It’s Christmas Eve, 2015, and I’m sitting in my house,
listening to some … house. I’m playing
an event (along with Ian Allen) in a few days in Halifax. It’s an annual house music event at a small venue,
with limited capacity. I’ve been there
for most of the past five years, and it’s always my favorite party of the
year. So my goal for tonight is to get
some new music ready for that set. I usually
try to play very recently released tracks for at least eighty to ninety percent
of each set that I play anywhere (unless I’m playing at a mainstream/pop event), so most of the tracks that I play on Sunday night will be ones that were
released today on Beatport and from other sources. But the nice thing is that the crowd at this
event is essentially all of my raver peers from the late 1990’s and early 2000’s,
so they appreciate a lot of flashbacks to older tracks too. I’ll be remixing and re-editing a lot of
classic tracks mixed with the new releases tonight and tomorrow, so we should
have a pretty interesting set for the crowd in Halifax.
In the meantime, I was trying to find a track listing of
what we played last year. I didn’t have
any luck with that, although I did find a rough recording of last year’s
set. It looks like I never put it
online, probably because it’s a bit rough in places (and has too much flanger
in a couple spots) but it’s not too bad.
I think that I never got around to putting it online since I didn’t
have time to figure out the exact track listings.
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Although I don’t have the proper track listings for you, I did
look into one of my DJ’ing directories, and found a list of 23 tracks that are
time-stamped from the right date, so I think we used most of them for that
show, and I recognize some of the tracks as definitely having been included in
the set. So even though this list isn’t
useful for being in track order, I’m pretty sure that if you’re trying to
figure out all the tracks in the mix, you can use the following alphabetical
list to identify them all. Maybe I’ll
try to do that someday. Or maybe someone
who’s a qualified trainspotter can sort it and email me.
4Peace – Jazzbuggin’ (Original
Mix)
Arturo Silvestre – Once (Original
Mix)
Baseek – Baby (Original Mix)
Call Me Steve – Turn The Beat
Around (Club Mix)
Canard – Stop Going On (Original
Mix)
Chris Noble – Dance To The
Rhythm (Original Mix)
DJ Baxy – Jungle Book
(Orgazmixound Jungle Jive Mix)
DJ PP – Queen Of Disco (Original
Mix)
Fabricio Pecanha – BeatBox (Original
Mix)
Gordon John – Wake Up The Funk
(Original Mix)
Groove Phenomenon – La Candela
Viva (Original Mix)
Householics – Stomp To This
(Delgado Remix)
Jason Rivas & Asely Frankin –
Billie Jean (Old Brick Warehouse Dub Mix)
JL & Afterman – Black Betty
(Original Mix)
Kim Sanz & Mike Light – Beat
Back (Original Mix)
Luca Debonaire & Matt Auston
– Snap (Original Mix)
Nightcrawlers – Push The Feeling
On (John Jacobsen Remix)
Reza & Peter Brown – Phreak It
(Club Mix)
Souljackerz & Rude Vinyl –
Forbidden Love (Funky Truckerz Remix)
Thomas Brown – Brooklyn (Original
Mix)
Twism & B3RAO – Hips Lips
Fingertips (Original Mix)
Vigo Qinan – Like I Like
(Original Mix)
Vlada Asanin, Yas Cepeda, & Bang Beat – Low Rider (Original Mix)
That 2014 set last year was performed on Ableton. But the DJ booth area at this venue is pretty
tight, and a lot of different DJ’s are playing throughout the night. We’ll just beat-mix on CDJ’s this year
instead, to simplify things.
Alright, it's time for me to pour some eggnog and get started on editing music for
this year’s show. Happy holidays
everyone, if you’re celebrating anything!
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