Pride 2021 (DJ Mix)

The first time Qrion ever went clubbing in the United States, the Sapporo-born DJ found herself at an underground party in Los Angeles, where the Night Slugs and Fade to Mind crew were throwing down cutting-edge club music and ballroom house. She pays tribute to that eye-opening experience in her Pride mix, dropping Jam City’s pivotal 2011 track “Waterfalls” alongside more recent fare from Forest Drive West, Call Super & Parris, and Xyla, not to mention her own “Monolith.” That range is intentional, she tells Apple Music: At home, browsing through her music library as she prepared the mix, she thought back to all the good times she had clubbing in the US before the pandemic. “I like playing many genres and a wide variety of music in one mix,” she says. “So, in this mix, I picked my favorites over the past five or six years that I normally don’t get to play in the nightclub.”