house music by dattrax

Hello Fellow HouseHeadz, you are gonna love this mix! At least we hope you will love it as much as I had making it. Always a fun monthly ritual!

You can tell how much someone loves you by looking at where they spend their time and money. Same can be said for House Fanatics like us!!

Please comment on each mix that you enjoy or email us- we would love to hear from you!!

Jim will be making a new mix soon and he's aiming to blow minds with his unique mixing and track selection. It's gonna be a rare treat. Jim and I have been best friends and DJing/Loving House for over 20yrs now. Traditionally, I make all the mixes and we both always play live together as 'dattrax'.

In this mix, featuring tracks by these INCREDIBLE HOUSE VOCALISTS & PRODUCERS! Thank you for just doing your thing and putting out such great tracks!!

Finnebassen, Amber Jolene, Nolan, Karol XVII, MB Valence, Ruben Alvarez, JEUDI, Soul Clap, Tube & Berger, Milan Euringer, Niko Schwind, Carl L. Finlow, John Tejada, Nale Garcia, Petroloukas Chiakias, Theo Komp, Gui Boratto, David August, Nelue, Bakazou, Swag, Erol Alkan, Connan Mockasin, Nina Kinert, Tomas Barfod, J&M, Roman Sebastian, Mamacita, Luis Hill, Tom Glass, Sean Thomas, Catz 'n Dogz, Arsenal, Gary Optim, Raycoux Jr., Stefan Barth, Andy Lemac, Nicolas Jaar, Noir, Ruede Hagelstein, The Noblettes, Arian Leviste, Luke Solomon & Justin Harris, Josh Humphrey, Kyodai, Giom & George Holliday

All tracks in this mix bought from www.Traxsource.com and www.Beatport.com except for "Wicked Game" (Soul Clap Edit) & "TroubleTroubleTrouble" (No Regular Play Remix) both by Soul Clap and downloaded from their soundcloud site: https://soundcloud.com/soulclap Thank you Soul Clap for sharing your music and for making great house.

If there is any track you particularly like and want to go buy for yourself, then let us know in the comment section, and we'll respond there.

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This house mix made on Traktor S4 Controller & laptop with no sync applied.

Our like minded Brothers & Sisters!! This dattrax house mix is ready to be played LOUD in your cars or by any means you see fit!!!

Falling back in love with house over & over again. ONE TRACK AT A TIME. ONE MIX AT A TIME. ONE PARTY AT A TIME. ONE DJ AT A TIME. ONE FRIEND AT A TIME.

Let it in.

Consume this installment of the freshest house tracks that we hunted down in the last few months, and mixed with all the love, fun, happiness, stress & struggle of life poured into each mix.

FEEL IT.

Please comment on each mix you enjoy or email us- we would love to hear from you.

In this mix, featuring tracks by these AMAZING HOUSE VOCALISTS & PRODUCERS! Thank you for just doing your thing and putting out such great tracks!!

Monique Bingham, Raw Artistic Soul, Mixas, Overnite, Hollis P Monroe, Mario Basanov, Niko Schwind, Deep Future, HearThuG, Basti Grub, Primavera, David K & Lexer, Sorcha Richardson, Maya Jane Coles, Little Dragon, Mozambik Puzzle, Delhia de France, Ruede Hagelstein, Douglas Greed, Les Bijoux, Michael Scott, Damolh33, Strump, Moan, Lou Van, Tomas Barfod, Toucan, Jordan Fields, Dillau, Xordo, Andy Martin, Abati, Corey Andrew, Greg Puppa, The Cruzaders, Chris Distefano, Zdar, Chromeo, Phonique, Ornette, Rikki, James Hunter, Soko, Lake People, Nico Stojan, Climbers, Freakme, Hunter Game, John Tejada, Thalstroem, AKA AKA, Kellerkind, Edu Imbernon, Triumph, Sutja Gutierrez, Luke Solomon & Justin Harris aka MusicForFreaks (MFF), Tomas Barfod, Nina Kinert

All tracks in this mix bought from www.Traxsource.com and www.Beatport.com.

If there is any track you particularly like and want to go buy for yourself, then let us know in the comment section, and we'll respond there.

BTW... if you enjoy this mix, then there's a PayPal DONATE button on the top right side of this website... Hint Hint, Wink Wink, Nudge Nudge : )

For Toronto or Global bookings: dattrax@gmail.com

This house mix made on Traktor S4 Controller & laptop with no sync applied.

It's been a while Fellow House Fiends, hope everyone is enjoying family & friends, life and working hard achieving your goals. It's increasingly more difficult to put aside time for this love of ours called House Music.

But we would be thrilled if this house mix put a huge smile on your face, make you shake a little, and make you forget your deadlines at work, financial challenges or any other struggles. Leave that stress and get lost into the sounds.

House is such a force. One of the only things we do that we have so much joy in the process and when we are mixing tracks that we love, it's one of those rare moments where we don't think of being anywhere else. Focused energy with no mind drifts- letting everything come through our fingertips and THUMP through the speakers!

With Christmas just around the corner, hope you crank this mix LOUD while you are driving to & from a great get together with your loved ones.

Merry Christmas and God Bless you and may He open your eyes to the important things in life. Cheers, dattrax (Jim & Dat, fellow house fiends)

Please comment on each mix you enjoy or email us- we would love to hear from you.

In this mix, featuring tracks by these INCREDIBLE HOUSE PRODUCERS & VOCALISTS!!! How can anyone listen to any other type of music, but house??!!
Robert Owens, Henrik Schwarz, Lake People, Nico Stojan, Mercury, Junior, Olej, Poetic Disorders, Rashid Ajami, Dionigi, Pilocka Krach, Ali Love, Bjorn Storig, The Forest, Stimmhalt, Alfred Heinrichs, Colin Hay, Deep Fiction, Ben Pearce, Gary Optim, Fritz & Lang, Grant Nelson, Aki Bergen & Daniel Jaze, Josh Milan, Namy, Mowgli Vox, Xakosa, Rick Collins, Mat.Joe, Ãme, Ry, Frank Wiedemann, The Glue, Marbert Rocel, Storm Queen, Cagedbaby, Larse Vocal, Candi Staton, Danton Eeprom, Random Factor, MFF (Music For Freaks: Luke Solomon & Justin Harris, Nu & Mira, Roisin Murphy, Luca C & Brigante

All tracks in this mix bought from www.Traxsource.com and www.Beatport.com.

If there is any track you particularly like and want to go buy for yourself, then let us know in the comment section, and we'll respond there.

BTW... if you enjoy this mix, then there's a PayPal DONATE button on the top right side of this website... Hint Hint, Wink Wink, Nudge Nudge : )

For Toronto or Global bookings: dattrax@gmail.com

This house mix made on Traktor S4 Controller & laptop with no sync applied.

Afflicted with the house bug? Don't worry, we know how you feel. Been addicted to house music since were were 16yrs old.

This is the best time for house music we've ever seen. It's wonderful to be excited every week about new house tracks you've never heard at your favourite mp3 stores. House DJ/ Producer friends on facebook and twitter sharing their mixes, their youtube video picks of cool house related stuff- it's endless!! Parties with different types of house music all over the city, tons of up & comers and tons of great international House DJs visiting Toronto.

Yes, there's too much house now, too many mixes, too many sub-genres and too many related electronic music- COMPLETE SYSTEM OVERLOAD!!

But, hey... gone are the days where you are begging for a mixed house cassette tape by a popular dj and having the pickings be slim. Gone are the days of going to your favourite record stores each week, buying the same records as 30-50 other djs and everyone playing the same records. The selection was scarce compared to now. Gone are the days of paying $16.99 for a 4 track EP- where you only bought it for the one goosebump track.

Now there's so much music out there that you can actually not sound like everyone else. You can listen to thousands of house tunes and the chances (at the sheer volume of what's coming out) of you sounding like someone else are small.

And the best part? It's dirt cheap, after getting a 15-20% online discount coupon you end up paying $50-60 bucks for 30 traxs- what a thrill!!

It's so good to be constantly re-excited (if there is such a word ; ) or re-energized about house. It's a ritual with Jim and I. Putting a few tracks every few days into our virtual bins or spending a weekend going crazy hunting for tracks that make us want to dance. Then listening to them together in a long car ride- finishing with some late night food in Chinatown or Greektown in downtown Toronto.

Then it goes into iphone or ipod and listened to in pockets of time, more car rides, getting on the treadmill, then making a mix.

Then another car ride together seeing if it makes us both happy- we've always DJ for ourselves and if some people like it along the way, then that's the cherry on top.

Back to the house ritual... then going through the frustration of redoing the mix over and over again because it just wasn't fun enough, wasn't good enough or wasn't timeless enough. You just don't want to throw something together. If it's not special to you, it won't be to someone else.

We want to make mixes where people would hopefully enjoy it enough to actually want to listen to it a 2nd time and if they listen anymore, then it's Christmas! In this day and age of having too much available and nothing getting any real attention- attention is a precious commodity. We don't value what is easily attained.

Rather have a few hundred people that really love our brand of house music, then to have thousands of people who don't care and can't tell the difference. Worst to be background filler house.

Usually make anywhere between 4-8 mixes from a selection of 60-90 tracks within a month or two (between the cracks of time sandwiched by work and family)- then the mix that moves us the most gets posted. That's the whole process in a nutshell.

Thank you so much for taking your time to visit us here and for listening to our mixes. We are so excited to share with you the tracks that move us each month.

All the best to you and all your endeavours- be the best you can be and stay passionate!! Cheers, dattrax

Please comment on each mix you enjoy or email us- we would love to hear from you.

In this mix, featuring tracks by these INCREDIBLE HOUSE PRODUCERS & VOCALISTS!!!
Marek Hemmann, Marian, Fabian Reichelt, Kellerkind, Klangkarussell, Nu, Jo Ke, Jamie Jones, Kevin Knapp, Kate Simko, Noir, Haze, Terranova, Reptile Youth, Trikohmat, Ewan Pearson, Metronomy, Javi, Saarid, Einmusik, Nicone, Sascha Braemer, Narra, Fabian Reichelt, Raycoux Jr., Stefan Barth, Niko Schwind, Oliver Koletzki, Fran, Julia Govor, Qbeck, Lil Magdalene, DJ Ra Soul, Hrdvsion, Amirali, Him_Self_Her, Mic Newman, Djamila, Toky, Ernesto, Soul Clap, Mario & Vidis, Angela Sheik, Fabo, Solomun, Pascal Bideau, Delhia de France, Marek Hemmann, Douglas Greed, Liz Cass, John Monkman, Joris Delacroix, William Besson, LOPAZZ Vs. Forever Jung, Tomas Barfod, Nina Kinert

All tracks in this mix bought from www.Traxsource.com and www.Beatport.com.

If there is any track you particularly like and want to go buy for yourself, then let us know in the comment section, and we'll respond there.

BTW... if you enjoy this mix, then there's a PayPal DONATE button on the top right side of this website... Hint Hint, Wink Wink, Nudge Nudge : )

For Toronto or Global bookings: dattrax@gmail.com

This dattrax photo taken at a private party at CHROMA in Sept2012, a part of the super club complex of The Guvernment in Toronto. There are some crappy quality videos made from my iphone4 of Jim mixing on our youtube channel- link to the right here.

This house mix made on Traktor S4 Controller & laptop with no sync applied.

Decided on a mock interview format to share our thoughts on some House DJ related topics we've seen online lately, PART1...

We hope that you enjoy this mix also. Cheers, dattrax

WHAT IS WITH ALL THIS HOOPLA ONLINE ABOUT DJS WHO USE SYNC BUTTONS TO MATCH BEATS?

Sync or no-sync, at the end of the day it's about rocking crowds, making great memories and experiences, so it doesn't matter. If you have fans, then someone likes what you do, then that's what we're all after isn't it?

Having said this, there are a few things we'd like to share:

Some big DJs like DeadMau5, David Guetta and Steve Angelo, etc. who use premixed mixes for live shows are like modern day rock stars with legions of fans paying lots of money to listen to their pre-programmed sets, so it seems that this is what their fans want, their form of 'live' entertainment. Doesn't seem that their fans care if it's really live or not.

Nothing wrong with that. Loud music blasting in your ears while you dance your stress & worries away is what it's always been about.

Don't really have a beef with pre-programed sets or synced mixing, but our beef is with pretending to DJ and then denying that they are syncing, etc (recent example is the online scuffle between DJ Sneak and Steve Angelo about 'fake djing'- remember the Milli Vanilli lip syncing scandal in '80s? Same deal).

