Early Hours can mean a few different things: Are you winding down after being up all night, or are you just rising to meet the sun? For the LA-based producer Enamour (real name: Michael Gold), who helms this month’s Early Hours, it’s about the gentle come-down—“After a night out when it’s just you and a few close friends, or maybe even a late, lonely night in,” he says. Although Gold initially considered taking his mix in a more expected, after-hours direction (“deep, dance-y and strange”), he decided instead to make it personal and contemplative, exploring a concept he’s been mulling over for years: music for remembering. “I [wanted to] create a space where nostalgia, melancholy and hope coexist, a soundtrack for introspection,” Gold says. “For years, I’ve been curating a playlist of my all-time favourite chill tracks, ones that have shaped me emotionally and still resonate in a powerful way. Most of the songs here evoke specific memories, and putting them together became a trip down memory lane.” Among Gold’s favourite tracks: Washed Out’s “Face Up” (“Timeless and relatable,” he says) and Bonobo’s “Sapien” (“So beautiful and melancholy, with brilliant sound design and composition”). He sees a little of his own sound in Tourist’s “Pieces”, which he describes as a “crunchy collage" of sound. “I love how he introduces the main sample and then slowly chops it in front of you, [eventually] turning it into the hook of the song,” he says. “It’s an ear candy thing that I do in my own work as well.”