Tinzo brought a particularly dark selection to Book Club Meeting #22. The set runs for around 79 minutes, recorded at 99 Scott in Brooklyn with the DJ at the centre of a packed dance floor lit almost entirely in red.
The session took place on October 26, 2024, during the Haunted House party, and Book Club Radio published it on Halloween. The setting fits the music, but the set is worth hearing beyond its visual side.
Tinzo in dark mode #
Tinzo is a regular presence at Book Club Radio, and her sets move through several corners of dance music, including house and trance. This time, the selection leans into darkwave, synthpop, indie dance and electro, with prominent synths and an openly gothic look.
Book Club Radio started in New York in 2023 as a YouTube channel and party. The idea is simple: less focus on phones and the DJ, more on the music and the people on the dance floor. Tinzo mixes at crowd level while the camera moves across the dancers, Halloween costumes and reactions around her. Red lighting and constant movement give the recording the collective atmosphere that defines the Book Club Radio format.
From darkwave to the dance floor #
The tracklist opens with “HAHA” by Charlotte Adigéry and Bolis Pupul. Its strange, repetitive vocal sets the tone without sending the mix straight into a run of heavy beats. Léonie Pernet’s “Butterfly” and Cosmetics’ “A Chant For U” keep that early stretch cold and synthetic.
The intensity rises gradually. Tinzo moves through tracks by Chinaski, Red Axes, Yan Wagner and Jennifer Touch before taking the selection somewhere more physical with Terr, Local Suicide, Curses and DJ Hell. Despite the heavy atmosphere, the set never sticks to one formula. Some passages are slower and hypnotic, others clearly aimed at the dance floor, and the changes in pace do not break the thread of the selection.
“The Devil’s Dancers” by Oppenheimer Analysis is one of the tracks that stands out. The British minimal synth cut sits among newer productions without sounding out of place. Near the end, Ela Minus’ “megapunk” keeps the pulse raw before Raven Maize’s “The Real Life” closes on a more open kind of energy.
That is where the set works best: it has a clear identity but still sounds like music picked for a dance floor. The dark synthwave label is a useful starting point, though its 24 tracks cover much wider ground.
Watch the full set #
The video includes chapters and the complete 24-track listing. It is a good way to discover artists connected to darkwave, synthpop, indie dance and electro, or simply to hear Tinzo spend 79 minutes in a much darker mode.