Point.of.Kontakt

Just went on a 25 hour road trip and listened to my own breaks mixes the whole time.  Also in a state of emotional chaos... I really wasnt feeling most of them. One mix really made me feel great. ONE mix really made me feel alive. THis one stood out so much from all the rest. And here it is for you to listen to - coming back from 2016!!!

Original text - 

I've been wanting to put down some breaks mixes along these lines for a long time. Never got in to spinning the progressive trancey style of breaks, but its definitely my favorite to listen to. Pretty surprisingly, this style of breaks has been making a big comeback over the last couple years. Some of the new tracks out you cant even tell weren't made in the late 1990's.

I hope this mix gives you endless listening pleasure. Hybrid turned me on to this style when I was in highschool and I can still listen to Wide Angle 10 times in a row without getting tired of it.


Track List:

1. Mechanical Pressure - Pure Mind
2. Colombo - Sodium
3. Mata - 23 (Guau Remix)
4. The Prodigy - Warrior's Dance (Future Funk Squad's 'Rave Soldier' Remix)
5. Mechanical Pressure - Operation Chariot (Future Funk Squad Remix)
6. Mechanical Pressure - Guards (Retroid Remix)
7. Future Funk Squad - Soundwaves (Sketi’s ‘Drums of War’ Remix)
8. Detach - I'm Not!
9. Beta - One
10. BT - Simply Being Loved (Somnambulist) (Burufunk Remix)
11. 9 Nickel - Capricorn
12. The Orb - From A Distance (Hybrid Remix)
13. MUSE - Knights Of Cydonia (Future Funk Squad Remix)
14. Flack Su - T-Break (Beta Remix)
15. Bibos Crew - Game Comes (Mechanical Pressure Remix)
16. Joi - Asian Vibes (Way Out West Remix)
17. Baymont Bross - Fly With Us
18. T.Power - Fuzzy Logic
19. Colombo - Station 21

Coming up on 3 years since this episode was released, it's still absolutely smashing my mind every time is comes on the speakers. Fantastic set - one of the few worthy of a re-release. House music like this, all night long. And all day long. Give me more!

Donald Glaude dropped a few tracks at Joshua Tree Music Festival that really made me think back on this set too, so the decision was final - time to re-release it!

The following is the original episode description - 

I've collected tracks for 3 years to put this House mix together just the way I wanted to be heard. Every now and then, I would her some percussion that just drove me wild. Banging toms on a big system, 1970s disco energy in such a raw form, I could swear theres actually analogue gear in some of these tracks. Computer music has really come a long way, some of these tracks have so much depth!

I pulled some tracks from events before COVID, 2019 was a great year for house music. So much came for us in 2020 too that had been in the works but I was never able to play it out how I wanted to. I suppose this is a throwback set then, since I got the idea for it in 2019 and it would have been my 2020-2021 live set vibe. 

A lot has come out since then though, and I am 100% pleased with the time spent waiting, looking for more to add to this one. Some day I hope to be swimming in tracks like these. I've only been able to season mixes lightly with them in the past. 

I hope this month's mix inspires you to let go and get down wherever you listen to it. BRING ON THE DRUMS!!!

Tracklist:

1. Ferrari - Jungle Boogie
2. Steve Paradise - Zultan (Steve Paradise Mix)
3. Kevin Knapp - Like This (Audiojack Remix)
4. The Deepshakerz - Go Heavy 
5. Crooked Colours - Do It Like You (OFFAIAH Remix)
6. KC Lights - SOL
7. Hervé - Jungle Is Massive
8. Fallon - Jalen Hurts
9. Roland Klinkenberg - On My Mind
10. Todd Terry, Gypsymen - Babarabatiri (David Penn Remix)
11. Alex Niggemann - Jewels
12. Barbatuques - Baianá (Pablo Fierro Edit)
13. Joc House - The Tribal
14. Teddy Jiyane - Tati Tribe (Teddy Jiyane Tribal Mix)
15. Black V Neck & Dipzy - Si Tu Sabe
16. Hott Like Detroit - Apache
17. Fatboy Slim - Right Here Right Now (CamelPhat Remix)
18. Paul Woolford - You Already Know (Extended D-Mix)

Up for listening this month is the second half of my live set at Zirco Loco in Joshua Tree back in March. That was my first show of the year - SO MUCH has happenned since then! The first half of my set was house, this second half is trancy progressive. Zircon would have loved it!

