Marco Mei publishes the playlist for 2021 Podcast 39

Marco Mei has published the tracklist for episode 39 of 2021, broadcast on Saturday the 25th of September. Scientific Sound Asia is an Asian electronic music radio station, DJ agency and music news outlet and promoter serving Japan, China, Thailand, Taiwan, Korea, Sri Lanka and beyond.

Turin-born Marco Mei has been one of Italy's more widely travelled DJs and producers for over thirty years. His roots in afrobeat and early synthesised music gave him an instinct for selection that has always reached beyond the boundaries of house and techno.

After establishing himself in Italy in the early 1990s, a residency at Pacha Club in Sharm-El-Sheikh opened his career to a genuinely international circuit. 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 are among the venues that followed, with Roger Sanchez, David Morales, Ralph Falcon, Sander Kleinenberg, Harry Choo Choo Romero, Justin Berkmann and Funk D'Void among his booth partners along the way.

Bicycle Corporation, the project he runs with Stefano Ugliano, known as 6884, has been building its catalogue since 2009 through 17:44 Records and labels including Alchemy, Miniatures, WL77, GrooveTraxx, Suka and Revox. The duo's Hard Techno remix of Virus D.D.D's Origination, released on the 31st of August, is among their more recent work.

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 consistent appearances. His latest activity is on Facebook, and bookings go through the Scientific Sound Asia DJ agency.

Marco Mei's 2021 Podcast 39 opens with Computer Data's Healing returning from an earlier podcast before Flight Facilities's Crave You in the Hush Hush Bootleg introduces a Nu Disco and House Music warmth. Babsy's Amy and DJ Aedidas's Another Day in the Breathe Edit carry the set through House and Minimal territory before Donnell Knox and Beata's All You Need Iz Rhythm on Hot Haus Recs delivers a Jackin House and Deep House energy described by Beatport as "a bona fide underground summer house anthem."

Lonely C and Kendra Foster's Hold Up in the Mike Dunn Blackball Vokal Remixx provides a Soulful House moment before Mr. G's Ease Ya Mind in the Mango Boys Dub delivers a minimal and dub-inflected quality. Men I Trust's Oh Dove in the M@c Edit and EP2's Dance in the Onionz Down The Block Remix carry the set through Indie Dance and House territory before Ian Pooley's Chord Memory in the Daft Punk Remix provides one of the podcast's more historically notable moments. The French duo's remix of the German DJ's 1997 track connects two significant figures in the European electronic music lineage.

Underground Resistance's Living For The Nite featuring Yolanda arrives as a Detroit House and Techno statement, the collective's anonymous, politically charged identity and Underground Records catalogue making their inclusion one of the podcast's most culturally grounded moments. Armando's Downfall in Derrick Carter's Extended Edit and Matthias Meyer and Budakid's Sweet Ease then carry the set through Acid House and Melodic House and Techno territory before Musumeci and Qubica's The Chameleon sustains the melodic direction.

Lakou Mizik and Joseph Ray's Sanba Yo Pran Pale in the DJ Koze Extended Mix on Anjunadeep arrives as the podcast's most culturally distinctive selection. Resident Advisor described Koze's remix as an "airy summer anthem" built on amapiano-informed percussion and Haitian Vodou vocals, the traditional chant of the Sanbas, Haiti's oral historians, recontextualised as a deep and Organic House dancefloor tool. Matteo Boyero's Oceans May Be Still featuring Lisa Samuel and Alex Dayo sustains the organic and atmospheric direction before Onoff's Heartbreak returns to Deep House territory.

Der Dritte Raum's Andromeda Mission shifts the podcast into Techno and Trance territory before Staropoli's Early In The Morning and the returning Tommier Joyson's Clap Your Hands on Hot Creations carry the set back through House and Tech House. William Arist's B-One in the Gary Beck Remix on BEK046 and Trevino's Eclipse close the episode with Peak Time Techno energy, the closing stretch's harder character providing a driven conclusion to a podcast that covered considerable genre ground throughout.

Marco Mei's 2021 Podcast 39 is a wide-ranging episode that balances House history, Haitian World Music, Organic House and Techno across a tracklist that draws from labels as varied as Hot Haus Recs, Anjunadeep and BEK Audio.

Marco Mei tracklist for 2021 Podcast 39

Computer Data - Healing

Flight Facilities - Crave You (Hush Hush Bootleg)

Babsy - Amy

DJ Aedidas - Another Day (Breathe Edit)

Donnell Knox - All You Need Iz Rhythm Feat. Beata

Lonely C - Hold Up Feat. Kendra Foster (Mike Dunn Blackball Vokal Remixx)

Mr. G - Ease Ya Mind (Mango Boys Dub)

Men I Trust - Oh Dove (M@c Edit)

EP2 - Dance (Onionz Down The Block Remix)

Ian Pooley - Chord Memory (Daft Punk Remix)

Underground Resistance - Living For The Nite Feat. Yolanda (For The Nite)

Armando - Downfall (Derrick Carters Extended Edit)

Matthias Meyer & Budakid - Sweet Ease

Musumeci & Qubica - The Chameleon

Lakou Mizik - Sanba Yo Pran Pale (DJ Koze Extended Mix)

Matteo Boyero - Oceans May Be Still Feat. Lisa Samuel & Alex Dayo

Onoff - Heartbreak

Der Dritte Raum - Andromeda Mission

Staropoli - Early In The Morning

Tommier Joyson - Clap Your Hands

William Arist - B-One (Gary Beck Remix) [BEK046]

Trevino - Eclipse

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