My first official guest DJ at the Textures Club night down at Amsterdamn Rhino Josh Miller is up this month with a wickedly progressive set a la Sasha and Diggers back around '99.

Josh's Comments follow:

When Rob asked me to open for his first night at the Amsterdam Rhino I was pretty excited.  Then I realized I hadn't played out in several years and I should probably get my sh*t together...  All that biking, skiing not to mention work have really cut into the DJ'ing time as of late, so it was a great incentive to get back into it!  

Then I got to thinking "you know Josh, you just bought that fancy new Macbook.  Why not buy a midi controller and put that thing to use"  So, I proceeded to get Ableton Live and get to work.  Now for those of you who aren't familiar with Ableton, it's a fantastic program that allows you to play multiple tracks and loops, add lots of effects and generally have as much control over the music as you can dream up.  The upside - the ability to go beyond the track and not having to beatmatch (I hope after nearly 10 years of playing records I don't have to prove to people that I can mix).  The downside - concentration central.   Playing this set took FAR more concentration and work than had I just played CD's, and it wouldn't have come with a bunch of the fun add ons.  The real issue is that I didn't get a chance to drink my beer often enough =)  All in all, it's a pretty fun way to play music.  Not sure I would want to play that way all the time, but I'm definitely going to continue to explore it for a while.

This set is basically the same as what I played at the Rhino to open up for Rob.  It's starts off pretty chill, then I took it techy for a while before getting into more rippin' progressive.  The people that were in the basement that night seemed pretty into it - so I hope you enjoy too!

Josh.
yoshmiller @ gmail . com

Track Listing
1. Powerplant - Overcast (Jay Tripwire remix)
2. Bongo Man - Bites (Tech edit)
3. Lesvicon Soul - The One (Nic Lerner remix)
4. Bongo Man - Guranga
5. Terry Francis and Haris - Smiling and Smiling
6. Mighty Dub Katz - Guaguanco (Tom Middleton Deep Dub)
7. Bongo Man - The Truth
8. Visitor
9. Kenneth Graham
10. The Producers - Influx
11. Prompt - Evolve
12. James Zabiela - Human (JMIL edit)
13. The Producers - Shakin Dub
14. Jamayka
15. The Real Jazz
16. H Foundation - Chic-O-Laa
17. John Acquaviva - No Fear (Trick and Kubic remix)
18. Todd Terry - I'm Feeling It (JMIL edit)
19. Jem Stone and J.C. - Disco Daze
20. Alcatraz - Giv Me Luv (Dean Coleman remix)
21. Jeff Bennett - Trial Problems (Kriece remix)
22. Viscid- Crazy (Tony Tomas remix - JMIL edit)
23. Jay Tripwire + Grant Dell - Purdy Mouth (Stephan Brandt mix)
24. Bongo Man - Swinging It
25. Space Safari - Burning (JMIL edit)
26. Bongo Man - Chaser
27. John Dahlback - Blink (D.O.N.S. & DBN Chainsaw remix)
28. Burufunk - Community Funk (Deadmau5 remix)