Henry Saiz’ Essential Mix debut is a spellbinding journey across the world [LISTEN]
Natura Sonoris owner Henry Saiz set out on his biggest venture yet in summer 2016, launching a Kickstarter campaign to fund his very first audio-visual album. Its immersive concept involved the Spanish progressive magnate and his band traveling to unique and particularly magnifying parts of the globe to record vastly different tracks that incorporated various elements of each location within them. Fans rushed to meet the funding goal, and thus the vision has since come to fruition.
Pete Tong and the Essential Mix caught wind of the LP’s completion, and thus invited Saiz onto the iconic series to show off his world travel concept to the world. Moreover, it was his first appearance ever on Essential Mix, marking a milestone moment that shows off the return of progressive to respectability.
Needless to say, the mix was magic in all sense of the word. Immersive and ethereal, Saiz defied genre boundaries and put forth pure, caliber music for two hours. While his mix wasn’t specifically comprised of songs from his forthcoming LP, it was a veritable sonic adventure that served as an excellent preview of what’s to come. Listeners were taken all around the world, from Berlin, to Saigon, to Joshua Tree, and treated to a vast expanse of sounds from each new region the album “stopped” at.
Each new song was vivid enough in its sonic form to conjure intense mental imagery: didgeridoos fluttered around the background of the Australia-themed portion of the mix, stimulating pictures of Aboriginals. Meanwhile, elegant pianos and brooding melodies created a sonic representation of Europe.
Saiz has created a truly profound journey in his first Essential Mix, and Dancing Astronaut agrees it has the fixings for Mix of the Year.
LISTEN TO HENRY SAIZ’ ESSENTIAL MIX HERE
INTRO
Irene Papas & Vangelis – Les 40 Braves
Danger – 0:59
PART 1: LANZAROTE (CANARY ISLANDS)
Arabs With Synthesizers – Chaotic Illumination
Julia Holter – So Lillies
Pional – A New Dawn
Synkro – Midnight Sun (Helios Remix)
Clap! Clap! – The Holy Cave
Panda Bear – Boys Latin
PART 2: AUSTRALIA
Aphex Twin vs Skrillex – Digeridoo x F**k That (Henry Saiz Bootleg)
Die Orangen – Oodandatta Rain
Luke Million – Come Together
PART 3: DUBAI
Acid Arab – Still (feat. Cen Yildiz)
Viken Arman – Sireli
Mark Eliyahu – Through Me
M.I.A vs Henry Saiz & Band – Exodus x The Golden Cage (Henry Saiz Bootleg) (feat. The Weeknd)
Tentacle – Goliath (Brassica Remix)
The Knife – Marble House (Henry Saiz Edit)
Unknown – Rave Zehava (Autarkic Edit)
PART 4: AFRICA
Plastikman – Ethnik
African Vibration – Hinde
Ariana Grande – Touch It (Hal Incandenza Africa Remix)
PART 5: VIETNAM
College – Love Peas (feat. Hama)
Nym – Come Back
Samo DJ – Tai Po Kau
Arcade Fire – Electric Blue (Henry Saiz Edit)
PART 6: JOSHUA TREE (CALIFORNIA)
Jungle – Smoking Pixels
Die Wilde Jagd – Austerlitz
Black Sabbath – Planet Caravan
Simón Díaz – Tonada de Luna Llena (Billy Caso Edit)
Atom™ – The Sound Of Decay
PART 7: TOKYO
Aïsha Devi – Mazdâ
Susumu Hirasawa – White Hill – Maromi’s Theme
Air – Run
Crystal Castles – Their Kindness Is Charade
Squarepusher – Tomib Help Buss
PART 8: EUROPE
jonnalee- Samaritan
Chelsea Wolfe – The Warden
Brassic – Ballo Dei Morti
PART 8: ARGENTINA & THE ANDES
Danit – Cuatro Vientos
Danit – Cuatro Vientos (Barrio Lindo Remix)
El Búho – Manana Tepotzlan
Los Olimareños – Noche Noche
PART 10: ANTARCTICA
Nine Inch Nails vs FKA twigs – A Warm Place x Closer (Henry Saiz Bootleg)
Vangelis – Theme From Antartica
OUTRO
O Mer – Blind
Henry Saiz & Band – The Golden Cage
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