Easily the best mix of 2025, one that is as emotional as it is inventive. It feels like listening to a time capsule of the past twenty years sonically in the Americas. I would send this to aliens, if they wanted to understand our sound. Chuquimamani-Condor’s “Rayo Mix 2022” is another gem as such.
Their latest release and one of their first releases from 2015, I highly recommend listening to both to compare and contrast how “regional radio” has evolved.
Keanu offers a crash course in Indigenous Australian sounds of the past century. It feels like school, in the best way possible.
Compare this then with Keanu’s own music, which you can hear the influences of. Keanu seems like an artist we’re going to be talking about a lot more!
An essential compilation of African pop, all brought together by Kampire. As she explained, this was “cheesy” music played during the holidays but, in taken out and added to the larger global music context, it certainly is anything but cheesy.
If you’re curious about Kampire’s own sound, her RA mix is a great crash course. (Here recent June mix is great too!)
Like the Kampire compilation, but of more contemporary African electronic music. It’s a fitting sequel to the Kampire mix, so you can draw connections to the past to understand the present.
Venezuela’s most exciting breakout, which is more traditional dance (The Journey) but songs like “MK3TreF” show the influence of the past into the future, especially given Arca’s cosign.
One of the wildest acts, Ramon’s music is truly like scanning the radio, stumbling upon silly sounds and compressed music that is as fun as it is a jumbled mindfuck.
If you like what you’ve heard with the last two, Brazil’s DJ K is somewhere in between DJ Babatr and DJ Ramon Sucesso.
A time capsule of the Dutch-Dominican artist’s sound, from 2010 but feels very much of the kind being produced by the past three artists.
While there are many an exciting Miami artist (Nick Leon! Danny Daze!), La Goony Chonga’s music — and this mixtape in particular — brings all the Miami sounds’ best qualities into one place, fusing forward-thinking dance gestures with the influence of Latin pop.
Slikback’s music is quite literally hard as it’s very intense techno but the Kenyan artist has transcended the scene, as he is/was a key player. Lasakaeku is his breakout from Hakuna Kulala while Condense is a collab record with various worldwide talents.
The Sudanese artist is making more straightforward techno that — as this 2020s classic shows — wears many influences, from gabber to UK grime.
A West Indian artist whose sound is a fusion of “acoustic kettle drumming” with samples from around the world.