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I have bee BUSY and under a lot of pressure to do a lot of things - so I named this month's podcast. Here is a bunch of house music I have been listening to lately, plenty from the last couple years. Tracks in here date back to 2005! A couple very hard to locate gems : )

Enjoy!

Tracklist -

1. T.B.C. - Movin' Out (Andrea Bertolini Massive Mix) 
2. JedX, Tim Brown - Good Intentions 
3. Simon Adams, Stefano Mango - Cornflakes 
4. Moreno Pezzolato - Dangerous Mind 
5. Stereofunk - Revolution 
6. Kyle Walker - Fantasy 
7. Hidden State & Myles James - Right On Time 
8. Quench - Dreams (Sebastien Leger 2007 Re-edit) 
9. Wongo - D.A.D. (Dance All Day) (Extended Mix) 
10. Cuartero - Up To The Roof (POPOF Remix) 
11. Cari Golden, CamelPhat - Freak 
12. Flash 89 - Indifferent 
13. FISHER (OZ), Aatig - Take It Off 
14. K69 - Free Your Mind 
15. Antoine Clamaran, The Cube Guys feat. Jaren - You Got the Love 

This one has been a long time coming! I looked forwards to taking a real vacation for a month in Florida to finally relax after a crazy busy year, and immerse myself in the Orlando music scene again. The AAHZ party was completely off the wall this year. It never disappoints! SO many wild jams from the 80s and 90s. Heard a ton I had never even heard before. Danced my ASS off! Ending my summer in Orlando every year has always been great. One more high energy month of breakbeats every year to get it all out of my system. This month's mix is full of edits and I even had to toss a little track together myself to fill a gap of something I heard done at AAHZ that isn't actually it's own song!



Tracklist:

1. Inner City - Let It Reign (Altern 8  Know The Score Mix)
2. Adelphi Music Factory - Area 39
3. Huda Hudia, DJ30A - Calabass
4. Radioplastic - Modern Age (Napt Remix)
5. M.C. Cool Rock & M.C. Chaszy Chess - Get Funky
6. OnDaMiKe & DJ DIlect - Make U Sweat (Bass Rewrk Mix)
7. Kyper - What Gets Your Body Hyped (XTC)
8. Code Rising - Stasis Protocol
9. Bradley Drop - Funky Beats 
10. Hankook - Bombo Clap
11. United States Beat Squad + Greenflamez - Curb Dogs (Kid Panel remix)
12. Dynamix II - Freq That Body
13. Kontakt - We On Acid!
14. Bradley Drop - Bring That Back 
15. Code Rising - What You Got Now
16. Deekline - Flute Ting
17. OnDaMiKe - Fired Up
18. Hexadecimal, United States Beat Squad - Sound Of The Underground
19. Case 82 - I Just Wanne
20. Sundance - Sundance (Cut La Roc's Voodoo '89 Mix)
21. Newton - Screamer ('95 Orlando Mix)
22. Ondamike - Let The Music Play
23. Ed Solo & Skool Of Thought - When I Was a Yout
24. Keith Mackenzie - What U Want (OnDaMike Remix)
25. Bear Moss, Prato - Ataraxia
26. Guau, Yo Speed - Tell Me
27. Deluxtra - Lift Me Up (Hybrid Remix)

Struggled and struggled to figure out the name for this months episode. I do not think a word exists in the English language that covers how I felt for this one. So much culminated for 6 months in my life and I wanted to cap it off with a fancy podcast episode name. Found nothing. ChatGPT failed me. 

The last few events had some of the coolest house and techno music I heard all year. So many beats, so much new space to explore! I had an amazing time dancing with new and old friends. October really seald up the amazing year I had at festivals and ended it proper. 

The podcast is ten days late because I've been working on the title almost the whole time! My artistic process failed me this time and needs a reboot. 

This set is a great one to cover October! Captures the vibes I like for change of seasons and spookiness. Pushing on in to the Technospere for later in the season. I'm peering in to the near future and seeing a lot of percussion to say the least. 

This months episode was mixed live at Disney World!!!

