CCL takes a giant dubstep beyond. Credit: Cecilia Corsano-Leopizzi
CCL takes a giant (dub)step beyond.
CCL takes a giant (dub)step beyond. Cecilia Corsano-Leopizzi

International electronic-music authority Resident Advisor placed a mix by Seattle DJ/TUF member CCL (aka Cecilia Corsano-Leopizzi) on its year-end list of best mixes. CCL‘s in stellar company with such major figures as Ricardo Villalobos, Beatrice Dillon, Avalon Emerson, Kyle Hall & Jay Daniel, Donato Dozzy, Yaeji, and Objekt.

The mix itself, HNYPOT 291: CCL’s Ode to Queer Steppas, is a deep survey of dubstep’s off-the-beaten-path peregrinations, its tracks by genre exemplars and outliers such as Shackleton, T++, Urban Tribe, Pinch, Peverelist, Sub Dub, Laurel Halo, Digital Mystikz, and others. This mix is somehow at once chill and ominous, dank and vibrant. Inject it into your veins.

Dave Segal is a journalist and DJ living in Seattle. He has been writing about music since 1983. His stuff has appeared in Gale Research’s literary criticism series of reference books, Creem (when...