Music To Drink Tea To - 002 - Louis McCoy (Inner Varnika)
We're elated to present the second instalment in our Music To Drink Tea To mix series, designed to accompany your tea drinking debauchery.
This is a very special entry from Birrarang-ga/Naarm local, Inner Varnika founder, and all-round music legend Louis McCoy. Louis also curates the fantastic and much-loved mix series on Soundcloud, For Home Use Only. If you need one to start with, our favourite is #30.
In this mix, you'll find over 3 hours of saucy, soulful, trippy tracks. We recommend you load up a pot of your strongest raw pu-erh tea, hit play, and go somewhere special.
From the maestro themselves:
"I've been subconsciously compiling this mix for years now, but it's made a lot more sense during the last 6 months. I think it's important to remember to feel something, whether it is pure joy or overwhelming melancholy, I wanted to cover both aspects in this and everything in between. A lot of the music in this mix really means a lot to me, from my mother's jazz influences to my teenage years on a strict diet of emo trip-hop. I wanted to make a soundtrack from literally putting the kettle on first thing on a cold Sunday morning to hopefully take you through to a semi-productive day in the kitchen with someone you love. To be honest, just enjoy it, any way you can." — Louis McCoy
Listen via Soundcloud
About the Artist
Louis McCoy, aka hndsm, possesses an audio résumé and reputation as a selector and curator that certainly does precede him. A founding member of the Inner Varnika Music festival and organiser of the now defunct yet legendary Out of Focus parties along with his present day involvement with the burgeoning Common Ground platform and newly established mix series, For Home Use Only, Louis over the many years of playing and holding events has etched out his own audio space in the collective memory of Melbourne’s dance community, quickly becoming a principle mainstay and purveyor of fine bounce espousing the principles of groove and flavour.
Website: www.watartists.com/louis-mccoy
Soundcloud: @louis_mccoy and @for_home_use_only
Instagram: @louis__mccoy
