Mix 2: Dance, Dance Refusal
Mixed by Paul Rekret

This mixtape stages a collision between labor, rhythm, resistance, and refusal. It draws on tracks that blur the lines between working and moving, body and beat, compliance and revolt. From the mechanistic pulse of LNR’s “Work It to the Bone” to the militant discipline of Throbbing Gristle and the industrial outcry of Test Dept., this is music that compels motion even as it questions why and for whom we move. The selections shift between histories and geographies: the blues of Jimmy 'Preacher' Ellis and Leadbelly, the ritual songs of West African rice planters, the psychedelic opacity of DJ Assault and Three 6 Mafia’s Southern gothic hip hop, and the ambient explorations of Hiroshi Yoshimura. Each track echoes with the tension of survival and the aesthetic of endurance. This is not a celebration of productivity,  it is an archive of struggle, friction, and the slow groove of defiance. Play it while you work, or refuse to.

LNR - Work It To The Bone
Steve Poindexter - Work That Mutha Fucker
Jimmy 'Preacher' Ellis - Work with what you got
DJ Assault - Work This Big Booty · 
Test Dept. - Gdansk
Autopsia - The Time of Pain and Time of Waiting
Throbbing Gristle - Discipline
Bobby Wright - Blood of An American
Gucci Mane - My Chain (Slugged Out by Slug † Christ)
OJ Da Juiceman - No hook
Three 6 Mafia - Playa Hataz
Hiroshi Yoshimura ‧ Dance PM
Guitar Welch, Hogman Maxey, Andy Mosely, and Huddie Ledbetter -  Take This Hammer
Venolouma · Baka Beyond / Baka Forest People
Sia-weli, women of a rice planting co-operative in Gborola - Rice Planting Song
Canto De Espadela - Evangelina Carballo