The person has apologised and had personal shit, so let's drop it there.

Anyway, I said I had a contingency, and here it is. Because I expected someone to drop out I took the insurance of making my own mix nice and early, and I'd put it up when someone failed on their part. Feels a bit weird to be sharing it so early in the game, but there we go.

Anyway, when I sat down to put this together I got thinking about my own rules. 80 minutes is obviously not enough to play every personal classic and favourite, and so there's always going to be tracks that didn't make the cut. How each player dealt with that task was part of the game's challenge, and fun.

I decided I wasn't going to play what I'd originally planned, which was basically a lot of lush melodic early/mid 90s stuff. You know, the kind of thing I've shared plenty of times already. I can make a mix of that stuff any time without stepping outside my boundaries. So I've put together a mix which shows a very different side of my tastes. It's a lot of tracks that are personal to me - I associate most of these tracks with specific points of my life. But it's a bunch of personal classics I'd never normally play, in the kind of mix I'd never normally share.

Enjoy, and be pre-warned this mix is wonky in everything from genre to EQing...

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Mixes:
> Maximum Elevation [Progressive House]
> DI.FM 26th Anniversary Guest Mix [Progressive House]
> Live @ Dance:Love:Hub London, 11.10.2025
> Higher Peaks [Progressive House]
> Dance:Love:Hub Afterparty (The Return) 23.11.24

Like these sets? Come see me play live at Kibosh in Manchester: https://www.instagram.com/kibosh.mcr/

SYSTEM-J

01. Orbital - Satan
Whichever direction I took this mix, Orbital were always going to be there. This track kicked up a storm when they played it live, and the Butthole Surfers sample makes for a great intro.

02. Palefield Mountain - Theme From PM3
I found this while searching through Stress' back catalogue for old epic house gems. It has an incredibly powerful sound for its tempo.

03. Jay-Z - 99 Problems
Rick Rubin has produced a lot of terrible nu metal in his time, but he also made some wonderful hip-hop/rock hybrids with people like Run DMC and the Beasties. This is my favourite of them.

04. Pendulum - Slam
I know a lot of people hate them, but I still play their first album. Back in 2005 I hammered it all summer and made a dozen copies for friends. Yes it's "accessible", but it's also smartly produced and brimming with ideas.

05. Abba - Gimme! Gimme! Gimme! (A Man After Midnight)
Abba = crap wedding disco, right? One day my friend started raving about Abba Gold and insisted I heard it. Now our official pre-club preparation is blasting this while getting drunk and playing Pro Evolution Soccer.

06. The KLF - What Time Is Love? (Live At Trancentral)
When I was about 16, MTV Dance used to have a late-night show called Back To The Old Skool, and I would stay up into the early hours hearing classic dance records. That's where I discovered The KLF and this track.

07. Phuture - Acid Trax
I don't really need to justify this one, do I? You can mix it with so many things, and everyone knows the original already, so I had fun with it.

08. Madonna - Like A Prayer
My Dad had the Immaculate Collection on VHS, and the video with burning crosses and black Jesus stuck with me. This is probably the track that gave me a love of gospel and blues.

09. M/A/R/R/S - Pump Up The Volume
Hearing Way Out West sample this reminded me how much I love the original. Another one I'm way too young to remember, but thanks to Back To The Old Skool it's still part of my musical youth.

10. Muse - Supermassive Black Hole
I don't like Muse, but I loved this one.

11. 2 Bit Pie - Fly
I missed this by a year or two because I didn't know Fluke had changed their name. I'm a massive Fluke fan, and this is definitely one of my favourites from them.

12. Infadels - Give Yourself To Me
This was used on a phone advert in the UK around 2005, and everyone went nuts trying to figure out who it was. I found out by chance when I saw these guys supporting Faithless.

13. The Future Sound of London - We Have Explosive
Back in 2003 I found myself in the Virgin Megastore in downtown Disney, Florida, staring at an incredible electronic music section. This EP was one of many things I snapped up.

14. Yuzo Koshiro - Fighting In The Street
I'd heard this hundreds of times as a kid in crappy MIDI form, but when my videogame-loving friend at university played the MP3 I was blown away.

15. Supereal - United State Of Love (Aorta Mix)
Guerilla's legendary Dub House Disco series featured stone-cold classics from the likes of Fuzzy Logic, Spooky and Dr. Atomic, but this quirky track is one of my personal favourites.

16. New Order - Blue Monday
We all know it, we all love it, so I'll just play the outro which is my favourite part.

17. Man With No Name - Teleport
And now for some trance. Hold on tight, unicorn lovers. First heard this on Oakie's Perfecto Fluoro compilation and instantly loved it.

18. LSG - Netherworld
This is Oliver Lieb's take on epic trance. Not the first Lieb track I heard by any means, but definitely the one where I saw the hype.

19. Jeff Wayne - The Eve Of The War (Tilt's Red Dawn Mix)
I used to love the album when I was a kid, and it used to scare the shit out of me. This is a great breaks remix from Tilt, but I've only really used the iconic intro.

20. LTJ Bukem - Horizon
I don't give a fuck what Simon Reynolds or anyone else thinks: this is the best drum 'n bass record ever made.


Download Link (Right Click, Save As): http://www.jack-moss.com/ta_classics.mp3

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Mixes:
> Maximum Elevation [Progressive House]
> DI.FM 26th Anniversary Guest Mix [Progressive House]
> Live @ Dance:Love:Hub London, 11.10.2025
> Higher Peaks [Progressive House]
> Dance:Love:Hub Afterparty (The Return) 23.11.24

Like these sets? Come see me play live at Kibosh in Manchester: https://www.instagram.com/kibosh.mcr/

Jay-Z!

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Quarantine Classics Brunello di Montalcino (In Transit) Edition [Progressive Classics] (August 2020)
Quarantine Classics - Puligny-Montrachet Edition [Progressive Classics] (April 2020)
What Is Progressive Anyways? [Progressive House Classics] (November 2019)

Pretty diverse looking tracklist. I'll take a listen.

DLing! Definitely looks interesting.

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LOL, this looks awesome man. Looks like a very fun selection of tracks. Will definitely grab.

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alright

i'm in.

like a prayer is ginger music...you should have went with celebrate

also like a prayer = gospel and blues?

muddy waters and howling wolf are rolling in their graves

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Le Freak - Funk for Cows (pure fat bitch haus..click and free wet naps.)

It's got a very prominent gospel choir in it, Jay. And you know, gospel was the origin of blues music. And I was, like, four years old.

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Mixes:
> Maximum Elevation [Progressive House]
> DI.FM 26th Anniversary Guest Mix [Progressive House]
> Live @ Dance:Love:Hub London, 11.10.2025
> Higher Peaks [Progressive House]
> Dance:Love:Hub Afterparty (The Return) 23.11.24

Like these sets? Come see me play live at Kibosh in Manchester: https://www.instagram.com/kibosh.mcr/

Ah, something new to listen to.

Looks very interesting

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...and I thought I had some musical skeletons in the closet. That mix looks more homosexual than a village people convention; totally not what I expected from you.

Downloading.

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Last edited by Domesticated on Nov-05-2009 at 13:03

quote:

Originally posted by SYSTEM-J 13. The Future Sound of London - We Have Explosive Back in 2003 I found myself in the Virgin Megastore in downtown Disney, Florida, staring at an incredible electronic music section. This EP was one of many things I snapped up.

That happens to be where I bought my first few vinyls

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