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Zenbi: “My Five Favorite Records”

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Zenbi drops Chaga on SOUP NYC this summer: a rolling, tribal house cut that delivers one of the year’s most unexpected hooks, complete with a tough reworking from Huxley.

Zenbi is a Philadelphia-born house producer and DJ, co-owning the label and party brand SOUP NYC. He has previously released on labels such as Dubfire’s SCI-TEC, Skint, Great Stuff, and of course SOUP itself, and this year has already put out rapturously-received cuts on the likes of Colore and Natura Viva.

As well as being a top-class producer, Zenbi has also been instrumental to SOUP bringing in artists like Doc Martin, Derrick Carter and Claude Von Stroke and inviting them to play a series of innovative, packed out afterhours parties in Brooklyn.

As we head into full summer mode, we asked Zenbi to share his five favorite records with us

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Q&A and Global Vibe Radio 119 Feat. Zenbi

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In this week’s episode of Global Vibe Radio we invite Washington D.C. based producer, DJ and label-head Zenbi with a one-hour guest mix featuring tracks by RebĆ«ke, Dario D’Attis and Zenbi himself, amongst others.

Raised in Philadelphia and based in Washington D.C., Zenbi has found a second home in Brooklyn acting as a partner in Soup NYC. With newly-minted residencies at several of the hottest dance clubs in the world and a string of chart topping releases on some of dance music’s most prestigious labels including Suara, Great Stuff, Hotfingers, 303 Lovers, Pacha, Stereo, Skint, InStereo Recordings, and Twisted among others, Zenbi continues to work hard to refine and perfect his soulful, tribal-infused sound.

From the studio, Zenbi’s productions have been successfully featured on over 100 releases – receiving massive support from an ever-increasing list of talented producers. As a DJ, Zenbi tries to maintain a consistency to his sets that matches his production work, by combining a variety of influences and styles – deep, soulful, gritty, and a quality he describes unabashedly as ‘chuggy’

Enjoy our interview with Zenbi below and read-on for the GVR Track List!

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Premiere: Rich Wakley Drops His “Underdog” EP on SOUP NYC With Remixes from Skapes, Joeski and Zenbi

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Rich Wakely drops the superb Underdog EP on SOUP NYC: two sterling house cuts with sublime remixes from Skapes, Joeski and Zenbi.

Whether it’s topping the charts, releasing on labels like Avotre, Suara, Lost and Roush or blasting out sets all over the world, Rich Wakely’s mix of solid beats and infectious grooves is receiving plaudits the world over.

As a producer and label manager, he has crafted many chart-topping hits, received continual BBC Radio 1 airplay and helping to launch a multitude of careers, while recent releases on OFF, Definition, Mile End and Resonance – bolstered by remixes from the likes of Darius Syrossian and Jamie Trench – have established Rich Wakely as a force to be reckoned with.

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