DJ Daniel Van Olst

A happy and uplifting mix for Pride 2026! As always, I've included new tracks as well as some remixes I love of the classics. I hope this mix gets you thinking about dancing during this Pride season. My first thought on this theme was that it isn't that complicated. Pride, dancing, clubs, right? But perhaps it's not as simple as that. Part of Pride is letting go of any shame we might have been tau...

"You Broke My Heart" is a pretty standard you-done-me-wrong track, but Alexandra Burke does an amazing job with the lyrics, as she always does. I was going to make a mashup with it...but I ended up with a complete piano house remix. :-) My inspiration was being on the dancefloor, looking up at the mirror ball, with the spotlight flashing on it. Alexandra Burke is an English singer, songwriter and...

Here's my live set from Flagging In LA!! What a glorious day! Perfect weather, and amazing location: West Hollywood Park! I had the chance to see many old friends (some of which I had not seen in ages), and to make many new ones. :-) The flaggers were talented and beautiful, as always! What's interesting here? I've always had a dream of playing Donna Summer in LA. Many of her tracks relate to LA o...

I tend to think of Donna Summer as a 70's disco queen, but she had nearly as many Top 40 hits in the 80's as the 70's! "This Time I Know It's For Real" released in 1989, and reached #7 on the US Top 40 charts. This track was written and produced by the super-famous Stock Aitken Waterman team, well-known for working with performers like Rick Astley, Bananarama, Dead or Alive, and Kylie Minogue. As...

70 minutes of music to get you up and dancing. I think a great set is based on an idea, or a vision. It doesn't have to be complicated. It might be a journey, the style of an artist, how you want listeners to feel, or where you see it being played. I've read that dancing at a club or bar is going out of style - that people don't want to embarrass themselves, or that everyone wants to be a DJ inste...

My set, recorded live at Oscar's World Famous T-Dance, Palm Springs, CA, Sunday, November 23, 2025! If you haven't been, you should definitely go - it's every Sunday, they have an awesome outdoor space and a fun-loving crowd! Oscar's has many other amazing events, including a drag brunch - check them out here: https://oscarspalmsprings.com/ or check out my IG, I have some content from the event: h...

Alexandra Burke - This Love Will Survive (Daniel Van Olst Extended Mix) (free DL) by DJ Daniel Van Olst

Taylor Swift - Electric Touch (feat. Fall Out Boy) (Daniel Van Olst Just One Time Edit) - free DL by DJ Daniel Van Olst

I remixed this as my last track for my 80-minute continuous mix for 2025 Pride - also entitled "Rise". I also have an Extended Mix - if you would like a copy, send me a DM!

A mashup I made for the event, "Flagging In The Desert". Free download is the extended version. If you would like the radio edit send me a message. Original tracks are: Running (Fedde Le Grand vs. Sultan & Ned Shepard) [Original Mix Edit] [feat. Mitch Crown] On The Strings Of Love (Stan Tone Remix) - M.O.S., Leonid Sivelkin, Krasa Rosa

Another happy and uplifting mix for Pride 2025! I've included new tracks as well as some remixes I love of the classics. I hope this mix lifts your hearts and brings you joy during this Pride season. Part of Pride is rising above the situations that challenge us: with courage, calm, determination, tolerance, inclusiveness, and love. With a vision of something different and better. And, of course,...

How can anyone *not* have heard the original version of this song? :-) A huge hit for ABBA in 1975, and of course it had a stage and movie musical named after it (and that included it). On closer inspection it is even more brilliant than at first listen. Most tracks have just two musically distinct parts (such as verse and chorus), but "Mamma Mia" has about half a dozen - all depicting the differe...

Part 3 of 3 of my set at Flagging In The Desert, benefitting the Palm Springs AIDS Memorial! (Palm Springs, California - March 1st, 2025) If you haven't been, it is an amazing event - the mountains, the sun, and of course the flaggers, which were so appreciative and supportive!! What's *especially* cool in Part 3? I love Tony Moran's mix of "Love Train" - not easy to find, but Tony was kind enough...

