All Around Player | Zouk Mixtape

Energy 3-8 | 68-85 BPM

Another challenge presented by the All Stars: perform a ~20 song Zouk set using as many genres as possible, grouped in blocks of 3, and never interrupt the flow.

As usual for an All Stars prompt, this presented real challenges but introduced a lot of practice and learning opportunities along the way. I tried to find songs with compatible elements to help blending between genres while also making a point to practice tighter and more varied transitions and BPM changes (there's even a brakestart transition which I'm still deathly afraid of performing live). As my first "longer" set, it also took a ton of planning and a bit of endurance to record in a single shot.

The final set was adapted from one I prepared for Zouk on the Docks but presented in a new order and refined with notes gathered from the social.

Thanks for listening :)