STORE MIX 115: SUUTOO

Multidisciplinary artist SUUTOO invites listeners into a world where sound, myth, and ritual intersect. Known for creating sonic landscapes that challenge conventions and embrace transformation, SUUTOO’s latest LN-CC Store Mix 115 conveys a powerful and emotive energy, combining surrender with rebellion. This mix is a complex blend of moods and textures, reflecting an artist deeply engaged with themes of refusal, emancipation, and freedom. As SUUTOO finalises their upcoming EP, this mix offers an urgent and revealing glimpse into their evolving artistic practice and invites listeners to experience a unique journey of sound and meaning.

Your practice is rooted in world-building and the poetics of refusal. What kind of world does this mix inhabit, and what might it be resisting?

These are the sounds of an emo, raging optimist. Not resisting but surrendering to the noise. Learning to trust the process.

Sound is central to your work as both medium and message. How do you approach sonic composition as a form of transformation?

I think it’s impossible to avoid transformation in sound; it’s literally vibrations made audible, reshaping us both individually and collectively. God is a DJ, life is a dance floor! You can’t escape her reach. You have to surrender.

Trickstery and emancipation are recurring themes in your practice. Are there moments in the mix that intentionally disrupt or challenge the listener?

Loool, the Cortisa Star pull up for sure. Disruption is my T, tbh.

You move fluidly between sonic, visual and poetic forms. If this mix had a visual counterpart, what would it look or feel like?

It would feel like going at 190 km/h but in slow motion, euphoria tinged with a healthy dose of being reminded of your mortality. Like standing in the eye of the storm, just before you’re pulled through it, skies lit up orange.

Do you consider this mix to be a narrative, a mood, a ritual or something else entirely? How do you imagine people engaging with it?

The mix is definitely a thousand moods and more, a nonlinear, cacophonous play on narrative and mood swings. I imagine people slowing down, speeding up, getting cute, pre and post, reflecting, getting dolled up and down, working out or getting worked out — whatever they feel like.

What does this mix reveal about your current artistic preoccupations, and what directions are you interested in exploring next?

That I’m eager to dance, stomp, rage, and whine. I’m finalising my EP, and I guess there are clues of that in there — ready to set myself ablaze for all to see.