Mental Floss's DJ Mixes

Here's a recording of a DJ mix I did at the Metta-Morphosis event in Guelph which I didn't intend to be all drum'n'bass but people seem to really dig it so I stuck with it.

Had a huge shopping cart from Beatport that I finally purchased after a year and this became my first test mix of the shopping bag. Thought I'd focus on mostly harder/deep stuff.

It's often my "Yay I just bought new music, let's mix it immediately" DJ mixes that become some of my favorites. This dub/hard/funk techno and house mix may end up being in that group. I'm digging all the tracks and only used a slice of what I bought in this mix. It even includes a touch of Pink Panther.

A journey progressing across house, reinterpreted classic hits and (sorta) techno. Recorded at a party around Halloween.

A collection of electronic sounding tracks, many I haven't used before in mixes. Some melody and a lot of texture, like you're hearing machines beneath the ground.

A long mix starting with melodic beats and progressing to funky flirtings of house, disco and techno variants. Good to work to, strut to, bob your head to.

I decided to go a bit more hype with this mix, the first section being jungle-esque, and borrowed a popular line used by live jungle MC's for the mix name. Seemed fitting. Light'a, light'a! 00:00:00 Mystic State - Hemisphere (VIP Mix) 00:02:33 Release - Check It 00:05:07 Lens - OMI 00:06:34 Dawn Raid & Subbase Project - That Rave Ting 00:09:08 Calyx - Lemme Take It 00:12:04 Misanthrop - Feel 00:15...

Another mix from my stay at a cottage, this time with a touch of Wild Thing (Tone Loc) and She Drives Me Crazy (Fine Young Cannibals) plus a touch of electro breaks (maybe?) and dub techno (I think?). 00:00:00 Hammer - Atlantic 252 (Original Mix) 00:05:36 Adam Port - Sally (Original Mix) 00:10:08 Distant Fragment - Hide and Seek (Original Mix) 00:13:02 Tone-Loc - Wild Thing (Original Mix) 00:17:30...

At a cottage I put together this drum'n'bass mix and decided to name it after the cottage experience. There's also a rainbow in the thumbnail image. 00:00:00 Hajimari - Sharpened (Original Mix) 00:04:03 Enei, Charli Brix - Dark Water feat. Charli Brix (Original Mix) 00:06:37 Digital, Villem - Sun Bites (Original Mix) 00:08:28 Alix Perez - Crooklyn 00:12:08 Jinadu, Technimatic - Better Perspective...

Here's a mix I put together at a cottage, a mix of deep techno and deep house, kind of reminding me of the texture of the surface of water and how it shifts and echos patterns across it. 00:00:00 Tagtraumer - Beyond LFO (Pig & Dan Dub Remix) 00:05:33 Andre Kronert - Into the Zone (Efdemin Remix) 00:08:57 Monika Kruse - Changes Of Perception (Marek Hemmann Remix) 00:13:09 Alvaro Ernesto - Foxxy 00:...

Spent the week at a cottage and played some music that would agree to a broad crowd of ages and tastes. It's a mix of ambient beat electronic, indie rock, jazz and funk-influenced stuff with one classic from an old animation done by the National Film Board of Canada (NFB) in the 70's. Consider doing some cleaning while listening to it; your desk is a mess. 00:00:00 Alucidnation - Genetics 00:10:32...

Here's a mix of deep techno/house that I originally was going to call "Wading Through Tar" as the beats kinda have that feel, but didn't feel like the name was great. Although the title may suggest it, this isn't psy-trance/techno.

Here's a mix where I imagine you're shoe gazing (staring down), but still held by the music, slowly bopping your head and shuffling your feet in a muted dance. The music has flow, isn't whipping you on, but motivates you to keep moving.

Here's a collection of (mostly) funny music that somebody is bound to take issue with. Do not play in front of children.

Decided to mix up some new music, and turned into an neat journey.

I had reservation using the word "psychedelic" but the mix has a certain spacious and trippyness to it, with some tracks having subtle nuances to them. But I'm quite happy with how this turned out, and all the music used were songs I had never mixed before.

I'm very happy with this mix of techno. Spent some time sorting out the track order before hand and it helped with the flow.

This week: All guitars, no techno. I put many hours gathering this mix of "independent rock" together, digging into what I've collected the past number of years. Melody heavy!

Put together a mix of some of the music I've recently obtained, mostly of the house/disco and techno veins.

Here's something to lay back and listen to, maybe in a hammock on a beach somewhere. I hoped to combine some house/electronica like a long story moving between different feels.

Here's a mix that's a genre journey starting in fun disco house and then shifting later to drum'n'bass of the atmospheric/dark/funky/jazzy kinds.

Here's a collection of some drum'n'bass that sometimes plays around with your sense of timing and where the bar is supposed to begin.

Here's some technohouse, which at times can feel like your being lightly tossed about like waves made of foam.

Much of this sounded like minimal house and techno played in a large spaces with a consuming reverb.

Here's a electronic-sounding techno and house mix that's more on the dub techno side, and when dubby it sometimes feels like it's beneath water. It flirts with house at times with grand string.