Show Notes
Apologies for the late arrival of the May mix. Ironically it was recorded on April 30th's radio show, but as per you the perfectionist in me wasn't 100% happy with the flow and had intentions of re-doing later in the month which of cause didn't happen. However the more I listened to the mix the more I fell in love with it. Now I don't hear any issues or flaws in it! The tunes in the mix really are top shelf. I feel I got lucky when I went shopping on TraxClart because it's rare these days to land a large number of really good tracks. I must give a nod my friend Emma who played on the show earlier in the year. I got the first track on the mix listening to her playing a chill disco set at a swanky bar in Sydney. I'm increasingly finding great tunes when I'm out hearing other DJs sets and Emma's tastes are right up my street so she often has me Shazamming or loitering around the decks when she's spinning. Some of you may also spot that I included Radic The Myth's "Roses" too which featured on Emma's debut show mix. Such a deep smooth track, incredible. I love the flow of the first few tracks especially as it was the first time I'd heard most of them. Not all of the tracks are new releases but are new to my collection. A great example being the late Michael Watford's "Since I Met You", an absolute beast of a tune. The last track also falls into that category - Sandee - Notice Me from 1988! So deep, waaay ahead of it's time, still smashes a dancefloor. Other notable call outs are Groove Committee - I Want You To Know, another track I heard while out. This time it another mate Phil Toke from Soul Of Sydney who played it while supporting Norman Jay. Lastly big shout to DJ Cinthie for putting me onto Ladymonix - Welcome 2 My House. I love dropping that into a set and watching the reaction. I hope you agree it was the right decision to release this mix. I've been enjoying every day for the last two months and it seemed wild that no one else could!
Tracklisting: 1: Gaz, The Reflex - Sing Sing (The Reflex Revision) 2: Louie Vega - Another Day In My Life (Louie Vega Re-Touch) 3: The Philly All Stars - Love Is the Message (Eric Kupper Remix) 4: Warehousz - Warehousz - Todd Terry vs PM Dawn 5: Ten City - That's The Way Love Is (Louie Vega Extended Mix) 6: Dan The Drum, Stuart Patterson - UK House Sermon ft. Carmy Love (Original-E Vocal Mix) 7: Tim Deluxe - JAS 8: The Brand New Heavies - Lets Do It Again (K-Dope Dub) 9: Radic The Myth - Roses (Original Mix) 10: Confidence Man - Holiday (Bruise Remix) 11: Celestial Being, Citizens of the World Choir - Raise The Vibration (Crackazat Mana's Dub) 12: DJibouti - 1962 13: Piem, Richard Earnshaw - Only You (Richard Earnshaw Extended Remix) 14: Linkwood - Nae Drama 15: Milton Jackson - Sub Rosa (Original Mix) 16: Digital Afrika, Cazeaux Oslo - Kings for a Minute 17: Groove Committee, Washerman - I Want You To Know (Washerman Remix) 18: GeeZa - That Groove (Original Mix) 19: Michael Watford - Since I met You (Kerri Chandler Mix) 20: GeeZa - That Groove (Original Mix) 21: Ladymonix - Welcome 2 My House (Original Mix) 22: DJ S-K-T - Get Up (Extended Mix) 23: Block, Crown - I am Ready 24: Risk Assessment - Juicy Smollett (Original Mix) 25: The Absolute, Suzanne Palmer - There Will Come A Day (MARK's Deep Tech Dub) 26: Sandee - Notice Me (Notice The House Mix)
Enjoy!
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Another recording from a gig I played in Sydney. It was a new event for Night Safari on the rooftop at The Sheaf in Double Bay. Myself, Steve Mack and Tolga Diga were the DJs playing from 6pm to 1am. It had been a beautiful warm day and it stayed above 26 degrees for the whole event. Tolga opened up and got us underway. The mix starts with Tolga's last couple of tracks of his first set. Steve began his first set around the nine minute mark. My first set begins around the 30 minute mark with Detroit Swindle's Monkey Wrench. My first set was a pretty chilled affair on the soulful deep side. I mixed it up with tunes from the last 20+ years. Steve's second set starts around 1hr 35m. Towards the end of his set Steve played a few of his own productions, remixes of tracks you may recognise. He raised the tempo and intensity as he handed over for my final set which starts around 2hr 42m. Check out Steve's tracks on Soundcloud (https://on.soundcloud.com/4hO2bPZLi5Sfboj6av). I opened my second set with a classic from 94 that I'd heard Ellis Mia play in one of his reels the morning before (https://www.facebook.com/reel/1575656207638393). Memories came flooding back and I went hunting for it. Another DJ, Cameron in a Sydney DJ WhatsApp group I created had it on vinyl and ripped me a copy the afternoon of the gig. I couldn't wait to play it. If you haven't already I would recommend creating a chat group for DJs in your city to support each other. My second set is straight up house from the last 35 years, so much fun to play. Most of it was lost on the younger people in the crowd, but they gotta start somewhere! This recording ends towards the end of the set, you'll need to wait for pt2 to hear the rest along with Tolga's final set that took us through to close. We will be doing this gig on a monthly basis so look out for future recordings. For now sit back and enjoy our summer rooftop session.
For this weeks radio show I played my two VBW sets from 2018 and 2019 into one two hour show. I also finally got to fix a screw up from the 2019 set when I accidentally stopped the wrong deck on the first transition! I was mortified at the time and it took a few tracks to get out of my head and back into it. I also extended the end of the 2019 mix so the last track plays in full. Both mixes are very tight as I tried to cram as many tunes in each as possible. There are at least 35 tracks in this session as a result I reckon.
This is the recording of a set I recently played at Lilly's Bar in Brookvale on the Northern Beaches in Sydney. The first 40 minutes are the excellent Lili Joy who the bar is named after. It's actually a gin distillery and bar. The dancefloor has a really high ceiling and the walls are covered in barrels of gin! It's a heavier mix, only the first three tracks are soulful, the rest are deeeeep. ✊🏾
It's always nice to turn back the clock and cherry pick some of the tracks that defined a particular year. Surprising to hear how much the sound and style either has or hasn't evolved. This time we go back five years to 2011. Since this was recorded in April we stick to the first half of 2011. Auditioning tracks for the mix was tough, so much deep soulful quality from the likes of Atjazz, Maya Jane Coles and the Reel People label. Hopefully some of the tracks take you back to the not so distant past and refresh happy memories locked away and triggered by a song. This is a recording of the c2eMusic show on Pressure Radio on 28th April 2016.
A Masters At Work session. Sounds like such an obvious choice but i's 20 years since the last one! The previous two were both curated (to within an inch of their lives!) so the tunes were packed in with shorter transitions. This is a radio show session so tend to play the tracks in full, let them breath and be heard as intended. There are some tracks from the last two MAW Sessions but plenty of tunes that have come since, mainly from Louie. Plenty to sing along to, it's hard to go wrong with MAW, so much quality to chose from.