This week - Techno

Featuring plenty of acid and ending on one of the most mental tunes I've heard in a while.

On a slightly depressing note, Im finding that doing one of these every week is becoming quite difficult. Having just bought a house and having to get said house ready for the arrival of our first offspring is quite a pull on my time and I feel the quality of these is suffering because of it. As a result I think Im going to make these monthly, rather than weekly, if only for my own sanity.



01: Datar - B (Christian Smith & John Selway Remix) [Hooj]
02: Electric Rescue & Eric Tarlouf - Infected (Kiko Remix) [DJ Series]
03: Marco P - Reflections (Spektre's Smoke & Mirror Remix) [Turning Wheel Records]
04: Hard Even - White Dust [SoundTribe Records]
05: The Lucky 23 - Passion Pit [Diablo Loco]
06: Dave Tarrida - 3 Go 3 [Autofake]
07: Tony Dee - Enygma (Filterheadz Remix) [uno.]
08: Meat Katie & Lee Coombs - Thinking Of You (Melodic Remix) [LOT49]
09: Lish - Running Away (Robin Hirte Remix) [Blue Tunes Records]
10: Flukes - Survivor [Dead Famous]
11: NX1 - MR3 [M_REC]
12: Elite Force & Friends - I Am Acid [Bandcamp]
13: Funk D'Void & Dave Tarrida - Glowblob [Autofake]

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Dave King - Tales Of The Future [Trance]
Dave King - Personal Classics
MIX ARCHIVE!!!

I said I'd do one a month now so heres Julys instalment. Inspired by the ridiculous amount of good dance music I heard at Glastonbury (especially Sashas set in the Glade) its mostly chunky, groovy stuff for a sweaty night dancing in a field, although it does get pretty banging in places. Enjoy!



01: Loquai - Helios [Mistique Music]
02: Christian Smith - Matrix [Tronic]
03: Ambivalent & Michael L Penman - Apt [Tronic]
04: Quincy - Acid Jungle (Audio Noir Oldskool Mix) [Bonzai]
05: Beroshima - Hexaline [Circle Music]
06: Tim Penner - On My Skin (James Monro Remix) [Proton]
07: Basil O'Glue - Occult (Phase Difference Remix) [Saturate Audio]
08: Lois Plugged - Acid Night (Darmec Remix) [Soundness Music]
09: Beat Tempest - The Basement [C Clone Records]
10: Metha - Rise (The Lucky 23 Remix) [VIM Records]
11: Square Coil & 4Mal - Static Noise (Matt Rowan & Jaytech Remix) [Alter Ego Digital]
12: Ivan Nikusev & Cosmithex - The Secret Of Orion (The Digital Blonde Remix) [OLD SQL]
13: DJ Taucher - Tribalisation [Jetlag Digital]
14: Tony Dee - Enygma (Filterheadz Remix) [uno.]
15: Solar Fields - Pulse [JOOF Recordings]
16: John Digweed & Nick Muir vs Psycatron - Awakenings [Bedrock Digital]
17: Beat Tempest - Hard Bedroom (Lois Plugged Remix) [C Clone Records]
18: Amygdala - Technophyle Denizen (DJ Friendly Mix) [JOOF V.2]
19: Jon Hopkins - Light Through The Veins (David Holmes Remix) [Double Six Record]

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Dave King - Tales Of The Future [Trance]
Dave King - Personal Classics
MIX ARCHIVE!!!

Did anyone manage to listen to this?

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Dave King - Tales Of The Future [Trance]
Dave King - Personal Classics
MIX ARCHIVE!!!

I'm gonna have a listen tonight.

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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/

Right, I had a listen to this. Enjoyed it for the most part, albeit with a couple of wobbles along the way. Really enjoyed the intro section - big and chunky is definitely the word - with that Ambivalent track in particular just screaming "main room, heads down". Things were chugging along steadily and I found myself thinking "This needs to peak soon or I'm going to lose interest". Then the peak did arrive in a rather humongous piece of trance I presume to be that Digital Blonde remix. Maybe I just can't get on with this kind of trance anymore but having wished for a peak, I found it was a bit too much peak. You then did the right thing by following up a big anthem with a thumper from Taucher, but towards the end I began to find these switches a bit jarring. Going from Solar Fields' wide-eyed prettiness into the stomping acid of Awakenings was too abrupt for me, and the sudden switch from the scorching acid goa vibes of Technophyle Denizen to the sunrise festival ending of Jon Hopkins just didn't work, at all.

All in all I think I enjoyed the sweaty field sections the most, and while the attempts to vary it up in the second half were necessary I felt they could have been handled slightly better.

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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/

I think thats a reasonably fair assessment, although obviously I would probably disagree with your opinion on the digital blonde remix. I have been trying to get away from intricately planning things and playing more off the cuff with these sets and I guess it shows towards the end with the direction being slightly wayward. I'd got into a solid groove at the start but I was fucking knackered by the end (been building shit all day) and the tune selection stopped flowing quite so easily.

I'm mildly annoyed about the ending as I think with a better transition the drop down into the Jon Hopkins tune could work, but the other track was almost finished and I just slammed the fader up.

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Dave King - Tales Of The Future [Trance]
Dave King - Personal Classics
MIX ARCHIVE!!!

I've been listening to random mixes here and there from this thread, I do tend to like your mixes a lot (although my favorite is probably the one you did for our sci-fi genre challenge), you capture this distinctly British element in them that I can't really describe too well. Your latest one looks interesting, too... nice mix of what looks like prog, psy trance and some of the better modern-day trance (Basil O'Glue is an underrated producer and it's nice to see him show up).

