Okay, today’s track of the day is a very long track – a bit over 45 minutes, actually. That’s because it’s comprised of many tracks – it’s tastemaking/shapeshifting DJ supreme Mary Anne Hobbs set at the most recent Sonar festival (where she was followed by Joker) – you can download it here courtesy of Brainfeeder, as well as a track-listing of her ace selection of forward thinking, bass booming, speaker thrashing, genre-exploding grooves.
There’s a reason Hobbs’ new Sonar mix is blowing up at blogs and got twitter all a-twitter (we discovered it via a tweet from Boreta of the mighty Glitch Mob). Thanks to her mucho influential BBC radio show, revolutionary artists like Kode9, Burial and Flying Lotus are not only getting discovered, they’re being embraced by wide numbers of people who might not be expected to get down to such challenging, head-expanding grooves; listening to her on the radio is a guaranteed way to be up to date on the freshest, glitchiest beats. Most of all, Hobbs’ sets get crowds moving, but don’t insult punters’ intelligence – but nor are they po’- faced and grim and beardy a la IDM: it’s clear for Hobbs when she plays she finds the future in the funk, and vice versa.

um and yeah, she’s a biker chick for real ! but more on that next time