new.currency® has found its rhythm and Episode 004 leans into it fully. Sixteen records assembled by a collective that treats curation the way good DJs treat a set: every transition intentional, every placement earning its position, the whole thing moving like a conversation that knows exactly where it is going even when it sounds like it is wandering.
new.currency® – episode 003
Side A opens with Bnnyhunna’s Calm Waters, which does exactly what the title promises before S!RENE follows with Tree’s Root, two records that establish the episode’s emotional temperature early and hold it steady. DJ Tunez brings Wizkid and Reekado Banks in on Turn Up, a record that earns its title without announcing it, before Fido’s Joy Is Coming arrives as one of those tracks that makes you feel the thing the title is describing before the first bar has finished. EeQue’s Makhulu, featuring Ntando Yamahlubi and Wesley Keys, carries that specific weight that the best South African music does, where joy and reverence exist in the same breath. De Soul, Soa Mattrix, Natasha MD, and DJ Maphorisa on Amathongo deepens that current before Vanyfox’s Summer Nights lifts everything back toward warmth. Keys The Prince and Mayorkun close Side A with the Left Right Remix, a record that moves like it has somewhere to be and does not need to tell you where.
new.currency® – episode 002
Side B opens in Amsterdam with Thomas Asselman’s Amsterdam Nights, a record that carries the specific melancholy of a city after midnight, before Phoenix Sounds and Mogomotsi Chosen bring Taba Tsa Batho into the picture and pull the episode back toward the African continent with real conviction. Mas Musiq and Daliwonga featuring Eemoh and DJ Maphorisa on Woza is the kind of amapiano record that reminds you why the genre has been impossible to ignore for the better part of a decade. Tete and Leko M on Bhut’Maninginingi and Phoenix Sounds with Malume Wa Dikatara on Ta Sai keep that energy moving before the episode shifts registers entirely.
Space Ghost’s Soul Shower is the kind of record that arrives mid-episode and quietly reframes everything around it, warm and unhurried in a way that earns the word soul rather than just borrowing it. DJOKO’s Lost In Time carries that feeling forward before Chaos In the CBD closes the episode with Double Dribble, a record that lands like a perfect final note: precise, unexpected, and exactly right.
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