Each week, we present a set that pushes the boundaries of its style, and the only prerequisites are impeccable taste and skill.

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Close the door, turn out the lights, switch off your phone. You don't want anyone to see the screwfaces you're about to be making. Shogun Audio's Icicle is up on the latest MIXED BY, and it's a dark, dark adventure through heady bass music. The 54 minute journey is populated with tracks from Icicle's upcoming album Entropy, released next week, but also features appearances from Goth Trad, Mefjus, Hybris, Moody Good and Proxima. 

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T.Williams' transformation from grime producer to house head has been so seamless and successful that most people don't even equate him with grime anymore. But the signs are there, particularly in tracks like the boisterous and impeccable "Back and Forth," that the brash attitude of grime is readily evident. "It's all good, people only knowing me for recent musical endeavors," Williams tells THUMP. "I really like that there is more to my music career than whats on the surface. Looking back at that phase in my career it always reminds me of how important being original and pushing forward musically is. Grime was all about expressing yourself however you could with what ever sounds you could find."

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There's good, and then there's great. And then there's essential. Steve Bug and his Poker Flat label, which is over fifteen years old now, are perennials in house and techno. Bug, German by birth, attained this canonical status through the sheer will of groove and melody, and his debut MIXED BY makes it look easy.

"We never want to go with the next big thing. We don't want to try to impress people with the newest artists who are super-hyped," Bug told THUMP last year. "We'd rather release music that has a timeless feel to it, rather than whatever is hip right now."

Lucky for Bug, house and techno are probably more hip than they've ever been, and his academic understanding of the history of club culture gushes from the speakers with every kick.

The mix features Poker Flat artists like Tim Engelhardt, Joeski, and Bug himself, before dropping cuts from Seth Troxler, Ten Ven, and Poker Flat alumni Josh Wink. With thirteen tracks in one hour, it shows you don't need to set off fireworks every minute to keep the crowd moving.

"I want to make people happy with the music that I like," says Bug. "I'd rather drown in my own sound than survive by doing something I don't really feel."

01 Tim Engelhardt - Isa - Poker Flat Recordings
02 &lez - Resall - Visile Records
03 Maurice Aymard - Air (Pezzner’s Shallow Mix) - Galaktika Records
04 Steve Bug - Pants On Fire - Poker Flat Recordings
05 Ten Ven - When I Met You - Noir 
06 Atjazz - Fox Tooth - Local Talk
07 Joeski - Come On - Poker Flat Recordings
08 And ID - Live Life - Mobilee
09 Seth Troxler - CZ - Tuskegee 
10 Josh Wink - Denial (Tweak Dub) - Ovum
11 Hyenah - Tale From The Dirt feat Aquarius Heaven - Freerange
12 Oxia - Just More - Saved

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