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Some might say, it took us 5-7 days to establish a new habit, but we often get bored on the third day, then back to day 1. Repeat. There was no way for us to understand the sheer impossibility of what we were doing, whether we were witness to a failure or just being persistent.

I dedicated this mix for all of us who succeed in waking up at 6 AM every morning, surviving a 1-week detox program, functioning well without coffee (or latte) for months, falling asleep before midnight and those who could finished their daily tasks in the middle of heat.

Time to celebrate!



Tracklist:
1. Hot Air - Mkwaju Ensemble
2. Kokorowa - Killing Time
3. Alas De Seda - Joan Bibiloni
4. Two Chord Wake - Suzanne Kraft
5. Yamfa -  Toumani Diabate With Ballake Sissoko
6. Woodstock, New York - Larry Chernicoff
7. Soppin’ - Chi
8. Hulet - Aswad
9.  Music by Numbers - Penguin Café Orchestra
10. Sweet Romance - Brenda Ray
11. Magic Lantern - Andy Rantzen
12. Niki’s Bop - Tomeka Reid, Mary Halvorson, Jason Roebke, Tomas Fujiwara
13. Medicine Man - Unknown Mobile
14. Kane - Yoshio Suzuki
15. Île De Étrange - Ichiko Hashimoto
16. Time, Being - Jonny Nash & Suzanne Kraft
17. Teeth, Wait - Kettel

Mix #157 for Hamon Radio, Japan

About Hamon Radio:

Hamon Radio is an independent internet radio station based in Tokyo. We started Hamon Radio to create a third place where people of all the world share and communicate with each other via selected music from the world, particularly Japan.
"Hamon" means ripple in Japanese. When a drip falls in water, the ripple expands gently and gradually turns to greater influence. We hope Hamon Radio can be like this very first drip.

(Aside from Mixcloud page, they also recorded their performances in several cool places around japan on their Youtube channel)

This mix for Hamon Radio is my first mix I pitched for international radio and got accepted. I believe in creating my own luck, I hope this is only the beginning.

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Tracklist:
1. Subcontinent - Jon Keliehor
2. Edena - Piotr Kurek
3. пес DOG - Kate NV
4. Kalapa Garden - Young Marco
5. Recovery - Fachrur Riaz Hasbullah
6. Green River - Andy Rantzen
7. Yang Farang Dub - Apichat Pakwan
8. Ono Mambo Haiku - Dominique Dumont
9. Float By - D.K.
10. Carolina - Asiabeat
11. The Feeling When You Walk Away - Yves Tumor
12. Water Soaked in Forever - Khotin
13. Fata Morgana - Gigi Masin
14. Sea Canary - Jun Kawabata
15. Mein Freund Farouk - Roedelius

100,000 Mix #31

It's such an honor to be a part of 100,000's mixes. Perhaps I'm the only person on their list, who is not in a band, musician, DJ or label-owner. Thank you James, for making it happened! Thank you for making me believe in the future of Mineral House and collecting music.

Here's an excerpt from the mix:

Dindie is a Jakarta-based illustrator who is fascinated with science fiction, manga and graphite. When she's not busy drawing, she loves making mixtapes. She used to produce and host four radio shows on the now-hibernating, online radio station, Radio Semut. She currently produces the monthly series, Mineral House. 

Most of artists in this mix are the ones that made her dive deeper into modern classical, Japanese minimalist, ambient and balearic. Musette, Hiroshi Yoshimura, Seigen Ono, Dominique Lawalrée and Muji BGM, just to name a few. For her monthly mixtape, Mineral House, she often puts up breezy, symmetrical tunes, but for the sake of her 100,000 mix and her favourite month of the year, she picked something saucier. Hope you’ll feel the urge to move your shoulder and feet in the next 1-hour.

