About the artist: Mamoudou N’Diaye aka ‘Glick Tracy’ aka ‘Mamoudou About Nothing’ aka “Unseriousness Incarnate” aka “His Ancestor’s Mildest Dreams” aka “Djinn and Juice” aka “Mauritania is MENA Too” but mostly “Mamoudou N’Diaye” is an Mauritanian and Malian-American NYC based dj who plays sounds from all over the world in an effort to get even the biggest hater on the dancefloor to tap their foot to the beat – no one escapes having a blast.

When he’s not playing football, running a chaotic UNO game, or living más, he can be found catching a vibe with the homies at a variety of increasingly random events, collecting sounds and experiences to apply to his mixes or his scripts.

About the mix: It’s very hard for me to feel possessive over music because while art comes from the individual, it’s belongs to the world – and I mean the whole world.

This mix’s goal was to bring as many languages and sonic styles together to weave together a tapestry of sounds that reminds people that while culturally we all come from different rhythms and beat patterns, they can and should fit together. Music is about connection and in increasingly disconnected times, I find solace in music that’s centered in reacquainting me with myself through sound, untethered to all the stressors of life. I wrote a movie this year about this exact premise and my own journey back into exploration of global sounds and tracing drum patterns (of course, guided in parts by my sisters Myyuh and Carmen Sandiego) allows me to live out that script’s story and musical celebration IRL while these goofy studios got me and all the writers on strike. When I’m feeling stuck, I have to move by any means necessary and music is teleportation. I hope that this mix teleports you wherever or whenever you want to go or to a time or place you didn’t even know you wanted to go. Don’t believe me? I’ve been a DJ for 11 years but playing for my friends on their radio show is exactly where I wanted to be at this point in my life all because of music.