Prior to November 2022’s double album MK 3.5: Die Cuts | City Planning, Mount Kimbie hadn’t put out new material since 2017’s Love What Survives. Around that time, Dom Maker departed for LA from London (where he and Kai Campos formed the band in 2008, helping to expand on dubstep’s sound and palette by introducing more musical, electro-acoustic textures and structures). They spent the next few years working on their own music before assembling their fourth LP. “Initially this was just about us collecting some of the things we’d been working on individually outside of the band,” Maker tells Apple Music about MK 3.5: Die Cuts | City Planning. “Then over the course of trying to collate it all, we thought, ‘Hang on, we might have two albums here.’” The two sides are starkly different, with Maker's Die Cuts reflecting the rap and R&B he’d been producing in the US (with the likes of JAY-Z and Travis Scott) and Campos’ City Planning venturing into gritty, woozy techno and IDM. As such, each member of the duo put together their own separate set of Selects—the playlist that showcases a DJ or producer’s favourite tracks of any given moment. “These are some songs that I’ve been listening to whilst making Die Cuts and some that made it onto that record,” Maker says of his selections. “‘Dvd (feat. Choker)’ is the opener to Die Cuts and is made up of a bunch of samples I chopped from a sick Duval Timothy/Sampha improvisation. ‘Somehow She’s Still Here (feat. James Blake)’ was originally written for JAY-Z’s 4:44—it’s one of the first things me and James made together.” Hear all of Maker’s Selects below, and check out Campos’ as well.