Sherelle will release her much-anticipated debut EP, 160 Down The A406, next month.
Known for her work as a high-octane DJ, 160 Down The A406 is the first time Sherelle has officially released her own productions. She describes the EP as a “product of wondering what the next stage of my life will be during 2020.” Producing for her has been a way of dealing with all the sadness that she’s been feeling during the pandemic. “I also went through a lot of self-discovery of what I truly wanted out of life and asked myself if I was truly happy with things,” she tells XLR8R. “The outcome of this are two reflective tracks which feel full and fuzzy. They are supposed to make you happy. Like anything I do, I just want people to be happy and dance.”
Alongside the announcement, the London artist, real name Sherelle Camille Thomas, has shared the title-track, which fuses her love of high-speed sounds with a weaving melody. We’re told that it’s just “an introduction to the soundscapes and sonics” that we can expect from Sherelle this year. “I wanted for my first introduction musically to be different,” she says. “I feel like I rarely show a softer, emotive side to the world and these tracks are supposed to be warm and forgiving. Something which wasn’t the case in 2020 for me.”
Tracklisting
01. 160 Down the A406 02. Rhythm Love (Feel It)
160 Down The A406 EP is scheduled for July 6 release. Meanwhile, you can stream the title-track below and pre-order here.
Cosmic Noise comprises 25 tracks that Thavius Beck, now based in Brooklyn, New York, has sent to U-TRAX since he connected with the label in 2018. The tracks vary in style a lot, but what they have in common is that they are either moody—what U-TRAX calls “deep”—or they are drum-heavy. They are all experimental instrumental hip-hop, reminiscent of producers like Flying Lotus, and feel like a “happy marriage between hip-hop beats and techno sounds.” Even though some of the tracks are 20 years old and have been made with widely different gear, the selection sounds “remarkably balanced, yet diverse.”
Growing up in Los Angeles, Thavius Beck entered the hip-hop scene as member of Global Phlowtations, and he released several solo albums as Adlib. In later years, he released five albums under his own name on labels like Big Dada and Plug Research, the last coming in 2017 on Hit+Run. He’s also produced albums for artists like Saul Williams. His work broadly melds rock, hip-hop, and soul with a focus on deep bass and sample manipulation. In June, he released Lovesick, an EP of more archival tracks, on U-TRAX.
The album artwork comes from New York artist Sfera Louis.
Tracklisting
01. Primordial Soup 02. Lovesick/Still Sick 03. Coordinated Will 04. Work! 05. Inner Space* 06. Taking Over Me 07. Chaos Theory 08. Baby Tell Me That… 09. Mr. Mercurial* 10. Dark Matter 11. The Principle Of Rhythm 12. Celestial Mind 13. Birdsong 14. Angel Bop 15. Labyrinth 16. Keep Going* 17. Issa Wrap 18. Reunited With The All
Cosmic Noise LP is scheduled for July 9 release. Meanwhile, you can stream “Primordial Soup,” “Work!,” and “Celestial Mind” in full below, and pre-order here.
Jana Rush will release Painful Enlightenment, her new album on Planet Mu.
Planet Mu describes Painful Enlightenment as “an intense emotional rollercoaster of disfigured samples, quivering electronics, and vagrant percussion.” As implied by the title, it’s a document of the Chicago artist’s own personal growth through struggles with depression and suicidal thoughts. The album is “not a footwork album,” we’re told by Rush. “It’s more like dark experimental listening music, an opportunity to be myself without judgement.”
By day, Rush works as a chemical engineer at an oil refinery. She started producing at 13 years old, influenced by Robert Armani, Lester Fitzpatrick, Cajmere, DJ Milton, and DJ Deeon, and she’s since established herself as a veteran of ghetto house and juke, cutting her teeth on Dance Mania Records through the ’90s. In 2017, she released her Pariah album on Brighton’s Objects Limited.
