DJ Mixanthrope Listens to the Kids

<p>I don’t know how the phrase “out of the mouth of babes” is supposed to actually go, but one possible ending is “and straight onto DJ Mixanthrope’s latest mix,” which is titled “<a href="https://soundcloud.com/djmixanthrope/playground-cries-from-the-youth" target="_blank">Playground: Cries from the Youth</a>.”</p> <p><iframe loading="lazy" scrolling="no" allow="autoplay" src="https://w.soundcloud.com/player/?url=https%3A//api.soundcloud.com/tracks/478264296&color=%23ff5500&auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false&show_teaser=true" width="100%" height="166" frameborder="no"></iframe></p> <p>The Berlin-based DJ has made Afrocentric mixes about money and heartbreak, but this time, rather than a shared subject matter, the unifying characteristic is the <em>age</em> of the performers: kids, running the gamut from toddlers to teens. Mixanthrope has cast his net geographically wide&mdash;from the Seychelles in the Indian Ocean across the globe to Brazil, up to Jamaica, down to South Africa. </p> <p>People who had weird French teachers in high school likely can still remember something better than when to use the subjunctive case (which is&hellip;uh<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7IiLZ0dvDWU">): that weird video of a rapping toddler named Jordy who watches his parents make out</a>. I hadn’t thought about Jordy in years until <a href="https://twitter.com/a_ben_richmond/status/1013427886005608449" target="_blank">I came across his record in Colombia</a>, of all places (did not buy), but here is his peer group.&nbsp;</p> <p>My personal favorite stretch of music comes towards the end, with an AutoTune-heavy piece from the Tunisian artist Balti straight into a sweet old Christmas song from Argentina, far from the Jordy.</p>