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  1. 4d ago

    Wild City #266: Best Friends (Live From JUNA)

    Our latest mix is a special 2.5-hour journey recorded live by Likwid and Deep Brown, a super pair of DJs who perform together under the name Best Friends, during their performance at Goa's JUNA back in July. Being the forces behind institutions like Bleep, Dusdozen, DGTL India, and Forward, Likwid and Deep Brown's partnership goes back through different cities all the way to their home region of Kolkata. The experience translates into the cohesiveness with which the pair maintain the ebb and flow of the 2.5-hour mix.  It is an exercise in stimulation that starts laid-back with minimal and ambient techno before the textures turn more psychedelic and acid-inspired cuts like Eden Burns' 'House Non Stop' 30 minutes in, before the mix slowly enters the funky bass of house for its sustained middle peak. The rhythms of the basslines are slowly substituted by rhythms of drums, as percussive cuts by the likes of Orion Agassi turn the experience heavier, leading us finally deep into the purer and darker grounds of acid house and techno before the pair brings us back down gently.  More information: https://www.thewildcity.com/mixes/21891-wild-city-266-best-friends-likwid-deep-brown

    Wild City #266: Best Friends (Live From JUNA)

  2. Oct 16

    Wild City #265: Wadjet

    Wadjet's mix kicks off with the four-to-the-floor pulse of techno, surrounded by expansive pads and peripheral atonal textures, before breaking into the whirring arpeggios of acid. Usually, these elements accompany introspective, sombre and dark musical journeys. Yet, Wadjet manages to utilise them to create an upbeat and uplifting Wild City mix. Without losing the mood, the techno pulse moves into funkier mechanical patterns before returning with Breaka's 'Berry Baby Cheeto'. Halfway through, the mood finally turns more onerous as Trejano's 'Just Feel' ushers in a more guttural segment defined by heightened zany sounds and metallic percussion before slowly returning to the light-heartedness with which the mix started. More information: https://www.thewildcity.com/mixes/21865-wild-city-265-wadjet

    Wild City #265: Wadjet

  3. Sep 18

    Wild City #264: Baawra

    Hiten Mutreja aka Baawra's Wild City mix is expansive and spacious, but without the tropes of reverb-drenched sounds or large rumbling kicks. Instead, the DJ and Pune party-throwing collective MAUSHI member keeps his techno selections carrying an understated quality, with minimal layers maintaining their hypnosis through delicately morphing melodic repetitions rather than the more obvious approach of sustained textures. It's around the raunchy vocal samples from a remix of Danton Eeprom's 'All I Can Say' that things begin to change, entering more dramatic sonic worlds with the tense strings of Alex Neri's 'Tenax Roots' before Baawra gradually leads the journey back into percussive and subtle techno. The mix expands and brings together the room through its journey without losing the somatic pulse.  More information: https://www.thewildcity.com/mixes/21835-wild-city-264-baawra

    Wild City #264: Baawra

  4. Jul 3

    Wild City #263: Bombie

    Bombie can move a club floor. She has done so for stages shared with the likes of dance music giants like Jane Fitz and Special Request. However, the Bangalore-based DJ sets a different goal for her Wild City mix, focusing instead on creating a cerebral journey. The mix kicks from an ambient starting point before jumping between leftfield, dub and downtempo without shying away from radical choices. For instance, when a 303's acid basslines (part of the usual fare for the DJ) do ring out on K.Pierco's 'Loop for the Numb', Bombie slows them down so much that they get removed from their original club-oriented style to fit her specific vision for the mix. Polyrhythmic transitions create big rhythmic leaps while the atmosphere seamlessly deepens into the low-pressure of dub. Only on the breakbeats of the two tracks by dgoHn or the footwork-ish kicks of 'persona non grata (Wordcolour Remix)' by INGI do we undeniably enter the realm of club music. Remind yourself that we started from the beatless spaces of ambient to arrive at these beat-heavy genres to realise the span the mix succinctly covers while fully counting upon some deep cuts.  More information & tracklisting: https://www.thewildcity.com/mixes/21742-wild-city-263-bombie

    Wild City #263: Bombie

  5. Jun 18

    Wild City #262: Pia Collada B2B Stain (Future Funk: The One Year Dance)

