News — Zongamin

The Japanese artist Zongamin arrived on record shelves and over club soundsystems during a now distant, post ‘mash-up’ period in which retro funk, electro, pop music and vintage house converged to drive a fashion concious-club scene. Delivering records on both XL Recordings and Parisian label Ed Banger during it’s critical and commercial peak, Zong was an ambitious outlier on this scene, whose records nonetheless got rinsed by everyone: Bongo Song, a percussive, cut-up, arms-up anthem released on the latter, was a go-to curveball for scene leaders such as 2ManyDJs and our own Erol Alkan, who has consistently featured his productions...