Yu Su’s spidery path across the globe has shaped her work at every step. First there was the humid downtempo she started making in the mid-2010s in Vancouver, inspired by the house music of that city’s legion of stoners and terminal chillers. As the fog lifted over the next few years, you could hear hints of her Chinese upbringing in tracks like “Little Birds, Moonbath,” with its shimmering textures and pentatonic melodies. Su’s debut album, Yellow River Blue, made the connection explicit, inspired by a tour across her home country playing the music she first discovered and developed in Canada. A breakthrough in popularity led to bigger rooms and bigger tunes, Ibiza gigs (and cooking residencies), and an eventual move to London; her DJ sets gradually took a slightly…

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