Tracklist:

1. Alexis Raphael - It's Kinda Jazzy 
2. RSquared - Listen Baby 
3. Kyle Watson - The Reason
4. Harry Romero - Sex
5. NIGHTLAB - I Need You 
6. CID, Jaquell - Downstairs
7. Mihalis Safras - The Voice 
8. RSquared, Melanie Ribbe - Main Attraction 
9. Mihalis Safras - Sagit 
10. Andreas Henneberg - Gum Park
11. Elite Force - You (Perc Dub)
12. Erick Morillo - Medication (Prok & Fitch Remix)
13. No Pants Party - TECHTONIC 
14. Meat Katie, Ben Coda - Just Quiet (Ettica Remix)
15. Mitch Gilby - Real Badman
16. Samuel Dan - Miles Away (Flash 89  Remix)

Two months in to one. I have been playing music at the Rat Trap bar a ton over the last two months at Burning Man and Wasteland Weekend. I do it like this every year but never before have I gone so hard with it. I was excited to run the bar at Burning Man almost every night from about midnight to right before sunrise. Hence the name 6 N The Mornin, plus thats also my favorite Ice-T track that I drop a ton. 

I made up this year for the bartending I wish I had gotten to do last year and then some. 

We brought it big for Wasteland Weekend and kept it super G for the whole event. 

None of this probably made sense to you, and thats just fine with me. 

Here is a mostly West Coast Gangster, all old school rap set - something I haven't publicly posted for a REAL long time - but also something I do plenty often yearly at multiple events. All the compliments over the last two months on track selection, and all of the absolutely absurd gangster times we have all had at the bar finally warranted me to release another set like this in to the wild. 

HEAR ME OUT - it's not bad music! Being deep in to Florida Breaks and funky breaks, this music is the source material for endless samples from popular tracks from the 1990s until now. Listen through the mix and you will hear a ton of familiar sounds and phrases in their natural post-funk MPC habitat!

Tracklist:

1. Kurupt - Loose Cannons - 1999
2. Eric B. & Rakim - Paid In Full - 1987
3. N.W.A. - If It Ain't Ruff - 1988
4. Dr. Dre & Snoop Dogg - Nuthin' But A G Thang - 1993
5. Coolio - Fantastic Voyage - 1994
6. Beastie Boys - Hey Ladies - 1989
7. Cypress Hill - How I Could Just Kill A Man - 1991
8. Black Sheep - The Choice Is Yours (Revisited) - 1991
9. Ice-T - 6 'N The Mornin' - 1986
10. Eazy-E - Boyz-N-The-Hood - 1987
11. N.W.A. - Dopeman - 1988
12. Kurupt Young Gotti, Daz Dillinger - C-Walkin Cha Cha Cha - 2001
13. Terminator X - To The Edge of Panic - 1988
14. N.W.A. - Straight Outta Compton - 1988
15. Cypress Hill - Insane in the Brain - 1993
16. Kurupt - C-Walk - 1998
17. Snoop Doggy Dogg - Gin & Juice - 1993
18. Warren G feat. Nate Dogg - Regulate - 1994
19. B-Real & Coolio, Method Man , LL Cool J, Busta Rhymes - Hit 'em High - 1996
20. Busta Rhymes - Woo Hah!! Got You All in Check - 1996
21. Method Man & Redman - How High - 1995
22. Ol' Dirty Bastard - Shimmy Shimmy Ya - 1995

It was a wild month - between wishing it was more humid, to not being able to escape rain for days. I was surrounded by house music but had my mind focused on what I will be doing later in August, and what I wanted my soundtrack to be. July is always one hell of a podcast. It's my sound track for the road to Burning Man. This breakz mix will help me put down hundreds of miles with a smile on my face.

A FAT stack of brand new tracks in this one, and a few older ones. Breakz are DEFINITELY in season this summer!

Tracklist:

1. Colombo - Phragmatobia 
2. Mizzo - Here Wit Me 
3. Shade K - LXI 
4. Sekret Chadow - I'm Ready 
5. Sekret Chadow, Case 82 - Rewind 
6. OnDaMiKe - Pure Love 
7. Hankook - Somewhere In The World 
8. Case 82 - Pray For Love 
9. Code Rising - Give It Up 
10. Merlyn - Dominate 
11. DJ Icey - Cut The Music 
12. Mizzo - Fried Chicken 
13. Hankook - Distorsion 
14. Sharaz - Freestyle Fanatic (Radio Edit) 
15. Brothers of Funk - How We Do 
16. Mizzo - Clap Ya Hands 
17. Kid Panel, United States Beat Squad - I'm Bad 
18. The Darrow Chem Syndicate - Allanhil 1984 (Hankook & Macho Remix) 
19. Guau & Pavane - Energy Flux (Extended Mix) 
20. Bartdon - In The Sky 
21. Opus III - It's A Fine Day (Left/Right Remix) 

