Live @ The Garden, Zadar [24/4/2014]

From Oakland with love comes the 50th submission in the mix series comes by the hand of prolific producer and deejay Space Ghost (@space-ghost-1). Interview (excerpt) down below.

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MFM: Hey Sudi. How's life in California, what's been keeping you busy?

SG: Hey, not much! Just trying to enjoy the summer with friends and get in the studio when I can.

MFM: Looking at your discography it seems that you favor the LP over the EP format, having released well over a dozen albums. How come?

SG: I can’t say that I favor one over the other, just seems that as a musician you strive to write full length LPs. I enjoy LPs for home listening and it feels good to create a nice body of work that flows through a journey. Writing dance singles and eps are trickier for me. It feels harder to write 1-4 really good stand alone songs.

MFM: With such a prolific output, does writing music come easily to you? Can you tell us a bit about how you go about writing and recording, is there a certain flow or method?

SG: Hmm I wouldn’t necessarily say it comes comes easy but I’ve definitely gotten a lot better at getting ideas in my head out into my recordings. It’s still a process of getting into the studio and spending time on it. Sometimes I can spend a whole day or two just spinning my wheels and not being able to get my ideas out. But once I get that perfect dose of creativity and I’m in the right mood, then things can definitely start flowing out. When writing music I often need to start with a very specific idea based on a song I’m listening to at the time. It’s helpful for me to start out with that initial inspiration, whether some chords, style of drums, bassline or a tempo or something. Once I get a few elements working around that idea the song can start to morph and move in any direction, but I really need that specific direction to start. I find that I can often make a rudimentary idea fairly quickly this way and then if it’s inspiring me, I’ll start to try a little bit harder and flush out more of the idea.

MFM: How do you cope with not being inspired or motivated when in the studio?

SG: Honestly it can be a bummer to be in the studio and the ideas aren’t flowing. I’ll just have to step away and do something totally unrelated for a few days.

MFM: Your sound overall has a very soft and melodic touch. The mellow part may be from living close to the Pacific and nature, but where does the melodic part come from? Did you ever learn how to read and play notes?

SG: You know I’m really not sure if I can pinpoint my melodies and where they came from but ya I grew up taking music lessons of all sorts. Piano, drums, guitar, band class, all that stuff. I wasn’t the best at reading music, I learned basic stuff but eventually didn’t progress much farther. Now everything I do is by feel.

MFM: Is there some kind of masterplan for Space Ghost? Like, do you have certain goals to achieve or dreams to chase?

SG: I think my master plan would involve me getting to focus on writing music full time. Honestly I’m not really sure how to get there specifically, seems like everyone gets there on their own path so hopefully mine will end up there as well.

MFM: Tell us about the mix. How did you go about selecting and recording it? Does it have a certain theme or idea to it?

SG: I’ve been wanting to put out a nice lil ambient sort of electronic mix for awhile. Really soft deep introspective vibes. I’ve been holding on to a lot of these tunes for awhile and just listening to my playlist of ambient tunes while traveling or relaxing with friends. After coming back from my NZ/Australian tour, I was ready to play some non dance music for a sec and listen to some other stuff. This mix is just a nice break from DJing a party. I also really want to make an ambient album soon if I have the time, so there are a lot inspirations in this mix.

MFM Mix 050: Space Ghost

For Trushmix 213 DJ Patrick outta San Francisco is on the decks.
A mix recorded live at DJ Patrick's local residence, fine wine bar and excellent music venue Bar Part Time. Here a 4 hour and 22  minutes mix where fine tunes are selected for a good night to enjoy! Spanning between the sounds of reggae, soul, balearic, disco, street soul, house, 80's and a good bunch of 90's vibes.
Great music for a good night!

Enjoy music from the top!

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Trushmix - DJ Patrick

@No_Frills are back in the bin! !!
Celebrating the second release on their label Viktor & Lukas provided this three and half an hour trip filled with prime digs, chilled bits and unheard house hits. I'm sure you'll find some of these gems on their youtube account soon. May I now channel your attention to the Chiquita before everbody is checking for track ids? https://soundcloud.com/no_frills/sets/chiquita-nf-002

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B.P.T. Radio 075: Heels & Souls

Fresh off the flight from an extensive Asia-tour, Telephones return with a peek-in-the-bag special with favourite digs and finds from the far eastern crates. A fine dose of balearic, streetsy soul, deep house, and naturally a fair amount of Japanese leftfield pop. Konnichiwa!

