Jake Muir - Enmixed (Preorder Late September )

Jake Muir  - Enmixed (Preorder  Late September )

Label: Enmossed - ENMX-xb 
Format: Tape
Country: UK
Released:  Late September
Genre: Electronic
Style: Electronic

Description
Moody cacophonies, sonic dispatches from Japan, crystalline breakbeats that are more
environment than rhythm: Jake Muir’s enmixed, described by Muir as a “(re)mixtape,” is a
mind-bending deep dive into the enmossed archive. Besides reflecting the history of the
label, Muir’s mix is a production in its own right. A Los Angeles native based in Berlin,
Muir is a DJ and field recordist who “sees mixes as a vehicle to explore narratives outside of
the album format.”

In Bathhouse Blues (2023), where Muir sampled various sources to explore gay cruising
culture and sensuality, his more expansive, conceptual approach to the form is illuminated.
Mixes are not just a linear succession of tracks with transitions—they’re excavations that also
result in the creation of new audio artifacts. Inspired by the psychedelic impulses of illbient,
Muir uses DJ and sound engineering techniques to melt down genre distinctions and create
alien atmospheres.

From the enmossed community, Muir pulls from artists like bad lsd trips, Angelo
Harmsworth, Nick Klein, Tetsuya Nakayama, and Patrick Gallagher to coalesce a
super-compendium of the global sonic underground, all viewed through his own unique
lens. Muir takes major liberties with processing and effects automation to carve new worlds
from the soil of these preexisting works. Some of the tracks and material on enmixed are
heavily edited, emphasizing specific harmonics or bass frequencies, and some portions
contain three or four layers, putting artists in direct conversation with each other.

This heady approach—using the tools of both mixtape and remix—results in a super textual
and dense palimpsest of the enmossed catalog. “Because mixes are more open- source,” Muir
says, “it’s easier to express some ideas since there is more material to pull from.”

- Rob Goyanes

Silver foil printed j-cards on heavyweight iridescent ('Lapis Lazuli') recycled paper
Duplicated at a carbon-neutral facility

Tracklist
Side A Excerpt
Side B Excerpt