ML Buch is Marie Louise Buch, a Copenhagen-based composer, producer, guitarist and vocalist. In her compositional practice ML Buch sketches up her music in an almost architectural way. The raw material is generated through immersion in playing and assembling as a way of triggering random magic. Her live performances, both in solo and group formations, is reflective of her love of combining seven-string electric guitars in open tunings with synthetic instruments and electronic experiments. Last year she released her 2023 sophomore album Suntub, a critical favorite full of uniquely elegant, arty, sweeping guitar-driven songs that touched upon shoegaze, dream-pop, post-rock, grunge, and synthetic styles in hypnotic painterly fashion.
ML Buch's exclusive guest DJ mix for Midnight in a Perfect World is a fantastic survey of songs that capture her loose yet distinctive aesthetic, or as she shares: "a sense of space and dust, shimmer and distortion — and strong melodies."
| Artist | Title |
|---|---|
| Midnight in a Perfect World | Intro |
| The Radio Dept. | You Stopped Making Sense |
| The Spinanes | Hawaiian Baby |
| ML Buch | Dust beam |
| Tasmin Archer | Sleeping Satellite |
| Joshua Chuquimia Crampton | mi ELEGANZA |
| Glenn Branca | Collage |
| The Clean | Are You Really On Drugs |
| Bryan Ferry | Smoke Gets In Your Eyes |
| Laurie Anderson | Flow |
| Blue Lake | Green-Yellow Field |
| David Bowie | Where Are We Now |
| The Garbage & The Flowers | Love Comes Slowly Now |
| Kool Music | Sand Fly |
| Jan Van den Broeke aka Absent Music | The Monkey House |
| King Crimson | I Talk To The Wind (From: The Young Person's Guide To King Crimson 1976) |
| Don McLean | Vincent (Starry Starry Night) (Live) |
| Death In Vegas | Girls |
Midnight in a Perfect World, KEXP's weekly hour-long guest DJ show, airs Fridays at midnight. This multi-genre program features eclectic sets by a rotating cast of international and local DJ's, each building upon a party vibe to kick off your weekend. Midnight in a Perfect World is made possible with support from New Belgium Brewing.
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