Next week, Planet Mu will release Signals In My Head, an album of “romantic footwork” from DJ Manny.
Tracklisting
01. Moanin’ 02. Suicidal Ideation 03. Painful Enlightenment 04. G-Spot 05. Disturbed 06. Disorientation 07. Mynd Fuc 08. Intergalactic Battle (ft. DJ Paypal) 09. Drivin’ Me Insane (ft. Nancy Fortune) 10. Just A Taste (ft. DJ Paypal)
Painful Enlightenment LP is scheduled for August 13 release. Meanwhile, you can stream “Mynd Fuc” in full below and pre-order here.
Understand is inspired by Ted Chiang’s short story of the same name, and the pair recorded it at a Nashville studio during lockdown in a single-sitting. The record sees Tyler playing acoustic and electric guitar, synthesizer, and bass with Schneider adding pedal steel guitar and banjo. The instrumental endeavour “reveals an evolution of the two composers experimenting through the lens of ambient and krautrock,” we’re told.
Tyler released New Vanitas, a solo album, in September 2020, but more recently he’s announced an album with Marissa Anderson.
For more information on label head Matthewdavid, check out his XLR8R podcast here.
Tracklisting
01. Memory Garden 02. The Witness Tree 03. No Trouble 04. The Going Through
Understand EP is scheduled for July 12 release on Leaving Records. Meanwhile, you can stream “The Witness Tree” in full bellow and pre-order here.
Manuel Gaines first encountered footwork while out with his brother at a party he was too young to be at. While growing up in Illinois, he found himself so consumed by the genre that he’d spend his weekends through middle school dancing at parties, which is where he met DJ Spinn and the late DJ Rashad, who taught him how to make beats around the age of 14. Through this tutelage, Gaines developed an adventurous ear and learned how to harness grace and power to make music that makes you want to move your feet. In 2017, as DJ Manny, he became one of the youngest members of the Teklife community with his debut album, melding the classic footwork blueprint with vintage jungle, cementing his status as one of footwork’s most original yet unsung talents. Until his recent album on Planet Mu, he’d limited his releases to small, digital-only imprints and maintained a lower profile compared to those around him, including DJ Taye, whom we’ve featured before.
Now based in New York, where he lives with partner, SUCIA!, Gaines has used the album to turn a page in his career as an artist. While Signals In My Head, available on July 23, is filled with the precise drum programming and clever synth lines of Gaines’ classic footwork cuts, it also looks forward, introducing elements of R&B, a genre which he’s become more accustomed to since his move north. These once-foreign tropes became vehicles to widen his sound and add what he calls a “romantic edge” to his work. They also underline his ambition to “do something that nobody (in footwork) had ever done before,” namely a “love-type of album but still keeping it footwork, juke, house, and techno, with a few breaks.” But even if his sound has evolved, the function remains the same: to ignite dancefloors, which is exactly what his XLR8R podcast is sure to do.
Recorded earlier this month in New York, Gaines’ XLR8R podcast is a collection of tracks from his friends. You’ll hear unreleased tracks from Manny himself, plus SUCIA!, DJ Taye, and DJ Phil, and there’s even a white-label from DJ Rashad! You’ll also hear some tracks from the Signals In My Head for the first time, giving you a taste of this new romantic sound—but make no mistake, this a mix of classic footwork with jungle, from one of the game’s finest. Like the album, it’s uplifting and joyful, and it’s sure to get you dancing.
01. What have you been up to recently?
Well, I’m actually working on a house EP and album that I’ll be self-releasing.
02. How has the lockdown period for you?
The lockdown period has been an eye opener. Shows got canceled, and I’ve lost family members, so its been a rough one!
03. Your new album, Signals In My Head, is coming soon. How are you feeling about it?
I feel so good about this album. It’s so uplifting and joyful.
04. It’s described as an “R&B footwork” album. What exactly were the inspirations behind it?
My inspiration for this album was based off my relationship, not gonna lie.