    With just over a year of existence, the party-throwers Future Funk have begun to dominate the nightlife of New Delhi – hosting parties that go beyond the usual fare of house and techno to dedicate nights to footwork, breaks and hip-hop. Even their next, on June 19, sees Taru Dalmia aka Delhi Sultanate jump in with Sanil Sudan aka Tyrell Dub Corp, and joined by the likes of Akashi and DARN, to celebrate the sounds of dub.  The event comes at the heels of Future Funk's first anniversary, which they celebrated with 'The One Year Dance', from which they are sharing a soundsystem-celebrating mix between Pia Collada and Stain as their Wild City mix. The mix is a great instance of a B2B set managing to be cohesive, as it's connected with low-pressure basslines running under snappy electronic drums, while showcasing two distinct yet complementary styles. Pia Collada takes attention to percussive interplays and celluloid samples to interject Stain's bass-heavy drops that move through eras and styles within dub music – creating an overall colourful mix without abandoning the dedicated style. For more: https://www.thewildcity.com/mixes/21727-wild-city-262-pia-collada-b2b-stain-future-funk-the-one-year-dance

    Wild City #262: Pia Collada B2B Stain (Future Funk: The One Year Dance)

  6. May 19

    Wild City #261: OG SHEZ

    Ahead of the sophomore edition in her party series Culture Club, OG SHEZ sets the tone with her Wild City mix. It moves from rising Shillong rapper Reble's just-released track 'Praying Mantis' and an edit of Travis Scott to the Punjabi dance number 'Jersey Jhoomer' and a Cardi B edit – all within the first 4 minutes. Evidently, the Mumbai DJ moves fast, quick-cutting through disparate genres but with a common bounce. 10 minutes in with the cinematic rhythmic layers of 'Ganga Riddim', the mix shifts more into layering, building grooves through works from homegrown talents such as Karan Kanchan, noni-mouse, tricksingh and even Rajah Betta's recent Apache Indian flip 'ChokL8' before ending the journey with Drake and The Weeknd collaboration 'Crew Love'. OG SHEZ brings recognisable voices but, like a true DJ, elevates their individual merit till they slam hard together for the dancefloor. More information & tracklisting: https://www.thewildcity.com/mixes/21685-wild-city-261-og-shez

    Wild City #261: OG SHEZ

  7. May 12

    Wild City #260 - Mo'Homo

    For Aadhi aka Mo'Homo, "community" isn't just a buzzword as his fledgling work so far testifies. If you've attended any event dedicated to centring queer voices in North Goa over the last year (or even the last New Year's Eve Party at Prana, a calendar highlight for the state's nightlife now), chances are you have moved to Mo'Homo's selections. The DJ, curator and multi-disciplinary artist very much dedicates his practice to "queering the dance floor" through back-to-back shows dedicated to the cause, co-founding The Audacity Collective and curating the queer-centric festival Mix Fruit Juice, besides finding himself on lineups for Nida-led party series Paradisco and dnb India's Bangalore Massive. While it might be a projection on our part, however, given that the Indian government passed a regressive bill disabling self-identification for transgenders between the time we asked Mo'Homo to contribute a Wild City Mix and when we received it, it does feel the mix carries some of the emotional response to it. With a peak-time energy, the mix moves on the edge between textural bass music and joyous house, resounding the resilience of dance music's early days when it served as a place of acceptance, connection and healing to brave the forced repression being meted out to marginalised identities in general society. Kicking off with a few rousers from the likes of Breaka and SUCHI, the mix settles into a more cruising energy with an emotional undertone, most heavily felt on Dismantle's 'Tomorrow Will Be Different' (Mo'Homo borrows the very title for this mix) and then on the penultimate 'Milk' by George Fitzgerald and Fold. Tracklist & more info: https://www.thewildcity.com/mixes/21670-wild-city-260-mo-homo

    Wild City #260 - Mo'Homo

  8. Feb 23

    Wild City #259: Chutney Mary

    As the person behind the gender diversity-centring club night QRAVE and the informative gatherings Flower Tools, Avril Stormy Unger knows more than a thing or two about making the dancefloor shake. But when it comes to creating a Wild City Mix, the Goa-based drag, stand-up and multi-disciplinary performer who DJs as Chutney Mary keeps in mind how the mix might be consumed (likely private home-listening) and utilises it to experiment with the space between the ambient and the rhythmic instead.  Sandwiching in her local contemporaries like Fursat FM and Catatacat in a mix that kicks off with heavyweights like Laurel Halo and Hania Rani, Avril doesn't just sequence the soundscapes but plays with them. The disjointed drums in Etapp Kyle's 'Nolove' seem to answer the call for madness in Pan Daijing's 'Let' while underlining it. When the minimal thump of Mython & Jonas Xenon's 'Nudge', straight from techno mecca Tresor Records, enters, their four-to-the-floor drums feel more like an ambient pulse than a visceral one in the context of the mix. The selections only enter pure dance music territory in its quick-switching final quarter, giving the whole build-up a climax.  More information and tracklisting: https://www.thewildcity.com/mixes/21568-wild-city-259-chutney-mary

    Wild City #259: Chutney Mary
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