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ellens-shit-list asked: Just posted finally :) thanks for being a follower :) couldn't do it without my... two fans... heh :p

Any time…you’re sardonic tone kind of makes my loins swell. Seriously though, you need some more followers. It’s a god damn tragedy.

A compilation of block rocking beats

I love electronic music. Seriously, I love it with an absolute passion. Make fun of it, you know, because your taste in music is obvioulsy better than mine. You listen to all the bands no one cares about or has never heard of. Clearly obscurtity means cool, right? I listen to everything actually, but my love lies with electronic.

Why do I love electronic? Well let me tell you a story. It was 1997…or was it 1998? It was some time between 97’ and 98’ when a friend said “dude you have to hear this guys called Crytsal Method”. I was llike “word. that’s a dope ass name, lets check it out.” I listened and I became obsessed immediately. What were these cool digital sounds, samples, vocals, and thumping bass lines? I had to hear more.

So I listened to everything. Everything. Nothing was off limits, so I listened to Downtempo, progressive trance, progressive house, chicago/NY house, Lounge, chillout, trance, vocal trance, goa-psy, DRUM AND DUTTY BASS (one of my favorites), breakbeat, dance, and anything I left out. My late 90’s early 00’s faves were Oakenfold, Deep Dish, Danny Tenaglia, Ak1200, Goldie, Fatboy Slim, Sasha and Digweed, Tiesto, BT, DJ Micro, George Acosta, Carl Cox, Ferry Corsten, and much more.

I went to shows and became enamored with the DJ culture. I immersed myself in it, then I said “Fuck this…I wanna mix”, 14 years and $3800 later I have a gorgeous little rig. Have I played live shows? Um yea dude, only like 10 house parties with 20-50 people. I was a monster. I didn’t care, I just wanted people to hear it, move, and fall in love with it.

So I mixed, mixed, and mixed some more. I got better. I mastered track manipulation and effects. I learned the TRUE importance or BPM regulation, the trick to true beat mixing, and the incredible importance of track selection. Setting the mood and tempo of the evening is what being a DJ is really all about. You are the composer of a baniging ass party.

As a DJ you are the one makin the ladies make love to the dance floor and crafting an evening of fun, pleasure, and enjoyment. You create the evening they won’t shut the fuck up about. You are the motha fuckin DJ. So what brought this random post about? I was listening to Carl Cox’s 50 minute live stream on Soundcloud and I thought “I need to mix house. I want to mix house. I need to get back to mixing in general. I miss it.”

I dusted off the Numark’s, the pioneers, the copper tips, plugged in the JBL studio speakers, and started compiling a set list. I just needed a tool to test drive these tracks, hell, maybe even get some feedback. Spotify is the shit and everything else is shit. So i have put together maybe the first two hours of what will most likely become a three hour set. There was just too much good music and house is soooooo fun.

House music is THE club music, and I love that about it. So I start the set off with a lounge feel with the Basjam Remix of ‘It’s You” by The White Lamp then flow into a vcious trip of Deep house. I then bring the uplifting dance floor tracks with the help Gareth Emery, George Acosta, and Tiesto (all progressive influenced tracks with just the right tinge of Trance) followed by a trio of dance/house vocal anthems to get bodies moving, and then a crescendo of incessant bangers. I’m talkiing FILTHY tech and progressive house for 45 minutes straight.

I then bring things down a notch and close the set with the ‘The Night Out’ - A-Track Vs Martin Rework, which is a gorgeous note to end on. I’m still working on the final pieces to the set, and Spotify has been an amazing tool in developing this project. I’m trying to find a way to share my final versions of this set properly mixed. I’m going to leave a link to the playlist.

Listen to it in order with gapless playback on and crossfade set to about 9 seconds to get an idea of the mix I’m going for. Keep in mind these tracks would work in an actual session with the rig at my disposal and some tracks are pre-mixed. Also, some of the extended versions of these tracks are unavailable on spotify. Assume I would have the right versions. This is simply to give you an idea of what I’m trying to do. Must be a Spotify premium user dude bros

Electeonic Playlist