Angelo apparently denies this, even after images and youtube vids of him at live events circulate all over Facebook that prove otherwise. Angelo has a massive following that love his tunes, so what's the big deal Stevie? Just say you do and so what if you do, but don't say that you play live when you clearly don't.

Syncing is important for DJs like Richie Hawtin. Hawtin is a pioneer, a scientist and master show man- working a laser light show, always mixing four tracks at the same time, doing 1/2 a dozen effects at any one time. In his case, beat matching has to take a backseat so he can create and inspire.

That's different. If you just mix two records together (like we do), then why do that?

The fun for us has always been in the mixing! The ups and downs of trying different track combos, different house genre combos, playing tracks at different speeds or EQ settings that we enjoy rather than what they were created at, using line levels and cross faders to change the tension between during mixes, mixing out properly to not change the tempo in an undesired way, seeing how what we do fail or succeed in getting a shared reaction of joy from a fellow House Fiend.

We grew up with great Toronto DJs, like Aki. who was mixing beautiful house journeys in smoky, dark & packed warehouse parties before dj mixers had single channel EQs or effects buttons (the internet, mp3's, Facebook or cell phones). Listen for yourself- just house music and mixing. This mix was on cassette tape (google it!) made in 1996 by Aki with two twelves and a old school mixer:
http://torontohousedjs.podomatic.com/entry/2011-03-03T10_38_24-08_00

We forked out good money each week to go crazy to amazing talents like Jason Palma, PTS (Peter, Tyrone & Shams), Dave Campbell, Kevin Williams and Dino & Terry- these guys made you danced till the sun rose.

We saw out of town talents like Roger Sanchez, Derrick Carter, Doc Martin, Cevin Fisher, DJ Sneak and Little Louie Vega blow our minds with 2 or 3 vinyl turntables- all these guys made us grow more in love with house music each time we partied to their brand of house! The art and wonder of it all. Learning what we liked or didn't like about the mixing or music programming. Always learning and having fun along the way.

We also take issue with some DJs saying that beat matching is so easy and take no time to learn to justify their syncing. We just have one question:
"If it's so easy, then why are you using the sync??!!"

If you want to sync, then do it, it's your art form and the way you want to express yourself. Just don't pretend that you do it because it's not worth your creative focus & energies, or that you don't when you in fact do. Life is simple but some people choose to make it difficult.

Please comment on each mix or email us- love to hear from you. In this mix, featuring tracks by these INCREDIBLE HOUSE PRODUCERS & VOCALISTS!!!

Nick Curly, Gorge, Steve Lawler, Terry Lee Brown Jr, Klartraum, Niko Schwind, Doctor Dru, Kim Ann Foxman, Andy Butler, Corduroy Mavericks, Daniel Frontado, Jose San Francisco, Dany Belvedere, Levan, Andrea Mocha, Marlon D, Danya, Ferry, Java, Tali, Oovation, Maya Jane Coles, Florence, Redshape, Floyd Lavine, Mey, Brendon Moeller, Francesca Lombardo, Walker & Royce, Nick Humphrey, Terranova, Wankelmut, Ivan Smagghe, Phonique, Siso K, Tumi, Miguel Campbell, Maxxi Soundsystem, S.C.A.L. aka Pierce & Twirdy, Pezzner, Gryffyn, Concolor & Julia Govor.

All tracks in this mix bought from iTunes, www.Traxsource.com and www.Beatport.com. If there is any track you particularly like and want to go buy for yourself, then let us know in the comment section, and we'll respond there & let you know which site we bought it from.

BTW... if you enjoy this mix, then there's a PayPal DONATE button on the top right side of this website... Hint Hint, Wink Wink, Nudge Nudge : )

For Toronto or Global bookings: dattrax@gmail.com

This house mix made on Traktor S4 Controller with no sync applied (as you can hear some of the slight mistakes), however, we did pre-make with sync, the pop/house mashups, then played as single tracks.

Has it been almost a month since the last dattrax house mix was posted?

This summer is blazing by. Hope everyone is enjoying their July where ever they may be in the world and spending ever moment with the ones they love.

We got an email notice a few weeks ago from the company that does our cool counter to the right that we have hit 2000 cities with unique visitors to this site- that's beyond crazy!!
And according to podomatic's backend over 1600 downloads and over 90 plays this past month.

We would like to thank All the House Fiends out there who visit here and share our love of house music!!

Hope you love the mixes as much as we do hunting down the goose bump tracks each week, mixing them the best we can, and in the style that we love house being played like.

We just want to keep finding the tracks that make us fall in love with house music over and over again each month!!

House Music keeps us young and excited. Old and new memories mixed together... "House is a feeling..."

Please comment on each mix or email us- love to hear from you.

In this mix, featuring tracks by these AMAZING HOUSE PRODUCERS & VOCALISTS!!! SO THANKFUL FOR SUCH INCREDIBLE HOUSE MUSIC!!

Jacob Bellens & Emma Acs, PillowTalk Remix feat. Tone of Arc, Kasper Bjørke, Cubiq's, Spring Offensive, Noze, Ornette, Sebo & Madmotormiquel, Francesca Lombardo, Walker & Royce, Maxxi Soundsystem, Hoses, Alba Prada & Ann Santos, Pezzner, James Teej, Marco Resmann, Kalimba, Nick Curly, Kate Simko, Jem Cooke, Maurizio Vitiello, Musicon, Javi, Saarid,The Cheapers, Gregor Tresher, Scandal, Liz Cass, John Monkman, Chuck Love, Random Soul aka Yogi & Husky, K-Bana, Stan Kolev, Random Factor, Afrilounges, Dirty Vegas, Gorge, Steve Lawler, Betoko, Joe Goddard Remix, Nneka, Syron, 20:20 Vision, Blaze, Canson, Da Sunlounge, Zoo Brazil, David Jach, Beataminesn and Toronto's own, Jason B.

All tracks in this mix bought from www.Traxsource.com and www.Beatport.com. If there is any track you particularly like and want to go buy for yourself, then let us know in the comment section, and we'll respond there & let you know which site we bought it from.

BTW... if you enjoy this mix, then there's a PayPal DONATE button on the top right side of this website... Hint Hint, Wink Wink, Nudge Nudge : )

For Toronto or Global bookings: dattrax@gmail.com

IMAGE courtesy of our good friend Dario Inzirillo, who also designed our 'dattrax' logo that we use on baseball caps, t-shirts, business cards, everything. THANK YOU OLD FRIEND!! You ROCK!!

This house mix made on Traktor S4 Controller with no sync applied.

Again we are in a position where there is SO MUCH GREAT HOUSE MUSIC COMING out each week, and so little time making good mixes.

Jim and I (for those who don't know we DJ together as 'dattrax' and have been best friends for ages) have bought a few more batches since we bought the music on this mix a few months ago. So we have enough new music (well... new to us since we didn't hear these tracks before) for three more mixes after this one.

Have soooooo many mixes in mind to make and so little time...

What's a good mix? That's too subjective since everyone's definition of everything is different these days on many topics, but for us, a good mix is one where a listener is not bored after the first run through. And if they scan, the tracks are so good that they want to have a full listen afterwards.(There are so many free DJ house mixes online now that people don't even listen to the mixes, they just scan through them.)

It's where they enjoy playing the mix over and over and keep finding new parts that they like in it- that's a good mix! (sidenote: a mix is completely different than a live set, but more on this another day)

I always refer back to the days when I would get a mix tape from one of my favourite local house djs (only a handful back then, but 100's now in Toronto). I'd get a tape and if it was ok or suck, then it would get shelved or put in the trash. If it was good, then it was listened to 30 or more times and practically wore out the tape!

Now we're realistic, knowing that in today's internet age- a house mix or house track will never get the attention like mixes/tracks back then, but we'd be happy if people played a few times and remember the names of the dattrax mixes that they enjoyed.

Nothing like hearing someone freaking out and saying "I loved... (name of dattrax mix because..."). That's reciprocal love happening there. The positive feeling from house music is universal and is an instant connector.

Forget 'back in the day' (even though I mentioned it a few times ! This is the BEST TIME for house music! The volume of music being made, and the quality to be found in sifting through that volume. So blessed.

If you have an insatiable appetite for stress relieving, soul lifting, foot stomping, head bopping, fists in the air, goosebump ridden house music, then go to beatport or traxsource and drown yourself for 5hours and get an ear to ear grin.

Let the summer begin with this mix as we begin July2012!!

Featuring tracks by these AMAZING HOUSE PRODUCERS & VOCALISTS!!! SO THANKFUL FOR SUCH GREAT MOVING MUSIC!!

Threw in a few Murk classics that have been reissued by Defected.com, that sound mint. All the house vinyls that we tried to convert to digital sound like crap, but some of the classics we've been picking up from these mp3 stores sound crisp and current.

Kasper Bjorke, Ron Basejam, Miguel Campbell feat. Roldy Cezaire, Soul Clap, EFUNK, Kings Of Tomorrow feat. Elzi Hall, Monocraft, Trentemøller, Madmotormiquel, Sebo, The Layabouts feat. Portia Monique, Omar, Tiefschwarz, Richard Davis, Noir, Kellerkind, Oliver Koletzki, Maceo Plex, The Mekanism, Tiger Stripes, Inland Knights, Da Sunlounge, MURK feat. Bobby Pruit, Filtertypen, Magnifik, Hanna, PillowTalk, Holtoug, Chocolate Puma, Osunlade, Doctor Dru, Kenton Slash, Liberty City

All tracks in this mix bought from www.Defected.com, www.Traxsource.com and www.Beatport.com. If there is any track you particularly like and want to go buy for yourself, then let us know in the comment section, and we'll respond there & let you know which site we bought it from.

BTW... if you enjoy this mix, then there's a PayPal DONATE button on the top right side of this website... Hint Hint, Wink Wink, Nudge Nudge : )

For Toronto or Global bookings: dattrax@gmail.com

Image courtesy of Natasha J.

This house mix made on Traktor S4 Controller with no sync applied.

Hello Fellow HOUSE FIENDS!!

Can't believe it's been over a month since we had a chance to post a new house mix... where does the time go? With work and family there's hardly enough time for house... it's a crime.

Jim, my DJ Partner and I are beat junkies and are constantly hunting for new tracks. Not "new" tracks meaning that they have to be current, just new to us. That's the great thing about house, the music is timeless and because it is so powerful when you hear it you, you instantly associate it with a fond memory. Constantly need an influx of 30-40tracks each month to keep us excited.

Once in a while we find a house producer that just blows our minds (even though almost every track we buy blows our minds), so then we go raid their entire catalogue of tracks on one of our fav mp3 stores, and find a half dozen or more gems.

Last producer I remember that we bought that many at one time was Sta Shiprinski. There are many house beat makers but the tracks that resonate are made with a house groove. You can't put a finger on it because it's different every time, but WOW... does it impact you. Especially after a long day of stressful work- CRANK it up!

Anyways, we are so excited to find Nick Curly. Think this mix is almost a Nick Curly tribute because I think 6-8 of his tracks are on here out of the 30 or so. (That reminds me, I want to do a Phonique tribute some time in the future.)

Curly's "Piano in the Dark" is the most beautiful house vocal track we've heard in 2012 so far. Every part of it! Hands in the air and close your eyes! The way house makes you feel every time.

All the other tracks in this mix are killer too. Too many great house producers to really name. This is the BEST time for house music because there is soooooo much of it out there.

Special Thanks to VINCE VEGA of INPUT RECORDINGS & WBI MUSIC for giving many fans on Facebook his beautiful bootleg remix of GOTYE, "Somebody That I Used To Know". Vince's bootleg of SADE's "HAUNT ME" is still one of my favourite vinyl records.

Vince and many house producers in Toronto are emerging with their own unique vision of house and showing people that the hardcore house fanatics live in and love Toronto!!

Thanks Justin Shaw aka, NOBLE for this image.

