Coming from the heat and haze of Atlanta, Ryan Parks - aka Fit of Body - has spent the last couple of years crafting some of the most exciting dance music we've heard in an age. Working with a keyboard, an old drum machine, a bass guitar missing half it's strings, and a vocal delivery so laidback it's horizontal, Fit of Body's music gathers together his influences; hip hop, electronica and noise, to forge something strange and new. Full disclosure - we like him so much we've released his latest record, a 6 track EP called the "Healthcare" EP - which has already had the stamp of approval from the man like Andrew Weatherall (and we believe he may know a thing or two). To celebrate the release of his record, Ryan has put together a mix for us that trawls through his esoteric musical world. There's not too many people who've dropped us mixes that find as much room for the folk guitar of Richard Hawley as they do the boombap rap of AZ, but then there's not too many artists like Fit of Body...

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Fit Of Body: The Ransom Note Mix

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