I usually play a lot higher energy, but this was  a really great late night vibe for a warm night out in the desert. 

Los of favorites in this set from the past and a few "newer" songs that mixed in really well. 

Tracklist:

1. Ara Koufax - Natural States (2017)
2. Spencer Brown - 5th & Concord (2021)
3. Manuel de la Mare - Shampoo (2007)
4. Jaytech - Pepe's Garden (2008)
5. Roddy Reynaert & Man Of Goodwill - Brotherhood (2011)
6. Colombo - The New Dream (2011)
7. Seven Lions & Fiora - Dreamin' (Sunny Lax Remix) (2018)
8. Andy Moor Vs M.I.K.E. - Spirits Pulse (2011)
9. Genix, Mike Koglin - Helion (Norin & Rad Remix) (2011)
10. Lange - Our Brief Time In The Sun (2013)
11. Probspot - Blueberry (Peter Haze Remix) (2007)
12. Jaytech - Entropy (2014)
13. Tom Fall - Cubic (2010)
14. Spencer Brown - Bill Graham (2018)

Thankfully a couple months ago I got turned on to new style Garage music thats right up my alley. Vibes the same as the bassline I got in to years ago - but a bit heavier on the breaks influence and less from electro. This new bass music really got me going this festival season, and it was always the highlight of my days and nights. I tossed in a few teaser tracks back in my May podcast and really held back. 

July is always a big buildup mix for my adventure out to Burning Man, and I knew this new music added to some solid electro and Florida Breakz would blow the top off the July mix this year.  I love where this new music is going and hope to find lots more - and even have the right context to play more sets like this one!

About half the songs in this mix came out in the last two months, a few even the last few weeks. I am so impressed with how quickly they are making it from release to the dancefloors here! BIG ups to ALL the dj's out there dropping this sound. I have so much appriciation for you <3

!!!LOOK OUT THIS IS A BANGER!!!

Tracklist:

1. Mike & Charlie - I Get Live (Keith Mackenzie Remix) (2025)
2. Alliance Of Funk, OnDaMiKe - 4 The Ladies (Kontakt Kut) (2024)
3. DJ Icey - Work To The Beat (Club Mix) (2025)
4. Mizzo - How I Do Dat (2025)
5. Plump DJs - Gobstopper (2011)
6. Stitch - Moby Dub (2023)
7. Oddkut - No Drama (2024)
8. X Prod - Classical (2023)
9. Shade K - Back To Fuck (2017)
10. Guau - Groove Tool (2025)
11. DJ Jackum - Pimpin' (2024)
12. Client_03 - Decommission Me (2025)
13. Kito - Take your vibes and go (DJ ADHD & Chloé Robinson Remix) (2024)
14. borne - Go Again (2025)
15. Acyan - KEOTA (2025)
16. Rohaan - Got No ᐸ3 (2025)
17. ISOKNOCK - TROUBLE (2024)
18. Shadow Child - Say It Now (2025)
19. DJ Icey - Bring That Back (2025)
20. Bakey - Senses (2025)
21. KRY WOLF - Concrete (2013)
22. Biicla - GAS (4.19) (2024)
23. Ondamike - Pop, Lock, Drop It (2025)
24. Clouds - Matter (2011)
25. MPH - Raw (2025)
26. Biicla - GAS (4.21) (2023)
27. AMPRS&ND - Sorry (2025)
28. Taiki & Nulight - Take Me Up (2013)
29. Joy Orbison - pinky ring (2022)

Our month’s podcast is coming in hot from guest artist SKTTRBRAIN. This mix is all about energy, life, and the passions of nature. Let’s be real, this summer has been full of intense frequencies. Everything from the elements of the earth’s climate to the weathering of politics and religion is reaching the high intensity points of opposition and polarity. Conflicting concepts such as democracy and the republic, freedom and incarceration, peace and war… these and many more are being reconsidered, reimagined, and reorganized. The ideology of the soul continues to swing amid angelic and demonic forces awaiting its rebirth at dawn. These are but a few influences guiding this progressively beautiful, yet haunting set. Fueled by driving and melodic tones of house and techno while hovering on the cusp of trance, Forces creates a colorful landscape of cerebral and somatic exploration. Sit back, relax, and enjoy the ride!

