Photo: Jamen Lee

A few weeks ago, we told you about Soft Metals’ debut EP (The Cold World Melts), “a perfectly mastered slab of white vinyl that sounds like Glass Candy…if they shed their slo-mo disco skin and decided to go for our collective jugular on the dancefloor.”

Said record has quickly become one of our favorite extended players of the year—five tracks that could have easily crept into Mute’s early catalog. Since the Portland-based duo is about to invade New York for a series of live/DJ appearances—including Wierd‘s weekly party at Home Sweet Home tonight and Bruar Falls on Friday—we asked singer/multi-instrumentalist Patricia Hall to pass a Needle Exchange mix this way.

In a rare move, she actually tracked her hour-long mix live, reminding us of what it means to actually blend records properly. Beyond that, Hall also was nice enough to share a soon-to-be-released Chromatics cut and a recent HEALTH remix that didn’t quite make it onto the band’s recent Disco2 compilation. See you near the smoke machine tonight…