Essential: Laurel Halo’s astounding new mix for DISCWOMAN

Laurel Halo’s unique style and artist technique seems to be one that is constantly shifting and adapting to whatever message she wants to send through her productions.

The Michigan-born artist now living in Berlin has had a busy year after announcing her new album “Dust” just over a month ago and completing her tour this past Saturday in New York.

“Dust” was Halo’s third release on Hyperdub and made up of two years’ worth of crafted material, produced both alone and with a number of her musician friends. The album was distinctive to her previous release in classic Halo style as a collection of carefully constructed elaborate electronics.

Halo is the perfect forerunner for Discwoman, as a female boss who has enormous influential on the current scene, her sets and productions are individually executed in a way no one else can compare.

The latest Discwoman mix has been describe by Laurel as “somewhere between club and listening, heavy on melody, style jumping & perc-happy” and is exactly that. it’s incredibly fun, eerie but with lots of jazz and funk, starting soft with a freaky Justine Timberlake homage before it really goes in.

The skilled mixing of bass heavy tracks is kept funky with constant underlining rhythms, dense use of percussion and big focus on the various tracks claps carried throughout along the relentless tempo switch ups.

The mix is a bit of everything form African House to clips of tracks from the likes of Jeremiah R and even a mad techno remix of Prince's ‘Controversy’. Its then rounded off with a track from the German band Diamant.

Listen to Laurel Halo’s mix below to see for yourself.

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