DJ Mahssa's set from the intercontinental psychedelic dance party

DJ Mahssa set at intercontinental psychedelic dance party, Sud Basel, 2/24/2012 

I'm very happy that DJ Mahssa from Los Angeles (via Teheran) stopped in Basel on her long European tour to play at the intercontinental psychedelic dance party I recently organised. 

I'm a big fan of her (essential) Pomegranates compilation with Persian pre-revolutionary funk/pop/psych. Among many other things she's also running the US-branch of Finders Keepers Records, is a member of the B-Music collective and is about to open a shop called Mount Analog for europhile psychedelia-loving Californian connoisseurs.

She kindly let me record and now publish her smashing set of Persian, Turkish and other delights from the party. Thanks again, Mahssa!

Stream from Mixcloud or download here.

Previously: My own set from the party.

intercontinental psychedelic dance party

I'm organising a little intercontinental psychedelic dance party this friday. Let me know if you're on my corner of the world (Basel, Switzerland) and come to the party! DJ Mahssa from Los Angeles will play, who compiled the wonderful "Pomegranates" record with persian pre-revolutionary pop.

Support Finders Keepers

Finders Keepers Records helped us rediscover some of the most amazing music from the past: Pakistani synth-meets-accordion soundtracks, hungarian fuzz, Swiss musique concrète / synth jazz, Krauty cuckoos, psyched out Frenchmen, heavy heavy thai stuff and Czech fairy tale music among many other things. I wish all reissue labels worked in the same careful way, clearing all the rights, adding extensive liner notes and amazing cover art.

Now Finders Keepers is in danger after a fire during the London riots destroyed 90% of their stock, as well as the stock of about 100 other independent labels, interrupting their income immediately.
Help them recover by buying Mp3s through their Mp3 store, T-Shirts and the series of special CDs they set up with the help of Jarvis Cocker, Gruff Rhys, Demdike Stare and many others.
I had the pleasure to work with Andy Votel and Doug Shipton  from Finder Keepers in the past - they are also extremely nice people. So, please go buy some Mp3s, ok?

The two clips below were created for an event in the context of the essential FK-release Pomegranates with pre-revolution pop from Persia/Iran.