2024: Scene

@kiernan-laveaux takes us on a zany trip through her mind with a peek into the kind of sounds crowds can expect at Horst 2024

"My warm-up mix is a zany trip through my mind for an hour and a peek into what a solo set from me at the festival might look like — 100% KL special low-frequency version. I’m happy to be showing more specific strains of what I do in B2Bs this year, and grateful for the opportunity to spin it out at the speed of sound in this mix. Influenced by the never-ending cycles of violence, corruption, and fascistic decline we’re forced to exist within on Earth, as well as the way music can be both a communicator of liberatory ideas and also a pacifying force to maintain the status quo of white supremacist capitalist patriarchy. The strategic adversary is fascism - free everywhere and destroy what destroys you. A better world is possible.

There's lots of music within visionary worldbuilders and friends and an upcoming release from myself, Johnny Zoloft, and Gladstone Deluxe entitled 'Total Body Extension'. Keep your heart and mind open - I hope this mix can soundtrack some moments of discord, headbanging, and hip-moving."

Tracklist

Scene: Kiernan Laveaux (Horst 2024 warm-up)

@aida-dj employs pairs old skool house with new skool techno in preparation for Horst 2024

"This mix is part of my closing set recorded at UMI Brussels in March this year. You will hear vintage house, progressive house, and tech house gems in there which I'd bought in a record shop in Barcelona the week before. I blended those records with newer techno-leaning releases that are pitched down to match the tempo and energy of the house records. I picked this set as my Horst warm-up mix because it’s the perfect foreshadowing of what I'm preparing for at the festival: cheeky vocals, percussion, and vintage acid/tech/progressive house."

Scene: AIDA (Horst 2024 warm-up)

Mixmag is publishing a three-part editorial series exploring Amapiano’s Second Wave.

Part 1 explores the topic of "How kwaito opened the door for amapiano’s evolutions" and can be read here: https://bit.ly/aswpart1

In this accompanying mix, 25-year-old producer D'Athiz, born in Durban but living in Johannesburg, showcases his dark and raucous style of amapiano that incorporates gqom influence with a 100% production mix.

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Scene: D'Athiz (100% Production Mix) // Amapiano's Second Wave

Mixmag is publishing a three-part editorial series exploring Amapiano’s Second Wave.

Part 1 explores the topic of "How kwaito opened the door for amapiano’s evolutions" and can be read here: https://bit.ly/aswpart1

In this accompanying mix, 17-year-old Soweto producer @jaymea, who's part of a new generation taking influence from gqom, EDM, trap and tropical house in their music, showcases his style of “EDM-Piano”.

Scene: JayMea (100% Production Mix) // Amapiano's Second Wave

Mixmag is publishing a three-part editorial series exploring Amapiano’s Second Wave.

Part 2 explores the topic of "How innovations emerge from Black South African culture" and can be read here: https://bit.ly/4cfvECe

In this accompanying mix, @kiddyondebeat, a 25-year-old amapiano artist with production credits with the likes of DBN Gogo and Mr JazziQ, showcases the sound of “private school” amapiano — a subgenre that combines soulful melodies, jazz chord progressions, smooth basslines and a “clap and tap” rhythmic pulse.

Scene: Kiddyondebeat (100% Production Mix) // Amapiano's Second Wave

Mixmag is publishing a three-part editorial series exploring Amapiano’s Second Wave.

Part 2 explores the topic of "How innovations emerge from Black South African culture" and can be read here: https://bit.ly/4cfvECe

@realnox, the Cape Town-based producer whose track 'Urban Beat' has become an underground anthem among London DJs with its hyperactive, octave-traversing log drums, shares an accompanying mix that demonstrates his take on the sound.

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Scene: Real Nox (100% Production Mix) // Amapiano's Second Wave

Mixmag is publishing a three-part editorial series exploring Amapiano’s Second Wave.

Part 3 explores "Upcoming producers and the risks of exploitation" and can be read here: https://bit.ly/4f55Drx

Jay Music (@jayden-coetzee-390241946) is an influential amapiano producer who grew up in Jeffrey’s Bay, a quiet coastal town in Eastern Cape. He has made his mark on the genre with releases like 'Deep Groove', and is breaking through into international touring.

Scene: Jay Music (100% Production Mix) // Amapiano's Second Wave

@vladfisun shares a 100% vinyl mix dedicated to his friend Andriy Hudima, tracing back through the history of Ukrainian dance music from 1991 to the present day.

Due to technical problems with electricity supplies in Ukraine, this mix consists of two parts, edited into one piece.

Tracklist:
Voice of the Water - Sample
Hidden Element - Strayed in Comparison
Monoconda - Stream
Voin Oruwu - After All
Komponente / Kurilo - Pulsar Manifesto
Bejenec - I Don't Do Festivals But
TYSK - Legit Check (Trippsy Remix)
C/TRO - Allora
Sasha Pervukhin - Mariya's Trip (Vocal mix)
Borys - Voice In My Head
Lostlojic - Distant Star
DZ'OB, Stanislav Tolkachev - Techno 2 (Deconstruction by S. Tolkachev)
Yate – Mercury Nights (Original Mix)
Warnyakanna - Club That Doesn't Exist