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Sound Metaphors Mix Series

DJ Mixes 2022

March 2022

Sound Metaphors mix series featuring David Fogarty, head honcho of Transmigration - Berlin based label, party and radio show - the techno connoisseur responsible for re-issuing a stellar 90's Ambient Techno focused catalogue of essential releases from around the globe.
@transmigration_records

Sound Metaphors Mix Series 01 : David Fogarty

Yuzo Iwata aka Fabio, 50% Cubano, 50% Japanese, Karate blackbelt and DJ/producer, originally from the Iwata Juku Dojo in Japan and now based in Berlin, Yuzo shares with us his latest fascinations from dancefloor land. A rich and thoughtfully put together excursion throughout breakbeat, synthetic psychedelia, new beat and other stellar four-on-the-floor nuances. From working in some of Berlin's finest record stores (*wink*), Yuzo has clearly developed a relationship well beyond familiar with records in a wide range of genres - let this mix take you where you need to go.
@fabio-konair

Sound Metaphors Mix Series 03 : Yuzo Iwata

Very excited to feature a really special new mix by an old friend from Milan, Gabriele (Sunny Crypt) collects records, occasionally enjoys playing weird music to dancing crowds and also spends some of his happiest days working in a record shop. 
Driven by a strong curiosity towards a wide range of musical genres coming from different eras and different cultural contexts, in a previous life he’s been a resident DJ at Milan’s Dude Club, a true institution for italian clubbing during the last decade. Open you hearts <3

Sound Metaphors Mix Series 05 : Gabriele

A previous guest of honor at H.A.N.D. as we debuted the series with a recording of his first class workings at Have A Nice Day a few years back - Piers Harrison presents us with yet another generous offering to our new mix series. One of the minds at Test pressing and 1/4 of team Soft Rocks, Piers' insightful relationship with music and dance floor culture has clearly led to a discerning understanding in a wide range of genres - kindly displayed in this pleasant excursion - listen carefully :)
@soft-rocks

Sound Metaphors Mix Series 04 : Piers Harrison

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Welcome to a bubbling hour and a half of stunning vintage tech house, trance, and acid from Brooklyn’s Samuel Fish (@0fishal). Merging frequencies from the great beyond envelope you, lifting you higher.

d o w n 2 e a r t h 35 - Samuel Fish

Panorama Bar resident and Love On The Rocks label head Paramida joins us for the 92nd edition of the Phonica Mix Series. 

Since moving to Berlin in 2010, Paramida has since become a key figure in the cities ever-expanding electronic music scene. In 2014 she launched her Love On The Rocks label which has seen releases from Massimiliano Pagliara, Telephones, Fantastic Man, Elles, Violet, Alex Kassian and more.  

Having spent five years working at Oye Records, Paramida is certainly no stranger to digging. Each of her varied DJ sets brings a new beacon of pleasure and surprise. Blending proto-house to trance, percussive gems with high-energy techno, Italian dream house and irresistible new beat. Sounds that are very much reflected in this here recording. Check out the in-depth interview over on Off The Record. Enjoy!

Phonica Mix Series 92: Paramida

Lumiere - Timeless Series #32

Joining us as the 40th guest on our mix series we welcome https://soundcloud.com/adelina9 - The Kyiv based selector and juggernaut of the Oracool parties has a carefully selected record collection full of darkness and charisma and will soon join the label on our Black Label Series for a solo EP - stay tuned. For now, 1 hour of dub basslines, trance ornaments, passionless ease and broken structure from one of Ukraines new wave talents.

Banana'Cast 40

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Banana 'Cast 40 ➤ Adelina

Vortex Mix ✻ Allure

Montréal’s NAFF Recordings co-founder @priori-ties records a mix of deep, spaced-out house and techno for the Fresh Kicks series

Interview: https://djmag.com/features/fresh-kicks-171-priori

Fresh Kicks 171: Priori

The Sundowner. Mix #18 comes from Ukrainian DJ & Event Curator of Rhythm of Love parties series: Róse @djrose_music . Check out his fresh new mix and get to know him better in the interview we had with him on Tuesday. We have been in touch with him since Thursday morning when the Russian invasion of Ukraine started and decided together to go ahead with publishing the interview as it is since music is what brings people together!

Our hearts and minds are with our friends and the people of Ukraine at this time, stay strong and stay safe!

https://sundownerberlin.de/2022/02/25/sundowner-mix-18-by-dj-rose-interview/

Sundowner. Mix #18 DJ Rose - Omnia transeunt

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Vivian Koch (@kochvivian) has real range. For labels like Life And Death, a.r.t.less and AD 93 she has served up everything from IDM to moody breaks, ambient soundscapes to emotive techno. Her most recent album - last year's ominous but hopeful Beyond Contact - was fine proof of that from the Berlin-based artist who started DJing aged just 16. She has since mastered the art of making and playing club music thanks to her residency at Griessmuehle and her own Olympe party series.

She very much eases into this week with a superb ambient selection. It's broad in its remit, with the most beautiful and suspensory pieces bleeding into gently suggestive rhythms. The moods, too, range from mind-emptying bliss to passages of hopefulness and even romance. It's the sort of cathartic listen we all occasionally need to immerse ourselves in as a way of resetting.

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Dekmantel Podcast 374 - Vivian Koch

@no_frills duo Viktor & Lukas deliver a very generous offering to the Sound Metaphors mix series featuring 2 hours of tastefully selected synthetic dancefloor jams. They have a stellar collection of mixes going on for a while now @5918mins. and have recently debuted their presence in vinyl industry with a No frills label that jump started with a re-issue that has been a buy on sight record ever since it came out a couple months ago - good luck finding a copy now - with more amazing stuff coming out soon! The homework is done, the research is there, facts are facts - No f(r)illers, only killers on the floor - listen carefully! <3 and be good to your discogs wantlist.

