Beautiful set :) it remember me my first waking life trip, few years ago

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

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It's time for a vacation ✨ Recording from 8am to wham bam shang-a-lang on a Sunday morning at the infamous Club Med 🧜‍♂️ Thanks to maestro John Player for the invite 💕

Club Med Vacation

Live recording from Fandango in The Lighthouse, Plötzensee, 2023 

Extra long and extra special upload from dear friend @alexfromtokyo <3
This soft sunrise opening set is the first live recording to go up from The Lighthouse series.

On a cold morning in February, Alex warmed up our sunrise dancers in Plötzensee and set the perfect mood for 5 beautiful hours. Listen now xo

LIVE AT FANDANGO - Alex From Tokyo

Sevensol is a splendid producer, DJ and label boss. Kann, the label of which he co-founded alongside Bender, has become one of the best and most significant in a new wave of record labels championing House music in Europe. A figurehead of the Leipzig underground music scene Sevensol cut his teeth at record stores across the city, working behind the counters and gathering a wealth of knowledge which would go on to inform and inspire his own taste and perspective as a DJ.

His music is often deep, pensive and driven by emotions. This is perhaps best noted on his own productions, upon which he works with Bender to craft stripped back, textural music which tugs at the heartstrings as much as it moves the feet.

As a DJ Sevensol’s style is innovative and unique, seeking to take dancers on a journey through multiple genres and styles, all with ethereal undertones. Sevensol is also one half of the DJ duo Manamana alongside Map.ache.

We invited him to record this mixtape a little while back and now that it’s shown up it doesn’t disappoint.

Sevensol: The Ransom Note Mix

Full Radio show >> https://refugeworldwide.com/radio/waking-life-radio-cosmo-sofi-menica-manuela-maciel-and-paulo-pascoal-17-apr

A 3hr window of auditory titillation and guided psychosomatic wizardry from the Waking Life cauldron.

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We've not uploaded one of these live recordings for a while as we assumed people might not care to hear recordings of our nights (which in truth never do quite capture the crazy atmosphere we seem to generate) but...people do seem to like them and have been asking for them...so...due to popular demand, here's last Saturday's Wrong Party....it was a particularly wild and sweaty hoedown, even by our own standards. Enjoy.

LIVE MIX @ Wrong Party 20/05/23

First heard through some mystical stamped white-label 12"s only Hardwax can offer – Pretty Sneaky slipped into our ears a while ago with their enchanting take on dub music. Well respected platforms like @crackmagazine, @Meakusma or Honest Jons London felt this too and released following EP´s and a full length 2 years ago. This heady things aside, Pretty Sneaky is a passionate record collector and great party DJ – as we proof today with this excellent summer ready 77min long mixage.

KANNMIX 53 - Pretty Sneaky - 77min

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KANNMIX 53 | Pretty Sneaky

This next instalment of the FIBER Podcast sets the mind to a hot summer day; swaying in a hammock watching fleecy clouds drift by. Giegling’s gaffer Dustin recorded the mix at the label’s office and explains that: “The mix is all about the anticipation of the upcoming summer. I expect nothing less than sunshine and 25 degrees ++ from June until September.” Continue reading and find the tracklist at www.fiber-space.nl/podcast/fiber-podcast-27

FIBER Podcast 27 - Dustin

3 hour excerpt from an 11 hour b2b set back in May 2019

Tornado Wallace b2b Jamie Tiller @ Cocktail d'Amore (Cosmic Hole) May 2019

Read our interview with Smallpeople (@smallville-records) and check out this mix's track list here: bit.ly/SmalPod

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