i keep coming back because i keep coming back because i keep coming back

Last year Franklin had the pleasure of interviewing Move D ahead of a Club Mick's party that never happened. They chatted about clubbing, techno, space and in particular, Stanley Kubrick’s sci-fi masterpiece - ‘2001: A Space Odyssey’. Franklin' accompanies the conversation with a selection of spaced-out ambience, deep house, and dubby techno, solely from David Moufang’s discography.

Franklin w/ Move D - March 2021

For Crack Mix 400, we're celebrating clubs and nightlife culture across the world.

DJ 瓢瓢 (Piao Piao), real name Wen Shun, is a resident at Beijing club Zhao Dai.

Listen to all 18 mixes on crackaud.io → https://crackm.ag/Mix400

Crack Mix 400: DJ 瓢瓢 (Piao Piao)

People & Places was live for the full 2 easing through psychedelic rock, ambience and Balearic house. Sounds from Inre Kretsen Grupp, Feon, and more inbound.

People & Places w/ HENRY - June 2021

Motor City Drum Ensemble closing out Dimensions 2015 with a little help from Jeremy Underground.

www.dimensionsfestival.com

RA Live - 2015.08.30 Motor City Drum Ensemble feat. Jeremy Underground, Dimensions Festival, Croatia

Layer #80, first hour by Serial Experiments, guest mix by Tolouse Low Trax, which starts at 01:08:00.
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1:  Serial Experiments - 'More is less' mix
2: Tolouse Low Trax mix:
@detlefnet (@kreidler, @themes-for-great-cities, @lesdisquesdelamort) - a resident DJ at Salon des Amateurs, who has continued to surprise with every release and remix for years now, and recently launched a new project 'Toresch'. This mix titled 'The Matter of Life and Death Mix', includes music by Kynestasia, Karamika, Anna Homler, Bushido, Luc Marianni, Tolouse Low Trax, Quite Village and some more....

https://facebook.com/TOLOUSE-LOW-TRAX-252370514818268/
https://soundcloud.com/detlefnet/
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SERIAL EXPERIMENTS: 
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mixcloud.com/SerialExperiments/
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Serial Experiments

LAYER #80 | Serial Experiments + TOLOUSE LOW TRAX

► Making a return after her much-lauded BR debut at AVA it's Or:la at our True Music: Hybrid Sounds party with Ballantines.
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Or:la Boiler Room x Ballantine's True Music: Hybrid Sounds Russia DJ Set

Watch the set and get the full tracklist at:
https://boilerroom.tv/recording/honey-dijon-sm?utm_source=soundcloud&utm_medium=description&utm_campaign=tracklist

Honey Dijon Boiler Room Sugar Mountain Melbourne DJ Set

► Palms Trax for President
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Palms Trax | Boiler Room x Dekmantel Festival 2018

HAAi - BBC Radio 1 Essential Mix 
29.09.18

Winner of BBC Essential Mix of the Year

BBC Radio 1 Essential Mix

Jonny Rock knows how to entertain any sort of dance floor. The Worldwide FM radio host runs Turkish focussed labels Hamam House and Disco Hamam and has very much driven the renewed focus in Eastern music as a result. His record collection is a treasure trove of knowledge when it comes to unusual scenes and sounds and will put anyone’s to shame. He has held residences at places as diverse as Classic at The End, Key at Phonica and Herbal, and his own productions take in whatever he wants, be it house on The Nothing Special or techno on ESP Institute. 

There is no holding back over the course of his podcast, which gets straight to business with some wild breakbeat action. All forms of house from jacked up to deep, celebratory to acid then get seamlessly linked together into something that feels very much informed by the past but in no way a slave to the classics. It’s the sound of a man who very much knows what he’s doing in top form.

Dekmantel Podcast

Dekmantel Podcast 218 - Jonny Rock

Recorded this live at Dublab for my good friend Michael, a farewell gesture to his lovely show Noise In My Head, on which I was a recurring guest. Bless. x

Noise In My Head

[MIX] Lovefingers - Ghost Inna Machine (Farewell Mix for Noise In My Head, August, 2018)

For Eris’s mixtape “Raving Disco Breaks Vol. 1”, she uses old records to create a new style out of fragments. Many of the selections have been featured heavily in her live DJ sets, including her b2b sets with Octo Octa. Eris accumulated these records slowly, over decades, but it wasn’t until touring last year that she realized a “sound” coalesced in her bag. What does a rave at the disco sound like? Kinda like everyone took ecstasy at the roller rink. On her ecstatic mix, Eris colleges together a genre by scratching-in breaks with horn samples, mixing Disco House with broken beats, dropping Miami Bass jams with Boogie keys and blending Rave tunes with disco vocals. On the mix Eris utilizes turntable techniques such as “doubles” tricks and “hot mixing”—a fast-paced mixing style inspired by her beloved B96 Mixmasters, Chicago’s most popular 1990’s radio DJs. Like all of Eris’s mixes, she weaves strong narratives of embodiment, defiance, cultural transcendence and personal triumph (a classic disco emotion) into a flow of body rockin’ beats, scratches, drops, and sweet melodies. The result is a bass heavy summertime house mix for the psychedelic bad girls, boys and enbys. 

