The first album release on Sprechen is a trip across the astral planes of electronica and through the neon soaked streets of South Manchester, where genres cross & styles meet on the creative peripherals away from the dance floor.

A life lived through clubs, comics books, cult movies, cosmic adventures & electronic musical endeavours have all played a role in the creation of ‘Where Do I Belong?’, the debut long player by The Thief Of Time, a new studio project from Sprechen founder Chris Massey.

What started as just very loose ideas and half started projects during lockdown resulted in a semi autobiographical collection of songs that draw on a lifetime love of electronic artists & synth heavy movie scores. Nods are given, toes are dipped & caps are doffed in various sonic directions whilst still treading a truly unique path of its own making.

As Chris says: “it started really with me being in a headspace I’ve never really had in the studio. There was no pre-conceived ideas or agenda of what I wanted to achieve other than just going with what felt right and pursuing sounds & style I favour away from a smokey basement of ravers. Being a child of the 80’s gave me a wealth of ever evolving influences of sounds, styles, imagery, fashion, literature & art which all somehow seemed to direct this project. It’s the first time I’ve ever created something that contains personal reflections of my own life. Good & bad alongside the high & low points have all driven this creative process which reflects my own headspace will hopefully speak to everyone on some sort of level”.

The album also features a host of Manchester artists including A Certain Ratio, Bay Bryan, Psychederek, NIIX & Love Letters From Space as well as Allison Rae from Causeway (Italians Do It Better) who were all instrumental in realising Chris’s vision and bringing this exciting project into existence.

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Mitchcraft w/ Mitch @ Kiosk Radio 21.08.2023

It’s an easy New Year ease-in as Ben Davis digs into some of the hidden corners of his radio music collection, finishing off with a fifteen-minute jazz classic in all its glory.

1. Muva of Earth - Meditation: align with Nature's Intelligence (feat Sirius B)
2. Delicate Features – Brume
3. Universal Harmonies & Frequencies - The Fifth Science
4. Garth Stevenson – Amble
5. Rhye – The Fall (live)
6. Torn Sail – Brown Fang
7. Pale Saints – Kinky Love
8. Warpaint – Champion
9. Cosmo Sheldrake – Cuckoo Song
10. Bex Burch - Dawn Blessings
11. Ayub Ogada & Trevor Warren – Dero
12. Etran Finatawa – Eldam
13. Osamu Mizukami - Flower Moon
14. Jane & Barton - I Want to Be With You
15. Huw Marc Bennett - Y Gwydd
16. Ustad Saami - True Notes (‘Happy Morning’)
17. Angkanang Kunchai - Lam Plearn Mee Mia Laew Pai
18. Inna Baba Coulibaly – Calma
19. My Friend Dario – Fenice
20. Sonic Boom – Things Like This (A Little Bit Deeper) 
21. Daniel Johnston - True Love Will Find You In the End
22. John Coltrane – My Favourite Things

Paper Air Waves - Jan '24

We're absolutely delighted to be welcoming The Social Service to this year's Let The People In! 

These Mancunian stalwarts have been doing everything properly for years and their ethos and community spirit is a big inspiration to us.

In our next mixtape we are delighted that Brodders has provided us an incredible mix.

Catch Brodders and the full Social Service crew on Saturday 4th May at this year's street party.

Let the People In! Mixtape #9 - Brodders (The Social Service)

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Playlist:

01. Gavin Froome - S.M.O.K.E. (JT Donaldson Mix)
02. Gene Farris - Take Me Back (JT Donaldson Mood Main Mix)
03. JT Donaldson - Depression
04. E-Tones - Golden Doktor (JT Donaldson Remix)
05. JT Donaldson - Name Of Love
06. Spencer Kincy & JT Donaldson - Soho
07. Justin Martin - Snow Day - (JT Donaldson Remix)
08. Fred Everything & JT Donaldson - Memories
09. JT Donaldson - Just A Groove
10. JT Donaldson - My Life
11. JT Donaldson - It´s Simple (JT´s Disco Dub Mix)
12. JT Donaldson Bop Shots Jazz (Original Mix)
13. Giano - WJSD (Fred Everything & JT Donaldson Remix)
14. Fred Everything & JT Donaldson - Listen
15. Fred Everything & JT Donaldson - I Said
16. JT Donaldson - Makin´Music
17. JT Donaldson - I Wanna Dance
18. Daniel Cummins - Shuffle (JT Donaldson Remix)
19. JT Donaldson - Mindsmoke
20. JT Donaldson - Back To You

#103 - A Tribute To JT Donaldson - mixed by Moodyzwen

Broadcasted live from D59B Berlin.

