𝔀𝓱𝓪𝓽 𝓲𝓯 𝔀𝓮 𝓽𝓻𝓮𝓪𝓽𝓮𝓭 𝓶𝓾𝓼𝓲𝓬 𝔀𝓲𝓽𝓱 𝓽𝓱𝓮 𝓿𝓪𝓵𝓾𝓮 𝓲𝓽 𝓭𝓮𝓼𝓮𝓻𝓿𝓮𝓼?

@morelian

wav.world emerged out of a long-running chat exchange of mixes, tracks, and some playful speculation: If you were going to make a platform for DJ mixes in 2024, what would it look like?

Mixes are a unique type of musical expression. They capture a specific moment in time, determined by the knowledge and style of the artist. A mix is as important a creative statement as an album, remix or EP. One mix can change an artist’s career, one mix can open a listener’s mind to something completely new.

𝔂𝓸𝓾𝓻 𝓯𝓪𝓿𝓸𝓻𝓲𝓽𝓮 𝓶𝓲𝔁𝓮𝓼 𝓪𝓻𝓮 𝓽𝓲𝓶𝓮𝓵𝓮𝓼𝓼.

We miss the importance that mixes used to have. So, we made a platform for mixes.

Each wav.world mix gives one artist the time and resources to create whatever kind of mix they want, to share something sonic about who they are and what they love.

Every wav.world mix will feature a longform interview with the artist which gets to the heart of what moves them—in music and in life—through text, video and image. Each edition of wav.world will feature the commissioned work of music journalists, visual artists and graphic artists.

𝔀𝓮𝓵𝓬𝓸𝓶𝓮 𝓽𝓸 𝔀𝓪𝓿.𝔀𝓸𝓻𝓵𝓭

∿∿∿ WAV•WORLD • MOR ELIAN.wav

Rinse FM Podcast

Ilian Tape with Skee Mask & Mantra - 01 March 2024

Mia Koden (@miakoden) first emerged as half of Sicaria Sound but since breaking out alone has established her own musical identity. It draws on her South Sudanese heritage and music from across the African continent and beyond, not least her current surroundings in South London and the city's rich sound system culture. Often operating around the 140BPM mark, she dropped two head-turning tracks ‘Hot Take' and 'I Did’ early last year then debuted on Ilian Tape with a dark and irresistible EP that traverses multiple bass-heavy genres.

Mia does the same with her mix for us this week with, in her words, "bass, percussive, 2step, 140BPM, dubstep, dub, dub techno and breaks" all coming thick and fast at up to 150 beats per minute. It's a breathless 90-minute selection of global body music packed with lively percussion, big on low ends and not afraid to get rhythmically inventive while also dropping in the odd playful vocal from the worlds of grime and r&b. Both technically sound and tastefully assembled, it's a thrilling statement from the vital Koden.

Dekmantel Podcast

Dekmantel Podcast 458 - Mia Koden

Next up on The EDWIN Music channel is Canada-born, Berlin-based DJ @Darwinspec globally celebrated for her distinctive, community-fostering take on all kinds of bass music. Since 2014 she has run her party REEF in Berlin, which today materialised into the city’s most sought-after club night for unmarked Sound System influenced dance music.

To read the full interview visit: https://edwineuro.pe/mix124darwin

N°124 - Darwin

In-demand DJ and radio host, producer of sound system shakers for labels like @Timedance and Ilian Tape, promoter and label co-founder at re:lax, Lauren Bush, aka @renildn, has become a seemingly unstoppable force in UK club music through a combination of hard work and self-belief. Alongside a pulse-quickening Recognise mix, she speaks to Jasmine Kent-Smith about formative club experiences, the importance of role models, and the pursuit of authenticity.

