It’s Friday, the weekend is fast approaching, you’re probably looking for something that’ll get you in the mood for an unforgettable night out. Anticipating this exact scenario, we asked Berlin-based Greek musician and performance artist Abyss X to provide us with a mix guaranteed to pull listeners into an experimental sonic adventure.
True to her form of breaking rules and messing up structures, expect a superposition of experimental techno beats and R&B vocals, reminiscent of collage-like video game music. The fact that Evangelia Lachianina aka Abyss X is reluctant to stick with one genre is mirrored in her diverse background across dance, theatre and film. Here’s what she warned us to expect from her gritty debut i-D mix:
“I rarely do mixes, so when I do, they tend to be very collage like; a tsunami of different ideas and feelings invade my stream of thoughts and my sonic timeline. In this mix, I feature quotes from early Lydia Lunch interviews, alongside some from Terence McKenna and Martha Graham — all very enlightened people in their own ways. The mix sounds very cyclothymic in nature, with occasional nervous breakdowns. I treat a mix as a piece of information, with it’s own story to tell and its own messages to convey. It’s up to the listener to figure it out!”
Tracklist:
Hole, Credit In A Straight World intro
Tone Padron, Melania Carry + Headstone Lane, Knuckle Duster + Neri J, New Era
Jack of Jill, Super Sadist
Errorsmith, Airbag + Fatima Al Qadiri, Shaneera
Abyss X, H.TURT
aTelecine, I Came I Sat I Departed
Englesia, Under my Skin
Arti Kodin & Dini W, Psytribe + DJ Kitoko, Justice
DJ Kitoko, Pilli Pilli
Szare, Paried Balls + Cardi B
Hisato Higuchi, Girl Sister
Nic Endo, White Heat
Bl4ckFl4me + Jordan Gamardio
Igor Stravisky, Rite of Spring
Ledef, Purity Bynez
Cyberstruct, A Fork In The Road Between Two Dead Ends + UVB, Head For Head + An Angel Saved My Life
Abyss X, Humility
Kim Young Im, Eongseon Arirang
Nic Endo, Heroines
Thunder Orchestra, Diabolical Gesture + Meredith Monk Scared Song
Abyss X, Lyrical Waxing
This article originally appeared on i-D DE.