Guest Mixes

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

On the heels of new EP “Bloco Vol. 2,” transcontinental trio PPJ spin a FREAKS ONLY exclusive mix of sonic thrills inspired Carnival 2024 in Brazil.

Totally Enormous Extinct Dinosaurs drops a seamless groove of a KCRW Guest mix ahead of his show at the Bellwether on Friday, Nov. 10.

Warehouse party duo Pelada drop not one but two(!) guest mixes ahead of kicking off LA’s Substance Festival on Friday, Nov. 3.

Felix from Basement Jaxx spins mutant disco, classic (and classical) house, breakbeats, and more ahead of the iconic duo’s CRSSD DJ set.

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.

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…

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.

LA nu-disco duo Classixx present height-of-their-power cuts from Jim Morrison to Nico to Aretha Franklin… but make it disco.

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.

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.”

Through a relentlessly paced output of wildly varied electronic music, duo AceMoMA are reshaping NYC's underground dance scene.

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…

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…