Anthony Whitlock's Podcast

August 31st - such a pivotal day in the year. It's the last day of summer in the northern hemisphere and the last day of winter in the southern hemisphere. It's also the day I decided to make the third edition in the Recovery series. I was going to release it at the end of World Pride 2023 in Sydney and then changed my mind to the end of Mardi Gras 2023. When that didn't happen I thought I'd get t...

Here we are in August - last month of summer in the northern hemisphere and thankfully the last month of winter here in Australia. This month's edition of UP! contains some funky house tracks as well as some big room bangers. The set kicks off with a great track "Movin' On" by Hot M3ss and moves into another great house track "Love Shine" by Silverland. A big thank you to Matt Consola at Swishcraf...

Following up from The Best Of Hex Hector Part 1 comes The Best Of Hex Hector Part 2. This second part covers his remixes that move into the higher energy, higher BPM range. The set kicks off at 132 BPM and progresses up to the high 130's by the end. There are some absolute classic tracks here from artists such as Shannon, Faith Hill, Gloria Estefan, Whitney Houston, Angie Stone, Celine Dion and Br...

Pride month may be over but July carries on with world wide parties and celebrations. I would like to add July's edition of UP! to the festivities. This set is jam packed with uplifting house and club anthems to keep the party going. Kicking it off is the Sonny Federa & Ella Henderson collaboration "Like I Used To" followed by Australia's own Ricki-Lee with her new single "On My Own". Producer...

I was a little bit slow off the mark getting my annual Pride Anthems edition out for June this month. None the less, here is the June 2023 edition. This is 27 remixed club anthems starting off with some smooth house remixes and moving towards main club and big room club anthems from the middle through to the end. The set kicks off with Dirty Disco's classic house remix of Candi Staton's "Young Hea...

I've been looking forward to doing a Hex Hector anthology for a long time but he has such a massive catalogue of remixes, I wasn't sure as to how I would approach it. I decided to split it into two parts. The first part being remixes with BPM's from 126 to 132 and the second part with remixes from 132 and up. That being said, it took me three weeks to select a body of mixes for part one and narrow...

This month's edition of UP! glides through a number of commercial songs with radio friendly remixes before heading off into a bigger club sound. The set kicks off with Rita Ora's "You Only Love Me" followed by The Oliver Heldens & Kylie Minogue collaboration "10 Out Of 10" which is a slice of pop heaven. Calum Scott lends his beautiful vocals to "Whistle" which is beautifully mixed by Apollo....

Welcome to the April 2023 edition of UP! The front end of this set is funky, commercial house from big name artists and producers. As it progresses, it moves into the big room club sound with excellent remixes throughout. The set kicks of with the Alok & James Arthur collaboration "Work With My Love" and moves into another house collaboration between popular producers Purple Disco Machine &amp...

Welcome to the 20th edition of Mardi Gras Anthems. This edition leans more towards the big room anthem sound with a mixture of new and classic songs. The set kicks of with Adele's "Easy On Me" beautifully remixed by Mor Avrahami and glides into Whitney's "Don't Cry For Me" given a solid club treatment by Leo Frappier. Dario Xavier features two remixes here for Agnes and Kylie Minogue respectively....

Mardi Gras has popped up so quickly this year. World Pride is kicking off as Mardi Gras comes to a close this coming weekend, which is the last weekend of February. This edition of Mardi Gras Anthems arrives a couple of days before the big party which is celebrating it's 45th anniversary. For this set I wanted to present a more house flavoured disco/pop sound. These are all songs I have heard at t...

It's time for the men to take centre stage on the dance floor and in this special edition of Men for World Pride in Sydney, that's exactly what they do. Keeping with the Pride Men theme, I've selected tracks from male artists who identify as gay, bisexual or non binary. The set kicks of with the incomparable George Michael and his mega hit song "I Want Your Sex" given a modern spin by Huffnpoof. D...

February is here and it brings with it World Pride in Sydney as well as the Sydney Mardi Gras. These 2 events take UP! pretty much all of February and lead into March and I believe that this is the first time a World Pride event has been held in the Southern Hemisphere. I decided to split the usual Pride Anthems episodes into two parts - one in February for World Pride and the other one I will rel...

Welcome to 2023. The new year brings with it a bucket load of new music. The January '23 edition of UP! is a blend of commercial pop, light progressive house and thumping big room bangers. The set kicks off with "Chemistry" by KREAM & Camden Cox. Ava Max's "Million Dollar Baby" moves into Lady Gaga's "Bloody Mary". Surely you've seen the dance craze associated with this song on TikTok? Cahill...

