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Finn Johannsen – Hot Wax 002

Matmos – Very Large Green Triangles
Elektro Guzzi – Cashmere (Reverse Mix)
Lowtec – Oni Nake
Urban Tribe – Untitled
DRMCNT – Skinner
Robert Hood – Drive (The Age Of Automation)
Omar-S – Blade Runner
Theo Parrish – Synthetic Flemm
Terrence Dixon – Band Together
Pev – Aztec Chant
Tessela – Helter Skelter
Alex Coulton – Too Much Talk
Djrum – Blue On Blue (Voodoo)

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Finn Johannsen – Welcome To The Room No.23

Unknown Artist – Untitled (Test Pressing)
Geena – 3 Tongues To Talk (W.T. Records)
DJ Richard – Leech2 (White Material)
Nubian Mindz – Vox & Cymbal (Disko404)
Mike Grant – The Struggle Of My People (Mr. G’s There’s Hope Mix) (Moods & Grooves Mix)
Myztical – Rage (Nicz)
S3A – The Ravist (Concrete Music)
Fierce Ruling Diva – You Gotta Believe (Original Part Two) (Invasion Recordings)
Anthony Naples – Moscato (Mr. Saturday Night)
Breach & Dark Sky – Fallout (Naked Naked)
LB Lynam – Get Things Straight (Not On Label)
Rick Wade – Basements & Bluenights (Harmonie Park)
Donna Summer – Could It Be Magic (Atlantic)

Stefan Goldmann ‎– Ghost Hemiola

MACRO M22R – Stefan Goldmann – Ghost Hemiola

Finn Johannsen – Hot Wax 001

I started a show at Berlin Community Radio, which ran for a while. This is the first one.

Berlin Community Radio

Madteo – We Doubt (Dresvn Remix)
Madteo – Very Sweaty Palms (Kassem Mosse Remix)
KGB – Stark
Barnt – Stac
Battle Box -Battle Box (Main Mix)
Primitive World – Danceteria
Tapenade – Untitled
Mgun – Let Conversation Take Place
Anthony Naples – El Portal
Zombie Zombie – Illuminations (DJ Sotofett’s House-Chugging-Tuff-Trip-Mix)
Blank – Still
Bass Clef – You Don’t Know Don’t Know You
Broadcast – Come On Let’s Go

Finn Johannsen – Discogs Mix 002

(photo by Tom Lawton, very early morning @ Summer Sound System, Glasgow, 2005)

These days the Discogs Marketplace seems to outweigh the website’s initial purpose of building a research database and there is a lot of talk about the value of certain releases, and less talk about what said releases actually sound like. So I decided to compile this playlist by organizing my collection at Discogs for the highest median prices fetched at the Discogs Marketplace, and then selected items from the first pages that in my opinion justify demand by classic status. If this is what is wanted by so many Discogs users, you can thus have an impression of how the records sound in action, and decide for yourself if they are worth the effort. Items sought after due to recent hype and speculation efforts by producers, labels and sellers of any kind were decidedly neglected.

Dedicated to all the people who created the monster, and to those who do not abuse it. I salute you.

Andthoney & M. Kinchen – The Feeling (Prescription)
Dream 2 Science – My Love Turns To Liquid (Deep Water Mix) (Power Move)
Vil-N-X- What Cha Gonna Do (Vil-N-X Stra Mental Mix) (Island Noyze)
DJ Sprinkles – Bassline.89.1 (Comatonse)
Nature Boy – Unda Me (Ruff Disco Records)
Unknown Artist – Untitled (Magnet Sounds)
Jovonn – Back 2 The House (Goldtone)
Shake – 5% Solution (KMS)
Unknown Artist – Untitled (Chicago Underground)
Kikrokos – Life’s A Jungle (Ron’s Edits)
K. Alexi Shelby – My Medusa (Transmat)
The Prince And The Wizard – The Music Is Kickin’ (City Limits)
Gherkin Jerks – Parameters (Alleviated)
Ace & The Sandman – Let Your Body Talk (Saber)
Schatrax – Restless Nights (Schatrax)
The System – You’re In My System (Atmospheric Dub) (Ibadan)
Unknown Artist – Untitled (Other Side)
Boo Williams – Make Some Noise (Relief)
Circulation – Emotions Unknown (++Force Mix) (Balance)
Freaks – 2 Please U (Surreal Visits Dub) (Playhouse)
Moodymann – I Feel Joy (KDJ)
MD – Cold Cuts (United States Of Mars)
Octave One – Nicolette (430 West)
Vincent Floyd – I Dream Of You (Dance Mania)
Low Key – Lovemagic (Serious Grooves)
John Beltran Feat. Open House – Earth & Nightfall (Sinewave)
Claude Young – Dream Of Another Time (Utensil)
Fingers Inc. – A Love Of My Own (Extended Club Mix) (Alleviated)
B.F.C. – Please Stand By (Retroactive)

