I've spent this week creating an ambient mix for a fellow mix series/podcast (will be live soon around mid-June) and whilst I absolutely love crafting considered mixes, I find myself immersed in certain specific styles of music for days on end without coming up for air. As I’m searching for tracks, I’m stumbling across other music that I haven’t listened to for a while - often from the same artists, or labels, but offering a slightly different style to your usual ASIP ambient journeys. Sometimes I need to eject out of a state of mind to truly appreciate what it’s like to be back in it. 

Additionally, there’s no doubt that the “rave” side of house and techno is making a hard-earned comeback. Take Skee Mask’s latest album, which will undoubtedly go down as a future classic; Bicep’s heralded self-titled hit; or the Touch Absence remix that’s pretty much every DJ’s secret weapon nowadays- and for a very good reason. I spend a lot of time listening to other styles of electronic music - be it techno, drum’n bass, jungle or other, and I don’t often get to put a mix together that strays from the normal expected ASIP-related stuff. However, I think this has some elements you'll find familiar, and stays close in more ways than one...

This was fun to put together, I hope you enjoy it.

Tracklist:
1. Skee Mask - Flyby VFR
2. Sangam & Thugwidow - Sea Through Glass
3. Brio - Mening
4. Thugwidow - Spoilt British Liberals
5. Skee Mask - Soundboy Ext.
6. Borealis - Skyhall 
7. Intex Systems - Resolve: Direct
8. Bandhagens Musikförening - Protokol A
9. Lanark Artefax - Touch Absence (Intimidating Stillness Mix)
10. Aphex Twin - Rhubarb (1159 remix)
11. Rising Sun - Oskar (Le Petite Prince Mix)
12. Bicep - Glue
13. Aphex Twin - On

Image by Daniele Levis Pelusi: https://asip.me/2L2pGI8

ASIP - Familiar Spectrums

If I can follow enough of these insanely prolific beatmakers I will n̶e̶v̶e̶r̶ ̶h̶a̶v̶e̶ ̶t̶o̶ ̶l̶i̶s̶t̶e̶n̶ ̶t̶o̶ ̶t̶h̶e̶ ̶s̶a̶m̶e̶ ̶t̶r̶a̶c̶k̶ ̶t̶w̶i̶c̶e̶ ̶e̶v̶e̶r̶ ̶a̶g̶a̶i̶n̶ be able to listen to a lot of good music.  Several times over, if it's a new Knx tape that everyone reposts.

I occasionally join together some tunes I like.

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ASIP - Familiar Spectrums

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