05. When and where did you record this mix?
I recorded this mix from home on June 14, 2021.
06. How did you go about choosing the tracks that you’ve included?
I had a few I knew I was going to play but it’s mostly freestyle.
07. What can the listener expect?
You can expect all new tracks from my homies and myself. It’s all Chicago footwork music, with jungle. It’s definitely a mix you could put on repeat.
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Tracklisting
01. DJ Phil “House Love” (Unreleased) 02. DJ Manny “Crossover” (Unreleased) 03. Mel G “Fromdaback” (Unreleased) 04. DJ Manny “Get the Money” (Moveltraxx) 05. DJ Rashad & DJ Manny “Drums Please” (Hyperdub) 06. DJ Chap “Boris” (Unreleased) 07. DJ Manny “No Snares” (Self-Released) 08. SUCIA! “Freaq Nation” (Unreleased) 09. DJ Manny “Make it Work” (Unreleased) 10. DJ Manny “Spaceship” (Unreleased) 11. Mel G “Dawn Is Filled” (Unreleased) 12. SUCIA! “Keep Me Wondering” (DJ Manny Remix) (Unreleased) 13. DJ Manny & DJ Phil “Having Fun” (Planet Mu) 14. DJ Taye “Grayboy” (Unreleased) 15. DJ Manny “Good Love” (Planet Mu) 16. Kush Jones “JV Dance” (Self-Released) 17. DJ Manny “Move Ya Body” (Unreleased) 18. DJ Manny “Read Ya Mind (Unreleased) 19. DJ Manny “Signals in my Head” (Planet Mu) 20. DJ Manny “Hurting the Game” (Unreleased) 21. DJ Rashad “Reverb” (White-Label) 22. DJ Manny “Unblock” (Unreleased) 23. DJ Jalen “Chicago Shit” (Unreleased) 24. DJ Phil “Waiting 4 U” (Remix) (Unreleased) 25. DJ Manny & SUCIA! “Backup Hardrive” (Unreleased) 26. DJ Taye & DJ Manny “Panjami Test” (Unreleased) 27. DJ Manny “Freaky 4 Me (Unreleased) 28. DJ Manny, DJ Phil & Chap “That Bill” (Unreleased) 29. TAMAGUCCI “2 Wrongs Don’t Make It Right” (White-Label) 30. DJ Rashad, MoonDoctor & FreshTillDef “Ethno” (Freshmoon Records) 31. SUCIA! “When the Lights Go Out” (New York Dance Music) 32. Distorted Sensory “Gant-Man” (Kode 9 Remix) (Teklife) 33. DJ Manny “Get Down” (Self-Released) 34. DJ Manny “Smoke N Faded Away” (Planet Mu) 35. DJ Manny & DJ Phil “Acid Bits” (Unreleased) 36. DJ Manny “Ghost Drop Skate (Unreleased) 37. GANT-MAN “Big Bass” (Unreleased) 38. DJ Manny & SUCIA! “Honey” (Unreleased) 39. DJ Manny “Virus” (Unreleased)
Welcome to the roundup of May submissions from our XLR8R+ portal. Needless to say, we’ve listened to the hundreds of submissions you’ve sent in and compiled a list of the tracks that we’ve been going back to over the past few weeks. As usual, we’re happy to welcome back a handful of artists already within the XLR8R universe, including Aspetuck, whom we featured and released with recently, and Stature. Many readers will also be familiar with Dawn Razor, the Russian artist. But that’s not to say this month is at all short of new discoveries; the blissful electronica of Jerry Folk, the rugged minimal of Bearface, and the deconstructed pop of Saint-Idiot are particularly refreshing. And if you’re looking for something even more chilled, the new instrumental hip-hop EP from Maryland’s Saharas Greenery & NOTHINGISREAL is almost impossibly smooth. Please, dig in.
