DOC’TRIN presents: “Lonely Lovers IV” (The Restraining Order Edition)
Shortly after we completed the Lonely Lovers trilogy last year, Lexis and I thought it would be a good idea to vitalize future V-Day mixtapes with additional challenges. Don’t ask why, but one of the first sub-themes to surface from this great discussion (read: silly textathon) was a “Restraining Order …
Guest Mix #45: ALSTON (Hawaii / NYC)
Since St-Valentine’s is just around the corner we figured we’d ask one of the biggest aficionados of Soul 45’s. ALSTON is originally from Hawaii, but based in NY for the last 9 years. About the mix in his own words: “Im not too good with words or describing things, but …
Future Classic: Wasted Nights “She’s Got It” (Slightly Transformed)
For this week’s write-up, I want to feature a compilation from the label Slightly Transformed, based in London, and curated by my homie Ash Reynolds. I’ve played a few tracks in the previous shows, and I wanted to introduce you to Wasted Nights, a producer hailing from Italy, and his …
Guest Mix #43: BLUEPRINT (This Is Tomorrow, Luxembourg)
Luxembourg’s DJ Blueprint has been of our favorite heavy digging DJ’s for a long time now. We actually met him in the days of Myspace and if we remember correctly we think he even was in our top 8! He tends to focus on vintage grooves (Soul, Funk, Hip Hop, …
Future Classic: Sven Atterton “Always Remember”
Another great week regarding Modern Funk releases – the new Social Lovers LP via Cherries Records in which I featured “Lover’s Theme” and also, the monstrous EP by Sven Atterton, The Cove, via Omega Supreme Records. 3 tracks were featured in the latest show, and “Always Remember” is the jam …
Mix of the Day: Dr. Miette & Waxist “Soul Brothers”
Words via Dr. Miette & Waxist: “After many many hours of spinning records together at late nite gigs, Waxist Selecta and Dr Miette joined their efforts to elaborate this soul mixtape. Soul music has always been a musical link between the two DJs : they share a love for well-orchestred …
Forgotten Treasure: Mike Lundy “The Rhythm of Life” (1980)
Special Collaboration from: Roger Bong (Aloha Got Soul) If there has yet to be the perfect addition to MIMS’ Forgotten Treasures archive, let this be it. When I first approached Hawaiian funk-and-soul maven Mike Lundy about reissuing the music from his solo 1980 LP The Rhythm Of Life, one of …
Mix of the Day: CDR Audio Show “Plastic People Special”
It was a tough way to start off 2015 when we heard on January 2nd that the legendary lovely tiny London club known as Plastic People had closed its doors. Hands down my favorite little club in the world, Plastic People was instrumental in tons of different scenes from Broken Beat, …
Future Classic: Moon B “Ill Realms”
Back with the 1st Voyage Funktastique Show of 2015, and I had a good 5 weeks of compiling new material for the show; first, I have to thank my homie Temu (which I featured his latest track Temu’s Talkbox Groove to start the show) for his amazing performance at the …
Skratch Bastid & Cosmo Baker “Songs We Listened To A Lot In 2014”
After an extended hiatus, coming back to MIMS is like a warm pair of house shoes: It just feels right. I always look forward to Skratch Bastid and Cosmo Baker‘s year-end mixes. As the title implies, the pair combine new releases with whatever else they were playing that year and …
Forgotten Treasure: Doug Randle “Songs For the New Industrial State” (1970)
For anyone out there who’s feeling the the cold-weather blues, the global-issues blues, the “how-did-I-already-break-my-New-Years-resolution?” blues or any other form of despondency, here is something that will hopefully produce (at the very least) a quick, distracting and delightful daydream. Warm In The Sunshine is a radiantly optimistic psych-pop tune by …
Future Classic: Karl Hector and The Malcouns “Can’t Stand The Pressure”
Karl Hector & The Malcouns drift through exotic styles on a desert wind toasting ‘Can’t Stand the Pressure’ with trademark psyche-funk. Their wanderings over this ‘Future Classic’ are pieced together from the group’s not-so forgotten four EP series of ‘Tamanrasset’, ‘Coomassi’, ‘Ngugna Yeti Fofa’ and the current ‘Ka Rica Tar’. …