Minor Notes Recordings

Happy New Year to everyone! As a gift we present you a wonderful hour of music from our St. Petersburg friend @forgottendiscostar . Tolya is a natural born vinyl digger, trying to surprise his listeners with unobvious diamonds from different styles of music. For Minor Notes, he traditionally dug into the wilds of house music, in which Shazam does not work. So you need to go directly to the author for the playlist!

Right before our last Propaganda party, we listened to an evening set from @artyom_fet , who brilliantly prepared the future dance floor for the Minor Notes night. We were struck by its versatility and perfect mixing, a clear understanding of how to build a warm-up. Artem has been collecting multi-genre electronics for many years and deservedly considers himself an expert in the field of house music of the 90s: from the Belgian new beat and EBM to the British Acid.

Together with @denis-kazacov from St. Petersburg, he launched the community and label @spaziolabel , holding parties in both capitals. And very soon, the first cassette VA compilation with tracks by only Russian musicians is being prepared for release. Spazio is synthesized melodies and rhythms inspired by Italo 80's and 90's, proto-house, new beat, EBM and modern disco.

A day after the request to record a podcast for us, Artem made an outstanding mix in his selection on fresh tracks. We highly recommend that you do not delay listening and press PLAY right now!

We met this person more than 10 years ago in VK, in one of the thematic music public sites with rare music of the 70s-80s. Sergei @baster-jazzster has grown a lot during this time, moved from Severodvinsk to Moscow and became a prominent DJ in the digger crowd. He is also a member of the formations Base Movement, Nord Train Disco, 1/2 blog and the label Amateur Exotic. Sometimes he performs under the alter ego of Amateur Exorcist, playing outlandish music. Surprisingly, the selection of northern Pomeranian bloodlines, using the example of Seryozha, reveals its most tropical side. Funk, soul, balearic, disco, boogie and more modern dance genres. For us, Baster Jazzster has put together a house (of course) mix that demonstrates his taste preferences and deep knowledge of music very well.

If you want to transfer to his set live - visit Moscow venues like Powerhouse, Enthusiast, Flaner more often, and also follow the broadcasts of our friends @testfm_radio.

It's especially nice when our label's podcast series becomes a platform for releasing very rare mixes from artists we respect very much. The well-known metropolitan DJ and producer @deep-square hails from St. Petersburg is just the case. Sasha has been faithful to electronic music from a very young age and continues to express his love through collecting old-school vinyl, performing at high-profile Moscow events and blogging about rare dance vinyls in Deep&Low channel together with Borya Gabaraev aka @dalisounds. We have known Sasha for a long time and have always attributed him to non-typical DJs with phenomenal erudition, who allow themselves are literally everything in a music journey.

This hour-long mix has collected very atmospheric house tracks, each as a separate sound picture. No tools, just real music. Many of these tracks you will never hear in Sasha's live, because in his opinion, they are created more for chamber listening and intellectual dancing in the head.

We express great respect to Deep Square for such a serious approach and the honor of being the one to release his first podcast in the last 5 years. Be ready for a super trippy one hour mix from the man!

Number 28! Prepared with a big love from our friend Kostya Goldynsky who is vinyl digger, great dj, sound designer & hardware junkie from Moscow. He is more into old school electro, underground disco, protohouse & breakbeat, but for us he collected and mixed perfect hour of passion. In this mix you can hear fresh summer vibes, women smiles and UK style of djing! Be ready for a long teasing from @goldynsky himself!

Issue #27 was prepared by our big old friend @jonna-city-fly from Leicester, UK! This legendary man is all about the music. He is owner of @city-fly Records, super experienced DJ and producer, who loves classic and modern house vibes based on samples and soul, funk, jazz and disco stuff of course. You can find his works on literally all the main music medias like Deeper Shades Of House, Sloth Boogie, Apparel Music, DJ Mag ES, Music Is 4 Lovers, House Salad and etc. BTW Jonna have very successful releases on Lumberjacks In Hell, City Fly & Secret Crunch, so you really need to check his production. For sure we can't forget his Moscow-Saint-P tour in 2016, when we get crazy on the russian dancefloors together with this truly worldwide star of underground house movement.

Press play to start your personal deep & jazzy journey with Jonna!

We love to share new names with you. Once upon a time we met Denis aka @deeoxid in a Noor Bar on our party. Since that time Denis shared with us his new mixtape and we asked him to present it as Minor Notes Podcast. Fortunately, this offer was accepted! Take care of you guys. Be ready for some deep, soulful and disco club house all over the hour. Video version: https://youtu.be/l9mGvEYix_I

@deeoxid is based in Voronezh. Collecting some dance stuff on vinyl and playing along local clubs his world was changed. After this he moved to London and launched his label MDMA (Ministry of Dance Music Art) to release dancefloor oriented music. Not a surprise that Denis is dj in demand, but he is making big steps in production. You can try his remix for legendary A-Studio's collective track "Diskoteka" on their upcoming album.

No more words. We are going to the house! All tracks are vinyl btw!

That was a blast! Monthly Minor Notes showcase in legendary @propagandamoscow club. Full 6 hours live recording for your ears and feet.

00:00:00 - 02:00:00 @guydee

02:00:00 - 04:00:00 @lowres_music

04:00:00 - 05:59:31 @sickdisco

We love it when guests of our podcast series get into a sound close to Minor Notes in their mixes. In number 25, this turned out to be surprisingly accurate. And @panfilov recorded it for us.

DJ, resident of the NII and a frequent guest of the Propaganda club, participant of local festivals and music curator of LUCH parties. He regularly turns out to be at the turntables in the Moscow clubs and bars, and in 2015 he has a gig in Manchester. You can also meet him at various events as a photographer.

Get ready for 1.5 hours of real deep house music from an interesting selector with serious experience. And if you want more, you can find a huge number of Maksim's recordings on the Internet for other labels, radio stations, music communities and online media, including: ГОСТ ЗВУК, Udacha, Roots United, Gifted Culture (IT), Sakskøbing, Oblast, Intergalactic FM (NL), Radio Relativa and Elektrodos (ES), Internet Public Radio (MX), 20ft (UA), TESTFM and many others.

Yes yes yes yo! Today we have a guest mix from Moscow famous vinyl junkie called Ruta. Youra gave his best house selection in this sequence, which we are proud of. Strictly 12", strictly deep thang. You can catch this wizard literally in all capital bars and other soul filled club locations. So check it out, here is @djruta in Minor Notes podcast volume 24!