A limited run of Raving Disco Breaks Vol. 1 cassettes are available now exclusively from the label’s Bandcamp - http://t4tluvnrg.bandcamp.com

 The recording can be streamed on the T4T LUV NRG SoundCloud for free and hi-resolution versions are available for download on the label’s Bandcamp (donation requested). All profits  from Eris’s mix will be donated to the Sylvia Rivera Law Project (SRLP), which works to guarantee that all people are free to self-determine their gender identity and expression, regardless of income or race, and without facing harassment, discrimination, or violence.

Eris Drew Raving Disco Breaks Vol 1.

High-energy, feel good house and techno from everyone's favourite sitcom DJ, recorded live during RA's showcase at Strawberry Fields 2018.

@dj-seinfeld

RA Live - 17.11.18 - DJ Seinfeld, Strawberry Fields, Australia

Recording of Palms Trax' set at Dekmantel Festival 2019.

Dekmantel Festival 2019

Palms Trax at Dekmantel Festival 2019

Larry Levan - Paradise Garage - 1979

Una delle sue ultimissime registrazioni fatta ancora in Italia: un set casalingo e cosmico, senza l’uso dei classici Technics 1200, ma di piatti prima maniera che ricordano, con le loro piccole imperfezioni, quelli con cui ha iniziato Leo Young nei primi anni 80: un gioco musicale inedito da parte di uno degli innovatori del genere. Il funk si mescola al ritmo cosmico e all’elettronica, per descrivere e evidenziare nel mentre, aspetti inediti di tracce oscure a volte suonate deliberatamente alla velocità sbagliata. 

"Il tema di base di questa navigazione musicale firmata Leo Young è la teoria di una colonizzazione silenziosa del pianeta da parte un invasore alieno, ma anche la natura umana e la sua fragilità e imperfezione nell’incontro con questa realtà aliena. Ecco perchè Ian Dury & The Blockheads fanno da inusuale apripista con un edit di “Spasticus Autisticus”. Ad Maiora." Leo Young - Giugno 2020

Sound e Foto storica a casa di Daniele Baldelli.

LINK:
www.youtube.com/user/LeoLyonZagamiChannel

Ordo Illuminatorum Universalis
www.youtube.com/channel/UCXgySfu86AQubEIMOObvM4w

Book series: Confessions of an Illuminati www.amazon.com

Discogs: www.discogs.com/artist/40508-Leo-Young

Cosmic Source - Mixed by Leo Young

You see a mix, but we see the portal to a land where music has nos boundaries, no limits, where goa trance meets tribal gems, where ambient meets synth melodies, feel free to loose yourself. Eiger Drums Propaganda is keeping an eye on you!

Artwork by @anne-marie-gratton

Karagi ಏ Eiger Drums Propaganda

Mix 21 comes from the hands of Potato Head resident and Second Circle affiliate Dea Barandana (@dea-barandana). Interview (excerpt) down below.

www.musicfrommemory.com

MFM: Hi Dea, welcome to the series. How have you been lately? How are you spending your days in Bali?

DB: Hi!! Thanks for having me. I’m actually doing well, i’ve been living in Jakarta for the past 3 months. I moved to Jakarta in order to work in the music industry, which is more alive here, where in Bali 93% of the income are coming from  tourism.

MFM: I assume dance floors in Indonesia have been closed for a while too, right? As a resident of Potato Head, do you fear for what will become of nightlife after all this is over or do you extract positive energy from it too maybe?

DB: It is pretty much dead regarding club scene in Indonesia, but there are still nightclubs open illegally here and there. I don’t want to think about too much, I just hope the best for everyone who work or involve in anyway with this industry to survive this pandemic situation.

MFM: Can you tell a bit more about how you initially got involved in becoming a resident for Potato Head?

DB: It was all started on 2012, which is pretty much day 1 . Back then I was only a resident DJ and soon it progressed to managing their audio engineering thing, setting up all their music venues such as Studio Eksotika, Kaum Jakarta, etc, even involve in designing room acoustic for them. So pretty much I’m doing almost everything related to sound and music in that company. And the actually gave me a cool title as AUDIOPHILE DIRECTOR hahahahha..

