house music by dattrax

dattrax: Welcome my Fellow Brothers and Sisters to where house music resides.
How is life treating you? Are you pursuing your dreams and goals??!! Hi-Five to you!!!
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Thought that I'd share my super nerdy process for prepping tracks for a DJ gig or a new house mix.
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After I first buy and download a new batch of house music tracks from Traxsource or Bandcamp.
I usuallv listen to them separatelv for a week or two. Try to get to know and understand them.
As I listen to them over and over again, I imagine different combinations with my older house tracks that I have.

Incorporating them into my collection.
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If I'm making a new mix, then I'll start organizing them and adding a bunch of tracks that I'd want to mix with the new ones.

If I'm prepping for an upcoming DJ gig, then I'll take the most danceable tracks and put them into one large folder.
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Usuallv takes me 4 to 8 hrs to choose and organize for each gig or new mIx.

It's a therapeutic ritual and a lot of fun.

It sounds boring, but it's not because I'm imagining the different directions that I can take the night or a mix.

How do I judge how many total house tracks do I need for my gig?

If my set is 3hrs, then 1 know that the avg speed for me is changing a track every three minutes.

Other DJs like to play their tracks for 6-7mins each. Everyone has different preferences.

So I know that I' probably end up playing 60 tracks give or take,
within three hours.

Then there's the issue of choice.

Not too much or I won't have an overall feel or direction.
That's why you see young laptop DJs bring a few thousand tracks and then are all over the place.

Then I decide what I feel ike sharing. Track names will pop into my mind.

So I go through the folder and move the tracks that I really love into a 'Priority' folder

Then I go into a dozen rabbit holes.
First, I collect evervthing into one folder.
Then I make a priority folder and try to eliminate a lot

Then I'll put them into folders according to energy levels.

Mellow Vocal.
Mellow Bit Harder Vocal
Medium Mellow Vocal
Medium Dubby
Medium Instrumental

Medium level energy have the most of
IfI know thati won't be going harder, then nothing more to organize.

Med Bit Harder
Hype
Two more everv levels.
Depending on the night or mix.

Too little choice and I'm going to annoyed instead of having fun.

So I give myself 5 to 8 choices per 60 tracks.
So let's say the total is 350.

You know how many tracks and how many energy levels you want to take them on.

Choosing the very first track for your set. That's extremely important. Setting the mood and the expectation.

Then just mix, sing and dance!!! Sharing your vision of house with your dancing friends.

Interact with the dancers and try to surprise them with your combination choices.

For house music. It's al about the combinations.
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All the best to you and your loved ones.

From your friendly neighbourhood Chinaman who LOVES house and LUVS you.

May God Bless You and All Who You Love Abundantly 💜💜💜💜💜💜♥️
AMEN = So be it. Let it be so. Signifying Agreement 💜

All the best to you today, this week. For your life.
This is my good fortune cookie for you today.

Cheers,
dattrax

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dattrax: Welcome my Fellow Brothers and Sisters to where house music resides. How is life treating you?
Which part of the world are you from? Ever visit Toronto? Do you LOVE house or just dipping your toes in this sonic pond?

I've been obsessed with house music since I was 14, grade 9. I'm 52 and still hunting for house music tracks that MOVE me.

Nothing like the universal connector, house music. 

You either feel it in your gut and smile or you don't. 

Can't explain, force or persuade. 

Kinda like sexual attraction 😅

Much Love and Respect to Everyone Visiting!!!
House music for Life 🏡🎵🔊💜💢🙌

House music to Entertain.
To Share.
To Invite.
To Move.
To Relax.
To Refresh.
To Lift.
To Renew.
To Soothe.
To Encourage.
To Connect.
To Restore.
To Heal.
To UNITE.

All the best to you and your loved ones.
From your friendly neighbourhood Chinaman who LOVES house and LUVS you.
May God Bless You and All Who You Love Abundantly 💜💜💜💜💜💜♥️
AMEN = So be it. Let it be so. Signifying Agreement 💜

All the best to you today, this week. For your life.
This is my good fortune cookie for you today.

Cheers,
dattrax
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How do we describe the dattrax sound? Always Fun, Tech-Fused, Funky-Foot Stompin', Carved Deep and Woven & Laced with Sweet Smooth Hands in the Air Vocals... Strictly House Music- always dattrax.
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You're on our main site with 200+ mixes. Free mobile app or go to the Podomatic website:
https://www.podomatic.com/podcasts/dattrax
Just Google, "dattrax house music" whenever you need a dattrax house mix to cleanse your soul.
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"Toronto House DJ Mixes"
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The Image is a drawing that my oldest daughter did. I LOVE her so much.

dattrax: Welcome my Fellow Brothers and Sisters to where house music resides. How is life treating you?
Which part of the world are you from? Ever visit Toronto? Do you LOVE house or just dipping your toes in this sonic pond?

