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From the forthcoming compilation "Gigi Masin - Talk To The Sea" 2013 © Music From Memory

Gigi Masin - Call Me (4:24)

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lamsi - give it 2 me now ft. cyra gwynth

We welcome Tornado Wallace (@tornadowallace), long time friend of the label and whose record 'Falling Sun' we released through Second Circle back in 2016.  Interview (excerpt) down below.

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MFM: Hey Lewie, how have you been lately?

TW: I dipped out to East Asia and Australia for the infamous Berlin winter and now I’m back ready for the euro warmth. Though it’s in no hurry to arrive here just yet.

MFM: There's a new record coming on Basic Spirit, the label you run with Jamie Tiller, and it all looks rather secretive... Can you tell us more about it Lew E? :) 

TW: I made these tracks when I was holed up sick for a week. Not being able to go to the studio I relied strictly on samples and software, which was fun to change the workflow up a little bit. I wanted to make some very club ready tracks, without any intention for a release. They (rather obviously) sample two well known tracks, but there’s a lot of new ideas too. I use a different name as it felt like a different style and approach to how I usually go about things. I think there will be more Lew E things on the horizon though :D.

MFM: Previous releases on Basic Spirit also had this '90s touch to it. What is it that you like about (music from) that era?

TW: I grew up in the 90s so a lot of the music coming out then really hits the nostalgic feels. But also, really interesting things were happening with technology, and it became a lot more affordable to put together a record. So there were a lot of - for lack of a better term - laymen releasing electronic music. Some of which had very new and out-there approaches to processes like sampling, mixing and arranging. But trends and technology all moved along so quickly that some of these sounds and ideas never had a chance to get fully fleshed out. Which is why it’s nice to pick up where some left off. People are currently very responsive to this late 90s/early 2000s sound, which is great for me because that’s a time when I really fell in love with electronic music. As a DJ, I’m playing these really personal tracks that I discovered as a teenager, and for the first time since I began playing parties/clubs 18 years ago, people seem to really understand them. It’s a very cool feeling.

MFM: You've also started a new more pop oriented project called a.s.o. together with vocalist Alia Seror O’Neill. Has it always been a dream or goal of yours to start a more band kind of project? Does it require a different writing/recording approach compared to when making dance music for the clubs?

TW: I like making music that I like listening to. And with the pandemic in full swing in 2020, I was having a little break from club music, and diving deeper into other styles of music I enjoy. Both from a listening and producing perspective. I found it to be a very different approach. It’s more melody/hook driven and focuses on getting ideas down quickly as they’re forming. A lot of the time I would use a basic keyboard and guitar to record, and Alia would add vocal melodies and harmonies on the fly. Sometimes it could get difficult when we would both want to put our fleeting ideas down at the same time! On that note, collaboration is never easy for me as I like to have full creative control of whatever it is I’m working on, and sometimes the creative paths divide and compromises have to be made. Sometimes the compromised path is thick and thorny, and sometimes it is paved gold and smells of roses.

MFM: How did you go through the selecting and recording process, any specific record or mood you had planned?

TW: I came across a bunch of really nice tracks all in a relatively similar downtempo/shoegaze style, and wanted to make a mix of music like that. For moody home/car/train etc listening. I also included a forthcoming Cousin remix of an a.s.o. single which I love and wanted to share early!

MFM Mix 049: Tornado Wallace

Digital Release Date: March 6th, 2015
Catalogue number: LGM180
Label: Lemongrassmusic (LC 12644)

https://pro.beatport.com/track/a-bientot-original-mix/6266834

A Bientôt

Space Alpe - Exceptional

不吉な影を
あなたが見させた
ドライブは
嫌いか
好きなのは
写真家か

聞こえたことで
わからない夜が
あったの
教えてほしい

悲しき嫉妬
目とめたのね
夜警の指に
脅えた猫
どいたシルエットで
花が壊れて

不吉な影を
あなたが見させた
ドライブは
嫌いかな
要望は
すでに無力よ
世話には
ならないから
選んで
ほしいなんて

屋根の上より

Taken from 'Jonny Nash - Make A Wilderness' (MFM037)
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A2 - Jonny Nash - Shell (5:28)

Slow and smooth build up with an intense but mellow peak that just goes on and on. It fills you with empathy and intense sensation heightening. SWIM smoked a joint halfway through and melted into the couch. It’s perfect for a rolling party with a group of friends, though SWIM imagines it would be great for a proper party too. Sometimes SWIM felt like dancing, but spent most of the time staring into space. This is really nice, intense, smooth and mellow. Get ahold of these if you get the chance!

Note: Your experience will vary depending on your settings. If you're in a bad place with bad people, you won’t feel a thing.

Chaos In The CBD - Orange Blank

From Kaifeng via Vancouver here comes Second Circle friend and artist Yu Su (@yu_su) with her contribution titled Freedom Is Nothing Left To Lose. Q&A (excerpt) here below.

