DJ-Kicks: Laurel Halo

by Laurel Halo

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hornberg This is my favorite track of all favorite tracks in this amazing mix compilation. Thank you for your passion and love in music dear Laurel. Will enjoy and buy your records every time. Respect and cheers to you. Favorite track: Poliwhirl.

BenPujara Meticulous and engrossing, start to finish. Favorite track: Cricoid Pressure.

Neumann Every single track.

Gavin Hellyer Astonishing record with Laurel utilising her fastidious attention to detail, even when tearing up the room. Great respect is shown to both her own as well as all the other artists work, and DJ-Kicks must be overjoyed with Mix #68 in his formidable series. Her Mixes, Albums, EPs & Live DJ Sets all differ in approach it seems to me, and maybe that's why I reckon her output is bordering on genius. No matter what the format, she just knows what she's doing. Fantastic release. Favorite track: 5 Min.

Paper Laurel Halo is tight! Love from Oakland 🐍

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1.	Public Art 02:35	buy track
2.	Always Hate 04:48	buy track
3.	5 Min 04:22	buy track
4.	Puro Rosaceaes 06:01	buy track
5.	Cricoid Pressure 08:15	buy track
6.	Just Made Some Jazz Music 07:10	buy track
7.	Ana 04:16	buy track
8.	Penny Rut 05:17	buy track
9.	Plastic PQ 04:35	buy track
10.	Canto 05:14	buy track
11.	Poliwhirl 05:11	buy track
12.	The Light Within You 06:17	buy track
13.	Bodied (OG Mix) 04:38	buy track
14.	A.C.I.D. (Electronic Gqom Mix) 05:09	buy track
15.	Lachowa 11:23	buy track
16.	Koraimer Bro 05:14	buy track
17.	Temptation 07:16	buy track
18.	Violent Light 06:59	buy track
19.	Brian’s Having a Party 02:03	buy track
20.	Side Effects 05:37	buy track
21.	Oneiroi 07:34	buy track
22.	Pelican Dub 03:08	buy track
23.	Lust 05:21	buy track
24.	Loser 03:12	buy track
25.	Sweetie (DJ-Kicks) 07:03	buy track
26.	Funky World (Blake Baxter Remix) 06:30	buy track
27.	Freakey Ke Ke 04:46	buy track
28.	Ketabali 05:29	buy track
29.	Ntu 01:39	buy track
30.	DJ-Kicks (Continuous Mix) 01:00:37

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The 68th edition of the DJ-Kicks mix series is another landmark one, with experimental producer Laurel Halo taking the reins. The American’s adventurous 29 track trip features seven exclusives, including two of her own plus those from Rrose, Machinewoman, FIT Siegel, Nick León and Ikonika.

An electronic outlier, Halo hails from Ann Arbor, Michigan, but has been based in Berlin for a number of years. Landing on labels like Hyperdub, Honest Jon’s and Latency, Halo has released a body of work ranging in style, yet cohered by production and compositional tendencies that sound distinctly her own. Her studio work tends to be a multi-layered mix of the electronic and the acoustic, the organic and the synthetic. As a DJ, meanwhile, she lays down more floor-focussed mixes of techno, bass and worldly drum rhythms, and her live sets are similarly visceral and direct.

Halo’s DJ-kicks packs a lot in to just 60 minutes. It kicks off with the first of two of her own exclusives, ‘Public Art’, a tactile piano loop that sets the melodic tone of the mix in focus. Crunchy drums soon take over and begin what is a blistering ride through electro, trippy minimalism and textures that range from icy and dubby to steel plated and sharp from the likes of Red Axes, Parris and an exclusive from Rrose.

Another exclusive, rough and ready cut from Machinewoman follows, before the mid section twists and turns on surging drum patterns, frantic industrial textures and spaced out gqom sounds from the likes of Griffit Vigo, Dario Zenker and Final Cut. This is a mix forever on the move: one minute its tightly coiled and kinetic, the next it’s loose and joyful before switching into more cerebral and insular passages that keep you intrigued.

Fusing together so many disparate sounds and textures is no mean feat, but like everything Halo does, here they all add up to something as thrilling and edgy as it is unpredictable and compelling.

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released March 22, 2019

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Laurel Halo Berlin, Germany

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Amsterdam Forest / Amsterdamse Bos

Amstelveen, Netherlands

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