c2eMusic Soulful Deep House

Another recording from a gig I played in Sydney.  It was a new event for Night Safari on the rooftop at The Sheaf in Double Bay.  Myself, Steve Mack and Tolga Diga were the DJs playing from 6pm to 1am.  It had been a beautiful warm day and it stayed above 26 degrees for the whole event.  Tolga opened up and got us underway.  The mix starts with Tolga's last couple of tracks of his first set. Steve...

For this weeks radio show I played my two VBW sets from 2018 and 2019 into one two hour show. I also finally got to fix a screw up from the 2019 set when I accidentally stopped the wrong deck on the first transition! I was mortified at the time and it took a few tracks to get out of my head and back into it. I also extended the end of the 2019 mix so the last track plays in full. Both mixes are ve...

This is the recording of a set I recently played at Lilly's Bar in Brookvale on the Northern Beaches in Sydney. The first 40 minutes are the excellent Lili Joy who the bar is named after. It's actually a gin distillery and bar. The dancefloor has a really high ceiling and the walls are covered in barrels of gin! It's a heavier mix, only the first three tracks are soulful, the rest are deeeeep. ✊...

It's always nice to turn back the clock and cherry pick some of the tracks that defined a particular year. Surprising to hear how much the sound and style either has or hasn't evolved. This time we go back five years to 2011. Since this was recorded in April we stick to the first half of 2011. Auditioning tracks for the mix was tough, so much deep soulful quality from the likes of Atjazz, Maya Jan...

A Masters At Work session.  Sounds like such an obvious choice but i's 20 years since the last one! The previous two were both curated (to within an inch of their lives!) so the tunes were packed in with shorter transitions.  This is a radio show session so tend to play the tracks in full, let them breath and be heard as intended.  There are some tracks from the last two MAW Sessions but plenty of...

This mix was inspired by the opening track. Ralphi Rosario posted it on FB which made me curious. I've always wanted it so when I saw it had recently been released digitally I grab copy. On the night of the show just before going live I realised I didn't know where the other digital versions of my old early 90's NY house/garage were. As a result I started the mix off with Bardot and figured I'd fi...

Another mix from the vinyl archives. No theme or idea where it might go, just an attempt to play records I've either never played before or it's been at least 20 years. These sessions are always fun as it allows me to reconnect with my vinyl collection and find tracks to play out at gigs. How many do you remember? Tracklisting: 1: MAW ft India - I can't Get No Sleep '95 (No Sleep In '95 Mix) 2:Kin...

This mix was a warm up for a gig the following weekend.  The brief was Latin House, so Latin House it is.  I fell in love with the sound in the mid 90's with tracks like The Blackout Allstars, but it really exploded in the early to mid 2000s.  Those rolling beats and just all round feel good vibes get me every time.  I find it impossible to sit still. It always brings the dancefloor to life, maybe...

This was a fun mix and radio show to do. I have an upcoming gig that wants Latin House but they don't have turntables so I've been ripping my vinyl. While going through everything I decided to pull out tracks I haven't heard in years, like 20+ years. The next sensible thing to do is play them on my show and here we are. During the show I ran a little name that tune quiz. There are some serious hea...

First show of the second year on VBR. Thanks to everyone that has tuned in or downloaded over the last 12 months. Weekly shows are intense and come round so quickly. This week's show is a new music show for January. It's a real mixed bag, I'd only bought 16 new tracks and half of those were real chunky house tracks. You need about 25 for a two hour show so I needed to pad the first hour out but ha...

Happy New Year and welcome to the first radio show of 2026. To kick off the new year I have a special guest who is fast becoming a regular. Emma joins us for the third time in the last 12 months. The last time we ended up with a marathon 4hr mix as we carried on after the show finished on air. Not to be outdone this time we went for even longer. This mix comes in at a whopping 4hr 50m! The radio s...

my desktop instead of my aging MacBook. I couldn't wait to play the new tracks I'd bought. Usually I download just before the show and then go on a wild ride mixing blind almost, live on air. This time I've had two weeks of listening to the tracks, getting to know them and ideas on how they might work together. It was like the old pre-radio days. The mix has a really smooth warm deep bouncy feel t...

