1. Fury Weekend, The Anix - Illumination

2. Vondkreistan - Silence

3. Max Brhon - Cyberpunk

4. RENESIS - Tokyo

5. Castroe - G.S.A

6. Kavinsky - Nightcall

7. Arcade High - Slay

8. Sung - Neon Artery

9. Dance With the Dead - Hex

10. HVDES - Fallout

11. Syn - Cyberpunk

12. Skyman, Lena Shad - You and Me

13. Falling Satellite, Andrew Southworth - Animal

14. Essenger - Divine Virus

15. 2050 - Nova (Radio Edit)

16. Silverhook & Eliot - Hello Goodbye

17. A. Yarmak - Future Club

I'm back! Unfortunately I fell ill with COVID at the end of March, so no March episode... But here I am back for April's episode with another deep dive into deep house.

So fresh from winning Mr Bear Gran Canaria 2024 (thanks everyone who has been in touch!), I realised I had a lot of fantastic left-over tracks that didn't quite make it into that mix - And it looks like lots of people really enjoyed that mix, so I decided to do another one, and bring you more melodic, deep-house, night-driving vibes - With an occasional progressive house track thrown in for good measure.

As a new(ish) DJ I'm still realling honing my sound, but lots of people seem to love my afrobeats and more chilled out deep house mixes, and I'm pleased to announce that I have my first deep house live event happening next year, so keep an eye out for that.

I also want to dedicate this mix to my wingman Adam, who helped me a lot over the course of the Mr Bear competition, who has been a bit sick himself this week, so sending positive, feeling vibes to you.

As always, if you want to send me a message, you can get me on SoundCloud (Soen One), on Instagram (soeno) or find me on Facebook (Soen One).

I hope you enjoy this mix as much as I do!

Peace and light,

Soen

Tracklisting:

1. Sound Quelle, Lauren L'aimant - Colours

2. djimboh - Undertow

3. Digital Department - Leaving City

4. Judah, Matt Fax, Luke Coulson - Alone (feat. Luke Coulson)

5. Braxton - Spaces

6. Marsh, Jesse Bullitt - Rise (Original Mix)

7. Estiva, RBBTS - Ghost Town (MXV Remix)

8. Trilucid, Esque - Illuminant

9. Matt Fax, Richard Walters - Here With Me (Angara Remix)

10. Braxton, Lauren L'aimant - Holding On

11. L.GU., LAR, Ben Cina - Rivers

12. Praana - Landing Patterns

13. Bound to Divide, Lauren L'aimant - Tears

14. Praana - In The Blue

Life likes to throw a curveball sometimes, and I thought I would manage to get a mix or two out on my travels but that didn't happen, and then throw in some ill health, and you end up having to skip an episode of your podcast.

I've been looking at what works and what doesn't work with my listening figures and whilst initially I planned to make this episode Contemporary Classical, I decided that it would be easier and quicker to stick to what I know for this episode - And that's Deep House.

I recorded this mix a few days ago and I've been sitting on it for a few days to listen to it back before posting it; it's my first mix in a bit so wanted to make sure it was up to par, especially when someone else chose the tracks this time!

Narrowed down from 100, here's 18 of melodic and vocal deep house, that I absolutely love working to and regularly wake up humming - There's some definite earworms in there.

And talking of Deep House, I'm happy to announce I'll be attending Anjunadeep's Explorations in Dhermi, Albania this year - So if you see me there come say hi!

Love & peace to you all,

Soen

Tracklisting:

1. Sound Quelle, Daniel Robinson - Tempest

2. Klur, Hildur Ottilia - Heart To Heart (Polar Inc. Remix)

3. Estiva - Seven Six Four

4. Damate - Reflections

5. Hessian - Continuum

6. Thaylo - Deep Heart

7. Matt Fax, Jack Dawson - Close My Eyes

8. Van Murten - This Is Love

9. Sound Quelle - Hung

10. Sound Quelle, Dolly Rae - Nobody Knows (L.GU. Remix)

11. Estiva, Diana Miro - Snow Flower

12. Lipless - Barely

13. Matt Fax - To The Ground (Original Mix)

14. Shahin Shantiaei, Lauren L'aimant - Close To Me

15. Leossa - Daytrip

16. Trilucid - One Day At A Time

17. Estiva - Via Infinita

18. MXV - It's Always Been You

Wow. Where to begin this one.

One thing I said when starting out this podcast is that I would always record live and do minimal post-production on them (usually just trimming!), but unfortunately the lack of time and energy this month has meant I've recorded this session in 4 parts and spliced them together in post production - Given the bumper nature of this episode, I'm sure you'll forgive me just this once! So 19 days late, here it is, some brilliant party music just before the party season starts proper.

