IA MIX SERIES

INTERVIEW + TRACKLIST > https://inverted-audio.com/mix/jonnnah

IA MIX 405, Lyon-based producer @jonnnah (Pierre Paumier) delivers a fever dream of dubbed-out breaks, lush techno, and tech house — a mix built for both a 2am club slot and the near-dawn train ride home.

In an interview with Jason Cabaniss, Jonnnah discusses his early conservatory percussion training, his move from Ableton and early synths toward a rhythm-driven hardware setup, and the making of his new LP What They Left on his own Second End Records. He talks through the album's therapeutic origins, collaborating with Pavel Milyakov on Me, With You, and running Second End on admiration rather than strategy.

The mix previews a more club-oriented, techno-driven direction he's currently developing, featuring two standout tracks from Polish producer a.sl alongside cuts from Model 500, cv313, and Freund Der Familie — emotional continuity over rhythmic mixing, true to how Jonnnah approaches DJ sets and live shows alike.

INTERVIEW > https://inverted-audio.com/mix/answer-code-request

Recorded to accompany Halo, his first album in eight years, this is a tighter, dancefloor-oriented session from Patrick Gräser. Where a Berghain marathon might stretch to five hours, IA MIX 404 compresses that same energy into a compact, club-focused set. The selections lean spontaneous rather than thematic, drawing on what Gräser has been playing out recently - groovier, house-inflected material sitting alongside the tougher techno his name is best known for.

INTERVIEW > https://inverted-audio.com/mix/eric-cloutier

Will Patterson sat down with Eric Cloutier to talk about his debut LP My Friend The Abyss and dig deeper into the man behind Palinoia, published alongside an accompanying all-vinyl mix recorded live at Tresor Berlin. Cloutier reflects on 27 years of DJing and the "quality over quantity" philosophy that's kept Palinoia to just 12 releases in ten years. He discusses the slow, pressure-filled transition from digger to producer, admitting he's his own harshest critic and works entirely in-the-box by choice.

The album itself, he reveals, was born out of catharsis, a release valve for an especially brutal couple of years, which explains its unexpected swings into jungle, dub and ambient territory alongside his signature techno. Cloutier also speaks candidly about the current state of club culture, criticising promoters chasing metrics over substance and DJs feeding audiences predictable, algorithm-friendly sets, while affirming his own refusal to chase trends just to stay afloat.

INTERVIEW > https://inverted-audio.com/mix/p-relief/

P Relief, of ambient house label P&D with Suzanne Kraft, drops his latest EP Fluff, pushing tempos further into bass music with metallic, punchier rhythms while keeping the label's serene, tonic-like quality. His accompanying IA MIX blends house and bass-leaning tracks around 125bpm, drawing from recent and upcoming releases. Tight and continuous rather than loose, it reflects Inverted Audio's forward-thinking focus. The piece also touches on P&D's 10-year run, its marble-cover artwork, and an accompanying interview covering Berlin, Los Angeles, and more.

INTERVIEW + TRACKLIST > https://inverted-audio.com/mix/ulf-eriksson

Malmö DJ and Kontra-Musik label head Ulf Eriksson sits down with us alongside longtime collaborator Andreas Tilliander — known to most as TM404 — to talk through their first joint release, Ulf Och Andreas - EP 1. It's a record ten years in the making: minimal, raw house and techno that bears the marks of their ongoing creative tension — Eriksson pushing for restraint, Tilliander reaching for layers. The conversation is candid, often funny, and revealing about how both artists work. Eriksson also recorded an IA Mix to accompany the release, moving from PST's warm house through Omar-S and Eletun Selona to the duo's own material.

INTERVIEW + TRACKLIST > https://inverted-audio.com/mix/hoavi

For our 400th mix, we wanted something that felt genuinely singular. Kirill Vasin, aka Hoavi, delivers exactly that — a mix composed entirely of music made by him and his students.

