Boiler Room: an hour with Hunee (DJ Mix)

Boiler Room: an hour with Hunee (DJ Mix)

There are DJs who make you dance, DJs who make you think, and DJs who assemble others’ music so well that it becomes a conduit for a spiritual experience. In his an hour with mix—the first exclusive undertaking between Boiler Room and Apple Music—Hunee does all three. The Berlin producer/DJ born Hun Choi is a deep-crate selector in the mold of DJ Harvey, Andrew Weatherall, and Optimo—a freeformist with as dense a knowledge of dance(able) music’s obscure past as its ever-changing present. As such, curiosity and unpredictability are Hunee’s strengths on this mix, in which modern electro, techno, and acid (Aleksi Perälä, Jump Source, Analog Brothers) share the floor with late-’70s Nigerian funk and disco (Julie Coker), ’80s digi-jazz-pop (Frank Harris & Maria Marquez), and other oddball gems such as Hidemi Ishikawa’s stellar Japanese cover of Pet Shop Boys’ “Love Comes Quickly.” In the world of DJing, the concept of "risk-taking" should always be taken with a grain of salt—what’s the worst that can happen, after all?—but Hunee’s unorthodox explorations into music’s less-familiar corners are reliably our rewards, as his an hour with set deftly illustrates.

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