Welcome to Showcasing House Music DJ Mixes by dattrax!!                                                  House Music to me is a flood of memories, images & feelings into my mind of good times & complete bliss. Music is so powerful in connecting our memories to particular songs or styles of music. Being at a party with loud house music and people everywhere with smiles plastered on their faces is like living your own music video fusing together the powerful elements of music + imagery.When I got into house I had just moved out of my abusive, dictatorial guardian's home, finishing high school and having my first taste of freedom. Having choices was good for my love of house music to develop, but bad for the smoking, drinking, etc, etc.I met my best friend, DJ partner and business partner of almost 20yrs, Jim on the streets of downtown Toronto- both looking for that next fix- a warehouse party. All word of mouth and looking in the usual spots where the last one was held- no flyer people, cellphones, facebook, twitter, etc. How did the scene even grow?These were empty spaces where they charged $5 a head and $5 a beer and they started at 1am back when last call in Toronto was 12:45am, not 1:45am. Sidenote: changing of last call ushered in the superclubs and destroyed the underground warehouse scene in Toronto. Dark with candles sometimes, a DJ on two technics 1200s, a mixer (with no single channel EQs back then) and 4-6 crappy speakers that are not crystal clear like speakers at venues these days. They had this hallow mid-range sound, we dubbed it the 'warehouse sound'. Parties usually finishing at 7am- WOW, what a time.Once we experienced two songs seamlessly blended together by an expert DJ in a smoke filled dark, dingy room, with 100+ people dancing up a storm, never went back to normal popular music.We were always trying to chase that rush of emotions... that last slamming party... that last great DJ mix tape... that last hot mix that gave you goosebumps and made you pump your hands in the air.So for every good party we went to 6-8 poor ones. For every great DJ mix tape you got 5-6 crappy ones, etc., etc. Chasing the illusion of fulfillment.Despite all of that... find someone anywhere in the world who likes house and you have an instant connection. House is so uplifting and unifying.---------------Reach out to us and comment if you like our mixes. Just Google 'dattrax' and you'll find all places online that we've been a part of. Please share with other like-minded individuals.---------------As always - massive thanks to the amazing vocalists, producers, DJs and dancers (even in your homes or while walking about) for their incredible advancement of this beautiful musical genre!! Makes us all feel young, vibrant and extremely happy!!---------------There's a PayPal donate button on the right if you're on our main Podomatic site if you want to buy us a beer to say cheers ; )Our PayPal donation email if you are listening to our mixes on another platform. Any amount of support is welcomed. We appreciate you! [email protected] ---------------Our main mix site: https://dattrax.podomatic.com/ or at: https://www.podomatic.com/podcasts/dattrax or Google "dattrax" and find the Podomatic link.THIS IS THE BEST OPTION: You can download the free "Podomatic" app, sign up with your email, then search 'dattrax' and subscribe to 'house music by dattrax'. It has a cute pic of my youngest boy when he was little and over my DJ mixer. BOOM!! 120+ mixes, the last 27yrs of our lives in the crack of time between family, friends and work.---------------This is an all vinyl house mix.