Nothing like the universal connector, house music. 

You either feel it in your gut and smile or you don't. 

Can't explain, force or persuade. 

Kinda like sexual attraction 😅

Much Love and Respect to Everyone Visiting!!!
House music for Life 🏡🎵🔊💜💢🙌

House music to Entertain.
To Share.
To Invite.
To Move.
To Relax.
To Refresh.
To Lift.
To Renew.
To Soothe.
To Encourage.
To Connect.
To Restore.
To Heal.
To UNITE.
 
At 25mins, there's a Sade house bootleg ("Is It a Crime") that comes in that was made by my good friend, Douglas Carter.

He's one of the best Toronto house music DJs and producers ever!! 

He gave me this beautiful creation over two years ago. 

But, because he didn't think that it was finished, I wasn't allowed to put it in a mix or play it LIVE. 

I've patiently asked him every six months if he got a chance to finish it YET 😅🤔😜 

This time when I bugged him, he finally gave me permission to put it in this mix.

I've heard it unmixed over 50 times since 😅

Finally got to touch it and hear it loud at CTRL Room. Soooooooo happy!!! 

All the best to you and your loved ones.
From your friendly neighbourhood Chinaman who LOVES house and LUVS you.
May God Bless You and All Who You Love Abundantly 💜💜💜💜💜💜♥️
AMEN = So be it. Let it be so. Signifying Agreement 💜

All the best to you today, this week. For your life.
This is my good fortune cookie for you today.

Cheers,
dattrax
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How do we describe the dattrax sound? Always Fun, Tech-Fused, Funky-Foot Stompin', Carved Deep and Woven & Laced with Sweet Smooth Hands in the Air Vocals... Strictly House Music- always dattrax.
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You're on our main site with 200+ mixes. Free mobile app or go to the Podomatic website:
https://www.podomatic.com/podcasts/dattrax
Just Google, "dattrax house music" whenever you need a dattrax house mix to cleanse your soul.
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As always - massive thanks to the fantastic vocalists, producers, DJs, and dancers (even in your homes, driving, in the gym or while walking about or walking your doggie) for their incredible advancement of this beautiful musical genre!! It makes us all feel young, vibrant, and extremely happy!!
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"Toronto House DJ Mixes"
Come and listen to the mixes of over 500 of the BEST House Music DJs in Toronto, Ontario, Canada:
https://www.facebook.com/groups/TorontoHOUSEDJMixes

dattrax: Welcome my Fellow Brothers and Sisters to where house music resides. How is life treating you?
Which part of the world are you from? Ever visit Toronto? Do you LOVE house or just dipping your toes in this sonic pond?

Back in the day, you'd listen to 10 different hot local DJs spin the same tracks- it was incredible to see their stamp on house. 

Their sonic signature if you will.

I was in love with house and DJing when I realised that it wasn't music in the sense of Mozart, but a form of self expression- participating in making a musical collage. 

Like a musical cut anc paste. 

You qet to pick vour favourite songs, how fast or slow, or how long you want to play it, which part of the song you want to highlight, whether you want to cut it up or laver it, whether vou want the feel to be smooth or charging, whether vou want... 

The combinations are endless w/ house music and that much fun!"

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Thank you. All the best to you.

Much love and respect.

May God Bless You and All Who You Love Abudantly.

Cheers,
dattrax
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How do we describe the dattrax sound? Always Fun, Tech-Fused, Funky-Foot Stompin', Carved Deep and Woven & Laced with Sweet Smooth Hands in the Air Vocals... Strictly House Music- always dattrax.
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You're on our main site with 200+ mixes. Free mobile app or go to the Podomatic website:
https://www.podomatic.com/podcasts/dattrax
Just Google, "dattrax house music" whenever you need a dattrax house mix to cleanse your soul.
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DJ Bookings for Canada, the US, or Global: [email protected]
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As always - massive thanks to the fantastic vocalists, producers, DJs, and dancers (even in your homes, driving, in the gym or while walking about or walking your doggie) for their incredible advancement of this beautiful musical genre!! It makes us all feel young, vibrant, and extremely happy!!
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"Toronto House DJ Mixes"
Come and listen to the mixes of over 500 of the BEST House Music DJs in Toronto, Ontario, Canada:
https://www.facebook.com/groups/TorontoHOUSEDJMixes

dattrax: Welcome my Fellow Brothers and Sisters to where house music resides. 

