music's Not For Everyone 300120

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