All the best everyone and please comment if you are feeling these mixes! Cheers, dattrax

THIS MIX FEATURING HOUSE TRACKS BY:

Nick Curly, Victor Polo, Deel Dj, Medeiros, VINCE VEGA, Monodeluxe, N'dinga Gaba feat.mOsno, Ivan Iacobucci, Lahib Alekozei, Villanova, Sendos Fuera, Pablo Fierro, H2, Robag Wruhme als Die Dub Rolle, SIS, Leon, A Klass feat. Saraya, Simina Grigoriu, Ela Gee, KZRC, Quentin Harris & Lynn Lockamy, KORT, Copyright feat. Shovell, Jamie Lewis, Bria Valente produced by Prince, Oliver Nickels, JT Donaldson, Olivier Desmet & Chuck Diesel feat. Latrice, Sam Ryan, Brisa De Invierno, Retro Activity, Jose Antonio eMe, Vuma, DJ Clock Tribal Gatheri, Euphonik feat.. Lolo & Bhutiza

All tracks in this mix bought from www.Traxsource.com and www.Beatport.com. If there is any track you particularly like and want to go buy for yourself, then let us know in the comment section, and we'll respond there & let you know which site we bought it from.

BTW... if you enjoy this mix, then there's a PayPal DONATE button on the top right side of this website... Hint Hint, Wink Wink, Nudge Nudge : ) For Toronto or Global bookings: dattrax@gmail.com

This house mix made on Traktor S4 Controller with no sync applied.

dattrax: Happy Easter Everyone and just wanted to share a little of the spring sunshine with you in a form of a new HOUSE MIX! May God Bless you all and your loved ones. And if you don't feel blessed right now, then know that without a doubt that He DOES LOVE YOU and hopefully you'll realise that someday.

This week, thinking about getting a new car stereo deck was dancing in my mind. The one I bought a few years back doesn't play CDs anymore, but fortunately has an auxiliary plug to put my ipod or iphone into. I've been looking in the weekly electronic store flyers for months now, just eyeballing all the car decks- salivating. Dreaming of a cd player that works, the USB port to stick a USB stick full of house music into. The urge to drive to the electronics store and scoop one up was so strong, but know that it would be at least $220 when you include taxes and installation. Then the thought about how many mp3, 320bit house tracks I could buy for that money POPPED into my head, so I decided to live with my crappy car stereo (for now).

This internal tug of war brought back a flood of memories to a time when my DJ Partner Jim and I were vinyl junkies to the extreme. We called it being addicted to "The Black Crack" (after the black colour of vinyl for those of you to never have seen vinyl before : ) There was a point where we were so addicted to buying house records, that when I saw something for let's say $35, I'd think to myself: 'but if I don't buy this, then I can buy TWO RECORDS!!'

This sounds silly, but seems to be a man's version of frugality- choosing to not spend in one area in favour of another, but not saving any money. There are people who probably think, 'Hey, why do you guys still love house music so much?' You know, some guys dig sports or collecting something... that's just another money and time sucking hobby. We've chosen HOUSE as a hobby and are cool with that. The big difference is that this love can be shared with so many people and transfer those positive feelings.

There is so much pleasure in the process for us, almost a monthly ritual... of hunting for tracks. Listening to them for a week or two, mixing them, listening, mixing them again, listening, then again, then sharing them and hoping that someone else likes the mix also.

GOING BACK to the topic of being addicted to house back then. We went to endless number of parties, have over 400 mixed tapes & cds made by other house djs. We bought over 6000 vinyl records over the years and we stopped buying vinyl and switched to buying MP3's over 10yrs ago. And now have over 2000 house MP3 tracks. Burned through tape decks, needles (for turntables for the youth out there : ), mixers, 100s of cases of blank cassette tapes and over 8000 blank cds, whatever it was we needed- you name it. Compare to sports (if we were into sports), we would be the guys- shirtless and with full body paint jumping up and down like drunken idiots in the stand holding up crazy signs & stuff, buying sports related stuff, going to sports events, hanging out with other sports addicts, watching sports all the time and playing in men's leaugues 2-3x's per wk. We are the ultimate FANS!

I tried to quit 'The Black Crack' three times and once for about 3years till I heard a DJ mix of new house that blew my mind. Now I know that we are here to stay. Just spent over 5hrs this week cruising over 1500traxs and hunting down 41 new tracks in www.Traxsource.com - excited about sharing the next mix with you!!

THIS MIX FEATURING HOUSE TRACKS BY:

Thyladomid, Adriatique, Roy Davis Jr., Jeremy P Caulfield, Walker Barnard, Adana Twins, Hobo, Metronomy, Ewan Pearson, Baby Prince, Tanner Ross, Claude VonStroke, Jaw, Kraak & Smaak, Lex Empress, Neighbour & Elan B., Nico Stojan, Rosina, New Kanada, Startraxx, Skelpt, Hollis P. Monroe, Laura Jones, Chris Carrier, Matt Tolfrey & Sam Russo, Pegah Ferydoni, Andre Lodemann, Eve Be, Amber Jolene, Mowgli, Marius Laurentiu, Andrea Bigi, Pele, Findling, Kindisch, Nico Stojan, Vindahl, DJ T., Peaches, Moullinex, Catz 'n Dogz, Dirtybird, Medicine 8, Kurtis Hardrive, Larse, Claptone, Nicolas Masseyeff, Dani Casarano, Felipe Valenzuela, Demian Muller

All tracks in this mix bought from www.Beatport.com only this time. If there is any track you particularly like and want to go buy for yourself, then let us know and we'll email the name to you and let you know which site we bought it from.

BTW... if you enjoy this mix, then there's a PayPal DONATE button on the top right side of this website... Hint Hint, Wink Wink, Nudge Nudge : ) For Toronto or Global bookings: dattrax@gmail.com

This house mix made on Traktor S4 Controller with no sync applied.

dattrax: Enjoy this all vinyl house mix I made last week. Love mixing with vinyl, best control, best tactile feel and the most fun to spin as far as DJ formats! Will return with some comments soon...

dattrax: Here's a new house mix for you with tracks by:

The SNO-MEN (BIG THANKS to Steve Primiani & Mark Kufner for their debut track, "Dream of Drums" at 29:33mins into this mix- ENJOY this TORONTO HOUSE GEM! Thanks Steve for sending me this killer track!), Jason B., Guerilla Science, Random Soul, Mood 2 Swing, Karizma, Fingers Inc., Postal Service, Jimpster, Maceo Plex, Atjazz, Plez, Phonique, Derrick Carter, Moodyman, Booka Shade, Soul Clap, Raze, Detox Twins, Solumun, Ali Love & Many Many More...

My DJ Partner and best friend Jim and I just bought 36new tracks from Beatport last weekend and are SOOOOO EXCITED about them! Just listening to them in cracks of time between work as Project Manager at www.SmallBusinessOnlineCoach.com (the most exciting Local Search Marketing company in Canada to work for!) and husband to my beautiful and wonderful Michelle and father to our four amazing children: Joshua (11), Grace who turned 9 today, Caleb (3) and Caitlin who just became 8mths old over the weekend.

House Music is has always been so exciting and fun for us, and we are so happy to share our favourite tracks with people in mixes that we hope that are good enough to be played more than once. We are so blessed that there are some people out there who dig our sound.

All tracks in this mix bought from www.Beatport.com and www.Traxsource.com except SNO-MEN & Jason B. Tracks and one track from Lee Kalt. If there is any track you particularly like and want to go buy for yourself, then let us know and we'll email the name to you and let you know which site we bought it from.

BTW... if you enjoy this mix, then why don't donate a little? There's a PayPal DONATE button on the top right side of this website. For Toronto or Global bookings: dattrax@gmail.com

This house mix made on Traktor S4 Controller with no sync applied.

dattrax: WOW!!! Two months since the last mix was uploaded.

In an ideal world I'd love to pump out a mix a week, and much respect to the DJs that regularly pump out house mixes. Lots of discipline and love displayed there. Thank you to all the HOUSE DJS out there for sharing with people your hard work finding the gems, and piecing together something that can be enjoyed with multiple listens and shared with like-minded friends.

Please check out our Toronto, Ontario, Canada Facebook group called "TORONTO HOUSE DJ MIXES"- the name pretty much says it all. Basically, only HOUSE MIXES made by TORONTO DJs are posted in this group. No spam, no filler- Strictly HOUSE!! (here's the link- you don't have to join to listen, share or download so pls help spread the word: http://www.budurl.com/TORONTOHOUSEDJMIXES ).

Right now the group is just over a year old and has 136 Toronto House DJs and over 630 house mixes. With that much choice no one can ever complain that they can't find what they love! We want to build the largest online collection of Toronto house mixes.

The idea came to me last Jan-2011 when I was reminiscing about when I first got into house music and it was difficult to get even ONE mix cassette tape from a good house DJ. And when you got one, well... you played it so much it would almost come apart.

Now with the internet- there's too much choice and it's so easy to share one's vision of house music with others. So I wanted to enjoy, learn and be inspired by my fellow Brothers and Sisters in HOUSE in our beloved city of Toronto.

IT'S NEVER BEEN THIS GOOD FOR HOUSE MUSIC!!

Toronto is a city brimming with underground house music fiends for over 20yrs because of so many great DJs paving the way and making people fall in love with this music, DJs that have influenced my DJ partner and best friend, Jim and I through many many great memories and tons of record hunting... back to influences: Kevin Williams, Mark & Aki, Peter, Tyrone & Shams (PTS), Dave Campbell, Jason Palma, Dino & Terry, Noel Nanton, Nick Holder, Patrick "D-Nice", Eric Ling and many more. More recently Jason B., Gene King & Jason Hodges.

Some of our Outside-of-Toronto house dj or producer influences have been (that first come to mind): Little Louie Vega and Kenny "Dope" Gonzalez (MAW), Derrick Carter, Wally Calleiro, Phonique, Luke Solomon and Justin Harris (MFF), Roger Sanchez, John Tejada, Alland Byallo, Stas Shiprinksi, Lee Kalts, Soul Clap, Greenskeepers, Said Chaara, Matthew Dear, Chuck Love, Chuck Daniel, DJ Sneak, Cevin Fisher, Rob Mello, Dub Taylor, Steve Lawler, Danny Tenaglia, Doc Martin, Frankie Knuckles, Fingers Inc., etc., etc., etc. and then some...

With every track bought, every mix made, and every gig played we pay tribute to all the house producers and house DJs that have impacted us over the years and to all the house promoters that gave us all those magical nights and even the not so great nights to learn what we didn't like. We are very grateful of all these experiences and all the wonderful people we've met over the years. Afterall, are we not the sum total of all we've every experienced and the result of every day to day decision?

Featuring 31 tracks in this 75min house mix by:
Kaje Trackheadz (TORONTO!!), Soul Clap, Tiago Fragateiro, Morgan Geist, Maceo Plex, Kim Ann Foxman, Andy Butler, Martin Solveig, Cassius, Romanthony, Deetron, Daniel Bortz, Oliver Koletzki, Solomun, Maxxa, Gretchen Rhodes, Danilo Vigorito, Christian Malloni, Astrid Suryanto, Stelios Vassiloudis, Chris Lattner, Enzo Siragusa, Alex Augello, Kelly Sylvia, etc., etc.

All tracks in this mix bought from www.Beatport.com and www.Traxsource.com If there is any track you particularly like and want to go buy for yourself, then let us know and we'll email the name to you and let you know which site we bought it from.

BTW... if you enjoy this mix, then why don't you buy us a beer? There's a PayPal DONATE button on the top right side of this website. For Toronto or Global bookings: dattrax@gmail.com

This house mix made on Traktor S4 Controller with no sync applied.

dattrax: Wanted to put these tracks into a good mix before they became classic house... really, really wanted to make this mix before Christmas.

Unfortunately best laid plans often times don't become realised as work and family leave very small opportunities to indulge in my hobby.

But if I had a soundproof room where I can have house music blaring at any time of day or night- wow, that would be a dream!

Apologies though... there are two instances where the track playing skips... don't know why because there were no skips when I mixed them. Will have to contact Native Instruments and find out if some of the updates they gave me messed up my Traktor S4 and if it can be fixed. On the otherhand, if I waited till the problem was fixed, then this would come out in feb and I couldn't wait any longer in sharing with Everyone!

All tracks bought from www.Beatport.com and www.Traxsource.com If there is any track you particularly like and want to go buy for yourself, then let us know and we'll get the name for you and which site we bought it from.

Jim, my best friend and DJ partner of many years (yes, we're too old to be in clubs : ) each bought about 2 batches each last few mths, and I pulled about 30 tracks for this mix. Jim usually tackles beatport and I go through traxsource. It's a long tedious hunt for tracks that we like, so we hope that someone out there likes these tracks also.

The next mix will be the bumpier stuff from those 4 batches (hopefully can be made before 2012, but I can't make any promises). Have about 40 tracks left that needs to go in a mix, but around 20 tracks that must be deleted since they 'sounded good at the time', but not now.

