Anonymous Z announces playlist for Not So Anonymous 42

Anonymous Z has revealed the playlist for the forthcoming Not So Anonymous 42 show on Scientific Sound Asia. The platform operates as an online electronic music radio station, promoter and DJ agency, catering to local and expatriate audiences across Asia while also publishing music news.

Anonymous Z is widely known in Saigon, Vietnam, as the founder of the Mad Circus parties. He previously organised Glassroom, Bahrain’s first underground DJ collective, bringing together an international group of artists and nightlife figures.

Through Glassroom, he put together legal parties and renegade after-parties that became part of local nightlife folklore. His motto during that period was, “They tried to bury us, but they forgot we were seeds.”

After becoming part of the Banana Hustle crew in Ho Chi Minh City, he helped shape the collective’s tropical event identity. Originally focused on Techno, he later expanded his digging into Afro, House, Disco and Funk.

His selections bring together hand-picked Techno, current Indie Dance and music drawn from a wider underground spectrum. This approach has taken him into recognised venues in Vietnam, including Arcan, The Lighthouse, Broma and Vitamin D after-parties.

Anonymous Z’s sets are often improvised and non-linear, shaped by the crowd rather than fixed structures. Tense basslines, groove-led rhythms and melodic storytelling sit at the centre of his style.

Over time, he has developed a sound that moves through World Music influences and early forms of electronic music. His darker sets can move into trippy Downtempo, tribal percussion, South American influences and leftfield club sounds.

He also explores darker groove-led selections built from Leftfield Electro, Indie Dance, Nu Disco, Electroclash, New Wave, New Beat, Dark Wave and Dark Disco. His wider archive can be followed through SoundCloud and Mixcloud.

Not So Anonymous 42 pays tribute to Disco in its darker, deeper and more groove-focused forms. The episode places Disco within Anonymous Z’s wider underground vocabulary, linking dancefloor rhythm with his taste for bass pressure, percussion and shadowed melodic detail.

Anonymous Z presents Not So Anonymous episode 42 with a selection centred on Indie Dance, Nu Disco, Dark Disco and leftfield House. Erel opens with Storyteller, placing the first track inside a slow-burning electronic club setting before Lusca and Tronik Youth move into darker territory with Found Again in the Mufti remix.

Theus Mago’s No More Hands in the Kuunde and Javier Ferreira remix keeps the early section close to Indie Dance through Playground Records’ electronic club context. Favio Inker and Rodrigo Ann then continue that direction with Peso Pesado, followed by Umvral’s Stereo Disco in the Technicism remix, which shifts the set towards Dark Disco.

Club Mayz bring the programme into Nu Disco with Penguins Can't Fly, adding a brighter disco-led contrast after the darker opening run. Dombrance’s Tulum in the Mijo and Perfect Lovers remix then moves into Electronica, matching its Beatport listing and Fauna Rêve’s electronic, disco and downtempo context.

Télépopmusik and Young & Sick’s Circles appears in the Mala Ika remix, returning the show to Indie Dance through a vocal electronic source reshaped for club use. Endrik Schroeder’s The Quest keeps that direction in place before Massimiliano Pagliara’s It's A Lately Thing moves back towards Nu Disco / Disco with a warm analogue edge.

Kalabrese’s Makelovedisco introduces Tech House through its Beatport listing, while still sitting close to his loose blend of house, funk, disco and leftfield rhythm. Quincy Jointz then adds a Nu Funk turn with Blast, supported by Timewarp Music’s description of his catalogue across funky breakbeat, downbeat and Nu Funk.

Lauer’s Mausback in the Fabrizio Mammarella remix restores the Indie Dance line through its Permanent Vacation listing. IPG and Hot Toddy’s Slow Motion Cowboy in the Hifi Sean remix then brings the set back towards Nu Disco / Disco before Spiteri, Juan Laya and Jorge Montiel’s The Power Of Disco in the Tommy Glasses remix adds a Disco House lift.

Take The Cookies’ Could I Drown In Your Desire keeps the late middle section inside Nu Disco / Disco, balancing the show’s darker tracks with a more direct disco pulse. The Magic Ray’s The Enjoyment Of Fear in the Damon Jee remix then returns to Dark Disco, using a sharper and more dramatic club frame.

Den Haan’s Universal Energy in the Statickman remix and Ronnie Jones’ Lovin' Lasers in the Jkriv edit continue the Nu Disco / Disco thread. Alessio Pagliaroli and Giorgia Angiuli’s New World then brings a House entry into the late section with a melodic vocal focus.

The Magic Ray’s The Enjoyment Of Fear appears again in the Damon Jee remix, reinforcing the Dark Disco character of the final stretch. Azeem’s New World in the Ivan Fabra remix then returns to Indie Dance before Mugwump’s Parallel Lifetimes closes the episode on a House selection.

Not So Anonymous episode 42 links Indie Dance, Nu Disco, Dark Disco, House, Electronica and Nu Funk through a slow-burning club structure. Anonymous Z uses edits, remixes and leftfield disco references to create a selection that moves from shadowy club music into brighter disco and house material.

Anonymous Z 'Not So Anonymous' episode 42

Erel - Storyteller (Original Mix)

Lusca & Tronik Youth - Found Again (Mufti Remix)

Theus Mago - No More Hands (Kuunde & Javier Ferreira Remix)

Favio Inker Feat. Rodrigo Ann - Peso Pesado (Original Mix)

Umvral - Stereo Disco (Technicism Remix)

Club Mayz - Penguins Can't Fly (Original Mix)

Dombrance - Tulum (Mijo & Perfect Lovers Remix)

Télépopmusik Feat. Young & Sick - Circles (Mala Ika Remix)

Endrik Schroeder - The Quest (Original Mix)

Massimiliano Pagliara - It's A Lately Thing (Original Mix)

Kalabrese - Makelovedisco (Original Mix)

Quincy Jointz - Blast Feat. Geriba & Mc Feva (Valique Ghetto Disco Acid Mix)

Lauer - Mausback (Fabrizio Mammarella Remix)

Ipg & Hot Toddy - Slow Motion Cowboy (Hifi Sean Remix)

Spiteri, Juan Laya & Jorge Montiel - The Power Of Disco (Tommy Glasses Remix)

Take The Cookies - Could I Drown In Your Desire (Original Mix)

The Magic Ray - The Enjoyment Of Fear (Damon Jee Remix)

Den Haan - Universal Energy (Statickman Remix)

Ronnie Jones - Lovin' Lasers (Jkriv Edit)

Alessio Pagliaroli Feat. Giorgia Angiuli - New World (Original Mix)

The Magic Ray - The Enjoyment Of Fear (Damon Jee Remix)

Azeem - New World (Ivan Fabra Remix)

Mugwump - Parallel Lifetimes (Original Mix)

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