Thank you for this set man, it was very inspiring.

Hailing from the Belgian capital and as 1/3 behind the Şelale record on Second Circle, it's our friend soFa (@sofaholic) on mix 32. Interview (excerpt) down below.

www.musicfrommemory.com 

MFM: Hi Chris, can you tell a bit about how you made your first steps in the scene as a DJ/producer?

SE: That was first by playing school parties only, and later by organising parties and getting booked by others in return. The usual game, but it was a bit easier as today since there was less competition I think. On the production side I am quite new to that. I started in 2018 only because I lacked time before that, I used to have a job as curator for an art festival and also digging for records kept me busy and excited for many hours every day. 

MFM: Earlier this summer saw the release of Selale on Second Circle, a collaborative project between you, Okay Temiz and Houschyar. Most releases you've worked on are collaborations. Is there a reason for that? 

SE: Yeh different reasons. It's much more fun to share the fun! I'm not a properly trained musician, I like to break rules, rather than applying them. Collaborating with people who know notes and harmonies allows to combine those 2 visions and the results are more exciting to my ears. I feel I have more to say by helping others to get their music right (or wrong) cause that's what all those years of digging after very specific records have taught me.

MFM: Any more projects lined up already?

SE: Yes, quite a bunch I produced with dear friends, Nyati Mayi, soon on Bongo Joe, CCCVVV with Clara Vellin on Strangelove Music and Sexo Y Fantasia with Da Boochie from Kiosk Radio on Glossy Mistakes coming up. There is also a solo record going to the pressing plant next week, coming out on Planet Trip in spring. It has guest singers, but I call it my solo record since I played the whole beats and synths by myself. Its probably gonna remain my only solo record for a while. I slipped into so many collabs and I'd like to focus on that. I especially love working with singers/voices and hopefully some day I get to produce a whole band project!

MFM: What are you hoping for to find in nightlife now that dancefloors are opening up again? Have you been thinking about this whole situation a lot at all?

SE: I am looking forward to seeing people smile and dance again! Party wise I would especially hope to find more groove and less hard music everywhere. I have the feeling the youth of today can only dance to hard stuff, I find that sad. Real music lovers can dance to anything. The whole situation is/was of course tragic for the nightlife sector. Especially for younger people who are in their best years to create a network of friends and experience adulthood for the first time. On a personal level I liked the time off. It allowed me to focus on a more healthy lifestyle and on making music. 

MFM: Cheers for contributing your mix! What can you tell about it? 

SE: I glued together the first half of it while on a roadtrip in Albania last month. Second half I did this morning in a rush. It's nice tunes, diverse and odd enough as I love. I don't care too much about the technical aspect, I just recorded a bunch of records I felt for sharing. In my opinion all that Dj thing is a bit overrated and way too serious. We are just playing other people's music afterall. There is an art behind that, but I feel it's getting lost more and more. For me it's not about the technical side of it, it's about adapting to people and still surprising them in an original way.

MFM Mix 032: soFa elsewhere

@samorecords, @sofaholic, @facets-music

Samo Records welcomes Belgium's DJ SoFA to its radio series. DJ SoFA, the curator of several great compilations and productions on such labels as Music from Memory, Bongo Joe, Planet Trip, Emotional Response, and more is joined by Samo head Facets, who will be celebrating his new release "Impulse" on Dischi Autunno.

Samo Records with SoFa Elsewhere & Facets @The Lot Radio 10 - 11 - 2022

For this instalment, we couldn’t be happier to host a mix by our dear friend and R.I.O. label cofounder Menqui :)  
He has been a huuuuge inspiration for us since the very beginning of our digging journey, and when you listen to this mix you’ll understand why. 
You know the deal, light it up and hit play 💆‍♂️❤️‍🔥🍁

ID Requests -> @menqui

To keep our project going and growing, please support us with a donation on BuyMeACoffee. It's quick, easy, and you don't even need to create an account. Your contribution, whether one-time or recurring, helps us thrive. Thank you for your consideration 💖💖💖
https://www.buymeacoffee.com/balearicbanana

Menqui

Ecoutes au vert is thrilled to introduce you to the wonderful forgotten era of Peruvian Disco Outsiders by record collectors DJs AXEL H & CAO BRAVO! 🧿

Following @ecoutesauvert's output for a while, @axelhaxel contacted us to see if we will be up to releasing this mix via our Soundcloud. A quick listen and the rest is history! 📡

Big thanks to the artists for the fantastic music + Axel & Cao for digging & putting this together! ❤️

AXEL H & CAO BRAVO presents: El Mundo de Quilca

Peru, a country with a rich geographic and cultural diversity, is mostly known to the international music community as the epicenter of cumbia and its psychedelic variants. Unknown to most, a handful of groups have experimented with sounds related to disco and synth-pop in the 80s that were unpopular at the time and thus have mostly been forgotten over the years. 

@axelhaxel (@kitchensessions_int), an epidemiologist and collector residing in Lima, has spent the last 6 years digging records in Quilca, a small and dusty gallery in the center of Lima with improvised vinyl stalls, as well as sourcing records from elsewhere across Peru.

Sharing a common interest to explore Peruvian "Disco" output, Axel has teamed up with @caobravo, a surgeon and well-respected record collector across Latin America, to record “El Mundo de Quilca” a vinyl-only mix of neglected and often impossible-to-find Peruvian disco gems, exploring a variety of different styles, moods, and energy levels. 

