DJ Plead (Sumac)

The inimitable DJ Plead — DJ, producer and co-boss man over at the spicy label Sumac – dropped by the station for a mix that will finally clean away that crusty, congealed mass of boring music that’s been gathering in your ears over winter.

But what else to expect from one of the most singular producers around at the second?

His records for Decisions (including the sick collaboration with Cop Envy) and Nervous Horizon bristle with a cosmopolitcal confluence of musical reference points, ranging from UK bass, diasporic and traditional musics from Lebanon, trap, dubstep etc.. But that’s hardly to say anything, really, because it’s not so much influence but invention — laid bare in those twitching rhythms, those creeping atmospheres that spit in the face of chronological or geographical periodisation — that captures that idiosyncratic Plead steez.

Needless to say, it makes every mix from the lad something special, and dare we say it, this one is pretty special. Enjoy.