This set was inadvertently inspired by one of my good friends and fellow DJs, Silverhook, after he teased me about loving electroswing as a genre of music. And was like… How did I ever get to 40+ episodes into my podcast without actually covering one of my favourite genres?! Anyway to right that wrong, here is a bumper episode of my podcast featuring no less than 36 tracks in almost 2 hours of nonstop, 124bpm electroswing madness.

What surprised me when researching this episode is the variety of sub-styles within the electroswing world, it’s not all just rehashed wartime music with a bass drum. In this mix, there are touches of pop remixes, dub-step, even a little techno at times. Oh, yes, and plenty and plenty of cheese. Especially the closing track ;)

I feature several tracks by French grandmasters (and an old favourite of mine) Caravan Palace - opening with their possibly most famous track, as well as Austrian electroswing powerhouse Parov Stelar, but also brand new material from Balduin - So keep an ear out for “Mr. Jones (Balduin Remix)” in the middle of the set.

There’s also an unexpected big name in the midst of this set as well - Icona Pop’s Emergency appears - Showing that electroswing isn’t just a fringe musical genre!

So whatever you’re doing this Christmas and New Year, feel free to pop this on in the background to get into the party mood because it’s all about the rhythm in this electroswing megamix!

All the best for 2024,

Soen

Tracklisting:

1. Caravan Palace - Lone Digger

2. Parov Stelar, AronChupa - Grandpa's Groove (Extended Version)

3. Minimatic - No Swinggity

4. Balduin, Masha Ray - Dirty Dazzler

5. Lazlo - Busy Line

6. Swingrowers - Follow the Stars

7. C@ in the H@, Arthur Migliazza - The Lost Rag

8. Parov Stelar - Booty Swing

9. Odd Chap - The Little Man Who Wasn't There

10. Jamie Berry, Octavia Rose - Delight

11. Swingrowers - Educated Feet

12. Balduin, Masha Ray - Wabababa

13. Alice Francis, Balduin - Mr. Jones (Balduin Remix)

14. Jamie Berry, Robert Edwards, Andrew Griffiths, Octavia Rose - Light up the Night

15. Parov Stelar Trio - Doctor Foo

16. Wolfgang Lohr, Phos Toni - My 20s Woman

17. Jamie Berry, Octavia Rose - Lost In The Rhythm

18. Wolfgang Lohr - Black Swing

19. Little Violet - Silent Movie

20. Parov Stelar - Clap Your Hands

21. Pisk, Little Violet - Wicked

22. Icona Pop - Emergency

23. Jamie Berry - Sweet Rascal (Original Mix)

24. Betty Booom - Betty Boop (Electro Swing)

25. Bart&Baker - Istanbul (Not Constantinople)

26. Lil Mishka Band, The Soulmate Project, Szigeti Juli - Long Train Runnin' (Electro Swing Mix)

27. AronChupa, Little Sis Nora - Little Swing

28. Balduin, Wolfgang Lohr, J Fitz - New Ground

29. Caravan Palace - Russian

30. Glenn Gatsby, LVDS - Marvelous

31. Pisk, Nastazya - Horny (Electro Swing Version)

32. Balduin, Wolfgang Lohr, Alanna Lyes - Dizzy (Radio Edit)

33. Musique Boutique - It Goes Like Nanana (Electro Swing Radio Edit)

34. Glenn Gatsby - Shadow Hat

35. Tamela D'amico, Wolfgang Lohr, Ashley Slater - Boring 20s

36. Swing'it, Jonah Hitchens, Sam Norris - Champagne: Electro Swing Spin

This is one of those really fast-paced technical mixes that I had to re-record 5 times to try and get it recorded without mistakes... And still a couple persist! Even though DJs normally use extended mixes for their sets - Sometimes those just don't exist for tracks I like, so I have to make my own extended version, live, on the decks. Most of the time it works, although it can be tricky - No treats this time!

Anyway, the last couple of weeks have been an emotional rollercoaster after falling ill again, so this is a heartfelt house mix, it covers a few different genres, mostly progressive house and deep house, but there are touches of pop and straight up dance here and there.

I'm the first to admit this isn't one of the best mixes in the world, but that's why we try. We learn just as much from trying and failing as we do trying and succeeding - And failures don't negate all of the progress you've made to this point.

So have a listen and see if you agree whether this mix is yay or nay for you.

As always you can reach me at @soen on X (Twitter), @soenone on soundcloud and @soen.one on instagram.

