A mixtape made as a real object
This edition began as a cassette sequence rather than a polished broadcast. The material was transferred from tape with only modest edits between selections, preserving the uneven edges and side-break logic of the original listening experience.
Yellow Swans framed the mix around music they returned to at home: pieces with shadowed tones, unexpected melodic turns and a sense of weathered space. The result does not settle into one genre. Instead, it lets contrasting records share the same room.
The selection followed a camping trip and a long conversation about local music, listening habits and the tendency to gravitate toward darker sounds. That context remains useful, but the mix itself is more varied than any single description: a patient, personal trail of songs and fragments made for close attention.