I was a guest DJ on WDFA Radio on Jan29th, 2023, but right now, WDFA Radio has reached its 10 year anniversary.

What I remembered about this session is that my USB wouldn't work on the CDJ's.

So Ian Moore aka Sleepy Freeman graciously let me play out of his USB folders.

So this mix is mostly discovery in Sleepy's HOUSE MUSIC batch at that time on his USB!!

Thank you Ian!!!

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Thank you. All the best to you.

Much love and respect.

May God Bless You and All Who You Love Abudantly.

Cheers,
dattrax
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How do we describe the dattrax sound? Always Fun, Tech-Fused, Funky-Foot Stompin', Carved Deep and Woven & Laced with Sweet Smooth Hands in the Air Vocals... Strictly House Music- always dattrax.
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You're on our main site with 200+ mixes. Free mobile app or go to the Podomatic website:
https://www.podomatic.com/podcasts/dattrax
Just Google, "dattrax house music" whenever you need a dattrax house mix to cleanse your soul.
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DJ Bookings for Canada, the US, or Global: [email protected]
Donate/Support: https://buymeacoffee.com/dattrax
Connect on IG: https://www.instagram.com/house_music_by_dattrax/
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As always - massive thanks to the fantastic vocalists, producers, DJs, and dancers (even in your homes, driving, in the gym or while walking about or walking your doggie) for their incredible advancement of this beautiful musical genre!! It makes us all feel young, vibrant, and extremely happy!!
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***Email us at [email protected] if you want the playlist for this mix...This mix has 29 Tracks in 1hr and 27mins!!
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"Toronto House DJ Mixes"
Come and listen to the mixes of over 500 of the BEST House Music DJs in Toronto, Ontario, Canada:
https://www.facebook.com/groups/TorontoHOUSEDJMixes
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IMAGE: My oldest son, Joshua is 25yrs old now, but that was his first great drawing of Wolverine, the X-Mem. I think he was 7 when he drew this. It's so cute and captures the essence of Wolverine.

dattrax: Welcome my Fellow Brothers and Sisters to where house music resides. 

Classic house is a definition that depends on when someone got into house music themselves. For me, it's tracks that came out between 1986 and 1996. I started to party to house around 1991, but I got to hear tracks from '86 played at those old warehouse parties.

This is a classic house mix from the test mixes vault that I heard recently and enjoyed, so thought that I'd share this mix with you. Enjoy this ride.

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Thank you. All the best to you.

Much love and respect.

May God Bless You and All Who You Love Abudantly.

Cheers,
dattrax
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How do we describe the dattrax sound? Always Fun, Tech-Fused, Funky-Foot Stompin', Carved Deep and Woven & Laced with Sweet Smooth Hands in the Air Vocals... Strictly House Music- always dattrax.
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You're on our main site with 200+ mixes. Free mobile app or go to the Podomatic website:
https://www.podomatic.com/podcasts/dattrax
Just Google, "dattrax house music" whenever you need a dattrax house mix to cleanse your soul.
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DJ Bookings for Canada, the US, or Global: [email protected]
Donate/Support: https://buymeacoffee.com/dattrax
Connect on IG: https://www.instagram.com/house_music_by_dattrax/
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As always - massive thanks to the fantastic vocalists, producers, DJs, and dancers (even in your homes, driving, in the gym or while walking about or walking your doggie) for their incredible advancement of this beautiful musical genre!! It makes us all feel young, vibrant, and extremely happy!!
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***Email us at [email protected] if you want the playlist for this mix...This mix has 29 Tracks in 1hr and 27mins!!
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"Toronto House DJ Mixes"
Come and listen to the mixes of over 500 of the BEST House Music DJs in Toronto, Ontario, Canada:
https://www.facebook.com/groups/TorontoHOUSEDJMixes

dattrax: Welcome my Fellow Brothers and Sisters to where house music resides. How are you moving towards your goals???!!

Do you DJ house music? Do you prefer a regular line level DJ mixer or a rotary mixer?

I grew up playing on line lever mixers and am used to them.

I've heard many house DJs say that they have more control with a rotary mixer and that they sound better when it outputs the audio.

Everyone's journey is different. 

I got into the dancing and listening to other people DJ for the first 4yrs.

Buying records next and then DJ'ing.

Then throwing parties and trying to promote 😅

I played on the Pioneer DJ mixer, the "DJM 500" for years and that was a non rotary, line level DJ mixer.

Never even saw a rotary until maybe 15 yrs into house music.

It wasn't fancy or high end.

