Mengzy Selects - 041 / November

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.

We opened last month’s ‘Selects’ with a Stupid Kozo track and we had no choice but to do it again with ‘Turn Me On’, his new collab via KOOL SWITCH WORKS. Produced with label co-founder Pharamaki Sanders, the single merges their respective R&B and 90s funk approaches.

Listen to ‘Turn Me On’ here.

Bangkok-based Keep Me In The Light’s disco and Italo-influenced productions found a fitting home on Hammer’s label Remmah recently. Euphoric prog house track ‘Welcome to St Louis’ takes the 3-track EP to its climax.

Listen to ‘Welcome to St Louis’ here.

With a Phasmid collab that came out in May and a standout track on Hekdb this month, miaaa is definitely grabbing our attention. Featured on the third edition of the label’s VA series, ‘At point conscious’ sees the Kuala Lumpur-based DJ deliver solid leftfield techno and bass.

Listen to ‘At point conscious’ here.

After the success of ‘The Napoli Exchange’, EX GENERATION switched their ethnographic focus from Italy to India to make ‘The Mumbai Exchange’ – released on Novembver 20. Extensive digging through Bollywood disco and collaborating with esteemed Indian musicians and vocalists led to incredible productions like ‘Bandra Hustle’.

Listen to ‘Bandra Hustle’ here.

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Mengzy is Mixmag Asia’s Music Culture Columnist, follow her on Instagram.

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