IOMix017 // Anina by International Orange

We’ve been hounding @anina for a mix for some time, but as always it’s worth waiting for the right moment and her set at Young Echo was the perfect spark. It was immediately apparent there was fresh inspiration guiding the tracks she was reaching for — the sort of mixing you do when a fresh batch of records arrives, or when you finally indulge a fleeting hype. Sometimes these phases open out into a wider steer for your creative practice, other times it’s a passing moment, but the energy is always palpable. Luckily for us, Anina was up for catching the energy around this set and went IN (even getting an extra CD-J to do the job), creating a truly masterful set that weaves through crooked rhythms and heads-down atmospherics somewhere between deep techno, sleek D&B, the Autonomic vibe and a more abstract feeling all of its own.

Hit play up in here, or head to IO for the full post, a Q&A interview and the tracklisting:

https://internationalorange.io/iomix017-anina/