Since the release of last year’s excellent Routes full-length, LV has been fairly quiet. Nonetheless, the group’s intrepid infusion of South African house rhythms into a UK funky-inspired template has often proved interesting—not to mention enjoyable—so we jumped at the chance to have the UK trio put together an exclusive mix for the XLR8R podcast series. The group certainly can’t be accused of phoning it in, as the mix whips through more than 40 tracks in a little over an hour. Along the way, LV explores a wide variety of sounds; South African house and various shades of the UK bass spectrum are of course represented, but the trio actually begins in more leftfield territory and later caps off the podcast with a frenzied dose of footwork and drum & bass, two worlds that are increasingly being thrown together by low-end loving DJs. Throughout the mix, regardless of what genre is being explored, LV’s love of drum-heavy percussion and thick rhythms is a constant, resulting in a listen that is quite possibly without a single dull moment.

01 Raffertie “Brevity” (Ninja Tune)
02 Trestle “You Can’t Get”
03 TreeFNGR “Fine Fright”
04 Gulls “Miami Coom” (Boomarm Nation)
05 Joakim & Bambounou “Wizard Battle” (Sound Pellegrino)
06 Beneath “PVO”
07 Fenbred “Back Home”
08 DJ Clock “Chynaman” (Soul Candi)
09 Mogringo “Heavyweight” (Shelter)
10 Jook 10 “Get Low” (Soulserious)
11 LV & Mumdance “Broadcast”
12 Professor “Imoto (feat. Character)” (Kalawa Jazmee)
13 Benjamin Damage & Doc Daneeka “Creeper” (50 Weapons)
14 Scratcha DVA “Polyphonic Dreams” (Hyperdub)
15 DJ Mphulo Presents Angelp Agnelli “Off the Wall (Tshwara Lebota)” (Shelter)
16 Basement Jaxx “Untitled”
17 Portico Quartet “City of Glass (LV Remix)” (Real World)
18 LR Groove “Device”
19 Mock the Zuma “Black Puddle” (Full Fridge)
20 LV & Joshua Idehen “Primary Colours” (Keysound)
21 CHLLNGR “Well Good” (Time No Place)
22 Seb Rochford with Ranjana Ghatak and Gina Loring “Love Is a Sacred Path (LV Remix)” (Days & Nights at the Takeaway)
23 Nico Lindsay “Haunted”
24 Pixelord “Drinky” (Hit and Hope)
25 Visionist “Sodium” (Liminal)
26 Lamin Fofana “Brokedown City” (Sticks ‘N Stones)
27 Crakk Nicholson “Whenever You’re Here (LDFD Remix)”
28 Mz Bratt “Tear It All Down (LV Remix)” (Atlantic)
29 Africa Hitech “Out in the Streets” (Warp)
30 EQ Why “Back 2 This Track” (Moveltraxx)
31 DJ Earl “Troniklife” (Electropix)
32 Mushroom Buttons “Ice Climbirr”
33 Zomby “Riding with Death” (4AD)
34 Jon Phonics x Pete Cannon “Romes (Pedestrian Remix)” (PRISM)
35 Becoming Real “Like Me (Rashad Remix)” (Moshi Moshi)
36 Stereotyp “Juke My Name”
37 Danny Breaks “Droppin’ Science Vol. 1 (Phillip D Kick’s Jungle Edit)”
38 Rockwell x Untold “Rekohu Sunrise” (Critical)
39 Bad Company “Night Train” (BC)
40 LV & Mumdance “Steak Night”
41 LV & Dandelion “CCTV (Epoch’s Ten Tonne Dub)”

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