
Find balance in languid downtempo and sun-kissed jazz guitar to silky dub and electronic dream-pop.
This week is curated by Benjamin Smith, music publicist and manager at his Bristol-based agency Echo Empire.
In his words “Originally I was going to focus this mix on music I’ve worked on over the past ten years but that became impossible to narrow down to an hour (here’s a Spotify playlist if you want to go there). Instead, it’s based around not-work records, mostly from the past few years and a lot of pandemic purchases, that set the required mood for a Monday morning (or Sunday afternoon or Wednesday evening or anytime you need to take an hour out from everything for yourself).”
Tracklist:
Emma Jean Thackray – May There Be Peace
Sweatson Klank – Ultra Marine
Hear & Now – Aurora Baleare
Soft Focus – Elsewhere
Nicklas Sorensen – 2.2
Tommy Guerrero – A Distant Closeness
Eddie Chacon – Pleasure Joy and Happiness
Andrew Wasylyk – Awoke In the Early Days of a Better World
Tapes – Sauna Research
Satoshi & Makoto – Closer
The Zenmenn – Bamboo Garden
Matthew Halsall – Mindful Meditations
Misha Panfilov Sound Combo – In A Dream
Space Ghost – Twilight Swim
Mandaworld – Spoonfeed
Kadhja Bonet – Second Wind
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