Monologues.

From the embers of Mock & Toof (DFA, Mule Musiq) came Metropolitan Soul Museum: a collaboration between Nick from the duo and his pal Filippo. Explorers of the deep, they have released on Toy Tonics, Catz & Dogz’s Step, Beats Of No Nation and Rawax, and will soon release an EP on Monologues Records. With a love of analog gear and deep deep sounds imbued with a soulful edge, their distinctive style is both hypnotic and groovy that blends house and techno history in equal measures (a healthy dash of Detroit therein). Let them take you on a trip through their catalogue and some forthcoming releases.

*How would you describe your sound?*

Melodic, analog and...

*What and who inspires you and influences your sound?*

From jazz to electronic music, it really changes every day.

*Can you tell us a little about this mix and what it means to you?*

We are quite happy to have manage to play our music only and what came out is actually a homogeneous mix with an organic and natural progression.

Tracklist:

Metropolitan Soul Museum - Area [Unreleased]

Metropolitan Soul Museum - 12 Notes [Unreleased]

Metropolitan Soul Museum -  Mirrors [Unreleased]

Metropolitan Soul Museum - E State [Step Recordings]

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Metropolitan Soul Museum - Stoneman [???] *forthcoming

Conformal - Fredag (MSM' Remix) [Lima Express]

Metropolitan Soul Museum - The Machinery [Unreleased]

Metropolitan Soul Museum - Floaters [Unreleased]

Rick Nizzi - We Are Not Made of Sugar (MSM Remix) [Taste Rec] *forthcoming

Metropolitan Soul Museum - The Palace [Unreleased]

Metropolitan Soul Museum - Supervoid [Beats Of No Nation]

Metropolitan Soul Museum - Spiders From Stars [Step Recordings]

Metropolitan Soul Museum - To The Loved Ones [Unreleased]

Metropolitan Soul Museum - Happy Valleys [Unreleased]

Metropolitan Soul Museum - Fog & Smoke [Monologues Records] *forthcoming

Danish talent Paxton Fettel has made a resounding return to the fore this year after a few years off. His piano-heavy disco & house jams on his longtime home Greta Cottage Workshop and Delusions Of Grandeur are some of the most joyous tracks we’ve heard this year, but his catalogue stretches back to 2010 via releases on Kolour LTD, Plumage and Apersonal. His deeply melodic, organic grooves suggest a musically trained creator, but he’s all self-taught. Ahead of an EP for Monologues Records later this year, we invite one of house music’s most irresistible creators to guide us round his oeuvre. Spectacular results.

Tracklist:

Paxton Fettel - Back You Want Don't I? [Forthcoming on Monologues Records]

Paxton Fettel - Let Go [Greta Cottage Workshop] (From album: "Nothing Stays the Same")

Paxton Fettel - Lift Off  [Greta Cottage Workshop] (From album: "Everything Stays the Same")

Paxton Fettel - Pacifica 399 To Freedom [Delusions of Grandeur] (From E.P: "Night Waves)

Paxton Fettel - Faster on Fire [Greta Cottage Workshop] (From E.P: "Better Days")

Paxton Fettel - Music Music Music [Forthcoming on Monologues Records]

Paxton Fettel - Burning   [Greta Cottage Workshop] (From E.P: "Better Days")  

Paxton Fettel - Unreleased disco project demo

Paxton Fettel - Unreleased housy demo from a few years back

Paxton Fettel - Unreleased disco jam #1

Paxton Fettel - Unreleased disco jam#2  

How would you describe your sound?  

With this mix.

What and who inspires you and influences your sound?  

People around me, and new music I discover. I think a lot of times inspiration and influences happen subconsciously. I suppose I am inspired by every minute of my life, it all has influence.

Even writing this might have an impact on my future, who knows.

Can you tell us a little about this mix and what it means to you?  

I tried to capture the essence of my music in one hour. New stuff, old stuff, and stuff I primarily use in my DJ sets. Sometimes it's a vocal sample over an original production of mine, and sometimes it's more of a classic edit in a way. Like the first track, for example, which has Ramona Brooks chopped and resliced. Classic Paxton edit material, some might say.

