FMB MIXTAPE 41 | KIM ANN FOXMAN

Posted on March 31, 2016 by Feel My Bicep

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It’s an absolute pleasure to have Kim Ann Foxman supply us with a mix for our podcast series. She’s an ace selector and producer and we have great memories of her slamming it out at the Feel my Bicep room at Fabric’s birthday back in 2012!

We caught up with her to see what she’s been up to recently:

“I have just finished a new solo EP for release on Firehouse. + started a collaboration on a new project with two my two buddies in Brooklyn. We have a great single ready and are making an album. 

This mix was  recorded at the Firehouse in Brooklyn in my home studio.  It’s a  mixture of old + new + unreleased stuff that i wanted to sneak in the mix as a preview. “

Up next…

“Just getting ready for a “busy beaver” summer really as usual!… and making more music for release on my label Firehouse,  and also some for other labels too.”

 

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FMB MIXTAPE 40 | PIERS SOFT ROCKS

Posted on March 17, 2016 by Feel My Bicep

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Another ESP Institute affiliate stepping up for our podcast series. Piers from this 4 way tag team of DJs from Brighton has delivered us a killer mix and we reached out to find out what he’s been up to:

“After a music-making hiatus of at least two years(!) trying to re-engage with production a bit. Doing a collaborative project with Toby Tobias plus Soft Rocks noodlings and some solo stuff. Starting my own record label – Mysticisms. Being a dad, playing the intermittent trickle of gigs that come in and falling in love. 

The mix was recorded in one take in my front-room on 2 technics 1200s and my E&S DJR400 mixer. It was then lightly goosed in Logic – a bit of compression and limiting and I whacked on the new O’Flynn track as me got no CDJs. Out to Tom Blip for that!

I had planned to do a full-on, balls to the wall dancefloor mix but ended up dicking around with the records I mostly had on my living room floor. I tried to keep it a little more spontaneous and loose, moving between tempos 

I also didn’t want to do anything overly balearic but I seemed to have contravened sections 4.2 and 4.8 of the EU jungle sound directive and also breached the global rainfall sound effect ban of 2009, so things might not have panned out quite as planned.”

FMB MIXTAPE 40 | PIERS SOFT ROCKS

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FMB MIXTAPE 39 | PHIL SOUTH (GOLF CHANNEL)

Posted on March 3, 2016 by Feel My Bicep

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Golf Channel bossman Phil South has an uncanny knack uncovering and releasing  quality obscurities and finding new artist’s for his New York label.  Whether that’s 70’s psych or disco edit bombs. Make sure to check the new Africaine 808 album just about to drop. We caught up with the man to see what he’s been up to recently. 

“You know, the usual. Oh and trying to open a country rave pizza bar with a wood oven and klipschorns and a place to watch the sunset over the mighty Delaware river while drinking a fine cocktail. 

The mix was recorded in the basement, thats where it’s at! Some spacey deep techno, I like this meditative psychedelic music a lot.”

Up next..

“Cooking pizza and baking bread.”

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FMB MIXTAPE 38 | GONNO

Posted on February 18, 2016 by Feel My Bicep

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We are over the moon to have our second Japanese selector of the year to contribute to our Feel My Bicep podcast series. This time its from Gonno who’s brilliant album last year on Endless Flight and killer EP on our favourite Ibiza label International Feel really caught our attention. Make sure you check out the beautiful “A Life With Clarinet” which Nick Hoppner finished off his FMB podcast with last year.  As usual we asked Gonno a few questions about the mix and what he’s been up to.

“DJing and making music as always, have been to Taipei last month to play at Korner club for the first time and it was awesome.

The mix has been recorded at Circus Tokyo last weekend, using 2 turntables and 2 CDJs. It was recorded from around 2 to 3am I think.

At the moment I only have one turntable with a nice phono-amplifier in my flat so I would rather do live-recording at the club than doing it in studio. Of course I didn’t select any track list in advance then, I picked it in response to the crowd. I do like the way that I can’t get away with any tricks for live audiences. I hope you will enjoy the vibe.”

Up next..

“Not confirmed yet but I might come back to Europe in the middle of this year.  My next release from Technique Tokyo as a new compilation – which I also added to this Feel My Bicep Mix – will be out in April I think.  Meanwhile, I was stuck in Nick Hoppner’s studio when I was in Berlin last year and we made some tracks together, so hopefully they will come out this year. And of course now I’m making loads of new stuff for next releases, please stay tuned!”

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FMB MIXTAPE 37 | CHRIS MASSEY

Posted on February 4, 2016 by Feel My Bicep

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Chris Massey sent us a mix some time ago and we have been excited to schedule it into our podcast series. His affiliation with Electric Elephant  (catch us back there this year) in Tisno – Croatia, along with solid releases and remixes has made him one of the finest residents in the land. We caught up with him below:

“Had a bit of a busy run up to Christmas with booking/managing/promoting/making cups of tea for our annual Electric Chair End Of Year Riot which this year was “20 Years Of Electric Chair” with DJ friends & Chair legends old & new!

I also played some wicked DJ gigs in the last half of 2015…the launch of Twisted Geisha at Distrikt in Leeds & Re:late in Stoke being 2 of the stand out parties, oh and a jaunt to Dublin to play at Ukiyo which was really top!

The studio has become my 2nd home too and have been grafting away on productions & remixes which will be dropping soon…one EP will be on my own record label “Sprechen” (which I launched in September) and features a collaboration track with Emperor Machine and a 2nd EP i’m currently working on for Paper Recordings a little later in the year!

The mix was recorded in my home studio on a pair of pretty tired CDJ 1000’s (definitely time to jump to fully digital I think!) & an Allen & heath Xone 62 mixer which definitely needs a service….

I wanted the mix to be a reflection on what I like to play when doing a gig…having musical freedom, jumping genres and taking in all kinds of style whilst fully concentrating on the dance floor vibe (that part I had to do in my head whilst recording!). It starts off about 107bpm & ends in the realms of 125ish….house, disco, “jolly” techno, afro, cosmic type vibes are all present here!

The EP with the Emperor Machine track drops early February then its just more studio work to get a batch of tracks finished & polished off….i’ve recently joined the Electronic Soul roster too which i’m quite excited about starting a working relationship with! Oh and i’ve also got a gig coming up in Norway ahead of the Northern Disco Lights film I have worked on which is getting released later in the year….have a look here.”

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