Welcome to Showcasing House Music DJ Mixes by dattrax!!                                                  Hello Fellow House Fiends!! Excited to share this new mix with you! A few classic house vocal tracks and a few old house labels with new tracks! A ton of new tracks from Traxsource.Hope you're all well and staying positive in the country that you're in!Not much on this end. Been working from home for the past almost 19 months and going back to the office next week. Been just my doggie, Tommy and I + my laptop for full-time work and freelance consulting.I usually make a mix once a week on a Sat or Sun morning or afternoon. Listen to house every evening.Hope these lockdowns are over or almost over in whereever you live. Let's start living like human beings again!! Dance again!! Been alone so long, probably want to slowly ease into the old 'normal'.All the best to you and we hope that you enjoy this mix and that it makes you feel good and smile. House Music all night long!!Photo Credit on Instagram: @Phobybai---------------Reach out to us and comment if you like our mixes. Just Google 'dattrax' and you'll find all places online that we've been a part of. Please share with other like-minded individuals.---------------There's a PayPal donate button on the right if you're on our main Podomatic site if you want to buy us a beer to say cheers ; )Our PayPal donation email if you are listening to our mixes on another platform. Any amount of support is welcomed. We appreciate you! [email protected] tracks in 2hrs and 60mins!!As always - massive thanks to the amazing vocalists, producers, DJs and dancers (even in your homes or while walking about) for their incredible advancement of this beautiful musical genre!! Makes us all feel young, vibrant and extremely happy!!Bless You feat. Mikael Simpson - Album Version Lulu Rouge Music For DreamsMoving Light Miguel Migs, Lisa Shaw Salted MusicSilver Sun Miguel Migs, Aya Soulfuric DeepOn My Way (Deep Mix) Octopuz Ancestral RecordingsStay Dirtytwo Peking HouseSilly Girl EP (Munted) Eric Johnston Archipel MusiqueBind (Rampa Remix - Timmy Regisford Edit) Howling, Rampa, Timmy Regisford NervousIt's You Black Motion, Miss P DefectedWho Are You Tonight (Jackie Komutatsu Remix) Allies For Everyone, Jackie Komutatsu Motek MusicInto The Sun Damian Lazarus, Jem Cooke Crosstown RebelsI got somebody new, MAW mixEmptiness (Hyenah's Raw Beat Remix) Andre Lodemann, Hyenah Best Works RecordsLonely C feat. Charles Levine - Unmixed Soul ClapLast Night (Vocal Mix) Amber Jolene, MetteSTake It Out (Sean Thomas Drumsong Remix) Saturn Never Sleeps Get Physical MusicPhezulu Reloaded Blanka Mazimela, Khonaye Get PhysicalBroke My Heart (Original Mix) Legit Trip SvobodaIt's Over Now (ET Edit) - 320 MP3 not AIFFSun Ra Was Right (Kususa Remix) STUDIO APARTMENT, Monique Bingham, Kususa N.E.O.NIn Another Life (Saint Evo Remix) Native P., Nuzu Deep, Saint Evo Celsius Degree RecordsRush (Franky Rizardo Remix) Lost Arcade, Cassandra Braslin, Franky Rizardo Lost Arcade RecordsRemember (Original Mix) Made By Pete, Hilton Caswell, Jem Cooke MadTech RecordsAftermath (Original) Culoe De Song Watergate RecordsForever Young (The Deepshakerz Rework) Rone White, Rowen Clark, The Deepshakerz Safe MusicTill It’s Gone (Original Mix) Steve Bug, Delhia De France Poker FlatGoing On (Original Mix) Alkalino AudazCome on baby (Original Mix) Erik Bo Funk MansionInvisions (Luke Solomon Body Vocal Mix) Luca C & Brigante, Roisin Murphy, Luke Solomon Hot CreationsCover Me (Dixon Remix) Depeche Mode, Dixon Untergrundbahn Records---------------Our main mix site: https://dattrax.podomatic.com/ or at: https://www.podomatic.com/podcasts/dattrax or Google "dattrax" and find the Podomatic link.THIS IS THE BEST OPTION: You can download the free "Podomatic" app, sign up with your email, then search 'datt(continued)

Welcome to Showcasing House Music DJ Mixes by dattrax!!                                                  We hope that you enjoy this techy house mix in our vocal style. Hard-edged tracks in a charging energy.---------------Reach out to us and comment if you like our mixes. Just Google 'dattrax' and you'll find all places online that we've been a part of. Please share with other like-minded individuals.---------------There's a PayPal donate button on the right if you're on our main Podomatic site if you want to buy us a beer to say cheers ; )Our PayPal donation email if you are listening to our mixes on another platform. Any amount of support is welcomed. We appreciate you! [email protected] always - massive thanks to the amazing vocalists, producers, DJs and dancers (even in your homes or while walking about) for their incredible advancement of this beautiful musical genre!! Makes us all feel young, vibrant and extremely happy!!---------------Our main mix site: https://dattrax.podomatic.com/ or at: https://www.podomatic.com/podcasts/dattrax or Google "dattrax" and find the Podomatic link.THIS IS THE BEST OPTION: You can download the free "Podomatic" app, sign up with your email, then search 'dattrax' and subscribe to 'house music by dattrax'. It has a cute pic of my youngest boy when he was little and over my DJ mixer. BOOM!! 120+ mixes, the last 27yrs of our lives in the crack of time between family, friends and work.---------------All tracks bought from https://www.beatport.com/This is an all CD house mix.