I have spent my whole spring and summer so far working at festivals, traveling all over the country, and doing the Van Life thing. There was a moment a few months ago where I realized - I was going to be on the road, with my van, far far from home - and the opportunity of freedom and adventure was showing itself to me again. I had this amazing feeling, realizing that I would have so much time to be free again. It was a choice - go back to having a boring responsible life, or just say YES, go out there, and see what happens.

 I worked with lots of new people, went to new places, and really explored a lot of what my life has to offer. SO much new music, from grimy bass to absurd 808 techno, if I trainspotted al lthe tracks I liked, it would be a years worth of podcast material just from 3 months. 

Heres a bit of what I heard, and what was inspiring me to GO!

Tracklist:

1. Andrea Roma - Gelato 
2. Jack N Jerk - Pickled 
3. Casual Villain - Snap The Power 
4. Sooney - Pop 
5. Spektrum - Kinda New (We Live & Die) (Paul Woolford Remix) 
6. Phunk Investigation - Scream 
7. Valentino Khan & Wuki - Better (Ibranovski Remix) 
8. Boltan - Nine To Five (Rico Tubbs Speed Garage Remix) 
9. Black ICE - Fake (Dosem Remix) 
10. Mason Maynard - Simple Question 
11. Devilfish & Roel Salemink - Manalive (Jon Rundell Remix) 
12. Carl Cox, Nile Rodgers - Ohh Baby (David Tort's Dub Tech Mix) 
13. Yamil, Stefano Crabuzza - Orgasm (Level Groove Remix) 
14. DJ PIZZINI, White (PT) - Outcast 
15. Block & Crown , Jose - 123 Get Loose Now 
16. Roy Davis Jr. - Rock Shock (Groove Creator Retouch) 
17. Jakatta - American Dream (Breakbeat Mix) 

SKTTRBRAIN is back with another guest mix for the Kontakt Recording’s monthly. Feeding off the vibe of Kontakt’s December podcast, this old vs. new school set brings out the most paragon and fresh of breakbeats with undertones of acid, bass, electro, synth-wave, vocal, and overall classic energy. Subtle hints of dub, hip hop, jazz, and trance contribute to the atmosphere of Fuse. Experimenting with a new mixing style, SKTTRBRAIN plays around with tracks by weaving them into-and-out from one another multiple times. This technique adds an extra level of dimensionality to the foundational layering and blending of beats, mimicking traditional turntablism. SKTTRBRAIN shares favorites within this mix, many of which are in her personal vinyl collection. The general theme of the podcast is that sacred and special feeling the breakbeat genre offers to comfort the soul: 100% Pure Love. xoxo

Tracklist:

1. Prozak - Want Ur Love
2. Bowser - Love
3. Stanton Warriors - The One
4. Wicked Wes - Spice
5. E.R.N.E.S.T.O. - Azotame
6. Zona - Eternal Poison
7. Hybrid - I Know
8. Tears of Technology - Open Your Eyes
9. Gosize - Dodge Your Lies
10. DJ Icey - Escape
11. DJ Spin - The Yearn (Deepsec & Adam Firegate Remix)
12. Wicked Wes - EIONS
13. Dean Axis - Separate (Breakbeat Remix)
14. Nixon - Solar Love
15. Lost Tribe - Angel
16. Prozak - Hold Me Down
17. Alex Wicked - Don’t Let Go
18. The KromOzone Project - Stay In Love
19. DJ Icey - Love (Once Upon A Time)
20. Stanton Warriors feat. Sian Evans - Up2U

WOW The procrastination hits hard this month. Two weeks late on a mix I recorded a month ago. Life has been real lately! Festival season is thick for me this year, and I am so thankful!

Heres a little list of what I have been up to - 

Neotropolis
Joshua Tree Music Festival
Lightning In A Bottle
The Gathering

And preparing for lots more later this year!!!

Here is the second half of my live set in April :)  Lots of my house favorites from the last couple years and maybe a couple I haven't played yet. This one went over REAL good out in the desert. 

