Soporific Airs (DJ Bolivia): 3

Thursday, April 5, 2012

This Is Our Dream House, Volume 03

And here we go with another volume of the "This Is Our Dream House" series of deep house mixes.

This volumes includes the initial version of a track that I started to put together this past weekend, which I'm calling "Rumble Beach." It isn't entirely a deep house track, since it's fairly tech-house influenced, but it feels to me like it fits into this mix appropriately. At some point in the next couple of weeks, I'll put a post up on my blog and make it available to listeners as a SoundCloud download, and I'll probably also put the Ableton project files online, in case any of the producers out there want to download it and play with remixing it.

For those of you who aren't normally into EDM (electronic dance music), you might be curious to know the differences between my regular style of progressive/tech-house and this deep house mix. Actually, there aren't always a lot of obvious differences, because I lean a bit more towards the techy side of deep house than the pure organic stuff. So at first, this might just sound a bit like my usual style, but slower. But that would be far from accurate - the deep house in this set can be identified by a few significant differences. First, the instrumentation is often jazzier, ie. there will be Rhodes or Wurli keyboards, more horns, brass, more clean guitar sounds, and more jazzy/bluesy vocals. Also, the tempo of this set is down around 119-120bpm, whereas my mainstream club sets are usually around 128bpm and my radio shows are usually 129-132bpm.

Here's a track listing:

01. Tapesh & Dayne S, "Leadbelly" (Original Mix).
02. Audiojack, "Polka Dot Dress" (Original Mix).
03. Naiad, "Lond On" (Original Mix).
04. Reda Dare, "Your Eyes" (Original Mix).
05. Steve Banks, "Push" (Original Mix).
06. Antonio Santana, "Epileptia" (Original Mix).
07. Dominic Martin, "Bling" (Original Mix).
08. DJ T feat Khan, "Leaving Me" (Clockwork CW Remix).
09. Huxley & Russo, "Reality Check" (Original Mix).
10. Bolivia, "Rumble Beach" (Campbell River Instrumental).
11. Danny Daze & Matches, "If This" (Original Mix).
12. Yakine, "Last Harmony" (Jef K & Gwen Maze Remix).
13. Hunter & Game, "Touch Me" (Original Mix).
14. Pawn Shop People, "Streetsmart" (Original Mix).
15. Evren Ulusoy, "I Love You But I've Chosen Synthesizers" (Edwin & Ferdy Deep Dub).
16. Larse, "So Long" (Original Mix).
17. Redondo Sideburn & MC Chase, "Can't Keep Up" (Original Mix).
18. Tiger Stripes, "Trip Me" (Original Mix).
19. QMUSSE, "Lajos" (Le Vinyl Remix).
20. David Ortiz, "Always" (Original Mix).
21. Tony S, "Sub Rosa" (Original Mix).
22. Dale Anderson & Anil Chawla, "Leftorium" (Philipp Ort Remix).
23. Refresh Italy, "In The Sky With You" (Original Mix).
24. Hamid feat Valentina, "If I" (Jay Shepheard Remix).
25. Namatjira, "Moranbah" (Original Mix).
26. Tim Points, "Tierno" (Original Mix).
27. Chris Mil, "Step Into Deep" (Kyka Remix).
28. Naiad, "Humanize" (Original Mix).
29. Antonio Santana, "Moroko" (Original Mix).
30. Rhadow, "Sometimes" (Original Mix).
31. Michael Mclardy, "Blinded By Youth" (Le Vinyl Remix).
32. Paul Mad, "Lies" (Lula Circus Remix).
33. Wildkats, "Perpetrating" (Original Mix).
34. Terrence Parker, "Love's Got Me High" (Jimpster Remix).
35. Nacho Marco, "Majo" (Original Mix).
36. Shaboom, "If You Need Me" (Langenberg Vocal Mix).
37. Flight Facilities feat Jess, "Foreign Language" (Will Saul & Tam Cooper Remix).
38. Ian Pooley & Spencer Parker, "Feel The Same" (Original Mix).
39. Marius Laurentiu & Andrea Bigi, "Behind A Mirror" (Original Mix).
40. Emde & Julio Italy, "A Little Bit" (Original Mix).
41. Maceo Plex, "Can't Leave You" (Tale Of Us Remix).
42. Noir & Haze, "Around" (Subban Remix).
43. Manik NYC, "House Of Flies" (Original Mix).
44. Kruse & Nuernberg, "Daze Without You" (Original Mix).

To download any of my studio mixes or recordings of lives shows, visit:

djbolivia.ca/mixes

Then go into the folder called "Bolivia's DJ Mixes & Live Shows"

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Sunday, January 30, 2011

Upbeat Workout Music, Mix #03

The response to the last pair of workout mixes that I posted on my blog has been phenomenal. The mixes have had thousands of downloads in the past twelve weeks. I was going to devote every sixth episode of my weekly radio show to doing these mixes, as an alternative to the progressive house that I usually play on the show. However, to keep people from being confused, I will stick to progressive house for the radio show after this week. However, I'll definitely keep making these workout mixes every six weeks. So you can look forward to the next one coming out in the first week of March.

The mix is an hour long, and anyone can download it (the download link is near the bottom of this post). As implied above, I used the same mix for my "Subterranean Homesick Grooves" radio show this week, to give it a bit of a bigger audience. However, the mix that you can download here doesn't have the radio station promos in it, so it will be better if it's being played in a gym.

Here are Track Listings for Workout Mix #03:

01. Katy Perry, "Firework" (Radio Version).
02. BoB, "Airplanes" (DJQ's Extended Club Edit).
03. Swedish House Mafia, "Miami 2 Ibiza."
04. Santito, "Voices Inside My Head" (Club Mix).
05. Martin Solveig & Dragonette, "Hello" (Club Edit).
06. Kylie Minogue, "Get Outta My Way" (Tommy Love Dream Mix).
07. Tim Berg, "Seek Bromance" (Samnuele Sartini Extended Mix).
08. Kaskade & Adam K, "Raining" (Original Mix).
09. Kaskade, "Fire In Your New Shoes" (Joachim Garraud Vocal Mix).
10. Tiesto vs Diplo, "C'Mon" (Original Version).
11. Robyn, "Indestructible" (Laidback Luke Club Mix).
12. Taio Cruz, "Break Your Heart" (Wideboys Club Mix).
13. ATB, "Could You Believe" (Original).
14. Armin van Buuren, "Not Giving Up On Love" (Glenn Morrison Remix).
15. Mischa Daniels, "Where You Wanna Go" (Album Version).

To download a 1.5 GB Zip file that includes all of the mixes in DJ Bolivia's workout series, right-click on this link and choose "save target" or "save link":

chma.fm/Workout_Mixes_1-12.zip

For links to the blog posts about the other mixes in this series, visit:

www.djbolivia.ca/workout

I have lots of other upbeat electronica mixes available on my DJ website. Admittedly, there aren't too many mixes there [yet] that are exclusively club dance tracks, but there are a lot of house/trance mixes that I find to be pretty good to listen to when I'm going running. Or driving. Or doing any sort of mindless task where I just want some energetic beats to listen to. Most of them are about an hour long, to fit onto a standard CD. Check them out, maybe you'd enjoy some of them?

To download any of my studio mixes or recordings of lives shows, visit:

djbolivia.ca/dropbox