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Moonbeam Levels

Amar Patel

Mixtape x record club™️ 🤯 music selections and conversations. amarofpatel.substack.com

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Moonbeam Levels – November 2025

Moonbeam Levels ·

2025/11/25

Season’s greetings!As I was climbing a mountain in Wales last weekend with my doggie (more on that soon), I had to miss studio day at Sister Midnight FM. Short of time and eager to offer something to counter the winter chill, I thought, why not release volume five of Singers, Songs & Strings?This is a series I started in 2010 to celebrate the bare beauty and sacred mystery of songwriting. Mostly acoustic but not always. Sometimes instrumental and occasionally veering into the electronic and ambient

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Songs in the Key of D

Moonbeam Levels ·

2025/10/21

Last Tuesday was heavy. Already in the quicksand of loss, I had a very physical response to the news that D’Angelo had left us. I stood in the kitchen for almost half an hour, winded, pacing around… Freshly chopped onions and garlic left to dry out as a chilling air suddenly enveloped the night and swiped my appetite.This wasn’t some melodramatic reaction to the end of a parasocial relationship. This is a man I have admired, studied, grown with (and through) over more than a quarter of a century. I

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Moonbeam Levels – Sept>Oct 2025

Moonbeam Levels ·

2025/10/06

Ello you,How’s things? I am still chasing my dog’s tail while dealing with death admin and the grief of it all. Meanwhile, Winter is coming in fast and there I am being yanked around a soggy London park at 7.30am in shorts and sodden shoes. A man at odds with the world and out of season. On Friday, I returned to Dad’s place to continue the clearout and was overwhelmed by an avalanche of food tubs, plastic bags, ancient tissues, compression stockings, mobility equipment… I can’t be the only one who

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Moonbeam Levels – September 2025

Moonbeam Levels ·

2025/09/05

Hello friends, It’s almost knitwear season in the UK. Let’s look to the positives, eh. Can I play you some music? This was partly recorded live in the SE London studios of Sister Midnight FM, before my pup cut the broadcast. Naughty boy. But ‘mixtape’ is part of the ML concept, so we pivoted in the aftermath. Please let me know what you’re into! ✌🏾MAL WALDRON – Candy Girl [Strut]Those familiar with the Mal Waldron of late 50’s hard bop or the modal compositions recorded later in Japan might be

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Moonbeam Levels with FOLK author Stef Macbeth

Moonbeam Levels ·

2025/08/08

When an old friend offers to speak to you about their first novel before anyone else, you grab the chance with both hands.Stef Macbeth and I used to work at the same agency, writing words for clients and trying to make them meaningful. But really, our greatest thing in common is music, specifically [small ‘c’] club culture.A respect for the craft of DJ’ing and remixing as genuine forms of creative expression. Our shared belief in the dance as a space for communion and liberation.Ecstatic,

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Moonbeam Levels – June 2025

Moonbeam Levels ·

2025/06/14

Hiya 👋🏾Well, what can I say? It’s been a heavy few months with the unexpected passing of my father and the cumulative effect of daily puppy trials. Everything feels like a chore. All I could manage was to blend a selection that made an impression in the dark fog of my mind. See what you think. Float from ambient and experimental spaces to more upbeat and energising rhythms, before reaching for the stars as the finest house and techno kick in. Note to self: heal yourself and move.I must also shout

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Moonbeam Levels with Sam Akpro

Moonbeam Levels ·

2025/03/27

I am drawn to the elusive ones. Artists who dwell in those in-between spaces — liminal, amorphous, ephemeral – particularly musicians who are often pigeonholed and pegged to genres. That’s why Ghanaian-born, Peckham-raised Sam Akpro stood out from the jump.There’s almost constant motion in his music, where a song might take us from a grungey raw riposte to a hazy soundscape in a few minutes. Bass and drums going for the gut, fx beckoning and beguiling like floaters in the murky night sky. Guitar in

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Moonbeam Levels – March 2025

Moonbeam Levels ·

2025/03/22

Greetings!I managed to fend off my possessed new Basset Hound puppy for a few hours to bring you the next episode. He is adorable … sometimes 😈But will I ever focus again? 🤔As always, feedback is oxygen. So please write back, either below or on socials @amarofpatel. Which artists caught your ear? Which gigs have you been to? Who is Moonbeam Levels material?How do you get a hound to stop sniffing and start listening? News flash: I will be going monthly from April on my local radio station, run by

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Moonbeam Levels – December 2024