Peace and positive energy to you all,

Soen

Tracklisting:

1. Forester - All My Days

2. aname - Anywhere (Road Trippin')

3. Jamis, Nu Aspect, Poppy Baskcomb - Miss You (Extended)

4. Dom Dolla, Mansionair - Strangers (with Mansionair) (Nora En Pure Remix)

5. Fred again.. - Billie (loving arms)

6. Gorgon City - Voodoo

7. Knoxa, Jordan Shaw - Said Goodbye (feat. Jordan Shaw)

8. Linney - Super Human

9. Andrew Bayer, Asbjorn - Super Human (Extended Mix)

10. Serhat Durmus, Georgia Ku - My Feelings

11. Jonasu, Clara Mae - Can't Do Both

12. Kaskade - Where Did You Go

13. Lane 8 - What Have You Done To Me feat. Arctic Lake

14. John Summit, Echoes - Human (feat. Echoes)

15. Tury, Hitkend House Lab, Nadia - Femme Like U

16. Nora Van Elken - Way Out (feat. Clara Mae)

This was a spur-of-the-moment (mini?) mix; to celebrate the joys of Halloween!

I love this time of year, the introduction of frosty mornings, and nights drawing in, getting cosy by the fire and watching a good old horror movie on Netflix. I'm looking forward to attending Fright Nights at Thorpe Park again this year after missing it for a few years, and decided to celebrate in my own little way - By putting a mix together.

Now, this mix covers all my favourite genres - Vocal house, pop, a little minimal electronic, all the way to some Epic tracks at the end.

Enjoy!

- Soen

Tracklisting:

1. L'Orchestra Cinematique - Resident Evil Theme (Epic Version)

2. Zombie Nation - Kernkraft 400 (Original Radio Edit)

3. Billie Eilish - bad guy

4. Beatfreakz - Somebody's Watching Me (Hi_Tack Radio Edit)

5. Ava Max - Sweet but Psycho

6. Beatfreakz - Superfreak

7. Taylor Swift - Look What You Made Me Do

8. Yeah Yeah Yeahs - Heads Will Roll (A-Trak Remix Radio Edit)

9. Sam Smith, Kim Petras - Unholy (Remixes) (Athenz Remix)

10. The Automatic - Monster

11. Marilyn Manson - Personal Jesus

12. Carameii - Noot Noot Theme Mozart Lacrimosa (Epic Version)

13. Hidden Citizens - Don't Speak (Epic Trailer Version)

It's a fresh new month along with a fresh new genre of music!

This month we're deep diving into one of the most important decades in music - The 80's - As if you hadn't guessed that already by the track playing in the background.

This mix is inspired by London's very best 80's themed night, Athena, held every 1st Saturday of the month at the Eagle in London - unfortunately I won't make it this month due to a festival up in Scotland, but I will be making a personal appearance at Athena on the 4th of November, and a big shout out to Paul Joseph the organiser of Athena

This weekend I also had the absolute pleasure of seeing Nora En Pure live at Electric Brixton - She's one of the DJs who really inspired me to get into DJing, and she played an absolutely amazing set, and Electric Brixton is a really fantastic venue as well.

Anyway, back to the music now and we kick off this month's amazing set of 80's classics with Fleetwood Mac and Everywhere.

It's been a couple of busy weeks for me, flying up to Scotland to see my family and back again, going to a late summer events and unfortunately being struck down with ill health

But I'm all good now and back with you this month for a deep dive into melodic and deep house, including some brand new tracks from Eli & Fur, Franky Wah and Aname. And I'm featuring a quite few tracks by Aname who are quickly becoming one of my favourite artists, and I've had the pleasure to see them live a couple of times in the last year and their sets along are incredibly well constructed, focusing on that rich melodic house sound that I will be focusing on today.

So as you've no doubt noticed I don't normally speak on my mixes as I want my podcast to be about the music and not so much about me, but I thought I'd try something different this month to see what you think.

We kick off with an interlude track from Aname's album Beautiful World - Couples Therapy.

Enjoy,

-Soen

Tracklisting:

1. Nora En Pure - Who You Are (Extended Mix)

2. anamē - Couples Therapy

3. Heard Right - Moth (Extended Mix)

4. anamē - Anywhere (Road Trippin') (Extended Mix)

5. Nora En Pure - Forsaken Dream (Extended Mix)

6. AtalaiA - Five Shimmering Rings (Extended Mix)

7. Einmusik, Jordan Arts - The One's (Extended Mix)

8. Eli & Fur - Temptation (Eli & Fur Extended Midnight Mix)

9. anamē - Fiji (Extended Mix)