Enjoy this- as always it was made with love and had a blast making. These tracks that give us goosebumps when we hear them, want to go shake it off, stomp our feet and raise our hands in the air. Ahhhh... nothing like house music is there?

BTW... if you enjoy this mix, then why don't you buy us a beer? There's a PayPal DONATE button on the top right side of this website. For Toronto or Global bookings: dattrax@gmail.com

This house mix made on Traktor S4 Controller with no sync applied.

dattrax: A friend of a friend that I recently met, Chris Z. went on a trip to Hong Kong in the summer and posted this image on Facecrack that he took at a party. I asked for his permission to use it. Thanks again Chris!

Read the sign, it's the best ever! Love it because it has happened or will happen to every House DJ out there when you spin at every crappy venue just to hear your music LOUD.
So funny. I saw Karizma on a youtube vid talk about people requesting stuff when you are deep into a house mixing fever. (Karizma btw... is a wicked DJ. Saw him for the first time in Toronto a few months ago. He cut up some double tracks. Tight. Can't wait to put his remix of Cajmere's "Brighter Days", feat. Dejae's on a new mix. Have had it for months now.. can't wait! His treatment kept all the elements of the original- but he 2011'ed it with crisp hi-hats and tight kick drums.)

As amazing as house music is... the feeling, the ear to ear grin of dancing to an awesome mix, the instant connection with other House Fiends- most regular folks don't know what it is. They only know what is prevalent in music videos, movies, etc. People know what they know from what is fed to them. (btw...House is not that euro crap on some TV shows and commercials.)

Just recently met on FB, Stas Shiprinksi, who is one of my favourite house producers right now. When I first heard his tracks on Traxsource... WOW!! Bought 8 of his tracks in 20mins of listening to his catalogue.

I told him that he makes House Grooves, not house beats- that there are lots of producers that just make house beats. (You can listen to a ton of his tracks in the mixes below like "THE DEPTH FIELD" & "DIRECT DRIVE". Better yet, go to traxsource and type in his last name.)

What's the difference? The difference is that with house beats you wouldn't pay money for them and with house grooves- you happily dish out your cash and you get HAPPY on the spot. Chills run down your spine, your chin starts bobbing, feet start tapping and you pump your fist in the air almost cheering. Can't explain that feeling to non-house lovers... that's why you gotta love this sign.

About this mix:
Super HOTTTTT!!!!! GREENSKEEPERS' cover of the Steve Miller band's "Abracadabra" remixed by John Larner, and SOUL CLAP's incredible remix treatment of RAZE's "Break 4 Love" (dub & vocal mix)- WOW!! Reviving a house anthem that has survived for decades. They made this track current yet giving us the same feel and kept all the cool parts of the original.

AND TONS of wicked house tunes for your enjoyment! Burned through 35+ tracks in 77mins here.

All tracks bought from www.Beatport.com and www.Traxsource.com If there is any track you particularly like and want to go buy for yourself, then let us know and we'll get the name for you and which site we bought it from.

BTW... if you enjoy this mix, then why don't you buy us a beer? There's a PayPal DONATE button on the top right side of this website. For Toronto or Global bookings: dattrax@gmail.com

This house mix made on Traktor S4 Controller with no sync applied.

dattrax: Summer is here in Toronto- the sun is shining and the temperature is at a usual beautiful 27 Degrees Celsius and higher- consistently now. Just in time for a summertime all vocal house mix! Usually like to do one of these back to back vocal mixes per year. We usually have a personal DJing rule of never mixing a vocal into a vocal, but we shelve that once per year. Think the last summer mix was "MAINSTAY" (scroll down to find it).

Hands in the air and your head bopping as you drive to this... my favourite testing ground for a new mix is nice & LOUD in the car. Drive safely though...

Been trying to find time to lay these new tracks my DJ Partner Jim and I bought over two months ago, but work has been crazy and I'm still behind some deadlines, and I don't let house music interrupt my family time with my wife and children (as much as I love it). I wish I had a soundproof room though because every time I had time, it was at 11pm or later. That's life... There's a few tracks on this mix that are almost classic house now because tons of good Toronto House DJs have been playing them since Jan & putting them in their mixes also. Good thing that great house is timeless and if someone hasn't heard it before, then it's NEW to them.

In this mix: many many tracks from Toronto's Finest Deep House Producer right now, JASON B. (in my opinion. I think 5 tracks- time for a 60min Jason B. Tribute Mix soon. It's gonna be called "TORONTO DEEP" so I got dibs on this mix name Everyone!)

The first track is Jason's treatment of SADE's Morning Bird and it's exquisite. Can't get enough of his tracks. A good house track for me is when you can listen over and over and still get a grin on your face and this refreshing feeling flow over you.

Last track is by Toronto's Nick Holder and it's one of three vocal tracks on this mix called "Heartbeat", so the name of this mix was obvious. Don't think we ever bought three house songs with the same name before- weird. We have many of Nick's vinyl records, but this is his finest remix- PERIOD- gonna blow your mind!! I first heard it on Roland Gonzalez' mix in feb2011 and freaked out!

Nick is representing Toronto in South Africa right now- much respect to one of the most successful House Producers Canada has ever produced- a pioneer in this scene. A scene that we all have grown to love more and more. I've been told that SA is the center of the House Nation right now, I don't disagree with this with so much great production coming out of SA recently for deep house, but I'm biased and think Toronto is where it's at for house music in general. Don't believe me? Blowing hot air?

Then check out over 300 Toronto House DJ Mixes here in our facecrack group by over 100 Toronto House DJs (every genre of house): http://budurl.com/TORONTOHOUSEDJMIXES FEAST YOUR EARS ENDLESSLY!! ***and this group was only started at the end of Jan of this year- 2011.

A good mix is one where someone can listen over and over and still keep smiling and not get bored. We hope that is how you feel about our mixes.

All tracks bought from www.Beatport.com and www.Traxsource.com If there is any track you particularly like and want to go buy for yourself, then let us know and we'll get the name for you and which site we bought it from. Same with any previous mix. We bought a total of 150tracks in last two months, and Jim just bought another 40+ and I haven't listened to them yet!! That's enough music for another 5 new mixes!! Don't worry, coming soon.

BTW... if you enjoy this mix, then why don't you buy us a beer? There's a PayPal DONATE button on the top right side of this website. For Toronto or Global bookings: dattrax@gmail.com

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This house mix made on Traktor S4 Controller with no sync applied.

dattrax: Just bought about 25 new tracks from www.stompy.com and www.traxsource.com + a few older tracks and then banged out this mix. 3rd track in is "In Too Deep", which is a brand new Phil Collins tribute bootleg by Toronto's Jason B. Happy Retirement Mr. Collins.

Hope you enjoy this mix, loved making it. Please comment & interact with us below on any mixes that you like.

This is the 2nd mix made with the Traktor Kontrol S4 (pictured top). 1st mix w/ S4 is "DIRECT DRIVE" below. Starting to get used to the basic functions of this gear. Pretty good response time on the jog wheels (but not precise when you release the jog wheel for cueing), and nothing beats the tactile feel of time-coded vinyl set-ups whether with Serato-Rane or Traktor Pro2 DJ systems. I also really like the feel of Numark's NS7, so I'd probably like the Numark V7's also since they're a grade above NS7s.

Native Instruments (NI) made a good product with this Traktor Kontrol S4 midi-controller and their online support is top notch. I'm not a tech person, so had to contact them often and read 90pgs of their 235pg PDF manual. Heavy duty construction, very cool black enamel finish, rubberized EQs and EFX knobs, spacing between knobs are not too tight, and an overall larger footprint than regular controllers, which I like. Cool to have an internal soundcard that records your mix right into your computer. I can stop lugging a mini-disc player to friends' places for a while. Still be visiting my best friend and DJ partner, Jim's serato-rane-vinyl set-up. Still like that best.

My main complaint about the S4 is that the pitch/tempo faders on either side & the crossfader are plasticky and too loose- not enough tension. I mean you'll get used to it eventually, but not ideal. The pitch faders also need to have a longer physical range (but I guess they think not too many old school DJs like us will use and every kid in their bedroom is just going to sync everything). And although the jog wheels have a slight magnetic weighting, it'd be cool to be able to adjust the tension. And it would be amazing to have spinning platters that are a lot bigger (at least 7inchs in diameter), but that would defeat the purpose of what they want to do in creating this product to be portable. I wouldn't use it to play a gig though. Good for making mixes at home, but still not trusting of fully digital systems for live events. CDs are a more sure bet for now.

I also got tons of static system pops and clicks when attached to my laptop (Intel's dual-core2 at 1.67GHZ w/ 3gigs of RAM, 32bit Window's 7- Home Edition) and this is even after following NI's suggestions for optimizing computer for audio DJing. So now I plug into my desktop (Intel's quad-core at 2.67GHZ w/ 8gigs of RAM, 64bit Window's 7-Ultimate) and haven't had a problem since.

Haven't used the sync, hot cues, sampling, looping or any of that extra stuff yet. Don't have time to finish the manual and play with those features right now. With the type of house that we spin, probably won't be doing too much of that stuff anyways, but it is fun to have options.

Still having a challenge assigning the EFX boards on either top corner to any channel. Right now they are locked to one channel each side, so I can only apply three effects to each channel instead of six to either channel. I'm sure Native Instruments will help me with that. And they also gave me a BONUS Traktor Pro 2 upgrade in early april which is super cool and worth $80USD and multiple bug fixin' updates since I bought it a month or so ago (much appreciated NI!!). Very happy with this company, Native Instruments' support and quality of software/hardware is top shelf. Here's their site: http://www.native-instruments.com/#/en/products/dj/traktor-kontrol-s4/

Hopefully this will tie me over till I can afford a real home DJ mixing system. This will be the dream set-up: Traktor Pro 2 DJ software & convertor box, Traktor control vinyls, Pioneer DJM2000 dj mixer, 2 Technics 1200s and 2 Pioneer CDJ-2000's, Traktor control CDs and kick butt JBL speakers & crazy powerful desktop computer w/ huge monitor. That would probably be around $10k, so it's still a pipe dream. Traktor Kontrol S4 is a poor man's version of a dream home DJ system at 1/10 of that cost.

BTW... if you enjoy this mix, then why don't you buy us a beer? There's a PayPal DONATE button on the top right side of this website. For Toronto or Global bookings: dattrax@gmail.com

dattrax: This mix was a blast to make and received the most 'likes' in Facebook that we've ever gotten when posting mixes in the house music related groups that we've joined. Over 3 dozen 'likes' so far and over 1300 plays/downloads in total (inc. FB visitors), and it's only been up for 3 weeks as of this written post. So happy that others in the world are enjoying our vision of house music, it's very gratifying. Thank you all very much. Please feel free to interact with us in the comment sections of any mix you've enjoyed below.

This mix is representative of our dattrax sound which is aggressively layered & textured house. We play all sorts of types of house tracks mashed into one continuous mix whether it be deep, vocal, tech, funky or anything else that would make us dance when mixed with house. It's always about dancing or at least bopping your head till you have to see a chiropractor, otherwise, it's just boring.

There is something beautiful about hearing different combinations of house tracks and the different transitions that happen automatically when certain combos are placed on top and through each other. Let alone what you can do to change the feel with volume levels, EQs, crossfader, mixing out, tempo, etc. Our joy is in searching for the perfect mix. It never happens but the journey is a blast. We never repeat a combo, unless it hasn't been recorded in a mix yet. Interesting combos refresh and reinvigorate our love of house every single time.

This mix was made on the new Traktor Kontrol S4, but the 'sync' feature was not used. We come from an old-fashion background of playing on crappy DJ & sound equipment and even on turntables with poor pitch control before we got Technics 1200s. We like to always get back to basics for that raw DJ feel.

When you only play two house tracks at a time and you use a computer syncing program, that's not real DJing. DJing house is about beat matching, layering, mixing out properly, transitions, programming and creating an overall house groove.

I'm not discounting 'sync', it's what it is used for that I'm disputing. If you are fusing three or four songs together and need to focus on being creative by making new sounds and textures and by making sure that the 3-4 tracks don't clash, then beat matching has to take a back seat for that to happen. That's a different type of DJing- that's closer to performance art and a new level in live remixing. Above our pay grade.