Moonbeam Levels ·

2024/12/24

Eh up! Presenting my world in sound over the past four months or so. My end-of-year, on-the-eve gift to you. Minimal chat – just mega minutes of brilliance across time and space.Music to hibernate with, reflect on or have a little kitchen bop to with loved ones over the holidays.Thoughts and feedback to [at] amarofpatel on socials or you can write to me in the comments. Please support the artists by clicking the links and picking up some of these releases.Wishing you all good things next year…Stay

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Moonbeam Levels / October 2024

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2024/10/28

Probably your favourite rapper’s favourite rapper, Daniel Dumile has had many aliases and alter egos in his career as an MC and producer. Zev Love X (with KMD), MF DOOM, Metal Face, Metal Fingers, Viktor Vaughn, King Geedorah or just DOOM. Hip-hop has never known anyone like him.An enigmatic figure with a mindblowing and often comedic command of language, DOOM was the monotone master of multisyllabic, internal rhymes and … how many entendres? To get on his overflowing stream of consciousness, a

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Moonbeam Levels / July 2024

Moonbeam Levels ·

2024/07/19

Compiled and blended by AmAr Patel@amarofpatelANYA NGOZI – SunnysideLLOYD MILLER – Mello Cello [FountainAVM]RAJI RAGS – Enchanté (featuring Raven Rush)PREFUSE 73 – Onboard, Overboard [Lex]SESSA – Gostar do Mundo (Demo) [Mexican Summer]NX WORRIES – MoveOn [Stones Throw]OHIO PLAYERS – Summertime [Charly]LARHONDA LEGETTE – Thou Art With Me [Numero]ANKANUM – Song of The Motherland [Native Rebel]KEITH HUDSON – Be Good Dub [Week-End]HOLY TONGUE MEETS SHACKLETON – The Merciful Lake [AD93]SAM MORTON – Let’s

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Moonbeam Levels / May 2024

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2024/05/05

Eh up, people!An expanded edition from London Town on a style and period of music that’s very close to my body and soul.When most people think of 80’s music with synths and drum machines, the usual electro-pop suspects come to mind: Kraftwerk, Moroder, Depeche Mode, Human League, Gary Numan, maybe Patrick Cowley.What we should be talking about is how black musicians quietly – ok, maybe not so quietly – revolutionised popular culture through their adventures in R&B from the 70s into the 80s. They

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Moonbeam Levels 013 / March 2024

Moonbeam Levels ·

2024/03/18

– click on each track to purchase –IASOS – The Angels of Comfort [Numero]LAUREL HALO – Belleville [Awe](Laurel Halo live at Jazz Cafe, London – 5 June) SUN RA – Love in Outer Space (solo live @Haverford College, 1980)BOJAN DROBEŽ – Krog Na Vodi [NTS]GANAVYA – I walk again, eyes towards the Sky [Native Rebel Recordings]ROLAND P YOUNG – Estimationism [EM Records]SC SHARMA – Dance Music 1 [State 51 Conspiracy](Full story here)MK.GEE – How Many Miles [R&R]RAINY MILLER X SPACE AFRIKA – Maybe It’s Time to

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Amped Up

Moonbeam Levels ·

2023/12/23

Amp Fiddler – Grandma’s Radio (featuring Soundboy) [Ampliphonic] https://ampfiddler.bandcamp.com/album/amp-dog-knights?from=embedAmp Fiddler – Too High (live on the Ralph Armstrong Show 2011) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NwwPx0usQKYAmp Fiddler – Superficial (Amp’s Soul Special) [Camp Amp Studios]https://www.discogs.com/master/1173843-Amp-Fiddler-Rare-And-UnreleasedAmp Fiddler – Heaven [Strut]https://bleep.com/release/306801-amp-fiddler-afro-strutAmp Fiddler – Eye to Eye

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Moonbeam Levels / November 2023

Moonbeam Levels ·

2023/11/22

Moonbeam Levels 012 – November 2023Compiled and blended by AmAr Patel@amarofpatelwww.imakesense.orgANDRÉ 3000 – I swear, I Really Wanted To Make A "Rap" Album But This Is Literally The Way The Wind Blew Me This Time [Epic]https://shop.amyriadofpyramids.com/https://tinyurl.com/andre3000-finds-himselfCARLOS NINO & FRIENDS – Boom Bap Spiritual (featuring Surya Botofasina) [International Anthem]https://intlanthem.bandcamp.com/album/im-just-chillin-on-fireROSIE TURTON – Wandering

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