Ground Groove is the third album by Los Angeles based producer and DJ Maral, whose bass heavy productions explore her dual identity through the recontextualisation of sound fragments. Maral's latest productions, released via local label Leaving Records, see the Iranian-American artist sampling from her archive of Iranian folk, classical and pop music, then rearranging the fragments in a way that she describes as “dance-floor ethnomusicology”.


This mix, recorded for The Wire, draws on those same ideas. “For the mix,” says Maral over email, “I wanted it to feel like the in between space of being from two different areas of the world – being pulled in both directions. Kind of like walking through the sonic representation of my past and present. Each track has deep emotions tied into it and I tried to convey that in the way I mixed them into each other.”

Ali-Naqi Vaziri “Dashti”
Joe Meek & The Blue Men “I Hear A New World”
Maral “Heart Shimmer”
David Lynch “Seeds Of Electricity”
Captain Beefheart And His Magic Band “Electricity”
Various Artists “Southern Iran: Zekr”
The Breeders “Sinister Foxx”
Maral “That's Okay, Ruin It”
Honey Bane “Girl On The Run”
Maral & Panda Bear “On Your Way”
Burial “Wounder”
Mulholland Drive “Secret Path”
Black Dice “Live At The Wexner Center, 2004”
Maral “Lorestan Reggaeton (عشق Edit)”
Sunny Day Real Estate “Round”
Animal Collective “There's An Arrow”
Mokhtâr Zanbilbâf-Moghadam “Low”
Maral “Low”
Maral “Feedback Jam”
My Bloody Valentine “Feed Me With Your Kiss”
Maral ft Brenna “Shy Night”
Ashanti “Happy”
Hayedeh Nowruz “1989 Broadcast”
Maral “Glimmer's Kiss”
Hayedeh “Amadam”

Read a review of Maral's Ground Groove in The Wire 465. Subscribers can also read the magazine online via the digital library.