New DJs that rely on technology to do the work will get burned. Not everyone will get to play in premium clubs with state of the art DJ & sound equipment, so the basics must be solid, so that you can be flexible when you don't have the 'perfect' set-up. Learning the basics and improving on them is what makes good House DJs. I'm not trying to even compare House DJs to Hip-Hop DJs, those guys are scientists, completely next level. Just complaining about lazy, hands in their pockets DJs in the house world.

My DJ partner Jim has the Serato-Rane time-code vinyl set up and I have the Traktor S4 midi controller set up now, but we both prefer playing out on vinyl and cds. I think we had a combined collection of over 60 crates of house records. I only have five crates left because I got rid of 25crates over the years. I still don't trust a laptop to not crash, but with cds, unless I lose my cookies in anger and decide to stomp on them with my boots, we'll be cruising just fine at any gig. And as far as tactile-feel and modern flexibility of playing digital music files, nothing beats the Serato/Traktor time-coded vinyl systems.

BTW... if you enjoy this mix, then why don't you buy us a beer? There's a PayPal DONATE button on the top right side of this website. For Toronto or Global bookings: dattrax@gmail.com

dattrax: It amazes us how house has grown into so many genres within itself, but the love of house is universal. It's so much fun to make a mix and share it online with HouseHeadz all over the world. DJing is such a blast!! You get to put together your favourite songs anyway you want. Any speed, any length for each track, how you mix trxs in or out, how you like it to sound with more bass for some or more hi's (guilty). The best part is that you don't have to know any music theory or have any musical ability. (Like us, we're probably putting together sounds that would grate a real musician's sensibilities).

...You just start spinning. And it's such a blast that you want to do it again and again. You listen to lots of other DJs and get inspired by their various distinct sounds.

We love finding the gems in all these mp3 stores, even with so many genres ranging from house, deephouse, techhouse, minimal house, electro house and progressive house. You know when you've found one when you get goosebumps and whisper 'WOW' to yourself. And then there are the exceptional tunes where you put your fist in the air and you're not at a party and no one is around. It's weird sort of.

We hope that this happens to you when you hear this mix (even if just a little). Most of the time that you spend DJing is finding the gems, not actually mixing. We're like house miners of sorts- digging away. Best to Everyone in this exciting New Year who visits here from where ever you are in the world. (thank goodness Podomatic finally got their sites mobile friendly, so you don't need a microscope to see this site on your smartphone) Cheers, dattrax

BTW... if you enjoy this mix, then why don't you buy us a beer? There's a PayPal DONATE button on the top right side of this website. For Toronto or Global bookings: dattrax@gmail.com

This was an all CD house mix.

dattrax: These past two weeks I've been reacquainted with some old DJ friends and met some new ones on FaceCrack. It's been a blast sharing each others' house mixes online (no more cassette tapes or cds!!). I've been inspired time and time again by tons of great house music from Toronto DJs & Producers. We always think that the grass is greener elsewhere. Torontonians want to talk about how great the house scene is in New York, Miami, San Fran or Europe.

We forget that the reason why there are soooooooo many House Producers, DJs and regular HouseFiends in Toronto is because of all the great DJs here that we grew up listening & dancing to. DJs like Aki, PTS (Peter, Tyrone & Shams), Dino & Terry, Gene King, Kevin Williams, Dave Campbell, Jason Palma, Nick Holder & Patrick "D" Nice to name the foundation of Underground House here. They got us loving and deeply addicted to this genre of electronic music back in the day.

Can't even describe the feeling of joy to find and hear a good house track. Hope you get some of the same feelings after listening to a few of our mixes. Blended with love & devotion, dattrax

BTW... if you enjoy this mix, then why don't you buy us a beer? There's a PayPal DONATE button on the top right side of this website. For Toronto or Global bookings: dattrax@gmail.com

This was an all CD house mix.

dattrax: Made this mix with M-Audio's Xponent midi-controller, their Torq software & my laptop.

After using my friend's Xponent a few times I'd have to say that I'm not a fan. (Sorry, not being ungrateful Devon. Thank you for letting me borrow it). The cueing of tracks from the beginning on the jog wheels don't work each time, so you have to use the forward/backwards buttons a lot- major pain and time waster. The cross-fader and pitch controls are way too loose- it's difficult to be precise. Feels like you're playing with a toy.

BIG TIME PROPS to all the DJs I've seen on youtube who rock it out on these plasticky controllers. MAD SKILLS!! I suck on these.

The mid-range EQ's on each channel had to be set at 11 o'clock all the time (I usually have to set to 1pm for all other DJ mixers), and it still put out too much mid & the mid sounds very hollow. Overall, not really too fun to play with. Got my house music fix with the making of this mix though.

For max DJ'ing fun, I'll stick w/ cd turntables, serato w/ vinyl control discs or reg. vinyl turntables.

Will be trying a friend's NuMark NS7 soon http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ef_4NIKpuHI
That looks like the best controller out there because of the motorized platters that spin (and you can adjust the tightness of the platters), and the heavy duty metal construction. The NS7 doesn't feel like a toy, but at over 3X's the cost of Xponent, it better not

Most of the tracks on this mix were bought from www.Stompy.com and the rest from www.Traxsource.com Hope everyone enjoys this mix!

BTW... if you enjoy this mix, then why don't you buy us a beer? There's a PayPal DONATE button on the top right side of this website. For Toronto or Global bookings: dattrax@gmail.com

dattrax: We want to THANK every single visitor for coming to our site over the last 15mths. We love house music just as much as you do. We started this site at the end of jul2009 not knowing what to expect from all this online stuff (we're a few years removed from all the younger people who actually understand the internet). But WOW... over 65 mixes on this site now- it's oct.7th, 2010, and our backend says that we've had
37 393 total plays/ downloads in last 12mths, 6088 unique visitors, 5554 subscribers and an average of 102 plays/ downloads each day!

It's humbling to know that people from all over the world are listening to these two non professional DJs who are just like little kid geeks when it comes to house music& dj related stuff.

Also a big Thank You to the Podomatic Team for creating such a simple to use and affordable platform to share our passion with anyone who happens to visit here.

It's been a while since we posted. Sorry. We wish we could put more time into his love affair we have with this thing call HOUSE, but going to work, family and paying the bills has to come first.

Just wanted to throw this mix up here to share with everyone. The mixing is not the greatest by any means (hope no big DJ listens to this), but the house tracks are incredible (none of our doing of course) and it's such a fun mix, so we hope you enjoy it. House music has alway been about fun and when it stops being fun for us, then we'll stop.

All of the tracks in this mix were bought from www.beatport.com, www.traxsource.com & www.stompy.com. If you know of other mp3 sites where someone can buy great house music, then please let us know, we'll try them.

Mixed w/ two technic 1200 vinyl turntables, pioneer djm500 mixer and a serato set up.

Planning to put up a few more mixes before the new year rolls to a close, so come back and visit us soon.
Take Care & let us know what you think in the comment section. Cheers

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dattrax: My DJ Friends often called hunting for great tracks, "Junk Hunting". That's what we all do who love spinning House, don't we? We went though beatport.com & traxsource.com for weeks and probably listened to 2500+ tracks to buy 68 between the both of us. Jim took beatport and I took traxsource. I think our total bill was less than $140 bucks. In the vinyl days, it would have cost at least $1300 for 68EPs. Yup, it was $16.99 (b4 taxes!) for a 4 track EP or 2Trx double sided 12" or sometimes 1Trx, one sided bootleg. We usually only bought an EP for one cut. The GOOSE BUMP/ FIST IN THE AIR CUT.

NOTE: w/ the exception of track#2 in this mix, which is a georgeous SADE bootleg made by Jason B. of SoulFusionExpress fame in Toronto and given to me by an amazing DJ that I met online, Said Chaara.

This is the fourth mix after we both bought from those mp3 stores. First one that we're posting. We are like kids on Christmas morning. Nothing like listening to a batch of new house w/ your best friend and DJ partner of almost 20yrs. We listened to the tracks for a few days first.

Have enough tracks for a second mix. Going to raid stompy.com in next week first. It'd be nice to find 20 or more tracks there (We can only hope).

Made w/ two pioneer 1000 cd turntables and an Allen & Heath XONE: 92 mixer and a pair of crappy headphones (Jim was hogging the good pair!). The instruments in these headphones didn't sound distinct enough and it wasn't loud enough!
Sidenote: Invest in good headphones if you want to DJ, it'll make your experiences so much better- spend at least $200 on a pair. At the same time, work w/ what you have and start listening, collecting and MIXING!

We hope you like this mix, it was made w/ childlike wonder & youthful love at this music we call HOUSE.

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dattrax: this mix was made w/ two technics 1200 vinyl turntables, pioneer djm-500 mixer, rane SL1 convertor box, and serato scratch live dj software, itunes playlists and sony soundforge for recording.

Borrowed a friend's serato/ rane set up and it is a blast. Had more fun making this mix than most of the last gigs w/ mixing w/ cds. Made about 1/2 a dozen mixes before this on serato. "Mainstay, MixTwo" was made w/ serato/ rane set up.

This is the best of the fusion of digital music files and the tactile control of vinyl turntables. What I did was loaded around 250 tracks into itunes library. Then made six playlists of mp3/ wave tracks titled: instrumental.mellow, ".medium, ".harder & vocal.mellow, ".medium, ".harder because the problem w/ digital tracks is that if you are not organised you can't create a good groove/ flow through a mix. It was a lot easier when it was vinyl because you picked 100 records for an hour gig (this gave you a choice of 3-4records to choose from for every track you played) and your brain remembered the colour of the sleeves, the sticker label on each side A or B, the name of the label or artists, you knew exactly where your favourite track was.

With digital, when you buy 20-30tracks per week and your collection accumulates fast, you don't know what is what because the names are just words. Even when you do what we do, and burn onto single cds, it gets difficult because it's our chicken scratch w/ black permanent marker on silver blank cds. W/ cds we organised vocals in different carrying folders than instrumentals. I've seen a lot of local DJs burn 12-15+ tracks on one disk w/ a paper list in the insert of the holder. It's too confusing to create a vibe- too much music.

It's faster using serato, then thumbing through folders for cds. Select the folder (playlist in itunes since serato syncs to itunes), then scroll to desired track, then click and drag into the serato software interface- left or right side turntable on screen. Now because of the rane SL1 box, the track is calibrated to the vinyl for instant response. It's the coolest thing. Playing digital tracks on vinyl is amazing! Nothing beats the tactile feel of vinyl for mixing. It's such a blast! Can't wait to try traxtor's system. From what I'm seeing on websites/ youtube etc, it looks like traxtor is more flexible. I'm sure there are tons of bells & whistles that I don't know about in serato, but my friend needs his stuff back soon, so I'll just keep to basics.

The djm500 mixer is still one of my favourite dj mixers to play on. Love how the buttons, knobs, crossfader feel. The efx are simple to use and lots of fun to play around with (hope i didn't do too many to make this mix annoying or anything).

Hope you enjoy this mix, please comment here if you do.

BTW... going to put our slogan 'strictly house music' in every title now because I realised when searching for mixes to listen to in podomatic that a lot of other DJs were smart and put 'house music' in the title, so that it shows up in the search results.

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dattrax: Beginning to end this mix is filled with vocals that make you do that little whisper to yourself... "wow". Techy and funky house beats underlying it all. Topped off with smooth, yet aggressive movement from track to track.

We hope this mix makes you say to yourself: "this is one of the reasons why I LOVE HOUSE MUSIC". We hope that you enjoy it as much as it was to make it.

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dattrax: I friend of mine posted a hand held video clip of George Michael singing "Everything She Wants" and the energy was electric because everyone in the audience loved that song and knew the words. Jim and I have been mixing 80s pop tunes into house sets years before "MashUp" came around (Mash Up: remixes of popular songs layered with instrumentals from other popular songs or hip hop/ rnb beats).

We grew up with 80s pop and love it!
This mix starts off with 'Everything She Wants' by Wham and in the middle has Duran Duran's 'Wild Boys'. Both pop songs were mixed w/ a house instrumental and then burned as a single song each and played with the rest of the tracks on two Technics SL-DZ 1000's and a Pioneer DJM-500 mixer.

House Music to us is taking any house track that you love and mix it with any song that you like to hear on top of your favourite house tracks.

I remember before DJing. My first 'mixed tapes' were made from me recording 3hrs of this house music radio show on fri ngts. Yes, multiple 90min cassette tapes! Then listening and fast forwarding to songs that I liked. Then copying each song into a new cassette tape. VOILA! My favourite songs in maybe 2-3 weeks shows in one 90min tape! Pain staking, but worth it. This was before people complained about not having enough GIGS in their ipods or cellphones!

