Show Notes
So last month I started the annual classics series with the 2005 mix. This week I flipped it round and did a mix based on the month I bought the music. Since it's July that's the month I went with. I have done this a couple of times on Pressure Radio with a Junes and Decembers mix. It's fun and helps you reconnect with older music you may not have heard for years. When I started the mix and looked in my music folders I realised that July isn't a common month for me. Up to 2017 I have most years covered all the way back to 2005. In fact July 2005 is my oldest digital track. However in recent years I have been overseas in July , usually at Suncebeat and therefore don't buy music until I get back in August. As a result a lot of this mix is from pre 2015/6. Not that you can tell of course, unless you know when certain tracks were released. I tried to keep a pretty chill vibe for the majority of the mix. Not something I'm used to doing, but for the most part I think I did a pretty good job! It was never going to last the whole mix though and so in the last 30 minutes I let off some steam. Have to say July has some absolute bangers so the end of the mix is strong like Ox.
For those of you in Sydney - tickets now available to my inaugural Classics event which will hopefully become a quarterly thing. First one is at Gitano in Double Bay on August 8th. I've been lucky to land Simon Caldwell and Jerry Drew to play alongside myself. The first event is all about the early 90's house scene. >>>>>>>>>Grab Tour Tickets<<<<<<<<<
Tracklisting: 1: Jill Scott - Coming To You (Terry Hunter & Mike Dunn Soulfrica Mix) 2: DJ E-Clyps - Red Velvet 3: Bodhi - Haute 4: Dave Anthony, Aleysha Lei of Hanlei - I Feel For You (N-Dinga Gaba Remix) 5: Martino - Supernova 6: Maurice Joshua - I Can't Understand 7: Ashley Beedle - The Rising Sunz (Sunrise) 8: Jafar & Touch ft Rich Medina - Undeniable Truth (Roots Mix) 9: Charles Webster ft Diviniti - Learning To Love Me (P's Deep Soul Mix) 10: Donea'o - I (Sean McCabe Mix) 11: The True Rebels - True Rebels 12: Melchyor A - Juicy Farm (Melchyor A's hmida Mix) 13: Gregory Porter - 1960 (Opolopo Kick & Bass Rerub) 14: Tarantulaz ft Tiffany Loren - I Wasn't Kidding (Vocal) 15: Roberto Rodriguez (Manolo) Max C - Lies (Kyodai Remix) 16: Kink - Valentine's Groove 17: Fei Fei - So Yeah 18: Sidney Charles - Going Down 19: Kink - Strings 20: Creative Violence - Reprise Tha Dred 21: Motor City Drum Ensemble - Raw Cuts (Recloose Mix) 22: Seven Grand Housing Authority - I Wanna Go Higher (spiritual 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.