I often wonder what I would do in a world without music. Sometimes at night, a track will come on the radio that makes me get out of bed for a notepad so I can write it down, find it online, download and listen to it again immediately. It’s like a drug. Making this mix, which I initially called ‘Warm synths, swooping strings and sweet songs’, I eventually realised I’d finished it weeks ago but was still listening to it on a daily basis. I’d been transporting myself each day to its own world. And that’s what I love about making these mixes; just for an hour or so, there’s no need to be living in the real world – just put the headphones on, and the best people in the universe are here, making you happy. Thanks again to Jeannie Lynne Paske (http://obsoleteworld.com/artwork/) for the beautiful image, and to Pete Roberts, of Alpha Seven (https://alphaseven.bandcamp.com/), for making an album called ‘Great TV masts of the UK’, as if that was the most natural thing in the world.
