Point.of.Kontakt

It's my favorite time of the year again, musically - when my big trance mix comes out. Always worth the wait, and for me the only mix I do all year that I don't easily forget. This is another mix with a few years of tracks that have been percolating, and some from long long ago that I've never had the right context for. Last year I swayed to the dark side with hard techno and some total banger tracks - not much from this years mix would have worked back then. 

But now the time for techno has passed and I am fully releasing the energy! 

Resonance is first and foremost my favorite knob to tweak on a synthesizer, and second, one of the musical aspects of a lot of tracks that I will use to actually eliminate them from a mix. All that texture doesn't work well for me unless its across almost the entire mix. It's a great space to explore but it takes a lot of time to do in a way that satisfies me. 

This mix is it. No doubts you will enjoy. I can not stop listening!

Tracklist:

1. Above & Beyond - Formula Rossa 
2. Cosmaks - Unfold (Ametrine Remix) 
3. Lange - Our Brief Time In The Sun (Anske Remix) 
4. Estiva - Little Planet (Matt Fax Remix) 
5. Funabashi - The Shelter (Steve Nomac Remix) 
6. Niels van Gogh - Pulverturm (Tiesto's Big Room Extended Remix) 
7. Matt Fax - Storm 
8. Yan Weinstock - Horizon (Extended Mix)  
9. Dan Stone - Vice Versa (John Grand Extended Remix) 
10. Signum - First Strike (Alex M.O.R.P.H. remix) 
11. John Grand - Bridges 
12. Super8 & Tab Vs. Tritonal Vs. Markus Schulz - Perfect Awakenings (Tritonal Mashup) 
13. Super8 & Tab - Cosmo 
14. Henry Dark - Need U 
15. Super8 & Tab  - Black Is The New Yellow (Protoculture remix) 
16. Sedi - The Other Side 
17. Anjunabeats - Volume One (7 Skies & Static Blue Remix) 
18. Alt + F4 - Alt + F4 (Matthew Adams Introspective Mix) 
19. Kyau & Albert - Shimmer 
20. Lostly, Emma Gillespie - Roam 

For only the fourth? time ever, I put out one podcast a month for an entire calendar year of this podcast. !WOW! 2023 was a great year for myself and music. Better than I has planned. I started with a lot of motivation and kept it up all year. I really impressed myself this time :)

The December mix for 2023 is another one from Orlando with a good amount of tracks from artists I've seen playing in town lately like OnDaMike, DJ Icey, and Stanton Wariors. I can say I don't always love this sound, but when I am here in Orlando, I 100% am feeling it. Something about all the sunshine and palm trees just makes that bass hit right. This new school breaks mix still has tracks dating back over ten year up to the present, but its all got that fresh florida sound. Hope you can PUMP THE BASS!!!

Also this month I am welcoming three new sponsors to the show - BlackRock, Kirkland Signature, and Bob's Country Bunker!

Tracklist - 

1. The Darrow Chem Syndicate - Breakin' For You (Kuplay Remix) 
2. Maceo Rivas, Exency, Oldbeat - With Love (Bartdon Remix) 
3. United States Beat Squad - I Found You 
4. DJ Icey - Yeah Right 
5. Busta Rhymes  - Dangerous (Agent K Remix) 
6. E.R.N.E.S.T.O - Feels 
7. DJ Icey - Tokonook 
8. Ondamike - Din Da Daa Bass (Exclusive Mix) 
9. Big Daddy's - Booty Sweat (KMFX Flip) 
10. Ondamike - I Heart Electro 
11. Obscene Frequenzy - Funky Summer 
12. Keith Mackenzie, Mizzo - Come Over Me 
13. Stanton Warriors - Hey Now (Unreleased VIP Mix) 
14. Case 82 - The One That I Need 
15. Mizzo - Time To Get Paid 
16. Lunathics - Tonight (thec4 ''Reverse Mode'' Remix) 
17. Plump DJs - Dreamland 
18. Stonebridge - Put 'em High (PVC Remix) 
19. Metrik, Friction - Legacy 

This mix is a Part Two to my episode 117 from December 2021. Yes, I've been working on it since I started working on that set, so going on three years. This months mix is a lot of low-fi 12" rips that I grouped together because they were absolute bangers, but were very hard to put in to other sets with better recording quality. Almost none of these could have fit with 117, even though both are vintage mixes with tracks from the mid 90s to MAYBE 2002. 

