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This content can also be viewed on the site it originates from. And is that not, after all, the spirit of the European Union? (Bonus points for being, surely, the first DJ mix ever to open with a goal by the Italian soccer star Mario Balotelli.) While the mixing isn’t always seamless, mostly because these are styles that aren’t really meant to go together, she makes it work with remarkable finesse. Given the occasion, the Edinburgh native and LuckyMe signee came prepared with a bag stuffed with all European tunes: French house, Dutch electro, Ukranian techno, Polish children’s music, and loads of Continental hits like Falco’s “ Der Kommissar.” The selections are never anything less than eye-opening-I never knew that a 14-year-old Vanessa Paradis came to fame singing a song called “ Joe Le Taxi”-and the twists and turns (from Italo disco into French cloud rap, for example) consistently exhilarating. On June 23, the same day that the British public went to the polls and decided, in distressing numbers, to leave the European Union, Scotland’s Éclair Fifi took to the airwaves for her monthly show on NTS. Éclair Fifi – EU Special, NTS 007 – 23rd June 2016 What makes the mix so engaging is the way she keeps switching up the vibe without ever losing the thread: Most tracks play out for just a couple of minutes before she deftly changes them up, and she often focuses on a single, common element-in the case of a captivating three-track passage in the first half, a staccato snare pattern that reappears in three different tunes-to provide a counterintuitive through-line across tracks you wouldn’t think would work together.
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In between those points, the groove reigns supreme: dub, kwaito, club music, gqom, techno, and even Belgian New Beat. She opens with lysergic drones and dream-logic spoken-word-something about champagne-filled hot tubs in Las Vegas hotels and watching your best friend get skinned alive in the desert, all recited in a thick Midwestern accent and pitched down until it resembles this-and she closes with the apocalyptic vocoders of Chino Amobi’s “Rotterdam,” an unsettling vignette from his Airport Music for Black Folk album. (If this doesn’t satiate, take a look at last month’s Best Mixes column.) Laurel Halo – Truancy Volume 150įrom start to finish, Laurel Halo’s set for Truants’ 150th podcast is determined to throw you off balance.