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For those unfamiliar, XLR8R+ is a member-supported music community and curated music experience. Every month, you will get three exclusive tracks—sometimes more—by a wealth of amazing artists that XLR8R has supported over the years, as well as access to the member’s area where you can submit tracks and DJ mixesto be showcased in this feature series and to the XLR8R+ community. There’s also exclusive editorial content, mixes, FREE passes to music festivals and events, playlists, and more.You can find out more here.
Stature is the alias of Connor Harrison, a producer based in Nottingham, United Kingdom. An avid musician since a young age, he makes high-energy beats with a focus on dance. Recall, his latest EP, marks a progression in Harrison’s productions, comprising three funky, garage-infused jams. We featured “Racks” in our September roundup, and now we’re presenting “Graded,” the EP’s second track. It’s astounding that Harrison released Stasis, his first proper release, no more than a year ago!
Krater Music is a label based in Guadalajara, Mexico, focusing on what they call “mind loops.” In May, they put out a mesmerizing slice of electro from local artist Lewis 33. There’s nothing else known about the artist or the track, but it’s certainly worth your time.
Jerry Folk is a producer based in Oslo, Norway, but he’s enjoyed stints in London and Los Angeles. His music began as bright, buoyant electronica, but he’s recently launched what he calls a new chapter with “Everything,” a single that showcases an atmospheric, neo-soul sound inspired by FKJ, Kaytranada, and Toro Y Moi. He made the single a couple of years ago after locking himself in the studio to escape a feeling of “overwhelming sadness.” It’s the first taste of his debut album, Fengsel, which we’re told is coming soon.
Mattia Cupelli is an ambient-electronic producer from Italy who draws inspiration from what he calls “the classics,” namely Nils Frahm and Ryuichi Sakamoto. By blending his neo-classical influences with modern concepts, he blurs the line between electronic and organic, creating “fantasy worlds” akin to the work of Tim Hecker and Ben Frost. Bold and dark, “MONOLITH,” his latest XLR8R+ submission, conjures a mythical land of untold tragedies. The video delves further into the dark world, revealing a maze filled with ominous statues of a bygone era. The single is the first taste of his upcoming album, RUINS, to be released on MC Records.
Raj Panasa, born in Bristol but raised in London, is the man behind Bearface. His love affair with house and techno began in the club Plastic People, and he’s since put out music on Stealth Records, Vatos Locos, and his own Beartone Records—which is where you’ll find the Shikazu EP, released in January. Expect three original tracks of trippy, minimal techno, with a remix from Vlad Caia, which is always worth your time. The title-track is the pick of the bunch—just imagine that bass on a soundsystem!
Canilla is the work of Norwegian sound artist and instrument builder Camilla Vatne Barratt-Due, who composes for dance and theatre productions. In May, she put out you always wanted more in life, but now you don’t have the appetite, a collection of “love ballads” that originate from an installation she made for Kontakte Festival in 2019. “Life Without The Human Look” is the EP’s weirdly wonderful fourth track.
Vibenacci is a mysterious artist based in Jakarta, Indonesia. They don’t have social media presence, and they’ll never reveal who they are because their focus is solely on “creating interesting music that has never been heard before.” What we do know is their sound is built around dark atmospherics and a downtempo hip-hop beat, and it’s inspired by nature and cosmic vibes. “Immersion,” a moving slice of piano-led breakbeat, surfaced six months ago, but this is the first time XLR8R has heard it. We’re excited to hear more!
Aspetuck, real name Griff Fulton, is a DJ-producer from Vermont, northeastern United States. Cut off from nightlife, he and his younger brother, Pierce, jammed together on guitar and drums in their basement, encouraged by their music-loving parents to pursue their wildest musical whims. While he never took drums seriously, Fulton developed an “obsession with rhythm,” he says, which has influenced the way he relates to music. He’s recently released his second album, The Bees Came Back, a collection of music made at the beginning of the pandemic. He describes it as a “continuation” of his debut album, Treehouse At Yuma Place, released in March last year. We’re streaming all the album tracks here, and if you want to read more on the gear behind Fulton’s work, check out his Studio Essentials feature here. Fulton also delivered two Aspetuck tracks to last month’s XLR8R+ edition.