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MFM: Hi Yu Su, thanks for joining the mix series. So, could you please first tell us a bit about your background and how you got into making and playing music?

YS: I was born in Kaifeng, China, where it was Chinese pop like Jay Chow and Faye Wong that I listened to the most. I have been living in Vancouver, Canada, since 2013 and got into electronic music just shortly after the move.

MFM: You are a trained piano player, does it help you writing your music these days?

YS: Yes, since I was three until high school, in Kaifeng :) It for sure does, I take influences from Debussy a lot of the time, it feels rewarding something I invested so much time and money into when I was little can contribute so much to my current work.

MFM: Hailing from Kaifeng, can you maybe help us try to understand a bit more how is it for an ambitious person in China to dream and develop creatively while being surrounded by the Great Firewall?

YS: I can only speak for myself since I haven't lived there for a little bit, but I think no matter what you can always find your way around the “Great Firewall” to access this world of endless music database, of course not everyone will have the privilege to travel to the west for better infrastructure, though I believe if you just keep doing what you do, the rest of the world will see it.

MFM: And for those who're not able to travel, does it make them even more eager to learn from each other in a certain way? Like, does the limitation result in a stronger collective feeling of sharing and collaborating?

YS: I think so, perhaps not necessarily this collective feeling but people definitely have to make extra effort to try to make things happen, honestly having lived in the West for so long, sometimes even I take things for granted and I do reflect on that a lot.

MFM: Can you maybe walk us a bit through your process of creating music?

YS: It is probably more or less the same with many other producers and musicians, you start from one sound and develop into something you don’t expect. The only thing specific I would say, is that I prefer to finish my pieces in one sitting, I can be extremely focused for let’s say 8 hrs at once and if a project is going well, it will be done in 8 hrs, I’ll leave the mixing for someone else after.

MFM: When on tour you're mostly DJing, right? As a trained musician and producer, what actually made you decide to DJ instead of performing live?

YS: Yes, mostly DJing. I see producing music and playing records/files as two completely different sides of myself since I’m in a very different mental state of mind when doing both. I wanted to DJ after experiencing this whole new world of music and I love discovering and sharing music made by other people for other people, and I enjoy the role of introducing others to things they have not heard. And at the same time for me DJing on stage is almost like another way of expressing live music, there is a lot to consider with the musical and structural elements of all the tracks and in order for me to form a good narrative, I have to think as if every track is a single channel in a project I work on at home. On the other hand, I have been exploring many mediums of presenting “live music” and I would like to continue exploring more in the area of sound installation and soundscape studies, if you count those as “performing live” also.  

MFM: What's up next, got any exciting things coming up that you'd like to share?

YS: Lots more touring to exciting and new places (thanks to my lovely agent); me and my partner who I also collaborate with will be doing a sound meditation and food/wine pop up at giant steps mid July in partner with Stamp The Wax, I am very much looking forward to that.

MFM Mix 005: Yu Su

Cybofreq co-founder Audrey steps up on Scuffed with an EP of scuzzy electro and breaks. Out 19th July.
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Spanka Clawz

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PREMIERE : Audrey - Spanka Clawz

'Ninetoes’ new imprint Head To Toe return with their second release, the follow up to the label heads Miracle EP which instantly grabbed the attention with a fresh and more underground sound...'

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Premiere: Ninetoes - Volar La Pluma [Head To Toe]

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NY-based designer and musician Maxime Robillard, aka Love Letters, harnesses the power of rave energy on his 'Cast Off' EP via The Bunker NY, which includes the acid house anthem 'Servito 95'.

Throughout the 'Cast Off' EP Love Letters explores emotion on the dancefloor with ballads touching on classic house, deep acid, jacking rhythms and piercing cosmic textures. 

Robillard goes on to share the particular story behind this EP: “This EP was made after a major accident in my life. Two of the tracks were made with both arms in a cast, and in a way this can be listened to as a love letter to my connection with this kind of music, with the community I have found on the dance floor, and with particular sounds. It acts as a document of my gratitude that after the accident I am alive and well and can still enjoy the music and world that I’ve dedicated so much of myself to.”

The 'Cast Off' EP is set for release August 2.

Cast Off EP

More exclusive music

Premiere: Love Letters 'Servito 95'

OUT SOON, pre-order: 
https://www.juno.co.uk/products/helena-hauff-living-with-ants/732784-01/
First full EP by Helena Hauff on Return To Disorder. Electro stuff, s alright, nothing more to say really.

Helena Hauff - Living With Ants - RTTD015

古い神聖を拒絶し、新しい神聖さを見いだしてきた。そういうプロセスの中で、何が神聖であるのかは不明になってしまったのである。~ Abandoning the sacred of old, we breathed sacredness into new things. And by this process it became unclear what was truly sacred.

New album from Thrushez out September 30, 2019.
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Thrushez ~ Transparent Mood (snippets)

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