Kiosk Outsiders w/Hinna (13/04/24)
It’s been difficult for me to write about my ongoing tour in Asia because I have SO MANY THOUGHTS.
On the one hand, I’ve received such a warm welcome from bookers and promoters and been treated to the most amazing clubs and sound systems. On the other, it’s been clear that not all the nights have been successful for them, which raises all sorts of confusing feelings and questions about how this system is operating (or not) and what my responsibility is as a DJ — which surely goes beyond simply turning up and playing some records. I hope I can wrestle with this enough to put it into useful words, soon.
In the meantime, the third instalment of my Outsiders residency on Kiosk Radio was broadcast last week, featuring Berlin-based DJ Twist Fire:
Hinna aka Twist Fire opens the show with a righteous hour of house and bass. As I say in the voiceover, I met Hinna at Luigi Di Venere’s Maximum Joy party last June, when she closed down Sameheads after me in style. She released her debut EP ‘Bleeding Gold’ in 2021, describing it as “Space Adult Emo for first generation people in the West - children of immigrants - all messed up and proudly weird.” Her mix speaks the same language: classic house rhythms that occasionally mutate into angular bass, Latin swing and, in the latter half, unabashed disco pumpers.
Thank you Hinna for this stellar mix:
Fraxinus - All Ends
DJ Rolando - Knight Of The Jaguar
Scott Grooves - We Move...We Have To
Carpainter - Coyote Time
The Rurals - Mumma Sub
DJ RLP - Egyptian Drummer
Retina Set - Rude Macarena
Leonce - Sex Siren
Geoffrey C - This Is Hot (Yes Indeedy Original Mix)
MC Papote - Tiene Swing
Second City - History Of Groove (Technasia Remix)
HILIGHT TRIBE - Tsunami
40 Thieves - Don't Turn It Off feat. Qzen (Greg Wilson Edit)
Malcolm McLaren & The Bootzilla Orchestra - Deep In Vogue
L.U.P.O. - Keep It Up (Vocal Extended Mix)
Kezo - Arab Joint
Stella – Réalité
The second hour of the show is another excerpt from my January set at Outra Cena warming up for livwutang. It captures the section where the room was already bubbling and I decided to get frisky, with some old dubstep, electro and an unexpected detour into mid 130s house. This latter switch came about mainly due to a miscalculation on my part when I played ‘Vector’ by Tom Trago & Bok Bok on vinyl. It seems I mixed into the mid-track break rather than the start, so then it ran out on me much sooner than expected. That’s why you get a moment of silence before I smash in Baalti’s ‘Wedding Season’ on +6!
Styled it, obvs.
Hope you enjoy the show. I’ll be back with another guest on Horst weekend, 11 May.