This mix is the bakery because we keep serving that freshness. Comprised mostly of rap influences, it spans different tempos, types of rhythms, sound palettes, and moods. We put this together for LA’s Daylight Curfew, a new destination for art, design, and music. Drop by for a full tracklist. (Original artwork by Simon Gardiner.)

Fantasy Thrilla has got an ear for beats and bass. Whether it be the Manhattan-based artist’s own productions or his carefully curated selections, he keeps it fresh. And his mix for Culture System is more live than a five hour energy drink. So whether you’re trying to build up those guns or back up them buns, Thrilla’s got you. From Munchiton and Jersey Club to nextwave juketronika and stateside heaviness, he keeps it knockin. Tracklist after the jump. (Art by Atelier Olschinsky).

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This is some smacked life music. Face that bottle, bump this, and stay fresh music. Young bols outta Jersey, the New Jersey Rebels like to fuck shit up basically. In a haze of treated reality they trade stories about recklessness. You might recognize this beat from Young Zee’s “Drugs”. You know, the one with that crazy video. But it’s a family affair, because Krash from the Rebels is actually Zee’s son. The track came from their new mixtape that dropped this week and features some production by Nadus. (Art by Sebastian Bentler.)

Life asserts it’s dominance as the dashboard crumbles, and a lack of control is embraced. Cocooned in a spiraling satellite orbiting earth’s last day, happy just to have had a chance. Basking in the glow of the navy blue jewel and snow white wisps on one side, soaking up the vibrant glow of humanity’s fire on the other. Flicking through the jpeg album of existence down there, taking the dark side with the bright, feeling both passionately. (Image of the Midwest US with aurora borealis off to the left by NASA.)

Imagine passing a random stoop sale and finding some valuable comic book that a mother is selling for change unwittingly without her son’s knowledge. That’s sort of how we found this song. While trying to download something no longer for sale from a file sharing site, a folder full of Japanese MP3s appeared in our inbox instead. Definitely not the bastardized kuduro that was intended. But gamelan metallophones caught our interest, and it was worth ensuring its intentional use from here on out. Called “Heart of Sword,” this track was masterminded by the Japanese artist Goro Ohmi and featured on an EP never released called Niji Sinden. It’s Halloween music from 1983 that jumps from clasiscal to gamelan to electronic. One of the players featured on the album is named Saptana, a Javanese artist who taught gamelan in Japan during the late 70s and early 80s, according to this study of the music’s life on the island nation. Saptana was also part of one of the first gamelan performance groups in the country, called Lambang Sari. Goro apparently was inspired to write this EP by a comic book of the same name. His interest in animation continued with the anime series Guin Saga, which he wrote and performed the soundtrack for. (Art by Yousef Alshaikh.)