Shouts to @raphael-top-secret and @sanctuary3 for intel! <3

Telephones' New Massage 032 [Refuge Worldwide]

Chief of the undercover cross over jam, the humble downtempo don and Rhapsodise head honcho @daniel_pisano adds his own slice of paradise to the series, with a dance focussed blend of beachside 90s breezers dusted off and smuggled from their mysterious cyber caves. Cruise control >> on! 

Q. Hey Daniel, what inspiration did you draw upon when putting this mix together? Is there a sound, feeling, or time/place in dance music history that connects all the different elements in one way or another?

A. The mix is inspired by my love of 90s dance music. As with most of my mixes, the records used are exclusively from this era, or at least draw inspirations from it. The sounds I like from this era tend to have a similar feel to them - breakbeaty, progressive and always with a touch of balearic energy. I haven’t recorded a dance-floor mix for a couple of years so it was fun putting this together with some of my favourite records and CDs I’ve collected since then.

Q. Are there any records in the mix that are especially close to your heart, or new or old favourites that you’ve been keeping up your sleeve for the right moment?

A. The first track I used in the mix is from a remix CD by Australian electronic music project ‘Kiva’. I went blind on their self-titled album last year and soon realised how good all of their other CDs were. I think I had naturally been drawn to look for music from the UK, Europe and the US and around this time I started researching a lot more into local artists. My appreciation for home grown electronic music definitely started to shift, which you could see in mixes and uploads to my YT channel.

Q. We’re big fans of your Rhapsodise YT channel over here, with some extraordinary finds being uploaded frequently over there by your good self! Tell us a bit more about that project and how you go about curating it, and what characteristics might you be looking for when deciding what tunes to share?

A. Thanks so much for the kind words :) The project was inspired by the other channels in the community that upload amazing finds. Internationally I was always blown away by No Frills, Customs, oddSample, Modern Art and local friends such as Mike Who, Daniel Lupica and Mirren. In terms of curation, I really just upload things that I enjoy that haven’t yet hit YouTube. Most of these uploads form part of mixes that I put together so the uploads I find are generally similar in style to the mix I’m preparing at the time. I’ve recently moved to London, so hopefully there’s some new uploads in the coming months!

MDC.288 Daniel Pisano

John Gómez brings two hours of selections from Jamie Tillers friends and Family. A fundraiser to support Tiller's family can be found here : https://www.gofundme.com/f/support-jamie-tillers-family 
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Soup To Nuts w/ John Gómez (Jamie Tiller Tribute) 301023

027 Herrera

Oh sweet Papi! 

Herrera (Occasionally Abraham - Occasionally Baberaham) is a special alumnus of the 'Waxflower College of Good Times' in more ways than one. The only human on the planet to have officially cooked in the Waxflower kitchen, hosted customers in the front, and stirred hot wax on the DJ pans.

This mix hears Herrera unpacking heat from deep underground - Much like the volcanoes of his home place, more west than the Western Sahara, the Canary Islands. Some might call that exotic, never quixotic, a Balearic blend of upper atmosphere downtempo electronic.

Que pasa chico? Nada.

Recorded live @waxflowerbar with @_herrrrrera

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027 - Herrera

For his third edition, Raphaël Top-Secret is back with a mix of inspiring and timeless music, somewhere between 1977 and 2017, from Underground Resistance, Michael Bundt, Harry Case, Gianni Safred, RAH Band, James Pants, Gwen Guthrie, Tony Wilson, Derrick Carter, Pender Street Steppers and other favorites …

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Waxflower Bar - Brunswick, Melbourne

A listening bar that considers ambiance to be an integral part of the eating and dining experience. With a music programme that focuses on local and international DJs as well as record collectors, Waxflower will deliver a curated musical experience that compliments laid-back drinks and social gatherings. Leaning on rare-groove and a convivial, warm atmosphere, Waxflower creates a unique space for food, drink, and sound.

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