Tate Etc. presents MixTate

Listen to DJ mixes inspired by an artwork or artist in Tate’s collection

For the latest in our MixTate series, Cheb Mimo responds to Zineb Sedira’s video work

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Yu Su on Andra Ursuţa

The composer and DJ responds to the interplay of stillness and motion in Andra Ursuța’s uncanny sculpture
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Seun Kuti on Uzo Egonu

Uzo Egonu’s Northern Nigerian Landscape takes the musician and singer back to his own coming of age
Monir Shahroudy Farmanfarmaian, Something Old Something New 1974
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Flower Storm on Monir Shahroudy Farmanfarmaian

Sepehr and Kasra V, the duo behind the music project Flower Storm, see themselves reflected in Monir Shahroudy Farmanfarmaian’s …

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Zakia Sewell on Richard Wilson

The London-based DJ and broadcaster revisits her childhood landscape through the lens of Richard Wilson's On Hounslow Heath
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Maria Somerville on Prunella Clough

The Galway-based musician finds parallels between Prunella Clough’s textured painting and the rocky terrains in the west of Ireland
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Jeffrey Hinton on Adam Farah-Saad

Adam Farah-Saad’s sculpture transports the disco doyen back to nights of mischief, wild dance and Hampstead Heath revelry
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Josh Caffé on Lionel Wendt

The DJ, vocalist and producer is seduced by the anonymous androgyny of Lionel Wendt’s photograph
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Dennis Bovell on Horace Ové

‘The food of love’: the originator of the lovers rock sound echoes the joyful feeling captured in a photograph …

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Don Letts on Horace Ové

A photograph of Carnival by Horace Ové reminds the London-born DJ and filmmaker of a time ‘when sound systems …

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Elena Colombi on Jannis Kounellis

The DJ and producer takes inspiration from Jannis Kounellis's 1993 sculpture, which chimes with their own definition of home
Large photographic print of open ocean: choppy dark grey-green water ridged with small wind-blown waves stretching to a flat horizon beneath a pale overcast sky, with no land or vessels in sight
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TYGAPAW on Wolfgang Tillmans

The artist, producer and DJ responds to turbulent times in their new sound composition inspired by Wolfgang Tillmans’s photograph …

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Jeff Mills on Chris Ofili

Detroit techno legend Jeff Mills creates a mix inspired by Chris Ofili’s mystical watercolour Harvester
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Shcaa on Paul Klee

Paris-based producer and composer Shcaa reflects on the many shades of mystery in Paul Klee’s watercolour
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Helena Hauff on Robert Peake

For the eighth in our series of mixes, DJ and producer Helena Hauff takes inspiration from Robert Peake's Lady …

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HVOB on Helena Almeida

Austrian duo HVOB take inspiration from the serenity and clarity of Helena Almeida’s series Drawing (with pigment) 1995–9
Miro, Composition 1947
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Kara-Lis Coverdale on Joan Miró

Montréal-based composer Kara-Lis Coverdale sees a story of engagement in Joan Miró’s etching
A man in a dark suit and striped tie, his smudged grey face blurred as his mouth stretches wide in a scream, seated inside a sketched box of thin lines against near-black space
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Visionist on Francis Bacon

London-based producer Visionist sees light through the darkness of Francis Bacon’s Study for a Portrait
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Hieroglyphic Being on Wifredo Lam

Chicago-born Jamal Moss (aka Hieroglyphic Being) presents a new piece of music inspired by the work of Wifredo Lam
Video still of a clothed figure plunging into deep water, upside down with legs raised, wrapped in a burst of pale blue bubbles against surrounding blackness
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WIFE on Bill Viola

London-based multi-instrumentalist WIFE takes inspiration from Bill Viola’s Tiny Deaths
Densely packed collage of bright geometric wheels, pie charts and rainbow arcs around a watch face, a red anatomical heart, a nude pin-up, a rocket and an astronaut's head on a television set
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E.M.M.A on Eduardo Paolozzi

London-based producer E.M.M.A creates a mix of her own tracks influenced by Eduardo Paolozzi’s Bash
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Claude Speeed on Matthew Barney

Berlin-based producer Claude Speeed takes inspiration from Matthew Barney’s Cremaster 5
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Jan St Werner on Dieter Roth

Composer and one half of Mouse on Mars Jan St Werner takes inspiration from Dieter Roth’s Two Persons
Unfinished painting of a pale woman holding out a naked baby in a sling of white drapery, a round mirror glowing behind her head like a halo, her dress left as bare canvas with sketched outlines
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FaltyDL on Ford Madox Brown

New York-based producer FaltyDL takes inspiration from Ford Madox Brown’s Take Your Son, Sir
Murky, largely unfinished oil sketch: a skeletal figure sprawls across a shadowy horse-like form, one bony arm outstretched, dissolving into swirling brown and grey mist tinged rust-red at the upper left
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Prayer on J.M.W. Turner

For the ninth mix in our series, experimental producer Prayer takes inspiration from J.M.W. Turner’s The Fall of Anarchy …

Engraved street scene of drunken squalor: a mother lets her baby tumble from her arms over a stair rail, a skeletal ballad-seller slumps nearby, crowds pawn goods and buildings crumble; verses below begin 'Gin cursed Fiend, with Fury fraught'.
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Lixo on William Hogarth

London-based producer Lixo takes inspiration from William Hogarth’s Gin Lane
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Minor Victories on Christopher Richard Wynne Nevinson

Minor Victories’ Justin Lockey approaches The Soul of the Soulless City with dread and wonder
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