Feels like I'm dying but that's fine

While dropping their self-titled debut LP with us in August, Anya and Izaak from Loveshadow (@loveshadowdjs) were kind enough to also record a lovely mix and answer a few questions. Interview (excerpt) down below.

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MFM: Hi Izaak and Anya, nice to have you on board. Both living in Bay Area, how would you describe your daily surroundings? Is it a nice place to be as an artist?

LS: Right now we live in SF. We grew up one town away from each other near the airport, though we didn’t meet until much later. The landscape is inspiring for sure- we spend as much time as we can out in the parks and wild areas and draw a lot from that. The art and music scenes here run deep, though the cost of living and of course covid have made things tougher.
 
MFM: The songs on your debut album as Loveshadow -which will be out in August- sound incredibly fresh where they also remind to certain pop, boogie, funk and even house from the mid and late '80s. What were some of your main influences for this project? 

LS: Thanks! We have to mention the UK act Fashion after whose song we named the group, but our tastes range all over. You could say that Loveshadow is kind of a lap around the 80’s prehistory of today’s dance music, when things were still firmly rooted in pop songwriting but had a simultaneously psychedelic and funky sensibility- one that grew out of dub/disco/punk counterculture. Getting more serious about learning the records at the roots of the whole thing allowed us to see how we might contribute something new to it in a way that was more than a style exercise.

MFM: Of course also the use of specific instruments ad up to that flavor - it seems that for example the Linndrum plays an important role. Did you aim for that sound and gathered the instruments around it, or the other way around maybe?

LS: We had an overall idea in mind that definitely informed the instrumentation but we’re not purists. A lot of the sounds on the record are replications of or deviations from the iconic originals. Those famous drum sounds in particular are like symbols, they impart a particular meaning and we use them to set a mood.

MFM: What's the dynamic between the two of you like in the studio? Is there a certain steady structure or does this change all the time? Maybe you could tell a little about your writing and recording process?

LS: It changes all the time- we’ve lived and worked in so many places separately and together since we started recording. Either one of us might come up with an idea that we’ll design sounds around, demo, arrange, and then throw it all in the trash and start again. Most of the songs on the record have had a few lives.

MFM: It feels that the music from the LP could work really well live on a stage too. Are there any plans for you to go touring? 

LS: We’re going to play a gig in Detroit later this summer that will be sort of a test run! After that, we’ll see. The project started out as an interest in records and recording, but anything’s possible.

MFM: Thanks a lot for contributing! It seems you quite regularly record a mix. Have you both always been busy collecting and sharing records? 

LS: Our pleasure, thanks so much for asking us! We’re always looking for new music. Sharing mixes online has helped us organize our favorites but playing parties is the best. We were gigging around before covid and we’ll hopefully get back to it as things continue to open up. This mix is definitely on the hype side of things- new digs, old favorites, some edits, tunes pals graciously sent our way, and what we’ve been dancing around our apartment to while we were stuck inside.

MFM Mix 030: Loveshadow

mixing is a little messy, but it's still a classic

PINO

Single for 'White Songs', available for FREE here: https://martin-nilsen.bandcamp.com/album/white-songs

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BANDCAMP
https://martin-nilsen.bandcamp.com/
YOUTUBE
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCEZXImNHjUgOwV_LZlR3iAQ

Come, Lonely Soul

Prod. swampkill 
Mixed by man of the corn

jeepers creepers (prod. Swampkill) #DISGUSTED #SM

A bit of fun with a bunch of old and new samples created purely for the Amiga 500 (unexpanded).   This is an expanded verion - with arcepella thrown in.  (There is also a <64kb pockerpaked version created for a demo)

Haus Muzak (Amiga 500)

And oldskool track created for our latest PC MSDOS demo (for pentium 75mhz)... which due to CPU limitations I chose to create as a 4ch MOD file.   Which also means it can play back on an Amiga ;-)  

Rave vs. amiga scene style.  Enjoy!

If you want to hear unprocessed version along with demo then check out: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oX-cepvvQds&feature=youtu.be

Demo Soundtrack for Let Their Be Light 2017 (disasterarea MSDOS demo)

Funki Beat (Amiga 500)

Toward The Sky

Single for 'Lone Songs', available for FREE here: https://martin-nilsen.bandcamp.com/album/lone-songs

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BANDCAMP
https://martin-nilsen.bandcamp.com/
YOUTUBE
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCEZXImNHjUgOwV_LZlR3iAQ

Wishes

Inspired by Salamov's gulag novel.

Lyrics:

Hullócsillag-befőttet ettem ma reggelire veled
Hullócsillag-befőtt volt a vacsorám is, de nem tudtam elmesélni neked

A sötétkék ég felettem lyukasztva pihen, a kezemet nyújtom felé
És eszem a sűrű, édes csillagtejet ami a konzervből csordogál felém

Én énekelnék neked, amíg ez az akkordmenet nem lesz unalmas
Nem tudom betömni a fejem
És találkozok veled a percig, amíg az ébresztőm hangja aktivizálja eszem.

Halló?

another uber rough 1st draft forgive the bad mixing and out of time synths 

leaving our clothes on the shores of the water
kissing goodbye in the sand and the thought of
leaving the dream
see the blood in the stream

scuffing my off white sole in the parlour 
watching the sunlight stream on the carpet 
just drifting away
when there’s nothing to say

afternoon daydreams leave for the garden 
hours and sun streams twist and then harden
into the dream
childhood memories

finding the bird the blood ran red marker
opened me up to a lifetime of martyrs
i’ll just pretend
knowing sweetness must end

Toward The Sky

Yellowship

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