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Hi friends, here's my set from listed's PLAY party at BPM. My set was quite early in the day with the first few guests just arriving, so I got to start things really light (as I love to do) and slowly build a vibe for Naveen to take things over followed by Three, Konrad Black, and Bill Patrick. Thanks to Mike Perry for starting the day off with some light deep grooves, too. Overall, it was a reall...

While assembling mix these last few weeks and thinking about the direction I wanted it go, I noticed that elderflower had been popping up in various points in my life. Elderflower is one of my favorite words...it's oxymoronic with the sophistication and experience of an elder contrasted by the youth of a flower in bloom. The taste itself is worth mentioning, which is delicate and sweet in nature…I...

Greetings, Earthlings. For September, we take a departure away from June+August's emo/sensitive side of house music and move towards a spacier, darker, and more driving sound. It's a sound that's been making its way into my gigs a bit more these last couple months, so it's nice to pull them into a mix. Here's a list of my upcoming gigs these next couple months, hopefully you can catch on: Sept 28...

Hello, August. I consider this month's mix as an extension of where June left off on the lighter, melodic side of deep house. Usually I try to contrast sounds from month to month, but as you may have noticed, there is an absence of a July mix which would was intended to be a darker, more driving collection of music. The truth is that kind of mix didn't work at that particular time for me, so when...

Spectrum: a broad range of varied but related ideas whose individual features overlap and form a continuous sequence. By definition, a mix is a spectrum, and in this case, a collection of songs unified and differentiated by the softer, more delicate side of house music. This mix also marks the 3 year anniversary since releasing first mix back in June 2010. After going back and listening to my firs...

I spent the last month traveling to various corners of the world. Some of the time was spent for gigs, some of the time at AfrikaBurn, and some was visiting friends and family. Amidst all the excitement, flying, partying, and jet lag, I'd often waver between desperately trying to stay awake and the opposite, hopelessly trying to fall asleep. During these bouts of insomnia, I found myself in a half...

Dynamism....from a metaphysical perspective, it's the belief that the nature of every substance contains an expression of the universe. As an artistic movement, dynamism is the capture of an objects motion - both intrinsic and relative to its environment. To me, Dynamism is the push and pull of intensity and energy. I consider this mix one of my more ambitious efforts, aiming to work through stron...

For March, we explore what I like to call the richer side of deep house. I offer deep sub-bass lows complemented by warm spacey highs, lush synth sweeps, sensual vocal hooks, and a prog-influenced resolution. Progressive house has been entering my consciousness these last few months in various manifestations. These last few years, I admittedly thought "prog" was a dirty word, but as of late I've b...

Everything goes in cycles, both at a macro and micro level. Perhaps subconsciously in response to the sensitivity of December's mix, which was in response to the thickness of November, which was in part was a response to October's delicacy, which I think may have been a turn from the intensity of my experience at Burning Man, I open February with an obvious driving (dare I say less sophisticated?)...

I had a nice time at the BPM festival this year down in Playa del Carmen, Mexico....There was consistently great music, perfect weather, and I got to see my friends from all over the world. I was lucky enough to have a chance to play a couple gigs when I was down there....Here's a recording of me playing some daytime beach tunes at the listed cityfox party at Mamita's Beach Club.... For updates on...

Taking a turn away from the driving sounds of November, December explores a more sensitive soundscape...my favorite and most comfortable style of music to play. I assembled this mix thinking about these next few winter months where lots of us friends and family gather and spend more time inside at home. These tunes may be something for a long night around the fireplace or perhaps something to rela...

For November, we explore the synthesized dark sounds of space... While melodic, these tunes are a bit bigger than the last couple months and not indulging on vocal hooks...just like outer space...a big dark beautiful place with no one around. Premiesku - E Codat Jacob Phono & Jens Bond - Su-she Deepchild - Neukolln Burning Kaarel - You Make Me Feel Better (Cesar Coronado Remix) Talal & Zoi - Dream...

"i'm just gonna talk to you for a couplea minutes and it's really important, and i really wanna get the point ova and i guess it's easy to kinda look at all of the bad things and look at the things that have been happennin' and feel a bit scared, yeah? are you scared? [...] said that he was scared and sometimes, we concentrate on the bad things that happen in life don't we? and we concentrate on t...

