Spiritually travelling home with a mix from Melbourne’s OP(T)I(M)UM-TRANS – the duo of Jezadin and Moopie. Jez, a sparkie servicing the South Eastern suburbs, is the city’s quintessential warm up DJ who could trump any headliner if he cared enough,…
The real West Africa shipped from Nigeria via Costa Rica, the current coordinates for the nomadic Frank Gossner. Gossner has committed the last decade fully immersed in the music of the continent, trawling Guinea, Sierra Leone, Ghana, Benin and Nigeria…
Claremont 56 never steps a foot wrong. The ultimate seal of approval for balearic and disco. The nucleus of an inspiring scene of musicians and DJs which also celebrates leftfield heroes including Holger Czukay, Sal Principato and Ahmed Fakroun, and…
Running a label is a challenging commitment. Much respect is due to Coyote for the 5th anniversary of Is It Balearic?, an imprint that stands tall with a catalogue including Max Essa, Felix Dickinson, Mudd, Jose Manuel and Coyote’s own…
While its a fantasy being part of a monthly NTS Radio schedule that now includes shows from Test Pressing, Velvet Season & the Heart of Gold, Trevor Jackson, Future Times, FunkinEven, Cherrystones, The Trilogy Tapes, Floating Points, Ivan Smagghe and…
Milo Johnson has been an influential force in dance music for decades, pushing sound system culture in Bristol during the 80s before relocating to New York and producing jazzy deep house under the Nature Boy moniker. Having spending years exporting…
Retracing our Ukrainian roots to hear from fellow longhair Pavel Plastikk. If this is your first encounter with Pavel, you’ve got some time to kill with graceful mixes on LN-CC, Racket Racket and The Growing Bin. A craftsman of blissed…
Introducing GWIZSKI aka James Vance, the good guy behind one of our favourite new labels Omega Supreme Records. Specialising in sophisticated modern funk, the flawless Portland imprint has pressed hot tracks from Stockholm native Sasac and Dâm-Funk cousin Turquoise Summers,…
Ahead of our world party this Saturday 23 November, Invisible City Sound System present the third and final instalment of their Possibility Of An Island mix series. This collection of dance floor calypso, deep island soul and afro-boogie is a…
Special extended edition with 3 hours of Jamal Moss, aka Hieroglyphic Being, The Sun God, I.B.M. and IAMTHATIAM. Taking influence from seeing Ron Hardy at the Musik Box and a degree in cultural anthropology, Moss traces his city’s spiritual history,…
Not guest for a change. Just 100% Michael K. Heads up on our upcoming party with Awesome Tapes From Africa, Invisible City Sound System and Tako in Sydney on 23 November. Full deets below. Hard to believe! Playlist rudy adrian…
Gather round to share a potent mixture from Kaoru Inoue, a key figure in the Japanese leftfield scene. Kaoru has been producing music for over a decade, dabbling in the art of earthy house, tribal dance and exotic ambient and…
In session with Chicago’s disco connoisseur Rahaan. The DJ’s DJ. He witnessed his local house phenomenon first hand before taking up mixing back in ’88, tuning his skills over the decades. Knows a record or two, cutting up the finest…
Eric ‘Dunks’ Duncan. Where to begin? Still Going member; The Rhythm Odyssey collaborator who together have hit us left, right and centre with 4 Golf Channel EPs in the last year; a modern day Tom Moulton on the chop; half…
Welcoming back Eiji aka Az, the record oracle behind Osaka’s Revelation Time. A few months ago Eiji posted one of our favourite concept mixes on soundcloud, a specialty selection of Japanese Reggae/Lovers Rock from his deep shelves. Tropical honeymoon teleportation….
Devotees of Andy Blakes’ Dissident label instantly converted to the Gatto Fritto tribe. The London-based producer committed 3 memorable single sides to the faded imprint before dropping a longplayer of imaginative soundworlds on Internasjonal Feel. The genre defying Gatto, or…
Thanks to our friends at Animals Dancing, New York house/techno mainstay Marcos Cabral heads down under next month. The producer’s lengthy career has just come full circle with the release of False Memories, a 2xLP on L.I.E.S. (run by housemate…
Canyons’ Leo Holiday lays down an interesting challenge with a remedying sequence of morning music, West Coast singer-songwriters, piano ballads and saccharine underground. Music For Wide Open Spaces. An appreciation for the art of song, encouraging me to pull out…