I had a blast spending the afternoon with everyone at Oscar's World-Famous T-Dance! Everyone was so appreciative, welcoming, and fun! Recorded live at Oscar's World-Famous T-Dance in Palm Springs, California on March 2nd, 2025. https://oscarspalmsprings.com/ 1 Kathy Brown, Sheree Hicks - Free to Be Me (Jet Boot Jack Vocal Remix) 2 Bimbo Jones - I've Got the Music In Me (feat. Katherine Ellis) 3 Th...

Part 2 of my set at Flagging In The Desert, benefitting the Palm Springs AIDS Memorial! (Palm Springs, California - March 1st, 2025) If you haven't been, it is an amazing event - the mountains, the sun, and of course the flaggers, which were so appreciative and supportive!! Of note in Part 2 is an almost-mashup I made of the My Marianne version of "Husavik", and the [Avicii/Leona Lewis] track "Col...

Part 1 of my set at Flagging In The Desert, benefitting the Palm Springs AIDS Memorial! (Palm Springs, California - March 1st, 2025) If you haven't been, it is an amazing event - the mountains, the sun, and of course the flaggers, which were so appreciative and supportive!! Of note in Part 1 is a mashup I made of the Sultan+Shepard track "Running", and the M.O.S. track "On The Strings Of Love". I...

Kate Bush wrote and performed the superb original of this track for her album, "Hounds of Love". (Many may know it better from season 4 of the show, "Stranger Things".) But the male vocalist I selected swept me away - he sets the stage for a stronger beat and a moody, moody arrangement!

For November I have a new disco-flavored continuous mix, with plenty of piano and strings! There's really nice remakes of "Heaven Knows" and "A Higher Place", as well as some new tracks by David Morales, who has been doing some great work. In particular, the first track is one of his, and might be my favorite in this mix. The title, "The Real Thing", comes from the track by Mike Chenery - a relati...

My progressive take on a 70s disco classic! "Car Wash" reached the number one spot on the Billboard Hot 100 for only one week in January 1977 (why do I remember it being longer?) Like so many I have a huge affection for hits from this era of my life. Perhaps it looms larger to me than it really was. I've had the opportunity doing this rework to listen to the original over and over - it sounds like...

This is my September House and NuDisco Mix! Once I got done, I noticed that I started off with the idea of feeling trapped; and then the last four tracks flip this script, and revolve around asserting oneself in various ways. In particular, the 11th track is an excellent remake of the 1966 Sergio Mendez hit, "Mas Que Nada" - literally "more than anything", but actually a Brazilian idiom meaning so...

Calum Scott - Woke Up In Love (Daniel Van Olst Extended Club Mix) - free DL by DJ Daniel Van Olst

For this July 2024 mix, I've got a selection of house and nudisco tracks! Most of my mixes form around an idea, but the idea with this mix is just a certain sound - a clear, clean mix, with a great separation between each instrument and the vocals (perhaps best exemplified by Optical Disco's superb remake of the classic, "The Rhythm of the Night"). I've got many tracks in this style - about half a...

I decided to go in a completely different direction than the original version of this track - a really moody, progressive/tribal sound. The original of this track (you can hear it on YouTube) is absolutely superb - I didn't feel the need to reinvent the wheel. The original has a slightly retro, melodic trance feel. Definitely check it out too (after listening to this version!) :-)

Yes, this really is the theme song from the 2001-2005 show, "Star Trek: Enterprise". :-) Originally performed by Rod Stewart as "Faith of the Heart", it's a track that people seem to either love or hate. While obviously I love it (or I would not have spent so much time with it!), I see the other side's point: the arrangement for the two Star Trek versions is perhaps overly sentimental. I felt that...

A happy and uplifting mix for Pride 2024! I've got classics as well as new tracks, all focussed on celebration and being the best we can be. ---- Have you ever told someone "you can do it!"? Or maybe "you got this!"? And you aren't just being nice - because you know them, you *know* it's true. You have faith in them. My Pride mix last year revolved around being free - that freedom to express ourse...