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Max D Superabundance Hot Mix 4/6/21

DJ Harvey  Sonic Disco #2

DJ Harvey @ Rumors 2019

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

TASCAM DR-40

Melchior Sultana DJ Set at Sunny Side Up 15.09.24

Satoshi Tomiie @ Fünk Club | OCT 10th 25

EF14: Commuter Fantasies

Manhunter - The Creepy Guy Behind the Bushes (excerpt)
Gherkin Jerks - Midi Beats
Marcus Mixx - I'm Home
Sendex - Do You Really?
Mutant Beat Dance - Another World
Paul Du Lac - Blow Back
DJ Jackmaster Charles - T-N-E- "Taris"
Allen Wright - Sodium
Raheem Hershel - Gotta Have The Pokey
Theo Parrish - Synthetic Flemm
Vainqueur - Elevation (Version 1)
Hieroglyphic Being - The Mysteries of Life
Sound Stream - Motion
Tim 'Love' Lee - The Tortoise
Metro - Rush Hour
Der Zyklus - Formenverwandler
Alice Coltrane - Rama Rama
Vainqueur - Elevation (Version 2)
Manhunter - The Creepy Guy Behind The Bushes (excerpt 2)

Steve Summers - Commuter Fantasies

EF19: SPACESHIP CLEMENTIME

DKMA - Something About You
Cherie Lee - Love Me or Leave Me
Glenn Underground - Black Action
Pepe Bradock - Burning Hot
George Benson - World is a Ghetto
Suzo Saiz - Sé Que Estás Ahí
Jayda G - Dreamstate
Omar S - Just Ask the Lonely
Callisto - Resistance
June - Lost Area (DJ Sprinkles' Lost Dancefloor, orig. ver.)
Callisto - Need Ur Love (Stalagmite Mix)
Karizma - The Power
The Blackbyrds - Dreaming About You

Sleepy G - Spaceship Clementine

INTERVIEW > inverted-audio.com/mix/madteo

With a debut release on his newborn eponymous imprint still fresh on everyone's minds, we asked outsider house don Madteo for a special podcast. In return the New York-based producer laid down a killer 2-hour long mix full of bouncy house gems, dusty disco melters and infectious boogie groovers. We sat back to discuss his relationship with the Big Apple, industry matters and forthcoming projects.

IA MIX SERIES

IA MIX 219 Madteo

*tapes are gone, here's the archive*
YES MIX SHOP - https://bit.ly/2DAGchD

SLEEPY G - YES MIX - YES001 SIDE A

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