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Honey Dijon Boiler Room x Sugar Mountain 2018 DJ Set
DJ Set, House Akhil Srivatsan DJ Set, House Akhil Srivatsan

Honey Dijon Boiler Room x Sugar Mountain 2018 DJ Set

Honey Dijon’s Boiler Room set from the 2018 edition of Melbourne’s Sugar Mountain Festival is one of the most popular on Boiler Room’s channel, is a masterclass in house music. It boasts of an esoteric setlist that weaves through house bangers, high-energy hip-hop, samples of Chaka Khan, New Order, et al, even a sample of MLK’s I Have A Dream speech.

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Molchat Doma — Stairs [Молчат Дома — Этажи]
Coldwave, Post-punk, Good Albums Akhil Srivatsan Coldwave, Post-punk, Good Albums Akhil Srivatsan

Molchat Doma — Stairs [Молчат Дома — Этажи]

Is the world going to end? Is there no hope for us in the face of all the challenges we’re no doubt going to face in the coming years? But then this: at what other time of human civilisation could an Indian find it this easy to get his hands on a British-post-punk-inspired Belarussian coldwave album first released by a German label, then reissued by an American label?

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