Rare Species w/ Emackulate

This guest mix, titled Afterglow, from Emackulate is a slow-building swell that moves through distortion, rhythm, and atmosphere. Blending experimental club, ambient heaviness, and emotionally charged cuts, it traces a path through grief, grace, and release. Afterglow unfolds like a lucid dream merging the club with the subconscious. It blurs shifting drum patterns with percussive weight, haunted vocals, and industrial textures, drawing on post-club melancholia and fragmented memory. More than a genre exercise, it’s a mood piece built for wherever you find yourself when the lights are low and the world feels surreal. Bio: Emackulate is the moniker of Eric McAnally II, a multidisciplinary creative work moves between space, sound, and storytelling. Currently based between Los Angeles and Nashville, his approach to music curation reflects a sensitivity to mood, memory, and spatial awareness, often exploring the emotional and atmospheric undercurrents of place. Through mixes and live sets, Emackulate leans into layered rhythm, sonic residue, and the invisible undercurrents of emotional catharsis, expressed through experimental electronic, global textures, and forms that don’t always fit a name.