Mengzy Selects - 038 / August

Welcome to ‘Mengzy Selects’, a monthly video column which features 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.

JIALING strikes again with ‘WUPS!’ via New York-based Sorry Records. ‘BANANA PEEL’ kicks off the four-tracker that sees the Baltimore Club-dedicated producer in excellent form the same month as the release of her collab with Sam Binga.

Listen to ‘BANANA PEEL’ here.

Shimpei Watanabe’s ‘Bald vs Tall’ EP dropped last week featuring remixes from Yuto Takei, Pharamaki Sanders and label head Pine. Yuto Takei’s remix of ‘Wozee’ adds a subtle electro flair to the Balearic-infused track.

Jugaar Records co-founder Rudoh returns to the label with an outstanding five-track project that flirts with techno, breaks, jungle and electro. ‘Doom’, featuring Neroli, channels the peak kinetic energy of the EP, which is aptly named ‘Warp Speed’.

Listen to ‘Doom’ (feat. Neroli) here.

Berlin-based Mindaniel recently shared his remix of ‘Em Di Chua Huong’ via Stargazing Records. The project has special significance for the Hanoi-born producer who described it as “the heartbeat of an overseas Vietnamese aching for the motherland.”

Listen to ‘Em Di Chua Huong’ (Mindaniel Remix) here.

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