Music / MixSlava – Dark Arts MixExclusive: The dance artist creates us an unpredictable and visceral new mixShareLink copied ✔️October 30, 2013MusicMixTextOwen MyersPhotographyRebekah Seok Moscow-born, New York-based electronic artist Slava may not be the darkest artist on Software Recording Co., but his mutating, house-referencing music is like a 9-volt battery to the tongue. The fleshy artwork for this year's Raw Solutions album depicted him unzipping his own flesh, and Eugene Kotlyarenko's video for "Girl Like Me" sofly lit dewy teen incest. This new mix moves with the teeth-gritting pace of your favourite body horror, cutting from propulsive house to Moombahton and K-pop, and flirting with R&B from Jhené Aiko and Ashanti. In Slava's hands the familiar is made unsettling, and the present teeters on a knife-edge as he roughly yet painstakingly sketches the future of dance. Tracklisting: Big Bang – "Bad Boy (Intro)"Black Daylight – "Beyonce's Release"Shining Force – "Esperanza"Shaun D – "Dat A$$"Secreto El Biberon – "Pa Que Me Mate El Dolor" (Prod. By DJ Sammy)Physical Therapy – "Million Years Crushed (Allergey Season)"OL – "FRK Edit""Arabski Club"Divoli S'vere x Britney Spears – "Work Bitch (Gaginating Ha Remix)"Walton – "Cool It VIP"Jhené Aiko – "Mirrors"Eve feat. Gwen Stefani – "Let Me Blow Ya Mind (Artistic Raw Bootleg)"Lotic – "Amygdala Hijack"MESH – "Scythians1long"Terror Danjah – "Explode"Rizzla & False Witness – "Baile Tra"Misk – "Silsila Ye Chahat Ka (Bootleg)"Chits – "Custom Hype (Slava Remix)""Black Daylight – "Startrack ReloadedDJ Gutta – "Bad (@Wale) (Jersey Club Remix)"Club Fun (Flubba & Cream Dream) – "Da Fun"Mohegan Son – "Spirit Balm (Broke City Summer Collection)"DJ Richard – "Benzos"Jacques Greene + Tinashe – "Painted Faces"Ashanti – "Movies (Murlo Refix)"Katy B – "What Love Is Made Of (Brackles Remix)"El Alfa – "No Wiri Wiri"GR8 Skin – "Piano Improvisation (C) 2" Escape the algorithm! Get The DropEmail address SIGN UP Get must-see stories direct to your inbox every weekday. Privacy policy Thank you. You have been subscribed Privacy policy Expand your creative community and connect with 15,000 creatives from around the world.READ MORERawayana: How a Venezuelan pop band became political exiles‘Silence is punk as fuck’: Frost Children and Ninajirachi go head-to-headMerrellMerrell 1TRL trades the trail for Shoreditch to launch Moab Slide Woven‘Fast, angry, chaotic’: The story behind the Prodigy’s ‘Firestarter’ video‘There’s been tears’: RZA on the final days of Wu-Tang ClanWhat went down at the beabadoobee Dazed cover signing Kim Gordon selects: What to listen to, watch and read7 of beabadoobee’s greatest collabsPhotos from the Universal Music’s BRIT Awards afterparty in ManchesterPrecious Renee Tucker, the Solange-approved pianist going viral on TikTokK-pop disruptor Effie: ‘Conservatives usually hate my music’ On the funk line: 7 young Brazilians speak on the future of baile funk Escape the algorithm! Get The DropEmail address SIGN UP Get must-see stories direct to your inbox every weekday. Privacy policy Thank you. You have been subscribed Privacy policy