Welcome to Showcasing House Music DJ Mixes by dattrax!!                                                  Just love the 1st instrumental track by Silicone Soul. The feel reminds me of Fingers Inc.'s Mystery of Love Instrumental. Just stomp your feet SICK! I found it in the 'electronica top 100 downloads' at Beatport.com. You have to look everywhere, don't let other people's labeling limit or confuse you. When you hear house, you'll recognise it.The first track is the most important in the mix. It sets the mood. There are few house tracks with nice intros and even if there are, you mix through them, so beginning of mixes are fun to highlight a favourite. You don't want to pick one with a 3min or more intro because this will turn people off from relistening to the mix.Next you EQ it the way that you like tracks to generally sound. Too bad there is no EQ, Volume or Compression Standard. Every song is made so differently, which is a good thing to have such a variety of house music to choose from. I prefer less bass and more hi's. When the bass is farting/ distorting and not a tight punchy kick, then it needs to be lowered. Jim's the opposite, he loves bass! The track sounds flat (not vibrant) if there is too much bass and not enough hi's.Some tracks have too much compression so the hi's stab your ear in a bad way, so you have to lower it. Some tracks with vocals, congos, guitars, or washes that may have the mid's too high and that produces a result as annoying as nails on a chalkboard, so you have to lower the mid's.Jim: Some tracks are produced and mastered too well relative to most house tracks and the volume is much greater and you have to know/ remember to compensate so that you have even levels.Next you pick the speed. We prefer mixes at 126bpms, not more than 128 (sometimes you get out of control when not paying attention). Can't believe that we grew up listening and dancing to house at 123bpms or less. Everything in electronic music keeps going faster and more aggressive over the years. Most of the 'deep house' that is coming out (and for the last year 2009) has elements of electro, tech & minimal house. A lot less organic sounding.---------------Reach out to us and comment if you like our mixes. Just Google 'dattrax' and you'll find all places online that we've been a part of. Please share with other like-minded individuals.---------------There's a PayPal donate button on the right if you're on our main Podomatic site if you want to buy us a beer to say cheers ; )Our PayPal donation email if you are listening to our mixes on another platform. Any amount of support is welcomed. We appreciate you! [email protected] always - massive thanks to the amazing vocalists, producers, DJs and dancers (even in your homes or while walking about) for their incredible advancement of this beautiful musical genre!! Makes us all feel young, vibrant and extremely happy!! ---------------Our main mix site: https://dattrax.podomatic.com/ or at: https://www.podomatic.com/podcasts/dattrax or Google "dattrax" and find the Podomatic link.THIS IS THE BEST OPTION: You can download the free "Podomatic" app, sign up with your email, then search 'dattrax' and subscribe to 'house music by dattrax'. It has a cute pic of my youngest boy when he was little and over my DJ mixer. BOOM!! 120+ mixes, the last 27yrs of our lives in the crack of time between family, friends and work.This was an all CD house mix.

