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- Wild City #261: OG SHEZ
Ahead of the sophomore edition in her party series Culture Club, OG SHEZ sets the tone with her Wild City mix. It moves from rising Shillong rapper Reble's just-released track 'Praying Mantis' and an edit of Travis Scott to the Punjabi dan…
- Wild City #260 - Mo'Homo
Mo'Homo, a DJ and artist, is featured for their work in creating queer community spaces and events in North Goa, including co-founding The Audacity Collective and curating the Mix Fruit Juice festival. Their DJ mix, titled "Tomorrow Will B…
- Wild City #259: Chutney Mary
Avril Stormy Unger, also known as Chutney Mary, created a Wild City Mix exploring the space between ambient and rhythmic music. The mix features artists like Laurel Halo, Hania Rani, Fursat FM, and Catatacat, building towards a dance music…
- Wild City #258 - Vishal Unni
Wild City #258 features a techno mix by Vishal Unni, focusing on atmosphere and dubby sounds rather than heavy beats. The mix includes tracks from artists like Plastikman, Sleep D, Claudio PRC, and Shoal, showcasing Unni's expertise as man…
- Wild City #257: Nida x Choksi x Rafiki
Wild City #257 features a mix from Nida x Choksi x Rafiki, drawing sounds from ParaDisco parties. The mix progresses from familiar tunes and edits of Bollywood soundtracks to more intense house and acid sounds, recorded live.
- Wild City #256 - EBITDA
The Wild City Mix 256 features DJ EBITDA (Yash Mundhra), a Kolkata-rooted artist known for playing heavyweight lineups. His mix showcases a relentless leftfield selection, starting with dark, low-end intensity before gradually transitionin…
- Wild City #255: Femme Music
With the Wild City Mix, Femme Music's Sanoli Chowdhury organises the women-only selections to start with the electrifying energy of veterans like Heart and St. Vincent before mellowing the journey. Unreleased tracks from Indian musicians R…
- Wild City #254: Jay Drive
One of the steadily rising electro and house selectors of the country, New Delhi's Jaidev Kaushik aka Jay Drive found himself entrusted to warm the dancefloor up for the prominent modern-day techno act Helena Hauff at her New Delhi show –…
- Wild City #253: UKato
New Delhi's UKato distills his usual fare of breakbeats (which has got him to some of the genre's coveted labels like RAM Records) into the laidback groove of dubstep and the underlying pulse shared with techno before finding his way back…
- Wild City #252: Unnayanaa x Hamza Rahimtula
As a tag team digging through their combined vinyl collection, Unnayanaa and Hamza Rahimtula have been bringing the house down. Anyone who has danced captivated to one of their back-to-back sets this year, in any of the go-to local haunts…
- Wild City #251: Rajah Betta
The influence of Bombay sometimes comes through gently included but obviously present samples likely from film soundtracks, and other times through the subtle rhythmic inclusion of the bustling city streets into the percussive assembly. It…
- Wild City #250: Stick No Bills
All around the world in dance music, the South Asian diaspora is carving a space for the culture they have carried from their roots to their adopted new homes. One of the leading forces among them: Stick No Bills. The Dubai-rooted collecti…
- Wild City #249: Paloma
In its first quarter itself, Paloma's Wild City mix connects the low-end rattling bass of Joy Orbison's 'Flight.fm' to the tribal house of Nick Léon's 'Xtasis' before proceeding to the melodic runs of Charanjit Singh. This itself clues you…
- Wild City #248: Sheral
New Delhi DJ Sheral doesn't wait for a build-up on our latest Wild City mix, entering above 140 BPM from the get-go and keeping it relentless for the first quarter of the mix. When eventually we arrive at the special sustained blend of the…
- Wild City #247: Roan Sable
Roan Sable's Wild City mix is the kind that makes listeners reach for Shazam time and time again. Peppered with deep cuts that the Pune-rooted DJ elevates to the efficiency of classics, the mix traverses through house music, reaching for t…
- Wild City #246: EveryNowHere
When T.L. Mazumdar aka EveryNowHere started the podcast series Tapasya Loading in 2020, one of his key goals was to pool together the worldview of artists that he had found inspiring without the confines of styles, geography or experience…
- Wild City #245: Pale Blue Dotter
With field recordings of birds and frogs stitched between transient meanderings of synths and soundscapes from her own work and that of her contemporaries from the experimental music space of India like Hemant SK, Bengal Chemicals and REVA…
