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Innovative strings orchestra Scottish Ensemble share a 10 track playlist of tracks which best embody their musical approach.

Ready for summer? You will be once you’ve thrown on this Carnival inspired mixtape.

Listen to a specially curated playlist by Django Django’s David Maclean of tracks which gave inspiration and influence for the band’s fifth album.

Multi-instrumentalist The Anchoress gives a special insight into her 2021 album The Art of Losing, with a playlist of some of its inspirations.

Queer House Party DJs Harry Gay and Wacha share a special Spotify mixtape of go-to dancefloor fillers.

Akeil Onwukwe-Adamson of Queer Bruk shared this mixtape of favourite tracks ahead of their 2023 Concrete Lates event at the Southbank Centre.

The musician shares a mixtape of tracks from artists whose work she finds influential and inspiring, featuring MONO, Portishead and William Byrd.

Singer, songwriter, producer, guitarist; the talented Dave Okumu looked ahead to his 2022 Meltdown concert with this specially curated playlist.

Ayanna Witter-Johnson, composer, cellist and singer, picks out a selection of her favourite dancehall, soul and RnB tracks to curate this playlist.

Listen to a specially selected mixtape, put together by the original reggae selector David Rodigan ahead of his 2022 Outlook Orchestra gig with us.

Neil Cowley, contemporary pianist and composer, curated this 10-track playlist of music he’d recently liked lately ahead of a 2021 performance here.

The American composer shares a playlist of works which have influenced, or relate to, his 2021 composition Traveler’s Prayer.