Deep Reactions with Catalyst

The awesome producer/DJ Nora En Pure was in town for a show on the day I played this set; so I channeled the vibe and tried to my best to mimic Nora En Pure (including some tunes by the lady herself).

Like this set? As always, I will appreciate it if you Favorite, Repost, and Subscribe. It was cloudy, rainy, and 50kph wind where I live on the day I played this. So it was "hunker down in the storm", and play some dark-skies music. But, even with that foundation, this set is brilliant, no! :-)

Recording of my live set played at Balearic-FM.com on 2021-May-28. I didn't start out with an intent to play a Tech House set. I actually spoke of a more Defected Records direction in my intro voice-over. BUT, the on-the-fly choices I made as I was spinning the first 3-5 tracks just trended that direction. So, I embraced the direction and made the most of it. A couple of tracks from popular names...

A delayed posting of a set played live 2021 May 14. (Sorry for the delay!) It's becoming clear (thus the set name ;-) that our station is attracting some new DJs. There are four that have signed up to work with us, and a couple of more are submitting sets for review. But we need more, so spread the word. Hopefully this set brings some "clear"ness to your day, with tunes from Crackazat, Camilo Fran...

It's been a while since I uploaded here. I'm playing at Balearic FM these days, and everything is in rotation there. BUT, I loved this Gospel House set, and thought it might be happy to share it here.

A delayed posting of a set played live 2021 May 14. (Sorry for the delay!) It's becoming clear (thus the set name ;-) that my station is attracting some new DJs. There are four that have signed up to spin, and a couple of more are submitting sets for review. But we need more, so spread the word. Hopefully this set brings some "clear"ness to your day, with tunes from Crackazat, Camilo Franco, a new...

Recording of set played live at Balearic FM on 2021-Jun-04. Lots of straight-up house with a good beat after the deep house warmup. Tunes from well known artists like DJ Seen, Kevin Yost, Even Ulusoy, Reelsoul, Grant Nelson and more, plus a bunch of tracks from great producers you don't know. Like and re-post the set, and follow the station - see https://blalearic-fm.com, or soundcloud.com/baleari...

Recording of my set played live at Balearic FM on 2021 May 07. As the warm weather returns and vaccines enable a return to traveling, many are making plans to go to Ibiza this summer. We hope you are! This set starts with some warm-weather deep house, and moves into an extended bunch of soulful house in the 2nd half with music from the likes of DJ Spen, Sebb Junior, Booker T and Brutha Basil, Fran...

This is a recording of the live set at I spun on Balearic FM on 2021 April 30. Spirits across *most* of the world are looking up as Covid recedes (as vaccine's get into arms). So this set is chock full of soulful, gospel-ey, deep house with a good bit of swing & funk to lift your spirits. Classic tunes from Ananda Project, Frankie Knuckles and Crazibiza, modern remixes from Dr. Packer and Seamus H...

Recording of my live broadcast at the station on 2021 April 23. Support the station by reposting this mix, and sharing the website with your friends (https://balearic-fm.com). This set starts off with some Deep House to get you started on your Friday evening, then works its way to some more straight-up house, thru tech house all the way to some full-on techno to finish the set. - with an awesome t...

Recorded live at Balearic FM radio station (balearic-fm.com) on 2021 April 16. LOTS of listeners from many places around the globe today. Good stuff! Tunes today from all kinds of great producers you know, including Kerri Chandler, Copyright, Jamie Lewis, and ones you don't like Toby Tobias, jovonn, Brame & Hamo, Salvia Commandos, and more. Tell your friends about the station, and encourage them t...

Recorded live on 2021-04-02 at Balearic-FM.com, 3-5pm EDT. Reminder that this is a new station for me, and I'd appreciate you spreading the word. Good music plays 24x7, and a full live DJ roster is being built out. Tell your DJ friends to apply for a residency slot (website above). This past week was the anniversary of the passing of Frankie Knuckles. Are you familiar with his tunes? If not, you'l...

This is a set from the new internet radio station I've switched to: Balearic FM Come listen at either https://balearic-fm.com, or find the station on TuneIn (or other internet radio apps)). My live-play time slot is 3-5pm Eastern Time on Fridays. I'll have a bit more musical freedom here than at my old residency (dogglounge.com). I played there for many years, and loved every set I played with tha...