- Wild City #244: SourFunk
Bangalore's Vaibhav S Narayan aka SourFunk's Wild City mix is for the point where the dancers for the night embark on their journey on the dancefloor for the rest of the party. Functioning at the confluence of house and disco – something t…
- Wild City #243: Zequenx
Born in Kashmir and operating between Goa and New Delhi, Zainab Wani aka Zequenx is in the midst of a transformation from the perspective of her listeners. The DJ and producer has added ambient live sets to her usual fare of four-to-the-fl…
- Wild City #242: DJ Pants
Anyone regular to the upbeat lighthearted dancefloors in New Delhi over the past couple of years has likely witnessed a set by Aditya Mehta aka DJ Pants as the multidisciplinary artist/live sound engineer become a frequent fixture to the c…
- Wild City #241: Hamza Rahimtula B2B Tartaruga
Warehouse Mix, the collective of DJs and other creatives, is one of the very few new faces in India's dance music space that is keeping the word "community" meaningful, building it with a sincere DIY ethos and love for house music. They've…
- Wild City #240: Nariki
The first 3 minutes of Aashna Anand aka Nariki's Wild City mix itself are a good statement on simplicity. After a straightforward introduction of the rhythms and textures that one can expect, the music soon dials back pretty soon – like th…
- Wild City #239: I7HVN
Bangalore's Ishan Gaur aka I7HVN says he wants to play his Wild City mix "in an intimate, dark room". That is rather an apt aim for the abstract works he stitches together on the nearly hour-long mix as a soft pulse underpins a parade of e…
- Wild City #238: Peach Blok
Bangalore's Rishii Rohra aka Peach Blok might choose laidback moods for his productions but for his Wild City mix, the DJ-producer goes to the heart of dance music. Kicking off with some house cuts, the mix practically begins with the kind…
- Wild City #237: Carissa
Trained under veteran DJ and producer Stalvart John and seasoned as the resident DJ of the Dynamite Disco Club parties, Bengaluru's Carissa D'Almeida can easily be expected to have a flair for the syncopated basslines and energetic vocal a…
- Wild City #236: Tech Panda X Kenzani
Delhi's Tech Panda and Kenzani are one of the frontrunners of the wave of electronica that has turned its focus towards India's rich folk sounds, recontextualising them for the urban dancefloor. The latest iterations from the pair come thr…
- Wild City #235: Anushka
Since stepping behind the console after years as a familiar face in the fashion, beauty photography and live music events space, Anushka Menon has been steadily rising as a selector. The success of her pumping selections-filled Boiler Room…
- Wild City #234: Hammer
A member of the Feel My Bicep crew alongside the likes of Matt McBriar and Andy Ferguson (who'd go on to form the duo Bicep), Rory Hamilton aka Hammer isn't just someone who has a sense for discovering interesting electronica works. After…
- Wild City #233: Talal Qureshi
For years, we kept clubbing the word "psychedelic" with Lahore's Talal Qureshi. Even as the Pakistan's electropop pioneer has transformed from a Coke Studio mainstay with esoteric productions on the side to someone who brings his worlds to…
- Wild City #232: Innerworld
Akshay Mathker aka Innerworld's Wild City mix doesn't just move subtly, it moves you with the most subtle forces. Starting with dark ambience, the mix is defined by its hypnotic atmospheric nature even when the languid textures clear to th…
- Wild City #231: Krithi
Whenever Chennai-born Brooklyn-based DJ-producer Krithi reaches for rhythms and sounds from her native land and the like, they fit into the mould of dance music as if they've always been a natural part of it rather than (as it often is) a…
- Wild City #230: Kohra B2B Sunju Hargun
With the Magnetic Fields Festival taking over Alsisar this weekend for its 9th edition, New Delhi producer, DJ and Qilla Records co-founder Madhav Shorey aka Kohra and Thailand's globe-trotting polymath Sunju Hargun are revisiting their B2…
- Wild City #229: Kandy Kuri
Our Wild City Mix section is not just a reservoir of some sonic journeys from formidable selectors coming out of India and beyond but often also a place to familiarise oneself with some rising forces. Our latest edition comes in the latter…
- Wild City #228: Farhan Rehman
