MIXED BY Boxcutter

Irish experimentalist Boxcutter has always known how to avoid a pigeonhole. His early records—Oneiric in 2006 and Glyphic in 2007—forced indie media to sit up and pay attention, at a time when dance-rock darlings like LCD Soundsystem and The Field were the most experimental items on Pitchfork's menu.

Like Burial or The Bug, Boxcutter rode the dubstep wave out of the UK and into global culture in the mid-2000s, but soon pivoted to newer, weirder, hybrid styles (and frankly, he never made dubstep in the first place).

He has gracefully followed the evolution of underground bass music, departing from IDM-inflected 2-step and garage to dabble in the high-tempo syncopations of footwork and future bass. Meanwhile he's held firm to jazz-fusion chord progressions, sci-fi sound design, and metallic rhythms even as the template has shifted with the tide of the underground.

His Gnosis EP will be out December 16 on Cosmic Bridge Records, a label managed by Om Unit, another label-resistant artist trading in hybrid forms. It will be available on vinyl 12" and in digital format. For now, lucky THUMPers, you can dig into Boxcutter's cache of high-tempo footwork variations in this 40-minute long exclusive mix just for us.

Tracklist:
Beautiful Swimmers ­- New Balance (Max D Remix)
Boxcutter ­- Travel by Dragonfly
EQ Why ­- Chilling
Boxcutter ­- Retina Grains
Boxcutter ­- Neonia
Moresounds ­- Estacion
NameBrandSound ­- System Attic
EQ Why ­- LFO
MachineDrum ­- A New Meaning
Traxman ­- Buddha Muzik
Kode 9 ­- Kan
RP Boo ­- What Cha­Gonna Du
EQ Why ­- 660
Kaidi Tatham & Boxcutter ­- Untitled
Boxcutter ­- Daylight Saving
Dawn Day Night ­- Mister Meaner
Traxman ­- Setbacks
Boxcutter & Star Fu Chimurenga ­- Active Transformation
Boxcutter ­- B Field
The Range ­- The One
Zinja Hlungwani ­- N'wagezani My Love