This weeks show had another guest, this time a fellow Vocal Booth Radio DJ based here in Sydney. Maurizio Marchetti plays in my old time slot on a Thursday once a month. He's a big vinyl nut collecting edits and mashups alongside choice cuts from the last 40+ years. His sets have a lot of energy often underpinned by a funky/disco vibe but you can't pigeon hole that easily as you'll hear in this mi...

This mix is just an open digital crate digging session, no theme just great music. A real mix of two halves, the first being deep soulful house from both sides of the pond. Baltimore, NY and NJ feature heavily alongside London. The second half is a more upbeat club sound form more recent years dominated by European heavyweights. Tracklisting: 1: thatmanmonkz -Blowin' My Mind 2: Simba - Phase Seq O...

This week I was joined by local DJ Terry A (Anastasiadis). Got into the scene in the mid 90's and carried on spinning tunes until the mid 00's. Terry is one of the DJs playing at my upcoming 90's Classics boat party on November 16th in the afternoon and the world famous Sydney Harbour. As you'll hear Terry brings that awesome US sound synonymous with that era. The clocks had changed over the prior...

This is the second 2 0 0 8 mix now with the first one back in 2017 so eight years apart.  I tried to make sure the two didn't have all the same track as that would have been a waste of time making.  Only two tracks appear in both, but they're great tracks so I doubt anyone will complain. The first hour is a fairly soulful affair with the opening 25 minutes on the deeper side. The second hour is a...

This is a test run for a requested mix from my mate Martin Evans in the UK. He's a MASSIVE soulful vocal nut. He's always telling me I need more vocals in my set, especially female. One day last August while chatting he started sending you-tube links to his favourite tunes and challenged me to make a mix with them. I agreed and then kept forgetting. A year later I finally bought the tracks, I only...

The next instalment in the monthly series. This time we comb through tracks acquired in the month of September all the way back to 2005. This mix is a nice mellow melodic journey without any of the usual crazies. It was interesting because there really weren't many big anthems, monsters or beasts. Just lots of beautiful tunes. Maybe with it being the end of the northern hemisphere summer all the p...

This doesn't happen very often, in fact this is a first. For this weeks radio show I played the set from the Sydney House Dance Battle. However that's only 90 minutes long and the show is two hours, so this mix has 30 minutes of extra music. I'll be honest every time I heard the original mix I was left wanting more when it ended with Jesus Creates A Sound. Well I've answered my own wish!! The song...

This is my 300th Podcast release!!!!! It's been coming for what feels like years now, but we made.  I can't I've released this many mixes over the last 20 years. If you were to play them all b2b without stopping it would take you over 21 days!!!  I owe so much to you guys for your ongoing support. Twenty years is a long time, and that's only the length of my digital story.  There is another 14 yea...

I've been trying to get Tony Garcia on my radio show for the whole of 2025 and after eight months we got there. DJ/Producer and all round nice guy Tony has a number of residencies around the city, many of them playing vinyl. Founder of Rotary Disco and Klubhouse two great events on Sydney scene over the past decade. This mix gives a hint of what we might sound like together. It's the first of thre...

Originally recorded at the end of July but missed the release window. This mix has a nice healthy dose of garage in the centre, but the last third is just straight up fire. The Riva Starr mix of Dennis Ferrer's Hey Hey from 2020 is the highlight for me.  Everytime I hear it it gets me going.  Genius. Other standout tracks this month, "The Situation", "Better Days" and Dennis Quins quality garage t...

So last month I started the annual classics series with the 2005 mix. This week I flipped it round and did a mix based on the month I bought the music.  Since it's July that's the month I went with.  I have done this a couple of times on Pressure Radio with a Junes and Decembers mix.  It's fun and helps you reconnect with older music you may not have heard for years. When I started the mix and loo...

Where do we start with this one. Started off as a regular guest mix show with Emma (aka em_laa) who previously appeared on the show back at the start of the year. However we were having so much fun that when we cut the feed for the radio we carried on for another 2hrs. Yes that's right this is an almost four hour mix. And I can tell you it's chock full of sexy smooth deep house and soulful house g...

This mix marks the start of a new series - Back To - in which I dedicate a whole show to a specific year.  It's not the first time I've done it.  There are three or four such mixes from the old Pressure Radio days.  The different this time is consistency.  You see I didn't have any theme for the one of my weekly slots.  We already have a new mix, crate digging, a guest DJ and now going forward we'...