art by David Louis Cintron



Tracklist:
1. Hideki Matsutake – Nemureru Yoru (EP Version)
2. Blair Greenberg – Rainforest
3. Hiroshi Yoshimura – 水のきらめき (Spring Mix) [Singing Stream (Spring Mix)]
4. Toshifumi Hinata – Chaconne
5. Musette – 18 Juli
6. Georgia – Ahola
7. Domenique Dumont – Faux Savage
8. Muji BGM 13 – Brejeiro
9. Asiabeat – One Balmy Afternoon
10. Angophora – Interchange
11. Mark Barrott – Brunch with Suki
12. Penguin Café Orchestra – In the Back of A Taxi
13. Cornelius – Toner
14. Dominique Lawalrée – Flight 3.0.5.
15. Tomoyuki Asakawa – 野ばらに寄す
16. Rob Mousey – Codex Marine
17. Gigi Masin – Talk To The Sea
18. Jun Kawabata – Beyond The Reef

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Making mixtape is one of my diversion from hours of audio transcribing, pretend that I’m having a back-to-back set with Tomoyuki Fujii on a solar-powered camping ground.



Tracklist:
1. Journey to the Sun – D.K.
2. The Giraffe and the Moon – Hajime Mizoguchi
3. Hunting for Lions – Seigen Ono
4. Park – Interior
5. Gomibako – Johnny Nash
6. Pi Po Pa – 井上陽水 (Inoue Yosui)
7. Post Tenebras Lux – Bartosz Kruczyński
8. Pretty in Plums – Shida Shahabi
9. Ocean Odysseys – Asiabeat
10. A 477 – Kara-Lis Coverdale
11. Stratum – Visible Cloaks, Yoshio Ojima & Satsuki Shibano
12. Still Park Ensemble – Satoshi Ashikawa
13. Touch of Rain – Yoshio Suzuki
14. The Cradle of the Ocean – Hiroya Minakuchi + Missing Link

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These past weeks I’ve been really absorbed in renewable energy and power plants inside national parks issues. I want to be optimistic about renewable energy development in Indonesia, but somehow the way people pursue it, it’s just another business-as-usual scheme. As I picked songs in this mix, my mind wander to Uluru-Kata Tjuta Park in Australia. Marimba, mallets (or synth that sounds like one), woodwind, and breezy wind. I found my oasis in the heat of desert sun.

(artwork & mix by yours truly)



Tracklist:
1. Spiritual Sunrise – Ryukyu Endo
2. Wenn Der Südwind Weht – Roedelius
3. Nocturne – Oscilation Circuit
4. Ayyxita, Wake Up – Yves Tumor
5. Tonal Colors – Piotr Kurek
6. Highland Way to My Heart – Yu Su
7. Twisted Camel – Chi
8. Cloud Cover – O Yuki Conjugate
9. Cirrus and Cumulus – Mark Barrott
10. Trompe-l’oeil – Midori Takada
11. 3 Moons – Rob Mousey
12. Mkwaju – Mkwaju Ensemble
13.Touch Me & Die – Kara-Lis Coverdale
14. Blue River – David Cunningham
15. Mitochondria – Elicoide

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The first installment of Mineral House! I'm starting to share another part of my compact music library, consists of modern classical, (mostly) Japanese minimalism, ambient and walearic tunes at Slora Sauna Mixcloud.

I finally figured out how to channel my love of Japanese and modern classical, after too many episodes of Rowan Mason's Sanpo Disco, Jen Monroe's Listen To This, Fond/Sound, Tomoyuki Fujii's Post-Ambient Blog and NTS show under modern classical and ambient tags.
Then a good friend of mine had taken me under his wings for using Native Instrument Traktor DJ software, of course it left me with many blank seconds to adjust with how things works there.

Thank you everyone who already listened to it and made it as your favorite since months ago.



Tracklist:
1. ﾌﾞﾗﾝｺの思い出 – Takahiko Ishikawa
2. Brazil – Cornelius
3. 雨の鳥 (Oiseaux Á La Pluie) – Motohiko Hamase
4. レイン・ダンス (Rain Mix) [Rain Dance (Rain Mix)] – Hiroshi Yoshimura
5. Boticelli Rewind – Ghostwriters
6. O – Hiroshi Yoshimura
7. Valencia – Attacca Quartet
8. Mãoscolorida – Os Mulheres Negras
9. Jasmin – Yas-Kaz
10. Io – Miyako Koda
11. Waterfront – Seigén Ono
12. おだやかな海 – Yumiko Morioka
13. Smygkatt – Shida Shahabi
14. Some Limited and Waning Memory – Christina Vantzou

Sanpo Disco

"Clear skies with a chance of puffy clouds" (series)
10,5x14,6 cm
poster color on paper
2019
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I am sad to hear my favorite mix, Sanpo Disco, is ending, for it's been an amazing journey on my musical apprehension for the last 3 years. I read Sui Zhen's comment with watery eyes too, couldn't agree more with her.