Tracklist :

1. Alessio Serra - Peace Of Mind (Nicolas Soria Remix)
2. Fede Pals - Irie (Lupe Republic Remix)
3. Timo Lissy - Electric Summer (Scionaugh Remix)
4. Matoma & Hanne Mjoen - Exhilarate 
5. Redge - Attachment (Vibration Remix)
6. Artche & Sasha - Hold On (Extended Mix)
7. Matt Fax - Longing (Extended In Search Of Sunrise Mix)
8. Chris Barag - Opposition (Mariano Malvica Remix)
9. Jaytech - Paradox
10. PAIN - Democracy (PAIN Remix)
11. The XX - Angels (Kygo Edit)
12. Pryda - Armed
13. Biemsix - I Know It’s Demons (Alpha Tracks Remix)
14. Meloder - Avoidance of Doubt (VieL Remix) 
15. Chris Sterio & Stan Seba - Humility (J.P. Velardi Lucas Perdomo Remix)
16. Lucas White - Detachment (Andrea Guadalupi Remix)
17. Erick Morillo - Live Your Life (Andy Manning Remix)
18. Martin Kinrus - Abduction
19. Audiotox & EANP - Mechanism (Hernan Cattaneo & Soundexile Remix)
20. Sasha - Baja (MeLode Remix)
21. Joel West & Otuon - Machine Ideology (Otuon Remix)
22. Clementine Douglas - Turn Me On (CORRUPT Remix)
23. Nicolas Soria - Seven Spheres
24. Soul Button feat. Photographs - Awaken The Soul (EarthLife Remix)
25. Paula OS - Harvest (Hernan Cattaneo & Soundexile Remix)
26. Hisai - Zorya (Mariano Malvica Remix)

WOW! Lightning in a Bottle did not disappoint! I heard so much great music that week - mostly at the Woogie stage where I was working. I was BLESSED to play a surprise stage open set too, dream come true on the insane Funktion One sound system. I played 80s and 90s hip hop like my last podcast episode, and some gangster rap like the Rat Trap mix from last summer. The Woogie stage has definitely THE place to be at LIB! Amazing amounts of sick house, garage, and disco all week long. I was so inspired. I had so many tracks to trainspot. That took me down a rabbit hole of new music after the event - so this mix is up two weeks late. TOTALLY WORTH IT!!! Check out the years these tracks were released - usually I am dropping old tracks (because I love them), not so much this time...

Tracklist - 

1. (2010) That Kid Chris - The African 
2. (2015) Adesse Versions - Pride
3. (2024) Azzecca - IDK (Extended)
4. (2024) Brad Brunner, AG Swifty - Lay Back
5. (2011) Girl Unit - Wut (Claude Vonstroke Remix)
6. (2025) Claude VonStroke, Reggie Watts - THIS MFing BEAT
7. (2025) Joe Vanditti - Clean Up
8. (2024) Ahadadream, Skrillex & Priya Ragu - TAKA
9. (2025) Ken Spieker - Speedy Sax
10. (2024) Sammy Virji, Interplanetary Criminal - Damager
11. (2025) Boogie Vice, N-You-Up, Trulybles - Make A Wish
12. (2025) Sultan + Shepard - Communicate
13. (2024) Chloé Caillet - Sugar
14. (2019) Reflekt Feat Delline Bass - Need To Feel Loved (Tinlicker Remix)
15. (2024) Floating Points - Del Oro
16. (2025) Sammy Virji & Issey Cross - Nostalgia
17. (2023) Joy Orbison - Hyph Mngo (MMEE Bootleg)

