Industrial Complex

Ich werde nicht lügen: Als ich diesen Mix gehort, war ich skeptisch. Der Opener, ein Remix von "Ordinary Love" durch Folamour, schlich sich an. Roosevelt bringt den synthetischen Pop-Vibe mit, Folamour legt Samt drauf. Und der Übergang, Butterweich. Kein abruptes Crossfaden, einfach Groove auf Groove, wie man es sich mag.

Rogue D zieht nach mit "He Can Dance," und Bruddi, Titel lügt nicht. Der Track rollt cool. Was hier auffällt: Das Mixer hat ein Gespür für Textur. Kein Track steht nackt da. Jeder wird mit positioniert, wie in einem Schachspiel.

Dukwa bringt mit "Hidden Secret" den ersten Hauch von rauerem Unterbau. Kellersound. Der Bass ist trocken, alles flirren wie ein alter VHS-Tape. Der Wechsel zu Guti’s "Hope" (Fosky Remix) ist nicht nur technisch clean, sondern emotional narrativ.

Peggy Gou rein mit ihrem Remix von "H2DAIZZO" – ein Remindern daran, dass House soviel Attitüde hat. Die Kick sitzt tief, aber nie aufdringlich. Der Mix bleibt stets respektvoll. Keine überbordenden Delays, keine Spielchen, die den Fluss stören. Stattdessen ein klarer Fokus auf Rhythmusarchitektur.

Kerri Chandler’s Vocal Mix von "I'm Searching" bringt Soul. Bluey Robinsons Vocals schweben über analogen Synthesizer aus den 80ern. Wieder ist der Übergang so smooth, dass man sich fragt, ob da überhaupt jemand mixt oder ob sich die Tracks einfach von selbst ineinander verlieben.

Paradis' "La Ballade de Jim" liefert francophone Melancholie auf 120 BPM. Der Track hebt sich ab, indem er sich in einen 6/8-Groove neigt – eine rhythmische Wendung, die nicht wie ein Bruch wirkt, sondern als hätte jemand heimlich den Raum in einen leichten Swing versetzt. Die Rückkehr zum 4/4 gelingt, ohne zu stolpern, und die Hihats tragen eine polyrhythmische Leichtigkeit, die antreibt statt zu verwirren. Es ist ein mutiger Bruch mit der bisherigen Rhythmus, aber genau deshalb funktioniert es.

Der nachfolgende "Motherfocker" von Reelow bringt wieder Drive rein – dirty, minimal, funktional. Die Reibung zwischen diesen beiden Tracks zeigt das handwerkliche Selbstbewusstsein der Mix-Curatorin.

Shiba San, Folamour solo, Dillon Nathaniel, Tensnake – ein Who's Who der modernen House-Landschaft, und doch wirkt nichts wie Pflichtprogramm. Jeder Track bringt einen eigenen Akzent, wird aber in ein größeres Narrativ eingebettet. Die Kunst liegt hier in der Zurückhaltung: kein "Look what I can do"-Moment, sondern Fokus auf Flow und Tanz.

Dann taucht Donny Benet auf – ein unerwarteter, aber brillanter Schlenker. "Working Out" bringt Italo-Funk-Camp und Selbstironie ins Set, ohne die Groove-Integrität zu brechen. Der Basslauf strotzt vor Selbstbewusstsein, die Drums schlagen synchron zur Spiegelpose. Hier beweist der Mix Humor, ohne Kitsch – ein Tanzflächenmoment, der zwinkert.

Die letzten 20 Minuten fahren nochmal alles auf. Right To Life bringt Disco-Funk-Revival, Kevin Yost spielt seine jazzige Deepness aus, MAW & India liefern einen Klassiker, der klug und respektvoll geremixed wird. Besonders hervorzuheben ist der Umgang mit Vocals – nie zu laut, nie zu hallig, sondern immer eingebettet in ein harmonisches Ganzes.

Der letzte Run mit Dakar, Jasper Street Co. und Cesar Coronado zeigt: Auch 2025 kann man einen Mix machen, der Knowledge droppt, ohne belehrend zu sein. Der Vocal von Byron Stingily schwebt über der Menge wie Weihrauch. Und wenn das letzte Stück ausklingt, weiß man: Man wurde nicht nur unterhalten, sondern eingeladen.

