The Sound From Outside the House
TikTok gave a lo-fi club sound a reclaimed name and a new audience. Three outsider house producers on the genre gaining newfound online traction, what the platform gave them, what it may cost, and where the music actually belongs.
Mixtape #2: Guilt by Dissociation
Twelve songs catch one another in the acts of hiding, hesitating, and finally facing things. This week’s playlist traces the connections in liner notes accompanying a mix about avoidance, memory, stasis, and forward progression.
Double Feature: Do the Right Thing / Grand Budapest Hotel
Start with Do the Right Thing, then watch The Grand Budapest Hotel. Screenwriter Joe Eckstein makes the case for an unexpected double feature whose heat, politics, and tensions sharpen in sequence.
Mixtape #1: Heat Wave
An L.A. heat wave turns the bedroom into a place of restless nights and deferred plans. This week’s playlist opens our weekly “Mixtapes” series with fifteen tracks that capture the mood and liner notes from the hours before dawn.