Always good to hear a fresh mix from you, feels like I’m keeping an ear to the ground much more with a mix that does away with genre or certain sound strictures. As a Londoner with no end of potential sources for raw material it’s great to hear it put together in such a relaxed and varied way. There are strictures around here people seem unaware that they can, and should fer chrissakes, shuck off more often.

I’m intrigued about your sense of loss or fractured drift from the d&b scene which gives this mix its title – it certainly doesn’t listen through like a lament. I’m wondering if it has anything to do with dropping the turntable altogether, taking another step away from wax culture but fondly looking back? Embracing Ableton sounds like a biggy. I’m no expert in its machinations but I imagine there will be less of the audible transitions between pieces, or at least they will have a new power of their own which must be a draw. But the off-beat pushed into place is a great reveal, evidence of the human and the on-the-fly, the two signatures just faintly apart somehow serves as a recording in itself almost of a separate space, there’s a rich feeling of context it gives. I don’t wanna sound like an old analogue jerk – I’m sure the human and serendipitous reaches elsewhere and further with Ableton. It’ll be interesting to hear what changes there are.

So thanks, and keep up the good work!

Slim