Mount Kimbie - DJ-Kicks (2018)

Mount Kimbie show off their record collections on a fine DJ-Kicks mix and compilation stuffed with glassy-eyed electronica, exploring its roots and branches in industrial, electro and experimental techno

Replete with an exclusive Mount Kimbie song, ‘Southgate’, but surprisingly swerving the post-dubstep sound they were instrumental in shaping, Kai Campos and Dominic Maker serve a hypnotic ride around the last 30 years of electronic music, highlighting liminal stylistic connections between Madalyn Merkey’s gaseous ambient hues and the dreamy lean of Taz & Meeks’ percolated stepper, ‘Obviously’ via classic industrial peaches from Severed Heads, a choice piece percolated synth voices and jacking house from Reg Burrell’s N.Y. House’n Authority, Terrence Dixon’s Afro-styled Minimal Detroit mix of Efdemin, and up-to-the-moment aces such as object blue’s haunted warehouse jacker ‘Even In You’, and the sloshing groove of Rupert Clervaux & Beatrice Dillon’s ‘IX’.