This was my first recorded mix that I was really happy with. It covers some deep house, slower Detroit house, Detroit and European techno. Originally recorded on January 18,1999.

2020 note: all mixes taken down for now to re-post at higher bitrate on Mixcloud in due course. If you’re at all keen for me to do this, please let me know and I will try and get anything specific you want to hear moved over ASAP.

Tracklist
Theo Parrish – Sweet Sticky [PeaceFrog]

Urban Tribe – D2000 [Mo’ Wax]

Paperclip People – 4 My Peepz [Planet E]

D.S.L. – Soothe Your Soul [Chili Funk]

Roy Davis Jr. – Black River [Lazyboy]

Herbert – Going Round [Phono]

Smyglyssna – Insvept I Papper [Plug Research]

Vincent S. – Joyful Pool [Bigelow]

Midnight Drive – Remember Me? (Freaks Tunring Yellow Dub) [Classic]

YMC – F-Connection [Yoshi Toshi]

Cari Lekebusch – Omslaget Motiverat [Hybrid]

Wyndell Long – Still Photo [Elypsia]

Richard Bartz – The Traveller [Kurbel]

Mr. James Barth – Stealin’ Music [SVEK]

Clark – Clip [Planet E]

CRo2 – Can’t Let Go [Trace Elements]

This is a mix I recorded some time in the Summer of ’99. Some of it’s a bit speedy, as many of my mixes at the time were. I reckon that’s an inevitable consequence of mixing with pitched decks (when you increase the range to +/-16). It was also pretty crucial to teaching me how to mix stuff from different genres together. Anyway… I really dig this mix, having not heard it for a good few years. Lots of solid Chicago house and techno. Clocks in at just under an hour.

2020 note: all mixes taken down for now to re-post at higher bitrate on Mixcloud in due course. If you’re at all keen for me to do this, please let me know and I will try and get anything specific you want to hear moved over ASAP.

Tracklist
Heiko Laux – … To All Believers [Yoshi Toshi]

Turnstyle Orchestra – Latin Soul (…Not So Latin…Sonic Soul Mix) [Guidance]

Joshua – The Breeze [NRK Sound Division]

Paul Jacobs – Soul Grabber Pt. 3 [Aquarius Recordings]

20:20 Vision – Bob Hopefield (Urban Farmers Mix) [Soma]

Troy Brown – Feel Alright B2 [Aquarius Recordings]

Gemini – How Can I [Cyclo Records]

SunKiss – Tickle [Plastic City America]

Stewart S. Walker – Nave [Tresor]

Various Artists – #6 [Chain Reaction]

Surgeon – Oval [Downwards]

Surgeon – Learning B2 [Dynamic Tension Records]

Ian Pooley – Loopduell [Force Inc. Music Works]

Claude Young – Circumstance 2 [DJax Up Beats]

Infiniti – Electric Circus [Tresor]

Not sure exactly when I recorded this, but I suspect it was some time between ’97-’99. It was all mixed from CD to minidisc, although there isn’t a great deal of mixing on this installment. I did three Sold mixes, each of which was a collection of tracks from CDs that I didn’t feel I could justify hanging on to when there was only one or two tracks on them that interested me. This was at a time when almost all of my income was devoted to paying off my music-binge-buying folly circa ’94-’96. Point being that if I could buy a few new bits from the proceeds of these, then parting with this stuff would be justifiable. The other thing behind this was that I never used my CD players for mixing anymore, so as a DJ the format was fairly useless to me even if I loved the tracks. In principle I would be buying this stuff again on wax in future but was Jonesing for some new bits right away.

The first installment was house and techno, but the mixing was mostly of the intro-over-outro style and many of the tracks look like obvious classics to my audience today, so I’ve opted not to bother with that one. This one is mostly down-tempo, and while it doesn’t actually include many distinct artists, I think it holds together as a mix tape reasonably well. I like the mood of it.

2020 note: all mixes taken down for now to re-post at higher bitrate on Mixcloud in due course. If you’re at all keen for me to do this, please let me know and I will try and get anything specific you want to hear moved over ASAP.

Tracklist
Two Lone Swordsmen – Azzolini And The Branch Brothers Meet Being [Emissions Audio Output]
Future 3 – Silver M [April Records]
Front 242 – Gripper By Fear (Bunker Mix) [Red Rhino Europe]
Front 242 – Mixed By Fear [Red Rhino Europe]
Orbital – Science Friction [FFRR]
Orbital – Adnan’s [FFRR]
Orbital – I Wish I Had Duck Feet [FFRR]
Saint Etienne – Only Love Can Break Your Heart (A Mix Of Two Halves) [Heavenly]
Coldcut – Autumn Leaves (Irresistible Force Mix Trip 2) [Waveform]
Woob – Pond Life [em:t]
Woob – Woobed [em:t]
Two Lone Swordsmen – In The Nursery Visit Glenn Street [Emissions Audio Output]