wl'22

My first set back after 17 months of no gigs couldn't have gone better last month - a lovely setting with top sound and a wonderful receptive crowd, playing alongside excellent artists and joined by lots of beautiful friends and one very special person. 

Recording of my set performed 7pm-9pm on the 'Day Moves' Terrace outside Bar 90, Hackney Wick, London for Queens Yard Summer Party on 7th August 2021
https://ra.co/events/1354047
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Queens Yard Summer Party 2021

Live at Queens Yard Summer Party 2021 - Alex Downey

Long time dear friend Jonny Rock (@jonnyrock) from London up in the mix for the 33rd in our MFM Mix series. Interview (excerpt) down below.

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MFM: Thanks for the mix and for taking time to answer these questions Jonny. Whatsup? 

JR: It is an absolute honor to do the mix and thanks for twisting my arm for the interview. Surfin’ the wild waves of the times at the moment… hanging tight on the board, but like water.. finding my way, with huge amounts of entertaining falls.

MFM: I once read you saying wanting to go “...fucking off from London, moving to LA or somewhere else”. Why would you want to trade London for another place?

JR: London is an addiction. been here since ’91 so hard to get it out of the system. working on a sunnier outlet to share the time which on its own puts a smile on my face but still enjoying London for its dirt and being versatile. LA is still and always in my heart for its sun and people.  

MFM: Looking at your discography your studio outcome is an almost equal balance of your own works and edits. Would you say other people's music is a major source of inspiration and motivation? Do you have a steady pace/rhythm of producing or...?

JR: Other peeps music I listen to is of course a huge inspiration or motivation. Even with ‘original‘ works I always have a trigger point. An inspiration from a record.. a dusty loop from somewhere. I play guitar but I am not an analog machine man (burn him burn him). I love samples, loops, rolandcloud on the go… but no particular pace tbh. sometimes a random focused period comes out fruitful. Sometimes it just doesn’t work so I leave it. It’s a sign that I need to have a break in my head. Edits come up as I find songs so the balance must be coincidental. 

MFM: You're the first guest on the mix series who actually requested to keep the comments off. Does it have to do with the 'music like water' principle these days?

JR: Well this idea also came out of the lost year. I was away from mixing for a while and podcast to-do pile had grown. And thought maybe one can try to rebalance listening to music and the way music is shared and searched. While the world is taken over by clicks and likes and online hangouts, thought maybe we push the talks and search back on real people interaction. From my side I asked kindly to the people I did the podcasts for, as an experiment…. let’s try it. Move away from ‘track id’s’ etc.     

MFM: You seem to be a romantic kinda guy with an old school approach when it comes to exploring and experiencing and valuing music. Does the '2021 way' offer only downsides from your point of view, or...?  

JR: I try to hang on to my own journey with belt and braces, so not to lose my values, and mind. A daily exercise sometimes to stop time and re-align to keep on staying true. Like all artforms there is controversy bubbling up in the speed of light everywhere with ‘kind’ help of the ‘social media’…  

MFM: Word on the street is that you've got a new thing coming up, a new label. Tell us all about it!!!

JR: Yessss its true … ‘Jonny Rock Orijinal’. A label for me by me featuring me. ‘Not an edit’ will probably write at the back of a t-shirt at some point. I felt it was the right time to have an outlet for the various explosions of my mind. Hopefully out in the wild by January. Hamam series is also branching out to a ‘Hamam Originals’ imprint too. 

MFM: Thanks too for the mix! Any specific theme or records or vibe you had in mind before or while recording it? 

JR: Not really to be honest. Tako is a huge influence and a great bud so when he asked, woke up instantly from my cosmic hibernation and wanted to do a dj mix with some of the grooves I found lately. I don’t think I played any of those records out yet so was also an excitement of playing them for the first time. I hope to get a few 👌's 🤟's 🔥's 💥's. Ah wait …comments are off so probably not.

MFM Mix 033: Jonny Rock

@gwenans' rise through the ranks has always been driven by a love for the music. She hasn't produced any big breakout hit and never dreamt of headlining on a super-sized main stage. Instead, she has quietly honed her craft playing at intimate London parties like Toi Toi and her own Hi Fi, made a successful move to Berlin where she fomented close ties with cultured crews like The Ghost and impressed with her pitch-perfect sets as a resident at London's Pickle Factory as well as the beloved Freerotation in her native Wales. Her sound is rooted in house and techno that is deep and kinetic, but it can stretch way beyond and into a world of leftfield electronics and heady ambient. 

On this week's mix, Gwenan does what she does best: establishes a groove your body can't resist then slowly tweaks and builds on it for 80 minutes. There are never any big left turns or flashy tracks, just a well-sequenced, neatly mixed and super-tight selection of irresistibly good records. Some go heavy on the bass, some twist and turn on a cosmic synth and some have a machine-made soul that warms you to your core.

Dekmantel Podcast

Dekmantel Podcast 357 - Gwenan

After many months of closure, fate smiled upon us this past New Year’s when Paquita Gordon (Italian vinyl-cognoscente and Terraforma resident) paid us a visit to dust off the cobwebs at Horoom. An avid explorer, in her travels as much as her bringing together of like-minded musicians for experimentations in sound, there’s a freedom in her craft. For this, the last hour of her set, she channels this libertine energy with the type of fun, high-octane amalgam of sounds she’s come to be known for. Move your body to the beat and forget your woes with Bassiani Podcast 110.