"...I recall the first time you sat in my kitchen and told me about this idea. My cynicism got the better of me and I couldn't see how people would find time to make specially crafted mixes without monetary exchange. That was so naive and also, sad that I would think that way. You proved it to all of us that there is a dedicated audience of listeners and mix makers ready and waiting in the wings for a shining moment on your carefully considered platform. You connected the dots for many across seas and plains linking like-minded people together around for this vision for 'music to listen to on a stroll'. 

You've also created an amazing pool of reference for me personally as a musician to draw from. I'm sure I'm not alone in taking influence from the music in these mixes. You've inspired me mostly because you reminded me of the value of intent - and the value of doing something for the love. And all the good that can come from this - that may lead to many personal activities and creative pathways. Thanks for being such a noble, persistent and also patient facilitator of other people's creative endeavours. What you do is a fine art! I'm lucky to have benefited from #SanpoDisco over the years and luckier to be able to continue bathe in your musical passions. Thank you and congratulations, my buddy."

Perhaps many mix makers have never realized how they could touch others through their picks. Even some of them had saved me from my darkest hours and many of my artwork grew with them. Listen to Rowan's final mix, it's really great! (Also, they have an astounding episode with Georgia as guest)

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As I wrote this post, I am struggling to get myself out of losing my interest in drawing and doing tangible things I used to love. It feels like I'm drowning even more.

For past weeks I tried to immerse my eyes and mind on Miyazaki's doco The Kingdom of Dreams and Madness and Never Ending Man, and also finished reading Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage.

Study on Tezuka - 2

Study on Tezuka's Phoenix
12,5 x 17,6 cm
ink on paper
2019
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Osamu Tezuka's is known for cinematic panels. I intentionally copy this panels for master study, since I want to learn drawing dynamic movement. "Hin No Tori" or Phoenix (1968-1989) was the series I looked up to. It moves me beyond words. I could feel how shaky grounds feels like for animate (animals) and inanimate object (rocks, ground).

From Wikipedia:
Many of the Phoenix stories feature intensely experimental layout and visual design. For example, Universetells the story of four spacefarers who are forced to leave their spaceship in separate escape pods. The panels of the story are organized such that each character has his own vertical or horizontal tier on the page, emphasizing the astronauts' isolation; the tiers combine and separate as characters join together and split up. In an astonishing sequence after one character's death, he is represented for a number of pages by a series of empty black panels.

Fan Art: The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind

The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind
12,5 x 17,6 cm
ink on paper
2019

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Inspired by opening scene on Chiwetel Ejiofor's screen adaptation of "The Boy Who Harnessed The Wind". Read my 10-year old review on Kamkwamba's memoir here

Brie

Brie
Pen on paper
12 x 21 cm
2019
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There are days when you feel you have to finish what you've started, even if you feel half-hearted throughout the process. This Carlo Scarpa's Brion-Vega cemetery inspired is one of them. I did it just to test my new pen, the one that Shohei Otomo used. I'm so glad it's over.

Betta Band

graphite on paper

2019

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Cosmic Peach

Cosmic Peach
Digital painting on photoshop
2019
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"Cosmic Peach"--spacey sounds from a marble goby living in a planet full of medium-sized peaches. It shines dimly, everything is multidimensional mishmash, covered by orange, pink and yellow.

This is a collaborative playlist with Fachrur Riaz Hasbullah for Illustrated Tapes submission. Unfortunately we weren't lucky to be in 2019 list, but we're more than happy to share it with you. Listen to them at Spotify.

Ciborgia

Ciborgia
ink on paper & digital coloring on photoshop
2019
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