For August, I pull things back a bunch from where June left off. Opening at 100 bpm and climaxing at at mere 123, this mix is as much about melody (per usual) as much as restraint, two of my favorite things. Hopefully this leaves off with you wanting a little more... WhoMadeWho - Keep Me In My Plane (Max Pask Remix) Francis Harris - Living Lips Worst Friends - Del Boca Vista Jay West - As A Kite H...

I recently spent about a month traveling abroad in Asia and Europe...In Europe, I was constantly on the run between DJ gigs, sightseeing, visiting friends, and getting swindled by the Turkish mafia...Between all these adventures, I managed to find pockets of down time and over 3 weeks, assemble this mix at various European airports, airplanes, Swiss trains, Dutch coffee shops, and apartments...Thi...

I've been on an emotional streak these last few months. February, March, and April were all very sensitive mixes coming from a similar place. While I'm quite happy with all three of them, and I think they have helped focus+define what people say is my "signature sound," I'm getting a little bored with that artistic formula, so it's time to try something in a slightly different direction.... For Ma...

For April, I reach for some very melodic and emotional sounds, reminding me a bit of where I went with February and December... This mix matches the ebbs and flows of a river...perhaps a bit bi-polar in its feeling from dark to bright and dark again. I'll admit, at first, I cringed listening through feeling shifts in the mix, especially near the end...but upon reflection, I kept it as is and found...

Here's a mix I put together for my friends down at Electronic Groove. I'd consider this mix more my "classic" sound starting with a deep melodic beginning that slowly picks up intensity without getting too heavy. Hope you like it. Also, check out http://www.electronicgroove.com/ and subscribe to their podcast for more very fine mixes. 01. Rayon, Ripperton - Folkes & Flakes (Morning Mix) 02. Kiki S...

January was a month that started with several highs and ended with some lows. As I assembled this mix track by track over the month, my idea of what sounded good and felt right was unintentionally and unsurprisingly reflective of my overall mood at the time. We hear an opening with deep, nice, beautiful, slightly quirky sounds followed by an early mid section of more serious driving intense melody...

There are some tracks that just feel really good to me: the tracks that cause those tingle-type sensations that go up the back of my spine up through the top of the head...Cosmic Quivers, if you will. In this mix, the single unifying theme I went for is tracks that make me feel good. A few of the selections have been known to cause Cosmic Quivers from time to time such as the super synthy Random F...

When approaching this mix, I started by looking back on my approach to previous ones. The November mix, like many others, had a trajectory with a progression of sounds. With this mix, I wanted to try something different and specifically Not have a grand vision for a musical journey. This mix is a simply a collection pretty, melodic, "floaters" that wander around and please the ears. It's a mix I e...

Picking up where I left off in October's mix, the first half of this mix has a dark sexy bass-driven sound which seems to be the inescapable but lovable trend these days...Half way through, we transition in to a more beautiful emotional sound with my current obsession @ 32:00 with Akabu - Another World (Andre Lodeman Mix)...this one is incredibly powerful to me and can make my eyes well up if the...

The last two mixes (lemonade and snapshot of how I feel) were light, melodic, and easy on the ears. I took this mix in another direction to showcase other moods of music I like and play. In this case, I was inspired by the idea "night time" music, which I interpret as more serious, driving, and dancefloor-oriented than the last two daytime vibey ones. Overall, I think I caught a few different feel...

When working on this mix the image of a girl in sunglasses and a big gaudy hat (like this: http://bit.ly/njcrSf) drinking lemonade kept popping in my head almost every time I worked on it...Perhaps the really nice San Francisco weather we're having (and our bizarre fashion sense) influenced my track selection and visual associations. The first few tracks of this mix open with a very very delicate,...

In June, my friends and I rented a beautiful house near the water in Lake Tahoe. At the time, I had a lot stuff going through my head that I was trying to sort out and make sense of. So I ate some special treats, walked around the woods for a couple hours, hopped on the decks and recorded this set. I think this is the finest I've ever played live and the best mix I've released thus far. When I sta...