This is a 1-hour set (vs. normal 2) because of a time-schedule collision with the DJ on the station before me. This is more from the crate I assembled for last-show's "notable tunes from my first 150 shows". Recorded live at Dogglounge.com on 2021 Mar 19. Photo credit: Walter Mendez Rojas at Unsplash

As my 150th broadcast at the station, I collected 2-300 of songs I liked from the previous 149 sets into a digital crate from which to select this set of 34 as I went along. So the song style varies quite a lot, from straight-up deep house all the way to heavy tech house at the end. I hope you've enjoyed the last 150 sets, and will stay with me for (at least) the next 150. Photo credit: Sam Sommer...

Recorded live on 2021 Mar 05, just AFTER I got home from Miami. I couldn't completely shake the high energy of Miami, so there was some "residual energy" in this set - less than my last one, but still some fun here. Tracks by all kinds of greats - Atjazz, Two Armadillos, Demarkus Lewis, Low Steppa, Keri Chandler, David Harness, and many great tracks by lesser-names like Boosh, Dee Montero, Mike D,...

Recorded live on 2021-02-19 while I was in Miami, FL, filled with tracks that reflect the fun energy of Miami. Includes tons of new and old tracks from producers you know, and don't know - like Kerri Chandler, DJ Aakmael, Atjazz, Ben Remember, Anna Tur, Nicolas Masseyeff, and many more.

My normal Friday residency slot crept up on me, and I hadn't prepared as well as I maybe ought to have. So, this one is a bit ad-lib. But, it turned out pretty good. I hope you enjoy tracks from a WHOLE BUNCH of unsung producers that aren't household names, but are pretty darn good, including Lady Alma, Marquis Hawkes, Masaki Morii, Austin Ato, Phaze Dee -- along with others you DO know like Demar...

Nothing major to say this episode, except that I really grabbed ahold of a feel, and ran with it. Pretty un-planned, but it came out good. Tracks from Sebb Junior, The Cube Guys, Shur-I-Kan, Hot Since 82, Dennis Ferrer, Atjazz, Ministry of Funk, and many more. Photo credit: Dan Gold at Unsplash

With a general theme inspired by my lead-in DJ (Voodoo Lopez), this set is full of tracks that have a good bass rhythm. Do you feel the funk & swing in it? Tracks include tunes from Junior Jack, Basi Grub, Photek, Kerri Chandler, The Deepshakerz, NY Stomp & more. Cover art by Ryan Christodoulou at Unsplash.

Tunes that I bought right before the set, and so were mostly new to me. Thus, I had to "wing it"😉 But, many from names we know and trust - like Jimpster, Kerri Chandler, Sebb Junior, Ross Couch, and more. Plus names that might be new to all of us - Betty Bizarre, Mr Bootsauce, Tommy Boccuto, and others. But the vibe is right down the middle of my alley, so if you've liked what you've heard from m...

Recorded at the end of the week where rioters (first) stormed the US Capitol in a minor insurrection. So, this set is full of elegant, classic deep house tunes designed to calm us all the heck down, and spread a little love and peace. And if the tune had a Wurlitzer keyboard, it got high-preference in getting played ;-) Music from Roalnd Nights, dZihan & Kamien, Sebb Junior, Soul Designer, Jamie L...

Happy New Year, everyone! Thanks for all your support in 2020, and I hope I continue to earn and have your support again in 2021. This set was a "best of 2020" set. THREE HOURS of music. The first hour has new (to me) tracks selected from Traxsource's "Top 200 of 2020". The next two hours are replays of tracks I've played during 2020 that were RELEASED in 2020. There's a MASSIVE list amazing produ...

Recorded live at dogglounge.com on 2020-Dec-18. This set celebrates the hope we have that the past - a world not stopped by Covid-19 - will return again later in 2021, so we can all dance to great house music. So, this set is full of tracks from the past - nothing new. I hope you enjoy these tracks by great producers like Atjazz, Iron Curtis, Seven Davis Jr., Jimpster, Intr0beatz, Rishi K, Riva St...

This is the set I'd play if I were spinning at Blue Marlin beach club in Ibiza around 16:00. It's after lunch, everybody has plenty of Rosé wine in their blood, and these tunes would make you get up out of your beach chair and dance just a weeee bit with a glass of wine or cocktail in-hand. (Can you tell I'm missing summer in Ibiza???) I hope these tracks from Sandy Rivera, Fred Everything, Giom,...