DJ-Kicks

by Laurel Halo

Overview

DJ-Kicks is Laurel Halo's first commercially available mix, but it follows a decade's worth of podcast mixes for various music websites, as well as a background in college radio. Like her music, Halo's mixes incorporate styles from throughout the history of dance music, often leaning toward Detroit techno/electro and U.K. bass culture, but she's also likely to venture into musique concrete and contemporary composition. Halo's DJ-Kicks has a few abstract moments, but it's mainly a steady, headstrong mix, running through nearly 30 tracks in an hour. While never sticking to one sound for long, the mix frequently returns to electro-techno, sometimes of the EBM/industrial persuasion. A track from early, Jeff Mills-era Final Cut surfaces, as well as other Detroit producers such as Stallone the Reducer and FIT Siegel. Halo unearths a lot of gems here, from the trippy, fractured bass music of Siete Catorce to hypnotic, 8-bit-spiked gqom of South African producer Griffit Vigo. The tough, storming electro of Ikonika's exclusive "Bodied (OG Mix)" is another standout. Halo includes several tracks from throughout her own catalog, ranging from the IDM abrasion of "Oneiroi" (off 2013's Chance of Rain) to the swift, assuring "The Light Within You" from her 2018 collaboration with Hodge. "Sweetie," a track Halo composed specially for this mix, surprisingly ends up being one of the most straightforward, stripped-down club tracks she's ever made. The mix never seems to have a specific direction in mind; what's more important is the fact that the energy is kept up throughout, as well as the level of anticipation. ~ Paul Simpson

Product Details

Release Date:	03/22/2019
Label:	!K7
UPC:	0730003737527

Tracks

1. Public Art
2. Always Hate
3. 5 Min
4. Puro Rosaceaes
5. Cricoid Pressure
6. Just Made Some Jazz Music
7. Ana
8. Penny Rut
9. Plastic PQ
10. Canto
11. Poliwhirl
12. The Light Within You
13. Bodied [OG Mix]
14. A.C.I.D. [Electronic Gqom Mix]
15. Lachowa
16. Koraimer Bro
17. Temptation
18. Violent Light
19. Brian¿¿¿s Having a Party
20. Side Effects
21. Oneiroi
22. Pelican Dub
23. Lust
24. Loser
25. Sweetie
26. Funky World [Blake Baxter Remix]
27. Freakey Ke Ke
28. Ketabali
29. Ntu

Album Credits

Performance Credits

Laurel Halo   Primary Artist
Machine Woman   Primary Artist
Via Maris   Primary Artist
Stallone the Reducer   Primary Artist
WCC   Primary Artist
Panda Lassow   Primary Artist
Aos   Primary Artist
Nick Leon   Primary Artist
Kirk the Flirt   Primary Artist
Kiki Kudo   Primary Artist
Blake Baxter   Primary Artist
Final Cut   Primary Artist
Whitefield Brothers   Primary Artist
Yamaoka   Primary Artist
Ikonika   Primary Artist
Dario Zenker   Primary Artist
Stefan Ringer   Primary Artist
Red Axes   Primary Artist
Rrose   Primary Artist
Geoffrey Landers   Primary Artist
Hodge   Primary Artist
Parris   Primary Artist
Facta   Primary Artist
Siete Catorce   Primary Artist
FIT Siegel   Primary Artist
group A   Primary Artist
Griffit Vigo   Primary Artist
C.A.R.   Vocals,Featured Artist

Technical Credits

group A   Composer
Panda Lassow   Composer
Nick Leon   Composer,Producer
Brady Burke   Composer,Producer
Griffith Radebe Khulekani   Composer,Producer
Yannick Schutte   Composer,Producer
Kayla Waldorf   Composer
Marco Polo Guiterez   Composer
Oscar Hanson   Composer,Producer
Tomomi Kudo   Composer
Blake Baxter   Composer,Producer
Jeff Mills   Composer,Producer
Samuel Consiglio   Composer,Producer
Aaron Siegel   Composer,Producer
C.A.R.   Composer
Anthony Srock   Composer,Producer
Seth Horvitz   Composer,Producer
Max Weissenfeldt   Composer,Producer
Niv Arzi   Composer
Kenichi Oka   Composer,Producer
Dori Sadovnik   Composer
Dario Zenker   Composer,Producer
Jan Weissenfeldt   Composer,Producer
Daniel Fischer   Composer,Producer
Stefan Ringer   Composer,Producer
Jake Martin   Composer,Producer
Laurel Halo   Composer,Producer
Sara Chen   Composer,Producer
Geoffrey Landers   Composer,Producer
Parris   Composer,Producer
Machine Woman   Composer,Producer