The Monday Mix is an occasional roundup of compilations, live recordings, videos, podcasts, and more by Washtenaw County-associated artists, DJs, radio stations, and record labels.

This edition features sights and sounds from Fans With Bands interviewing Mazinga, performances from the University of Michigan Symphony Orchestra, a MEMCO mix from DJ Art, and viral TikTok fella DJ DC.

Fans With Bands podcast: Mazinga
We ran a Pulp interview with Ann Arbor psych-rockers Mazinga in February 2025 to cover the band's long-awaited album, Chinese Democracy Manifest: Greatest Hits, Vol. 2, but if you want to hear the musicians in their own voices (literally), check out their interview with Fans With Bands. The podcast comes from the mind of Ann Arbor photographer and Life in Michigan co-founder Chuck Marshall.

University of Michigan Symphony Band
The University of Michigan has dozens of fantastic student groups, but as far as I can tell, the University of Michigan Symphony Band is the only one that regularly records and posts performances (correct me if I'm wrong). Ann Arbor's Dave Schall Sound—Dave Schall, Cory Robinson, and Robyn Kimmey—is behind the documentation, so in addition to expert audio, we get high-quality video and camera cuts of this ensemble. The concerts aren't grouped into playlists, so you'll have to go to youtube.com/@umsymphonyband and load up the player to re-create the shows in your home.

DJ Art, Exposure Mix 075
MEMCO's Exposure Mix series usually slows down this time of year as students graduate. If DJ Art's addition to the long-running project is the last one of the semester, he sent the seniors out with a bang. The Soundcloud tag says "# Drum & Bass" but Exposure Mix 075 is more of an upbeat, deep-house mix that should uplift any graduation party.

DJ DC's One Note Challenge
Ann Arbor's DJ DC, aka Derrick Castenholz, came up with his TikTok idea during quarantine when he was stuck behind his decks doing virtual dance parties: Can you name a song based on one note and several clues? It's a simple premise, and I'm positive I've heard it before on the radio, but DJ DC's version caught fire on a communications platform that is way more popular than the airwaves. Now the DJ has nearly 700,000 followers on TikTok, and he's been featured in several news stories. In August 2024, CBS News Detroit followed around Castenholz as he tested people on The Diag. While he does sometimes hit the pavement for humans-on-the-streets versions of his one-note wonder game, most of the DJ's clips are of him standing in front of his impressive record collection, where he introduces facts about the artists and songs, which give increasing clues to help you solve the mystery.

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Christopher Porter is a library technician and the editor of Pulp.