Then a few classics from the back catalogue. Then the latter part of the mix is mostly self-recorded disco instrumentals with or without vocal samples on it.

It's always really fun to put your songs together in new and interesting ways. It makes me (and hopefully you) experience them in new ways. Again something I learn from and take with me to future productions.

This mixtape is also an opportunity for me to show people some of the diversity in what I do, and give a focused lesson in my universe of sound, and thought on music. For that I am very grateful.

Ben & Kristy's back-to-back sets from the start and end of night from our finale at Farbfernseher. RIP!

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Kristy's solo sets from our finale at Farbfernseher. RIP!

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Rotterdam based Pole Richu M is the man behind our latest release, his gorgeous EP of loungey sample-heavy noodly grooves known as 'Philistines 4 & The Giant Banoush' also providing the artwork for this and our last few releases, creating IRL paintings and developing a tasty live set with releases elsewhere coming on Astropical and Young Adults. This mix is a journey through his crazed artist's mind, 100% unreleased and mostly unsigned sketches and jams. Displaying his strength for arrangement, melody, top crate digging and warm-yet-scuzzy production, it's a beautiful listen.

*How would you describe your sound?*

Not "house" enough to play at club, too "housy" for home listening. 

*What and who inspires you and influences your sound?* 

 

I prefer very diverse music - it's supposed to be good for the brain. 

When it comes to the (let's say) current club scene, I have my favorites, which inevitably inspire me: Tartelet recs, Lagaffe Tales, Yappin, Jazz Cabbage, Studio Barnhus, Apron recs, m$r (rip), Ava recs, Sex Tags and more...

*Can you tell us a little about this mix and what it means to you?*

The mix is a selection of my unreleased tracks from the years 2014-2019. Digging in these (sometimes) forgotten tunes, became a very emotional journey. A lot of memories: different places, people, parties, moods and situations in general.

Tracklist:

Richu M - tormenta (unreleased)

Richu M - honky jdango - (unreleased yet: forthcoming on astropical)

Richu M - oddtruffel (unreleased)

Richu M - barealix (unreleased)

Richu M - untitled (unreleased yet: forthcoming on astropical)

Richu M - if riddim (unreleased)

Richu M - dubbinton bear (unreleased)

Richu M - troy (unreleased)

Richu M - pandan (unreleased)

Richu M - dubay (unreleased)

Richu M - coloseum (unreleased)

Richu M -  machu picture (unreleased)

Richu M - don corle1 (unreleased yet: forthcoming on astropical)

Richu M - untitled 2 (unreleased)

*How would you describe your sound?*

Patrick Adams making records for Dance Mania.

*What and who inspires you and influences your sound?*

The biggest influence for me right now is seeing people enjoy our music, it completely blows me away when people message to say they like our stuff, especially when women or members of the LGBTQ+ community. Electronic music is such a horrible schlong fest, and so many of the male DJs act so horrendously in the way they treat women at shows. It’s great to know we’re appealing to more than just banty lads.

Another big influence is our collaborators; the vocalists and illustrators/painters we get to work with through the band are all amazing, and hugely inspirational to work with.

Anybody who has ever met me will know how important Stereolab are to me, as I’ve probably tried to shame you into listening to them at some point. I love Chaka Khan, Patrick Adams. I could list musical influences for ages, but it would be pretty boring. I don’t have any big secrets nobody else has, and I’ve always tried to share music I love to whoever is listening to me. Some of my early influences in house were Pepe Bradock, Cajual, Basic Channel, Armand Van Helden, Henry Street, Masters At Work... I don’t listen to too much modern house — it has to be pretty incredible for me to need to add it to my collection.

What I take away from other people’s music is how certain sounds work together; how a drum hit and a weird noise work together in a Prince record, or how a saturated kick in a Green Velvet record affects the mood of the track is where my brain goes.

