Our mix series 'Look at the State of It' hopes to examine the state of contemporary music, with a focus on 'functional' music. Its curation is a broad selection of well-informed musicians and DJs, who are asked what they think about the state of music, and where it stands in contemporary art and culture. The mixtapes are accompanied by a piece of writing, that should help the listener to understand where these perspectives come from.

Look at the State of It:

music is resistance
music is therapy

I listen and I feel
I feel and I understand
I understand, maybe stumble
then realize that what I heard is something I haven’t heard before.
and it makes me question:
if I never experienced this so far
could this be another truth ?
could this be another fantasy ?
Is there an answer to my question of longing ?

this set shows a lot of my favorite artists and spotlights juke and
jungle and everything hybrid in between and around as the styles that
influences me most: they can be soothing, stressful, weird, funny,
groovy. challenging our listening and dancing behavior and I can’t
express my gratitude for these genres & their artists.

@jpeglove

Tracklist:

Totems - Twin Sepal
DJ Noir x Sonic D x Jae - State of Emergency
3LLL - Waverhythm
Djrum - Sex
Etch - Lost Angeles
N9oc - 171119
Paz China - Digital Sleep (Unposed)
Nara Vaez - (brilhou parceira)
RP Boo - 02-52-03
808 Catz - Roses
DJ CRAIG - stayjazzy
DJ Mastercard - without sound 2k17
Kush Jones - Tales
DJ Mastercard - KILLA
DJ Earl - Forgiveness N 2020
Gator Preserve - Mulholland Drive
Premis - D’tone (Unposed)
Totems - Suspend/Murex Snail
Ray Kandinski - Sunrise
Xyla - Ways
Jana Rush - Divine
Marcelulose - Ketabeat
Machine Girl - Electronic Gimp Music (Satan is my GF Mix)

#11 LATSOI: jpeg.love

"Here's me getting overly excited about LIFE becoming functional again. I think this sentiment can shine through the void that many of us have. I've also consumed way too much science fiction over lockdown so maybe the most apt destination for this mix is the one we wake up to shortly, idk. Either way, some angular music pieced together with the body in mind, plus a little added friction synthesised from the air we don't want to breathe" - Acrobatics

#12 LATSOI: Acrobatics

"In this mix I explore the modulation, segmenting, processing and, abstraction of voice as a unifying element. I like to imagine the meaning and message imparted by them vs. derived by me, thru the semantics of selection and omission, vs. the way it makes me feel. Even ‘meaningless’ phonemes and non-lexical vocalisations become imbued with signification — when contextualised in2 rhythm, texture, grain, and other sonic elements that resonate with heightened aural, tactile & optic experience" – @sequentia666

Listening suggestion: wonked out solitary confinement

Hope you enjoy! Big ups to all the artists and n go $upport them

Tracklist:
Mistareez - Affection
First Epoque - Epoque No. 7
Ramses - Mankey Version
Cassius Select - Fake Death
Zuli - Robotic Handshakes in 4D
Deadhand ft. Sensational - Touch (ETCH’s Pink Ladies in Space Remix)
DJ Pitch - Think I Didn’t
Kincaid - Inside (feat. J. Caesar)
Vanessa Worm - 0000
Low Khey - Click of Death
Box 5ive - Brick
Eyra - Rucula
Syz - Bunzunkunzun (Yushh's Droop Remix)
FAFF - Flan
Debba - Shimmer
Korin Complex - Wait
Honeydrip - Outta Here
Supreems - Two Faces

#13 LATSOI: Sequentia

Potato knishes
Potato knishes
I love potato knishes
This machine creates potato knishes
This is where I make potato knishes
The magic and the mystery of potato knishes
Little black squash balls
This machine creates little black squash balls
It turns potato pancakes into little black squash balls
This is where I make centipedes
I sure love to make centipedes
I turn little black worms into centipedes
I turn little black worms into centipedes

by WEȽ∝KER [@dujat & @joebeedles]

#14 LATSOI: WEȽ∝KER

Xenia Reaper - Synthetic Tales - 24/07/25

A seeped continuum of electronic dialects & modal gestures into a genre-fluid layers. secret getii bends styles into one another as molten elements: ambient, deconstructed club, microtonal fragments and noise dissolve together into an endless exploratory.

secret getii [domingo castillo flores] is a sound artist creating textural, sonically eclectic works, released by Inner Most and appendix.files among other.

Amulet 062: secret getii

SLYN 12.8.25

Composer and sound designer Hesaitix aka M.E.S.H, aka James Whipple, swings by the studio for another guest hour of singular club music. 
Find the full tracklist and related episodes on NTS: https://www.nts.live/shows/guests/episodes/hesaitix-14th-august-2025

hesaitix 150825

Many Worlds w/ Joel Arcane - 18/08/2025

Transmissions from the Outer Rim/Inner Edge.
“you know the gates themselves are made of flood." 
Find the full tracklist and related episodes on NTS: https://www.nts.live/shows/3xl/episodes/3xl-18th-august-2025

3XL w/ Stone 180825

We're joined by mu tate, NEXCYIA and Exzald S this month, who just released Labège together on Good Morning Tapes – easily one of our favourite albums to come out this year. Catch their mix at the 1.10 mark.

@nexcyia
@mu_tate
@exzald-s

tracklist: www.lowendtheorists.com/radio-shows/skylab-e38

Skylab - Theory Therapy E38 - w/ LET & mu tate, NEXCYIA & Exzald S

Rare and beautiful chillout mix from my brother @ezzzrrra

Fifth World w/ DJ Mylar : 08.27.25

xtclvr behind the wheel next for our outsiders residency, following his ace label debut ‘blessed loops’, a suite of thizzing, blown-out ambient trap x dub techno vapours...

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Outsiders: sferic w/ xtclvr @ Kiosk Radio 30.08.2025

There’s a quiet gravity in voices often left unheard — a shimmer that stretches across hidden constellations of sound. This mix moves through those spaces, gathering textures like fragments of dreams, drawing a line between fragility and force. It is music as a shelter, a tide, a whispered uprising.

Recorded by slyn, co-founder of the FLINTA-focused label and platform Gravity Pleasure (alongside Slowfoam), this selection is composed entirely of works by FLINTA artists. Each piece resonates with its own distinct weight, yet together they form a continuum that honors presence, resilience, and care within experimental and ambient music.

@gravitypleasure
@s_l_y_n

Amulet 063: Gravity Pleasure

We asked Benny Video of the 'World Crime League' what he thought of the State of Music and how it fits into spaces as functional art forms.

The League responded. Here is what they thought: (click play)

#04 LATSOI: World Crime League

Life-changing
Near-death experience
Mystical-type exploration
Long-term therapy
Resource for mental well-being
Pain reliever
Ceremony or ritual
Transcendental meditation
Timeless attitude
Lighting phenomenon
Death anxiety reducer
Awaking ritual for sensuality existence

Music-based culture as a modern mantra:
 "make them dance, and make them think." — DJ Spooky

— One body - one mind

@mimilk
@mitaminelab

#04 LATSOI: World Crime League

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