Marco Mei announces playlist for new show 13th March 2021
- Mar 13, 2021
- 4 min read
Marco Mei has published the tracklist for episode 11 of 2021, broadcast on Saturday the 13th of March. 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.
Few DJs working in house and techno today can point to a career foundation as broad as Marco Mei's. The Italian DJ and producer came up through afrobeat, funk, disco and early synthesised music in the late 1980s before stepping behind the decks professionally in the early 1990s, a period that shaped a selectorial instinct that has served him across more than thirty years.
Early Italian dates gave way to an international circuit anchored by a residency at Pacha Club in Sharm-El-Sheikh. Clubs 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 followed, with Roger Sanchez, David Morales, Ralph Falcon, Sander Kleinenberg, Harry Choo Choo Romero, Justin Berkmann and Funk D'Void among the names he has shared the booth with over the years.
His production work took a decisive step forward in 2009 with the formation of Bicycle Corporation alongside Stefano Ugliano, known as 6884. Signed to 17:44 Records and distributed across Alchemy, Miniatures, WL77, GrooveTraxx, Suka and Revox, the project has generated over fifty tracks and remixes spanning deep house, tech house, French house and techno, earning recognition from Dubfire, Axwell, Danny Tenaglia, Mauro Picotto and Above and Beyond.
Based in Taipei, his Ciao Taipei party has held a place in the city's underground since 2013 and remains a draw for artists and audiences across South East Asia. Bookings are handled through the Scientific Sound Asia radio station and DJ agency, and his latest updates are posted on Facebook.
Marco Mei's show from 13th March 2021 opens with Kid Fonque and Jonny Miller's Connected Beings on Stay True Sounds, the South African and British duo's Deep House and Afro House collaboration setting a warm and culturally grounded tone. DJ Holographic's Faith In My Cup in the Detroit Love Edit on Planet E follows, the Detroit DJ and producer's track rooted in the city's House and Techno lineage before Angel-A's Let Go in the Kai Alcé Trumpet Instrumental introduces a Soulful House warmth.
Sleazy Wonder's Piano Woman and The Fog's Been A Long Time in the Full Intention 2021 Remix carry the set through classic House Music territory before Riva Starr and Imaginary Cities's Ride This Sound shifts towards Tech House. The Mayans's What You Heard in the Alex Virgo Remix and Vigi's Chicago 87 sustain the groove before Platinum City's Holy Spirit delivers a Gospel House moment.
DJ Tintin's Out Of Range and Tilman and Rhode and Brown's Paradise Space Centre take the set into Deep House and Minimal territory. Paranoid London Presents Pledits#4's Nobody On The Grid on Nu Groove follows, the duo's raw underground House sound sitting in deliberate contrast to the more polished selections around it.
Patrick Topping's Disco Hits featuring Hayley Topping and Kevin Knapp's Baby Don't Stop push back into Tech House before Obskur's Bayside in the 10 Years Of Eats Everything Extended Remix makes another appearance across the series. Alan Fitzpatrick and Rebūke's Ultimate Distortion on We Are The Brave then arrives as the set's hardest and most driving moment, the dark Techno track sitting at a clear remove from the House selections on either side of it.
Cardi B and Megan Thee Stallion's WAP in the Asquith 90's Techno Remix is one of the more unexpected programming choices Marco Mei has made across the series, the 2020 hip hop number one recontextualised here as an acid-inflected Techno track on Asquith's own WAP001 label. ARTBAT, Sailor and I's Best Of Me in the CamelPhat Remix and Musumeci's Ninety Reasons then bring Melodic House and Techno qualities to the later stages of the show.
Srwn's Jamdouze and returning selections from Maddeof and Opprefish close the episode, the latter pair having appeared in the previous week's show as well. Marco Mei's 13th March 2021 broadcast is one of the more genre-diverse episodes in the series, moving confidently between Detroit House, Soulful House, Techno and Melodic House while maintaining the curatorial thread that runs through every show in the series.
Marco Mei tracklist for 13th March 2021.
Kid Fonque · Jonny Miller - Connected Beings (Intro)
DJ Holographic Feat. Apropos - Faith In My Cup (Detroit Love Edit)
Angel-A - Let Go (Unreleased Kai Alcé Trumpet Instrumental)
Sleazy Wonder - Piano Woman
The Fog - Been A Long Time (Full Intention 2021 Remix)
Riva Starr Ft. Imaginary Cities - Ride This Sound
The Mayans - What You Heard (Alex Virgo Remix)
Vigi - Chicago 87
Platinum City - Holy Spirit
DJ Tintin - Out Of Range
Tilman, Rhode & Brown - Paradise Space Centre
Paranoid London Presents Pledits#4 - Nobody On The Grid
Patrick Topping - Disco Hits (Feat. Hayley Topping)
Kevin Knapp - Baby Don't Stop
Obskur - Bayside (10 Years Of Eats Everything Extended Remix)
Alan Fitzpatrick Rebūke - Ultimate Distortion
Cardi B Feat. Megan Thee Stallion - Wap (Asquith 90's Techno Remix) [Wap001]
Artbat, Sailor & I - Best Of Me (Camelphat Remix)
Musumeci - Ninety Reasons
Srwn - Jamdouze
Maddeof - One Time
Opprefish - Road Together
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