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23.01.2022

Sunday Mix: Holy Other

Sunday Experimental

For some, 2021 was a year of stillness or stagnation. For others, including elusive UK producer Holy Other, it was a chance to return to the fore and reconnect with old fans.

Back in November, Holy Other – real name David Ainley – released his first new music since 2012’s critically revered Held LP. The project in question was a wispy ten-track album entitled Lieve, which he shared via his own imprint. It was recorded following a stay at Bidston Observatory on the Wirral amid the unease of 2020. Harnessing the building’s spacious acoustics, the album’s airy sonics owed themselves to the reverberation found in the vast stone cellars and wooden dome structures. The material was accompanied by ghostly injections of vocal swells and other instrumentation, resulting in an introspective body of work that contrasted the organic and artificial.

This Sunday Mix is much his own productions: subtle, affective and entirely enthralling. Featuring tracks by the likes of Paraadiso, Lack, Nikki Nair, Proc Fiskal and Ama Lou, along with a handful of essential edits, Ainley describes it as “a tiny cross-section of things I love that were released in 2021”.

Photography: Camille Blake


See Tracklist
Rắn Cạp Đuôi – Images 
DJH – Heartstrings 
Origamibiro – Zoo 
Lack – Constant 
Hara Alonso – La Memoria del Futuro/Art School Girlfriend – Eyes On You 
Ama Lou – Trust Nobody (Keep It To Yourself Edit) 
Lighght – Vectors Known and Unknown 
Leo – Soil 
Chynna – 1.28.19 (Ima Die Soon Edit) 
Megan Alice Clune – The Worst Coffee in the Best Cup 
Gloomseeker – Same Ol' Doom/Caroline Shaw & Sō Percussion – Some Bright Morning 
Motoko & Myers – House Made of Pollen 
Otay:Onii – In Between Angel and Fly 
Sevyn Streeter – Feel A Way (Don't Wanna Be By Myself Edit) 
Nikki Nair – It Goes 
Giant Claw – Mir-Cam Startup 
Celia Hollander – 1:23AM 
Cam Deas – That (yGrid/D#) (Second Woman Remix)/Fawning – Head of Roses 
Color Plus – Gum 
Proc Fiskal – Iaosiphsean Powers 
Yaera – Elavoko 1 
Paraadiso – Aerial Dome 
Tom VR – Partner 
Helen Svoboda – Glint/1000PA – Furaaer 
Bratty – Tú 
Himera – Good Night, I Hope The Future Brings You Only The Best!

Sunday Mix: Holy Other

Sunday Mix: Holy Other

For some, 2021 was a year of stillness or stagnation. For others, including elusive UK producer Holy Other, it was a chance to return to the fore and reconnect with old fans.

Back in November, Holy Other – real name David Ainley – released his first new music since 2012’s critically revered Held LP. The project in question was a wispy ten-track album entitled Lieve, which he shared via his own imprint. It was recorded following a stay at Bidston Observatory on the Wirral amid the unease of 2020. Harnessing the building’s spacious acoustics, the album’s airy sonics owed themselves to the reverberation found in the vast stone cellars and wooden dome structures. The material was accompanied by ghostly injections of vocal swells and other instrumentation, resulting in an introspective body of work that contrasted the organic and artificial.

This Sunday Mix is much his own productions: subtle, affective and entirely enthralling. Featuring tracks by the likes of Paraadiso, Lack, Nikki Nair, Proc Fiskal and Ama Lou, along with a handful of essential edits, Ainley describes it as “a tiny cross-section of things I love that were released in 2021”.

Photography: Camille Blake

See Tracklist
Rắn Cạp Đuôi – Images 
DJH – Heartstrings 
Origamibiro – Zoo 
Lack – Constant 
Hara Alonso – La Memoria del Futuro/Art School Girlfriend – Eyes On You 
Ama Lou – Trust Nobody (Keep It To Yourself Edit) 
Lighght – Vectors Known and Unknown 
Leo – Soil 
Chynna – 1.28.19 (Ima Die Soon Edit) 
Megan Alice Clune – The Worst Coffee in the Best Cup 
Gloomseeker – Same Ol' Doom/Caroline Shaw & Sō Percussion – Some Bright Morning 
Motoko & Myers – House Made of Pollen 
Otay:Onii – In Between Angel and Fly 
Sevyn Streeter – Feel A Way (Don't Wanna Be By Myself Edit) 
Nikki Nair – It Goes 
Giant Claw – Mir-Cam Startup 
Celia Hollander – 1:23AM 
Cam Deas – That (yGrid/D#) (Second Woman Remix)/Fawning – Head of Roses 
Color Plus – Gum 
Proc Fiskal – Iaosiphsean Powers 
Yaera – Elavoko 1 
Paraadiso – Aerial Dome 
Tom VR – Partner 
Helen Svoboda – Glint/1000PA – Furaaer 
Bratty – Tú 
Himera – Good Night, I Hope The Future Brings You Only The Best!
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