10. Rimbu - Internal Journey (Original Mix)

11. Mnrt, Astrality, S:NE - Rain (Extended)

12. Rae Morris, Franky Wah - Call My Name feat. Rae Morris (Extended Mix)

13. Bien, gardenstate - The Best Part (Extended Mix)

14. Fideles - Waterfall (Extended Mix)

15. Richard Bedford, Above & Beyond - Bittersweet & Blue feat. Richard Bedford (Original Mix)

16. PS1, Richard Judge - Single Summer feat. Richard Judge (Extended)

17. Kaskade, deadmau5 - I Remember (John Summit Remix) (Extended Mix)

18. Jamis, Nu Aspect, Poppy Baskcomb - Miss You (Extended)

Out of all of my mixes, my first Afrobeats podcast episode regularly ranks in the top 3 episodes on my podcast, by number of plays - I think because Afrobeats is still a relatively new genre in the here UK and in America, but it's growth has been explosive recently as people discover its fresh sound - A heady mix of crystal clear beats and laid back vocals. It's a completely different smooth sound compared to what gets airtime these days - Not forgetting of course that Africa itself is home to some 1.2 billion people - Many of whom have just started using the internet for the first time.

Personally, I find myself listening to Afrobeats a lot whilst working, it's lo-fi and chilled vocal style complements my working style which requires a lot of thinking space and concentration, and afrobeats doesn't overburden the listener by being too heavy or too fast.

So on that, I decided to revisit Afrobeats now that we're halfway through 2023 and I've found some great new tracks to share; although it did surprise me that almost all of the tracks are below 3 minutes, so 17 tracks fits into a mere 47 minutes! Mental note for next time I think.

Anyway, enjoy the set and I'll catch you on the next episode for which I have a fairly unique idea.

Stay safe,

Soen

Tracklisting:

1. Cheque, Crayon - Sunflawa

2. Lojay, Sarz, Chris Brown - Monalisa

3. Mack H.D, Chuma - SHE BE

4. Zarion Uti, Bolu Ajibade - MY DEAR

5. Mack H.D, Oga Silachi - Isolated

6. Rema - Charm

7. Reekado Banks, Adekunle Gold, Maleek Berry - Feel Different

8. Fireboy DML - YAWA

9. Davido, Fave - KANTE (feat. Fave)

10. Ronis Goliath - Foo7

11. Sikka Musiq - Lie To Me

12. Guchi - Mon Bébé

13. Cloetree - Upstairs

14. Tiwa Savage - Pick Up

15. Burna Boy, Ed Sheeran - For My Hand (feat. Ed Sheeran)

16. Adekunle Gold, Zinoleesky - Party No Dey Stop

17. Bnxn, Kizz Daniel, Seyi Vibez - GWAGWALADA

After an absolutely amazing Pride London partying with the amazing guys from Beefmince, I've found myself being really reflective this week, and second guessing everything I do. And I think that comes through in this mix; it's very organic, ranging from the hard-hitting base lines of Oliver Smith, to the heart rending vocals of tracks by aname, and Olafur Arnalds - Arnalds has been one of my favourite contemporary classic composers for many, many years, and always it's fantastic when I get to include him in one of my sets.

The dreamlike WhoMadeWho remix of the Olafur Arnalds & RY X collab has this really strong dreamlike, lo-fi quality, and sits well amongst the other reflective, deep house tracks at the end of this mix.

Incidentally, RY X also closes this mix with their hypnotic track "A Thousand Knives"; a track that really grows on you the more you listen to it.

Initially I had no concept for this set, so I just wandered through my music library and looked at I've recently marked as "liked" on Spotify, shuffle them into some sort of reasonable order in terms of feel, and this is what we get out the other side. And if I can say so, it's turned out to be a pretty solid mix, with only one questionable transition ;)

I absolutely have an strong idea of what I want to do with my next episode, however - I'll be revisiting a genre that has been a pretty big success for me in terms of overall plays, but it's not enough to just revisit the genre, I want a whole new set of tracks, because the genre I chose is really smashing them out lately!

In the mean time, stay safe and enjoy the music,

Soen

Tracklisting:

1. Ricky Retro - Rule The World (Sinewave Radio Edit)

2. Ilan Bluestone - Paid For Love

3. Oliver Smith - Lovingly

4. John Grand - Lucky

5. Trills - Run From The Night

6. aname - Anywhere (Road Trippin')

7. Olafur Arnalds, RY X - Colorblind (WhoMadeWho Remix)

8. Daniel Portman - Revel In Your Joy

9. Joseph Ray & Eliiot Vast - A Power Over Me

10. Nico de Andrea, Eli & Fur - Start The Fire

11. Jordan Arts & Gorge - Falling

12. RY X - A Thousand Knives (Enamour Remix)