Mengzy Selects - 039 / September

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.

In July we covered co.kr’s track, remixed by WOST that came via his new party brand-turned imprint. Now, GHETTO-RAY has dropped a bassy VA that demands attention. Our favourite? h4rdy’s breaks workout, ‘Roll the Selection’.

Listen to ‘Roll the Selection’ here.

Naya Beat is back with another incredible archival find: Mohinder Kaur Bhamra’s ‘Disco Wich Aa’ from 1982’s long-lost ‘Punjabi Disco’. On the lead single, Peaking Lights remixes the track into a 7-minute acid disco fantasy with the full album re-release to follow soon...

Listen to ‘Disco Wich Aa’ (Peaking Lights Remix) here.

Samuel Smoky Purple released ‘Garden of Flowers EP’ via TREKKIE TRAX on September 19. The project was inspired by the Tokyo-based artist discovering and subsequently restoring his mother’s KORG Polysix that she had previously used in her student band days. ‘Anemone’ opens the 10-tracker.

Listen to ‘Anemone’ here.

Up and coming producer SKECH recently shared his debut release, a remix of Runaaki’s ‘Nomad’ via Malaysian 140 label Sir Dub Muzik. From the sound of this, I think we can expect great things from the young dubstep talent...

Listen ‘Nomad’ (SKECH Remix) here.

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