We Out Here: El's Mixtape

Here are a number of hand-selected picks and personal musical highlights from We Out Here festival that were either being played by various DJ's—plumbing the crates of Patrick Forge, Cosmo Sofi and Miche for inspiration—or iconic tracks from live musicians and bands that trod the boards, ranging from spiritual jazz giant Pharoah Sanders to radical firebrands Zeitgeist Freedom Energy Exchange.

I even managed to throw in a couple of selections in that I played during my set: Azymuth's 1983 fusion offering Rapid Transit was an album that I managed to pick up from Liberation Records—among countless others—at Near Mint record fair and play the same evening, a joy to do as a DJ. Expect heavyweight fusion cuts, flying percussive lines, progressive jazz sounds and tidal grooves from the likes of Paulinho da Costa, Clare Fischer and Webster Lewis. This one is for the jazz dancers, the Dingwalls afficionados and, as the title suggests, this one's for you, El. Hope to keep you grooving...