Track-list:
 
Carlos Niño & Friends - Actually (with Deantoni Parks, Jamael Dean, and Nate Mercereau)
Dee Tree - Don't Play (Harry Wolfman Remix)
Surprise Chef - All News Is Good News
24-Carat Black - Skeleton Coast
Zeitgeist Freedom Energy Exchange - Logans Run
Daniel Maunick - Amnesia Haze
Kaytronik - (o)
Jazzanova - Coffee Talk
Kraak & Smaak - Hotel Sorriso
Kraak & Smaak - Sommeron (Satin Jackets Remix)
TTeo - Salento
Photay - Warmth in the Coldest Acre
Dee Tree - Fading Away (Saine Remix)
Lay-Far - Naive
Koolade - The Hop
Duke Hugh - Loft Nights
Space Ghost - Time To Dance
Keys Of Lynx - Galactic Love
Sol Power All-Stars - Va Sé Da feat. Elikeh
Atsushi Yano - Humming Bird
Souldynamic - Rodney's Vibrations
Nemoy - LA Sunrise
Dee Tree - Bring Me Down (Lipski Remix)
Art Bleek - Oganica (Yoruba Soul Mix)

Selected and mixed by @markustone

RADIO.D59B / GOOD NEWS #2 w/ Markus Tone

🌞 💓 🌞 💓 Hello my dear friends 🌞 💓 🌞 💓

This week's sunset session is coming straight from the source and one of the resident DJ at Hostal la Torre in Ibiza, a fantastic selector and one of my personal fav Phat Phil Cooper.

For over two decades, you could find Phat Phil Cooper DJing at places like Amnesia in Ibiza, Cream in Liverpool and Ministry of Sound in London all the way to Base in Sao Paulo and Shelter in Shanghai. 
Through his work as a DJ, label manager, curator, record shop owner, event organizer, and music consultant, Cooper has remained a central figure in a story that has yet to conclude.

Phil’s never been one to stick to any one genre and he’s got a reputation for having an insatiable appetite when it comes to scavenging for music, which makes him well suited for the island’s many flavours. Whether it be a soothing, seductive, sundown set packed with sun soaked funk & soul, jazz, Africa and latin rhythms, lazy beats, and deep disco or an organic, techno-infused sunrise set, it’s always a masterclass in his mélange of musical knowledge.

Away from the dancefloor, Cooper has spent much of the last three decades running or working for record labels including NuNorthern Soul Records, Sick Trumpet, KAT and the African Music Corporation. Today’s he’s best known for steering NuNorthern Soul and his other current imprint, Through God’s Own Eyes.
NuNorthern Soul has been on a fine run of form in recent times, offering up fine releases from Ilija Rudman, Jose Manuel, Blair French, Private Agenda and a handful of cracking catalog compilations curated by Cooper. As you’d expect the 2020 release schedule is packed, too, with highlights including a new set of reworks of label favourites by Leo Zero, plus singles and albums from Igor B, Torn Sail, BJ Smith and Balearic legend Joan Bibiloni.

Cooper’s most notable success in this regard is the Potato Head Club in Bali; during his time living on the Island, he brought some of Balearic music’s finest DJs and artists to the venue and booked Bali’s first-ever Boiler Room session with Jose Padilla, Daniele Baldelli and his old friends Crazy P.

https://soundcloud.com/phatphilcooper
https://www.facebook.com/djphatphilcooper
https://www.mixcloud.com/NuNorthernSoul/select/
https://soundcloud.com/nunorthernsoul

Track listing:
1. Henry's Spacewalk - Mike Salta & Mortale
2. DREAMS FROM THE FAR EAST- ROBOT84
3. Salute to the Sun - Matthew Halsall
4. Fool In The Pool - Max Essa
5. Spring - Kruder & Dorfmeister
6. Durga Dub - Suns of Arqa
7. Spirits In Transit - 4Hero
8. Tomorrow's Sun - Eddie Hooper
9. COLLAGE - GREG FOAT INSTRUMENTAL - Lady Blackbird
10. African Sunshine - Eddie Gale
11. Little Sunflower - Dorothy Ashby
12. Il est cinq heures Dub - Mato
13. Monster Skies - Jura Soundsystem
14. Kunta Kinte version 2 - The Revolutionaries
15. Sea Life (Mark Barrott_s Slow Motion Night Life Dub Mix) - Private Agenda
16. (Half-light of) the Cadmium Moon - Andrew Wasylyk
17. Walpole Days - Hillside
18. At the Top of the Hill, They Stood…	- Penguin Cafe
19. Aurora Sunset - Reinhard Vanbergen0
20. Dímun (Mike Salta & Mortale remix) - Yggdrasil

Big love to all and huge thanks to Phat Phil Cooper for his contribution ❤️💛👩‍❤️‍💋‍👩🌅💏🌅👨‍❤️‍💋‍👨🌅❤️💛
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The Sunset Lovers #27 with 'Phat' Phil Cooper

A record label from the North West of England... 

Launched by former Electric Elephant booker & manager Chris Massey as a side project alongside his A&R role at Paper Recordings....

Sprechen is a platform to showcase electronic music designed for the dance floor...with a passion for melody, groove, soul & energy with no limitations of style and a diverse release policy...

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