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This set is luckily a live mix from a great late night party in Joshua Tree! Tons of tracks from the last few events I went to and some from last summer, with a couple oldies to tie it up at the end.  A few of these songs absolutely CRUSHED the dancefloors. Very surprised to hear one of my favorites played first at Coachella - of course on the stage I was working at. There IS good music there! The...

Back to the desert with me! I was lucky enough to get to spin this set live at a Friday night party in Joshua tree.  This months podcast is celebrating a lot of the high energy vibes DJ Dan would bring to dancefloors alongside plenty of desert vibes I have been getting from being back dancing in the Mojave. Lot's of awesome vocals and deep funy basslines in this mix! So many amazing older jams bri...

DJ Dan has been the most influential DJ for me since I started playing house music. His funky style has always brought out the kid in me. When I was growing up for some reason, I was so drawn to disco... It's so sad we had to say goodbye to him in March, still can't believe he is gone.  Long before I had ever gone to Burning Man, I knew DJ Dan was a DJ who played there often. I came across a mix h...

Back to some complicated grimy deep techno this month. I really have grown to love this genre over the last few years. This mix probably goes along with seasonal depression lol... In this set I go way back to the dark trance vibes of the early 2000s and mix it with a lot of newer music in tech-house and techno to round it out. Very happy with how this set peaks - it takes a lot of work to get ther...

It's that time again - my favorite mix of the year. My deep winter trance set. Thanks to lots of new and old friends for inspiring me this winter and bringing me good vibes : ) Tons of big names in this mix, and lots of old goodies I have been waiting to drop for years in this mix. I am in love with how it came out, so extremely listenable!!! I end this set with a D:Fuse track, who passed away a y...

Plenty of juicy house music here from my summer and fall adventures to jam to! I've been listening ot this mix on repeat for so long, I cant remember where it ends and where it begins anymore.  ENJOY!!! Tracklist -  1. Joy Orbison - BRTHDTT (2012) 2. Newman - The Seven Skies (2020) 3. CamelPhat & Elderbrook - Cola (Made By Pete Extended Remix) (2024) 4. Luna City Express - Mr. Jack (2009) 5. W...

VOID - enough said! Get your house on.  Tons of tracks from summer and fall 2025 and BEYOND (backwards) !!! Tracklist: 1. Jesse Rose, Eva - Believe (Claude VonStroke Remix) (2017) 2. Angel Stoxx - Breadholes (Stefano Kosa Remix) (2011) 3. Johnny Mikes, Michael B - Darkness Everyday (Walker & Royce Remix) (2015) 4. Galen - Love Machine (2025) 5. Hardfloor - Acperience 1 (Robert Babicz Spacefunk...

Just went on a 25 hour road trip and listened to my own breaks mixes the whole time.  Also in a state of emotional chaos... I really wasnt feeling most of them. One mix really made me feel great. ONE mix really made me feel alive. THis one stood out so much from all the rest. And here it is for you to listen to - coming back from 2016!!! Original text -  I've been wanting to put down some breaks m...

Coming up on 3 years since this episode was released, it's still absolutely smashing my mind every time is comes on the speakers. Fantastic set - one of the few worthy of a re-release. House music like this, all night long. And all day long. Give me more! Donald Glaude dropped a few tracks at Joshua Tree Music Festival that really made me think back on this set too, so the decision was final - tim...

Up for listening this month is the second half of my live set at Zirco Loco in Joshua Tree back in March. That was my first show of the year - SO MUCH has happenned since then! The first half of my set was house, this second half is trancy progressive. Zircon would have loved it! I usually play a lot higher energy, but this was  a really great late night vibe for a warm night out in the desert.  L...

Thankfully a couple months ago I got turned on to new style Garage music thats right up my alley. Vibes the same as the bassline I got in to years ago - but a bit heavier on the breaks influence and less from electro. This new bass music really got me going this festival season, and it was always the highlight of my days and nights. I tossed in a few teaser tracks back in my May podcast and really...

Our month’s podcast is coming in hot from guest artist SKTTRBRAIN. This mix is all about energy, life, and the passions of nature. Let’s be real, this summer has been full of intense frequencies. Everything from the elements of the earth’s climate to the weathering of politics and religion is reaching the high intensity points of opposition and polarity. Conflicting concepts such as democracy and...