Saint Idiot (a.k.a Tomáš Andel) is a Slovak-Canadian musician based in Edmonton, Canada. His music sits broadly within the realm of deconstructed pop, and his inspirations include Björk and David Bowie, plus deep-listening ambient music. “Talk” is the third single from his upcoming album, Alternate Utopias from a Nostalgic Future, which is about healing in the age of isolation. It’s carried by guitar, harp, clarinet, and a host of gauzy synthesizers. The end of the track features an excerpt from interviews titled Conversations With Young Men, a work in progress from documentary-maker Laura La France.
ABOUT THIS PRODUCT, real name Jonathan Barber, is an artist based in Texas, who in 2010 released the Trash Art album on Phthalo Records. Since then, he’s used his music to express his feelings towards mental illness, as a long-time sufferer of OCD. His most recent work is called Technoise, and it’s available now on Bandcamp. “Dance Punk,” the album closer, is an outing in harsh noise, industrial, and techno, which pretty much sums up the full release.
Christopher Ledger has put out music on Dana Ruh‘s Brouqade Records, DeWalta’s Meander, and Cristi Cons and Vlad Caia’s Amphia, plus his own imprint, CL Series. But this month, he did something a little different: added a sublime house beat to Nils Frahm’s “Because This Must Be,” originally released on 7fingers with Anne Müller. Adding something to such a beautiful piece of work is never easy, but the Italian producer does it with aplomb.
Dawn Razor, real name Adam Antine, has featured several times on XLR8R+, with solo submissions featured in our March and June roundups, and now the enigmatic Russian producer is back with a new EP, this time in collaboration with Hatewax and ArcheTech. United Minds comprises four tracks, but we’re featuring “Pitch Shift Case,” a glorious slice of warped melancholia, here. It’s out on Polish label OtakeRec.
In June, Maryland-based artist Saharas Greenery followed up Science Of The Formless Self with a collaborative album alongside Sunday Dinner Records label mate NOTHINGISREAL. NOTHINGISGREEN is another expansive yet meditative collection of sublime instrumental hip-hop, filled with percolating synthesizers and disembodied voices. We’re playing the whole album here, because it’s at its finest, nodding best when listened to in full. (And we couldn’t settle on a track!) Go order it here.
Italian drummer Stefano Milella introduced his Nother project at Silent Festival in 2020, and he’s now preparing his debut album, Future Is Bright. “The Distance,” a gorgeous slice of melancholic electronica, is the first track he’s released, and it features the surreal vocals of indie-pop songwriter Matilde Davoli. If you like this, check out the Matteo Gamba remix, available now too.
A former bass guitarist and classical pianist, Loxxe took up DJing after living in Osaka, Japan, inspired by the city’s energy. She draws inspiration from 8-bit retro gaming culture in her selections, and currently hosts a monthly online radio show featuring downtempo and ambient. But the mix she’s submitted to XLR8R is more in line with what she normally plays: techno, but with deep house, trance, and minimal jams too. Across its 80-minute runtime, you’ll hear tracks from ItaloJohnson, Kelly Lee Owens, and Special Request. It’s a wonderfully diverse mix to close out our favorite submissions from last month.
Bambounou has teamed up with Bruce for a new EP on his Bambe label.
Final Conference is the second release of Bambe, a “home for passionate minds, roaming freely in a world of eclectic backgrounds,” says Bambounou. The French producer, real name Jeremy Guindo, launched the label in March with Cascade.
This time he has teamed up with Bruce, known for his deconstructed club cuts on Hessle Audio, Batu’s Timedance, and Hemlock Records. This is the British artist’s first time working with Bambounou, and you can expect “detailed hypnotic rhythms with a postmodern edge,” we’re told.
