Hailing from Rome, Florence based, Simona Faraone is one of the first women to have undertaken the DJ career in Italy and Europe. Refined digger of cutting-edge sounds, she started a long and respected militancy in the Italian underground scene in 1987, with a background deeply rooted in the African-American music and an eclectic, original style.
As an activist in the Italian club culture, she’s seen the birth and partaken in almost all the electronic music movements: from the seminal house and techno-rave, across the progressive detour, until the manifold forms of contemporary electronica. In 2015 Simona joined Roots Underground Records as Executive Producer, in partnership with the label founder Marco Celeri, contributing to the launch of the vinyl catalogue.
Her very own project of “Phonographic Editions From Tomorrow’s World” called New Interplanetary Melodies was born in 2016 paying tribute to the unique and visionary approach of Sun Ra. It’s an experimental, free, transversal, and contaminated imprint which aims at promoting the sound of brilliant unconventional music producers and musicians, to create a parallel dimension in the world of modern independent sounds.
In her Macondo mix she takes us on a journey through Spiritual Jazz, Funk, Broken Beat, Soul and Brazilian sounds.
Tracklist :
1- Sun Ra and His Arkestra – Enlightenment
2- Pharoah Sanders – Oh Lord, Let Me Do No Wrong
3- United Future Organization – Mistress Of The Dance
4- Art Blakey and The Jazz Messengers – Moanin’
5- Funkadelic ( Reworked by Detroiters ) – Maggot Brain ( BMN Dub )
6- Indiana Highway – We Three Kings
7- Jackie McLean – Sweet Love Of Mine
8- Donald Byrd – Onward ‘Til Morning
9- Flora Purim – What Can I Say ?
10- Dom Um Romao – Shake
11- Reginald Omas Mamode IV – Peoples Pattern
12- Piero Umiliani – Bolidi Al Collaudo
13- Reginald Omas Mamode IV – Interlude
14- Fawda Trio – Aisha ft. Maalem Soudami
15- Earth,Wind & Fire – Power
16- Cotillion – If You Give A Dance
17- Funkadelic ( Reworked by Detroiters ) – Get Your Ass Off And Jam ( Marcellus Pittman Remix )
18- Dego & The 2000 Black Faily – The Way It Should Be
19- Brothermartino & Ivory Boy – Braziliana
20- Ricardo Miranda – Friday Grooves
21- Anthony Parasaula – Crumarjay ( next on Roots Underground Records )
22- Waajeed – Better Late Than Never