Name: Funky Loop by Tommy Mandel
Duration: 2 min 25 s
Description: Easy Groove 2 Days to Brew. That's the great Ray Parker Jr. in the pic with me, but he didn't play on this. Maybe I'll be luckier next time!

This is a 4:22 edit of the 12:08 track from the 1984 album with the same title.

My brother and I visited Klaus Schulze, staying at his home studio in Germany, in the wizard's workshop in the woods in winter. The walls were lined with patch-cabled analog synths. It was kind of magical trying to draw out from him our favorite kinds of Klaus spaces.  

Back in NYC (where we were both living at the time) I wrote the TSB parts over a long spacey track called "Communiqué". I was kind of shocked that it had those parts in it, waiting to be found! Then in a NYC studio Mike and Will Lee locked in the groove, Hiram Bullock added a smooth chord part, and I played all the guitar melodies and overlaid the Wurly piano and some synth counter-melodies.

I'll always remember sitting right next to Will Lee while he laid down that groove with Mike, and the intensity of their concentration. It was deep, like a force field!

A while later, back in San Francisco at Stephen Hill's Hearts of Space studio, we rearranged TSB, cutting up the tape and moving the sections around. (no ProTools then!) Mike recently created this edit. 
https://itunes.apple.com/us/album/transfer-station-blue/id194910880

Michael Shrieve - Transfer Station Blue (edit)

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Describing music is like trying to explain what a rose is, to a horse with a cold. Art by Douglas G. Peters.

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La Vie C’est Un Mélange

Made a vinyl mix of heart-felt funk dubs, house, new-beat , 80’s left-field polyrhythmic  goodness + more because there is love for it all <3 !

Also includes a fun lil field recording from a friend and I making a new one :) . 

La Vie C’est Une Mélange Tracklist:

1. Mystic Cocktail - Hermeneutic Music
2. You Used To Hold Me So Tight (Dub Mix) - Thelma Houston
3. Obsession - Chris and Cosey 
4. Enjoy The Silence (Rikki Tik Tik Dub) - Depeche Mode 
5. Walk The Dinosaur (Bruce’s Prehistoric Dub) - Was (Not Was)
6. Treat Her Sweeter (Dubmental Mix) - The Paul Simpson Connection 
7. I didn’t meant to turn you on (Inst.) - Cherrelle 
8. Mistery Love Feat. Tears of Velva (vocal mix) - Kerri Chandler
9. My Love (Fly Version) - Double Dealers
10. In A Vision - Virgo Four 
11. Tainted Love (Underground Mix) - Impedance
12. The Groove - Tom Carruthers 
13. Psychic Driving - Wamdue Remix 
14. I’ve Had Enough (Frankies Favorite Version) - Denitria Champ 
15. Triola - Das Wunder Der Kulperhutte
16. At the End of the Day (Hutchinson Remix) - Xymox 
17. III Gamma (Life Goes On) - Tommy Mandel 
18. Beyond Knowledge and Power - David Van Tieghem
19. <3 


Mastered by 💎: @no_sir
-artwork by 💎:  @mariposaaaaaa

La Vie C’est Un Mélange

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Easy Groove 2 Days to Brew. That's the great Ray Parker Jr. in the pic with me, but he didn't play on this. Maybe I'll be luckier next time!

Funky  Loop

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Kafilah M is a DJ, collector, creator, and lover of all things sound and color. She was born and raised in Brooklyn, NY and currently resides there.  She performs under the alias Kfeelz and is an active member of the women and non-binary poc dj collective Miss/Chief.

Kafilah would like all donations to be directed to the Fortune Society. A New York City-based non-profit organization that provides essential support to the formerly incarcerated.

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