Every summer, our Mental Picks series slows down for its one downtempo chapter of the year — a ritual we come back to each season.

It exists for a simple reason: downtempo is a sound the label boss loves and returns to producing every year, bridging his two aliases, Eddy Romero and Saturnz Other Soul, on a single track.

Around that core, the familiar circle gathers again. ChillOhm returns, several editions deep now. And from Peru, Blu.a is back with a cut of pure, unhurried downtempo. Warm, organic and built for the slower hours.

Whether you catch this every year or you're finding it for the first time, this is what the summer chapter is about.

Only on Expmental Records' Mental Picks Series.