Art design is by Dimitri Erhard.
Tracklisting
01. Crash 02. Rai 03. Final Conference
Final Conference EP is scheduled for July 26 release. Meanwhile, you can stream the title-track below and pre-order here.
For over 20 years, the Danish trio of Mads Brauer, Rasmus Stolberg, and Casper Clausen—together known as Efterklang—have been pushing the barriers of experimental, electronic, and emotional chamber-pop. Windflowers is their sixth album, following 2019’s Altid Sammen on 4AD. Its nine tracks channel the motifs of hope and change of its namesake flora which appear each spring in “an explosion of colour,” disappearing as quickly as they arrive. The album sees the group’s many years of collaboration “distilled into some of their finest and most direct melodic moments to date,” we’re told by the Berlin label.
Alongside the announcement, the group have shared lead single “Living Other Lives,” which started out as a jam in Clausen’s Lisbon studio during spring’s 2020 lockdown. “I was playing around with my 404 sampler and I found that kind of groove that makes my head bop—put some samples on it, and I could listen to it forever—a good sign,” Clausen recalls. “So I was just having that on loop while scrolling through my Instagram feed.” The lyrics sort of came out of that moment, reflecting “a fascinating world” where we’re so aware of what everybody’s doing. “I feel I’m living multiple lives all at once,” Clausen tells XLR8R. “Watching all these people expressing and changing themselves far away, out there around the planet.”
To record the video, director Søren Lynggaard visited Efterklang in the studio when they were in the process of recording Windflowers. He had packed this old Russian 16mm camera and he wasn’t even sure if the camera actually worked, but thankfully it did (sort of). “The video that came out of it I feel is a charming and genuine look at the band together in the studio and in the nature of the island of Møn in the south of Denmark,” he says.
Tracklisting
01. Alien Arms 02. Beautiful Eclipse 03. Hold Me Close When You Can 04. Lady Of The Rocks 05. Dragonfly 06. Living Other Lives 07. Mindless Center 08. House On A Feather 09. Åbent Sår (feat. The Field)
Windflowers LP is scheduled for October 8 release. Meanwhile, you can stream “Living Other Lives” in full below and pre-order here.
Scuba has launched a new project with London vocalist DOMiNii, debuting with Diivorce on Hotflush.
Scuba, real name Paul Rose, has long been exploring cross-genre sounds, skilfully blending disparate elements and respectfully mining nostalgia to create cool moods and moments of pure escapism. Diivorce is the product of his first collaboration with DOMiNii, who takes influence from the likes of Talking Heads, Wang Chung, David Newman, Arthur Russell, and The Blue Nile. He appeared uncredited with backing vocals on Scuba’s “Forgive Me,” which initially came out last summer, but Diivorce marks his first official release.
Ahead of the full release, Rose has shared “Womb,” with its mid-tempo disco strut that combines dry, ’80s drum sounds and house piano with a winding guitar solo. There’s also “Forgive Me,” which slots seamlessly into the seven-track work, and “Tango” a glistening instrumental, driven by a chugging bassline and an epic guitar line.
Tracklisting
01. Touch 02. Womb 03. Out 04. Forgive Me 05. Fish 06. Tango 07. Tips
Diivorce LP is scheduled for July 16 release. Meanwhile, you can stream “Womb,” “Forgive Me,” and “Tango” in full below, with pre-order available here.
Deep Aztec is the alias of Azakiwe Jezile, a rising South African artist. After moving to Cape Town as a child, he was exposed to a lot of gospel and jazz, and the easiest portal to the latter was the deep house he could easily find online. At the age of 13, he began learning to mix the records he was digging, and it wasn’t long until he was trying to make music too. By the age of 16, he was performing across South Africa alongside pillars of the local community like DJ Mbuso, Culoe De Song, and Black Coffee—and his sets were notable because he’d play with a saxophonist to his side. It was a means of making his music that little bit more interesting, he says.
