It's a real pleasure to welcome highly respected and experienced musical selector, DJ, radio host and curator Colleen 'Cosmo' Murphy (@colleen-cosmo-murphy) with a special 'audio yoga mix' to our series. Interview (excerpt) down below.

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MFM: Hi Colleen, thanks for sharing your thoughts and music with us. Hosting your weekly online radio shows, making plenty mixes for several outlets, DJing clubs and festivals... How do you keep motivated and inspired?

CM: Sharing music has been focal to my life since I was a teenager hosting shows on our 10-watt high school radio station and working in a record shop after school. Turning people onto new tunes and artists gives me immense joy and courses throughout every aspect of my vocation. I’m a communicator at heart. That’s balanced with the more internalized creativity of music productions and remixes. Being in the studio and playing with ideas and sounds is very focusing and the rest of the world seems to fall away. It’s therapeutic. And playing records as a DJ or musical host is like a lively musical conversation in which I draw energy from the dancers and give it back in turn. A great party is a collective creation. Throughout all of my endeavours I try to impart the life energy of music, a healing and motivational force that inspires me every day.

MFM: In a time and place where the context of a DJ seems to have changed over decades, do you feel your “classic” approach of DJing gives you an advantage in keeping relevant and reaching a crowd?

CM: It's important to have your own point of difference. I have never been a ‘cookie-cutter’ type DJ and used to struggle with the idea that I didn’t fit in. But then I recognized that all the different aspects of my vocation had one thing in common – myself. Once I integrated everything and became more holistic in my approach, I felt happier and more confident. Being authentic to oneself is first and foremost and then it is up to others to decide whether or not they like your creative output. You can’t please everybody, but you have to try to please yourself otherwise there is no point. I get immense pleasure in what I do and hope that it brings joy to others. I do have a classic approach to DJ-ing but I’m also always looking for new sounds that resonate. I also admire other DJs styles even if it’s quite different to my own. There’s room for everyone.

MFM: You're a DJ who encourages the listener to open up and really listen to music, its definitions, context and aesthetics. Probably one of the foremost reasons why you tend to let a song run from beginning till end. With such strong values, what's your view on the modern way of “consuming” music?

CM: There are many different ways to enjoy music and none are the wrong way. Any experience of music is good. When I started Classic Album Sundays in 2010, it was a response to music only being ‘consumed’ rather than experienced and I wanted to share the way the I often listen to music with others to provide an alternative. At that time, we were in the midst of shuffle culture and the almighty MP3 and whilst both have their place, it shouldn’t be the end-all experience. When people come to a Classic Album Sundays event and hear the subtleties and nuances of an entire album played without interruption, on one of the world’s best sound systems and in a communal setting, they experience music in a different way and most find it transformative. But listening to music in a car or dancing to a DJ who scratches and cuts up songs can also be inspirational. I can only try to offer what is authentic from me.

MFM Mix 045: Colleen 'Cosmo' Murphy

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This week for the Sunset Lovers, one of Vienna’s finest diggers, and first Disco / Edits exports, DJ, producer, and record collector from Austria, Mike Burns will grant us an insight into his current musical dwellings.

It's still winter here, so this mix is a soundtrack for a little dance into those darker and cooler sunsets. It's full of spaced-out 90s slo-mo groovers with a cosmic vibe, bargain bin b-sides, a couple of obscurities, and some classics, thrown in for good measure.

The DJ from Vienna has been driven by a singular passion for almost 25 years now, that of course, being music. Music that draws you in, takes you for a ride, and brings you back home. Music dripping with funk and radiating euphoria. Music out of the ordinary and music that simply puts a smile on your face. Notoriously enthusiastic about playing records, it's this energy he tries to share in his mixes and on any dance floors willing to engage...

His career started towards the end of the last century soundtracking bars with the mellow "Vienna sound" during the week and playing raves on weekends. By the mid-2000s, his obsession with the vintage sound started taking overhand, leading him to explore all things cosmic and disco from around the world. 
Over the following years, a monthly show at Vienna´s first online radio, the now defunct play. FM and a string of disco edit releases gained him some followers around the globe. In recent years he's been most known for his excursions into the tropical sound, which he featured in countless mixes, parties around Europe and his Club Majik night in Vienna. Post-pandemic he is still in search of that perfect soundtrack for the moment, albeit a little darker and more electronic, at least for now...

His benevolent mixing skills and thoughtful, vinyl-heavy selection, and his amazing collection of disco-oddities and leftfield afro/latin/boogie 7″s and 12″s have given him the reputation of a true Disco connaisseur.

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Please direct any questions or track ID requests to @mikeBurns himself.

Big love to all and huge thanks to Mike Burns for his contribution. ❤️💛

The Sunset Lovers #56 with Mike Burns

Collector John Gómez brightens up Mondays with some music from different times and different places.

https://www.nts.live/shows/soup-to-nuts-john-gomez/episodes/soup-to-nuts-john-gomez-13th-march-2023

Soup To Nuts w/ John Gómez - 130323

Breixo Martínez b2b Ivy Barkakati set recorded at Glove International.
Enjoy the ride!

Breixo Martínez b2b Ivy Barkakati

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60 mins of selects from Sara Mautone to melt into a friday. 

ID Requests ~ @sara-mautone

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Lone Saxon at Shades Of Sound, Outlaws Yacht Club 3.6.23

Listen back to this month's Adventures In Paradise as Manuel Darquart ran 60 minutes of Italo house and leftfield Balearia. New and exclusive bits inside.

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Adventures In Paradise w/ Manuel Darquart - July 2023

Hop on board with Leo Gretner, your friendly guide for this musical adventure! 
Leo has been a beloved resident of the legendary Zukunft Club and is a well-known figure in the lively Zurich scene. Get ready to groove to a delightful mix of synth-pop and bouncy house tunes curated the man. So, sit back, relax, and enjoyyy 🤲😌🌟

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Tako & Abel @ Outlaws Yacht Club, Leeds, 27/09/14

Absolutely thrilled to start the year off with this killer mix from Jura Soundsystem of Isle of Jura Records, who have been doing good deeds bringing back lost, forgotten and sought after music since 2016. Keep your eyes on Isle of Jura Records as they've got a nice line up of forthcoming releases this year.

Thanks Jura Soundsystem <3

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