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This is beguiling and intimate ambient music, full of gossamer synths and moments of quiet awe.ĭance music for the gut-busters: slamming donk records, dollar-bin gems, and a million shades of hardcore jack-knifed into the hookiest bits of pop radio.Īndrea is something of a chameleon behind the boards, blending breaks, dubstep, techno, and ambient into something startlingly new. No Moon typically works in club-focused stylings, but his mix for Truants is from a different galaxy entirely. Slippery, spacious, and dubbed-out selections from a key DJ with miles-deep crates: club sounds knocked off center, slowed down a bit, and left to bake in the sun. On their mix for Melbourne’s Upstairs//Downstairs, Nebula balance the gnarled and hypertechnical sides of drum-and-bass and jungle, resulting in a hardcore set for Dutch angles and blind alleys.Ī masterclass in rough-edged drum-and-bass from a veteran of the stuff: storming synthesizers, bass-blasted percussion, and white-knuckle energy. Three hours of anything-goes house, new beat, and disco: this is slippery and playful dance music fit for soundtracking any great night out. Bell Towers & DJ Perks – Positive Messages #66.
This is a sludge of skin-crawling electronics, as indebted to Autechre as it is to DJ Screw. On their Exhibition Mix, Ausschuss slows futuristic dance-music idioms to a crawl. Groove Podcast 297 shows him stretching into more outré territories, conjuring an hour of teeth-chattering horror-flick ambience. ML065 shows the sound collagist in his element, working with windswept and slow-motion synthetics. James Bangura is a key name in New York’s club-music renaissance, and Earful Of shows why: blazing breaks, new-school jungle, slamming techno, and jubilant house tossed into a wildly unpredictable hour.ĭeep-space trance and techno: pitch-black grooves, screaming hardcore, and dancefloor scorchers, blended to hypnotic effect.Ī characteristically omnivorous mix-hard-drum pop-radio retoolings, gnarly dubstep, kitchen-sink breakbeat-from one of New York’s most vital selectors. One of house music’s sunniest spirits slows things down a bit, dropping into sludgy dancefloor idioms: zonked-out breaks, left-field house, and countless forms in between. Kode9 – London Unlocked: Kode9 at Round Chapelġ60-BPM dance music for the uncanny valley: haunted-house MIDI symphonies, footwork turned inside out, and an alien sense of humor.Ī radio play suited for a neo-fascist world, a thrown gauntlet for club-music futurism, and an elegy for a million lost futures.Here are some of the best DJ sets 2021 had to offer. The immediate future of dancefloors may be an open question, but if the names in here are anything to go by, there’s little to worry about. They showcase all sorts of artists working at the top of their game, whether they work with gauzy ambience, blazing club tools, retrofuturist floor-fillers, miles-deep house and techno, and plenty of stuff that slips between the cracks. This list is an effort to capture the breadth of that role: it houses fifty of the most exciting transmissions from another uncertain year. Whatever the venue, the slow reemergence of club nights in 2021 shows that the DJ’s art is just as vital as ever-not just as a party-starter, but also as a documentarian, a curator, or a fabulist. In what proved to be a deeply polarizing issue, parties without evident health considerations-some critics dubbed them “plague raves” -sprouted up across the world, daring any would-be dancer to brave the threat of infection in exchange for a night out. Some clubs, shuttered due to Covid-19, have started to inch towards reopening for good with the help of vaccine cards. © 2022 Los Angeles Rams.Please help support truly independent music journalism by subscribing to Passion of the Weiss on Patreon.Īs 2021 draws to a close, dancefloors still remain in limbo.
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