Versatile but always uptempo, Farhan Rehman treads the joyous sound of house music on his Wild City mix. The DJ-producer from Mumbai is able to tread a wide scope of genres with his reputation as one of the city's most experienced selector…
- Wild City #227: Himay
One wouldn't usually place Indian artist's resurgent 80s hit 'Aaj Shanibaar' right next to works by British hip-hop group The Streets – but that is exactly what happens on Mumbai DJ-producer Himay's Wild City mix. The connecting thread is…
- Wild City #226: DJ MoCity b2b Nash
With Amapiano, Gqom, house, techno, hip-hop, sprinkles of R&B and ending on some drum 'n' bass, DJ MoCity and Nash demonstrate what many DJs claim to feature but few achieve: bending genres to the point the definitions of styles cease to m…
- Wild City #225: Alboe
Vedant Chandra aka Alboe recently released his new album 'Love Languages', which he marks for us with our latest Wild City mix. Made of 7 original numbers, the mix highlights the underlying theme behind the New Delhi electronica producer's…
- Wild City #224: Sindhi Curry 'Garage & House Origins'
A mainstay of the dance music in India, Pramod Sippy aka Sindhi Curry is one of the most seasoned commanders of the dancefloor in the country. For our latest mix, the DJ marks signing up with the agency Maushi by running through the severa…
- Wild City #223: DJ Lag
Our latest Wild City mix comes from Durban's quintessential Gqom icon DJ Lag who uses it to commemorate his first tour across India in February as part of Ultra SoulFlyp. Born in Clermont, Lwazi Asanda Gwala aka DJ Lag is regarded as one o…
- Wild City #222: Lush Lata
Lush Lata's Wild City mix moves from thumping kicks-backed Sarod meanderings of 'Maharaj Trio and Nickodemus' to the booming hip-hop beat of 'Go Again' by A-STAR to cuts by Overomono, SBTRKT, Romare, Breaka and Fred Again alongside works b…
- Wild City #221: Curtain Blue
With selections from James Blake, Jamie xx, Four Tet, Thom Yorke, some lesser-known cuts by the likes of Loma and sir Was, and his original works, Curtain Blue leverages how his Wild City mix will likely be enjoyed. The mix weaves its jour…
- Wild City #220: kSaya
Whether collaborating with traditional Indian musicians or flipping Bollywood cuts, Shantanu Gursal aka kSaya's musical home is the frantic rhythm of the breakbeat – as he works as an Asian Underground revivalist over the past 2 years. It…
- Wild City #219: Mocid
At the outset, Mohit Tyagi aka Mocid is firmly rooted in the conventions of hard-hitting techno. That even includes the genre's association with retrofuturism and obsession with the extraterrestrial, as he attaches the moniker's artistic v…
- Wild City #218: Parekh & Singh
What connects experimental composer John Cage, Michael Jackson, the pop-punk group Paramore, blues legend Buddy Guy and an electronic producer like Floating Points? They all figure into the plethora of influences and listening palette of P…
- Wild City #217: Sijya
In a recent interview with Mixmag Asia about her debut EP 'Young Hate' and its just-released lead single 'Stonefruit', Sijya laid down the following as her artistic agenda: "It’s a bit rebellious I’d say. I think it fights the notion that…
- Wild City #216: Eashwar Subramanian
Ever since Bangalore's Eashwar Subramanian started supplementing his white-collar professional life by putting out music nearly 5 years ago, he has done so relentlessly. A regular fixture in the country's ambient music landscape, Eashwar's…
- Wild City #215: M.A.P // A.M.P
For almost a year now, M.A.P // A.M.P has explored the intersection of activism and music in South Asia with a variety of platforms, from performance and pirate radio to documentary films and podcasts. One of the biggest efforts from the G…
- Wild City #214: AAGUU
Aashish Gupta aka AAGUU, better known for his work as one-half of the duo TechNomads while erstwhile remixing Indian cinema undercuts, curates a love letter to the formative days of house and techno on his Wild City mix. Assembling deep cu…
- Wild City #213: Okedolo
Earlier this year, the Twitter electronic music world chortled around a "Two Guy Theory", which is centred around the observation: "From Bicep to Overmono to Two Shell, the trend of two fellas coming up with elaborate excuses to hang out a…
- Wild City #212: Deep Brown
Few sets invite one into a trance as quickly as Deep Brown's Wild City mix, which instantly whirrs you in with the arpeggios of Nathan Melja's 'Back And Forth'. A long-standing DJ originally from Kolkata, Ankur Kedia aka Deep Brown gradual…