BASSIANI PODCAST SERIES

Bassiani invites Paquita Gordon / Podcast #110

Colourful and hypnotic grooves with a sprinkle of psychedelic euphoria from Portugese DJ and producer Caroline Lethô!

@carolineletho

Caroline Lethô is a young artist with an old-school heart and a true raver's spirit.

Her passion for turning dancefloors into a magical playgrounds where all night dwellers can lose themselves to feeling has taken Carolina to perfect her craft as a DJ and as a producer.

This mix was inspirated in the rainy weather from the portuguese spring.

TRACKLIST:
- undisclosed -

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Loose Lips Mix Series - 376 - Caroline Lethô

XDB ALL NIGHT LONG @ Club krokant / Alkmaar / 16. April 2022

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THN Podcast 065 - Luigi Tozzi (Hypnus / Mental Modern / Outis)

This mix was recorded live at @refugeworldwide for the @nevernotnow take over with @key-ratio and @nathanielsofficial on wed June 8th.  Head to the never not not now soundcloud to listen to all sets.

Refuge Worldwide : Never Not Now Takeover Berlin, 8th June 2022

https://www.nts.live/shows/ok-williams/episodes/ok-williams-21st-july-2022

OK Williams 210722

Saturday evening at La Chapelle. 
Tremendous amount of fun. 

Fotografia: Dana Magis

KooDoo at NoName/La Nature festival 2022

The immaculate concrete floor, with its eye-refreshing darkness and soul-warming tones of deep, welcomes the feeling of butterflies in the stomach whenever you are here. Step inside, enact no need to act. 
Submerge yourself into the sweat-rinsed black waves. Taken by surprise, you move in synchrony, one with yourself and together with everyone.
And right after the storm by Cagliari shores, someone lends a hand - Claudio PRC is smiling.

@claudioprc is an italian deep techno specialist who takes cues from avant-garde and ambient music as well as the abyssal echoes of early hypnotic acid and dub. He’s been active as a DJ and producer since 2006 and released his records mainly on Prologue Music, @semantica-records and @thegodsplanet, of which he is co-founder. Member of Basstation crew in Cagliari, from 2018 he’s resident DJ in one of Prague’s most valued clubs, @ankali, where he curates the Volumi Dinamici night. In 2020 he founded @012twelve, a new platform dedicated to art and sound research.

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Black Wave 050: Claudio PRC

Fri, 25.07.14
Berghain | Panoramabar, Berlin (Ateq, Konstantin)



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Konstantin @Panoramabar, Berlin

An Exploration of the Deeper, Darker side of Techno, House, Detroit, Acid, Jazz, Dub, D&B, Trip Hop, Downtempo, Electronica and whatever moves your soul.

  analog_soul_

House, Detroit Techno, Acid, Jazz, Downtempo

ANALOG SOUL @ The Lot Radio 08 - 31 - 2022

Recorded on 26 July 2022 > 22h00-00h00
@carolineletho

Caroline Lethô - Alchemy Circle 02 - Boom Festival 2022

RADIO.D59B  / DEEPARTMENT - Summer #2 w/ Claudio PRC & Ina Kacz

Monthly missives from a London club selector par excellence - expect anything from finger-on-the-pulse UK rap, to deep house and techno records, to jungle & UK funky.

https://www.nts.live/shows/ok-williams/episodes/ok-williams-15th-september-2022

OK Williams 150922

Alinea A

A.1309 Patricia Brito - Neocamping 2022

So after much deliberation I’ve finally decided to upload the recording of my set from Freerotation this year.
I was thinking to edit out the imperfections such as record skipping, or where I had the high pass filter turned up without realising (one reason I don’t get on with Allen & Heath), but instead I’ve left it raw, as it was heard on the night, because the atmosphere was electric, saturday night, smack in the middle of this wonderful festival, the room was going off!!! This is a set I won’t ever forget playing, it’s not perfect and my levels are all over the place, but the recording perfectly captures the magical vibes circulating the dance floor that night, and the strength of this outweighs any need to worry about my mistakes, so here it is, hope you enjoy it as much as I did playing it.

Freerotation 2016

Alex Downey Live at Freerotation 2016

It's impossible to talk about the sound of DjRUM without using the word cinematic. Whatever he does, it has a feeling of grand importance, widescreen elegance and moving emotion that elevates it way above a dance floor soundtrack. Throughout the course of his career, the UK artist has drawn on downtempo, blurred the lines between drum & bass and dubstep and always imbued his music with spoken words snippets, piano and chamber instruments. His Portrait With Firewood album was a real high-water mark in 2018, and last year his latest outing on R&S once again managed to draw on every aspect of electronic music and come up with something all his own. 

His mix for us this week is a perfect ethereal rave that finds plenty of beauty in the sparse rhythms he draws on from the worlds of garage, techno and drum & bass. There is a delicacy and elegance throughout, even when the beats hit hard and fast as they do at the overdriven and manic mid point. The amen breaks come thick and fast after that, but eventually melt away to propulsive ambient soundscapes that suspend you in time and space. Blissful.

wl'22

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