*Can you tell us a little about this mix and what it means to you?*

It’s mainly sample based stuff we’re releasing on the run up to our debut album. Normally we work with musicians and vocalists, but I’m completely obsessed with ‘90s disco house, so I made a load of tracks while the album comes together. Frankie Knuckles and Ron Hardy looping disco records was what started everything — disco loops and drum machines are the purest form of house music as far as I’m concerned. House should be fun, and I wanted to try and convey the fun side of Girls’ with these EPs. I feel like I’m cheating when I sample other people’s music, which is why I try and call it an ‘edit’ or ‘mixtape’ when I’m looping other people’s work.

The non-sample, full band, full production stuff is; our debut single ‘When U Go' which got picked up by Classic, which is the first full piece of music I made myself. 'Fondness Makes The Heart Grow Absent', which we self released last year, and it’s already been licensed for a few big compilations this year. It started life as a remix I did for somebody that got rejected, so I took all the original parts I recorded for the remix — guitar, bass, cut them up, added some synths and turned it into a loose cover of ‘It’ll All Be Over’ by The Supreme Jubilees, with Gershom Brown on vocals. The last track on the mix is called ‘Humble’ and features ex-Brand New Heavies vocalist and one of my good buddies Linda Muriel. It’s the lead single from our upcoming album. It’s a 2-steppy garage-ish thing. I made a version with live instruments, but I've ended up using the demo version with me playing everything on keyboard for the album, as it was impactful than the live version. I wanted to use a bit more music from the album on this mix, but it’s a bit too early to play too much of it publicly. Oh also, there is a remix of a track I made with the Ballroom MC Princess Precious Ebony, who features heavily on the Viceland documentary series ’My House’, and is an incredible person and a pleasure to work with. It’ll probably be a B-side to one of the singles from the album.

I’ve been involved in music for a long time behind the scenes, and I’m just amazed at the incredible reaction we get for Girls’ stuff so far. We have a small group of fans who are so supportive and send us such amazing messages all the time. It’s really humbling. The music industry can be a horrible place — often unpleasant people behaving awfully with shady agendas and negative energy. It’s amazing to be involved in something that’s just about positivity and making great music.

Tracklist:

Girls of the Internet - Operating Thetan [Drab Queen]

Girls of the Internet - When U Go [Classic]

Girls of the Internet - Honesty & Truth [Drab Queen]

Janet Jackson - All For You (Girls’ Edit Edit) [No Label]

Oral Caress - Charlie’s Angels (Girls’ Edit) [P&P Records]

Girls of the Internet featuring Gershom Brown - Fondness Makes The Heart Grow Absent [Drab Queen]

Girls of the Internet - Trophy Wife [Drab Queen]

Mariah Carey - GTFO (Girls’ Whistle Register Remix) [No Label]

Girls of the Internet featuring Princess Precious Ebony - Your Love (Sports Mix) [Drab Queen]

Nancy Martin - Can’t Believe (Girls’ Edit) [No Label]

Girls of the Internet - I Need dUb [Drab Queen]

Girls of the Internet - Flat Earth Society [Drab Queen]

Girls of the Internet - L.A.R.P. [Drab Queen]

Girls of the Internet - Heaven In Your Arms [Drab Queen]

Girls of the Internet - Remember My Dub [Drab Queen]

Girls of the Internet featuring Linda Muriel - HUMBLE [Drab Queen]

Cousins Joshua Doherty and Richard Bevan have been pushing tough underground electronic sounds since 2000. Making their name in part to a series of parties in an abandoned London Underground train station in the first half of the noughties, they founded Seed Records and more recently Balkan Vinyl and have released a steady stream of quality bangers, with a penchant for acid and old rave sounds. Doherty has been running 303-focused parties under the I Love Acid banner since 2007, and in recent years launched an accompanying label, where the likes of Luke Vibert, Snuff Crew, Cardopusher, Perseus Traxx and Affie Yusuf have all released tracks on a limited number of 303 vinyl copies. Their mix for us encompasses unreleased goodies, productions for the likes of Dixon Avenue Basement Jams, Hardfloor Records and Craigie Knowes, and plenty of varied licks.

*How would you describe your sound?*

Sci-fi acid house and hectic electro rave.