Welcome to Showcasing House Music DJ Mixes by dattrax!!                                                 For me house music is an escape vehicle from the things that don't excite me about my life or stresses me out, so in those pockets of time that I spend related to house/ DJing, I enjoy it that much more. House Music is therapeutic in that it relaxes me. Other guys love sports, or are zoned out to TV. I don't care for that stuff.Imprinted, MixOne and Two are filled with tracks bought from Beatport.com. Techy, minimal, but still funky with fat house basslines and crisp high hats. Very little vocals on these two mixes aside from the dubby vocal washes and tracks with repetitive one liners.Or I could be wrong, less than usual, I should say. I love vocals laced into cool house instrumentals, because I don't believe you remember an hour of pounding tech and minimal house by itself. I am not criticizing, don't misunderstand. I love listening to top techhouse DJs like Alland Byallo and have a ton of tech and minimal house.But if they were layered with hot vocals, then the tech and minimal house will invigorate the vocals, making them that much better and exciting, and the vocals will imprint a positive memory of the mix into the listener's minds. That's why you can play one bar of a classic house track and the HouseHeadz will start singing. HOUSE KARAOKE.No one remembers a instrumental. People don't ask DJs: "What's that song that goes BOOM, BOOM, BOOM, WAHHH, DUCKP, UMPH???" They don't ask because they don't care.I love the feel of this mix. Charging and aggressive without being annoying/ irritating. You don't have to play hard and abrasive music to have a harder feel.Continued next mix...---------------Reach out to us and comment if you like our mixes. Just Google 'dattrax' and you'll find all places online that we've been a part of. Please share with other like-minded individuals.---------------There's a PayPal donate button on the right if you're on our main Podomatic site if you want to buy us a beer to say cheers ; )Our PayPal donation email if you are listening to our mixes on another platform. Any amount of support is welcomed. We appreciate you! [email protected] always - massive thanks to the amazing vocalists, producers, DJs and dancers (even in your homes or while walking about) for their incredible advancement of this beautiful musical genre!! Makes us all feel young, vibrant and extremely happy!!---------------Our main mix site: https://dattrax.podomatic.com/ or at: https://www.podomatic.com/podcasts/dattrax or Google "dattrax" and find the Podomatic link.THIS IS THE BEST OPTION: You can download the free "Podomatic" app, sign up with your email, then search 'dattrax' and subscribe to 'house music by dattrax'. It has a cute pic of my youngest boy when he was little and over my DJ mixer. BOOM!! 120+ mixes, the last 27yrs of our lives in the crack of time between family, friends and work.---------------This was an all CD house mix.

Welcome to Showcasing House Music DJ Mixes by dattrax!!                                                  I friend of mine posted a hand held video clip of George Michael singing "Everything She Wants" and the energy was electric because everyone in the audience loved that song and knew the words. Jim and I have been mixing 80s pop tunes into house sets years before "MashUp" came around (Mash Up: remixes of popular songs layered with instrumentals from other popular songs or hip hop/ rnb beats).We grew up with 80s pop and love it!This mix starts off with 'Everything She Wants' by Wham and in the middle has Duran Duran's 'Wild Boys'. Both pop songs were mixed w/ a house instrumental and then burned as a single song each and played with the rest of the tracks on two Technics SL-DZ 1000's and a Pioneer DJM-500 mixer.House Music to us is taking any house track that you love and mix it with any song that you like to hear on top of your favourite house tracks.I remember before DJing. My first 'mixed tapes' were made from me recording 3hrs of this house music radio show on fri ngts. Yes, multiple 90min cassette tapes! Then listening and fast forwarding to songs that I liked. Then copying each song into a new cassette tape. VOILA! My favourite songs in maybe 2-3 weeks shows in one 90min tape! Pain staking, but worth it. This was before people complained about not having enough GIGS in their ipods or cellphones!---------------Reach out to us and comment if you like our mixes. Just Google 'dattrax' and you'll find all places online that we've been a part of. Please share with other like-minded individuals.---------------There's a PayPal donate button on the right if you're on our main Podomatic site if you want to buy us a beer to say cheers ; )Our PayPal donation email if you are listening to our mixes on another platform. Any amount of support is welcomed. We appreciate you! [email protected] always - massive thanks to the amazing vocalists, producers, DJs and dancers (even in your homes or while walking about) for their incredible advancement of this beautiful musical genre!! Makes us all feel young, vibrant and extremely happy!! ---------------Our main mix site: https://dattrax.podomatic.com/ or at: https://www.podomatic.com/podcasts/dattrax or Google "dattrax" and find the Podomatic link.THIS IS THE BEST OPTION: You can download the free "Podomatic" app, sign up with your email, then search 'dattrax' and subscribe to 'house music by dattrax'. It has a cute pic of my youngest boy when he was little and over my DJ mixer. BOOM!! 120+ mixes, the last 27yrs of our lives in the crack of time between family, friends and work.---------------All tracks bought from https://www.traxsource.com/ and https://www.beatport.com/This was an all CD house mix.

