August’s Pop Zone mix comes courtesy of Natural Wonder Beauty Concept – the collaborative project from DJ Python and Ana Roxanne borne from a 2020 meeting, in the midst of a strange, pandemic-era New York winter.
It was then that the pair first met in person after admiring each other’s work from afar (this was the year Python, a.k.a. Brian Piñeyro, released critic fave Mas Amable and Roxanne also dropped a sophomore full-length, the sublime Because of a Flower) and a friendship was forged. It was only this year, though, that the pair dropped their self-titled debut as Natural Wonder Beauty Concept via the Mexican Summer label; a delightfully amorphous and introspective 10-tracker.
Their Pop Zone mix is equally gorgeous and unpredictable – which, we suppose, we did sort of expect from the pair, who infuse their set with everything from country to baile funk via a Shakespeare sonnet. Heartstring-pullers and karaoke faves are amped up an extra emotional notch as they come against instrumentals that linger almost theatrically. “Key songs and voices old and new,” they tell us, adding only: “We love pop music.”
Pop Zone: Natural Wonder Beauty Concept
Pop Zone: Natural Wonder Beauty Concept
August’s Pop Zone mix comes courtesy of Natural Wonder Beauty Concept – the collaborative project from DJ Python and Ana Roxanne borne from a 2020 meeting, in the midst of a strange, pandemic-era New York winter.
It was then that the pair first met in person after admiring each other’s work from afar (this was the year Python, a.k.a. Brian Piñeyro, released critic fave Mas Amable and Roxanne also dropped a sophomore full-length, the sublime Because of a Flower) and a friendship was forged. It was only this year, though, that the pair dropped their self-titled debut as Natural Wonder Beauty Concept via the Mexican Summer label; a delightfully amorphous and introspective 10-tracker.
Their Pop Zone mix is equally gorgeous and unpredictable – which, we suppose, we did sort of expect from the pair, who infuse their set with everything from country to baile funk via a Shakespeare sonnet. Heartstring-pullers and karaoke faves are amped up an extra emotional notch as they come against instrumentals that linger almost theatrically. “Key songs and voices old and new,” they tell us, adding only: “We love pop music.”
