Guest Mix #29: NEIL BOPPERSON (Wah Wah 45’s, UK)
Brand new mix in the MIMS Guest series. This one comes from our Neil Bopperson, a great eclectic-minded DJ who is affiliated with the great WahWah45’s label. (Shout out to Dom & Scrimshire!) I met Neil at a festival a couple years ago and have been asking him for a …
Future Classic: Awanto3 “Pregnant”
Stephanie Mills is an artist I genuinely love, and apart from her soulful Boogie Funk style, it is her unique voice that steals my heart away. The first Stephanie Mills track I ever heard was You Can’t Run From My Love (1982 – produced by Mtume) and I adore this …
MIMS 7th Anniversary Party @ Piknic Electronik – August 10th
This is a really big week for us. We celebrate our 7th anniversary with a brand new site (which we hope you like) but also with our annual party to celebrate the evolution of our beloved MIMS project. The 7th anniversary party will take part this weekend at Montreal’s Piknic …
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Music Is My Sanctuary is an independent Montreal-based website and collective founded by Lexis (Alexis Charpentier) dedicated to showcasing life-changing music to an audience of open-minded music lovers. We focus on discovering and presenting music often overlooked by mainstream music channels, from Jazz to Electronic back to Hip-Hop. Through articles, interviews, …
DIGGS DUKE “Forgotten Treasures Mix #18″
Here is the 18th mix in our FORGOTTEN TREASURES series where we ask some of our favorite artists to make us a mix showcasing a few of their influences. We give them carte blanche to play anything as long as it’s very personal to them. We are happy to present …
Future Classic: Temu “Body Move” (Magic & Sorcery Stankafied)
Since the beginning of the Voyage Funktastique show, I’ve been emphasizing on playing different songs in each show, in order to give each producer some visibility, and show them my appreciation to their work. Of course, there’s some songs that I would like to play more than once, and for …
KIDKANEVIL “Forgotten Treasures Mix #17″
(picture by Dan Medhurst) It’s been a little while but we are back with another mix in our “Forgotten Treasures” series. It’s all about giving artists, whose music we love, an opportunity to showcase some of their influences or gems they don’t get an opportunity to play in their live …
Future Classic: Dead Obies “Collation Vol. 2 – Limon Verde: La Experiencia”
Dead Obies are on the rise. Hot off their Polaris Prize shortlist nomination and the critical acclaim of their excellent Montreal $ud, Limon Verde is the holy grail strain of sativa and the Obies are experimenting with new styles to keep pace with the ever changing rap landscape. The tape is …
Onra & Lexis “Throw’Em Up 3″
Volume 3 is the edition that required the most work so far because while Volume 1 was about 3/4 classics and Volume 2 about 1/2 classics, this one features some heavy digging, including a lot of rare remixes and slept-on jams. As usual, a few classics too! Tons of artists …
Future Classic: Diamond Ortiz “Calling All Squares”
For this week’s Voyage Funktastique show, I had a special guest in the studio: Scott C of The Goods collective in Montreal. On my part of the show, I absolutely wanted to play the latest release on MoFunk Records by Diamond Ortiz. I just received 2 copies of his 45, …
20 Years of UK Garage in 20 Tracks – Selected by Lexis & Dr.Love
By Lexis & Dr.Love: A little over a year ago, we got together and wrote a piece called the “History of UK Garage” and broke down our version of the UKG family tree from the influences to the sub-sub genres. It’s a post we took very seriously and we both …
Future Classic: Bonnie Banane feat. Waltaa “Champs-Élysées”
Oh my gosh! The killer duo of Bonnie Banane & Walter Mecca are back with another dope jam just in time for the summer. If you remember last years’ glorious 90’s R&B inspired “Muscles” you know what to expect from these two. We fell in love with the new “Champ Elysées” …