Mengzy Selects – 046 / April

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.

‘Sighs & Comes Like An Angel’ is Horseboyy’s newest release since his debut EP, ‘Horsepowah’ last year. The Balearic maxi-single includes a Fantasy Mix that features fellow Manila-based musician, trumpeter Gabriel Lazaro.

Listen to ‘Sighs & Comes Like An Angel’ (Fantasy Mix) here.

Released last week, ‘Dial Again’ comes to us via Late Night Shopper’s sophomore release. A London-Rotterdam link up between Manami and Alberta Balsam, the EP is a stylish exercise in leftfield bass and techno aesthetics.

Listen to ‘Dial Again’ here.

A year and a half ago, we covered ‘Visions of New Fusion’ by New Delhi-based Pluto Monkey and STREETON. This month the duo is back with another collab and their shared vision is as gorgeous as ever on ‘Lucid’, a Korg Minilogue and Rhodes-infused broken beat gem.

Listen to ‘Lucid’ here.

It’s not often we report on concept albums but here we are, thanks to Onra who just dropped ‘After Dark’, the original motion picture soundtrack to an imaginary late-night film. ‘Lap of Luxury’ exemplifies the lush late-‘80s / early-‘90s sound on the LP, which is available on digital, vinyl and cassette tape formats.

Listen ‘Lap of Luxury’ here.

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