Right, managed to get mine done. Since I suggested the concept, seems only fair I should be the first into battle. Other people may decide to do terraces or forest raves. I've gone for a straight up underground club: low ceiling, DJ at eye level, 300 capacity crowd. While I was mixing, I had in my imagination places like the Soup Kitchen in Manchester - which is the shown in the artwork - Headrow House in Leeds or The Williamson Tunnels in Liverpool, where I've had the pleasure of seeing DJs like Andrew Weatheral play open-to-close sets many times over the last few years. These smaller city centre clubs are increasingly pinched by licensing laws and sound restrictions, so 10am - 4pm or even 9pm - 3am opening hours are quite common in these smaller venues, rather than 6am or 8am finishes you get in former industrial spaces. I associate the six hour set length with those kind of venues and those kind of nights, getting in the club as soon as it opens and watching someone like Weatherall steadily build the vibe.
Of course, there is an element of fantasy in all of this, because this was recorded in my living room with no crowd in front of me. I've found when a big name DJ does warm up for themselves, the club tends to be fill up a lot quicker than if a local resident is warming up, and I imagined the same privilege for myself. Even so, the club will rarely fill up fully before midnight, and so I tried to keep things realistic. For the first fifteen or twenty minutes I was imagining a club with maybe 10 or 20 people in, most of them still circulating between the bar, the cloakroom and the toilets, others nodding their heads in the middle of the floor and feeling out the sound system. The biggest challenge was keeping a lid on things in these early stages of the set. I've seen some big DJs play this kind of set and take the energy up too quickly - sometimes getting pretty banging after just an hour or so. I tried to hold things back as much as possible before the 2 hour mark when the clock would be hitting midnight and the vibe was ready to shift up a notch.
I had a pretty clear plan of the set beforehand, especially the opening, but once I was in the flow I did change things in a few places, going with my gut over a pre-planned tracklist. I haven't put out a recorded mix for about six months, so most of these tracks have been regulars in my sets for most of the year, and it was quite easy to keep things going. The early part of the set is very much deep, melodic and spacey prog. Getting into peak time there's some tougher tech house, quite a liberal sprinkling of acid and some big euphoric anthems, hopefully all in the right places. The end of the set is more feel-good, for those dancers who survived right to the end. You might say this is business as usual from me, with no big stylistic surprises. I deliberately didn't want to get showy, mixing all sorts of eclectic stuff I'd never normally play. This is how I'd really do it.
The set was recorded in one take in Traktor, on the evening I made the previous post. I just hit Record and had a go. I was conscious quite early on that things were flowing very nicely and I could nail it in the first go. It got to about 2 hours in and it occurred to me I had to keep this up for another four hours. It was a mixture of elation and sheer terror I remember well from when I ran a real marathon: "Shit, this is going really well, but I've still got so far to go." Luckily I managed to get to the end without fucking anything up badly enough to scratch off the recording. I've split it into three parts for ease of digestion, but other than that the recording is exactly how it came out of Traktor.
