As the person behind the gender diversity-centring club night QRAVE and the informative gatherings Flower Tools, Avril Stormy Unger knows more than a thing or two about making the dancefloor shake. But when it comes to creating a Wild City Mix, the Goa-based drag, stand-up and multi-disciplinary performer who DJs as Chutney Mary keeps in mind how the mix might be consumed (likely private home-listening) and utilises it to experiment with the space between the ambient and the rhythmic instead. 

Sandwiching in her local contemporaries like Fursat FM and Catatacat in a mix that kicks off with heavyweights like Laurel Halo and Hania Rani, Avril doesn't just sequence the soundscapes but plays with them. The disjointed drums in Etapp Kyle's 'Nolove' seem to answer the call for madness in Pan Daijing's 'Let' while underlining it. When the minimal thump of Mython & Jonas Xenon's 'Nudge', straight from techno mecca Tresor Records, enters, their four-to-the-floor drums feel more like an ambient pulse than a visceral one in the context of the mix. The selections only enter pure dance music territory in its quick-switching final quarter, giving the whole build-up a climax. 

More information and tracklisting: https://www.thewildcity.com/mixes/21568-wild-city-259-chutney-mary