From the first track your shoulder will be poppin’, your feet tappin’ and your body ready for a rhythmic rinsing. With a self described ‘collision of melodic hybridity’, Rayvenn D’Clark has given us a melting pot of smooth, indulgent melodies. Much like this MIX, her work chronicles the exalted re-evaluation of the black biology – an arbitration between three-dimensional processes and handmade developments. With blaring baselines paired with softer harmonies like fine wine and cheese, you’re in for a classy listen. While Oshun is “stuck here with feelings from the past, feelings for my last”, Billie Ellish questions the topic of irresponsible recreational drug use with a dirty bass synth and Solange serves us commentary on racial micro-aggression masquerading as a compliment…Don’t touch her hair! Buckle up for some bangin lessons and boogie undertones as Rayvenn pivots from track to track. Working in an abstract realm of traditional aesthetics, resulting in a self-referential questioning allowing her viewer to break free into a hybrid realism. Her MIX does the same, granting us a free pass into self-sustaining, authentic good times. In ‘Holy Terrain’ we search for a lover we all deserve before transporting back to 1996 and Des’ree’s ‘I’m Kissing You’, written for Baz Luhrmann’s Romeo & Juliet. Brownstone closes the MIX with the absolute tune ‘Grapevyne’. A sexy, soulful symphony of sheer goodness. Lord have mercy!

Play this MIX wherever you go, just like Rayvenn. Let it permeate your senses with the necessary energy to explore the ether.