DERIVE 21.1.25

Mexican record label, Naafi, settle in at NTS for a showcase of the weirdest experimentations in club culture that have bubbled to the surface of Soundcloud. Dazed rhythms converging into Jersey stutters, and tumblr-era trap for two straight hours on a Monday. 
Find the full tracklist and related episodes on NTS: https://www.nts.live/shows/naafi/episodes/naafi-31st-january-2025

CDMX Tapes w/ ENYA BOTELLO & MAGNOLIA 310125

Jamira Estrada

In-studio: DJ Fucci

Mexican record label, Naafi, settle in at NTS for a showcase of the weirdest experimentations in club culture that have bubbled to the surface of Soundcloud. Dazed rhythms converging into Jersey stutters, and tumblr-era trap for two straight hours on a Monday. 
Find the full tracklist and related episodes on NTS: https://www.nts.live/shows/naafi/episodes/naafi-28th-march-2025

CDMX TAPES w/ Lupone & Sonido Flamin Hot 280325

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

RA.985 Lechuga Zafiro

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Radio Mumdance - S04 - E10 - With Ruiseñor - 07 May 2025

Mexican record label, Naafi, settle in at NTS for a showcase of the weirdest experimentations in club culture that have bubbled to the surface of Soundcloud. Dazed rhythms converging into Jersey stutters, and tumblr-era trap for two straight hours on a Monday. 
Find the full tracklist and related episodes on NTS: https://www.nts.live/shows/naafi/episodes/naafi-23rd-may-2025

CDMX Tapes w/ PACHUCO & DJ PEGASO 230525

My opening set from 10pm - 1am on March 23, 2025 at Nowadays Nonstop @nowadaysnyc

Live recording mastered by Maxime Robillard @askloveletters

Live at Nowadays Nonstop (3.22.25)

So Good & Tasty!

A1 -  Akouphen "No Party Tonight" 
A2 - Gui Two "Six seven five"
B1 - Tournevis "Back to basic"
B2 - B3N "No control"

Artwork & Mastering @Akouphen
Distribution @Teknoboutik 



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