Marco Mei publishes playlist for 2021 Podcast 22

Marco Mei has published the tracklist for episode 22 of 2021, broadcast on Saturday the 29th of May on Scientific Sound Asia. The station is an English-language electronic music radio station, DJ agency and promoter publishing music news across Japan, China, Thailand, Taiwan, Korea, Sri Lanka and beyond.

Bicycle Corporation's Marco Mei has been part of the Italian underground since the early 1990s, when afrobeat, funk and synthesised music first drew him to the decks. That mix of influences has kept his approach to selection genuinely eclectic across a career now spanning more than thirty years.

A residency at Pacha Club in Sharm-El-Sheikh put him on a broader international circuit early on. He has since played Woo Bar, Room 18 in Taipei, Bangaluu in Berlin, Fuse in Brussels, G-Star in Pattaya, SOS Supper Club in Bali and NLO in Minsk, sharing booths with Roger Sanchez, David Morales, Harry Choo Choo Romero, Funk D'Void and others.

In 2009 he and Stefano Ugliano, known as 6884, formed Bicycle Corporation, picking up their first deal with 17:44 Records. Output across Alchemy, Miniatures, WL77, GrooveTraxx, Suka and Revox has grown to over fifty tracks and remixes spanning deep house, tech house, French house and techno. The duo recently made their earliest recordings available through Bandcamp.

Marco is based in Taipei and plays regularly across South East Asia, where a growing network of artists and collaborators has developed through years of appearances in the region. Keep up with his latest activity on Facebook, and bookings are available through the Scientific Sound Asia DJ agency.

Marco Mei's 2021 Podcast 22 opens in classic House Music territory with Mamacita's Tu Amor in the Frankie Knuckles Your Love Spanish Version. Mpharanyana and The Peddlers's Disco in the Jamie 326 Extended Edit follows with a soul and Disco warmth. Waterstone and Tracy Hamlin's I Miss You on Groove Culture then delivers one of the podcast's more Soulful House moments, the Minnie Riperton sample lending the track a warmth that connects it directly to the genre's foundational influences.

Krystal Klear's Piano Banana on Running Back arrives with Italo House energy and piano riffs drawn from the Italian house tradition. O.D.Math's Olympus in the Danny K7 Remix and Joone and Victor C.'s The Affair featuring 1403 then carry the set into Deep House territory. Tommy Farrow's Let's Just in the Jansons Remix brings a Tech House edge before Darksidevinyl and Addfx's Disappear returns to a deeper and more minimal register.

Loco Dice and Ghostface Killah's Cherchez Laghost is one of the more unexpected programming choices in the podcast. The Wu-Tang connection gives the track a hip hop character that sits in deliberate contrast to the surrounding House selections. Seth Troxler's Lumartes follows with a Minimal and Tech House quality before Stylo and Space Motion's Yeke Yeke featuring Mory Kante introduces an Afro House energy drawn from Mory Kante's 1987 West African original.

Jerome Sydenham and Fatima Njai's Trans Afro Express featuring Mario Punchard sustains the Afro House direction. Ejeca's Free From in the Cinthie Remix and James Solace and Jansons's 54 carry the set through House and Tech House territory before Demuir's Feels So Good brings a Deep House and Soulful House warmth. Dimitri From Paris and Aeroplane's Can't Get Enough featuring Leela in the Yuksek Remix then delivers the podcast's first clear Nu Disco moment.

Elninodiablo's Dorotheas Rainbow in the Riding The Rainbow Remix makes a second appearance across consecutive Marco Mei podcasts. Ghettoblaster contributes two consecutive House and Jackin House selections with Keep The Fire Burnin' and Everybody Come On alongside DJ Dan. Alex Virgo's The Cadet and Marius's New Orleans carry the set through Deep House and Nu Disco territory before Earth Trax's Ambient Dance introduces a Melodic House and Techno quality.

Ricardo Villalobos and Barry White's 808 The Bassqueen in the Delicia Edit brings Minimal and Deep Tech qualities to the closing stretch. Snoop Dogg's Sensual Seduction in the Lurre Edit and Daft Punk's Something About Us in the Hari Edit follow as two consecutive pop and hip hop reworks recontextualised within a House and Nu Disco framework.

The Streets's Has It Come To This closes the podcast, the early 2000s UK garage track given a House treatment that rounds off one of Marco Mei's most eclectically programmed episodes. Marco Mei's 2021 Podcast 22 is a wide-ranging piece of programming that moves between House, Deep House, Afro House, Nu Disco and Minimal across a tracklist that draws freely from multiple genres and eras.

Marco Mei tracklist for 2021 Podcast 22

Mamacita - Tu Amor (Frankie Knuckles Your Love Spanish Version)

Mpharanyana & The Peddlers - Disco (Jamie 326 Extended Edit)

Waterstone Feat. Tracy Hamlin - I Miss You

Krystal Klear - Piano Banana

O.D.Math - Olympus (Danny K7 Remix)

Joone & Victor C. - The Affair Feat. 1403

Tommy Farrow - Lets Just (Jansons Remix)

Darksidevinyl & Addfx - Dissapear

Loco Dice Feat. Ghostface Killah - Cherchez Laghost

Seth Troxler - Lumartes

Stylo & Space Motion  - Yeke Yeke Feat. Mory Kante

Jerome Sydenham & Fatima Njai - Trans Afro Express Feat. Mario Punchard

Ejeca - Free From (Cinthie Remix)

James Solace & Jansons - 54

Demuir - Feels So Good

Dimitri From Paris & Aeroplane Feat. Leela - Cant Get Enough (Yuksek Remix)

Elninodiablo - Dorotheas Rainbow (Elninodiablo Riding The Rainbow Remix)

Ghettoblaster - Keep The Fire Burnin'

Ghettoblaster, DJ Dan - Everybody Come On

Alex Virgo - The Cadet

Marius - New Orleans

Earth Trax - Ambient Dance

Ricardo Villalobos Feat. Barry White - 808 The Bassqueen (Delicia Edit)

Snoop Dogg - Sensual Seduction (Lurre Edit)

Daft Punk - Something About Us (Hari Edit)

The Streets - Has It Come To This

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