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Today's guest curator is Shawn Reynaldo, whose hub features selections from Hyperdub, Numbers., Geographic North, Human Pitch, pavel milyakov , maral ما, patrick holland, Carrier, and more.

Feeling very lucky that TraTraTrax co-founder N agreed to put together a guest recommendation for today's First Floor digest. He picked a real good tune too, so check out the newsletter online - you can find the link in the usual spot.

When it comes to good taste, it's hard to top that of Yu Su (yu.su), who knows her way around both food and records. That's why it's so exciting to have her share a special guest recommendation in the latest First Floor newsletter.

No journalist is more dedicated to documenting the most fried corners of online music + culture than Kieran Press-Reynolds, which is why it's such a pleasure to have him contribute a guest recommendation to today's First Floor. p.s. Brazilian funk fiends won't want to miss this one.

Today's newsletter features a special guest recommendation from the ultra-versatile, genre-blurring, modular-building NYC producer @braillesounds, who shares a track that first blew his mind more than two decades ago.

My favorite thing about the hit em phenomenon is how much it's reminded me that the internet, on occasion, can still be a legitimately joyous and fun place. Daniel Bromfield asked me to share a few other thoughts on this nascent genre in his latest piece for Stereogum.

UK funky is often discussed as a purely historical phenomenon, but it never truly died. The genre grew, and changed, and many now making it / influenced by it don't explicitly call themselves funky, but it's in their DNA. My latest for Nina. ninaprotocol.com/articles/uk-fu…

The upcoming book from Emily Witt is quite unlike most dance music titles, and is primarily set in the Bushwick scene during a time of mass political and social upheaval. She told me about that and more in an interview for First Floor. Link in the usual spot.

After many years of making top-shelf techno as Shifted, Carrier adopted a new name (Carrier) and started making some thrillingly unconventional tunes. He honestly sounds better than ever, and today he's contributed a guest recommendation to the latest First Floor mailout.

Long before "Latin club" became dance music's hottest hype, Colombia's 🌞 Julian͜͡n͜͡a 🌞 was turning out dancefloors on multiple continents—and doing it with hard-to-classify, genre-busting sounds. She applied that same sensibility to her guest recommendation in today's First Floor.

For this month’s edition of Second Floor, Shawn Reynaldo explores the long-germinating “new school” of jungle music, which is maybe not all that new, actually.