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dattrax: For me house music is an escape vehicle from the things that don't excite me about my life or stresses me out, so in those pockets of time that I spend related to house/ DJing, I enjoy it that much more. House Music is therapeutic in that it relaxes me. Other guys love sports, or are zoned out to TV. I don't care for that stuff.

Imprinted, MixOne and Two are filled with tracks bought from Beatport.com. Techy, minimal, but still funky with fat house basslines and crisp high hats. Very little vocals on these two mixes aside from the dubby vocal washes and tracks with repetitive one liners.

Or I could be wrong, less than usual, I should say. I love vocals laced into cool house instrumentals, because I don't believe you remember an hour of pounding tech and minimal house by itself. I am not criticizing, don't misunderstand. I love listening to top techhouse DJs like Alland Byallo and have a ton of tech and minimal house.

But if they were layered with hot vocals, then the tech and minimal house will invigorate the vocals, making them that much better and exciting, and the vocals will imprint a positive memory of the mix into the listener's minds. That's why you can play one bar of a classic house track and the HouseHeadz will start singing. HOUSE KARAOKE.

No one remembers a instrumental. People don't ask DJs: "What's that song that goes BOOM, BOOM, BOOM, WAHHH, DUCKP, UMPH???" They don't ask because they don't care.

I love the feel of this mix. Charging and aggressive without being annoying/ irritating. You don't have to play hard and abrasive music to have a harder feel.

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dattrax: Just love the 1st instrumental track by Silicone Soul. The feel reminds me of Fingers Inc.'s Mystery of Love Instrumental. Just stomp your feet SICK! I found it in the 'electronica top 100 downloads' at Beatport.com. You have to look everywhere, don't let other people's labeling limit or confuse you. When you hear house, you'll recognise it.

The first track is the most important in the mix. It sets the mood. There are few house tracks with nice intros and even if there are, you mix through them, so beginning of mixes are fun to highlight a favourite. You don't want to pick one with a 3min or more intro because this will turn people off from relistening to the mix.

Next you EQ it the way that you like tracks to generally sound. Too bad there is no EQ, Volume or Compression Standard. Every song is made so differently, which is a good thing to have such a variety of house music to choose from. I prefer less bass and more hi's. When the bass is farting/ distorting and not a tight punchy kick, then it needs to be lowered. Jim's the opposite, he loves bass! The track sounds flat (not vibrant) if there is too much bass and not enough hi's.

Some tracks have too much compression so the hi's stab your ear in a bad way, so you have to lower it. Some tracks with vocals, congos, guitars, or washes that may have the mid's too high and that produces a result as annoying as nails on a chalkboard, so you have to lower the mid's.

Jim: Some tracks are produced and mastered too well relative to most house tracks and the volume is much greater and you have to know/ remember to compensate so that you have even levels.

Next you pick the speed. We prefer mixes at 126bpms, not more than 128 (sometimes you get out of control when not paying attention). Can't believe that we grew up listening and dancing to house at 123bpms or less. Everything in electronic music keeps going faster and more aggressive over the years. Most of the 'deep house' that is coming out (and for the last year 2009) has elements of electro, tech & minimal house. A lot less organic sounding.

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dattrax: Went into an HMV at Bloor & Yonge in Downtown Toronto a while ago for some mixed house cd listening. I needed a house music fix badly. Stayed for hours listening to at least 40 "electronica" cds. They hated me there because the staff have to reseal the ones that you don’t buy. CDs are expensive, you have to love what you spend your hard earned dollars on. Bought these five for about $130 w/ taxes:

"In The House: Little Louie Vega" mixed by Little Louie Vega. I lent this double mixed cd to a good friend (another DJ) a few weeks after buying it, and haven’t seen it since. YOU KNOW WHO YOU ARE! I hope you feel guilty. It’s fine, we’ll still be friends, just give it back please…

"Asa Breed" by Matthew Dear. Great techy tracks.

"Release Yourself" mixed by Roger Sanchez. The “S” Man, NUFF SAID!

"Bring Enough To Spill Some” mixed by Chuck Love. WOW! This guy’s music is CRAZY!

“F*** Me I’m Famous!” mixed David Guetta Not bad, like some tracks.

Listened to these for about a week, then marked all the tracks that I loved, the levels, when the vocals started, and made these two mixes. Took a few takes. I never put this much preparation into a mix, because usually just like to have fun and if it sucks, then toss it. Usually one out of 10, I keep. Hey... baseball players are making millions at 3 out of 10. One out of 10 isn't too bad, I guess. Also,because the tracks were from these authorized mixed cds that have been mastered professionally w/ top dollar, these two mixes by default sound amazing.

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dattrax: Little Louie Vega is incredible if you’ve seen him live. This guy mixes like the songs were produced together, not like separate tracks. He DJs like a musician- can’t even describe it, you have to experience him. I always wonder what it’s like to know how house music tracks are made from conception to post production, and then spin them? Jim and I just know what house tracks we love, but we know nothing about music, composition, etc. We just like what we like and hope that some people like it too. I’d hate if a musician listened to us.
This is one of my favourite of Mr. Vegas’ authorized mixes. Full of energy and beautiful house music. Relentless, track after track. I can’t tell you how many records the duo of Little Louie Vega and his partner Kenny “Dope” Gonzalez, Masters At Work (M.A.W.) that Jim and I own and own doubles of. There was a time when we were partying, that almost everything good was made by these guys. I bet there are more MAW records in house DJs' collections than any other producers.
Roger Sanchez. That name just gets a period. Definitive. I’ve been to probably four parties in Toronto where he was headlining- never a disappointment. I kicked myself the last few times he was in Toronto and I missed him. Smooth as butter and his passion shows through his performance. He loves it! Three decks- seamless- TIGHT (there’s a picture of him in the DJ Dictionary if there is one). No computer w/ beatlock – a DJ’s DJ. I'm so happy that when I catch him on YouTube and stuff he's playing w/ cds. Nothing like old & new tech together. He’s always having a blast w/ the crowd. Not the stone face DJ, seen one of those lately? Don’t love what you do? Go do something else Man!
The greats always make it look easy and fun. Then the masses go out and spend tons of money and realize that ‘hey, this is hard’.
The title of these two mixes comes from the chorus of an Everything But The Girl cover by Nicola on this mixed cd, “Missing”. I just loved that line, “Like the desert missed the rain”. I almost spelled it ‘dessert’ by accident at first.
Chuck Love’s mixed cd was such an exciting gem of a purchase! His tracks have a older, familiar feel, but such a bumpy energy that charges forward. Very organic sounds and instruments, but has such a fresh edge to them. Joy. He is new to us, but will be looking for him. Can’t tell you how much I love his music.
Loved the track “Shy” from the Matthew Dear CD. We have a few of his tracks on vinyl. Techy, w/ awesome alternative rock sounding vocals.
We hope that you enjoy these two mixes as much as we love sharing them!

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dattrax: House Music to me is a flood of memories, images & feelings into my mind of good times & complete bliss. Music is so powerful in connecting our memories to particular songs or styles of music. Being at a party with loud house music and people everywhere with smiles plastered on their faces is like living your own music video fusing together the powerful elements of music + imagery.

When I got into house I had just moved out of my abusive, dictatorial guardian's home, finishing high school and having my first taste of freedom. Having choices was good for my love of house music to develop, but bad for the smoking, drinking, etc, etc.

I met my best friend, DJ partner and business partner of almost 20yrs, Jim on the streets of downtown Toronto- both looking for that next fix- a warehouse party. All word of mouth and looking in the usual spots where the last one was held- no flyer people, cellphones, facebook, twitter, etc. How did the scene even grow?

These were empty spaces where they charged $5 a head and $5 a beer and they started at 1am back when last call in Toronto was 12:45am, not 1:45am. Sidenote: changing of last call ushered in the superclubs and destroyed the underground warehouse scene in Toronto. Dark with candles sometimes, a DJ on two technics 1200s, a mixer (with no single channel EQs back then) and 4-6 crappy speakers that are not crystal clear like speakers at venues these days. They had this hallow mid-range sound, we dubbed it the 'warehouse sound'. Parties usually finishing at 7am- WOW, what a time.

Once we experienced two songs seamlessly blended together by an expert DJ in a smoke filled dark, dingy room, with 100+ people dancing up a storm, never went back to normal popular music.

We were always trying to chase that rush of emotions... that last slamming party... that last great DJ mix tape... that last hot mix that gave you goosebumps and made you pump your hands in the air.

So for every good party we went to 6-8 poor ones. For every great DJ mix tape you got 5-6 crappy ones, etc., etc. Chasing the illusion of fulfillment.

Despite all of that... find someone anywhere in the world who likes house and you have an instant connection. House is so uplifting and unifying.

Cheers, dattrax

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dattrax: This mix starts w/ Lisa Shaw's beautiful vocals on a track called "Someday". I don't know how many vocal tracks she has done since her Naked Music days, but we can't get enough of her (we probably own a dozen at least). 2nd track is "Battery Man" by Fish Go Deep. These guys just keep banging out amazing house vocal tracks! Love their work. At 12mins, one of our top three favourite Charles Webster tracks, Presence featuring Shara Nelson singing "Sense of Danger". Shara Nelson gives us goosebumps on this track. This is followed by another deep and soulful Fish Go Deep, "Weapons of Choice". This sort of sets the tone of the mix. This is mix for people who love house vocals back to back. There's probably only 5 instrumentals in this 70min. mix.

We had this fri & sat night gig for about 5mths at this fancy smancy restaurant/bar/patio (we couldn't afford to eat there even at a discount! Ever had a $10beer/$12mix drink/up to $30 martini and feel good about it afterwards?) located in the heart of downtown Toronto. It was sort of restrictive in that the DJ equipment was not fun to play on, two pioneer 200 cd turntables w/ no spinning platter, a pioneer 400 mixer and tiny bookshelf speaker for a monitor that farted bass when you blast it. And we have to blast it because I am sort of deaf in my left/DJ ear.

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To keep the crowd & staff happy and interested we had to almost completely play all vocals. Imagine DJing for 3-6hrs (depending how busy it was)and changing songs every 3mins (we have house-ADD where we compulsively cannot play tracks for a long time)! I guess that I probably wouldn't want banging house in a non club environment but... No, sure we would! We get into different moods when it comes to spinning types of house music, but usually mix it up- that's our sound. We broke our personal DJ technique rule of "never mix a vocal into a vocal". This mix is the feel of those nights there. Besides the equipment & creative limit drawbacks- It was a lot of fun because THE STAFF AND CROWD WERE GREAT every week! We had tons of people who you wouldn't think like house go crazy. The last track ("Trouble is a Friend" by Lenka) on this mix was probably requested every week of the 5mths we were there. Probably make a few more mixes like this one to get those new tracks we got recorded in mixes- love that!

We respect any DJ who has any longterm residency. It takes a ton of new music and a lot of stamina to keep the crowd (& especially yourself) motivated and having fun in the exact same environment every week. We had to buy 20 new tracks a week to keep from not getting bored. We accumulated over 400 new tracks in that stint. Love to put the majority of these in a bunch of mixes, but the real bill paying job comes before the hobby, so it might take a while. This is the second mix recorded from that batch of music w/ the exception of a few tracks (and Mainstay, MixOne being the first of course).

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dattrax: We would like to start this mix with a tribute to a great artist, Michael Jackson. I remember as a kid glued to the TV Set every Saturday evening, waiting for the most popular music video countdown of the week (CHUMFM 30 on a Toronto TV channel called CityTV). Michael was #1 for 57weeks straight. And I heard it every week and still loved it. Kids and adults walking around with knockoffs of his red w/ black stripes and zippered jacket (in his Thriller video). It was insane!

This mix starts with the Michael Jackson bootleg by Masters At Work, "Rock With You". The duo of Little Louie Vega and Kenny "Dope" Gonzalez. The house music producers today stand on the shoulders of these giants! This one track/ one sided vinyl came with a no printed words or images- just black coloured. Now that's hardcore! How would you like to sell something with no words or pictures? Once people dropped the needle at the record store and you heard MJ's voice- you pulled out the little scraps of money that you had working at your crappy retail or restaurant job. It was worth it.

Jim: Michael has influenced artists in the areas of music production, music videos and dancing choreography among other things.

