Anonymous Z publishes playlist for Not So Anonymous 45

Anonymous Z has revealed the playlist for the forthcoming Not So Anonymous 45 show on Scientific Sound Asia. Scientific Sound Asia works across the region through its radio station, artist network and event activity. Its wider platform also includes a DJ agency and regular music news coverage.

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. Further selections and archive material can be found through his SoundCloud and Mixcloud.

Anonymous Z presents Not So Anonymous episode 45 with a selection centred on Italo Disco, Nu-Disco, Indie Dance and darker electronic club material. The show opens with Floating On in the Bottin edit, placing the first track inside a modern disco re-edit context shaped by Bottin’s Italo and Nu-Disco background.

Discotheque’s Disco Special continues the opening section with a direct disco reference before Black Light Smoke’s Take Me Out moves towards Indie Dance. Hall & Oates then appear through I Can't Go For That (No Can Do) in Jo Manji’s Italo Disco Mix, reshaping a familiar pop and soul source into an Italo Disco form.

Jex Opolis’ Listen To The Band introduces Electronica through its Beatport listing, adding a cleaner modern electronic tone. Andrea Lacoste’s Hass in the Pardon Moi remix then turns the mix darker before Marcello Giordani’s Chubby Rain brings the Italo Disco line back into focus.

The second Bottin edit, Something About This Place, returns the show to Nu Disco / Disco with another edited source shaped for club use. James Rod’s Lipstick 78 continues that direction before Dionigi’s You Look Good Tonight in the Italo Mix strengthens the 1980s-influenced electronic disco thread.

Vivian Vee’s Blue Disease keeps the programme inside Italo Disco, drawing from the artist’s association with Italian disco and synth-led club music. Daniel Monaco’s Lone Comet then moves into Nu Disco / Disco, supported by its cosmic disco context and 1980s-inspired production language.

Fran’s We Are Planets in the Oliver Koletzki remix shifts the set back towards Indie Dance with a more melodic and contemporary club structure. Mugwump’s Parallel Lifetimes then introduces House Music, giving the middle section a steadier rhythm after the Italo-led run.

Lifelike’s Trance Europe Sexpress keeps the set inside Indie Dance through its Beatport listing and retro-futurist production style. Bottin, Francisco and Rodion then return to Italo Disco with Zombie Erotic, joining three artists closely linked to modern Italian and European disco references.

Italoconnection’s Neon Disco in the Flemming Dalum remix follows with another Italo Disco entry, supported by its Bordello A Parigi release context. Den Haan’s Universal Energy in the Statickman remix then restores the Nu Disco / Disco thread with a cosmic and synth-heavy club tone.

Shit Robot’s Simple Things in the Todd Terje version brings Indie Dance into the late section, with disco and house influence running through its DFA-linked remix context. Free Love’s Skin On Skin then adds a darker electronic turn before Sex Judas and Ricky’s Everything Changes in the Tim Paris Mind Power Edit returns to Nu Disco / Disco.

Xinobi closes episode 45 with Far Away Place, ending the show on an Indie Dance selection after a route through Italo Disco, Nu Disco, House, Electronica and darker club material. Anonymous Z links re-edits, 1980s-inspired synth work and modern disco production into a slow-burning selection with a clear retro electronic core.

Anonymous Z Not So Anonymous episode 45

Unknown Artist - Floating On (Bottin Edit)

Discotheque - Disco Special (Original Mix)

Black Light Smoke - Take Me Out (Original Mix)

Hall & Oates -  I Can't Go For That (No Can Do) (Jo Manji's Italo Disco Mix)

Jex Opolis - Listen to the Band (Original Mix)

Andrea Lacoste - Hass (Pardon Moi Remix)

GIORDANI, Marcello - Chubby Rain (Original Mix)

Unknown Artist - Something About This Place (Bottin Edit)

James Rod - Lipstick 78 (Original Mix)

Dionigi - You Look Good Tonight (Italo Mix)

Vivien Vee - Blue Disease (Original Mix)

Daniel Monaco - Lone Comet (Original Mix)

Fran - We Are Planets (Oliver Koletzki remix)

Mugwump - Parallel Lifetimes (Original Mix)

Lifelike - Trance Europe Sexpress (Extended Mix)

Bottin, Francisco & Rodion - Zombie Erotic (Original Mix)

Italoconnection - Neon Disco feat. Francesca Gastaldi (Flemming Dalum Remix)

Den Haan - Universal Energy (Statickman Remix)

Shit Robot - Simple Things (Todd Terje Version)

Free Love - Skin On Skin (Original Mix)

Sex Judas Feat. Ricky - Everything Changes (Tim Paris  Mind Power Edit)

Xinobi - Far Away Place (Original Mix)

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