Four Tet’s BBC Essential Mix Features Britney, Selena Gomez, and a New Track

It’s Monday and it’s freezing so probability states you’re probably feeling a bit shit. That, my sad friend, is OK: we all feel rubbish sometimes, and that is human. It’s also fine because I happen to know about something that might make you feel a bit better, in the form of Four Tet’s first BBC Essential Mix since way back in 2010. It is, happily, a cracker.

Introduced by Pete Tong as an artist who actually needs no introduction, the producer also known as Kieran Hebden leads you through a chilled out, meandering two hours, stopping off at Britney (with a snippet of her much-underrated “Slumber Party”), Selena Gomez (“Bad Liar,” otherwise known as the best pop song recorded in recent memory), Bicep, and the late Ursula K. Le Guin (which, yes). It’s a perfectly curated musical moment, that will lift you out of a Monday malaise as soon as you hear Destiny’s Child’s “Lose My Breath” kick in, to be honest.

Listen to the mix via the BBC here, and feel much, much better.

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