With the ownership of land and culture being at the forefront of some leader’s minds right now, we’ve decided to concentrate on territories for our Seasons Changes mixes this year. To create a quartet of offerings, we’ve gone back to the old concept of the Four Corners of the Earth, with our corners consisting of Africa, The Americas, Asia and Europe.
This third selection takes us to the most populated region on Earth, Asia. As we can only do 4 instalments each year, we’ve had to ditch the green Olympic ring and have thrown in all the countries of Oceania here. Again, we share music directly from the continent, music influenced by the continent, and music made by the wider diaspora moving out across the world.
Asia has the hottest capital city on the planet, which is Bangkok in Thailand, but it also has the coldest, Ulaanbaatar in Mongolia (from where crane driving beat maker Bodikhuu dreams of Brazil and one of his tracks features here). It’s musical history is as diverse as it’s weather, from origin unknown instruments to scenes that copy, imitate and improve better than anyone else in the world. In all honesty there’s too much to write about it as one region, which is why we let the music take you their instead.
45 tracks curated by Kamikaze, Jimmy Monsta Funk and Keith P.
Full track list below, hope you dig it.
Phuong Tam – 60 Nam [Sublime Frequencies]
Akiko Yano – Another Wedding Song [We Want Sounds]
Meitei – Shinobi [Kitchen Label]
Sundancer – Dedare Tanjung [La Munai]
Bill Evans Orchestra – 55 Days at Peking [5 Borough Breaks]
Fat Freddys Drop – Pull the Catch [The Drop]
HAAi – Bodies Of Water [Mute]
Park Hye Jin – Never Die [Ninja Tune]
Yaeji & Oh Hyuk – 29 [XL]
Black Allan Barker – Take Me Back [Flippin Yeah Records]
Paul Marks – Botany Bay [Black Box Records]
The Herd – 77% [Elefant Tracks]
Bodikhuu – Berimbau [Farsi]
Light the Fuse – Spiral [Black Milk]
Betty Chung – Bang Bang [Back To Mine]
Arooj Aftab – Inayaat [Verve]
Morteza Mahjubi – Improvisation In Afshari [Death Is Not The End]
Divide And Dissolve – Denial [Invada]
The Apples – Killing! [Freestyle Records]
Karakuri & Kazahaya – Funcky Water [Breakin’ Bread Records]
Steroscopic Jerk Explosion – Sitarmania [Cosmic Groove]
Nazir Ali feat. Nahid Akhlar – Society Girl [Finders Keepers]
Nashenas – Your Sorrow Is Killing Me [Strut]
Baligh Hamdi & Magid Khan – Gazairia [Altercat]
Shankar Jaikishan – Todi [Outernational]
The Sun Ra Allstars Band – Hiroshima (excerpt) [Art Yard]
Geinoh Yamashirogumi – Kaneda [Victory]
Kyoka – 23ish [Raster-Noton]
Ofra Haza Im Nin’Alu (Paid in Full Mix) [Globe Style]
Lokkhi Terra Meets Shikor Bangladesh Allstars – Shaddho Ki Re Amar [Funkiwala]
Levni & Sloth Pallas – Msakker (feat Stormtrap Asifeh) [Tektosag]
Oliver Doerell & Jawad Salkhordeh – 1979 [Sonic Pieces]
Uwalmassa – Rantas [Mana]
Prettybwoy – Genetic Dance II [Svbkvlt]
Leon Thomas – China Doll [Soul Brother Records]
Lord Beatjtzu – Ol’ Dirty Kung Fu (excerpt) [Asgard Records]
M. Ashraf – Too Bhi Piala Chum [Finders Keepers]
Kink Gong – Xinjiang – AT (horse) (excerpt) [Discrepant]
Pu Yai Lee Santana – Rung Fah Puping [Finders Keepers]
Madlib – The Rumble [Stones Throw]
Malik Abdul-Rahmaan – Kampung Baru Stroll [Paxico Records]
Hermitude – Splendid Isolation [Elefant Traks]
Yoshinori Sunahara – Journey Beyond The Stars [Pool]
Mr Ho – Not Good With Others [禁 JIN]
Flora Yin Wong – Hanging A Thief [First Light]
Ken Ishii – Extra [R&S]
Yothu Yindi – Treaty (Peace Division Vocal) [Mushroom]
Tony Brown – Bengali Love [NSC]