Welcome to Showcasing House Music DJ Mixes by dattrax!!                                                  Beginning to end this mix is filled with vocals that make you do that little whisper to yourself... "wow". Techy and funky house beats underlying it all. Topped off with smooth, yet aggressive movement from track to track.We hope this mix makes you say to yourself: "this is one of the reasons why I LOVE HOUSE MUSIC". We hope that you enjoy it as much as it was to make it.---------------Reach out to us and comment if you like our mixes. Just Google 'dattrax' and you'll find all places online that we've been a part of. Please share with other like-minded individuals.---------------There's a PayPal donate button on the right if you're on our main Podomatic site if you want to buy us a beer to say cheers ; )Our PayPal donation email if you are listening to our mixes on another platform. Any amount of support is welcomed. We appreciate you! [email protected] always - massive thanks to the amazing vocalists, producers, DJs and dancers (even in your homes or while walking about) for their incredible advancement of this beautiful musical genre!! Makes us all feel young, vibrant and extremely happy!! ---------------Our main mix site: https://dattrax.podomatic.com/ or at: https://www.podomatic.com/podcasts/dattrax or Google "dattrax" and find the Podomatic link.THIS IS THE BEST OPTION: You can download the free "Podomatic" app, sign up with your email, then search 'dattrax' and subscribe to 'house music by dattrax'. It has a cute pic of my youngest boy when he was little and over my DJ mixer. BOOM!! 120+ mixes, the last 27yrs of our lives in the crack of time between family, friends and work.---------------All tracks bought from https://www.traxsource.com/ and https://www.beatport.com/This was an all CD house mix.

Welcome to Showcasing House Music DJ Mixes by dattrax!!                                                  This mix was made w/ two technics 1200 vinyl turntables, pioneer djm-500 mixer, rane SL1 convertor box, and serato scratch live dj software, itunes playlists and sony soundforge for recording.Borrowed a friend's serato/ rane set up and it is a blast. Had more fun making this mix than most of the last gigs w/ mixing w/ cds. Made about 1/2 a dozen mixes before this on serato. "Mainstay, MixTwo" was made w/ serato/ rane set up.This is the best of the fusion of digital music files and the tactile control of vinyl turntables. What I did was loaded around 250 tracks into itunes library. Then made six playlists of mp3/ wave tracks titled: instrumental.mellow, ".medium, ".harder & vocal.mellow, ".medium, ".harder because the problem w/ digital tracks is that if you are not organised you can't create a good groove/ flow through a mix. It was a lot easier when it was vinyl because you picked 100 records for an hour gig (this gave you a choice of 3-4records to choose from for every track you played) and your brain remembered the colour of the sleeves, the sticker label on each side A or B, the name of the label or artists, you knew exactly where your favourite track was.With digital, when you buy 20-30tracks per week and your collection accumulates fast, you don't know what is what because the names are just words. Even when you do what we do, and burn onto single cds, it gets difficult because it's our chicken scratch w/ black permanent marker on silver blank cds. W/ cds we organised vocals in different carrying folders than instrumentals. I've seen a lot of local DJs burn 12-15+ tracks on one disk w/ a paper list in the insert of the holder. It's too confusing to create a vibe- too much music.It's faster using serato, then thumbing through folders for cds. Select the folder (playlist in itunes since serato syncs to itunes), then scroll to desired track, then click and drag into the serato software interface- left or right side turntable on screen. Now because of the rane SL1 box, the track is calibrated to the vinyl for instant response. It's the coolest thing. Playing digital tracks on vinyl is amazing! Nothing beats the tactile feel of vinyl for mixing. It's such a blast! Can't wait to try traxtor's system. From what I'm seeing on websites/ youtube etc, it looks like traxtor is more flexible. I'm sure there are tons of bells & whistles that I don't know about in serato, but my friend needs his stuff back soon, so I'll just keep to basics.The djm500 mixer is still one of my favourite dj mixers to play on. Love how the buttons, knobs, crossfader feel. The efx are simple to use and lots of fun to play around with (hope i didn't do too many to make this mix annoying or anything).---------------Reach out to us and comment if you like our mixes. Just Google 'dattrax' and you'll find all places online that we've been a part of. Please share with other like-minded individuals.---------------There's a PayPal donate button on the right if you're on our main Podomatic site if you want to buy us a beer to say cheers ; )Our PayPal donation email if you are listening to our mixes on another platform. Any amount of support is welcomed. We appreciate you! [email protected] always - massive thanks to the amazing vocalists, producers, DJs and dancers (even in your homes or while walking about) for their incredible advancement of this beautiful musical genre!! Makes us all feel young, vibrant and extremely happy!! ---------------Our main mix site: https://dattrax.podomatic.com/ or at: https://www.podomatic.com/podcasts/dattrax or Google "dattrax" and find the Podomatic link.THIS IS THE BEST OPTION: You can download the free "Podomatic" app, sign up with your email, then search 'dattrax'(continued)

