We take a deep dive into the influential Amsterdam-based record label Music From Memory for this month's TR.

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Tranquilamente Radio with Yibing (Music From Memory Special) @ The Lot Radio 02-17-2024

"Every opportunity to learn something new is what's going to grow your craft as an artist." The Toronto star talks discipline and gaining self-confidence as a producer.

Cindy Li, AKA Ciel, always seems to be one step ahead. The label head, DJ, producer and activist has a hard-won career that dance music producers dream of—when she's not playing underground institutions across the globe, maintaining radio residencies, planning her own parties or collaborating with her favourite artists, she's thinking about what's next. "I'm the type of person that I'll stay up trying to finish everything rather than going to bed knowing that I didn't finish everything on my list," she tells RA's Nyshka Chandran in this week's episode.

The Toronto resident is a conservatory-trained pianist who uses the discipline she learnt from a lifetime of lessons to balance DJing and production. "For me, it is challenging to juggle both because they use very different parts of my brain," she describes. A deep digger whose love for atmospheric textures and '90s grooves influences her fresh take on UKG, tech-house and jungle, Li has been putting out music since 2017. She has various EPs and singles under her name, plus several joint releases with the likes of Dan Only, D.Tiffany and Priori but says she didn't always have the confidence for a solo full-length.

"I never thought I could write an album," she admits. But after playing live for the first time at MUTEK Montréal in 2021, that changed, leading to the 2023 release of Homesick, her debut album. "Don't ever let fear influence your decision-making," she says, describing how that show pushed her to overcome lingering doubts in the studio.

For more on Li's process, listen to the episode in full.

EX.703 Ciel

@myflower1 prepares for an imminent bloom on our latest installment of our @radio-relativa monthly. Grooves to play to budding plants.

TSR March

My Flower | March '24

90s and 00s downtempo, in our opinion over at Moods HQ, informed an entire generation of artists’ tastes and directions. It’s well understood by musician and DJ @agraybe, and for our next mix, she explores the depth of the oft undersung genre. Remember the feeling of inserting that mixtape in your siblings’ sedan; watch the trees blur by; see the rain yield to sunshine.

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Moods 70: agraybé

meltdown 53 - gillielove

Elena Colombi helps to keep Mondays weird - expect a diverse range of up-and-at-'em records: from techno to post-punk, through EBM, industrial and -wave... 
Find the full tracklist and related episodes on NTS: https://www.nts.live/shows/elena-colombi/episodes/elena-colombi-10th-june-2024

Elena Colombi w/ Simon Parris & Tears | ov  100624

Tune into Martyn's monthly show on 2 for some delectable jazz treats from over the Atlantic.  
Find the full tracklist and related episodes on NTS: https://www.nts.live/shows/martyn/episodes/martyn-12th-june-2024

Martyn's Darkest Light 120624

First thing on Fridays - Jack Rollo's here to take care of things.  
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The Early Bird Show w/ Jack Rollo 140624

Amsterdam-based Sino and what we find host Musing step up in their typical bro2bro fashion trading favourites from labels like All Centre, Index:Records, Tofistock, 3XL, Hundert, and more.

musing & sino @ Kiosk Radio 15.06.2024

Cherrystones - musician, international DJ, soundtrack composer, compiler and multi-genre music fiend - within his longstanding NTS shows Cherrystones showcases his inspirations, his passions and his listening habits as a sonic moodboard pooled from his revered archive encompassing the past, present and future sounds to soothe and challenge in equal measure. 
Find the full tracklist and related episodes on NTS: https://www.nts.live/shows/cherrystones/episodes/cherrystones-18th-june-2024

Cherrystones - Guerssen Records Special Part 1 180624

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