Elliot: This mix is basically a bunch of tracks I listened to over and over again while I sat and sketched like a nerdy recluse in my shitty little flat in Manchester about a year ago.

These aren’t the type of tracks I’d usually play at our parties, but I wanted to get to play them somewhere eventually so making a mix made sense. I didn’t really know much about a lot of the tracks at the time (with the exception of the more well-known ones like the Y Pants and ACR), and they introduced me to a load of other bands – ones that didn’t belong to the typical New York genre I was used to.

I love these records, and making this mix was all about having fun. These artists have made some great albums, too – check them out.

• Los microwaves - Tv in my eye
• Surplus stock - stress
• Max & Malcolm - Why do tigers wander through my mind
• Missing presumed dead - kill the postman/hyperactive
• A Certain Ratio - I fail
• Citizen UK - Dining on expense
• Pylon - yo - yo
• Subjects - High life
• Gang 90 - Dada Globe Orixas (spaced out in paradise)
• Futurisk - Poison Ivy
• Mathematiques Modernes - A + B = C
• Y Pants - favourite sweater
• Candidate - Strange girl
• Standard of Living - she loves you
• Winter Light - Crash Comma (Dub)

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