Reality Mix 869: MLE

Experimental sounds and Friday night club jams from the Rhythm Section label supervisor and Worldwide FM host.

Emily Hill’s love of dance music hasactually taken her from Dorset’s boggiest jump-up raves to the clubs of Berlin bymeansof Manchester and London in pursuit of bass, electro, coldwave and lysergic down. While living in London she worked at Soho vinyl organization Sounds of the Universe and endedupbeing an important part of the Rhythm Section household. Under her MLE alias, Hill hasactually endedupbeing a routine component on Worldwide FM, Noods Radio and HÖR, and regardlessof moving to Berlin a coupleof years ago Hill stays label supervisor for Rhythm Section.

“The last 2 years I’ve taken a bit of a action back from nearly specifically listening to dance music, digging more into diverse sounds from around the world for my radio reveals, coming into close quarters with some remarkable selectors in the procedure,” Hill states. “I moved to Berlin in the middle of the pandemic in 2020 due to the expense of London living and saw it as a bit of reset to redefine my interests, my production ability and where I desired to go within my own DJ practices outdoors of the scene I’d worked in and come up through.”

In her Fact Mix, MLE takes us on a journey through speculative rhythms, crowd-pleasing home jams and traditional techno, contrasting Ossia’s slo-mo remix of Jabu’s ‘Slow it Down’, Detroit legend Aaron-Carl’s ‘The Answer’ and Rotterdam electro from DJ Overdose togetherwith music from DJ SWISHA, Pearson Sound, Bored Lord, Roza Terenzi and Soso Tharpa. “I see this mix as something of a renewal, moving on from sounds individuals mostlikely associated me with and touching on a entire range of categories I’m trying to weave together,” Hill states. “I’d like this mix in some methods to shift understanding of me, moving through all the dots of my musical narrative whilst likewise being a real Friday night buzz mix.”

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