Sound Metaphors Mix Series 09 : No Frills

Recording of my DJ-set at the Green Room, Stadtgarten in Cologne. August 2020

T⌾m-T⌾m Listening Sessi∅n ❥ Green Room

Juanita's Mix 025 with Mike Servito @mikeservito

Q. How would you describe yourself?
A. I've never really been comfortable with Artist or DJ titles or whatever. Perhaps "music obsessed" suits me better. Probably a more fitting description.

Q. How long have you been a part of the NYC music scene?
A. I landed in New York in 2007. I thought that was it. After Detroit, next chapter. In retrospect, I was just on a DJ hiatus. I guess I've been a part of Brooklyn's DJ scene for a little over a decade.

Q. Tell us about this mix.
A. I've been toying with the idea of doing a different kind of mix for a while. Juanita's was the perfect opportunity to showcase a different side. So, thank you. Most people who know me think Acid. House. Techno. Electro. Bangers Only! This mix is not that. I've always been heavily influenced by my 90's upbringing. A musically rich and significant era. The elements of atmosphere, mood, and spirit come into play for this mix. It's a bit nostalgic and sentimental. A one take, vinyl only situation recorded at home just yesterday. A stream of consciousness summer head nod for a rainy day, or a sunny one. Meant to uplift and inspire. It is necessary to keep our optimism and focus up with the music that moves us, and to share that. It is an extension of love and hope in our extreme times. Press play. Turn up. Enjoy.

Tracklist:
Hypnotone - God C.P.U. (Ambient)
The East Flatbush Project - Tried By 12 (Instrumental)
Janet Jackson - That’s The Way Love Goes (CJ R&B 12” Mix)
Lucy Pearl - Dance Tonight (Instrumental)
Massive Attack Vs. Mad Professor - Eternal Feedback (Sly)
Mobb Deep Featuring Crystal Johnson - Survival Of The Fittest (Remix Instrumental)
Nas Featuring Lauryn Hill - If I Ruled The World
The Pharcyde - The Hustle (Instrumental)
Deee-Lite - Say Aaah… (Intro) 
Mary J. Blige Featuring Smif-N-Wesson - I Love You
Method Man - Ill Be There For You/ You’re All I Need To Get By (Razor Sharp Instrumental)
Mary J. Blige - Be Happy (Acapella)
Faith Evans - No Other Love (Instrumental)
Massive Attack - Heat Miser
DJ Shadow - Building Steam With A Grain Of Salt
Rhythm & Sound w/ Jennifer Lara - Queen In My Empire
Aphex Twin - Girl/Boy (NLS Mix)

Juanita's Mix 025: Mike Servito

“I was one of the first cats bringing two reel-to-reels and spinning with them at the parties. I was bringing out two Pioneer 707s, doing the Hummingbird, Jacks, The Courtyard, etc. I’d bring a drum machine, too. I would make tracks right then as the party was going. Way before my guys Daft Punk and all of them were doing live gigs, I was doing that at the basement parties – just bringing drum machines and doing everything live. A lot of my early tracks came from me doing them at the party when the party was going on. I’d save it in memory and bring it home and polish it up. But I listen to it now and it’s like, damn… didn’t use enough cleaner!” - Mike Dunn

Ladies and gentlemen, it's the weekend, and it's time... to jak!

Social Dis-Dance Party

SlothBoogie Guestmix #248 - Mike Dunn

A few months back we were sent an album via Huntleys & Palmers, a record label with which we have worked closely over the years. It was by an artist called System Olympia who upon digging we discovered had previously released music via Slow Motion Records and was a regular on NTS.

However, nothing prepared us for the supreme quality of the record and to be honest it caught us completely off guard. Titled "Delta Of Venus" the album features ten tracks which move slowly and provocatively, some built for the dance floor and others simply for a dark room and late night funk. Elements of Lo-Fi and nods to the P-Funk era creep throughout in what is an alluring, sexy affair. 

The record has already received widespread support and airplay, it's of little surprise given how well rounded and addictive it is. System Olympia is an artist who has very much made a statement and we are humbled and delighted to be able to feature her as part of our mix series.

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System Olympia: The Ransom Note Mix

1.- Coyote - Balearic Restrictor 
2.- Willie Graff & Darren Eboli - Lizard King
3.- DJPipi & Willie Graff - Lunares
4.- Jura Soundsystem - Mamma Capes
5.- Bruxas - Plantas Falsas
6.- Copanema Feat Reinhard Vanbergen, W. Graff, DJPipi - Nada mas
7.- Jura Soundsystem - Parrot rhythmic space jam
8.- Baril - vocales 
9.- Cantoma - kasoto (Noche española Remix)
10.- Jura SoundSystem - Carafe Denim
11.- Alferlife Feat. DJ Rocca - Si Si Si
12.- Darren Eboli - Love Flight
13.- Bruxas - Mas profundo
14.- Damian Lazarus - Mountain - (Tornado Wallace remix)

Fran Deeper - INFECTION DISCO (Balearic August Mix 2020)

Little intro needed here - one of the resident wizards behind the cocktail d'amore curtains - Juan Ramos puts together a beautiful excursion taking one's psyche to novel degrees of darkness, a true expression of musical research and knowledge, Mr. Ramos goes deep in the archives and continues to surprise. This time in a completely new direction - take a trip!

Sound Metaphors Mix Series 02 : Juan Ramos

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Sound Metaphors Mix Series 09 : No Frills

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