GGHQ Mix #56 : Abigail Ward "An Unfortunate Kink" Mix by GGHQ (Going Good Records HQ)

Well, this one's a bit good! Mix #56 is here and we're excited to present it:

Abigail Ward is a queer DJ, artist and musician from Lancashire, UK. She's a close family friend of us here at GGHQ, and we're psyched to have this blinding mix from her to share.

She thrives on creating absorbing multi-genre musical road trips that are guaranteed to elicit an emotional response, be that on a dancefloor, at an art gallery or in your headphones. Twelve years as a counter jockey in Manchester’s best-loved independent record shops, Piccadilly Records, Vinyl Exchange and Kingbee, inspired her open-eared eclecticism. Abs is a well-schooled crate digger, she excels at stitching together oddball tunes from disparate sources and is not afraid to slice up tracks in software in pursuit of the perfect audio collage.

Her abiding musical passions include rare soundtracks, krautrock, deep soul and reggae, and she is equally at ease banging out underground house in a sweaty club, or live-streaming an ambient set from her studio in Hulme. The thread that runs through all of her musical selections is a sense of mystery, melody and a certain voodoo groove. Abigail is a co-founder of Suffragette City, an annual large-scale club event celebrating female, trans and non-binary DJ talent, which raises funds for local grass roots charities.

Luke Unabomber(Electric Chair, Homoelectric, Homobloc) described her thus:
‘She’s like a young Mancuso. Her selections are insanely magical. She’s got that thing. You can’t contrive that or buy or replicate it. It’s deeply esoteric and natural and perfectly balanced. One of the unsung heroes.’

Find out more about Abs here:
https://soundcloud.com/harlem-nocturne
http://terminaljive.com/