Usually hallow sound, farting bass. Not balanced. Piercing mids.

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Thank you. All the best to you.

Much love and respect.

May God Bless You and All Who You Love Abudantly.

Cheers,
dattrax
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How do we describe the dattrax sound? Always Fun, Tech-Fused, Funky-Foot Stompin', Carved Deep and Woven & Laced with Sweet Smooth Hands in the Air Vocals... Strictly House Music- always dattrax.
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You're on our main site with 200+ mixes. Free mobile app or go to the Podomatic website:
https://www.podomatic.com/podcasts/dattrax
Just Google, "dattrax house music" whenever you need a dattrax house mix to cleanse your soul.
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DJ Bookings for Canada, the US, or Global: [email protected]
Donate/Support: https://buymeacoffee.com/dattrax
Connect on IG: https://www.instagram.com/house_music_by_dattrax/
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As always - massive thanks to the fantastic vocalists, producers, DJs, and dancers (even in your homes, driving, in the gym or while walking about or walking your doggie) for their incredible advancement of this beautiful musical genre!! It makes us all feel young, vibrant, and extremely happy!!
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***Email us at [email protected] if you want the playlist for this mix...This mix has 19 Tracks in 57mins!!!
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"Toronto House DJ Mixes"
Come and listen to the mixes of over 500 of the BEST House Music DJs in Toronto, Ontario, Canada:
https://www.facebook.com/groups/TorontoHOUSEDJMixes

dattrax: Welcome my Fellow Brothers and Sisters to where house music resides. Have you been having work weeks like you intended? Are you winning the daily battles within your own mind? Are you being your own Best Cheerleader?

I decided at 49yrs old to stop any negative thoughts or self-talk. Recognise it. Stop it. Then displace it with house music or comedy. I didn't even try to fight it. I had low confidence in my will power. LMAO.

I hope that all is well in your neck of the words. Thank you for taking a listen to our brand of house music. [We've loved this special art form since we were 14-15yrs old and now almost 52. We've gone past the stage where people might ask, 'Aren't you too old for...' by decades. LMAO].

There are dozens of house DJs that I listen to, so I know that choice is abundant, so I appreciate it when someone would take time from their lives to check out a mix. 

It makes me happy thinking about people smiling and bopping their heads while driving or walking their doggies or working out or cleaning their homes to our mixes or any other activity.

What was really cool the last few years were three separate friends blasting one of my house mixes in their cars and they were in some warm tropical paradise, Jaimaica, South America or Mexico and took short 1min videos and sent them to me. It was a great poor man's vacation. I could picture being with them in the heat with my music blaring out of their cars. House music is such a connector.

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Thank you. All the best to you.

Much love and respect.

May God Bless You and All Who You Love Abudantly.

Cheers,
dattrax
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How do we describe the dattrax sound? Always Fun, Tech-Fused, Funky-Foot Stompin', Carved Deep and Woven & Laced with Sweet Smooth Hands in the Air Vocals... Strictly House Music- always dattrax.
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You're on our main site with 200+ mixes. Free mobile app or go to the Podomatic website:
https://www.podomatic.com/podcasts/dattrax
Just Google, "dattrax house music" whenever you need a dattrax house mix to cleanse your soul.
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DJ Bookings for Canada, the US, or Global: [email protected]
Donate/Support: https://buymeacoffee.com/dattrax
Connect on IG: https://www.instagram.com/house_music_by_dattrax/
Connect on FaceCrack: https://www.facebook.com/dat.so.940
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As always - massive thanks to the fantastic vocalists, producers, DJs, and dancers (even in your homes, driving, in the gym or while walking about or walking your doggie) for their incredible advancement of this beautiful musical genre!! It makes us all feel young, vibrant, and extremely happy!!
---------------
"Toronto House DJ Mixes"
Come and listen to the mixes of over 500 of the BEST House Music DJs in Toronto, Ontario, Canada:
https://www.facebook.com/groups/TorontoHOUSEDJMixes

dattrax: Welcome my Fellow Brothers and Sisters to where house music resides.
How are you? How's the weather where you live?

This winter in Toronto, Ontario, Canada has been brutal. LMAO.
IF you ever want to visit Toronto, make sure that you only come here from June to Sept.
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House music and DJ'ing house are endlessly fascinating to me even after 30 yrs.
I've loved this art form since I was 14 and started buying records at 18. 

I'm 51 and still buy new tracks almost monthly. Still hunt through a mountain of shet to find the few gems that MOVE me. 

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WITH EACH HOUSE MIX »
First, I always create a house music mix for me. To satisfy my nerdy curiosities and to showcase new tracks that I've bought.. 

