Mixes Digest 24: Two Mellow Sets and Three Kinda Banging Ones
Downbeat repose, dub-techno drift, ’90s minimal, and more.
First of all: Welcome to all the new subscribers who signed up after this week’s Best Albums of 2025 list—I’m thrilled to see you all here.
In gratitude, I’ve put together one final Mixes Digest newsletter for the year. Exclusively for paying subscribers, the Mixes Digest is where I run through the DJ sets I’ve been digging of late, typically a mixture of mellow vibes and heavier dancefloor fare.
This issue features five recent sets, and they’re all corkers:
an hour of granular ambient and dub techno from an outdoor festival I’m dying to attend
a tour of true-school ’90s minimal and Detroit techno from a selector better known for broken styles
an inaugural set of deepest house and techno from a criminally underrated Brooklyn experimental producer, back from a long absence under a new alias
downbeat and motorik chillers from a longtime member of the AD 93 roster
an honest-to-goodness mix CD (not Call Super’s!) taking inspiration from some key Panorama Bar classics
Stay tuned for (at least?) one final post of the year, next week; I’ll be taking Tuesday, December 30 off, and back in the new year. New subscribers looking to stock up on holiday reading and listening can find all the archived mixes posts (including a new series of my own mixes I’m calling Eavesdropping) here, archived interviews here, and archives of all the new-release roundups here.
Scroll on for the mixes, and thank you!
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