Hoavi is a teacher of music composition, and the philosophy that underpins his work bleeds into everything he touches. His recent album Architectonics on Peak Oil draws on the interlocking rhythmic traditions of gamelan, approaching form and timbre with the rigour of a composer and the intuition of a producer. That same spirit of communal practice is at the heart of IA MIX 400.

Read our interview with Hoavi and listen to one of the most considered mixes in this series' history.

INTERVIEW + TRACKLIST > https://inverted-audio.com/mix/rob-clouth/

Rob Clouth returns with Cicada, a four-track EP that signals a shift toward a faster, more instinctive creative process, accompanied by an IA MIX that blurs the line between DJing and production. Built in Ableton at 160–170 BPM, the mix layers over 25 tracks using edits, stem separation and rapid transitions, resulting in a dense, high-energy session that reflects his current maximalist approach.

In conversation with Ryan Pivovar, Clouth discusses moving away from rigid concepts toward a more playful, process-driven workflow. Rather than over-curating, he’s focused on momentum, embracing spontaneity and letting ideas flow more freely.

The interview also explores his collaboration with Max Cooper, his thoughts on AI as both a creative tool and a challenge, and Noise Canvas, his self-built sound design software. Together, Cicada and the mix capture an artist loosening control, trusting instinct, and building toward a future album.

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INTERVIEW + TRACKLIST > https://inverted-audio.com/mix/intertoto

For IA MIX 398, @intertoto_music steps away from the traditional DJ format to deliver an exclusive live set composed of unreleased material and dubbed-out stems - a snapshot of a performance configuration currently taking shape. Immersed in a super dubby, murky atmosphere, the set gradually gives way to a handful of 4/4 excursions towards the closing stretch.

Keeping things deliberately minimal, the live setup centres around Ableton, recently expanded with Intech Studio MIDI controllers and coloured by a hands-on outboard effects chain. As Intertoto notes, even subtle shifts in processing can dramatically reshape the outcome - a philosophy that permeates the mix’s fluid, zoned-out energy. Recorded in the studio with headphones on, this is deep immersion: “some proper zoned out business…”

In our interview below, we speak with Intertoto about studio gear, the father of modern geology, the importance of texture, and the role of controlled randomness. Dive into the interview and IA MIX 398 - a fitting companion piece to Siccar Point.

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REVIEW & TRACKLIST > https://inverted-audio.com/mix/u

One year on from Life Isn’t A Fountain? - the Lex Records EP where archival post-punk was reanimated through meticulous sample-work - the elusive producer U returns with a project that reaches further back and digs far deeper. On ARCHENFIELD, U turns their attention to the Herefordshire borderlands, where English and Welsh histories intermingle and where myth, memory and landscape blur into one another. The album unfolds like auditory time travel: fourteen tracks built from traditional song, home-taped fragments and scraps pulled from television, radio, film and YouTube, all woven into a drifting folkloric reverie.

Rather than simply excavating the past, U examines how stories mutate through retelling, how landscapes carry collective memory, and how folklore persists in the messy ways people inhabit a place. If Life Isn’t A Fountain? channelled Thatcher-era discontent through a cracked post-punk prism, ARCHENFIELD widens the lens to probe the fragile relationship between identity and the rural environments that shape it. Dusty pianos, murmuring drones and spectral voices evoke a modern England increasingly severed from the histories beneath its feet.

To mark the release, U delivers IA MIX 397, a journey through post-punk, new wave and wayward micro-scenes. Mining forgotten corners of their collection, U mirrors the album’s central question: how the remnants of one era can speak powerfully to the uncertainties of another.

INTERVIEW + TRACKLIST > https://inverted-audio.com/mix/snad

@snad steps up to deliver IA MIX 396, accompanying a feature in which he reflects on the making of his new record AM Yard on @scissorandthread. He discusses the year-long experiments behind its hazy textures, the influence of his temperamental Ensoniq DP4, the late-night nods to Chez & Trent, and the hardware-driven workflow that shaped the record. Along the way, he opens up about Berlin’s shifting musical landscape, India’s rapidly evolving club culture, and the humour, accidents and curiosity that continue to guide his sound.