Wild City #241: Hamza Rahimtula B2B Tartaruga

Warehouse Mix, the collective of DJs and other creatives, is one of the very few new faces in India's dance music space that is keeping the word "community" meaningful, building it with a sincere DIY ethos and love for house music. They've received some help from one of the genre's pillaring veterans in the country, Hamza Rahimtula and his Windhorse Records who has also paired with them to create the recurring event AQI.

An abbreviation of "Audio Quality Index", the event sets up high-fidelity sound systems Crashpad Mangar, an eco-consciously constructed space an hour away from Delhi, Gurgaon and Faridabad at the foothills of Aravalli. Alongside Capoeira workshops, slacklining, climbing, and lake swimming, the upcoming edition of AQI on October 12-13 will feature primarily vinyl-only sets by Warehouse Mix, Hamza Rahimtula, Californian DJ Cantos as well as Delhi Sultanate, who will bring along his BFR Sound System and Worldwide.fm's team including the famed selector Giles Peterson while collaborating with Trombonist Chie Nishikori.

To give a taste of the event, Warehouse Mix's Tartaruga and Hamza have shared their vinyl mix from their last AQI event exclusively via Wild City.

With an old-school mixing style, the selections play out in extended sections, getting enhanced and layered by two masters of the fundamentals of DJing. Usually a fun ride with the constant oomph of house's four-to-the-floor beats, selections like Louie Vega's 'Come Away' featuring Kerri Chandler takes an immersed listener to psychedelic places of respite.

"This mix is an excerpt from the 4-hour vinyl set that we played last season at AQI! At this very hour, the sun was going down the Aravalli range and we had the perfect deep/organic sounds to get hold of the dance floor!" – Warehouse Mix

Listen to the mix below:

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