You will get the same feeling (that we get) when you hear this first song. Then it's a parade of house songs. Warning: DO NOT PLAY THIS IN THE BACKGROUND WHILE WORKING, because you will not get anything done. THIS MIX will not be restrained in the background!

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dattrax: This mix begins with an amazing track by Leo produced in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. Can't wait to meet him one day.  I met the vocalist once at a Dennis Ferrer party.  She is a beautiful girl from Chili or Argentina, I'm not too sure which.  She's going to be so upset that I forgot, it's my DJ pal's X-girl.  Don't you hate forgetting details like that about people?

The track is called "Shy" and I bought it from Beatport.com, and it's amazingly beautiful in its' simplicity.  The kind of house song that makes you dance as soon as you hear it, no matter where you are. People think I'm nuts when I'm driving in my tiny Corolla dancing to super loud house music!

The underlying drum/congo loop beat is from an old house track that PTS (Peter, Tyrone & Shams) used to kill at the late night warehouse parties in downtown Toronto. They were such a kick butt DJ Crew!  They used to mix reel to reel into records. SICK Groove masters those guys! I think the track was called "Hand on My Heart".  Infectious. 

Cruising in your car, driving to a party, this mix will get you in the mood.  If you don't like vocals in your house music, then this mix is NOT for you.  "Pleasure Seeker" by the Naked Music crew follows (another unbelievable track from Beatport, getting excited just telling you about it!), and it just takes off from there into vocal house bliss. 

Enjoy.  Please comment if you like any of our mixes.

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dattrax: 1st track is a vocal trx produced by Charles Webster and sung by the amazing Shara Nelson- WICKED! It reminds of a feeling of time stopping in a pitch black warehouse party when certain songs just envelope you while you have your hands in the air.

Another defining trx in making this mix is a John Tejada remix of a Telepopmusik vocal, "Don't Look Back". Killer vocals on this mix.

Oh yeah, the last song is not something that we usually play because the beat structure has a slight Euro feel, but this is one of the BEST Sarah MacLachlan remix that we've heard. Just close your eyes, not while driving. Crank up that IPOD. Better than 'Ice Cream' and she's Canadian!

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dattrax: I made this on my friend’s Allen & Heath XONE: 92 set up with two Technics SL-DZ1200 cd turntables(pictured here) in her three floored Bar/ Lounge in downtown Toronto.

This mixer outputs great crisp sound, and looks & feels great. It’s sturdy and responsive- that’s probably why I’m not into midi-controllers (yet), they feel like toys and all the knobs and slides are super loose w/ no tension. I think it would take a while to get used to and I don’t believe I can have the control necessary. This “92” is the only mixer that I’ve played on that splits the mids into two (hi and low halves of the midrange) on each channel, so that you have more control of the mid-range sounds.

Great for isolating vocals, congos, washes, etc. Unfortunately I didn’t spend enough time testing the sound and the result after recording when I fooled around w/ the midrange EQ knobs. Since I know nothing about sound/ music, just what I like when it comes to house music, I started mixing and recording.

I realised later that the way I had the mid’s EQ’ed for most of the tracks, the whole mix had a slight sharp shrill sound that is unpleasant to the ears at higher volumes. I removed some of the low end off the midrange thinking that it would enhance the mid, but it just made it hallow and too sharp. Another mistake I made was not testing my latest batch of buys off of Beatport.com. At 10mins “Tide” and 25mins in “Casualties” w/ Eryland Oye’s vocals, these two for some reason was overly compressed and mastered incorrectly, so the highs are too sharp and the bass is not tight. And it didn’t help w/ my poor EQ’ing compounding the situation. You win some and you lose some, but you always learn in the process. I can’t tell you how many good mixes have gotten ruined because of new things (different- software, hardware, etc.) I was trying and backfired.

This was such a fun mix listening to that I didn’t have the heart to delete this one. This mix is full of exciting house tracks w/ techy grooves smoothly aggressively blended together.

Starting two minutes in w/ “Anymore” by Badmouth remixed by Phonique. Another of my favourite vocal tracks begins almost 13mins in, “Moan” by Trentemoller remixed by Radio Slave. Within 34mins, “Calling You” by Electrochemie drifts in haunting vocals and hypnotic beats & grooves. Love Electrochemie! They probably couldn’t imagine their dark and electronic tunes would be mixed w/ these other house tracks. I want to make a 45min, Electrochemie tribute mix soon!

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dattrax: The title basically says that there is nothing organic about this mix. Techy, electronic, funky w/ a slight tribal feel. Charging beats and harder edged layering. It has a relentless and aggressive pace.

This mix begins w/ Ladytron's "Playgirl", a gem that I found in a Queen St. W. record store called "Rotate This" in a back bin of techno records. Just pulled up any record that had cool artwork and that I didn't recognise in their electronic section. Must have blazed through 150 records that day. Such a waste of time taking records in and out of their sleeves without damaging them. People hate us at record stores. Just dropping the needle on each cut of a record for seconds looking for the goosebumps and hair to rise. "Playgirl" was a b-side that was made super fast. I had to slow it down 4 notches on technics 1200s and it's still fast.

This mix is highlighted by wicked tracks by the Dynamic Duo of Justin Harris and Luke Solomon of MusicForFreaks (MFF) fame, Steve Bug's double album, "The Other Day", DJ Heather, Richie Hawtin, Cevin Fisher, Rob Mello, Adam Marshall (a fellow Torontonian), Dub Taylor, Derrick Carter, etc., etc. LOVE THESE GUYS!!!

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dattrax: Let these non-stop funky beats keep talking to you! Deep techy house w/ rhythmic basslines. Layered w/ so many textures all the way through- dattrax style! Hardly any vocals on this mix, just crammed full of tracks w/ change ups every 3mins or so.
Can't you see? There's not enough free time to listen to anything other than house music.
Be narrow- minded!

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dattrax mini bio part 1…

DAT: "Been partying to HOUSE for over 18yrs. Been DJing for over 15yrs. Been using wave file cds instead of vinyl for over 9yrs now. Sold and gave away 25 crates (about 100 records in a crate) of vinyl. Have 5 crates of my FAVS left. People who know me know that I only listen to House Music.

'DAT, YOU'RE NARROW-MINDED!!!' YES, I am NARROW MINDED, because I know what I like and can't even explore all that is available within the house genre. I ONLY listen to house, or anything that I would like to hear mixed with house. "STRICTLY HOUSE" is what I hand wrote on all my mixed tapes and cds in the past.
Have shared over 500 tapes, over 4000 cds (over the years) and more recently over 8000 downloads through Twitter.com, Facebook.com, SoundCloud.com and by using Yousendit.com, Mediafire.com, Budurl.com and now our favourite spreading house music format, Podomatic.com”

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dattrax mini bio part 2…

DAT: “Love listening to other DJs' vision of house/ their brand of house. Have listened to over 600 mixes by other DJs. Can't count how many parties! NONE of these lists are in any particular order. Best LIVE DJ Experiences of big names: Derrick Carter, Steve Lawler, Cevin Fisher, Danny Tenaglia, Dennis Ferrer, Roger Sanchez, Doc Martin, Little Louie Vega, Frankie Knuckles, etc., etc., etc.

Love to see LIVE: John Tejada, Alland Byallo, Chuck Daniels, Chuck Love, Lee Kalts, Said Chaara, etc., etc., etc.

Toronto has AMAZING HOUSE DJS!! That's why there are so many house lovers and house djs here! Favourite Toronto DJs: Jim (JZOO), (My best friend of almost two decades, and DJ partner when we play out. We are dattrax), Aki, P.T.S. (Peter, Tyrone & Shams), Dino & Terry, Jason Palma, Dave Campbell, Kevin Williams, Jason B., Gene King, Nick Holder, DJ Eric Ling, Douglas Carter, Christian Newhook, "Dirty Dale" Arsenalt, Ali Black, DJ Gryphon, Kenny Glasgow, Jonny White, Mike Gleeson, Duncan James, DJSneak, Jason Hodges, etc., etc., etc.”

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dattrax mini bio part 3…

DAT: “Just started buying from Beatport.com, Stompy.com and DJDownload.com in last 6yrs plus. Just started buying from Traxsource.com- LOVE the vocal house tracks that I pick up from there. Every few months I'd spend $30-$80 on house tracks, I'll listen to 700+ tracks, then buy 15-20, sometimes 30. It used to cost me $16.99 (started at $8.99 to $12.99 for first few years) for one 4 track EP vinyl record that I usually like one song on and now from $2.50-$4 for a track that I like. There was a period of a year (when I was single, less debt and dumb) that I was spending $800/mth on vinyl and for every other year, it was like $200/wk (wouldn't do that again even if I had money). At $17 per track, it would cost $400+ to put over 25 tracks in a mix. That's why the mixes are more organic sounding. You'd buy a bunch of new records and get to know them by mixing them with the favourites of the rest of your collection. Now it's so cheap, that you buy a batch of 30 tracks online and you want to put all of it in a mix. It's not a slow growing process for me anymore. This is good, because it gives me the thrills that I get from mixing House without the daily time commitment.”

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dattrax mini bio part 4…

DAT: “Now I buy mp3s, and then convert to wave with SONY SOUNDFORGE, then burn to cd, so that I still am close to a physical way of playing my music, almost like vinyl, but not as heavy. Only put one to two tracks on a cd, to mimick vinyl selection. Remembering carrying three crates of records to gigs in the old days. I don't think that I can keep a groove playing from a laptop- too many choices. Haven't heard a kick-butt DJ that played from a laptop either. Still the guys who've thrown down vinyl, then cds. When I begin a set, there is a whole ritual (I'll explain sometime). In general, I'll say to myself 'what am I in the mood for?', then go through 500 tracks and pick 100 or less. Pick the first song. The speed/ tempo and start mixing. If it has more than two mistakes, I just toss it or now delete it.
If I buy from ITUNES, then I have to make a playlist, burn to cd, extract from cd from Soundforge. It's annoying, but I think Apple ITUNE files are some weird proprietary thing that you can't move around like a normal file. That’ll probably change because they adapt so quick.”

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dattrax mini bio part 5…

DAT: “Just started converting last 5crates of vinyl into digital format. Time consuming and painful. Physically play each track and have mixer input into computer/ Soundforge, then edit sound level, beginning and end, save & burn on cdrs. Only have done a crate and a half, haven't touched this side project in months. Realising now that my crappy $100 soundcard is NOT translating the vinyl sound properly. The hi's are too sharp and it's not clear. May have to redo these 5crates in the future when I have a $1000 soundcard. It's good for now to have these favs available as cdr waves.”

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dattrax mini bio part 6…

DAT: “House Music is a DJ's music. It is meant to be a musical collaged expression of what a particular DJ thinks and feels that is GREAT HOUSE! This is how mix tapes began. Years before I started buying records. I would record this 3hr Friday night radio show called FEAR EDIT 88.1 in Toronto with multiple cassette tapes. The DJs were Chris Sheppard and Deadly Headley... I think. Then I would listen and go through them and find the tracks that I liked. Then manually compile them onto a new tape with help from my trusted double tape deck. They were not mixes or arranged properly, but my favourite songs were on each final tape that I made. Now people are complaining about only have 2gigs on their cell phones. I'm just happy there is no HISS running through my mixes anymore and that I don't need ONE Master tape because every duplicate has crappier quality.”

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This was an all vinyl house mix made back to back with Jim and I.

dattrax mini bio part 7…

DAT: “’CLASSIC’ was one of my first cds (available on this site). It was weird not to flip a tape after 45mins to record side B. One continuous 73 minute mix. WOW, technology!!! This mix has always been well received because it invokes memories for people who attended those illegal warehouse parties that started at 1:30am on Saturdays in Downtown Toronto and went on till 7am. Hot, dark and sweaty with hour long waits to the one washroom. Hundreds of people all dancing, smoking and drinking.

I was partying in this scene from '93 till '96. I'm not sure, but I think around '96 is when Toronto changed last call from 1am till 2am and clubs started playing late night music and it killed the warehouse scene. Also Industry Nightclub emerged around this time, and defined an era in Toronto's House Scene. Ahhh... Industry. I could write a page about that one club. I don't think that that club's atmosphere has been duplicated since. Over 2000 people each Saturday dancing till 8am. The widest range of types of people, just like the warehouse days. And the house music was... “

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dattrax mini bio part 8…

Dat: “Just wanted to add that when I made a mix called "CLASSIC" (available on this site) when house started splintering in Toronto, and was being made by everyone and anyone in their basement. Which is great because of the variety and abundance in tracks this creates. Before DJ mixers came with single channel EQs for hi, mid and bass. Before fancy types of turntables & DJ headphones came out. You either had TECHNICS 1200s, or crap. I had these belt drive turntables w/ pitch control called Shadows. Bought them from my best friend Jim (AKA- JZOO) for $150, while he moved to his first pair of twelves. The pitch controls were reversed of those on standard TECHNICS 1200s. The range was smaller and they did not feel like a direct drive turntables because there was no power and tons of lag time and drag.

