A rare mix from a notoriously absent presence.⁠

Virtual 42 is always offline. Years spent digging for tracks alone in a small town eradicated any desire to 'please the dance floor'. Instead, he learned to weaponise that isolation, hurling unprocessed, neurotic sounds straight at the speakers and letting chaos do the world-building.

This mix is the culmination of his year-long journey as a DJ and a tribute to the raw, violent energy of the golden era of the deconstructed club. It reaches back to a time before the term existed, when the most adventurous selectors were freely stitching together sounds that were never meant to coexist. Virtual 42 throws everything into the crossfire: unapologetically 'cheesy' hip-hop and EDM, pressure from the lento violento, trap, hard drum, bubbling house, cumbia, and percussive eruptions from the Global South, all colliding in unpredictable ways.

Spanning just over an hour, the set feels less like a journey and more like being dropped mid-scene into a gritty, unstable 2010s NYC club full of possibility. It's another fragment from his ongoing mental labyrinth — a place where mixes on online radio blur into cryptic OwOs Radio transmissions and stray SoundCloud uploads, leaving you uncertain whether you're listening to a DJ set or an invasive thought.

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Tracklist:
Tera Octe-Move Ya Body
Tera Octe-Lento Manifesto
Crystal Castles-Empathy
Daniele Mondello-Impulsive
Prefuse 73-Point to B
Slick Shoota - Satoshi Riddim
DJ Alaska Chicken-LV Singeli
esdeekid-4rawrz (Foxy edit)
Wolfgang Gartner/Omari/AraabMuzik-Cognitive Dissonance (Araabmuzik Remix)
Tempa T-Next Hype
Mr. Boomjaxon-Hard Beat（Virtual42 Next Hype vocal blend）
6IX9INE-BUBA+Stereo Murder+ja.a.ke-Ga.A.LV.a.AniZe（Virtual42 blend）
&INVASION & MC 7BELO & DJ SATI MARCONEX（eurton blend）
Weird Baile-Grime Do Weird Baile 
Bob Traxx-Devil Drumzz
JMAY-M.I.A - Buck Done Gun (JMAY's BaileRave Remix)
ORJ-Bubbling K
Sexyy Red/Mike Will Made It-Outside (feat. Mike WiLL Made-It)
alptrack-sidereal time
TALPAH-HOT LIKE BANGKOK (cult shotta + riz ortolani)
Rustie-Terra Star
Danilo-Juicy J - Bandz A Make Her Dance (Danilo Trap Bubbling Rmx)
2AT X 2hollis-Tribal crush ++++
Freebot-Pega Pega
Fwea-Go Jit/Byna/DjJam305/Dj Tboogie/Tre Oh Fie-SoHoJook Christmas Mega Lab
Cimarrón-agua
Mifu-spooky cumbia of Love and Resignation
Unidos X La Cumbia❤ -Un corazón silencioso que late bajo tierra
DJ GÄP - californication x rakata edit
Hi Tom-sticky club
Himera-Peaceseeker
After-Deep Diving

Asian Archive Mix 06: Virtual 42

based in China
multiple music genre digger

Love is incomplete burning. In my scarred, fevered skin, you see a person who belongs to sickness. In your healthy flesh, I see the same.

Exploring the Asian underground music scene, est. 2025.
Curated by @replica-mp3