All of the time it took to get together the right tracks for this mix was worth it, and the months it took to organize them in to a sequence I felt really worked with them paid off. I have put so much time in to this set that by the time I mixed it, the whole thing had already been in my head for over a year. Part of my creative process is loading all the songs in to my head, and letting them sort themselves out over time. I'm thankful I can take so much time to put a set together for myself, and I hope you really can enjoy it too. 

I tried to keep with the vibes for the cover art an made something straight out of the 90's. The picture is new  - from the AAHZ reunion party at The Beacham theater in Orlando this year the night before Thanksgiving - Kimball Collins was playing at the time. I feel like this could totally have been a CD cover for a cheap but totally banging CD mix from 1995 - 1998.

MIXED LIVE IN ORLANDO!!!

Tracklist:

1. DJ Crown-One - Night & Day
2. Sharaz - Just Can't Wait (Sharaz Nite Sky Mix)
3. Angelina - Release Me (Cage Remix)
4. Atmosphere feat Winter Darling - Loving Higher (Xtacy Break)
5. DJ Devistada - Say Yea
6. K5 - Lift You Up (Funky Mix)
7. DJ Icee - Bbrrr Go Go
8. Soso - Higher
9. Debbie D - Rock The Beat (Sharaz Remix)
10. DJ Neutron - Take Me Away
11. Windbreaker - Way Up To The Sky (Ride to the Sky Fever Edit) (Kontakt Edit)
12. Decepticonz - NRG
13. DJ Rennixx - Hold On (Electro Mix)
14. Friction & Spice - Ah Yeah (97 Remix)
15. Friction & Spice - You Make Me Feel So Good (Kontakt Edit)
16. Rick West & DJ Fixx - I Will Give You
17. DJ Mike B - Don't Wanna Love (Kontakt Edit)

This month I am bringing back the weird spooky October vibe from past podcasts. Always a fun month to build up tracks for, this collection of music is from 2020 - 2023, but tracks go way back to 2000. The Crowd Song by Rhythm Gangsta is one of the fattest house tracks ever produced for me, and I am very excited to be dropping it this month in the podcast. The name celebrates my new pet mouse - KRONK!

 The icing on the cake is that I am lucky enough to have mixed this podcast indie of Walkt Disney World in Orlando! Much vibes. 

I've been on the road for three months now, the last two weeks without an interface - OOPS. Thankful to my friend here in orlando DJ Rob C for lending me a compatible AKAI - it plugged in and was amazingly already mapped to my settings for Ableton!

Disney World really is MAGICAL!!!

Tracklist - 

1. ZDS - Ibiza Hooligan 
2. Thomas Schumacher - Taxi (Riva Starr Dub Mix) 
3. Hanne & Lore - Samara (David Jach Remix) 
4. Andre Butano, Miguel Lobo - Sizzurp Overdose 
5. Weiss (UK) - Feel My Needs (Gorgon City Remix) 
6. Eli Brown - Low End Theory 
7. Abolengo Club - Bring Da House Down 
8. Dale Howard - Frequency 
9. Sampson. - At The Club 
10. Pirate Jams - Acid Party People 
11. Armand Van Helden, Solardo, Hervé - Power of Bass 
12. PAX - Just Touch 
13. E.R.N.E.S.T.O, Arango - Cyberspace 
14. Wongo feat. Blak Trash - Tic Toc (ZDS Remix) 
15. Rhythm Gangsta - The Crowd Song (Bassdrum Gangsta Mix) 
16. Robosonic - Life Is Like 

I have had a crazy couple months of being on the road! This mix has been done for almost two weeks but I havent gotten around to putting it up until now. Saw so many friends, drove so many places. Looking forwards to doing more of the same in a different part of the country soon. Road trips are good for the soul! Originally I had so much to say, but I decided to just  leave that for the music. 

Tracklist:

1. Etienne de Cracy - Beatcrush (Boris Gludosh Remix) 
2. Pirate Jams - One Way Back 
3. Jamie Jones - Kooky Chords 
4. Eli Brown - Hysteria 
5. Weiss (UK), Eli Brown - Push It Up 
6. Groovebox - Fat Like 
7. That Kid Chris - Girlfriend  
8. Max Bett - Somewhere In The Ghetto 
9. Claude VonStroke - Freaks Don't Fail Me Now 
10. Blandy - Thats It 
11. SkiiTour - Hood Rat 
12. DSC - Coming Round (Rex The Dog remix) 
13. Adrian Hour - Automator 
14. Holdeck feat Double M - For Your Love (Moreno Pezzolato Remix) 
15. Pirate Jams - X.T.C. 
16. Monki - Work It (Edit) 
17. Robosonic - Worst Love 

I didn't get a chance to play at Burning Man this year because of the rained out weekend - but I really had a lot of intentions to do it. Tons of tracks were ready to go, a vibe, and a vision!

