Mengzy Selects - 025 / July

Welcome to ‘Mengzy Selects’, a monthly video column which features five recently released tracks by producers and labels in Asia and across the Asian diaspora. Your host is Mengzy: a Hong Kong-based DJ and producer, PhD in musicology, music journalist, and co-founder of Feed the Dragon.

To watch the video version of this month’s column, click here.

Shanghai’s Gully Riddim recently welcomed South Korean producer LOBOTOME to the label for its eleventh release. On the EP, h4rdy amps up opener ‘Dose’ from atmospheric 2-step to dance-ready speed garage in a standout remix.

Listen to ‘Dose’ (h4rdy's Desire Mix) here.

Bollywood meets amapiano on a seductive new single from Kalbaisakhi and Kimeraa. It samples a hit song from 2005’s Bluffmaster, which we hear is a classic at Indian weddings. If that’s the case, we say ‘Saynapiano’ is the perfect update.

Listen to ‘Saynapiano’ here.

We’re really excited about Venko’s ‘Kick !’, which finally hit Bandcamp in mid-July. The Seoul-based artist also tapped Murder He Wrote and Trekkie Trax’s andrew for remixes of his leftfield electro-bass hybrid to round off the release.

Listen to ‘Kick !’ here.

Referring to a collaborative performance between Indian classical musicians, ‘Jugalbandi’ was released as a four-track EP on Bristolian label space•lab earlier this month. The title track delivers top-tier deep breaks from Monophonik and Kohra.

Listen to ‘Jugalbandi’ here.

Jakarta’s Dead Pepaya dropped Vol. 4 of its double-sider ‘Bunga Elektronika’ series on July 5 and the A-side is a fire-starter. With a deadly stab and melodramatic vocal running through it, VT-00 made demonic techno great again this July with ‘Inferno’.

Listen to ‘Inferno’ here.

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