Guest Mixes
Exclusive mixes and tastemaking DJ sets crafted by your favorite artists and underground luminaries.
Guest Mix: Polo + Pan pour you a tropical electro-house concoction
French Touch disciples Polo & Pan serve up a tasty aperitif of an exclusive mix and discuss how they work, dream collaborators, and forthcoming new music.
Guest Mix: Daniel Avery’s long, strange trip
The prodigious DJ-producer shares a dosed exclusive mix and why his latest LP "Ultra Truth" is "the record I’ve had in my mind ever since I began making music in my bedroom as a…
Juke Bounce Werk: KCRW Guest Mix
LA’s foremost footwork purveyors celebrate ten years with a new 52-track compilation and an exclusive mix from co-founders Jae JBW and Sonic D.
Guest Mix: Classixx’s ‘Disco Deviations’
LA nu-disco duo Classixx present height-of-their-power cuts from Jim Morrison to Nico to Aretha Franklin… but make it disco.
Guest Mix: Jubilee whips up Miami bass for your sweaty, endless summer dancefloor
The Magic City founder serves up a steamy mix for all seasons and talks journeying from Miami rave kid to Mixpak MVP and Brooklyn’s hardest-hustling label maven.
Guest Mix: Panda Bear and Sonic Boom share inspirations for their collaborative album ‘Reset’
Panda Bear and Sonic Boom mine AM radio pop-sounds of the ‘50s and ‘60s to craft a FREAKS ONLY guest mix inspired by their new album “Reset.”
Guest Mix: Brooklyn’s AceMoMA write underground dance music’s next chapter
Through a relentlessly paced output of wildly varied electronic music, duo AceMoMA are reshaping NYC's underground dance scene.
Guest Mix: House legends Braxe + Falcon flex their French Touch
Dance royalty Braxe + Falcon flex their DJ muscles and show off their exquisite touch behind the decks with an exclusive mix of French house contemporaries, the next generation of…
Guest Mix: The abrasive, sublime breakbeats of Nikki Nair
Nikki Nair is one of the most exciting producers in dance music right now, releasing a slew of left-of-center, bass-heavy, breakbeat-driven techno since 2018 — or, put simply, Nair’s…
Guest Mix: Max Cooper is a computational biologist conjuring dance floor ecstasy
London audio-visual maestro Max Cooper, who hits Lightning in a Bottle May 25-30, delivers an exclusive concoction of his own work alongside KCRW favorites like John Tejada, Dntel, and…
Guest Mix: HAAi teases debut album ‘Baby, We’re Ascending’ with hard techno and euphoric house
London-based DJ/producer HAAi careens through a FREAKS ONLY guest DJ mix of hard techno, euphoric house, and more.
Guest Mix: Club Tularosa shines ‘Glory’ on LA’s underground
LA underground production duo Club Tularosa showcase their breadth of influences from italo disco to leftfield house to modern lo-fi electro, and give you a little taste of their DJ…
Guest Mix: Charlotte Adigéry & Bolis Pupul celebrate ‘Topical Dancer’ with sitar disco, deep-cut Prince, and more
Ahead of the March 4 release of their album “Topical Dancer,” Belgian electro-pop duo Charlotte Adigéry and Bolis Pupul are your latest FREAKS ONLY guest selectors, serving up…
Guest Mix: HVOB have your sexy, cerebral electronica fix with ‘TOO’
Austrian duo HVOB make music that exists somewhere at the nexus of the clubbier sounds you'd hear in a dark Berlin nightclub and a tougher version of The xx — with a cerebral…
Guest Mix: Habibi Funk explore the ‘70s Arab underground
With a focus on music from the Middle East and North Africa, Habibi Funk co-founder and curator Jannis Stürtz and his team have been reissuing some of the most unexpected and exciting…
Guest Mix: Naya Beat explores the indie side of India
The seed of Naya Beat was planted in a Heat-Wave . Daniel T.
Guest Mix: DJ Nu-Mark runs for cover
You've probably heard the cumbia version of Snoop Dogg's sharing-is-caring anthem, "Ain't No Fun," on the KCRW airwaves recently.
Guest Mix: Anna Lunoe is back to make you dance
The DJ-producer stops by FREAKS ONLY to share an exclusive mix, discuss the tumultuous past few years, and jump into the wayback machine for her recollections of the Australian music…