Indoor Life

Though being a Disco and a Post Punk enthusiast since a tender young age, Indoor Life admittedly passed me by for quite some time. In pre-internet days, all the media resources I had access to (which actually were as many music magazines I could afford to read and as many radio shows within reach I could listen to) proved their unreliability by not offering me any information about them. There was no good friend who discovered their releases in a record shop, and they escaped my digging fingers as well.

When I finally stumbled upon Indoor Life years later, while researching potential gaps in my extensive Patrick Cowley collection in the web, even the few low research details and low quality vinyl rips I could gather made it more implausible how this outfit could fly so below all radars, and more importantly, for so long. How could I unearth the entire catalogue of a phenomenal band like Philadelphia’s The Stickmen while still being a teenager, who had less information circulating, less releases and probably never toured outside the US, and totally overlook this one, which connected even more of my interests? A band from the golden days of San Francisco Disco and Post Punk, produced by the legendary Hi-NRG originator Cowley himself? Post Punk AND Patrick Cowley! It was puzzling to say the least, and it sounded too good to be true.

Only it wasn’t. The CD-R copy a friend in the UK had sent me (I may have had internet access by then, but file sharing was still way ahead) sounded even better. There was a notable absence of guitars, but not to be missed, as the bass played with as much heavy funk as anything featuring Bill Laswell, but with a different edge, in perfect unison with ultra-precise and similarly heavy funky drums, both often deviating to rhythm and groove of an almost feverish quality. The synthesizer sequences and sounds indeed were similar to what Cowley did on his famed productions in the Disco area, but here they were a whole lot more experimental and dark and added a congenial atmospheric edge to the proceedings. A plethora of weird effects and particularly this absolutely stunning and unique use of the trombone added even more. And on top of it, this charismatic voice, sounding like nobody else’s, singing words of strangely tainted romanticism and that kind of futuristic alienation that would not age awkwardly. Listening to it all I was floored, and instinctive attempts to compare it to other seminal protagonists of that time soon failed into nowhere. And as that meant seeking parallels to other music created in an incredible productive and innovative era, this of course was quite something. Indoor Life were an impressively smart archetype, ahead of their time in many ways. Like in hindsight, so many were not.

It was certainly predictable that I would purchase everything they did, even if it would take years. But I would as certainly never have predicted that I would ever be involved with what the person behind the voice had done with Patrick Cowley before Indoor Life, or that I would even get to know him, and find him to be one of the finest and most interesting persons I have ever met, and a good friend. But that’s another story. In the meantime, consider yourself very lucky that you have much quicker access to the genius of Indoor Life than I had. “Archeology”, indeed…

(Liner notes for Indoor Life retrospective)

Elektro Guzzi ‎– Cashmere EP

MACRO M32 Elektro Guzzi – Cashmere EP

Finn Johannsen – Charlie Mixtape #54

Dark Side Rhythm Tracks – Homey’s House
Container – Acclimator
Young Male – Black Satin Fan
DJ Sotofett – There’s Gotta Be A Way (Vision Of Love Club Mix)
Marcellis – Workshop 16 B1
Mzungu – Too Hot
Durant – Vigo’s Jones
Breach & Dark Sky – The Click
Doubleheart – Grasso
Terrence Dixon – Horizon
Area – Bourbon Skies (St. Petersburg Three-Four Blues Remix By DJ Sprinkles)
Sleeparchive – Diagnosis
Oh, Yoko – Seashore (Sprinkles’ Ambient Ballroom)