Wild City #239: I7HVN

Bangalore's Ishan Gaur aka I7HVN says he wants to play his Wild City mix "in an intimate, dark room". That is rather an apt aim for the abstract works he stitches together on the nearly hour-long mix as a soft pulse underpins a parade of elements that seem to appear out of nowhere, devoid of predictability for most parts. It's a mix that carries the qualities found in the whole of I7HVN's artistic voice – with his latest release, the 6-track EP 'Innate Needs', featuring similar unpredictability though with more hard-hitting grooves underscoring them.

Not quite ambient, though it practices a similar restraint, as it rewards giving attention to its surprising minute details, the mix comes off as a seamless extended composition even as it moves from deep-cut artists from foreign shores to Indian contemporaries of I7HVN like Yidam, Innerworld and Mythopoet alongside the producer's own work.

"The mix is a blend of emotions displayed by human nature, I wanted to portray some elements of experimentalism and forward-thinking aural experiences. Tried to capture a sludgy and brooding mindful experience which I’d love to play in an intimate, dark room." – I7HVN

Listen to I7HVN's Wild City mix below:

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Tracklisting

Zemög - Bululubia
Elin Piel - Skog
Mystic State - Before You Leave
I7HVN - (Unreleased)
AH&N - Leoi Arun
Sam KDC, Flamini - Gaia
Friendly to crows - I watched them all die in the fire
I7HVN, Vishal Unni - Figment
DYL - Interpretare 3
Yidam - Solar Winds
I7HVN - Digital Beings
Innerworld - Vibrations
Notte Infinita - Oxygen
波の上の夢 - 海の静けさの中で
Mythopoet - Reverse Exertion
'T Geruis - l'arrivée d'un visiteur