MFM: You were a musician at that time too already, right? What's the balance like in between all those roles?

DB: I wouldn’t say I’m a musician, I do play instruments but I don’t consider myself as a musician. I see myself more as an audio engineer and a sound designer. DJing is not my main income, I did it just because of my obsession on collecting music in any physical form, and I like to share it to others. DJing is just one of many ways to do so. But yeah 70% of my income comes from music or audio work related.

MFM: Exactly one year ago your first release as part of Zatua came out via Second Circle, as result of a live improvisation of 4 members. What can you say about how the EP was recorded?

DB: It’s recorded live, I don’t use any samples. My role in the band is the rhythm section. I wrote most of the bass line, both acoustic and synth based. I also wrote melodies and ideas for pretty much everything.

MFM: It initially was never a planned project, correct? Now that the first release is a fact, do you have more future ideas and plans for it? 

DB: For now, I’m more focusing on working with my other band than Zatua. The band are called White Shoes and The Couples Company, it’s one of the biggest independent group here in Indonesia and I'm in charge of the production of their 3rd album, I wasn’t part of the group but I took full responsibility on their recording process. It's different from my usual style but its more applicable for Indonesia local market. I supposed to release 2 mini album of my solo project this year, but it got postponed because of the pandemic. For Zatua itself, hopefully we can record a new album by the end of the year.

MFM: Thanks a lot for sending in your contribution to our mix series. What can tell about the mix? 

DB: I’m just let it flow. I don’t think to much when I play records.

MFM Mix 021: Dea Barandana

Next to take the reigns we have Tici Taci label boss Duncan Gray. Duncan really should need no introduction as he's been involved in the industry for so long you've almost certainly heard of him or at least heard some of his work. Primarily an instrumentalist, Duncan has played guitar and bass on some massive releases. 

Around 2013, after a hiatus from electronic music,  Duncan created Tici Taci Records which is a mainstay of top quality releases. The birth of the label was overseen by none other than Mr Andrew Weatherall (RIP Guv). The quality of the music released on Tici Taci really is second to none and we urge you to go and check out the label and support what they are doing! 

Allow Mr Gray to take over your speakers and provide the soundtrack to this Sunday evening. 

Turn on, Tune in, Drop out.

Tracklist
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Rich Lane - Barry's Island (Longchamps remix)
Perry Granville - Sailing Ships (Hardway Bros meet Monkton uptown version)
Senora - Vivo Vulpe
Duncan Gray - Twenty Seven Seven Twenty
Craig Bratley - Ani Kuni
Stevie R feat Parisinos - Tuka
Kincaid - Pipe Up
Rodion & Alejandro Paz - Una Vez Mas
Duncan Gray - The Owner (feat Snem K)
Glok - Pulsing (Citadel version)
The Longchamps - Smoke & Mirrors (Mr BC remix)
The Longchamps - The Skriker (Craig Bratley remix)
BTCOP - I So Late (Duncan Gray Flotation mix)
Duncan Gray - Volcachug
Duncan Gray - Gone & Forgotten (feat Dominic Silvani)
Rave-enka - Antibac

Follow: @ticitaci

Support the artist: @rich-lane-2 @the-long-champs @david-sibley-742728998 @hardwaybros @craig-bratley @stevie-r @kincaidofficial @rodion_gomma @alejandro-paz @snemk @btcop @rave-enka @dominic-silvani

Counterterraism Guest Mix 25: Duncan Gray

2021's first mix in line comes all the way from sunny Australia by dear friend Lauren Hansom (@laurenhansom). Interview (excerpt) down below.

www.musicfrommemory.com

MFM: Welcome on board Lauren. How was your start of the new year? It's summer where you are now right? That must be nice :)

LH: Hiii! Thanks for having me onboard :) The New Year has been great. Spent time surfing & soaking up sunshine in Australia.

MFM: You moved back to Australia last year. What has been keeping you busy there since? 

LH: I moved from Amsterdam to Berlin at the end of 2019 and went to Oz in February 2020 for a holiday. COVID hit, so I ended up staying. An easy decision with nature, beaches, food etc. Although, I’ve pretty much been living out of a suitcase as the majority of my stuff is in Berlin. I bought a Yamaha RM1X & a Poly800 last year to do some music and learnt The Mandalorian theme tune. I’ve also been learning more about quantum mechanics & biology plus space, which actually led me to find more cosmic sounds in genres from IDM to new wave for example. Imagining space with a multitude of soundscapes is pretty neat. 

