Metrist - 13 February 2025

Indian-born, Brooklyn-based duo Baalti chart a path from UK-inspired club sounds to the vibrant musical traditions of West Bengal and Delhi, shining a light on the vivid and explosive rhythms of Indian soundsystem culture and it's impact on contemporary club sounds. 
Find the full tracklist and related episodes on NTS: https://www.nts.live/shows/guests/episodes/baalti-19th-february-2025

BAALTI 190225

~ exploring 3/2 polymeter mixing for dance practice, a biweekly dancefloor meditation at LSD in greenpoint, bk ~ ^^

the evening began with a guided movement meditation by selena lee, which i followed with this 90-min percussion workout. selena's instruction helped everyone body-scan and ground themselves, settle into the space, and greet their neighbors. with everyone so dialed into their bodies and the sound, i felt free to explore a litany of trax i have been collecting that hover between tuplet and triplet meters, creating a hybrid rhythmic space where you are free to follow multiple equally present tempos and pulses. special thanks to everyone who shared their favorite triplet trax with me ahead of the night ^^ selections from doula, plushie, lucia beyond, iha, and baalti are included here :)

https://www.dancepractice.nyc/

tracklist->

azu tiwaline - - izen zaren
golden teacher - - no hemos vivido
joe - - line to earth
deena abdelwahed - - violence for free (dj plead remix)
foreign material - - into the gleams of forgetfulness (patrick russell remix)
thomas fehlmann - - eye
dj plead - - skittles
cassius select - - slight
eyra - - schtum (version)
nirborna - - whole roar
peaky beats - - helms deep (aya 'uh' remix)
boofy - - avec gang
lechuga zafiro - tero sex (danza para piedra volca-nica y tero)
tony gallardo - - la jacaraca
anunaku - - bronze age
ploy - - pax cultura
shackleton, dj scotch rolex, & omutaba - - insect vibration
toumba - qasf
chants & dave schoepke - - cavernicole
refracted - - vórtice
bambounou - - kosovo hardcore
joaquin cornejo - - buma ii
atoloi - - l'ultima estasi del ragno
aya - - heffalump
bftt - - enin

pretty bright light * * vol.2 * * [live at dance practice, LSD loft]

RADIO MUMDANCE
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RADIO MUMDANCE
Season 04 – Episode 04
MD with Shanghai’s Kilo-Vee – @kilovee

Broadcasting every Wednesday, 19:30–21:30 GMT
https://www.mumdance.com/radio


THE MD MULTIVERSE

Moving away from toxic, algorithm-driven social media, the MD Multiverse aims to build new spaces for thoughtful, calm communication.

At the heart of this is the MD Discord — a growing music community built around sharing, listening, and conversation.

Join the Discord: https://discord.gg/avx33ETGeA

This is supported by Radio Mumdance, a weekly broadcast exploring new sounds and ideas in real time.


Listen live every Wednesday: https://www.mumdance.com/radio

Listeners can connect directly via the MD Discord chat during each show.

Alongside it, Reduced By Mumdance exists as a free, weekly Substack newsletter — offering direct updates without the noise.

Each week you’ll receive 5 tracks and 2 DJ mixes - Concise curation for busy lives.

Subscribe: https://mumdance.substack.com

Everything is collected in the MD Archive — an open-access record of work since 2007, spanning mixes, releases, collaborations, and video. Archive radio shows broadcast 24 hours a day when the live show isn’t on.

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Radio Mumdance - S04 - E04 - With Kilo-Vee- 26 March 2025

Relentless rhythms and Latin dance history, courtesy of the TraTraTrax innovator.

Percussion is, at the root, a conversation. It's about different instruments meeting each other, and interacting to form something bigger than the sum of its parts. 

Few engage in this dialogue as boldly as Pablo De Vargas, AKA Uruguayan experimentalist Lechuga Zafiro, who draws from tradition, to make sounds like candombe and clave feel, well, completely new.

De Vargas' music reaches outward, building bridges between Montevideo and Bogotá, Tijuana, Berlin and beyond. He's a key figure in the hybridisation of Latin American club music, with releases on labels like NAAFI and an album on TraTraTrax.

His RA Podcast plays like a manifesto in motion. RA.985 opens with a recording of Jorginho Gularte, a Uruguayan composer, playing a jazz rhythm, from there, it expands: cuban guaguancó, Venezuelan drums, batida, tribal, techno—it's all here, stitched together with precision and intention.

De Vargas is also, crucially, reckoning with these roots. His 2018 EP Testigo confronted the colonial violence embedded in the history of the Río de la Plata. His sets are similarly alive with memory—asking, without nostalgia: what does it mean to inherit rhythm? Who gets to carry it forward?

He's also just a killer DJ, one of those rare artists who uses CDJs like an instrument. His sets are full of hot cues, delay FX and left turns. It's technical, but never cold. It’s, in a word, funky.

@lechugazafiro
Find the interview and tracklist at ra.co/podcast/985

Radio Mumdance - S04 - E04 - With Kilo-Vee- 26 March 2025

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