Hopping in to a new genre here for DJing - one that I was in to when I was like 5 years old for dancing. Something about these beats just made me want to jam on the floor!!! This set is representing what I was playing at Neotropolis at the Rat Trap bar. Neo is a future - cyberpunk - space vibe event, so I thought to go with some Afro-Futurism energy with a lot of the music I was playing. I played plenty of the popular hits at the event but I tried to go a bit thin on them for the podcast mix. You will hear a lot of beats that are familiar but they are in different songs. I didn't want to make a throwback set! With these beats I'm trying to keep it FRESH!!!

Tracklist - 

1. (1991) Boyz II Men - Motownphilly (Kontakt Extended Re-Edit) 
2. (1990) Kid 'N Play - Fun House 
3. (1989) Redhead Kingpin And The FBI - Do The Right Thing (Extended) 
4. (1990) Another Bad Creation - Iesha 
5. (1990) Livin' - Schemin' (Club Mix) 
6. (1988) Bobby Brown - My Prerogative 
7. (1987) Keith Sweat - I Want Her 
8. (1995) Montell Jordan - This Is How We Do It 
9. (1992) Wreckx-N-Effect - New Jack Swing II (Hard Version)
10. (1992) TLC - Hat 2 Da Back (Extended Remix) 
11. (1990) Tony! Toni! Toné! - Feels Good 
12. (1989) Babyface - It's No Crime (Album Version) 
13. (1990) The Deff Boyz Feat. Tony Mac - Swing (Extended Version) 
14. (1988) Suave - My Girl (Morning Mix) 
15. (1991) La Rue- Serious (Original 12 Inch Club Mix) 
16. (1994) Blackgirl - 90's Girl (Encore Extended Club Mix) 
17. (1989) Heavy D & The Boyz - Somebody For Me (Extended Version) 
18. (1992) A Tribe Called Quest - Scenario (Remix) 
19. (1992) SWV - I'm So Into You (Allstar's Drop Check Dance Mix) 

I performed two contemporary dance acts in the Zirco Loco circus show this March, and DJ'd the afterparty from midnight to 2 am. This episode is the first half-ish of my set! I played a lot of tracks I heard out here in the Mojave Desert for the first time over the last couple years, and plenty of other stuff too.  This flavor of house music has really been exciting to hear out here when I am on the dancefloor, so I gave a lot of it back to the people that night : ) 

Enjoy!!!

Tracklist:

1. (2008) Marshall Jefferson Vs Noosa Heads - Mushrooms (Justin Martin Mix) 
2. (2024) OMRI. - Earth Your Mind 
3. (2023) Armand Van Helden - I Want Your Soul (Mau P Remix)
4. (2018) Dom Dolla - Take It (Extended Mix) 
5. (2008) Sash! - Ecuador (Twocker Remix) 
6. (2023) Marco Strous, Gabe - Snogo (Extended Mix)
7. (2019) Otosan - Jump Up (Friendless Old School Jam Mix) 
8. (2013) Alex Tepper - Doll's Delirium 
9. (2017) Cuartero - Up To The Roof (POPOF Remix) 
10. (2020) Cari Golden, CamelPhat - Freak 
11. (2019) Sooney - Hit The Dance Floor 
12. (2019) Killed Kassette - Jack It! 
13. (2017) Don Diablo - Momentum (Extended Mix) 
14. (2012) Totally Enormous Extinct Dinosaurs - Your Love 

Finally brinigng it back to that techno stuff I was exploring with mixes two years ago. It's taken me that long to figure out how to place some of these tracks!!! Once again well worth the wait. This mix is wild! Speed ranges from 128 to 157 bpm! That old techno goes so hard. Bring it back - where do I have to go??? I put this mix up at a low bitrate to add to the grime of the techno, and to be a bit more authentic to the older tracks which really are taking the spotlight here. I can't stress enough how happy I am to get all these tracks off the chopping block and in to a mix finally. When things get put to the side, its like they are sitting on my shoulder the entire time, asking me when they are finally going to be mixed!