*What and who inspires you and influences your sound?*

Everything from classic house of Chicago and techno of Detroit in the ‘80s, through to European rave and techno in the ‘90s, and the explosion of genres and ideas since then all over the world.

After 20+ years doing this, still having moments when you hear something new and instantly think "Wow, I want to write something with that vibe"

*Can you tell us a little about this mix and what it means to you?*

It features a lot of our dancefloor focused, high energy tracks from the last couple of years, plus some unreleased and upcoming gear (although the opening track is from a decade ago)

This mix is along the vibes of the kind of set we are playing in clubs right now.

Tracklist:

Posthuman - Europa Sky [Uncharted Audio]

Posthuman - Beat Down [I Love Acid]

Posthuman - Transit System Error [Balkan]

Posthuman - Exit Drums [Dixon Avenue Basement Jams]

Posthuman - Centauri 303 [Hardfloor Records]*

Posthuman - Rejektacid [unreleased]

Posthuman - Steal The Show [Craigie Knowes]

Posthuman - Airwave Uranium [X-Kalay]*

Posthuman - Down 2 Jakk [Craigie Knowes]

Posthuman - Telekom 99 [unreleased]

Posthuman - Gods Of Technology [Balkan]

Posthuman - Damocles Syndicate [Shipwrec]

Posthuman - The Contract [Acid Avengers]

*forthcoming releases

 

*How would you describe your sound?*

 

House music with a jacking attitude and mad sampling crime.

 

*What and who inspires you and influences your sound?* 

 

The '90s and early 2000s house music sound from Detroit, warm distortion and neo soul vibes.

 

*Can you tell us a little about this mix and what it means to you?*

 

I never felt such a time travel while mixing my own works from the past years together. It's defo like skipping through your own diary and so its special for sure. Thanks for inviting me!

Kevin Over - Barber's Monday Fun (Dansu Discs)

Kevin Over - 2002 (Soulphiction Remix) (Mobilee)

Kevin Over - Black Potato (Rough Recordings Ltd.)

Kevin Over - Cherish (4Lux Black)

Kevin Over - When Anger Grows (Frag Maddin Remix) (Noir Music)

Kevin Over - Panic 03 (4Lux Black)

Secondcity - Music is What Brings Us (Kevin Over Remix) (Circus)

Kevin Over - Coop (4Lux Black)

Kevin Over - Early Kurt (Rough Recordings Ltd.)

Kevin Over - Virginia (Noir Music)

Kevin Over - Real Love (Underground Audio)

Kevin Over - Djengis (Truesoul)

Kevin Over - Lavender (Madhouse Records)

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The Scottish-born, Copenhagen-based purveyor of fine grooves and one half of 6thboroughproject serves up an hour of his most supremely chuggy slo-mo disco flavours for us. Languid grooves for sticky nights.

*How would you describe your sound?*

Eclectic I guess. I'm a lover of music in general so I gravitate towards anything with emotion that moves me. That's the framework really - and my production and sound flexes around that regardless genre.

*What and who inspires you and influences your sound?*

Many things are the seeds of inspiration for me, not just music. It can be films, experiences, feelings ... they are as important as musical influences which stretch across the genres. I love great sounding records from bands like Steely Dan or Earth, Wind & Fire ... but equally love dirty sounding records from people like Moodymann or Gangstarr.

*Can you tell us a little about this mix and what it means to you?*

I planned to do something across the bpm spectrum but didn't quite realise how much stuff I had done! So I stuck to a slow, chuggy groove featuring some older tracks I'd been involved in over the years. I've always loved that sort of tempo for starting a night off, and although I play a lot of house sets these days I always relish playing this sort of groove if I get to kick the party off.

