Guest Mixes

Exclusive mixes and tastemaking DJ sets crafted by your favorite artists and underground luminaries.

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…

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…

London-based DJ/producer HAAi careens through a FREAKS ONLY guest DJ mix of hard techno, euphoric house, and more.

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…

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…

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…

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…

The seed of Naya Beat was planted in a Heat-Wave . Daniel T.

You've probably heard the cumbia version of Snoop Dogg's sharing-is-caring anthem, "Ain't No Fun," on the KCRW airwaves recently.

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…