oooh what's this @themes-for-great-cities ?? really good :)

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.

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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

As the bells ring out for Christmas, please enjoy this little sonic festive morsel in the form of an ALTC Socialist mix. It’s a perfect little gift just in time for Chrimbo!  All the individual head spinning edits that make up the mix can be downloaded for free here:

https://44100hzsocialclub.bandcamp.com/album/social-ist-edits-vol-6-altc

Though anything you pay goes directly to Aid Box Community, helping Refugees in Bristol. Merry Christmas everyone!

Special thanks:
Tom Colebrook: @user-85698967
Label: @44100hzsocialclub
@iamkgbk for sound engineering
@user-171330870 for cave painting

ALTC (aka Alexis Le-Tan & Tom Colebrook) - Social/ist/ Edits For The People

https://soundcloud.com/heapvienna
https://soundcloud.com/neubauwien
Artwork: https://soundcloud.com/dusanlilic / https://soundcloud.com/banda-panda
🔊 https://youtu.be/ZV94trT1AZo

Whypeopledance presents LAYER number 282 by the one and only Heap! The Neubau founder has built quite a clean name for himself in the past years. Able to drag you into his sonic snakepit like no one else, Heap holds the remote for the fog machine in his "Dub Against War" LAYER special. Rather than being constricted by some pressure selection, Heap offers a cornucopia of dub gems to release the tension and spread calm across the planet.

Play on YouTube

LAYER #282 | Heap

Delighted to host @macadam-mambo  Influence Mix on Oddity Radio.

@mzkbx : I needed a bit of reflexion to conceive it, because it’s about influences and I have so many that it’s not possible to put everything together. Actually it is but it would result in a big cornelian dilemma and I wanted something coherent that fits with the label… 

In the end I decided to take a track from every record labels that I admire and which were influential for me and Macadam Mambo, a kind of hommage. It ends with « Macadam Massacre » by the Bérurier Noir which influenced half of the name of the label.

Turn on, tune in and don't drop out!

For regular updates please follow : www.instagram.com/oddityradio.fm/

Sacha Mambo - Oddity Influence Mix

Volcanic downhill among forbidden watershells, talking moons and rare scents
by @eetai

Bazaar 58 || Etai Zili

Themes for great cities Radioshow No 44

recorded for and at @dublab_de Studios in Cologne.

1st Hour is Rearview Radio
2nd Hour done by @fizzy_veins

check out his excellent new album Fizzy Veins - Dancing with the cosmic twin out on @southofnorthamsterdam

TFGC Radioshow No 44 - 09/22

@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

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NO WEAPON IS ABSOLUTE is Cosmo Vitelli & Dj Sundae's monthly radio show on NTS2
Cosmo Vitelli recorded this one on November 16 of 2022
Picture taken by Christophe Mauberqué

No Weapon Is Absolute:
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@djsundae

No Weapon Is Absolute on NTS by Cosmo Vitelli - 16/11/2022

at R.i.O. 1987 Release Party, Arkaoda Berlin 11.19.22

Sacha doing what Sacha does.

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It's a Friday.
It's the turn of one of our longest serving lover / collaborators.... Monsieur @macadam_mambo @sachamambo .... Long overdue and joined by this easy breezy twosome @judithcrasser and @_axel_larsen_ LIVE....
You can expect to have your expectations tested. Ear ecstasy all night looong.. at @sameheads from 10.

www.sameheads.com

TFGC Radioshow No 44 - 09/22

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