In this edition of German label !K7’s long-running electronic mix series, LA-based crate digger Avalon Emerson delivers a spiraling, introspective compilation that’s perfect for lockdown listening. The DJ/producer is known to infuse her hard-hitting techno sets with breaths of pop, but here, she reverse-engineers the formula: melody, vocals, and atmosphere take the lead while beats bubble up in the background. Emerson opens with her own cover of “Long Forgotten Fairytale,” the 1999 single by The Magnetic Fields, and makes it feel disco-fied and remarkably soulful, tangling her faint vocals with glimmering, neon synths. In a year when every pop star has released their own version of a Robyn dance-floor jam—“crying-in-the-club anthems,” or so they’re called—few have captured the all-together-now gloom that Emerson hits on here. Later on, she lifts out of her solitude for a few moments of release that come in leftfield disco streaks (Soundstream’s “3rd Movement”) and psychedelic funk bops (The Dirtbombs’ cover of A Number of Names’ “Sharevari”—the very DNA of Detroit techno), but the bliss is short-lived. This is 2020, a year of disorienting seclusion and fear—which is perhaps best expressed through her spiritual collaboration with Austra. “We’ll figure it out/We’ll figure it out/We’ll figure it out,” Katie Stelmanis sings in a choir-like echo. “But what if we don’t?”