020.6:MMM

020.6:MMM is Michael's latest pick for 000, on Apple Music, and it is the second half of a pair. Fourteen tracks, one hour and thirteen minutes. Where 020.5 opened acoustic and closed in dub, this one opens in dub and walks back to the band.

It begins where the last release ended, on Al Wootton's dubbed-out breakbeats, and climbs through Mona Yim and DEADWALKMAN into Abe Duque's acid before Pearson Sound brings it down over samples lifted from a 1960s BBC radio broadcast. The turn comes on Malcolm McLaren's "Deep In Vogue", a 1989 record in which a live orchestra plays house music over a sampled Philadelphia soul break, made for the ballroom and introducing Willi Ninja. Channel Tres answers it twenty-nine years later with the same music and a different city. From there the machines hand over: Gerardo Frisina's latin jazz, Beni Life's Balearic synth-pop out of eighties Spain, Moca's downbeat, and then the players arrive properly, The Foundations in 1967, Héctor Lavoe's 1976 salsa written by Tite Curet Alonso, and Antibalas's Brooklyn afrobeat, before a 1969 Chilean balada closes it in three minutes.

Al Wootton, Mona Yim, DEADWALKMAN, Abe Duque, Pearson Sound, Malcolm McLaren & The Bootzilla Orchestra, Channel Tres, Gerardo Frisina, Beni Life, Moca, The Foundations, Héctor Lavoe, Antibalas, Los Ángeles Negros.

Listen to the playlist below.

020.6:MMM on Apple Music.