Tracklist:

1. S.A.M. - Fury's Laughter (Tube & Berger Remix) 
2. That Kid Chris - Girlfriend (The Cube Guys Remix) 
3. Morsy, John Spinosa - Greedy Drums 
4. Manston & Simms - Rez (The Razor Of Love Groove) 
5. The Deepshakerz - Go Heavy 
6. Popcorn Poppers, Tommy B - Upside & Round and Around 
7. Heartik - Last Of The Breed (Dosem Remix) 
8. Black V Neck, E.R.N.E.S.T.O - I Push (Truth x Lies Remix) 
9. Roland Klinkenberg - On My Mind (Mashtronic Remix) 
10. Son Of 8 - The Musik, Pt. 1 
11. Uriah Persie - Voices 
12. Monki - Work It (Edit) 
13. Agua Sin Gas by Antoine Clamaran - Comin' 
14. Antonio Giacca - Down Like the River 
15. Adri Block, Marc Mosca - Watson Can Jack (Jackin Club Mix) 
16. Jonk & Spook - Give Me 
17. Plump DJs - Dreamland (Dirty Supercar Remix) 
18. Angelo Ferreri - Dance with Me 
19. Shermanology - Follow Me (Aly-Us Cover) 

Yes I have been sitting on this mix for two weeks now without uploading. OOPS! Sometimes you just have to live life as it comes to you and stay away from the computer. I've been having an epic time out here in the Mojave Desert in and out of Joshua Tree National Park. Making lots of new friends and spending good times with old ones.

This mix is a cut of the first half of my live set for my friend Zircon's birthday memorial party. He would have LOVED this stuff! I started out the night with some good progressive vibey tracks, some funky Miami vibe house tracks, plenty of old jams that are always best played at night. This set cut ends with i_o - No Sleep - that is actually the transition track from the first half of the night to the next. This set really ends with the second to last track. BUT - No Sleep is such a favorite - and the mix in to it is absolutely absurd. I was NOT about to cut it out of the set for you all.

Hope you enjoy this inspiring, feel good, vibey set played live for some of my absolute best friends under the night stars of Joshua Tree on April 6th!!!

Tracklist:

1. Thomas Schwartz - Leche 
2. Randy Boyer Vs Armin Van Buuren - Afterglow Shivers (Heatbeat Mashup) 
3. Kris B - Starshine (Dub Mix) 
4. Felguk - Feel Da Funk 
5. Attack Attack - Set The Sun (Ben Macklin Dub) 
6. Tim Davison - Spark (Jay Lumen Remix) 
7. Jaytech - Electron 
8. Bastards of Funk & Sonic Union - You're to Blame (Deep Drama Mix) 
9. Matt Rowan & Jaytech - Spin Cycle 
10. Noel Sanger - Natural Perfection 
11. Marco Lys - You'll Be Mine 
12. Gabriel & Dresden - Dangerous Power (Discount Rhino Dubber Rucky Mix) 
13. Dome Patrol - The Cutting Edge (Carl Cox & Julika Remix) 
14. Joshwa (UK) - You're Not Alone (Club Edit) 
15. Jaytech - Groove Nova 
16. Paul Woolford, Kim English - Hang Up Your Hang Ups (CamelPhat Remix) 
17. Deadmau5 - Strobe (Plump DJs Remix) 
18. i_o - No Sleep 

What has changed for you in the last two years?

Tracklist:

1. Adam Byrd - Time Machine (Pablo Roma Remix) 
2. Appleblim, Ramadanman - Void 23 (Carl Craig Re-Edit) 
3. Dome Patrol - The Cutting Edge (Carl Cox & Julika Remix) 
4. Black V Neck, E.R.N.E.S.T.O - I Push (Truth x Lies Remix) 
5. Prok & Fitch - Rebound 
6. Joshwa (UK) - You're Not Alone (Club Edit) 
7. Shermanology - Follow Me (Aly-Us Cover) 
8. CASSIMM, Kevin McKay - Raw Beat 
9. Acid Kids - Expression 
10. Alison Limerick - Where Love Lives (Shield Silk Re-Edit) 
11. On & On - IMG_9515 
12. Alex Whisper, Mick Teck - I Told Ya 
13. Adelphi Music Factory - Cuba 
14. In.deed - Love & Happiness