Some of the tracks in this mix will be featured in an upcoming compilation to be released in early 2023 on @buhrecords, a Peruvian label run and curated by Luis Alvarado, who has provided valuable insights into this mix. 

www.instagram.com/axel__haxel
www.instagram.com/caobravocl

Cover artwork by Herles Basurto, artist and co-founder of the infamous Lima-based party @casalocasa

Peruvian Disco Outsiders / AXEL H & CAO BRAVO : El Mundo de Quilca

NO WEAPON IS ABSOLUTE is Cosmo Vitelli & Dj Sundae's monthly radio show on NTS2
Cosmo Vitelli recorded this one on January 23rd of 2022
Picture taken by Christophe Mauberqué

No Weapon Is Absolute:
www.facebook.com/noweaponisabsolute

Cosmo Vitelli:
www.facebook.com/cosmovitelli
@ilcosmovitelli

Dj Sundae:
www.facebook.com/djsundae
@djsundae

No Weapon Is Absolute by Cosmo Vitelli - January 23rd 2023

Kayne the Hermit LIVE DJ cut - Dancing for Mental Health @ Sameheads 27.01.23

Hold on to your hats, this kid knows a thing or two about those outlying records we all wish we owned. This sparkles and hums at every turn... A real funked out cosmic jaaaam recorded live from the Sameheads basement a few weeks ago at our semi-reg event "Dancing for Mental Health, curated by Tom Bolas.

https://soundcloud.com/kaynethehermit
www.sameheads.com

Cheers xxxx

Kayne the Hermit LIVE DJ cut - Dancing for Mental Health @ Sameheads 27.01.23

The mix is from two friends from Berlin who oversee the R.i.O. label and are 2/3 Dolphins, whose release will be released soon on our label.

Follow guests:
https://soundcloud.com/freybenedikt
https://soundcloud.com/menqui

https://soundcloud.com/riolabel

facebook

Serenades Podcast #117 - Benedikt Frey b2b Menqui

A lovely springtime Tête-à-tête with @menqui & @hendrik_stein recorded live at the new cashmere HQ. Expect some fuzzy guitars, dreamy pads and some obscure sprinkles here and there. So good we’re home now!

Artwork by @magicmuelli

The Past Forward radio show is hosted and aired on Cashmere Radio. Find more info and other episodes on the Cashmere Radio website - cashmereradio.com/shows/past-forward/

Past Forward 

Past Forward #77 w/ Menqui & Hendrik Stein

Music is the vehicle for Nathan Dawidowicz to tell a story. But not just their story... they're inviting you to fashion your own narrative; to draw your own conclusion.

Nathan's personal tale has been a vibrant one. The son of a Polish-Lithuanian mother and Cameroonian father, they moved to Jerusalem at the age of six from their birthplace of Milan. Whilst growing up in a Jewish ultra-orthadox community, they dreamed of moving away to become a musician and fashion designer, which became a reality when they moved back to Italy and broke the constraints of the religious environment they'd been raised in. 

Fashion became their academic pursuit but music was ever-present, a sonic remedy that brought them life. It had been a constant, from their childhood years spent playing piano to the influence of their father who spent time as a DJ during the 80s and 90s in Milan. Soon enough sound became a way of exploring the art of story-telling and this journey took them to their now home of Berlin. 

Here they connected with Luspoderosa, a label based between Zurich and Berlin that isn't afraid to colour outside the lines. This platform would become the home for Nathan's debut solo album Sanctuary of Ideas - a deeply personal, psychedelic and cosmic dive into their memories, journey, reflections and heritage.

Off the back of the release we invited Nathan to open up their sonic world to us even more with a mix of hypnotic and atmospheric new wave, Italo, acid and deep rhythmic excursions. Don your pyjamas and your fluffy slippers and sink into it...

Nathan Dawidowicz: The 'Wednesday Alternative' Mix

For number #80 we've invited lonesome rider DJ Global Flex / @globalflex of the @zeptermusik project for a guest appearance and he brought some of his favorite psychedelic western tunes. Ideal soundtrack for dusty highway sun-down-sceneries.

Artwork by @magicmuelli

The Past Forward radio show is hosted and aired on Cashmere Radio. Find more info and other episodes on the Cashmere Radio website - cashmereradio.com/shows/past-forward/

Past Forward

Past Forward #80 with DJ Global Flex

Music From Mullets #15 spontaneously turned out to become the #greek edition after 6 days of wonderful #crete spending time with the San People family. Not that I have huge collection of greek music, but I found some #records in the local thrift store, worked through the @intothelightrecords label catalogue and got hot stuff recommended by @petit_bear 
In the second hour of tonights show I‘m happy to bring you a guest mix by one of San People‘s heads Anastasi who is not only an amazing host but also a great dj. His guest mix ranges from ambient and trippy tunes to wavey synthpop and slow italo.

This show originally aired on Cashmere Radio on July 19, 2023
For more info, the tracklist or other episodes visit the show's archive at cashmereradio.com/shows/music-from-mullets

Music From Mullets #15 w/ Frinda di Lanco & Anastasi

Ransom Note is an online music, arts and culture magazine. We provide a home for readers and writers with boundless enthusiasm, esoteric knowledge, fierce opinions and impeccable taste.

With our core team immersed in all aspects of dance music, we publish news, articles, and interviews covering the greatest in innovative, underground culture from across the globe. We offer regular, exclusive music and mixtapes from our favourite artists, and publish features shining a light on everything from the freshest new artists to the untold tales from rave history.

Alongside this we offer musings on film, books, life, and art, generating some context and controversy as an antidote to the reheated PR that clogs up the internet. Our office is fuelled by Tunnock’s Bars, cat memes, hangovers and a ridiculous, never ending love for our culture.

We're always interested in getting new writers on board – feel free to get in touch if you’ve got a story to tell.

With love until the grave.

Nathan Dawidowicz: The 'Wednesday Alternative' Mix

Ransom Note

Recent comments

Jupiter Farms

Tsyanid

Eti.Ba.

Eti.Ba.

Related tracks