Mixes Of The Week: 4/6/18

Shanti Celeste

This week’s top mixes include Mosca Playing Truant, Finn Back-to-Back with Mumdance and Shanti Celeste’s Sci-fi Rhythms.

Mosca Playing Truant. Versatile techno producer Mosca has released records on UK imprints including Fat City, Numbers, Night Slugs, 3024, Rinse, Hypercolour and his own label Not So Much. Reflecting on his recent releases on LavaLava and Livity Sound, his Truancy Volume is an experimental structure of collected loops, most he’s either made, edited or cut up himself. Stream above.

Finn Back-to-Back with Mumdance. NTS resident, grime and house DJ, and Manchester-based member of the Local Action music family, Finn goes back to back with grime producer Mumdance for “90 minutes of Trance, Hard House, Hardcore and Ghettotech records. Very rude, very rough and very ready.” Stream and download above.

Shanti Celeste’s Sci-fi Rhythms. Chilean-born, Bristol-raised, Berlin-based jetsetter Shanti Celeste is known for her expert mixing chops and unusual house, techno and electro selections, and for her dark vocal techno productions on key labels like Dekmantel, Idle Hands, Brstl and her own Peach Discs. Her Dekmantel podcast features tribal and sci-fi rhythms, electro funk and neo-soul. Stream and download above.

Beautiful Swimmers’ Solid Steel. Washington-based production duo Beautiful Swimmers feature in the latest of Ninja Tune’s Solid Steel radio shows. They explain: “This is a snapshot of Swimms in pure club mode, which is a very kinetic, fun place to be for a mix. It’s the summer, it’s sweaty. Let’s do it! Honoured to be a part of Solid Steel’s history, thanks for having us on!” Stream and download above, track list here.

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