Mahssa is a light. She’s the one shining rays into those zones you can’t see with the naked eye. She digs below the mountain and hones in to show us the secret sounds stashed beneath shields of obscurity. Enjoy this session featuring Mahssa’s favorite songs of 2011. She is the glow to guide you.

RAIME – Told and Collapsed – Hennail – Blackest Ever Black
YOUNG HUNTING – Embers From the Pyre – Blackest Ever Black
*ACANTHUS – Le Frisson Des Vampires – Funerailles Des Vampires – Finders Keepers Records (vinyl 2011)
ANDY STOTT – New Ground – Passed Me By – Modern Love
BYETONE – Telegram -Symeta – Raster Norton
SOLYST – The Swell – Solyst – Bureau B
ICEAGE – White Rune – New Brigade – Dais Records
VUM – Echo Mountain – Nightsun – Secret Lodge Recordings
*WIPERS – Warning – Silver Sail – Jackpot Records
MOON DUO – Goners – Mazes – Sacred Bones
*KARL O’CONNOR (REGIS) – A2 – White Savage Dance – Downwards
JONAS REINHARDT – Hander Zader – Music For the Tactile Dome – Not Not Fun
*YOU – Zero Eighty Four – Electric Day – Bureau B
DEMDIKE STARE – Unction – Elemental Pts 1 & 2 – Modern Love
ALVA NOTO – Uni C – Univers – Raster Norton
CHRIS WATSON – The Signal Man’s Mox – El Tren Fantasma – Touch
SILENT SERVANT – Mad Youth – Hypnosis In the Modern Age – Sandwell District
THE CARETAKER – A1 – An Empty Bliss Beyond This World – HAFTW
*GOOGOOSH – Ma Beham Nemiresim – Googoosh – Finders Keepers Records

*denotes a reissue

Artwork credit: Andy Votel