All Night Long: 2018
PART 1:
01. James Monro - Modular (Hot Tuneik Remix) [Yin]
02. Desyfer - Fourteen 45 [Tactal Hots]
03. Hot Tuneik - Close Encounters [Dopamine]
04. Navar - Exposeur [Sudbeat]
05. Armen Miran - Nani Jan [Sol Selectas]
06. Some Little Things - Allegra [Sudbeat]
07. Padai - Colada [Hydrogen]
08. Kostya Outta - Audio Mix 2 Final 2 [Balkan Connection]
09. Navar - You Find (Dmitry Molosh Remix) [Replug]
10. Lanvary - Akyoomen [Particles]
11. Daniel Glover - A Different Kind Of Space (Dmitry Molosh Remix) [Emotional Content]
12. Matter - Pronoia [Balkan Connection]
13. Kris Davis & Yost - Relentless (Martin Roth Remix) [Constant Circles]
14. Gabriel Ananda - Schnee (Stefano Richetta Remix) [Click]
15. Nicholas Rada - Tempelhof (Dmitry Molosh Remix) [Sound Avenue]
16. Audiojack - Reverie [Crosstown Rebels]
17. Antrim & Analog Jungs - Time To Words [Sound Avenue]
18. Sam Paganini - Survive [JAM]
PART 2:
19. Karmon - Acido [Diynamic]
20. Interaxxis - Thor [Movement]
21. Danny Serrano & Forrest - Transitions (Ramon Tapia Remix) [My Favourite Freaks]
22. Dave Seaman - Voodoo Disarray [Selador]
23. Dee Montero - Fugazi [Selador]
24. Dave Seaman - Hired State Of Unconsciousness [Selador]
25. Damon Jee & Snem K - Dear Humans (DEMIAN Remix) [Rotten City Files]
26. Oliver Schories - Ohm (Ramon Tapia Remix) [SOSO]
27. F.E.M - White Knight [Brique Rouge]
28. Andrea Bertolini - Foliage 1 (Magitman Remix) [Beat Boutique]
29. Cid Inc - Shifter (Orsen Remix) [Soundcloud]
30. Dance 2 Trance - Hello San Francisco (Cid Inc Remix) [Soundcloud]
31. DEF Mike - Kenzo [Moodmusic]
32. Groove Armada Feat Will Young - History (Still Going Remix) [Ministry Of Pies]
33. Hardfloor - Analogue Bubbletea [Hardfloor]
34. Ambitus - Aconite (Hardfloor Remix) [MzZ]
35. Henry Saiz - White Rhythmic Mirror (Marc Marzenit Remix) [Natura Sonoris]
36. Diamond Dealer - Hungry Little Monster [Bedrock]
37. Steve Parry - 303 V [Selador]
38. Hidden Identity - Red Sun [KMS]
39. Maceo Plex & Maars - Mutant DX [Correspondant]
40. Subandrio - Fugue State Of Mind [Sudbeat]
41. Gaston Ponte - Cube (Analog Jungs Remix) [Clinique]
42. Maydan - White Gold [Sudbeat]
PART 3:
43. Noir - Bataille [Tronic]
44. Revolt - Dive Into The Deep [Choo Choo]
45. Mohey - Due East [Besworx]
46. Cristoph Feat Jem Cooke - Feel [Pryda]
47. Rick Pier O'Neil - Feel The Beat (Subconscious Tales Remix) [Suffused]
48. Simon Berry & Luke Brancaccio Feat JDD - Close Your Eyes [Bedrock]
49. Thomas Schumacher - Wake Up [Electric Ballroom]
50. Maya Jane Coles - Won't Let You Down (Paride Saraceni Remix) [I/AM/ME]
51. Cid Inc - Abyss [Replug]
52. Vince Watson & Kirk DeGiorgio - Rise [Suara]
53. Paride Saraceni Feat Monce - Burning [TRUESOUL]
54. Hot Since 82 Feat Jem Cooke - Buggin' [Knee Deep In Sound]
55. 16 Bit Lolitas & Glowfield - 6 O'Clock (Davi Remix) [Bits And Pieces]
56. Schiller - Das Glockenspiel (Humate Remix) [Data]
57. Quivver & Cristoph - In Name Only [Selador]
58. Danny Howells - Isolar [8Bit]
59. The Disco Evangelists - De Niro (Agoria Remix) [Positiva]
60. Nikko.Z - Sungazing (Blood Groove & Kikis Remix) [Particles]
61. Karim Sahraoui - White Horse [Compost]
62. Size Pier - On Stage (F.E.M Remix) [Bluelephant]
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Mixes:
> Back To Deep [Deep Trippy House]
> Terra Nova [Modern Progressive Trance]
> Rough & Ready [Modern Trance]
>A Different Energy [Good Modern Trance]
> The Edale Mix [Panoramic Beats]
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