I recorded this mix at home in Portslade on the South Coast of England in one take on my laptop and a pioneer console in between shifts visiting my mum in hospital in Hertfordshire, shortly after the release of my second album for Planet Mu. I feel as though 160 BPM has become my natural territory and while I didn't want to stray too far from my comfort zone there's always an ever present desire to push against the boundary of expectations (including and maybe predominantly my own). The mix pulls together a few of the disparate threads that have fed me musically in recent years and while I've cast the net relatively wide I hope the connections are clear and that the journey makes sense emotionally and bodily. From Pekka Airaksinen's evocations of a thousand tulpas through his perplexing but propulsive - almost proto-footwork - percussive onslaught, through to Khadija Al Hanafi's gleeful chipmunk soul and Miaux's melancholy keyboard lullaby, I've woven together a selection that aims for emotional directness, a feeling of warmth, a yearning for collective joy and resistance, all of which feel desperately needed in these times of enclosure, distrust and almost casual brutality however earnest or gauche that might sound laid bare like this. - Xylitol