Mengzy Selects – 044 / February

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.

Last week saw GABBY GUNN release ‘Tectonics’ on Scuffed Recordings. The 2-track EP marks the production debut for the London-based Chinese-Scottish DJ. Acid and breakbeat techno collide on ‘Mount Etna’, a “crash-heavy” Prodigy-inspired belter.

Listen to ‘Mount Etna’ here.

Berlin-based collective and now label BUTO BAYANG shared its inaugural VA earlier this month. ‘BUTO BAYANG Vol. I’ spotlights ten Asian diaspora producers, including co-founder ENNIO who flexes feverish techno on ‘Crave U’. Artwork for the release is by the label’s other co-founder, HAMY.

Listen to ‘Crave U’ here.

Out of Bali comes an exceptional collaboration between Masagi and vocabot-P. ‘St. Boulevard’ features on Masagi’s third EP, ‘Fana’, and is a playful exploration of techno and breaks between the two Indonesian producers that has surprises at every turn.

Listen to ‘St. Boulevard’ (feat. Vocabot-P) here.

Hong Kong-based Fly Polar was recently signed to Pete Cannon’s N4 Recordings. The duo’s jungle track ‘Press Up’ features on the label’s limited edition vinyl series alongside a production by the label founder himself.

Listen to ‘Press Up’ here.