To thank paying subscribers, these posts contain links to DJ mixes that you can download and listen to whenever and wherever you want. I reflect on each mix, explaining the context and my feelings about it then and now.

Hamish from Butter Side Up asked me about doing a mix for this series at the end of April 2020, six weeks into the first lockdown. It’s curious revisiting my messages to him from the time. The first one indicates how quickly the banality of the situation had set in for me – as much a mark of the privileged situation I found myself in as it was of the monotony of a month and a half spent completely alone: