Marco Mei announces playlist for Lunar New Year show

Marco Mei has published the tracklist for episode 7 of 2021, broadcast on Saturday the 13th of February, coinciding with Lunar New Year. 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.

Marco Mei is an Italian DJ and producer whose career spans more than three decades, rooted in the early days of afrobeat, funk, disco and synthesised music. He stepped into DJing in the early 1990s in Italy, steadily building a presence that would take him across some of the most well-regarded clubs and festivals worldwide.

Venues including 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 have all featured on his circuit, alongside a long-standing residency at Pacha Club in Sharm-El-Sheikh. Artists he has appeared alongside include Roger Sanchez, David Morales, Ralph Falcon, Sander Kleinenberg, Harry Choo Choo Romero, Justin Berkmann and Funk D'Void.

The Bicycle Corporation project, formed with Stefano Ugliano, known as 6884, in 2009, brought a studio dimension to his career that gained traction quickly through 17:44 Records. Output across Alchemy, Miniatures, WL77, GrooveTraxx, Suka and Revox has accumulated over fifty tracks and remixes spanning deep house, tech house, French house and techno, with recognition from Dubfire, Axwell, Danny Tenaglia, Mauro Picotto and Above and Beyond.

His Taipei base has been the launchpad for Ciao Taipei, a party that carved out a reputation in the city's underground from 2013 and extended his connections across South East Asia. Bookings are available through the Scientific Sound Asia radio station and DJ agency. Follow him on Facebook.

Marco Mei's Lunar New Year show from 13th February 2021 opens with Maddeof's One Time setting a warm House Music tone before Erobique and Robag Wruhme's Hier Kommt Die Sonne on Nachtdigital introduces a Minimal and Balearic quality. The track is a House reworking of The Beatles's Here Comes the Sun, a fitting choice for a Lunar New Year broadcast given its seasonal associations.

Lawrence contributes two consecutive selections on Mulemusiq, Neonlights and Gardens Of Moss in the Hip Hop Version, the German producer's Deep House and Minimal sensibility giving the opening section a considered, understated character. Solomun and Ätna's Tuk Tuk and Marbs, Evan Casey and Katie K's Birds On A Wire in the Damian Lazarus Re-shape sustain the deep and melodic direction before Alex Aguayo's Too Late and Tony Y Not's Last Night in the Armonica Remix carry the set through its early mid-section.

Joshlane's Supervision and Anja Schneider's All I See in the 2021 Edit bring a Tech House energy before Dubeats's Lonely Man in the Nhan Solo Remix returns to deeper territory. GQ's Disco Nights in the DJ S Remix delivers a Nu Disco moment before Floorplan's Holy Ghost and Right There on Classic Music Company arrive back to back as the set's most spiritually charged sequence.

Robert Hood's gospel-influenced project has rarely sounded more purposeful than in these two consecutive selections, the Soulful House energy of both tracks providing the show's emotional centrepiece. Idris Elba and Inner City's No More Looking Back featuring Steffanie Christi'an on Defected follows as another House statement of considerable weight, the Detroit group's Kevin Saunderson lineage connecting the track to the genre's foundational history.

Jansons's Heartbreaker on Revival New York and Junior Jack Presents Glory's Hold Me Up featuring Jocelyn Brown in the Riva Starr Vocal Mix sustain the groove before Moreno Pezzolato contributes two consecutive Tech House selections, Q and Panic, and Robb Swinga's Beautiful Jazz introduces a Nu Jazz warmth. Brokenears's House Feeling, Hector Zeroni's Paradise and Eddy M's Spread It Out carry the set through its later stages before Fast Eddie's Let's Do This in the Big Saldo Remix delivers a moment of Jackin House and Chicago House energy.

Gerome Sportelli's Acid In My House follows with an acid-inflected edge before Younger Than Me and Skatebård's Mezcal Trance on 90swax3 introduce a Balearic quality. Portishead's Glory Box in the BC Edit closes the penultimate stretch, the Bristol group's 1994 trip hop classic recontextualised within a House framework in keeping with Marco Mei's consistent willingness to draw from outside the genre's conventional boundaries.

St. Germain's Sure Thing in the DJ Deep Remix closes the episode, the French producer's Deep House and Nu Jazz sensibility rounding off a Lunar New Year show that moved freely between moods and eras throughout. Marco Mei's 13th February 2021 broadcast is one of the most varied shows in the series so far, the seasonal occasion seemingly giving licence for a broader and more personal selection than usual.

Marco Mei tracklist for Lunar New Year show 13th February 2021.

Maddeof - One Time

Erobique & Robag Wruhme - Hier Kommt Die Sonne

Jordan Brando - You Might Be Surprised Ft. China

Lawrence - Neonlights [Mulemusiq154]

Lawrence - Gardens Of Moss (Hip Hop Version)

Solomun Feat. Ätna - Tuk Tuk

Marbs & Evan Casey Ft. Katie K - Birds On A Wire (Damian Lazarus Re-shape)

Alex Aguayo - Too Late

Tony Y Not - Last Night (Armonica Remix)

Joshlane - Supervision

Anja Schneider - All I See (2021 Edit)

Dubeats - Lonely Man (Nhan Solo Remix)

GQ - Disco Nights (DJ S Remix)

Floorplan - Holy Ghost

Floorplan - Right There

Idris Elba & Inner City - No More Looking Back Feat. Steffanie Christi'an

Jansons - Heartbreaker [Revival New York]

Junior Jack Presents Glory Feat. Jocelyn Brown - Hold Me Up (Riva Starr Vocal Mix)

Moreno Pezzolato - Q

Moreno Pezzolato - Panic

Robb Swinga - Beautiful Jazz

Brokenears - House Feeling

Hector Zeroni - Paradise

Eddy M - Spread It Out

Unknown Artist - Apri La Porta Al Tuo Cuore (Lesale´s Losporco Editon)

Fast Eddie - Let’s Do This (Big Saldo Remix)

Gerome Sportelli - Acid In My House

Younger Than Me & Skatebård - Mezcal Trance [90swax3]

Portishead - Glory Box (BC Edit)

St. Germain - Sure Thing (DJ Deep Remix)

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