GLOBAL FREQUENCY V1: 95 Minutes of Global Anthems, Questionable Decisions & Absolutely No Borders
Music stopped respecting borders a long time ago. Nobody sent a memo. There was no press conference. No committee meeting in Geneva. It just happened.
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Jonathan Sassen
9/1/20262 min read
GLOBAL FREQUENCY V1: 95 Minutes of Global Anthems, Questionable Decisions & Absolutely No Borders
Music stopped respecting borders a long time ago.
Nobody sent a memo. There was no press conference. No committee meeting in Geneva.
It just happened.
A record gets made in Lagos, catches fire in London, gets remixed by somebody in Paris, played at 2:17 AM in Medellín and somehow ends up blasting out of a Dodge Charger at a gas station in Atlanta.
This is perfectly normal now.
Welcome to Global Frequency V1.
For the next 95 minutes, we're abandoning the increasingly useless concept of musical borders and traveling through Latin, Hip-Hop, Afrobeats, House, EDM and whatever else sounded dangerous enough to make the flight.
And this time, I brought MDRD.
Somehow, MDRD Got a Microphone
If you've ever caught me on the road, there's a good chance you've encountered MDRD.
He's my hype man.
His normal responsibilities include controlling the crowd, amplifying questionable behavior and making perfectly reasonable adults believe that ordering another bottle at 1:43 in the morning is actually a sound financial decision.
For Global Frequency V1, however, we've promoted him.
MDRD is officially hosting the mix.
Nobody remembers approving this decision, but the microphone was already plugged in, so here we are.
Between his commentary and my inability to stay inside one musical genre for more than several minutes, Global Frequency starts feeling less like a traditional mixtape and more like an international radio station broadcasting from a country that doesn't exist.
Which, frankly, was the idea.
One Frequency. Different Worlds.
The mix brings together Ozuna, Karol G, Omar Courtz, Drake, Yung Miami, French Montana, Max B, Rick Ross, Rubberz, Davido, GloRilla, DaBaby, ConeP, HUGEL, DJ Goja and plenty more along the way.
On paper, some of these people probably shouldn't be standing next to each other.
Fortunately, dance floors don't read paperwork.
A Latin record crashes into Hip-Hop.
Atlanta runs into Lagos.
Afrobeats wanders into House.
European club music appears without warning.
Somewhere along the way Drake shows up because apparently there is an international treaty requiring Drake to appear in approximately 73 percent of all playlists.
And somehow, the whole thing works.
Because that's what nightlife actually sounds like when you travel.
Nobody in the Club Asked What Genre This Was
Spend enough time DJing outside your hometown and you discover something interesting:
People care considerably less about genres than DJs do.
I've watched crowds thousands of miles apart lose their minds to the same records.
Different language.
Different currency.
Different liquor behind the bar.
Same reaction when the right record drops.
That's the real idea behind Global Frequency.
Not forcing different genres together because somebody invented the phrase "open format."
Finding the invisible thread connecting them in the first place.
Rhythm.
Energy.
Familiarity.
Surprise.
And occasionally a bassline powerful enough to temporarily erase whatever poor decisions brought you into the nightclub that evening.
95 Minutes. No Passport Required.
Global Frequency V1 isn't supposed to sound like somebody carefully organizing music into categories.
It's supposed to sound like traveling.
Miami at midnight.
Medellín at 2 AM.
Lagos creeping into the speakers.
Atlanta kicking the door open.
Some European beach club appearing unexpectedly.
Then MDRD yelling something through the microphone because apparently nobody was supervising him.
That's the frequency.
Different cities.
Different cultures.
Different sounds.
One dance floor.
GLOBAL FREQUENCY V1
Mixed by Rico “The Politician” Sanchez
Hosted by MDRD
95 minutes of global anthems.
No borders.
No passports.
Very little adult supervision.
Turn it up.
