“This is the kind of mix that works well in the morning to help get your day started,” KeiyaA tells Apple Music about her heady Early Hours DJ mix, which pinballs between contemporary R&B by James Blake and Solange and retro, psychedelic funk from Shuggie Otis and Sly & The Family Stone. “My tastes span a broad spectrum, so I went with songs that best describe my mood right now,” she says. “I’m feeling the Cancer sun and new moon, ego death, rebirth, loss, and lots of deprivation of touch and love. With my sets, feeling comes first.” Although the Chicago-born, Brooklyn-based producer rarely repeats tracks across her mixes, she makes an exception for Arthur Russell’s “Make 1,2,” which she says is both “familiar and unexpected.” Janet Jackson’s 1997 song “Empty,” which also appears here, resonated with her recent headspace. “It’s a classic tune from The Velvet Rope album which thematically talked a lot about ego death, rebirth, sex, and romance, and that’s what I’ve been thinking about heavily lately,” she says.