Freerange Records In The Mix 043, Palm Skin Productions: 30 Years Of Freerange (DJ Mix)

Simon Richmond, pka Palm Skin Productions, helms this June 2026 edition of the In The Mix series, evoking memories of his early days with Freerange Records as the renowned label celebrates its 30-year history. “When I started releasing tunes on Freerange, I was playing in The Bays, touring, and DJing a fair bit with Jimpster,” Richmond tells Apple Music. “We’d end up playing in all manner of places—rooms and sounds I’d not encountered much before, when I was DJing as a Mo’ Wax artist.” Comprised of fresh, modern cuts from Posthuman, Jimpster, Kink, and more, this set—as Richmond tells it—is engineered to honor a specific moment in time rather than an attempt to recreate it. “I wanted to use this selection of tracks to convey a sense of the feelings I had back then, when we’d turn up at new venues and events, wandering from room to room as the night went on,” he says. “It’s a rough-and-ready tumble through different moods, as those nights (and mornings) so often were…”