One of Copenhagen’s foremost crate diggers presents a luxurious selection of jazzy, flute influenced groovers
Aiming to showcase not only electronic music but also emphasizing the diversity within the Danish scene, the curated Strøm playlist features a new selector every month.
Deep in the crates we found Dust Masta Hiss – one of Copenhagen’s foremost record diggers with a passion for jazzfunk/ fusion, progressive, psychedelic rock, folk and library music. He is a part of the Copenhagen based DJ crew Super Bad Disco and has residency nights at the meatpacking district bar Mesteren & Lærlingen and at Søhesten.
Working on new mixtapes constantly he’s done radio shows at NTS radio and TNP Radio & MMH Radio plus mixtapes featured on DR Radio.
Can you tell us about the tracks you’ve chosen for the playlist?
The playlist holds 30 flute heavy groovers. For a long time I’ve wanted to put out a mixtape with focus on the flute, but I always end up putting the tracks on different mixtapes so this is the perfect way for me to get that kind of outlet for sure!
There is a bunch of breezy jazzfunk & soul on the playlist ranging from UK library, Soulful Detroit jazz heavy hitters, hazy beats from Belgium and Iceland plus Danish jazzfusion.
You will also find a stack of gloomy proggy folk from both the UK, US and Denmark as well as a few sunshiny psychedelic folk tunes before we reach the last couple of tracks which goes through styles like Hip Hop, electronic beats from locale producers and a new take on jazzfusion/funk and afrobeat.
We were lucky enough to have you do this digital playlist, but normally you’re all about vinyl records – How did this interest start?
Thank you! This is fun!
It started with a filmed live mix from Tue Track filmed by Simon Wehye. I had been through a long periode of listening to a lot of classic early 70’s US rock music and made my musical journey back to hip hop and rap music, which was the first music I really started to dive into when I was even younger. So this mixtape popped up one day in the late 2009, maybe early 2010 and it was an all soul/funk groover set with a world class smooth hip hop mix style. In the mix was a lot of classic hip hop / rap samples and I had the classic ‘oh shit’ experience that I’m sure a lot of people have had – when I heard the original track that was sampled by so and so. ‘Isaac Hayes – a few more kisses to go’ was one of the first ones I recognized as a sample and that just blew my mind! A very profound experience indeed. So from that day I knew I wanted to do my own beats by using other music, be involved in music and I also fell in love with soul music and that grew into everything else very quickly. I found that digging for records was and still is an amazing way of discovering new music <3
The mixtape is still available on Soundcloud and Vimeo, check it out!
Alright, this is a tough one, but: your house is on fire, which record do save and why?
Haha, my answer will probably be something else in a few months and then again maybe not! Because even though I have a lot of records from the 70’s etc. that I’m very, very happy to have a copy of, I think I would grab my Berlin Zoo record.
Not only because the music or the people directly involved with it, but because it marks a significant point of time in my life where I met a lot of like minded individuals and all of the people I now call my very dear friends <3
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