mixes

"first half recorded live at a garage party celebrating 420 eve, in that early & freeing empty prologue to an event, with the second adding more favourites in the 100bpm range, give or take a few paces, pieced together on a spring ride across the city. my first set since FSR hit pause. the selections highlight mainly TO and Mtl artists presenting swells and swaths, beats direct and broken, voices and varied instrumentation. a soundtrack for this drawn out end to the cold months, whether in the background, on a walk, or that opening slot no one wants. the second in a series which, a surprise to me, started in spring 2020. third to follow soon. enjoy!" - mh

Tony Price - Raymond Moriama
777 - Fay de Breau
Sam Shalabi & Stefan Christoff - Blue Soon
Eucalyptus - Rose Manor
Gloria Gaynor - You Can Exit
Chaka Khan - Night Moves
Stevie Wonder - Girl Blue
Oren Ambarchi, Johan Berthling and Andreas Werlin - en
Cumbaya - Le Fond des Choses
ANF - Images
Dust-e-1 - C-thru
The Durutti Column - Grace
DJ Ungel - Velah
winsome - 24gb
Ciel - Rosebud
Raf Reza - Mirror of Love
Nahash - Stockpiling
Mad Professor - Greathob Dub
Kaval & Fleksor - Levy
Millenium Bounce - Acid Hall Riddim
Ma Sha - Psypi (Ehau Remix)
Honeydrip - System feat. Shanique Marie
Sister Nancy - Veteran (Version)
Mark Isham - Sympathy & Acknowledgement
DJ Frog & SnP 500 - Cali

soon i'll let it all roll off me - guest: Max (Best In Town, TO)

my first proper dance mix, from vinyl to logic, featuring multi genre selections inspired by the party of the same name. enjoy! - m.h.

03 19 2017

hottawa nights (part 2)

this mix is about connecting cities and sounds that make my heart sing.  inspired by two @hottawadance nights held in march and may of this year at a lovely artists' loft in hull, quebec called triple seven. records spun feature releases from detroit and durban, berlin and boston, toronto and montreal. enjoy! - m.h.

hottawa nights (part 3)

vinyl mix made in anticipation of the friends e.p. release party put on by toronto's @young-clancy at the baby g on march 13, 2019. alternate titles include "feeling better now" &/or "please, will the winter end?" this set leads with my favourite downtempo tracks of the past few years, some R&B classics overtop of a beautiful ambient piece by @nickschofield, recent finds from a trip to NYC, and songs made physical by @personalpersonalrecords. it's fun, imperfect, and it exists — which I'm into right now. enjoy - mh.

friends mix

a mix by dj @halpomax for free city radio, which broadcasts on @radiockut

Siamak Amidi - Unconditional Love (Siamak's Floor Vision)
Rhyw - Untangled Sentences
anabasine - Krupt
Pelada - Habla Tu Verdad
DJ Romain feat Larry Singh - Talkin About Freedom (Hard Dub Mx)
Minimal Violence - Night Gym
Nich Schofield - Kibale Park
Terry Ganzie - Prepare Fi War
Lady Saw - Incline Thine Ears

I was going for a haunting but optimistic sound on this. Some info below:

The mix starts with a track by an Iranian-born producer, Siamak Amidi, who now splits his time between Dubai and Berlin. The track is off the Black Fog EP, the first release from his label called Indigenous Electronic. 

The second track is from the record label Bassiani, which is also a large queer nightclub in Tbilisi, Georgia that was raided by the government there in spring 2018. The raid led to sizeable protests and the club reopened afterward.

anabasine's Krupt is from the fundraising effort Power Puerto Rico, released in September 2017. anabasine co-hosts EIMTAF Live FM Radio Hour every other Wednesday from 2-4am with Dominique Alexander and DJ Choozey. 

Pelada, whose recent album release show at Vitrola was sold out, is a group that always puts their politics forward in their music. This song is a standout from their debut album, Movimiento Para Cambio.

Next, DJ Romain's Talkin About Freedom encapsulates the energy that makes classic house music so liberating and powerful. 

Minimal Violence, a duo from Vancouver, also released their debut album, InDreams, last year — full of raw techno like this.

The mix then relaxes into an ambient track from Nick Schofield's Water Sine album. Nick, of course, is a fixture of the Montreal music community and a community radio host.

I chose the two dancehall tracks that close out the mix to offer a counterpoint of the current news cycle. These songs appear on compilations from VP Records and Penthouse records, picked up from Death of Vinyl on St Laurent and Beaubien. Support your local record shop! (Note this mix was all vinyl except anabasine's track.)

dj halpo — free city radio mix

my guest mix for @emissive's monthly vitamix program on montreal's @n10-as community radio. aired january 21, 2020 at 12pm EST.

starts as a slower burn from ambient and downtempo courtesy of shops like La Rama, Death of Vinyl, and Play de Record into recent classics from D. Tiffany, Roza Terenzi, Raf Reza, Patrick Holland, People Plus, Mörk, X-Kalay, Mr. G, Molinaro, Magic Black, and more, plus some 80s grooves throughout. it's fun and weird and imperfect and a fitting adieu to capricorn season. all vinyl but for a beautiful new track from Bergsonist on the future ethics zine. check that out at futureethics.net and of course the radio at N10.AS/ 

enjoy! - m.h.

vitamix

bi-weekly mercurial mood mosaic curated by @choozeydestiny @ok_leave + guests

broadcasts 4-6pm Tues, bi-weekly online at www.fsr.live


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soon i'll let it all roll off me - guest: Max (Best In Town, TO)

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