As Peter Ackroyd said ‘I don’t believe in ghosts but they frighten me’ and with same sentiment you could say I’ve never been to LA but I love it.

It’s an imagined landscape seen darkly through a lense and experienced via the silent milieu of isolation in the films of Michael Mann, the neo noir of Chinatown and the abandoned decadence of movies like Sunset Boulevard. I know it through Ed Ruscha’s photography, David Hockney’s paintings and the sunkist pool side splash of Paul Schrader’s American Gigolo. It exists in my head and I’m fully aware it isn’t a real place.

So when exiled Angeleno, disque jock and producer https://soundcloud.com/deirdre-direktor, now a resident of Rotterdam, sent me some of her tracks for the label I asked her to do a mix and channel LA through it. In her words ’a foggy, mysterious, romantic sorta place with darkness lurking in places’.

Tracklist:

A Thunder Orchestra - Diabolical Gesture

The Exaltics - The Past

45 ACP - Ground to Ground

Myriad - The Way We Were

Legowelt - Spring Equinox

Delroy Edwards- Kickin' Butts!

Daze - Death Whirl

Deirdre Direktor - Sleep for the Anxious

Underground Resistance - Final Frontier

Antenna - In August- Pinkman

Elec Pt. 1 - Acid Mark- Signals

Maroje T.- Acid Plan

Lonny & Melvin- Theme From Murdercapital

Gosub - Blue in Blackness

Scorn - Falling (Autechre's FR 13 Remix)

Neville Watson - Songs to Elevate Pure Hearts (KiNK & Rachel Remix)