Welcome to Showcasing House Music DJ Mixes by dattrax!!                                                  The pandemic lockdown madness hopefully is coming to an end. Our restaurants opened up about a month ago. It's so good to see the smiling faces in the streets. I hope that whereever you are that things are getting better for you.Thank you for stopping by and taking a listen. This mix is filled with great vocals and funky and techy house music. Crank it up and feel it in your gut while listening to this. Enjoy!!---------------Reach out to us and comment if you like our mixes. Just Google 'dattrax' and you'll find all places online that we've been a part of. Please share with other like-minded individuals.---------------There's a PayPal donate button on the right if you're on our main Podomatic site if you want to buy us a beer to say cheers ; )Our PayPal donation email if you are listening to our mixes on another platform. Any amount of support is welcomed. We appreciate you! [email protected] Tracks in 2hrs and 23mins!!As always - massive thanks to the amazing vocalists, producers, DJs and dancers (even in your homes or while walking about) for their incredible advancement of this beautiful musical genre!! Makes us all feel young, vibrant and extremely happy!!Your Voice (Enoo Napa Remix) Caiiro, AWEN, Enoo Napa Madorasindahouse RecordsCardiology - Original Mix Recloose PlayhouseThe Point feat. J.A.M.O.N. - Justin Harris Remix Jake Childs Pin Up RecordingsAlone With You (Featuring Carl L. Finlow) John Tejada Plug ResearchSweep - Mikkel Metal Reshape Vox Blue Foundation RenaissanceRight Here - Original Mix Gavin Herlihy, James Barnsley Get Physical MusicWhy Does The Wind? - Morgan Geist Remix Tracey Thorn Buzzin' Fly RecordsI <3 U SO feat. Tom Cowcher - Bowski 2AM Remix Cassius Colours Of You - Riton Re-Rub Tama Waipara Regards From Hamburg (Mick Thammer - Before After (Extended Mix)) Various Artists Whirlpoolsex MusicConnected (Original Mix) Walker & Royce Off RecordingsYou Can't Hide From Your Bud - Original Mix DJ Sneak Classic RecordingsCircus feat. Cagedbaby - Magik Johnson Remix Analog People In A Digital World HystericalHello Chicago - Original Mix Giulio Lnt Autan RecordsShining Star (Joe Goddard Remix) Nneka Without You (Will Clarke Cuddle Cut Remix) Riva Starr CajualEstupendo (Gui Boratto Remix) Arsenal Play Out! RecordingsWestern Starland (Original Mix) John Tejada, Arian Leviste Whatpeopleplay RecordsIn Common (Black Coffee Remix) Alicia Keys RCA Records LabelHotflash! - Original Mix Oliver $ Grandpetrol RecordingsBig Jet Plane (Niconé Remix) Jan Blomqvist DantzeShades Of Marble - KiNK Remix Trentemoller Strange Creatures (Original Mix) John Tejada Plug ResearchPop Muzak - Martin Solveig Electro Disco Mix Mousse T, Roachford HiFi StoriesNeedy Girl (Lifelike Remix) Chromeo Vice RecordsAddiction - Original Mix Prompt Highgrade Records (Germany)Daylight - Morgan Page Remix Sunny Levine QuangoGarden &ME KeinemusikAbracadabra - John Larner Remix Greenskeepers Starchild (Hyenah Remix) Frankey, Sandrino, Hyenah Drumpoet CommunityJazzy Take Way Ep (Avocado Nigiri (Moodymanc Remix)) MaStaFaktor Apparel Musicmrpatron_thriller_tequilatrax Lovebreak Phonique DessousLet Love Decide feat. Roland Clark (Art Department Remix) Roland Clark, X-Press 2 Skint RecordsLizard (The Good Track) Phonique DessousJust For feat. Walter Phillips - '10 Mix Bonus Track Cajmere, Walter Phillips Cajual Records ---------------Our main mix site: https://dattrax.podomatic.com/ or at: https://www.podomatic.com/podcasts/dattrax or Google "dattrax" and find the Podomatic link.THIS IS THE BEST OPTION: You can download the free "Podomatic" app, sign up with your email, then search 'dattrax' and subscribe to 'house music by dattrax'. It has a cute pic of my youngest boy when he was(continued)