Fazit: Dieser Mix funktioniert nicht nur auf der Tanzfläche, sondern auch als narrative Komposition – ein musikalisches Essay über Groove, Gefühl und Gestaltung. Je tiefer man eintaucht, desto deutlicher wird: Hier ist kein Takt zufällig, kein Übergang improvisiert. Die sorgfältige Kuratierung evoziert nicht bloß Bewegung, sondern affektive Resonanz, eine sequenzielle Emotionalitätsarchitektur, die sich mit zunehmender Dauer in eine transrhythmische Erlebnisprogression verwandelt. Was beginnt als schlicht tanzbarer Fluss, transformiert sich in eine audiophile Hypersensibilitätskonstruktion, die sich auf subfrequenzieller Ebene in das propriozeptive Empfindungsspektrum des Rezipienten einmoduliert. In dieser epiphanischen Klangtexturierung verschmilzt das Perzeptionsmoment mit einer polydimensionalen Metagroovifizierung, kulminierend in einem nahezu ontologischen Zustand von Ekstatisch-Resonanzthermoakustikvibrationserlebnisüberlagerungssynergiekomplexität.

9,7 von 10 – weil Perfektion langweilig wäre.

Tracklist

Roosevelt, Folamour - Ordinary Love (Folamour Remix)Rogue D - He Can Dance (Original Mix)Dukwa - Hidden Secret (Original Mix)Guti - Hope (Fosky Remix)The Martinez Brothers - H2DAIZZO (Peggy Gou Remix)CPEN Ft. Bluey Robinson - I'm Searching (Kerri's 6:23 Again Vocal Mix)Paradis - La Ballade de Jim (Original Mix)Reelow - MotherfockerShiba San - OKAYFolamour - Paradiso (Original Mix)Dillon Nathaniel - Pressure (Extended)Boston Bun, Dombresky - Stronger (Tensnake Extended Mix)Right To Life, Micky More - Subway (Micky More Supersonic Mix)Pezzner - The Hand That Feeds You (Original Mix)Kevin Yost - The Moonlight (Original Mix)Plastic Plates - Things I Didn't Know I Loved ft. Simon Lord (Amine Edge & DANCE Remix)Donny Benet - Working OutJoseph Edmund - Throw No Shade (Original Mix)MAW Presents India - To Be In LoveThe Organism - Ups And Downs (Original Mix)Sole Fusion - Bass Tone (Underground Network Mix)Someguy, Mescal Kids - Good Times (Original Mix)Dakar, Pleight - I Do (Extended Mix)Jasper Street Co. - Paradise (feat. Byron Stingily & Norma Jean) (Mark Knight & Michael Gray Extended Mix)Cesar Coronado - Someone To Care (Amine Edge & DANCE remix)

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Always liked this song. But the real version’s so… so peppy. To me, it needed grit and a touch of detached academic inaccessibility.

This was recorded live at the Wien Konzerthaus in 1949 shortly after the release on London.

There were other performances but the recordings do not survive.

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I love Brian Wilson and identify strongly with his fear of stages and his love of the studio. This is not intended to disrespect him in any way. It’s such a beautiful song.

And KARL, the best-sounding voice from the Chinese AI voice app I used to make these, did his best.

AI Karaoke is easy to make and it reveals the flawed nature of generative content. I put the a capella into an app that 1) interprets the words and transcribes the song, and 2) outputs MIDI that purports to follow the vocalist’s melody. But both things are done very badly.

I create backing tracks from scratch, and then put the output of the first step back through the app, to reconstitute a new vocal part. Which is inevitably very, very strange.

Then by adding the lime to the coconut, we can envision robot KARL doing his very best, like the character in Disco Elysium, to sing his heart out and emote. With words that are mostly incorrect, and strange melodic artifacts.

I find these hilarious and hope you chuckle too.

/DJIC

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I think Dubmatix and I might have been separated at birth or something, and I was adopted, so that’s feasible, right? Absolutely top 5 desert island Substacks.