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dattrax mini bio part 9…

DAT: Just before these times when these tracks were not called 'classics'... when you went to the record store each week from your crappy, low paying and unfulfilling job there would be 30 DJs listening to the same 15 records that came out. Then you'd buy it. Go home and listen to each track a few times, and then make a mixed tape with the fresh buys mixed in with the rest of your records. Then the next two nights go dance with your friends to the same records being played at 3-6 parties across Downtown Toronto. DJ'ed by Toronto House Legends: Mark & Aki, P.T.S. (Peter, Tyrone & Shams), Eric Ling, Dino & Terry, Jason Palma, Dave Campbell, Patrick "D-Nice" & Kevin Williams.

Driving in cars, blaring the new mix tape! Then next week buy a mix tape from a popular DJ and see how they put it together. The repetition was drilled into you. Tracks these days don't get that kind of attention not because they are not good tracks, but because the environment is vastly different and there is TOO MUCH MUSIC/ TOO MANY CHOICES. You're forced to have a short attention span just to be able to go through all the music that you like.

A friend in highschool introduced me to house, Noel Nanton. He was an incredible DJ. He still produces house and is a graphic designer now. Great guy! He made me one of my favourite mixed tapes of all time (I have a LOT of mixed house tapes), but I foolishly lent it to a girl who never gave it back. I get upset every time it crosses my mind. Why didn't I just dub it first? Noel brought me to GO-GO's where Kevin William was destroying the system with his tight and lightening quick mixing. Who knew that the 1st Live House DJ that I saw, is the live style that Jim and I enjoy spinning like- fast changups. I sneaked into GO-GO's w/ my cousin's ID because 'all Chinese people looked alike'. I was only 16."

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dattrax mini bio part 10…

DAT: “Also back then you'd listen to 10 different hot DJs spin the same tracks- it was incredible to see their stamp on house. Their sonic signature if you will. I was in love with house and DJing when I realised that it wasn't music in the sense of Mozart, but a form of self expression- participating in making a musical collage. Like a musical cut and paste. You get to pick your favourite songs, how fast or slow, or how long you want to play it, which part of the song you want to highlight, whether you want to cut it up or layer it, whether you want the feel to be smooth or charging, whether you want... The combinations are endless w/ house music and that much fun!"

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dattrax mini bio part 11…

JIM: “My earliest recollections of listening to music, was listening to my Dad belting out the entire Beatles catalogue from the back seat of our yellow Volkswagen beetle- Hey, it was the seventies! My Dad had a decent collection of vinyl, the entire Beatles collection, a serious Elvis collector and a huge country western collection. It only ever seemed strange to other people, a Greek guy who liked country. I grew up around it, so I thought everybody’s Dad liked country. I still remember me and my sister trying to get him not to sing “make the world go away” in the shower because we needed a quiet room to record, Duran Duran’s “The Reflex”, from the radio.
Having an older sister in the eighties, makes you an automatic fan of stuff like the Culture Club, Wham, Cindy Lauper, Madonna, and the Eurythmics. It was all great, and it was our top 40, our New Kids on the Block/N’Sync/Britney/Christina/Beyonce/Lady Gaga or whatever.
Enter High School, enter cliques, and enter personality definition through music. I grew up on a steady diet of what was then alternative pop music, Depeche Mode, Pet Shop Boys, New Order, The Smiths, Erasure… If it had an electronic feel, a steady kick and it made you happy one day and sad the next, that’s what I listen to. I didn’t paint my nails black and put on the Cure make up, but a steady diet of Joy Division, will make you think about it. Just kidding, my families’ Greek and they hit hard!”

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dattrax mini bio part 12…

JIM: “A friend of mine named Marco told me about this underground house music thing, gave me a tape, made by his friend Tony. It had Raze’s “Break for Love”, Fast Eddie’s “Acid Thunder” and the new hit by Bobby Konders, “The Poem”. I was in the record store the next day and bought:
Bobby Konders - The Poem
On Virgo Traxx (New York Kidz) – When You Hold Me
Larry Heard – Donnie
Jay Williams – Sweat
And the rest as they say... is history. Well, not really, I was a broke kid, I couldn’t stop buying records long enough to save up for turntables, so the first set of turntables I got were these things called Shadow’s (I think at some point I sold them to Dat). The pitch was reversed from that of 12’s and the response from the pitch slide was horrible, but at least I could mix my records, on my Radio Shack (now The Source) no EQ's, two channel mixer (that I still have) and my ear bud walkman knock-off head set. That’s right I said it, a walkman. If we had iPod quality headsets back then, I don’t think it would have made a difference. I don’t think the mixer could have pushed out the sound any louder.”

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dattrax mini bio part 13…

JIM: “I met Dat when I was sixteen years old. We hit it off immediately our shared love of House Music, being equally broke and just general teenaged HouseHeads. We had a lot of mutual acquaintances, who neither of us know where they are now or what they’re up to. It was completely normal for us to be out every day of the week to listen to House Music. Everywhere we would go a pool hall on Monday, a patio on Tuesday, a dorm party on Wednesday and then the weekend. That’s right, the weekend started on Thursday! What can I tell you? That’s where we we’re at.
For most of this time I was playing alone, Dat started buying records, but we were just partying together, not DJing together. I’m not sure when it happened, but at some point I let Dat open a gig, and then I’d go on around 11pm, sounds early but at the time last call in Toronto was at 1am. It wasn’t long before Dat’s beat matching and programming were sick! We played back to back one night and then never looked back.”

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dattrax mini bio part 14…

JIM: “Dat was a practice monster, and had made a few dozen mixed tapes that he duplicated, into a few hundred, he burns through gear like nobody’s business, tape decks, cd recorders, CPUs, monitors, you name he’s killed it. Through just plain old overuse, Dat’s not a DJ, he’s a House Monster. But he had labeled those tapes “dattrax” and at the time I couldn’t come up with a better name so “dattrax” we became!
I get really lucky when it comes to gear, files and converting our catalogue of records to mp3s. I love gear, I love it all, cd players, laptop platforms, and time coded vinyl, midi controllers. I think you need to know how to use it all, but buy what you like. Most of our closest friends are other DJs or sound geeks, so we get to try a lot of different gear. Since we’ve been playing from cds and mp3’s lately, Dat’s taken care of most of that, hunting, cataloguing, converting etc. I’ve been really spoiled for the last little while.
I’ve been late to the dance, but I always show up! I’ve spent more money at this, than I’ll ever make in this! I have the best DJ Partner and friend a guy could hope for! IN THE NAME OF HOUSE!! And my friends the beat goes on………….”

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Strictly House Music... Will return here w/ comments, dattrax

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dattrax: Here is a Classic house mix that will bring back a flood of memories if you were partying to house from 1990-1996. Jim and I both starting partying to house music at 16yrs old. We met, while both separately looking for a party when we were 19yrs old on the streets of downtown Toronto, and that's when we became friends. In search of good house tunes to dance to. An escape from both of our crappy restaurant jobs.

Before collecting records, then DJing, partying to house was a drug. You'd go to 3-4 crappy parties to re- live the one good party before that series. And you'd keep doing it over and over again.

But 'WOW', when there was a good party, there was nothing like it. 200 people dancing, laughing, having fun, hands in the air. House basslines and vocals just drifting through the dark. Doing whatever it does to your brain. Imprinting it with good feelings and memories when you hear that song again or smell cigarette smoke. House tracks got ATTENTION those days. The songs grew on you from week to week, mixtape to mixtape (yes, cassette tapes & constant HISS), and party to party. These days you may hear a wicked track, but never hear it again- there is just so much out there and so many people who make it or spin it. Remember dancing till the sun light came in and they were taking apart the speakers?

Then we started connecting good parties with the DJs who played the great tunes the way that they did. We started DJing when we were sick of going through 3-4poor parties. We thought, "hey, let's throw our own party and play the tracks that we love, and at least we'll have fun. Then we'll invite friends and maybe they'll have fun too, who knows?"

We hope that you have fun listening to our mixes. Please comment if you do, so that your comment might help someone else take a chance on listening to our podcast in a sea of house music podcasts. Thank you in advance and Take Care, Dattrax

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This was an all vinyl house mix recorded LIVE at ROOM471 in Toronto, but the image from another live event at NASA. Both places now extinct.

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dattrax: I don't know anyone w/ a tiny sliver of musical taste in their bones who doesn't like Sade. Like WOW! Beyond beautiful and what a songstress! The only singer who doesn't need a crew of back up dancers to mesmerize a crowd. She just sways and sings. Style. Her cd albums and live concert videos are WORTH EVERY PENNY. Can't wait till her 2010 album comes out! I have all her cds, house mixes and just need her live dvds (have some live VHS tapes).
I first listened to 'Diamond Life' album when I was 15 w/ my first walkman (you'll have to Google that to find out that it's a portable cassette player, then you have to Google to find out what that means).
This mix is a tribute to her in the only way we know how- by putting most of our favourite Sade House Bootleg tracks into a single mix. Enjoy and please comment if you have something positive to add.

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dattrax: Sorry about the skip in first 3mins everyone. i transferred these two mixes from tape and didn't know how to do that properly back then. something happened w/ the digital file. and i get trigger happy throwing stuff out or deleting things, so... some regrets occur w/ music. you can tell this was influenced by tons of partying at INDUSTRY niteclub. Wow... Derrick Carter, Cevin Fisher, Roger S, Doc Martin, DJ Sneak, Danny Tenaglia, Mark Farina- NUFF SAID.

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dattrax: I good friend of mine Inth, had a phase where he wanted to be a DJ. So he went out and for 6mths bought about a 150 records. Then he quit and gave them to me. Normally we don't play progressive house, but decided to go through Inth's collection and pick out the best tracks. This mix is the result. Our only progressive house mix to date. Hope you like it. Please comment if you do. dattrax

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dattrax: this is one of the few NON- HOUSE MUSIC dattrax mixes. This is crammed full of great classic freestyle tracks. Also known as Gino Music. I loved listening to this stuff. Feels like 80's glory days and reminds you of Miami (even though we've never been there). Convertibles, big hair, and the beautiful innocence of youth.

Jim's Brother In Law as a big Freestyle DJ in mid to late 80's and I borrowed his cd collection (he slowly captured his vinyl collection w/ cds). I think his DJ name was "Capital Punishment". Ha ha... so cheesy that it's cool.

The bad news for me was finding out that the cd versions of these popular songs had no space to mix in the next track. But I didn't want to go through his 12" vinyl collection, so I made due. Also bought 5 or 6 tracks from ITunes that he didn't have on cd.

If you like 80's-90's freestyle, then you'll LOVE THIS MIX! If you thought that Ginos/ Ginas and Gino Music was extinct and should stay that way, then skip this one. Don't have to like everything.

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This was an all CD mix.

dattrax: this is one of the few NON- HOUSE MUSIC dattrax mixes. This is sort of an old school 80s type of music with Sade tracks, some freestyle, etc. Short and sweet. Nice and mellow. If you're born after 1975, then you'll probably won't recognise most of these songs.

BTW... if you enjoy this mix, then why don't you buy us a beer? There's a PayPal DONATE button on the top right side of this website. For Toronto or Global bookings: dattrax@gmail.com

This was an all vinyl mix.

Strictly House Music... Will return here w/ comments, dattrax

BTW... if you enjoy this mix, then why don't you buy us a beer? There's a PayPal DONATE button on the top right side of this website. For Toronto or Global bookings: dattrax@gmail.com

This was an all vinyl house mix.

Strictly House Music... Will return here w/ comments, dattrax

BTW... if you enjoy this mix, then why don't you buy us a beer? There's a PayPal DONATE button on the top right side of this website. For Toronto or Global bookings: dattrax@gmail.com

This was an all vinyl house mix.

Strictly House Music... Will return here w/ comments, dattrax

BTW... if you enjoy this mix, then why don't you buy us a beer? There's a PayPal DONATE button on the top right side of this website. For Toronto or Global bookings: dattrax@gmail.com

This was an all CD house mix.