Welcome to Showcasing House Music DJ Mixes by dattrax!!

My DJ Friends often called hunting for great tracks, "Junk Hunting". That's what we all do who love spinning House, don't we? We went though beatport.com & traxsource.com for weeks and probably listened to 2500+ tracks to buy 68 between the both of us. Jim took beatport and I took traxsource. I think our total bill was less than $140 bucks. In the vinyl days, it would have cost at least $1300 for 68EPs. Yup, it was $16.99 (b4 taxes!) for a 4 track EP or 2Trx double sided 12" or sometimes 1Trx, one sided bootleg. We usually only bought an EP for one cut. The GOOSE BUMP/ FIST IN THE AIR CUT.

NOTE: w/ the exception of track#2 in this mix, which is a gorgeous SADE bootleg made by Jason B. of SoulFusionExpress fame in Toronto and given to me by an amazing DJ that I met online, Said Chaara.

This is the fourth mix after we both bought from those mp3 stores. First one that we're posting. We are like kids on Christmas morning. Nothing like listening to a batch of new house w/ your best friend and DJ partner of almost 20yrs. We listened to the tracks for a few days first.

Have enough tracks for a second mix. Going to raid stompy.com (Update: No longer in business. We now only buy from https://www.traxsource.com/ and https://www.beatport.com/ ) in next week first. It'd be nice to find 20 or more tracks there (We can only hope).

Made w/ two pioneer 1000 cd turntables and an Allen & Heath XONE: 92 mixer and a pair of crappy headphones (Jim was hogging the good pair!). The instruments in these headphones didn't sound distinct enough and it wasn't loud enough!

Sidenote: Invest in good headphones if you want to DJ, it'll make your experiences so much better- spend at least $200 on a pair. At the same time, work w/ what you have and start listening, collecting and MIXING!

We hope you like this mix, it was made w/ childlike wonder & youthful love at this music we call HOUSE.

As always - massive thanks to the amazing vocalists, producers, DJs and dancers (even in your homes or while walking about) for their incredible advancement of this beautiful musical genre!! Makes us all feel young, vibrant and extremely happy!!

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Reach out to us and comment if you like our mixes. Just Google 'dattrax' and you'll find all places online that we've been a part of. Please share with other like-minded individuals.

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Our PayPal donation email if you are listening to our mixes on another platform. Any amount of support is welcomed. We appreciate you! [email protected]

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Our main mix site: https://dattrax.podomatic.com/ or at: https://www.podomatic.com/podcasts/dattrax or Google "dattrax" and find the Podomatic link.

THIS IS THE BEST OPTION: You can download the free "Podomatic" app, sign up with your email, then search 'dattrax' and subscribe to 'house music by dattrax'. It has a cute pic of my youngest boy when he was little and over my DJ mixer. BOOM!! 120+ mixes, the last 27yrs of our lives in the crack of time between family, friends and work.