Finally - after having in my mind to make this special podcast episode for over 5 years, I have managed to get my act together and can happily present to you the Best Of 7th Heaven. This was a massive task and the end result turned out to be a massive podcast. Over 3hours and 20 minutes of hit after hit mixed by the incredible guys from 7th Heaven in the UK. 7th Heaven is made up of Jon Dixon who...

Welcome to the final UP! for 2022. This edition sneaks in just before Xmas and is packed full of funky house and club anthems to see you through to the New Year. The set kicks off with another great track by Jack Wins "Good Love" and slides into "Medicine" by Trucco. Rihanna's massive hit "Lift Me Up" from the Black Panther sequel gets an excellent treatment from Ray Isaac as does "I Just Want You...

Continuing on with the 'Best Of' series celebrating the remix artists who bring it to the dance floor, I present to you the Best Of Dirty Disco. This is my most ambitious podcast to date (or at the very least, my longest). Mark De Lang is the driving force behind Dirty Disco and he is based in Houston, Texas. I've had several conversations with Mark and he is an extremely nice man and generous to...

Hi everyone. My apologies for the late arrival of this episode. I have recently transitioned from an old analogue system of recording my podcasts to the more digital system using GarageBand. Being the non technical Boomer that I am, I had to study many Youtube tutorials and get some advice from the experts at Store DJ in Melbourne, so a big thank you to them. I actually had this episode planned ou...

I think I need to change my scheduling around because September is nearly over and I'm just releasing the September '22 edition of UP! Anyway, here it is. This set starts off nice and funky with tracks from Jamelia, Beyonce`, Martin Ikin, Matt Goss and Fedde Le Grand kicking the set off. As the set transitions into a bigger room sound, Danny Morris, Russ Rich and Toy Armada bring the energy and li...

Closing out summer in the north and winter in the south is the August 2022 edition of UP! This month's edition has a funky house intro and moves into some big room house tracks towards the middle and end. Kicking off the set is the PBH & Jack collaboration with Hannah Boleyn "Summer Never Ends". I was introduced to Martin Ikin while I was at the gym and first heard "How I Feel" ft. Hayley May,...

The July '22 edition of UP! almost didn't make it into July. Equipment issues have proven challenging this month but none the less, here it is. Even though Pride month is officially over, the summer party season in the northern hemisphere is still in full swing so I wanted this month's UP! to be full of energy from the outset. Kicking off the set is an excellent disco house track from The Lovefrea...

Rounding out the June edition of Pride Anthems for this year is volume 10. For this set I wanted to pump up the pace and have a blend of old and new classic Pride anthems. The set kicks off with Gloria Gaynor's iconic "I Am What I Am" before flipping to some classic Madonna, Kylie Minogue and Donna Summer. Dirty Disco contribute two fantastic mixes for Cactushead and Madonna respectively. Kesha's...

June has arrived and with it comes the latest edition of Pride Anthems. This 9th edition is filled with original classic songs that filled dance floors at Pride parties around the world as well as some updated remixes. Dirty Disco and Swishcraft Music have been putting out some truly awesome Pride remixes over the last few years and I have used three of them for this compilation. Australian female...

The May '22 edition of UP! starts off with some great commercial house hits and moves into main room floor fillers. Kicking off the set is the David Guetta, Ella Henderson & Becky Hill collaboration "Crazy What Love Can Do". Ella Henderson features again later in the set with her track "This Is Real". Division 4 turns in a funky house mix of "Sold My Soul" by Dan Slater & Zoe Badwi and Dav...

I was going through my back catalogue of podcasts and realized that it has been ten years since I posted a vocal trance episode. I don't play a lot of trance anymore but I thought I would dust off some classics for this edition. Remixers such as Darren Tate, Lange, Airbase, Darude and Le Nord turn in amazing efforts on this traditional vocal trance collection. These 10 tracks hit a little harder t...

The April '22 edition of UP! is a little late coming out admittedly, but makes up for it with a collection of funky and big room house vocals. I've used quite a few male vocals on this edition as well. The set kicks off with the song "Trust" followed by Becky Hill's "Run". TRAIG has been pumping out some new music and his latest "High On You" gets the Division 4 remix treatment. Some funky house t...