I realized how long it's been since I dropped a slamming Disco set down - way too long. I miss those days of warm fuzzy basslines, horns, and positive vibes pumping through the speakers. DJ Dan decided to sit this one out after 14 years - I wanted to bring the energy I love so much. The energy that drew me to come to Buring Man in the first place.

I tossed in a big amount of high energy Disco cheese tracks this month, that I almost could never make work in a set unless its played at a high energy party. Some tracks are from ten years ago, some are almost brand new, all of them are vibey as a summer night in 1976.

Really happy with how this one came out, thanks to everyone who added to my inspiration to get it done - I love you all <3

Recorded live in Joshua Tree!

Tracklist - 

1. Moodena - The Rattlesnake & The Ant 
2. David Jach - Losing Control 
3. Antonio Giacca - Down Like the River 
4. Soul Speech - Morning Light 
5. Popcorn Poppers, Tommy B - Upside & Round and Around 
6. The Knocks feat. Mat Zo - Get Happy 
7. Plump DJs - Dreamland (Dirty Supercar Remix) 
8. Adri Block, Marc Mosca - Watson Can Jack (Jackin Club Mix) 
9. Agua Sin Gas by Antoine Clamaran - Comin' 
10. Mark Knight - The General 
11. Kevin McKay, Marco Anzalone - Technologic (Kevin's ViP Edit) 
12. Low Steppa - Sunshine 
13. Rio Dela Duna, Block & Crown - The Feelin' 
14. Franky Rizardo - Same Man 
15. Sovax - Drive 
16. Siwell - I Need It 
17. Oliver $, Jimi Jules - Pushing On 
18. Nora En Pure - Roots 

Gearing up this month for a HOT summer!!! Excited to be dropping a hot breakz mix like this in the middle of the hottest summer on record - yes we are all DOOMED!!! But we can still dance and be happy, it's all we CAN do sometimes. This mix is full of throwback samples, hardkore breakz, BIG BASS, and 100% Pure Florida FLAVA.

I mixed this one a little different from usual, so a lot of tracks have intro and outro edits to make it all flow. The tracks really bang in on it. 

This one gets wild, watch your bass bins.

Tracklist - 

1. Marradonna - Out Of My Head
2. B-Phreak, Bradley Drop - Bounce
3. DJ Magic Mike, Ondamike - Twilight Zone
4. Hexadecimal & United States Beat Squad - Stay
5. Case 82 - I Want Your Love
6. OnDaMiKe - Up Up Up
7. The Darrow Chem Syndicate - Breakin' For You (Kuplay Remix)
8. Si Dog - Move Your Body
9. OnDaMike - Banging The Beats
10. DeiBeat - Rise Up (Freestylers Remix)
11. Agent K - Bass Addict
12. Valley of the Big Bass & Big Bass Drum - This Is The United States Calling (JimiTheGenius Remix)
13. Code Rising vs J-Double - Get It Poppin
14. Beat Mavericks - Living Astro 
15. Third Culture - U Move (Radio Edit)
16. DJ Icey - Rio Sur
17. Sweet Charlie, Dmoney - Give It To Me (Remix)
18. Prato - Powers And Skills
19. Plump DJs - Dreamland (Pirate Jams Remix Radio Edit)
20. DJ Ham - Most Uplifting (Bladerunner Remix)

  This month’s podcast was created by friend and returning guest artist to Kontakt Recordings, SKTTRBRAIN. Feeding off techno energy while merging in hints of acid, breaks, electro, and old school remixes, this progressive set combines a massive stack of tracks to bring forth a classic, yet contemporary, vibe. Each section has two to three layers of productions woven into one another forming an intense aura of sound. You’ll notice tracks floating in and out throughout their mixing, highlighting the processual philosophy of past, present, and future dimensions of reality. Enjoy the ride! 

