futurecast # 15 comes from the psyche of mr. Hector Pizarro. a chilean-born, resident of paris, who now works as a musical curator for vallée fm, where he also hosts a weekly show called “chile con mix”, taking inspiration from gilles peterson’s famed “worldwide” show. we’ve come to know hector as a true music lover, with a record collection that stretches across jazz, soul, latin, house, and techno music. the following mixtape can only begin to show-off his love for all kinds of music, touching up on the most experimental beats and abstract atmospheres to provide a suitable soundtrack for gloomy winter days.
01 loscil – dub for cascadia – kranky
02 marconi union – stationary – just music
03 elias falken – respeta los parques – retinascan
04 marconi union – temperature drop – bine music
05 marsen jules – yara 02 – oktaf
06 the gentleman losers – oblivions tide
07 mount kimbie – william – hot flush recordings
08 andrew pekler – pensive boogie – kranky
09 mark pritchard – question mark – ho hum records
10 field rotation – polarlicht (nordlichter) – fluid audio
11 scuba – descent – hot flush recordings
12 shed – final experiment – ostgut ton
13 fennesz – got to move on – mego
14 ekoplekz – stalag zero – punch drunk records
15 marconi union – red line 12 am – bine music
and we are back to our regular programming with this short but nonetheless sweet mix from frankfurt resident Daniel Tischer aka d.soul. having founded one of the most prolific electronic-minded netlabels to date: tropic, daniel is now busy curating homemade records, which is distributed digitally and features a very modern take on the classic deep house sound. this 45-minute mix will take you on a definite journey thru the solar system and back!
The mix was done at home using Traktor while having a glass of fine spanish Rioja wine.
* having traveled recently to chile, what would you say are the most notable differences and similarities between the electronic music culture there and in germany?
I can only tell you about my personal view that comes from an impression of a 3 week trip. I think people in Chile are more open minded and curious when it comes to electronic music because they are not overloaded with it like people have been in Germany. It’s a small but very active scene and much more community-like. Also, the netaudio movement, with Labels like Pueblo Nuevo, Epasonidos and Impar, has done a great job for the whole culture there. Netaudio and digital music is very important there because there are no record shops and it’s difficult and expensive to buy records from overseas.
In germany we have one of the biggest market for electronic music where the whole thing is more commercial and business orientated. Many labels, artists, releases and promoters stay under pressure to be successful because of money. This is not very conducive for new concepts and ideas. Regardless, I really like what the people in Berlin have arranged with the netaudio festival; it’s a step in the right direction with a strong cultural adjustment.
* how different would you say it is to run a net-label (tropic) as opposed to a digital label (homemade)?
As I decided to make a digital label, the whole business thing was new to me, so I learned a lot of new stuff – how to promote music and work in a more professional way as i did before with Tropic, because you need to act under pressure when investing money in something. I was very sceptic about a digital label – there are so many out there! but I think that quality will always survive in the jungle of digital labels
With Tropic things are more relaxed and more open to different kinds of electronic music. It has been my baby for all the music I like to put out without needing to adjust to anyone else’s taste. It’s also a good chance for artists to reach a lot of people from all over the world. There are Tropic releases with 20.000 downloads – you’d never reach this huge amount of downloads with a physical or a digital (non-free) release.
* what do you normally listen to at home? which are your top three favorite albums ever?
I listen to a wide range of music at home. I love all the old stuff from the Red Hot Chili Peppers, older East Coast Hip Hop, some Punk and early nineties Rock, and some german music from artists like Gentleman, Clueso and Bosse.
wow… top three albums – hard decision as there are some many goodies out there. So I’ll pick the most influential ones for me:
Nirvana – Nevermind
E-Dancer – Heavenly
Maurizio – M-Series
* what is your favorite thing about frankfurt?
Beside the skyline and the good sausages?! I like its multicultural mixture, the different faces of the city – fast and busy as it’s the financial center of europe and on the other hand the laid back areas like Bornheim and Sachsenhausen with lots of bars, little stores and markets. It has a good club scene with one of the best clubs in the world – Robert Johnson (it’s in Offenbach – but real close to Frankfurt) where I’ve had the chance to listen to a lot of good music there.
