Episode 12, for real this time i swear!  One of the things that I've always loved about having a podcast is that I can update it as frequently or in-frequently as I like.  Yes it's been a few months since the last one, yes I could have probably pieced something together in the interim, hell I even started two a few times (you should see how many Episode 12 folders I have on my laptop).  The fact of the matter is that I want to make sure that every podcast that I do publish is full of really great tunes that are really well mixed and month to month that just doesn't always happen.  I have taken a longer break that I had planned but then that just means that I've had some time to do a few other things that i've wanted to get back on top of, like write some new music.  I'll be working a track or two from my new releases into upcoming Podcasts to be sure but if you don't want to wait for that, you can hit up Beatport (www.beatport.com) and look me up :)

This set is supposed to live up to the title and have a very positive vibe to it.  I have tried to make choices on tracks that have a lighter and more uplifting feel to them wherever possible while staying true to the idea that they should all flow well from one to the other.  I hope this finds you all enjoying the company of friends and family over this last holiday season of this decade.  I won't ruminate on the last ten years as I'm sure everything else you read right now is doing that already but suffice to say that I hope the next ten years are as fun as the last ten were! 

Happy Holidays.
RobC

Tracklisting:

01. Tone Depth - Rumblefish (Ambient Mix)
02. Cream Sound - Always (Lokitas Dreambox Mix)
03. Hotchip - The Warning
04. Morgan Page - Return of the Fall
05. Martijn ten Velden - Together
06. Rennie Foster - Devil's Water (The Youngsters Instrumental Mix)
07. Dennis Ferrer - Sinfonia Della Notte
08. Rasmus Faber & Clara Mendes - Cidade Oposta (Tiger Stripes Mix)
09. Dennis Ferrer - Hey Hey (DF's Attention Vocal Mix)
10. Oxia - Whole Life
11. Quivver - 2 Notes n a Beat (Jay Lumen Mix)
12. Adam Byrd - Panarama (Florian Kruse Mix)
13. Tom Middleton - Hypnotizer (Francois Dubois Classy Disco Mix)
14. Way Out West - Surrender
15. Hypnos Feat. Sambor Kostrzewa - Day After Day (Lemon Popsicle Mix)

Back again with a bit more tunage for you all.  These are all tracks that are fairly new this time and represent a good cross section of what i'm listening to and playing out these days at the clubs around Calgary.  Chances are if you've seen me play in the past two months you've heard some of these tunes, but for those who haven't I hope that there is a bunch of new stuff in there for ya.  As always your feedback is greatly appreciated and I thank you all for supporting the 'Cast!

Cheers,

RC

Tracklist

01 - Tyrell - LaLaLaLaLaLa (Original Mix)
02 - Moguai - Beatbox (Inpetto Mix)
03 - Afrojack - Radioman (Original Mix)
04 - Sebastian Gnewkow - Monorail (Niklas Gustavsson mix)
05 - Russell G - Every Which Way (Original Mix)
06 - Dousk - Hit The Dance Button (Original Mix)
07 - Cid Inc. - Remaking of a Cyborg (Original Mix)
08 - Mooncat - Hear What Was Said (Anil Chawla Mix)
09 - Giorgos Gatzigristos - Ronin (Juan Sanchez Mix)
10 - Kosmas Epsilon & Evans T - 8 Hours (Cid Inc. & Luke Porter Mix)
11 - Yotopia - Offset (Original Mix)
12 - Passenger 10 - Mikado (Rino Cabrera Mix)
13 - Heather Johnson - Washes Over Me (Rasmus Faber Mix)
14 - Javi Mula - Come On (Original Mix)
15 - Fedde Le Grand - Get This Feeling (Chris Count Mix)
16 - Massimo Santucci - Tarrantella Warriors (Daniel Portman Mix)
17 - Steve Angello & Laidback Luke - Chaa Chaa (EDX Mix)

I had the opportunity to play a very unique show about a month back at Holt Renfrew for a closed event that they had in the store in Downtown Calgary.  I needed to play some laid back tunes that could blend into the background easily and provide a good soundtrack to the event.  After thinking about this for a while I decided to put a playlist together of a number of smooth and deep house tracks that i have been collecting over the past few years but have never really found a good outlet to play.

This mix is a subset of the show that I played that night and makes for a really good chill mix which is something i've not done before.  So grab a book and find your comfiest chair and get some good R&R with this, my first chill out disc.

Peace!

Happy Holidays all!

I know it has been a while since  I last posted a podcast and for those of you who have sent in music for me to publish, fear not! I will be publishing a few new episodes in the weeks to come.  I felt that to close out the year I should bring to you all something that I had put together myself and what better way than as a Just-In-Time Christmas present!

I have been very busy over the past year, DJing has taken up most of my weekends and my day job on top of that has become particularly hectic in the past few months.  Needless to say I have been scrambling to make it all work and hopefully in the new year I will gain some balance that will allow me to keep bringing these podcasts to you all on schedule. 