Interview & tracklist: https://djmag.com/features/recognise-reni-timedance-interview

Tracklist & interview

Recognise: re:ni

Following cracking releases on Nervous Horizon and 3024, London-based Ehua draws for the drums on her GuduMix 🍊

In Ehua's words: "My contribution to the Gudu Mix Series is a 'percs and breaks' inspired mix. I wanted to create an organic progression from percussive techno to more deconstructed rhythms by blending club textures with a raw - almost orchestral - feel, where the first and last track share a similar vibe but sit at opposite ends of the sonic spectrum."

Tracklist:
Thys & Nikki Nair - Circle of Fifth IV
Byron The Aquarius - Work That Girl (Tribal mix)
Wile Out - Kitado
Martini - Lounge Lizard (Pino Peña remix)
Ehua - Piume
Deetron presents Soulmate - Tribe One
Toupaz - Shatter
Hrdvsion - Captivated Heart (SHE Spells Doom remix)
NIKS - Mimi’s Woo
LWS - Snips
DJ Kolt - VUGUVUGUU
LAO - Carcamo
XL Regular - Store Duties
Guava - 140 Drums
TX4 - 20 Q Vertical
Basic Rhythm - Help me
JSPHYNX - King Cobra (JSPHYNX remix)
Marco Zenker - High Larry
Kahter - Draceana

GuduMixes

GuduMix 032: Ehua

Last year, when we wrote that "the best UK garage is coming out of Los Angeles," we were talking about Introspekt. The US DJ, who has since moved to New York, really understands the genre—its appeal, swing and unique, bassy whomp. Listen to any of her tracks, like last year's "Forlorn," and you'll hear someone who produces like she's been making UKG all her life. This is probably partly because she comes from a dubstep background, but either way, if you're looking for new UK garage beats, Introspekt is one of the best going right now.

Her DJing also hits a distinct sweet spot, zeroing in one of the proto-dubstep, dark UK garage days when producers like El-B were making the hottest shit around. Her sound is both retro and forward-looking, as you'll hear on her RA Podcast, which balances vintage Big Apple cuts from Skream & Benga with new-school tunes from Amaliah and Surusinghe. It's not so much a throwback as it is a rejuvenation of an old sound—a new way to look at it and a new way to make it. If hindsight is 20/20, then Introspekt has perfect vision, and mixes like this are the perfect way to educate listeners, make them move and innovate a little in the process.

@sageintrospekt

Read more at https://ra.co/podcast/929

RA podcast

RA.929 Introspekt

DJ and producer Yushh transports us to her formative years with the latest Off-Kilter submission. 

Featuring a collection of reflective tracks from 2008-2012, this collage is an insight into her delicate and emotive sound palette - intricate drum workouts, blissed out dub grooves, dream like vocals and emotive melodies phase through bass driven frequencies. 

Here, she tells a tale of what came before, a story of memory and influence, timeless and honest; it’s quintessentially Yushh in the rawest of forms.

//

@yushh

OK023 - Yushh

VOITAX MIX 087 | ESPOSITO

Tracklist + Q&A: https://bit.ly/themix007bm

Paris-based bass devotee @beatricemasters lures us across a tightrope walk of a mix

"This mix is a recording from La Machine du Moulin Rouge in Paris for Positive Education Festival's event in January 2024. I was opening for Flowdan, Toma Kami and Bianca Oblivion, and was never happier to be doing a warmup, as the festival's crowd is super open to more experimental music. Therefore, I felt free to explore my favourite mood which resembles me the most: building a narrative from about 120 BPM to 140 BPM, navigating between psychedelic, syncopated techno and minimal deep dubstep. At the peak of the set, when the room started to full up, I deliberately took the energy down a notch with heavy contemplative dubs. The set felt like walking on a tightrope, balancing intensity and murkiness, bass and techno, playing with tension. It was one of the best times I ever had DJing."

Tracklist + Q&A

The Mix 007: Beatrice M.

Berlin-based Objekt makes his Lot debut.

http://www.instagram.com/objekttt

Objekt @ The Lot Radio 04-09-2024

Living & Breathing Dance Music. Find us at http://www.djmag.com

Recognise: re:ni

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