Selects: Kai Campos (Mount Kimbie)

Selects: Kai Campos (Mount Kimbie)

Prior to November 2022’s double album MK 3.5: Die Cuts | City Planning, Mount Kimbie hadn’t put out new material since 2017’s Love What Survives. Around that time, Dom Maker departed for LA from London (where he and Kai Campos formed the band in 2008, helping to expand on dubstep’s sound and palette by introducing more musical, electro-acoustic textures and structures). They spent the next few years working on their own music before assembling their fourth LP. “Initially this was just about us collecting some of the things we’d been working on individually outside of the band,” Maker tells Apple Music about MK 3.5: Die Cuts | City Planning. “Then over the course of trying to collate it all, we thought, ‘Hang on, we might have two albums here.’” The two sides are starkly different, with Maker's Die Cuts reflecting the rap and R&B he’d been producing in the US (with the likes of JAY-Z and Travis Scott) and Campos’ City Planning venturing into gritty, woozy techno and IDM. As such, each member of the duo put together their own separate set of Selects—the playlist that showcases a DJ or producer’s favorite tracks of any given moment. “The playlist is a collection of music that represents the more electronic and club aspects of Mount Kimbie,” Campos says. "There's a mixture of older and more contemporary stuff, but I think there's a line through it that connects to our music also. It's certainly connected to my record, City Planning, which was influenced by a lot of the tracks here. The collaboration with Actress, ‘AZD SURF’, was made just before I started working on the record and was a good window into where I was going with it.” Hear all of Campos' Selects below, and check out Maker’s as well.

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