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You make me eat, you make me sleep
2025 Mix 34: Searching for new songs in bulk and finding some usual suspects: K-pop, V-pop, baile funk, amapiano, and hyper-ish stuff from the US…
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Cherry slush, icy cold
2025 Mix 33: A record-breaking mix -- most tracks in the shortest runtime; the bouyon and Lil Wayne pop-punk Autotune songs of the year; and weirdest…
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Float in magma
2025 Mix 32: Juking the regional stats with a glut of South African tracks, plus Ukrainian Eurovisioncore, gentle horsewave, a Caribbean block, and lots…
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Gimme a grrr
2025 Mix 31: The A-pop series nears its conclusion, some hemming/hawing about platform unpleasantness, and great music from all over as always -- the…
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The Rise (or Fall) of A-Pop, Pt. 5
Part 5: The world after blockbuster American pop -- impersonators, mirages, and post-pop impressionism
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July 2025

When it's not fun anymore
2025 Mix 30: An indie nine-darter, uneven funk crossovers, Eftalya Yağcı and Dani Nigro (with an "I," no relation) return, and I no longer confuse…
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We jumped into the margins
2025 Mix 29: Obligatory KPOP DEMON HUNTERS thoughts before enjoying the sounds of scene outsiders rapping, rocking, and ama-popping to strange and…
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I'm not that little
2025 Mix 28: The end of American (flag) pop, religious and jingoisitic controversies, universal clave feel, and the triumphant return of amapiano
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This is making no sense to the average listener
2025 Mix 27: Scanning half-year recommendations, plus CMAT, Flavien Berger, Aya Nakamura, and the usual global grab-bag
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We’ve got these terrible plans
2025 Mix 26: A shallow dive on 1975, then various outsiders try their hand at making amapiano, gqom, funk, phonk, and batida go cosmo-pop
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June 2025

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