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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