This particular set is a fantastic meld of some great tech house, deep progressive and even a little of what I call New Trance.  The music coming out these days has finally recaptured my intrigue and I am very much looking forward to what will be coming out in the year to come.  It would appear that there is a resurgence of that deep progressive sound that really caught my ear back in the late nineties and with it a bit of hope for all the hardcore prog heads out there who were never really ready to let it die.  Coming to us with the same deep and percussive elements that were the mainstay of the greats of the prog world a decade ago but with a polished sound and mixing in elements of the new minimal techno and electro house genres, progressive today is a much improved and mondernized version of its former self. 

In the mix I have be able to feature some of the new talent that is hitting the airwaves, EeSma, Sebastian Leger, Guy J, Fine Taste and Envotion just to name a few.  Artists who have made waves in many genres and have helped to re-invent some old ones.  I hope that this mix will help to educate some of you out there who may not know about progressive house in all its flavours.  This mix to me represents all things progressive in nature and while I would not, perhaps, categorize many of the tracks in this compilation as progressive house, I do feel that they all take something from that genre and reuse it to one degree or another.  I will let you all be the judge of that and I look forward to any and all feedback that you have time to post on this. 

Enjoy the final Textures Mix of this year 2008 and I look forward to sharing some new deep progressive beats with you in the new year!

Peace and be well all of you out there.

RobC

Python is a trio based in Rostov-on-Don (Russia). It was formed in 1998. Members are Yura Kolomiytsev,Alexei Samotarev (aka DJ Samotarev) and Eugeniy Litovchenko.  At first, the project worked in house and break beat styles, their tracks appeared on many Russian compilations.Since 2002, the Python project has moved into Tech-House, Progressive, and Electro, and by 2004 they released their first album "DeePressure"

In 2006 they started label called Carica Records. Main aim of this label is to release quality progressive music from different parts of the world. Also Carica has 3 sublabels Revelation Records, Carica Limited and X-pand Audio, focused on trance, electro and techno music.  Python also host some radio shows at different radios, among them Wild Nature show at famous radio Frisky and Confusion co-hosted with Samy Fresh on ETN FM. Also Russian Desert on DI FM (www.di.fm) and Carica radio show on Proton Radio.

Tracklisting:

1. Matt Rowan - This, that and the other (Jeff Bennet Remix) [Proton]
2. Opencloud - Crystal Palace (Opencloud`s Rubba Dub) [Proton Limited]
3. P60 feat. Virag - New Way (The Mulder`s lights on dub) [Pesto]
4. Daneel - Jasper Bort (Original mix) [Balkan Connection]
5. Nicholas Van Orton feat. Tito Della Tortuosa - Western Vibes(Oggi Gee Cash & Dimiz remix) [Balkan Connection]
6. X.S. - Detector [CDR]
7. Python - Monkey Island (Original mix) [Swordtail]
8. Nosmo - Dark Matter [Baroque Digital]
9. Python feat. Ange - In your eyes (Dub mix) [Pure Substance]
10. Promonova - Two Equators (Mango remix) [Pitch Music]

Summer Festival Season

As the summer progresses we of course enter the season of the outdoor party.  In an effort to collect some of the music that I think would sound great in an outdoor setting (and for those of you heading out to Suluk in August you will get to hear how this goes) I have compiled this mix of gritty tech house and dark progressive.  Just imagine it in the mountains at night away from all the city lights and you will have a good idea of where my head was when putting this set together.  I hope you all enjoy!

RobC

As a child, Matthew used to wake/annoy his family every morning by dragging a turntable out into the hallway and playing marching band records at full volume.  As an adult, not much has changed.  Matthew's musical tastes are simple: big basslines, stick-in-your-head melodies, and serious dancefloor sensibility.  As a resident of Area709's pure.prog and 709@Seven club nights alongside Mr. Curtis, Matthew has spent the past two years introducing Calgary to his unique blend of accessible underground music - and turning it up to eleven every chance he can.

This mix has been a long time coming and I am a bit surprised that I haven't had Matt guest on the Podcast until now.  The wait is over however, so sit back crank up the volume and enjoy this offering.


1. Nu Sensation - Go That Deep feat. Shara Nelson (Charles Webster Remix)
2. Lewie Day - Hermion
3. Booka Shade - Numbers (DJ Kicks Club Mix)
4. Andy Duguid feat. Leah - Don't Belong
5. Alexis - Twist in my Sobriety (Ali Payami Remix)
6. Brisker & Magitman vs. Moby - Next to the Brainiac (FIM's PB&C Pass)
7. D Ramirez & Mark Knight - Colombian Soul (Gabriel &  Dresden's Tuscan Soul Reconstruction)
8. Kaskade - 4AM (Adam K & Soha Mix)
9a. Ned Shepard and Sultan and Maher Daniel - Itajai Vibes (16 Bit Lolitas Remix)
9b. Fragma - Toca Me (Inpetto 2008 Remix)
10. Sergej Fresh feat. Koshka Touvan - Lucky Fish
11. Arnej - Rendezvous (Destination Unknown)
12. Sultan & Ned Shepard feat. Kuba - Jeopardy (Ohms Dub Mix)
13. Jaren, Cerf & Mitiska - Me & You
14. Ashley Wallbridge - New Moonlight

My first official guest DJ at the Textures Club night down at Amsterdamn Rhino Josh Miller is up this month with a wickedly progressive set a la Sasha and Diggers back around '99.