Second, I make mixes for my best friend and DJ partner, Jimmy. We've both LOVED house music since we were 14yrs old and met at 16yrs old.

We danced all the time and DJ'ed together in every nice place and shit hole in our Beloved Toronto.

If Jim tells me that he likes one of my mixes, then I"m on cloud 9 for the rest of the week.

Third, anyone else like a dattrax mix, then that's gravy on top.
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Thank you for listening to this mix.
I appreciate you. You could have chosen to spend your time anywhere else you'd like.

Thank you. All the best to you.

Much love and respect.

May God Bless You and All Who You Love Abudantly.

Cheers,
dattrax
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You're on our main site with 200+ mixes. Free mobile app or go to the Podomatic website:
https://www.podomatic.com/podcasts/dattrax
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How do we describe the dattrax sound? Always Fun, Tech-Fused, Funky-Foot Stompin', Carved Deep and Woven & Laced with Sweet Smooth Hands in the Air Vocals... Strictly House Music- always dattrax.
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DJ Bookings for Canada, the US, or Global: [email protected]
Donate/Support: https://buymeacoffee.com/dattrax
Connect on IG: https://www.instagram.com/house_music_by_dattrax/
Connect on FaceCrack: https://www.facebook.com/dat.so.940
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As always - massive thanks to the fantastic vocalists, producers, DJs, and dancers (even in your homes, driving, in the gym or while walking about or walking your doggie) for their incredible advancement of this beautiful musical genre!! It makes us all feel young, vibrant, and extremely happy!!
---------------
"Toronto House DJ Mixes"
Come and listen to the mixes of over 500 of the BEST House Music DJs in Toronto, Ontario, Canada:
https://www.facebook.com/groups/TorontoHOUSEDJMixes
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IMAGE CREDIT:
A few years ago, I sent my oldest daughter, Grace a Google Image of Sunshine Bear from the Care Bears. She's a graphic artist. I asked her to remove the sun emblem from his chest and add a symbol of a house and beside that a music note, for 'house music'.

This one I put through a filter and got this cool purple and I LOVE purple.

This is what Google Search says about the colour Purple:
"Purple is widely recognized as the color of royalty, luxury, power, and ambition, historically derived from rare, expensive dyes. It blends the calming, stable energy of blue with the intense, stimulating energy of red, symbolizing wisdom, creativity, magic, and spirituality."

dattrax: Welcome my Fellow Brothers and Sisters to where house music resides. It's almost the end of 2025. Time is relentless isn't it?

I wish pain wasn't necessary to create beautiful art, but it seems to be the key ingredient.

House music has been an outlet for my negative emotions since I was 14. Whenever I do anything related to house, hunting for tracks that move me, dancing, listening or mixing house. Even talking with friends about house.

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Ever have a terrible year full of things happening to you over and over that were negative? That were almost all the result of your poor choices? 

Have you ever sat down and taken inventory on the things you've gone through? 

I'm already writing a novel here, but/however, just want to share one observation. Hopefully this good fortune cookie can help you with a better 2026. 

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Perspective is Everything. 

We control the direction of the movement of our subconscious, or to put it in another way, it’s our reaction to any given person or circumstance that is important, not the person or circumstance itself. 

If we view a situation as negative or positive, then our mind will obey that direction we give it and find ways to prove us right. 

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It’s crazy that we can be in a great mood and then one piece of news makes us angry or extremely negative, or the opposite where we’re in a terrible mood, then one thing happens and we’re super happy. 

Why is that? What changed? The news or circumstance that was introduced? Or was it the negative or positive value we attached to the new info?

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We have to learn how to reframe any situation into a perspective that is beneficial to us.

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For Example: A joke I heard in my early 20’s that really affected my outlook...

There’s a joke about two boys with completely different personalities. One boy was always negative, entitled and never happy. The other boy was always positive and optimistic.

One Christmas, the ill-mannered boy was given a room full of wonderful presents. He proceeded to complain about each one as he opened them. A mountain of gifts and he just couldn’t see any good in his situation.

The other boy got a giant pile of horse shit in his room and all his possessions were removed.

What did he do? He happily played in the pile of horse shit. 

When asked why he was so happy? He joyfully replied: “With a pile of horse shit this big, there’s got to be a pony hiding in here somewhere!!!!!!!!!!”

Merry Christmas and Happy New Year to you and your loved ones. This is probably the last mix that I'll be posting in a few weeks in January 2026. 

Thank you for listening to this mix. 

May God Bless You and All Who You Love Abundantly 💜💜💜💜💜💜❤️

Cheers

dattrax
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