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As I mentioned in the last post, a few weeks ago I had the honour of being the DJ at a friend’s art show for several hours, carefully making sure to build the mood from ambient tracks to a full-on dance night once it was just friends wanting to not go home quite yet.

A few days later a good friend, Jesse Kanda, started putting together a few downloadable mixes of his own. This gave me courage and invigorated me with the motivation to sit down and record a mix of my own for everyone’s listening pleasure. I spent a good portion of last summer recording a wide range of mixes, but was never satisfied with anything enough to release it to the public.

Without further over-analyzation of dance music trends, I give you my most recent mix, packed full of house treasures and even a little bit of odds and ends that everyone can get into. Read on for a full track listing.

Download “To Call For Hands From Above” House Mix »

Call me a perfectionist. Call me crazy. Call me whatever you will, but for whatever reason, in a handful of hours, I was wholly inspired and came up with a set that not included a few new tracks that I love, but also quite a few classics that will always be near to my heart. A lot of the material is based around what I came to love last summer and completely avoids the new trend in electro/funky house that seems to be based entirely around the sound of D. Ramirez’s remix of Bodyrox’s “Yeah Yeah,” that stormed the clubs during last year’s dance season.

1. Electronic Battle Weapon 9 - The Chemical Brothers
2. Keep Hope Alive (Original Mix) - The Crystal Method
3. North American Scum (Chris Menace Remix) - LCD Soundsystem
4. Stand Back (Young Punx Remix) - Linus Loves
5. The Funk Phenomenon 2006 (Slice and Case Remix) - Armand Van Helden
6. Same Man - Till West & DJ Delicious
7. At Night (Kid Creme Mix) - Shakedown
8. When We Were Young (The Lindbergh Palace Dub) - The Killers
9. Alive - Daft Punk
10. In Your Arms (Linus Loves Remix) - Milo
11. Superfreak (Fonzenelli Remix) - Beatfreakz
12. Dare (Dave Aude Club Mix) - Gorillaz
13. Lola’s Theme (Club Mix) - Shapeshifters
14. Heartbeats (Rex The Dog Remix) - The Knife