WOW! Lightning in a Bottle did not disappoint! I heard so much great music that week - mostly at the Woogie stage where I was working. I was BLESSED to play a surprise stage open set too, dream come true on the insane Funktion One sound system. I played 80s and 90s hip hop like my last podcast episode, and some gangster rap like the Rat Trap mix from last summer. The Woogie stage has definitely TH...

Hopping in to a new genre here for DJing - one that I was in to when I was like 5 years old for dancing. Something about these beats just made me want to jam on the floor!!! This set is representing what I was playing at Neotropolis at the Rat Trap bar. Neo is a future - cyberpunk - space vibe event, so I thought to go with some Afro-Futurism energy with a lot of the music I was playing. I played...

I performed two contemporary dance acts in the Zirco Loco circus show this March, and DJ'd the afterparty from midnight to 2 am. This episode is the first half-ish of my set! I played a lot of tracks I heard out here in the Mojave Desert for the first time over the last couple years, and plenty of other stuff too.  This flavor of house music has really been exciting to hear out here when I am on t...

Finally brinigng it back to that techno stuff I was exploring with mixes two years ago. It's taken me that long to figure out how to place some of these tracks!!! Once again well worth the wait. This mix is wild! Speed ranges from 128 to 157 bpm! That old techno goes so hard. Bring it back - where do I have to go??? I put this mix up at a low bitrate to add to the grime of the techno, and to be a...

The annual trance mix has arrived! SO thankful to again have mixed this while it was snowing out. Extra winter vibes! I was worried this one wouldnt come together but the music pulled through and showed me the way. These songs have kept me warm for weeks and now its time for them to get you warm with some dancing.  This set starts out somewhat chill, will take you up to some really high energy (un...

I have bee BUSY and under a lot of pressure to do a lot of things - so I named this month's podcast. Here is a bunch of house music I have been listening to lately, plenty from the last couple years. Tracks in here date back to 2005! A couple very hard to locate gems : ) Enjoy! Tracklist - 1. T.B.C. - Movin' Out (Andrea Bertolini Massive Mix)  2. JedX, Tim Brown - Good Intentions  3. Simon Adams,...

This one has been a long time coming! I looked forwards to taking a real vacation for a month in Florida to finally relax after a crazy busy year, and immerse myself in the Orlando music scene again. The AAHZ party was completely off the wall this year. It never disappoints! SO many wild jams from the 80s and 90s. Heard a ton I had never even heard before. Danced my ASS off! Ending my summer in Or...

Struggled and struggled to figure out the name for this months episode. I do not think a word exists in the English language that covers how I felt for this one. So much culminated for 6 months in my life and I wanted to cap it off with a fancy podcast episode name. Found nothing. ChatGPT failed me.  The last few events had some of the coolest house and techno music I heard all year. So many beats...

Two months in to one. I have been playing music at the Rat Trap bar a ton over the last two months at Burning Man and Wasteland Weekend. I do it like this every year but never before have I gone so hard with it. I was excited to run the bar at Burning Man almost every night from about midnight to right before sunrise. Hence the name 6 N The Mornin, plus thats also my favorite Ice-T track that I dr...

It was a wild month - between wishing it was more humid, to not being able to escape rain for days. I was surrounded by house music but had my mind focused on what I will be doing later in August, and what I wanted my soundtrack to be. July is always one hell of a podcast. It's my sound track for the road to Burning Man. This breakz mix will help me put down hundreds of miles with a smile on my fa...

I have spent my whole spring and summer so far working at festivals, traveling all over the country, and doing the Van Life thing. There was a moment a few months ago where I realized - I was going to be on the road, with my van, far far from home - and the opportunity of freedom and adventure was showing itself to me again. I had this amazing feeling, realizing that I would have so much time to b...

SKTTRBRAIN is back with another guest mix for the Kontakt Recording’s monthly. Feeding off the vibe of Kontakt’s December podcast, this old vs. new school set brings out the most paragon and fresh of breakbeats with undertones of acid, bass, electro, synth-wave, vocal, and overall classic energy. Subtle hints of dub, hip hop, jazz, and trance contribute to the atmosphere of Fuse. Experimenting wit...

WOW The procrastination hits hard this month. Two weeks late on a mix I recorded a month ago. Life has been real lately! Festival season is thick for me this year, and I am so thankful! Heres a little list of what I have been up to -  Neotropolis Joshua Tree Music Festival Lightning In A Bottle The Gathering And preparing for lots more later this year!!! Here is the second half of my live set in A...