UNDERCOVER

Jun Takahashi built these for the drive between his house and his atelier in the mountains. Each one runs about 120 minutes, the length of one leg, and he said on Instagram in October 2021 that he never made them for anyone else before deciding to put them up. Every playlist gets an oil painting for a cover, some of them his. The NTS DJ Derrick Gee found the series in early 2023 when it stood at eighty-one; it is past 160 now.

Number one opens on Popol Vuh’s Hosianna-Mantra and goes through Lumerians, David Byrne, Annette Peacock, Robert Palmer doing You Really Got Me, The Yardbirds, The Psychedelic Furs and Tony Allen with Jeff Mills. It pulls punk, psych rock, Japanese pop, electronica and soul from the same shelf UNDERCOVER has used since 1990.