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art:cast °110 | Jex Opolis

Jexy is around the corner. Jexy or rather It's Me, Jexy - the third album and successor of Jex Opolis' 'midlife crisis' album Net Worth that came out on his Good Timin' label in 2020. And it surely is a good timing for a new LP from the core artist, who choses various musical approaches for It's Me, Jexy without becoming arbitrary but making the ten-tracker sound like a smooth ride through his preferences. However, when producing the album Jex Opolis had just undergone several changes: he left New York City to move back to Edmonton and basically had to break with digging routines and being surrounded by music 24/7. But in every ending is a new beginning and Jex wouldn't be the artist he is if he didn't find a way to cope with the new situation and produce an album that hits close to being home – at least musically. Shorty before the release of the ten gems Jex, whose life seemingly circles around music to 99%, speaks about Tik Tok, Wayne Gretzky, bad timin', contracts with Sven, shitty movies and crucial topics like the won back freedom of producing music, the wish to be artistically heard and seen, the blessing and the curse of social media and phones on the dancefloor, what he wishes the scene to do once clubs open properly again, and of course how the album came about. Also Jex delivers the latest art:cast giving us a sneak peak of the album and its Gem(s).

Read the full interview here: https://torturetheartist.net/2021/05/05/interview-artcast-110-jex-opolis/

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art:cast #110 by Jex Opolis

Interview

art:cast °110 | Jex Opolis

Vale Budino describes herself simply as a ‘music lover,’ but ‘music obsessive’ might be more apt. Since moving to Berlin from her native Italy in 2018, she has spent just about every penny she’s earned on records. Afro, Italo, funky, new wave, disco, soundtracks, you name it, she has it. The diversity of her taste slowly but surely won her the ears of people in the know and she became resident for Discodromo and DJ Boris’ party CockTail d’Amore having already founded her own event, Oscillator. In the last year, she has also become Music director and project lead at Terminal of Babylon, “a performative game and a social experiment in authority, fluidity and chance” hosted in Berlin.

A grand and theatrical track opens this week's mix as if it were a Hollywood movie from the 60s before crashing beats take you to the heart of the party. There is then a real sense of occasion to each and every mix. Euphoric Italo sits next to sleazy wave, tripped out cosmic minimalism brushes up with disco rap that is high on attitude. Every track is so full of flavour, passion and energy that you cannot help but react in the most physical of ways. What a ride.

Dekmantel Podcast

Dekmantel Podcast 336 - Vale Budino

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@sound-metaphors

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RA.811 Sound Metaphors

Guest mix from @jexopolis :)

https://www.nts.live/shows/jamie-tiller/episodes/jamie-tiller-14th-march-2022

NTS Radio Show - Episode 28 w/ Jex Opolis

HAND Mix featuring Berlin's Hendrik Stein :) a few words from the rock himself: 
"I’m Hendrik Stein. A DJ and record collector from Berlin who’s been around since a while now. You might have seen me playing in one of the countless clubs of the city or know me from our Past Forward-Shows on Cashmere Radio or the Ciao Amore Baci Parties which I run with my partner in music and life Frinda di Lanco. 
After my recent excursions into lush ambient and balearic soundscapes during the pandemic years, I felt it’s time to record something more danceable and this is how this mix happened. Since the clubs reopened last year I had some chances to play some more electronic sets in some bigger venues and so I rediscovered some older Freestyle and Hip-House records, which I almost forgot about. After digging mostly meditative and laid-back organic stuff during the corona-years this was a quite relieving experience. So recently I developed some kind of obsession for more danceable Belgian and French synth-pop from the late 80’s and latin-infused House and Italo which really blew my mind. Bringing this together into a mix has been on my bucket list since quite a while and for some reason I always thought this might be a very good sound for the H.A.N.D.s mix series. In the end the recording session happened quite naturally and since I hadn’t prepared a playlist some Austro/German dance-obscurities"

H.A.N.D. MIX 037 - Hendrik Stein

Live recording from Fandango in backsteinboot, 2022

The perfect warmup delivery courtesy of @e_talking from our most recent Spandango adventure.

LIVE AT FANDANGO - E-Talking

Aired 17.03.23
https://www.nts.live/shows/guests/episodes/mundo-cursi-17th-march-2023

NTS | Mundo Cursi w/ Soos

The breezy sound of the Canadian Riviera, from Mood Hut's Pender Street Steppers.

https://www.nts.live/shows/pender-street-steppers/episodes/pender-street-steppers-2nd-may-2023

Pender Street Steppers w/ Automaticamore 020523

Bjørn Torske, DJ Sotofett & Skatebård plays 7" only, recorded live at Kennel, Bergen, July 19th, 2023.

Bjørn Torske, DJ Sotofett & Skatebård - Live @ Kennel Bergen (2023-07-19)

Next up in our podcast series is the Italian up and coming queen of all things Italo and cosmic, Budino.

She joins us on the Saturday night of the festival alongside Francis Inferno Orchestra and Fantastic Man on the Olive Grove. This mix gets us perfectly in the swing of things going deep into her collection.

Ticket info and more available here: loveinternationalfestival.com/

Love International Mix 013: Budino

High-octane outlandish obscurities of decades past, courtesy of Berlin’s Nemo & Castro.

This power duo are the masterminds behind several creative outlets; from soundcloud.com/sound-metaphors - the renowned record shop, label, and its sub-labels (THANKYOU, MISSYOU, BLESSYOU) - to the infamous H.A.N.D. (Have A Nice Day) parties in Berlin. Their undying love for music and passion for digging up rhythmic masterpieces lost in time has manifested itself in their Kreuzberg record shop, which has become known for its exquisite selection of hand-picked releases. Their unique unfiltered style has earned them regular slots playing for esteemed steaming dancefloors like Cocktail D’Amore and Panorama Bar.

This 70-minute mix is jam-packed with fun fast-paced percussive selections, self-made edits, Hi-NRG guilty pleasures from Canada to China, and upbeat synthesizers. Dig in!

ZeeZout Podcast 142 | Nemo & Castro

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