MFM: While many DJs jumped on the streaming bandwagon it looks like you kept rather quiet over the last months. Is that for a reason? Did you maybe find other ways to creatively let go, or...?

LH: Thought you wouldn’t have noticed - was secretly trying to pull off a “Homer Simpson disappearing into the hedge”. Streaming is a great way for people to stay connected given the circumstances. For me, having a live crowd is always part of my process. No crowd, no party (or a one person party - not bad for these days, actually...). Also not having any gear here made it hard, especially with lockdown and social distancing.

MFM: Things were going really well for you as a DJ, your career seemed to be in a lift. What do you now hope for when touring becomes an option again? Has 2020 changed your perspective? 

LH: Thank you for saying so. I was pretty overwhelmed by how often I was playing and am grateful for it. It’s still very much a “pinch-my-arm” thought. I really would love to continue sharing tunes & creating musical experiences in some capacity. I’ve been thinking about Music Supervision within film & TV, so have been spending time on the side looking into that.

MFM: I've heard quite a few DJs saying they lost the urgency or need to listen to dance(floor) music. How is that for you? Have you been keeping track with new music lately at all? 

LH: I’m always listening to different styles, especially non-club music as it’s sort of where I started. Although I’ve enjoyed the holiday of not having to find a billion new tracks before every weekend, I’ve still been following new releases & it’s been interesting to hear how music has been shaped by the pandemic.

MFM: How would you describe that shape shifting? 

LH: I noticed more people collaborating from afar due to social distancing, restrictions and general lockdown. I think this allowed for some experimentation in a way and often that leads to something surprising and new. Sonically and stylistically, I think 2020 was really diverse as opposed to previous years where there was definitely a “Sound of Summer” so to say. There were also a great deal of compilations for new music to support artists affected by event cancellations and club closures.

MFM: About the mix, do you actually prefer a mix request to come with some kind of theme or direction to it, or do you value the freedom more? 

LH: Both. It’s nice having a brief as it gives you boundaries & pushes your creativity. Sometimes too much freedom can make it difficult. That said, I’m always imaging stories & daydreaming, so often the imagery in my mind’s eye gives me a good starting point. Once I have an idea, I create a selection of music & work out a way to make it all flow until there is some sense of an emotional ark & musical journey.

MFM Mix 024: Lauren Hansom

In search of organic, trippy, leftfield, tribal, industrial sounds

Upcoming

08/06 Feel Good, The Greyhound, London
16/06 Swirl w/Sean Johnston, London
21/06 Jumbi, London
22/06 Feelings Worldwide w/Mogwaa, London
07/07 QUIET CHAOS, NDR2, London
19/07 The Gun w/Harry James, London


2024
20/01 Half East Records, Love Shack, London
17/02 Swirl, The Social Residency, London
29/02 Cafe 1001, London
02/03 Next Door Records, London
16/03 Swirl, The Social Residency, London
15/04 Andet, Shanghai
11/05 Half East, Art Club, Bristol
15/05 Hackney Social w/Bolis Pupul, London
18/05 Swirl, The Social Residency, London
22/05 Cafe 1001, London
24/05 Space Talk w/Donna Leake, London

2023
07/12 - Rhythm Section, The Standard, London
12/11 - Kiosk Radio, Brussels
09/11 - Goldener Reiter, Munich
05/11 - Cafe 1001, London
03/11 - MOKO, London
17/10 - Brilliant Corners, London
14/10 - Running Circle, Cafe 1001, London
13/10 - Marcellus Pittman, All My Friends, London
30/09 - Elevator East, Secret Location, London
23/09 - Back To Ours, Margate Art Club, Margate
22/09 - ESEA Presents, The Carpet Shop, London
16/09 - QUIET CHAOS, COSMOS, Lisbon
15/09 - Lounge, Lisbon
12/09 - Brilliant Corners, London
07/09 - MOKO, London
25/08 - Beyond Time & Space, Corsica Studios, London
20/08 - Small Beer, London
17/08 - Brick Lane Balearia, Cafe 1001, London
27/07 - The Standard, Library Lounge, London
18/07 - Brilliant Corners, London
13/07 - Pitch Black UK tour, Colours Hoxton, London
24/06 - Key Lime Pie, 93 Feet East, London
03/06 - Lighthouse Art Festival, London 
26/05 - La Bonne Musique, Dash The Henge, London
17/05 - Rhythm Section, Peckham Audio, London
06/05 - Swirl 002, The Social, London
26/02 - LP Launch, Next Door Records, London

i keep coming back because i keep coming back because i keep coming back

Stella Z