Josh's Comments follow:

When Rob asked me to open for his first night at the Amsterdam Rhino I was pretty excited.  Then I realized I hadn't played out in several years and I should probably get my sh*t together...  All that biking, skiing not to mention work have really cut into the DJ'ing time as of late, so it was a great incentive to get back into it!  

Then I got to thinking "you know Josh, you just bought that fancy new Macbook.  Why not buy a midi controller and put that thing to use"  So, I proceeded to get Ableton Live and get to work.  Now for those of you who aren't familiar with Ableton, it's a fantastic program that allows you to play multiple tracks and loops, add lots of effects and generally have as much control over the music as you can dream up.  The upside - the ability to go beyond the track and not having to beatmatch (I hope after nearly 10 years of playing records I don't have to prove to people that I can mix).  The downside - concentration central.   Playing this set took FAR more concentration and work than had I just played CD's, and it wouldn't have come with a bunch of the fun add ons.  The real issue is that I didn't get a chance to drink my beer often enough =)  All in all, it's a pretty fun way to play music.  Not sure I would want to play that way all the time, but I'm definitely going to continue to explore it for a while.

This set is basically the same as what I played at the Rhino to open up for Rob.  It's starts off pretty chill, then I took it techy for a while before getting into more rippin' progressive.  The people that were in the basement that night seemed pretty into it - so I hope you enjoy too!

Josh.
yoshmiller @ gmail . com

Track Listing
1. Powerplant - Overcast (Jay Tripwire remix)
2. Bongo Man - Bites (Tech edit)
3. Lesvicon Soul - The One (Nic Lerner remix)
4. Bongo Man - Guranga
5. Terry Francis and Haris - Smiling and Smiling
6. Mighty Dub Katz - Guaguanco (Tom Middleton Deep Dub)
7. Bongo Man - The Truth
8. Visitor
9. Kenneth Graham
10. The Producers - Influx
11. Prompt - Evolve
12. James Zabiela - Human (JMIL edit)
13. The Producers - Shakin Dub
14. Jamayka
15. The Real Jazz
16. H Foundation - Chic-O-Laa
17. John Acquaviva - No Fear (Trick and Kubic remix)
18. Todd Terry - I'm Feeling It (JMIL edit)
19. Jem Stone and J.C. - Disco Daze
20. Alcatraz - Giv Me Luv (Dean Coleman remix)
21. Jeff Bennett - Trial Problems (Kriece remix)
22. Viscid- Crazy (Tony Tomas remix - JMIL edit)
23. Jay Tripwire + Grant Dell - Purdy Mouth (Stephan Brandt mix)
24. Bongo Man - Swinging It
25. Space Safari - Burning (JMIL edit)
26. Bongo Man - Chaser
27. John Dahlback - Blink (D.O.N.S. & DBN Chainsaw remix)
28. Burufunk - Community Funk (Deadmau5 remix)

Here is a little bonus for you all.  I put this mix together for Wes' radio show and thought "What the hell, I might as well post it to the podcast too!"  So here you go!  Tons of great old tracks in here too as I have been collecting these for a while.  Enjoy.

Tracklisting

01. Pablo Roma - Sad Flowers (Dynamic Illusion Intro Mix)
02. Coldfish - Cycles
03. Claude Von Stroke - Who's Afraid of Detroit (Stanton Warriors Mix)
04. Petter - Six Songs (Tone Diary Mix)
05. Bedrock - Forge
06. Luke Chable - Melburn
07. Beber & Tamra - You Wonder (Starecase Vocal Mix)
08. Ivan Frolov - Cloudy 2007 (Hypnotic Breaks Mix)
09. Pole Folder & CP - Dust (Fretwell Mix)
10. Brahma & Drew Nichols - Submerged (Madoka Alternate Generation Mix)

Wes has been my co-resident at Amsterdam Rhino for over a year now and so it is surprising that I have not gotten him on the podcast until now.  Wes prides himself on weaving together many styles of music even going so far as to play Psy-trance on occasion.  He is also the man behind the success Area709.com website which features a host of DJs and Producers with articles, bios and a ton of mix set to scope out.  What follows is the result of a mix exchange that Wes and I agreed to a while back and finally got around to doing.

Enjoy!

Tracklisting