Tracklist:

Kytes - I Got Something (The Revenge Remix) [Filter Music]

Bliss feat. Sophie Barker - Stop Me (The Revenge Remix) [Music For Dreams]

The Hong Kong Micros - Closing [Five20East]

Burnt Island Casuals feat. Esa Williams & Blinding Bill Docherty - Theme From Easy Aces [Roar Groove]

The Small Hand Gang - Love Has Finally Found Me [Otherlover]

Craig Bratley - Birdshell (Burnt Island Casuals Mix) [Instruments Of Rapture]

Kenneth Bager - Fragment One (The Revenge Remix) [Music For Dreams]

OOFT! - This Sound [Instruments Of Rapture]

Joey Negro - Beyond The Dance (The Revenge Demo Mix) [Surround Sounds]

Isle Of Lucy - No Promises [Otherlover]

6th Borough Project - The Formula [Instruments Of Rapture]

Italy's I-Robots is one of the most prolific re-editers in the game, putting out a slew of official reworks via his Opilec Music label. With his DJ career stretching back to the early '80s and with a sideline as a second-hand record dealer, his knowledge is impeccable. Uncovering rarities and forgotten gems, he manipulates tracks in both classic chop 'n' splice edit style and also in more complex arrangements. This mix is a journey through his edit suite.

*How would you describe your sound?*

"Nomad Sound" for sure... Eclectic freestyle without "Taboo"

*What and who inspires you and influences your sound?*

After a complete life spent in digging and collecting music i could say that i take inspiration from all kind of interesting sound, artist, label, nationality.... African rhythms, Disco beats, Synth mood, Electronic vision, freestyle grooves and around.... for me some seminal influential artists and friends that really REPRESENT are James Brown, Fela Kuti, Kraftwerk, Tangerine Dream, Larry Levan, Daniele Baldelli, Sly & Robbie, John Gibbs, Adrain Sherwood, Lee "Scratch" Perry, Derrick May, Carl Craig, Farley "Jackmaster" Funk, Kevin Saunderson, LTJ Bukem, Klein & M.B.O., Goldie, Liquid Liquid, Ryuichi Sakamoto, YMO, Kool & The Gang, Horace Silver, Gill Scott Heron, Roy Ayers, Many Dibango, Jorge Ben, Milton Nascimento, Airto Moreira & Flora Purim, Herbie Hancok, Francois Kevorkian, Joe Claussell, Ron Trent, Chez Damier, Jus_Ed, Eumir Deodato, Patrick Adams, Sylvester, Giorgio Moroder, Mark Cerrone, Simple Minds, Cabaret Voltaire, Throbbing Gristle, Klaus Schulze, Evangelos Odysseas Papathanassiou-Vangelis, The Human Lague, Brian Eno, Moebius, Connie Plank, Talking Heads, The Units, Schaltkreis Wasserman, Ashra, Manuel Göttsching, Supermax, Yello, ESG, Lil' Louis, Brian Auger and many many more........

*Can you tell us a little about this mix and what it means to you?*

It was funny to produce this "freestyle mix" with a live party attitude and no computer - no sync selecting only material that i personally produced or reworked during my career... It was the first and only tak done...

Tracklist:

01 Kraftwerk - Numbers (I-Robots Edit) - Not On Label

02 No More - Suicide Commando (I-Robots Reconstruction) - Opilec Music

03 Savas Pascalidis - Fly With The Wind (I-Robots Edit) - Opilec Music

04 I-Robots - Spacer Woman (Oxtongue Version) - Opilec Music

05 Emilie Nana - Like You (I-Robots Reconstruction) - Opilec Music

06 I-Robots - Glamouflage (Take II) - Opilec Music

07 No More - 23 Blood And Flowers Pt. IV (I-Robots Reconstruction) - Opilec Music

08 Billy Bogus - Glamouflage (I-Robots Reconstruction) - Opilec Music

09 I-Robots - Streets Of Dongguan - Opilec Music

10 Rhythim Is Rhythim - Emanon (I-Robots Reconstruction Take II) - Opilec Music

11 Cerrone - Cycle's Woman (I-Robots Reconstruction) - Not On Label

12 Blue Rondo A La Turk - The Heavens Are Crying (I-Robots Dreaming Of Hacienda Reconstruction) - Not On Label

13 S'Express - Funky Killer (I-Robots Reconstruction) - Opilec Music

14 I-Robots - Own Existence ft. Tuscania (Club Edit) - Opilec Music

15 Ahzz - New York's Movin' (I-Robots Reconstruction Take I) - Opilec Music