Marco Mei announces playlist for 2021 Podcast 16

Marco Mei has published the tracklist for episode 16 of 2021. Scientific Sound Asia is an English-language electronic music radio station, DJ agency, music news outlet and events promoter covering electronic music across Japan, China, Thailand, Taiwan, Korea, Sri Lanka and beyond.

Half of Bicycle Corporation and a respected solo operator in his own right, Marco Mei is an Italian DJ and producer with over thirty years of experience. His introduction to music came through afrobeat and early synthesised sound, a combination that informed his taste long before he began DJing professionally in Italy in the early 1990s.

A residency at Pacha Club in Sharm-El-Sheikh opened his career to an international circuit that has since taken in Woo Bar, Fuse in Brussels, Room 18 in Taipei, Bangaluu in Berlin, G-Star in Pattaya, SOS Supper Club in Bali and NLO in Minsk. Artists he has shared the booth with include Roger Sanchez, David Morales, Ralph Falcon, Sander Kleinenberg, Harry Choo Choo Romero, Justin Berkmann and Funk D'Void.

Bicycle Corporation, the production project he runs with Stefano Ugliano, known as 6884, launched in 2009 through 17:44 Records and has since placed over fifty tracks and remixes on labels including Alchemy, Miniatures, WL77, GrooveTraxx, Suka and Revox. The duo has recently revisited their earliest material, making those recordings available via their Bandcamp page.

Based in Taipei, Marco stays connected to the Southeast Asian scene through regular appearances that have expanded his network of artists and collaborators across the region. He is available for bookings through the Scientific Sound Asia radio station and DJ agency, and can be found on Facebook.

Marco Mei's 2021 Podcast 16 opens with a concentrated stretch of Soulful House selections that sets a warm, vocal-driven tone from the outset. Ezel and Rona Ray's Hard To Stay Away on Bayacou Records begins proceedings before Snips and Pauline Taylor's Say It in the Sandy Rivera Extended Remix and Marcel Vogel and Tim Jules's Just Because featuring Javonntte on Lumberjacks In Hell sustain the soulful direction.

Dunmore Brothers and Ayaba Poetic's Step Closer on Defected and Honey Dijon's Downtown featuring Annette Bowen and Nikki-O give the opening section a distinctly vocal-led, House Music character. Moonbootica and Ante Perry's Blow Your Cool in the Moonbootica Stripdown and Riva Starr's Love Divine featuring Phebe Edwards carry the set into a slightly more groove-oriented direction before Storm Queen's For A Fool in the Claptone Extended Remix introduces a Nu Disco warmth.

Moreno Pezzolato contributes two consecutive Tech House selections, Try Again and Say My Name with Philip Z, before Reboot's Beating Bud and Steve Lawler's House Record sustain the Tech House and Deep House direction. Mister Sweatband's Eyes and Goose's Losing You in the Whitesquare Remix carry the set through a deeper, more melodic mid-section before DJ Duke contributes two back-to-back Classic House selections, Happy Drums and Sun Chants, grounding the set in the genre's foundational vocabulary.

Koffee's Toast in the Yungness and Jaminn Remix is one of the more unexpected programming choices in the podcast; the Jamaican reggae artist's 2018 track recontextualised within a House framework before Jodie Harsh's My House in the 10 Years Of Eats Everything Main Street Mix makes another appearance across the series. Matt Correa's Everybody and Carl Cox's Sand, Moon & Stars in the Re-Rub carry the set forward, the latter's Tech House and Techno character providing one of the podcast's harder moments.

Jakob Mäder's Nights At Home in the Banali Remix and Reset Robot's I Wish You'd Never on Truesoul sustain the deeper, more melodic direction before Solomun's The Center Will Not Hold in the Club Edit introduces a Melodic House and Techno quality. Rosalinda De La Espada's Quiribi in the Yamil Remix closes the main body of the podcast on an Afro House note before J Wax's Different Nights rounds off a wide-ranging episode that balanced Soulful House warmth, Tech House energy and Melodic House depth throughout.

Marco Mei tracklist for 2021 Podcast 16.

Ezel - Hard To Stay Away Feat. Rona Ray

Snips - Say It Feat. Pauline Taylor (Sandy Rivera Extended Remix)

Marcel Vogel & Tim Jules - Just Because Feat. Javonntte

Dunmore Brothers - Step Closer Feat. Ayaba Poetic

Honey Dijon - Downtown Feat. Annette Bowen & Nikki-O

Moonbootica, Ante Perry - Blow Your Cool (Moonbootica Stripdown)

Riva Starr - Love Divine Feat. Phebe Edwards

Storm Queen - For A Fool (Claptone Extended Remix)

Moreno Pezzolato - Try Again

Moreno Pezzolato & Philip Z - Say My Name

Reboot - Beating Bud

Steve Lawler - House Record

Mister Sweatband - Eyes

Goose - Losing You (Whitesquare Remix)

DJ Duke - Happy Drums

DJ Duke - Sun Chants

Koffee - Toast (Yungness & Jaminn Remix)

Jodie Harsh - My House (10 Years Of Eats Everything Main Street Mix)

Matt Correa - Everybody

Carl Cox - Sand, Moon & Stars (Re-Rub)

Jakob Mäder - Nights At Home (Banali Remix)

Reset Robot - I Wish You'd Never [Truesoul]

Solomun - The Center Will Not Hold (Club Edit)

Rosalinda De La Espada - Quiribi (Yamil Remix)

J Wax - Different Nights

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