I keep coming back to this mix, it's so good! Do you have a track list?

Next up on Idle Cellars we have the very special, underrated and up and coming talent, Scandinavia’s best kept secret, Fritjof Drake.

Welcome to an adventure in the Archipelago where your cosmic guide will offer you an exclusive tour of dusty reggae 12 inches, LP’s, Street Soul, Boogie and Brazilian beauties he has scavenged up in the midsummer forest of Sweden. Possibly you’ve not heard many before but you can be sure to be blown away by this mind and body stirring, soulful selection.

Fritjof Drake:
I wanna give a huge shoutout to Danny for inviting me to this special mix series where I got to showcase a longer version of my balearic side in digging records. As well as drinking a glass of wine… I never realized it would come down to 2 hours and 46 minutes since I just kept on yo-yoing the discs from the sleeves to the turntables. Hopefully this mix will make you as hypnotized as I got when making it. Enjoy!

Check out his other mixes here: https://soundcloud.com/mrdrake

Fritjof Drake - Archipelago

Winter is beyond us, and the heat in this mix courtesy of Melbourne's Mirren is right on cue. Enjoy an hour of sweetly blended Semba with the sounds of the Caribbean as the weekend rolls in!

Music for Ears #23 - Mirren

For his second edition, Raphaël Top-Secret is back with a mix of inspiring and timeless music, somewhere between 1979 and 2000, from Robert Hood, Maggotron, Telex, Dimitri From Tokyo, Nick Straker, Kenny Dixon Jr, ESG, Psychotropic, Lil’ Louis, Gary’s Gang, DiY Discs and other favorites …

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@No_Frills are back in the bin! !!
Celebrating the second release on their label Viktor & Lukas provided this three and half an hour trip filled with prime digs, chilled bits and unheard house hits. I'm sure you'll find some of these gems on their youtube account soon. May I now channel your attention to the Chiquita before everbody is checking for track ids? https://soundcloud.com/no_frills/sets/chiquita-nf-002

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No Frills - Spätsommer (Guest Mix, 2023)

Mix of the Week #501 is by Loveshadow
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"we turned in our next LP earlier this summer  https://loveshadow.bandcamp.com/album/ii and have been keeping things pretty low key while the release is in the pipeline. been revisiting lots of old favorites, making edits, trying to keep up on more new releases...there's little bit of all of that in the mix. enjoy!" - Loveshadow @loveshadowdjs

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Fresh off the flight from an extensive Asia-tour, Telephones return with a peek-in-the-bag special with favourite digs and finds from the far eastern crates. A fine dose of balearic, streetsy soul, deep house, and naturally a fair amount of Japanese leftfield pop. Konnichiwa!

Shouts to @raphael-top-secret and @sanctuary3 for intel! <3

Telephones' New Massage 032 [Refuge Worldwide]

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

Evie is an Eora / Sydney-based selector navigating all eras of dance music, making way through elements of balearic, street soul, dream pop and new wave to pair the nostalgic with the contemporary.

Evie has appeared at venues including Brilliant Corners (UK), The Sydney Opera House and featured with guest mixes on Skylab Radio, FBi Radio and Balamii. She also holds a 2023 residency at Eora’s own Club 77. 

Shaping a sound that is uniquely her own, Evie has landed slots alongside Soichi Terada, Pender Street Steppers, Paula Tape, Jex Opolis and locally with Mike Who, Caravan, Adi Toohey and Lauren Hansom.

H.A.N.D. MIX 048 EVIE

"From Balearic Japanese pop to an italo cover of The Bee Gees, this mix is a bunch of songs I like… put together in a way I don’t hate! Please enjoy yourselves & let’s pour another glass: Viva B.P.T." - @dirty_dave

B.P.T. Radio 076: Dirty Dave

Honored to have Biko Vledder @sint-bikolaas setting off the Self Help mix series with 80 minutes of South African house and kwaito deep cuts to coincide with our first release Classic Club Culture. Five tracks of SA house & downtempo produced by the prolific Quentin Foster (Vision, Yeah Bo!, Citi Express).
Available for preorder here:
https://soundbathrecords.bandcamp.com/album/classic-club-culture-e-p
Here's what Biko had to say about the mix
"When Matt asked me to record a mix to accompany the reissue of tracks by Quentin Foster on his new label Sound Bath Records I felt excited and delighted. It’s really cool that these forgotten tunes by Quentin get a new life and more people are going to hear his work. When I started to select tunes for this mix the first tunes I chose were two tracks from different project produced by Quentin. From there I tried to build the rest of my mix around these cornerstones with other South African 90’s dance cuts."

Self Help Vol. 1 - Biko

Safe to say this one has been worth the wait! Relentless Sydney digger @daniel-lupica uncovers some seriously next level 90s kwaito and mid-tempo house from South Africa for a summer time spread full of pure under the radar heat! 

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. Kind of, but it wasn’t super intentional; obviously I’m into 90’s sounds (in particular South African Kwaito and House) so I wanted to share some of my favourite finds of this year and string them together in a cohesive mix, keeping a steady mid-tempo vibe, where everything sounds both similar and different the whole way through. Nothing groundbreaking, just trying to keep an emphasis on quality and not play too many jams I’ve heard before in other DJ’s mixes.

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. There are a few! As a lot of the SA stuff is not easy to come by, it feels like it’s by chance (right place, right time) that I ended up with a couple, so pretty grateful to have some of my grails in hand, such as the “Shima - S'Phete Vibe” LP, the song “Dlayani” is in the mix but it’s packed full of heat. Another is the “Andile - Want Me (Viagra Mix)” (recently added to my YT) that is red hot fave at the moment.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=laSet9roaPA

Q. With so many great under-the-radar South African records in the mix, can we expect to hear a few of these popping up on your youtube channel in the months ahead? And what other rabbit holes have you been exploring for the channel of late?

A. Yes for sure! There’s 3 or 4 in there that I plan to throw onto my channel. But hopefully I don’t sit on them too long and miss the boat.

The other rabbit holes that I’m always exploring include 90’s Latin/Spanish/Brazillian Hip Hop and Hip-House, as well as Reggae and Dancehall covers of 90s RnB and pop songs. Always nice to throw something familiar yet different into the mix when playing in a bar or club.

MDC.290 Daniel Lupica

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