It felt a little weird to be told that I’ve been doing this for 27 years. When I started, there were plenty of OG DJs to admire and I definitely wasn’t one of them. But at that time — in about 1998 — Drum and Bass had only existed for MAYBE five years.

It never occurred to me that, eventually, I’d become original.

This mix doesn’t contain a lot of original jungle. Mostly newer dark-minimal sort of thing.

In the eternally pithy words of Shy FX —

Na nee nee wooy; zinganinga na-na no no no.

Mi are di nuttah:Original madmah madmah mad nuttah.Original madamadamadamadamadamadamadamadah nuttah.Original madmah madmah mad nuttah.Original madamadamadamadamadamah.

Tracklist

Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth - EscapeBusta Rhymes - Put Hands Where Eyes Can SeeSouls Of Mischief - That's When Ya Lost (Instrumental)Forbidden Society - Scorn (Original Mix)Mitekiss - Wrists Of Paper (Original Mix)Mitekiss - Smashed Lies (Original Mix)The JB - Stand EasyDJ Crystl - Warp DriveBabylon Timewarp - Durban PoisonResslek, Nobiz, JSwift - Kebab feat. Resslek feat. Nobiz (Original Mix)Escher - Rugged (Original Mix)Peven Everett, Alix Perez, SpectraSoul - Forsaken feat. Peven Everett and Spectrasoul (Original Mix)Circuits - Wingwalker (Hyroglifics Remix)Subnation - ScottieVibe Chemistry - Balling (Original Mix)Napes - Chopper Gunner (Original Mix)Hyroglifics - Gastown (Original Mix)The Caracal Project, Buunshin - Make Money feat. The Caracal Project (Original Mix)Dela - Dimanche Matin

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I originally posted this with a long Livejournal-flavored exegesis about my ex.

It’s a super solid mix that goes unexpected places, and it was made with strong feelings I was trying to express, and with an earnest desire to improve y’alls day, and thus the mix has been saved from the dustbin of history.

The post sucked though and was summarily binned.

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“Karl” was the best-sounding voice in the Chinese AI singing tool I used to make these. I did not renew the subscription this year.

Notable lyrics

Donut thing in my brain

That’s what people say: “nom nom.”

Bake, bake, bake, bake, bake.

I’m lying on my feet

That’s what people see, uh hmm

That’s what they don’t see… uh nnn

I’m dealing all my own

May the moos of pants go, go

Not what they all owe:

That’s what they don’t know

Tonight, ice men bucket,

New girlfriend: she’s like “oh my god,

The… I just come shakin’ to the…

Look over there —

What the hell, a good hair”

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Yabby You - Get Lost BabylonFreddy McGregor - I Am A RevolutionistPrince Far I - No More WarVelvet Shadows - Babylon A Fall DownCulture - Love Shines BrighterSteel Pulse - Ku Klux KlanJimmy Riley - Majority Rule for AfricansCulture - Stop the Fussing and FightingJohnny Clarke - Crazy BaldheadsBurning Spear - FreeJunior Murvin - Police and Thieves

I’m deep in this stuff right now and will do part II forthwith.

Tomorrow morning, driving to Plattsburgh for AOC with Henry and Eleanor and this big sticker on my car. They won’t be on the car Mitt Romney stylee, I mean, they’ll be in the car. With me. But the sticker will be outside.

Love

DJIC

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TRAPPIST-1 is an ultracool red dwarf star located approximately 40 light-years from Earth in the constellation Aquarius. It is about 9% the mass of the Sun and emits very little visible light. In 2017, seven Earth-sized rocky planets were discovered orbiting this star. Three of these planets—TRAPPIST-1e, f, and g—lie within the system's habitable zone, where conditions may permit the presence of liquid water. The planets orbit very close to the star, with orbital periods ranging from 1.5 to 18.8 Earth days. Their proximity and size make them candidates for atmospheric and habitability studies, particularly via instruments such as the James Webb Space Telescope. The system is considered a high-priority target in the search for biosignatures beyond Earth.

