Back in May, Tanzania’s MCZO and Duke, Nyege Nyege Tapes signees and representatives of Dar Es Salaam’s breakneck singeli sound, were scheduled to perform at New York’s Red Bull Music Festival. Walls, both physical and metaphorical, are going up around the world. Beta Librae – Oscillate Recording No 09 (September 2019) Best of all, a partial tracklist she created on Buy Music Club (a website she cofounded to share playlists on Bandcamp) provides handy links for everything that's available on the independent download platform. It’s an exhilarating two-hour tour of EBM, acid, breakbeats, and sneaky samples that range from Middle Eastern flutes to Nina Simone. Like her Printworks set from a couple years ago, this one, captured at MUTEK Mexico, includes the faintest background layer of crowd noise, and those raucous cheers make the recording truly come alive. Her muscular, propulsive playing could suit any mainstage or basement, and it’s infused with enough moments of straight-up fun-a breaks 'n' acid remix of Fast Eddie’s 1988 hip-house anthem “ Yo Yo Get Funky,” a sneaky segue into Josh Wink’s classic “A Higher State of Consciousness”-to remind revelers to go wild because dammit, this is a party. Over the past few years, the Berlin-based American artist Avalon Emerson has emerged as one of the best club DJs out there.
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