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Ka§par: The Cover Mix

Kaspar is one of our favorite DJs and after camping on search terms in anticipation of catching his latest mix wherever it might pop up we're thrilled to present a cover mix for Issue 195.

This mix was dreamt up first but ultimately came last — our interview in this same issue was so interesting to put together that the mix almost became an afterthought. But it came out better than we could have imagined — leaping from genre to genre, with a common thread of swing & groove.

Kaspar was a resident DJ at Lisbon's legendary Frágil — "the closest thing you could get to the perfect night club," he says — from 1999 until it closed in 2012, from ages 16 to 29. "It was a really lucky break, I was a kid. I mixed like Jeff Mills and scratched like Roc Raida but had the maturity of a green banana. In hindsight I was lucky both for that opportunity and also that I hadn't crashed and burnt by the time I was 30. I'm glad that I am, at least, wise enough now to recognize that."

"I've always felt the best DJs are those out of the hype loops," he says. "I was never a part of the beautiful people in that sense and thank fuck for that as most of these people's music is bland and tastes like you're eating cardboard." Here is a DJ mix that doesn't.

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