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9-9-99 Never Forget

Quarantine Music Festival 2020

All My Mixes!

Augusts instalment of the I Like This series. (Almost) 2 hours of chunky prog, trance and psy



01: DB Movement - Rotation [L*C*D Recordings]
02: Robert Babicz - Venus In Transit (Babicz In Space Mix) [Systematic Recordings]
03: Juan Sando - Chronosphere (CJ Arts Unexpected Acid on 135 Remix) [OLD SQL]
04: Beat Bizarre - Antikythera Mechanism [Iboga]
05: Kate Bush vs. Infusion - Running Up That Hill [White]
06: POB & Boyd - Luna (Rouge Remix) [Platipus]
07: Valentino Kanzyani - iPray [Jesus Loved You]
08: Green Martian - A Last One For The Road (Gary Delaney Old School Remix) [JOOF V.2]
09: Neurodriver & Excession - Haunting (4DigitalAudio)
10: Robert Babicz - Rave Angel [Bedrock]
11: Airwave vs. Astropilot - Particles of Love (CJ Art Remix) [Mistiue Music]
12: MartOpetEr - Into Oblivion [Broken Robot]
13: Liquid Soul & DJ Dream - Liquid Dream [Iboga]
14: John 00 Fleming & Christopher Lawrence - Beyond The Limit (Deep Mix) [Pharmacy Music]
15: Blue Amazon - Coming Home (Blue Amazon Dub) [Subversive]
16: Breeder - Tyrantanic (Slacker's Kingdom Come Remix) [Rhythm Syndicate]
17: Lyctum - Why Are We Whispering [Ovnimoon Remocrds]
18: Lish - Slow Me Away (Wizzy Noise Remix) [Com.Pact Records]
19: Ace Ventura - Dark Matter (E-Clip Remix) [Iono Music]
20: John 00 Fleming - Healing (Simon Templar Remix) [JOOF]

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Dave King - Tales Of The Future [Trance]
Dave King - Personal Classics
MIX ARCHIVE!!!

quote:

Originally posted by djdk 05: Kate Bush vs. Infusion - Running Up That Hill [White]

quote:

Originally posted by Mr Game+Watch I've been listening to random mixes here and there from this thread, I do tend to like your mixes a lot (although my favorite is probably the one you did for our sci-fi genre challenge), you capture this distinctly British element in them that I can't really describe too well. Your latest one looks interesting, too... nice mix of what looks like prog, psy trance and some of the better modern-day trance (Basil O'Glue is an underrated producer and it's nice to see him show up).

Cheers man, thanks for listening

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Dave King - Tales Of The Future [Trance]
Dave King - Personal Classics
MIX ARCHIVE!!!

Overall I like August/10, but I must say I think I'm sick to death of Slacker's remix of Tyrantanic. Great remix of a great track, but I've just heard it so many times on so many compilations and mixes. Shame, really. Hopefully I can not hear it for a year or two and enjoy it again

All in all, though, it was really good. Tight, smooth mixing, as usual. Lots of big chunky tracks. Was great music to accompany mindless physical tasks!

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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)

Cheers Lews! Heres Septembers effort...

The past few episodes have been focused the more main room side of the music I play and with my upcoming gig at Lost Dawn I have been solidly immersed in techno and trance. So, as a break from all that serious stuff I decided to focus on the funk, building up over the hour 45 to some more in your face electro tinged breaks.



01. A Skillz vs The Beatvandals - Beat Don't Stop [White]
02. Mustbeat Crew - Get This Clear (BadboE Remix) [Breakbeat Paradise]
03. Ian Dury & The Blockheads - Reasons To Be Cheerful (Part 3) [Stiff Records]
04. Solomun - Cloud Dancer (Kraak & Smaak Remix) [Diynamic]
05. Les Rythmes Digitales - Hey You What's That Sound [Wall Of Sound]
06. A Skillz vs The Beatvandals - Feelin' Kinda Insane [White]
07. A Skillz & Krafty Kuts - Happiness [Finger Lickin']
08. Krafty Kuts - Let's Rock It [Ministry Of Sound]
09. Kraak & Smaak - Hello Big Mama [Jalapeno Records]
10. Jem Stone - Disco Daze (Disco Mix) [Finger Lickin']
11. Metric - Leave it [Lot49]
12. Wiesel & Captain Koma - The Roll [ViperJive]
13. Madox - Movin' [Westway]
14. Soul Of Man - Killa Brew (Brew Side) [Finger Lickin']
15. Jan-B - Move Your Feet (Porno Breaks Remix) [Sold Out Breaks]
16. The Rogue Element - Rogue Rock (Vandals Mix) [Exceptional]
17. Optobot - Atomic Energy (Vandal Remix) [Sub Element Recordings]
18. Plump DJs - Squeeks & Bleeps [Finger Lickin']
19. DJ Zinc - 138 Trek [Phaze One]
20. Baobinga & I.D. pres. Big Monster - Get Retro [Chew The Fat!]
21. Electric Soulslide Venusia (Anarchy Rice Remix) [Lot49]
22. Beta - One (Breaks Mix) [Sound Of Habib]
23. Yreane - Come Get Me [Lot49]
24. 30Hz ft Yolanda - Innocent (Far Too Loud Dub) [Lot49]

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Dave King - Tales Of The Future [Trance]
Dave King - Personal Classics
MIX ARCHIVE!!!

Last edited by djdk on Sep-06-2014 at 16:41