Within six years, while he was still only in his early 20s, Jezile had become internationally known. The launchpad for this was his homage to a maestro of deep house music with “A Message to Larry Heard,” released on British label Turn Left Recordings. And next month, after a slew of singles and remixes, he’ll release Healing Frequencies, his debut album that captures a journey that has taken him from Berlin’s Watergate to New York’s iconic Nervous Records. Across 12 tracks, he’s tried to capture his diverse musical palette, from smoky, jazz-tinged slow-jams through to the reinterpretations of deep house and disco he makes for the dancefloor.
Recorded in South Africa, Jezile’s XLR8R podcast is a celebration of the new album—but beyond that, it’s an homage to pre-pandemic times, when he’d perform at rooftop parties across his home country. To recreate the vibe of one of these events, he’s relied almost exclusively on his own material, much of it unreleased, and there’s also some tracks from the new album. With the hangover of lockdown still dragging on, Deep Aztec’s mix delivers the sort of feel-good, easy-going vibe that we’re all missing, and it’s sure to have you craving for a chilled out summer party that little bit more.
01. What have you been up to recently?
I’ve been working as per usual, handling the album’s admin. I’ve been working with my team and making sure things are going in order. I’ve also been finishing some material for 2022 even though I feel like I have a lot of unreleased music.
02. What is it that draws you into music?
The joy it brings to me whether I’m creating or just listening to it. Music always brightens up my mood. I’d say music is my drug.
03. How has the lockdown period been for you?
It’s been really tough. Losing family members and close family friends to Covid really freaked me out, and so did not being able to do what I do for a living. Apart from that I’ve been making music and keeping a positive attitude. I’ve also had the time to do things I’ve been avoiding doing like finishing my album and also forming a band which I’m really excited about. Above all, having my girlfriend in my corner at all times has made everything a bit better because I have someone to vent to and I’m truly grateful for that.
04. What music have you been listening to?
Lately I’ve been listening to some Emma Jean. I’m really enjoying her music at the moment and also some music from local artists making some really good music.
05. Where and when did you record this mix?
I recorded the mix on Monday, June 7 at my home studio.
06. How did you go about choosing the tracks that you’ve included?
It was a bit tough to choose tracks for this mix, especially with all the unreleased music I have on my laptop. I ended up choosing some tracks from my forthcoming debut album, a bunch of unreleased music, and tracks I dig from some of my favourite producers.
07. What can the listener expect?
Nothing but good vibes, of course. This mix is reminiscent of summer, the rooftop open air parties (which I miss dearly).
08. What’s next on your horizon?
There’s no sign of stopping. I still have a lot of music to release, from original work to collaborations. I’m also looking forward to heading to Europe to perform before the year ends.
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Tracklisting
01. Unreleased “Unreleased” (Deep Aztec remix) (Unreleased) 02. Deep Aztec “For Real” (Unreleased) 03. Deep Aztec “Music Brings Me Joy” feat. L Speaks (Mfengu Records) 04. Deep Aztec “Sorry (I Know)” (Mfengu Records) 05. Deep Aztec “Flute Symphony” (Closer To Truth) 06. Deep Aztec “Get Up” (Do Something) (Unreleased) 07. Deep Aztec “Chicago Feels” (Unreleased) 08. Deep Aztec “Funk Sssh Up” (Closer To Truth) 09. Deep Aztec “Wishing For Better Days” (Deep Aztec Re-make) (Unreleased) 10. Deep Aztec “House Revamped” feat. L Speaks (N-You-Up Basement Remix) (Unreleased) 11. Roberto Apodaca & Mike V. “Morning Cigarette” (Duky Remix) (Fourth Kind) 12. Clara Park “Uncertainty” (Glenn Astro Remix) (Space Hardware)
