dj halpo — free city radio mix

Free City Radio

a mix by dj @halpomax for free city radio, which broadcasts on @radiockut Siamak Amidi - Unconditional Love (Siamak's Floor Vision) Rhyw - Untangled Sentences anabasine - Krupt Pelada - Habla Tu Verdad DJ Romain feat Larry Singh - Talkin About Freedom (Hard Dub Mx) Minimal Violence - Night Gym Nich Schofield - Kibale Park Terry Ganzie - Prepare Fi War Lady Saw - Incline Thine Ears I was going for a haunting but optimistic sound on this. Some info below: The mix starts with a track by an Iranian-born producer, Siamak Amidi, who now splits his time between Dubai and Berlin. The track is off the Black Fog EP, the first release from his label called Indigenous Electronic. The second track is from the record label Bassiani, which is also a large queer nightclub in Tbilisi, Georgia that was raided by the government there in spring 2018. The raid led to sizeable protests and the club reopened afterward. anabasine's Krupt is from the fundraising effort Power Puerto Rico, released in September 2017. anabasine co-hosts EIMTAF Live FM Radio Hour every other Wednesday from 2-4am with Dominique Alexander and DJ Choozey. Pelada, whose recent album release show at Vitrola was sold out, is a group that always puts their politics forward in their music. This song is a standout from their debut album, Movimiento Para Cambio. Next, DJ Romain's Talkin About Freedom encapsulates the energy that makes classic house music so liberating and powerful. Minimal Violence, a duo from Vancouver, also released their debut album, InDreams, last year — full of raw techno like this. The mix then relaxes into an ambient track from Nick Schofield's Water Sine album. Nick, of course, is a fixture of the Montreal music community and a community radio host. I chose the two dancehall tracks that close out the mix to offer a counterpoint of the current news cycle. These songs appear on compilations from VP Records and Penthouse records, picked up from Death of Vinyl on St Laurent and Beaubien. Support your local record shop! (Note this mix was all vinyl except anabasine's track.)