Episode 160: You Used to Love Me

Despite this episode‘s melancholy title, it’s largely joyous when it isn’t being weird. Things start out upbeat with a characteristically poppy offering from Kitsune, then moves on to the swirling, chugging Quantic number that gives the episode its title. Even the song itself tempers its downbeat lyrics with the lush setting of “Atlantic Oscillations.” This feeling continues, and even deepens, but first we have a detour into Plaidville for some metallic reverb-damaged beats.

The return to Latin flava (with another brief detour into a Coup instrumental that presages the hip hop later to come) rounds out the first third of the mix, at which point things descend into chaos and noise, as hinted at by Le Makeup, then fully announced by Amnesia Scanner.

The final third of the mix begins with the promised hip hop. DJ Vadim, Strange U and Lord Quas keep things a bit off before Caravan Palace drop in with their recent single to launch everything into full pop overload, which ramps up through the remainder of the mix until Bodywash comes in to ease us back out.

DVD extra: I recorded this mix at 95 BPM, at which tempo it clocked in at a full 65 minutes. So I ported everything into Ableton and cheated the tempo up. If a few things feel a bit rushed, there’s a good reason!

• Amarula Cafe Club – Low [Kitsune Parisien]
• Quantic – You Used to Love Me feat. Denitia [Atlantic Oscillations]
• Plaid – Drowned Sea [Polymer]
• Merca Bae – La Niña [Merca Zip /2018/ – Vol. 1]
• 8ULENTINA – girlblunt [8ULENTINA SUMMER PACK]
• The Coup – pam’s song [Kill My Landlord]
• Florentino & Bad Gyal – Por Ti [Fragmentos]
• Future Image – March Madness (blastah Remix) [Santa Muerte & Friends Bootlegs and Edits Vol 5]
• Le Makeup – Purity [Hyper Earthy]
• Amnesia Scanner – AS Symmetribal [Another Life]
• B.YHZZ – Seeds [Via]
• M.D. James – Summer’s End [5 Year Lapse]
• SHALT – Fleeting [Seraphim]
• DJ Vadim – The Higher Standard (feat. Mr. Lif, Esoteric, Virtuoso) [Your Revolution/The Higher Standard]
• Strange U – Taurus [#LP4080]
• Quasimoto – Astro Black [The Unseen]
• Caravan Palace – Miracle [Miracle – Single]
• DJ Shadow – Rocket Fuel feat. De La Soul [Rocket Fuel SINGLE]
• Fever Ray – To The Moon and Back (Live) [Live At Troxy]
• Gabriel – I Wanna Ahah ! [Kitsune Parisien]
• A Tribe Called Quest – We Can Get Down [Midnight Marauders]
• Holy Ghost! – Nicky Buckingham [Work]
• Hatchie – Without A Blush [Keepsake]
• DJ Bitman, Ceaese – Para Ti [Para Ti]
• Bodywash – With Heat [Comforter]

BPM Range: 100-110