Mengzy Selects - 032 / February

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.

Manila-based Twelve Points Records recently released its first anniversary compilation, featuring this showstopper by Meek. Epic in scale, ‘KTWN’ reworks a 1979 Filipino disco classic into a house-breaks fusion that selectors shouldn’t sleep on as festival season approaches.

Listen to ‘KTWN’ here.

Inspired by Japan’s post-boom ‘Employment Ice Age’ and its ‘Lost Generation’ to which producer Prettybwoy belongs, is the ‘Tokyo Ice Age’ EP. Courtesy of aya, the title track enjoys a great UK leftfield club flip on the release via SVBKVLT.

Listen to ‘Tokyo Ice Age’ (aya flip) here.

Analogue wizard MARU303 crafted his new album ‘ACID TOOLZ’ using a Dirtywave M8 and Game Boy LSDJ as well as doing the artwork. ‘Hamelns Acid’ opens the impressive 12-tracker which spans acid house, breakcore, and jungle, and which is also available as a limited-edition cassette.

Listen to ‘Hamelns Acid’ here.

Purveyors of Eastern-influenced bass, Nasha Records dropped its first single of the year in the form of ‘Jaangle’. A collaboration between label co-founder Ges-e and Nuphlo, the single serves up jungle edits riding a killer symphonic sample.

Listen to ‘Jaangle’ here.

Hong Kong’s Klasse Wrecks presents ‘My Lover Cindy’ by Stevie Cox this month. The lead track is crisp breakbeat techno that the Glasgow-based artist says was inspired by visits to queer parties.

Listen to ‘My Lover Cindy’ here.

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