skeler wasn’t the only one cooking though. Thirty days is a long time frame in the modern music industry and June was another month filled with freshly baked songs. June also means it’s time for the traditional mid-year reports and I was glad to notice how this column makes this process incredibly fluent. I won’t geek out and bring up stats and analysis here, but take a few minutes to go through the previous playlists if you want to get a more three-dimensional picture of the scene over the past six months. You’ll find interesting creative and release patterns that otherwise are hard to spot in the boisterous Friday-to-Friday routine.

If I had to highlight two artists who have stolen the show over the past six months, I would select Bafu and Juche. Bafu wasn’t a new name for me, but with a superlative streak of devastating remixes and originals, he rightfully became the unpredicted hero of the first half of 2024. On the other end, Juche‘s massive impact on the scene was everything but unpredictable. He’s already a superstar, but despite his status, he deservedly earned this shout-out for having released a staggering total of fourteen original singles so far (collab with Sublab included).

In addition to tracks from these two champions, in this Wave Monthly playlist, you’ll find charming and introspective tracks from STATIC ANGEL, BL1THE and cali.xo, glyte and Øtherside. SBU, Teneki, crowit., ZETMO, KENØK, Exodynamix, and the dream team REMNANT.exe & Noah B brought in some hardwave-ish energy while if you’re eager for obscure and mental cuts you have to check Cirrus Minus, GAZHELL and SAGE & KYLLER’s collaboration.

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Kicking off with the newest single by barnacle boi, ‘KNOW Ü’, our Wave Monthly playlist offers the usual dive into the best in wave, hardwave, phonk, and everything in between.  We have a gritty edit of ‘Baby again..’ by hyperforms and more flips and remixes from obey, haydys, deadcrow, and MYSTYK.  For the more soft-hearted, there are plenty of vocal and instrumental ballads such as niburu’s ‘TOGETHER’ , etsu’s ‘Continuum’ or TYLER BREAKS’ ‘angel’. For the lovers of hardwave or stumping phonk-inspired beats, KTrek, KYLLER, kim & limedisx, FATE, Bafu, SBU & MRKRYL and DRIVERAVE got you covered. There’s even space for a couple of liquid drum&bass and jungle crossovers to cap off the playlist.  For the first time since the beginning of the year there’s no Juche music, but only because his two new tracks weren’t uploaded on SoundCloud. You can check them on Spotify.

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Talking instead of releases, April will go down as the month that saw the release of one of the best compilation albums of the year. Curated and released by Interval Audio, hands down the best compilation-dealer in the game, Neo Subculture 3 is a 33-track masterclass in Wave, Hardwave, Trance, and Neo Trance. With 46 artists involved, it is a comprehensive testament to the power of this artistic community that never stops opening their hearts and minds to the unknown to redefine the boundaries of these genres. Due to the relevance of this album, I decided to reserve five spots on this month’s playlist for extracts from Neo Subculture 3. You’ll find them mixed among singles from familiar faces as tearsofmine, enjoii, KTrek (via vibe.digital), Klasey Jones, Pholo, SBU, but also newer names like nibiru’, FQYL, kub0, Michiya Mirai, anølemma and many more. In case you’re wondering, yes, there’s a Juche release this month as well.

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Pantheon kicks off on Thursday, with the official pre-party at the High Dive, which will see calicry and Static Angel behind the decks, two of my favorite producers in the game at the moment. The festival reaches its climax on Friday and Saturday nights, where more than 30 artists will take the stage at the Substation. The gargantuan lineup includes some familiar names such as Remnant.exe, barnacle boi, brothel, Noah B, Falldren, Ramon Pang, Angel Cannon, and many more.

You can find the last tickets for the pre-party and the two-day festival here and here.

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brothel. (not the first time I write about him) and barnacle boi are the cremé de la cremé of the US wave scene, two undiscussed legends and full members of the global pantheon of the genre. The number of classics that have their signs is notable. They both have already played plenty of guest mixes, radio shows, URL festivals and even international live shows, something that doesn’t have to be taken for granted when talking about a young movement such as Wave and after nearly two years of the pandemic. Talking about that, brothel. stated that ‘SLIDE’ was actually created while on tour: “Ian and I were touring Russia last year and we straight up wrote this song in the back of a van on our long 8-hour ride to the next country.” They both can count a solid following and a devoted fanbase that is reflected in the hundreds of thousands of monthly listeners they currently have on streaming platforms. End of the lesson. Let’s jump right into the track.

First fact: ‘SLIDE’ is actually a remix. Or maybe a bootleg, a flip, an edit, whatever you like to call it. In short, it features a vocal sample of H.E.R, from her 2019’s song ‘Slide’ (which, in turn, contains an interpolation of Jermaine Dupri feat. Jay-Z ‘Money’s ‘Ain’t a Thang’). Second fact. It doesn’t matter if the vocals aren’t original, ‘SLIDE’ is an absolute beauty that shines of its own light. Barnacle Boi and brothel. twist the dry, bouncy, warm mood of the original and replace it with a thick, vaporous, synthetic texture that delicately accompanies the vocals from the intro all the way to the end. The effect is that of a morning mist on an Autumn day, which wraps the landscape with its unpalpable presence as the first light of dawn appears over the horizon. In the very short breakdown, synths and pads take over and give us an instrumental moment of pure peace of mind. In the second drop, brothel. and Barnacle Boi mainly follows the footstep of the previous. They add a further injection of reverb and decrease the volume of the vocals making the division between the various layers more blurred. The beat never becomes too predominant and performs very well its role of dictating a slow pace to the track. Its most characteristic elements are definitely its highly reverberated snare and the rainfall of hi-hats in the last segment. ‘SLIDE’ is just the latest example of the highly successful contamination between wave, trap, and hip hop, which is having an unexpected longevity as well as a less unexpected, impressive popularity.

Stream ‘SLIDE’ by brothel. and Barnacle Boi below, on Spotify and grab your free download here.

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With its cavernous bass, ‘MIRÆ’ has brought me to the lightless depths of the ocean, among a pack of giant cetaceans swimming in circles as in an ancestral dance while communicating in their cryptic, alien-like, languages. Fluctuating weightless in this hypnotic scenario and driven by the whirling synths, I ended up syncing with this ancestral dance, inexorably becoming part of it.

Usually I consider those kind of Youtube videos where a track is put on repetitions for hours and hours pretty much a joke, but in this case, I must admit I’d be willing to do one myself for this song. Listen to ‘MIRÆ’ below and download it for free here.

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