Not sure where all this good music came from all of a sudden but here is another mix with a bunch of great progressive tracks in it.  I did commit one DJ "Faux Pas" by putting a track in this mix that also appeared in Episode 14.  No appologies however as the way it mixes in just works so well I couldn't help it.  I'm off to Fernie this weekend to hammer out some trails on my mountain bike and will be enjoying this mix as I do so.  I hope you all enjoy it too!

Well mostly back to Deep House.  I've been wanting to put another mix of this sort together for a while now since the last Deep House mix was so well received.  I just happened to sit down one day recently and begin working on both a Deep House as well as a very laid back Progressive mix and I managed to get the right number of tracks together for the Deep House mix first.  This mix has many ups and downs but stays very much on the lighter side of things.  I tried to explore some nuances of the tracks involved, looping bits here and there to prolong their involvement and interplay with other tracks in the mix.  What came out of that I will let you all decide but I like the result.  This mix also has some broad key changes that I had to mix around very carefully to ensure that there was no glaring musical clashes as the Deep House genre tends to be very melody heavy from track start to track end.  There should hopefully be another episode quick to follow this one, if I can find the rest of the tracks i need for it.  All around though i'm in a very lazy summer mood musically.

Enjoy!

Sometime in the next few days, this mix will appear on Wes Straubs online radio show which airs on a number of different stations over the coming month.  I thought I would leak it to you all first though hehe.  This mix was one of those that came together very quickly for me and is compiled from a number of the really great tracks that I've been playing out at the club over the last 4 months or so.  After listening to the mix a few times, it occured to me that while most of my mixes (and most mixes in general) have a tendency to start from a very low energy place and build up over time, this mix actually reverses that order.  It gets right to it from track one and creshendos very fast and then starts to mellow out a bit by the end.  I thought that was kind of interesting.  I hope you all do too! 

Enjoy

Yep, it's true, it has been over a year now since I published a new episode of the podcast.  The truth is that I was out of the music scene for about 8 months.  Not buying music, not playing music, not making new podcasts.  I hope that this chapter has come to an end and that you will be seeing much more music posted here over the course of the next year.  My relationship to this music has changed a fair bit in the last year and i'm hopefully going to be exploring some different avenues.  I want to make this show about more than just progressive house and so I am going to make a point of collecting some different sounding tunes.  To be sure, I will always keep things on the electronic music side of things but I plan to explore some different sounds in the coming years which I hope will be as interesting to you as listeners as they are to me as a DJ. 

But not to get ahead of myself.  To kick off this new decade I have a recording of the set I played on New Years Eve at Habitat here in Calgary.  I think that it is partly due to my time away from DJing and partly just the stars aligning but I really feel that the tracks that comprise this mix work together in an extremely fluid and natural way.  I have listened to this mix several times over the past couple of weeks and have thoroughly enjoyed every minute of it.  I hope you all do as well!

Cheers and Happy New Year!

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