For best results - enjoy this mix in a dark room very, very loudly - or driving through the desert after midnight.

Tracklist - 

1. (2008) Perfect Stranger - Sweet Water Dolphin 
2. (2016) Cuartero - Wavy Distance (Paco Osuna Remix) 
3. (2016) Symmetry Obs - Hypnotic Orgasm (Red Weeller Remix) 
4. (2012) Christian Cambas, Spektre - Rebel Without A Cause 
5. (2012) Boriqua Tribez - Liquid Funk 
6. (2020) Almir Ljusa - Epsin 
7. (2007) Josh Gabriel - Summit 
8. (2019) Antoine Clamaran, Agua Sin Gas - Desire 
9. (2020) Grum, Genix - The Light 
10. (2016) Enrico Sangiuliano - Ghettoblaster 
11. (2019) i_o - No Sleep 
12. (2003) Tony Rohr - My Mind Is Going Dub 
13. (2001) Thomas P.Heckmann & Marc Romboy - Ultra Vixens 
14. (1998) Andy Trex, Commander Tom, Chris Liberator, Dave The Drummer - Pulse Fiction (Chris Liberator & Dave The Drummer Remix) 
15. (1996) RMB - Reality (Commander Tom Mix)
16. (1996) RMB - Reality 
17. (1997) Commander Tom - Psychedelic Experimentations 
18. (2013) Boriqua Tribez - Mambo 
19. (2006) Mac & Mac - Listen 
20. (2018) Yuste - Angry Beat 
21. (2013) DJ Chus & Nuno Clam - Between Us (Richie Santana Remix) 
22. (2019) Julian Jeweil - Transmission 
23. (2003) Bimbo Jones - Dig It 

The annual trance mix has arrived! SO thankful to again have mixed this while it was snowing out. Extra winter vibes! I was worried this one wouldnt come together but the music pulled through and showed me the way. These songs have kept me warm for weeks and now its time for them to get you warm with some dancing.  This set starts out somewhat chill, will take you up to some really high energy (understatement) and place you back down nicely aterwards. A physical and mental warm up : ) Hope you enjoy!!!!

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This month I am trying out a new formatting for my tracklist that shows the year songs were released. I hadn't done that in the past because it just didnt look right, and also its extra work to confirm the dates. Give me some feedback! I thought it would be really great to share how old or new songs are that I use. Sometimes I go back to the 90s - but I love to make it work!

Tracklist:

1. (2011) G-Tek - Fantastic (Kobana & Mario Hatchet Remix)
2. (2011) Kobana, Mario Hatchet - Weekend Memories
3. (2009) D-Nox And Beckers - Cala A Boca (Meat Katie Remix) 
4. (2012) Jaytech - Multiverse (Mimax Remix) 
5. (2011) Marco V - Unprepared (Mell Tierra Remix) 
6. (2002) System F - Needlejuice 
7. (2011) Dan Stone Vs Ost And Meyer - Supercell (Norin & Rad Remix) 
8. (2009) Oliver Smith - Restless 
9. (2006) Public Domain Feat. Lucia Holm - I Feel Love (Bart Claessen Remix) 
10. (2011) Super8 & Tab - Free Love (Sunny LAX Remix) 
11. (2008) Madonna - Ray Of Light (Koglin & Kayvan Remix) 
12. (2011) Arty & Mat Zo - Rebound 
13. (2004) Kontrasequenz - Zeitdiletation 
14. (2006) Marco V - False Light (DJ Scot Project Remix) 
15. (2019) Mauro Picotto - Lizard (Cosmic Gate Extended Remix) 
16. (2018) Yan Weinstock - Venom 
17. (2018) DT8 - Winter (Solis & Sean Truby vs. Ultimate Extended Remix) 
18. (2020) Scott Doe - Need To Feel Loved 
19. (2008) Perfect Stranger - Stardust
20. (2012) Jaytech - Multiverse (Audien Remix)
21. (2018) Purple Haze - Bergen
22. (2003) Radiohead - Everything In Its Right Place (Hybrid Remix)