While DJ mixes are some of the best ways to discover the sounds of dance music, that doesn't mean dance music DJs
only want to play dance music. Case in point, UK garage legend
MJ Cole. For his new
Solid Steel set, he went left: "I weaved and meandered through my collection of not Dance Music," he told them, "and bound it together to form and hour of pianos, textures, voices and audio nuggets which together make my Solid Steel mix."
Featured in
this set is material from
Lapalux,
Floating Points,
Radiohead,
Bonobo, and Cole himself. Stream, download, and chill out below.