* what can we expect from d.soul and the labels you curate in 2010?
I’m working hard on my own release for Homemade, which will be released under my Elate moniker in summer if everything goes fine, as well as a new EP for Tropic with more quiet, melodic & experimental stuff. I also started a project with my chilean friend Hans Carstens and we are excited about the upcoming results. There will be a release on Homemade from Kitkaliittoo out of finland with a remix from Juno 6 coming up in May. On Tropic we will drop a compliation with guys from Chile and a new release of Markus Masuhr is still in the line. busy times, man!
another month, another installment of the brand new colectivo futurecast. this time our guest is chilean leo jefferson, owner of the nomucho netlabel. expect some deeper-than-deep grooves straight from outer space on his exclusive set for the colectivo; and while you’re listening don’t miss the five minute interview with leo…
to check out nomucho’s discography, go to their webpage (everything is free!) @ nomucho
for more info on leo and his various projects visit him @ myspace
5 minutes with…
LEO JEFFERSON (Nomucho, Chile)
* how and where was this mix recorded?
At home, in the dark with some smoke and johnny red.
* what is the concept behind your netlabel nomucho, and what are its future plans?
Ufo-american deep house… nomucho is mainly a common ground for a group of friends sharing their love for music that is equally valuable on a dancefloor or just for spacing out in your couch. I love deepness, house music, space and american music starting from the Andes, passing through the caribbean and all the way to Illinois and Michigan, so things in this area are what I usually look for. At the moment with nomucho we have created a solid functional group of local artists like Fantasna, Felipe Venegas, Notone or myself along with hand picked friends from other spots around the world and we’ve been gaining mileage with intense musical collaborations and all sorts of live performances kind of preparing ourselves for a more ambicious phase 2 of the label.
* do you feel the local chilean scene has profited from the huge amount of “latin influenced” records in recent times? are the locals heavily into that sound or do you see a shift towards something else?
It is pretty obvious there is an intense comercial hype at the moment around club oriented tech house with heavy latinamerican music sampling.. I think this a normal cycle of the “market” and it will eventually fade away. Personally I love anything influenced by purely southamerican or afrocuban music as long as it is correctly done and more subtle.. I think it’s a bit over the top when you see some producer from england or switzerland puting a andean flute and spanish vocals they hardly understand over some techy loop in ableton thinking about the crowd exploding in ibiza.. but well, if there are buyers then there are sellers and there are no rules in dance music, only different levels of apreciation.
Regarding Chile I don’t think we get bombed with this kind of music as much as in europe, maybe the ocasional “bomb” in comercial parties which is OK, but as I see it there has been a tendency to look back to the basics, to a more 90s deep house sound, kind of like in germany.. a change I like very much.
* what do you normally listen to at home? which are your top three favorite albums ever?
uff difficult question.. I listen to tons of house music, specially oldies.. lots of afro cuban stuff, carlos patato valdes, tito puente, willie colon, hector lavoe, eddie palmieri, guem.. i don’t know.. hmm, marvin gaye, phillip glass, steve reich, arvo part, herbie mann, caetano veloso, heitor villalobos, uakti.. exotica and spacey stuff from the 50s-60s like Martin Denny, Les Baxter, Yma Sumac, J.G. Esquivel… I’ve recently been listening to a lot of stuff from the Analog Africa label, loving it, and almost every album from Stephan Laubner, one of my all time favorites.
Some of my favorite albums could be:
Rhythm & Sound – Rhythm Sound (2001)
Kraftwerk – Radioactivity (1975)
Los Jaivas & Manduka – Los Sueños de America (1974)
* what can we expect from leo jefferson & nomucho in 2010?
At the moment I’m making some mayor upgrades in my studio and I have a lot of unrecorded material on my machines that I plan to finish packing up for a release on nomucho as well as a collaboration release with Felipe Venegas with our live project Recordari. Also in a couple of weeks we’ll be releasing nomucho’s first full length album by the hand of a very good friend and talented dj/producer very respected in the Santiago underground scene called Notone.
And as I mentioned before, since we are quite consolidated by now I plan to start phase 2 of the label wich is to put out our first 12” in 2010.
take us with you!