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Tracklist:

1. Plastikman - Mind in Rewind (Carl Craig Prog 47 Remix)
2. Orgy - Blue Monday (DJ Dan Remix)
3. Frost Raven - Refraction
4. Trancesetters - Secrets Of Meditation (Massimo Vivian Remix)
5. Deee-Lite - Pussycat Meow (Murk Boys Remix)
6. The Prodigy - Smack My Bitch Up (Maksim Dark Remix) 
7. Henrix & Celeda - The Underground (D-Unity Beat Therapy Remix)
8. i_o - Something
9. Metabreed - God Computer
10. La Rissa - I Do Both Jay & Jane (Kay Cee Remix)
11. Metabreed - Karmaceutica (Electric Sheep Remix)
12. Monolock - Bass Bitch 
13. Meller - Acid Future
14. ManMadeMan - Ooze (Earthspace Remix)
15. The Prodigy - Warriors Dance (Future Funk Squad’s ‘Rave Soldier’ 16Mix)
17. The Prodigy - Smack My Bitch Up (Tilt System Remix)
18. SWArT - Rapture 
19. John 00 Fleming - The 10th Life 
20. Kazuki - Deeper Down The Rabbit Hole
21. Hedustma - Toxic Environment
22. Stex - Frog 
23. Delerium & Tiësto - Innocente
24. Rockell - In A Dream (Funky Mix)

I was very excited to throw down online at DragonStomp this month. Admittedly I havent popped up on Twitch since Warstomp in 2020.... but this set was worth the wait for me. Plus my new(er) laptop could handle a ton of video mashups plus camera feed at the same time. This live set is real solid rave / breakz. From the old skool to the new skool and then back again - I really had a blast throwing this set down. The breakz came a little early this year but the weather has been hot so the tracks are going to match it! 

The amount of classic bangers in here is off the charts!!!!

WORD UP!

Tracklist:

1. Hyper On Experience - Another Rave 
2. Dave London - The Roof 
3. Rhythm Section - Dreamworld 
4. Mystery Man - DJ Business 
5. UK Hard - Only The Night 
6. The House Crew - We Are Hardcore (Magic Fantasy Remix) 
7. D'Cruze - Watch Out (D'Cruze Remix) 
8. Obscene Frequenzy - Rolling (2018 Mix) 
9. Dismantle - Street Knowledge 
10. LEVEL 101 - Time2move feat. Fatimah Provillon (Merlyn's Upstairs at the Mission Bass Dub Remix) 
11. Obscene Frequenzy - Holdin' It 
12. Pirate Jams - Happy Days 
13. Cut & Paste - Give Into The Rhythm 
14. Case 8 - Up To No Good 
15. United States Beat Squad & Menges - Give Me Your All 
16. Maxx Watts feat. The Bass Addict - The Scratchberry Jam 
17. DJ Icey, Dynamix II - Let's Go 
18. DJ Laz - Red Alert '98 
19. DJ Mike B - Feel My Energy 
20. Opus III vs Huda Hudia - It's A Fine Day Vs Drop The Bass Now (Beat Intro Santana) 
21. Huda Hudia - On The Dance Floor (Attention Mix) 
22. Vibal - Into the Stars 

Moving forwards deeper in to techno land at an accelerated pace, this months I put together a mix with some tracks I have had on hold for 4 years, some new finds, and old favorites dating back to '94. Driving hard techno in this set I feel really pulls me through a trip. To where? I don't know, but i'm feeling that its some ancient warehouse club like Tunnel in NYC, one end to the other. 

This will be all the hard and dark music out of me for the rest of the year, so enjoy it while it is here!

Tracklist - 

1. i_o  - No Sleep 
2. Radio Slave - Another Club (Charlotte de Witte Remix) 
3. Tata Box Inhibitors - Plasmids (Placid Mix) 
4. SWART - Back At The Warehouse 
5. i_o - House of God  
6. Dave Clarke - The Storm 
7. Boriqua Tribez - Kinky 
8. Eric Sneo - Ciao Bella 
9. UMEK - Asiiiid 
10. Almir Ljusa - MTV 
11. DJ Preach - Timeport 
12. DJ Rush - Get On Up (Umek Remix) 
13. Sebrok & Stereo Jack - Music (Eric Sneo Remix) 
14. DJ Preach - Oxygen (Eric Sneo Beatdisasters Remix) 
15. Keita Sato - Robot Apocalypse (D.A.V.E. The Drummer Remix) 
16. Boriqua Tribez - Roxana (Almir Ljusa Remix) 
17. David Moleon, Boriqua Tribez - Ocean rework