Yu Su's place in music feels charmingly larger than the world of contemporary club culture. Her rural roots in central China and a classical piano education preceded a conversion to electronic dance music after attending a rave in Vancouver during college. These biographical details combine with her no-nonsense confidence and dedication to craft, resulting in a sonic presence that effortlessly expands beyond the fractals of an increasingly niche electronic music scene. “Fundamentally, because I don’t come from an electronic music background, I don’t actually know much about dance music—so I approach it more from a musician’s perspective,” she says.

Yu's mix is a mid-tempo ride where unexpected sounds tangent: Bollywood covers and steel pedal guitar filigrees blend seamlessly. The immediate memory is of a dubbed-out montage touring the gorgeous freak terrains of the Fourth World. The cover and tracklist mirror this: the restrained, contemporary refinements of Josh Finklea's Post Grotesk and Centra Mono are set alongside the futuristic rave-outs of Marc Rouault's Doss family, while a bold solid lines of color sit atop the grey-scale of an ASCII-textured background.