Slam on the CDJ: The Best DJ Sets of September, 2024

Image via Michael McKinney Independent rap journalists will recommend you new music until their voices give out. Keep it that way by supporting Passion of the Weiss via a subscription to our Patreon. Michael McKinney understands the cultural importance of Kreayshawn’s “Gucci Gucci.” In September—as ever—plenty of DJs the world over turned in critical sessions, offering up headspinners and barnburners in equal measure. Eamon Harkin and Rey Colino, in a pair of riotous live recordings, rocketed between house and techno belters for six can’t-miss hours. Club-music pranksters Two Shell dug into dancefloor futurism, deep-fried electronics, and vintage-ish hardcore-or-so, and Wonja turned a peak-time floor on its side. Elsewhere, two critical Berlin DJs conjured very different kinds of delirium: Assyouti looked towards pitch-black drum-music hysteria, and Darwin grabbed an hour of vertiginous and abyssal dubstep. Elsewhere, column favorite boxofbox dug into an expansive and hi-energy vision of what dance music can sound like, and Kiernan Laveaux explored deep-space dub and outré electronics in her latest set. Myles Mac and DJ Possum conjured a sepia-tinged kind of nostalgia with a bag of early-aughts rollers, and mi-el looked towards ‘90s New York with a set that split the difference between hip-hop and field...