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A good DJ mix reveals its architecture slowly, as if by sleight of hand. This one opens with spectral glitter and bad encoding. The Slavic disco of Саша Чусовитин & Лёша Куприянцев, where the melody seems to have traveled through a CRT before reaching your ears, is an invocation and a warped one. Nostalgia, melted down, poured into a new mold.

From there, things snap into a tighter grid. Terrence Parker’s “Welcome to Southfield” sets the emotional compass: a reverent but unsentimental take on groove. The high-pass gospel treatment makes room. Loni Clark’s “Rushing” follows with surgical confidence, and the Mood II Swing dub and Romero's update find their pocket without overextending, threading vintage sensibility through contemporary restraint.

The first act of the mix forms like a cathedral floorplan: Chandler’s “Prayer (623 Again Vocal Mix)” stands at the pulpit, flanked by Folamour’s two velveted, French contributions, a little aloof but undeniably effective. Scaffolding. The mix trusts the listener to wait.

Momentum builds in the second act. Jauz and Dom Dolla throw more aggressive elbows without fracturing the mix’s internal logic. The peak stretch, Ruf Dug’s “Techno Cave” into Joseph Edmund, Mathias Kaden, and Crush Club, operates like a controlled burn. Here the pacing shifts. The mix doesn’t get louder, just denser.

Then the axis tilts again. “You Can Do It Baby” by Mark Knight and Danny Howard reintroduces space with shorter phrases, simpler structure, but the energy holds. A trio of late-stage house and tech-house selections (Amine Edge & DANCE, Flexb, and Paces) tap into club functionalism, yet the sequencing avoids monotony. Each transition is clean but deliberate. There’s no auto-pilot here.

The final descent begins with Roosevelt’s “See You Again,” which reframes the whole set with melodic melancholy. It plays like an afterimage: glossy, sincere, maybe even a little too clean, but at this point the mix has earned the sentimentality.

Then the fade: a few minutes of the Electrifying Mojo’s midnight broadcast, a pirate signal cutting through the FM haze. The fidelity is rough, the message scrambled, but the intention is clear. You’ve left the club and stumbled into something older, stranger, still pulsing.

This mix understands pacing in the classical sense. Not BPM management, but emotional sequencing. It builds a world, not just a vibe. The choices are specific, the arcs intentional. Every inclusion feels necessary, even the ones that don’t demand your attention at first pass.

File it under house, deep house, tech house, sure, but more accurately, it belongs in that rare category of mixes that model patience without sacrificing propulsion.

Recommended format: after midnight, solid headphones, nowhere to be.

— Percival Drift, 2025

Tracklist

Саша Чусовитин & Лёша Куприянцев - Звезды Дискотек 2 ( House of Mystic Lights )

Terrence Parker - Welcome to Southfield (Original Mix)

Loni Clark - Rushing (Mood II Swing Dub - Harry Romero Edit)

Kerri Chandler, Rev F. L. Brown - Prayer (623 Again Vocal Mix)

Folamour, Laville - INNERVISION (Original Mix)

Folamour - U Made The World A Better Place (Original Mix)

Jauz - Rock The Party (Original Mix)

Dom Dolla - Take It (Extended Mix)

Ruf Dug - Techno Cave (Sharif Laffrey Nightwork Remix)

Joseph Edmund - Throw No Shade (Original Mix)

Mathias Kaden - Trust (Original Mix)

Crush Club Ft. Supermini - We Dance (Club Mix)

Mark Knight, Danny Howard - You Can Do It Baby (Original Mix)

Amine Edge & DANCE, Yungness & Jaminn, Yazmin Manassib - Good Vibration (Original Mix)

Amine Edge, Dance, PTAF - Boss Ass B***h (Original Boss Mix)

Flexb - Baby I'm Boss

Paces Ft. Emmalyn & Jeida Woods - Technique (Torren Foot Remix)

Will Clarke & Bot - Techno (Solardo remix)

Technasia, Green Velvet - Suga (Extended Mix)

Roosevelt - See You Again

Electrifying Mojo - Don't Say Damn, Say Whoa! Electrifying Mojo - Midnight Funk Association 1982 (720)

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