Unconditional Happiness

This is a mix of mix of full of my favourite downtempo, jazzy and melodic jams. I know these tunes always make me feel wonderful so I created this mix to be a reminder to breathe deeply and sink into the beauty of life always around you.

Evan Drops - Unconditional Happiness (Oct 2012) by Evan Drops

1. Psychemagik - Wake up Everybody
2. Psychemagk - Valley of Paradise
3.Chango - Keep on Moving on
4. Tenmon - Poem of Sea and Sky (Robotaki Mix)
5. JK Soul - A Love Has Died
6. Hybrid Minds - Patience
7. Emancipator - Vines
8. Mo' Horizons - Lovely Day Inside
9. Canosis - Bob Mayers
10. Emancipator - Smoke Signals
11. DJ Okawari - Represent
12. DJ Okawari - One for You
13. The Morning Benders - Cold War (Star Slinger Mix)
14. Southern Shores - Grand Comore
15. FXU - Simba Rising
16. Polographia - Righteous Hit
17. Alison Valentine - Peanut Butter (Moon Boots Remix)
18. Pickster One - Lovely Day (Remix)

Today Feels Great

Right near the end of summer, as a few more sunny days shine on us, I wanted to do a sunny afternoon type mix to help us relive those hot days at Bass Coast, Shambhala and where ever else the summer has taken us. With some of my very favorite tracks, this mix is nothing but lush, feel-good tropical house and nu-disco. Enjoy! Feedback much appreciated.


1. Cosmonait Grechko - Headphone Girl
2. D-Pulse - Velocity of Love (Mario Bosanov Remix)
3. Monitor 66 - Triscuits
4. Perseus - Cool Runnings
5. Cassian - The Fuck Song
6. Touch Sensitive - Body Stop
7. Crazy P - Never Gonna Reach Me (Hot Toddy Mix)
8. The Groovers - The Spirit
9. Hot Toddy - Down To Love
10. Perseus - Seychelles
11. Debukas - Golden Mind
12. Kaine feat. KAthy Diamond - Love Saves the Day (Mario Bosonov Remix)
13. Rimer London - Love Dagger
14. Los Charlie's Orchestra - Disco Gamma (Pete Herbert's Balearic House Mix)
15. Electra 80 - Rock this Town (Dimitri from Paris Little Italy Instrumental)
16. Major Lazer - Cash Flow (Classixx Glass-Bottom Dub Mix)
17. Chris Malinchak - Accolade
18. Rogue Vogue - When I Looked At You
19. Niehgbour - Summertike Girls
20. Air France - Now Way Down

Sax Appeal

This mix is a result of me craving more and more actual instrument layers in the music I listen to so with this mix I thought I would try and create a little Sax Appeal. Featuring lots of Saxaphone, Trumpets Keyboards, and some lovely plucked Basslines. Hope I get you funkin'!

1. Gramatik- Just Jammin'
2. Sola Rosa - Turn Around (Dublex Inc Mix)
3. JD73 - Happy People
4. Sola Rosa - Del Ray
5. The Black Seeds - Bring You Up
6. Sunner Soul - Neptune Jazz
7. The Valentine Brothers - Money's Too Tight (ADN Edit)
8. Ed Wizard & Disco Double Dee - Magic
9. Jayl Funk- All Night Long
10. Savages y Suefo - Sweet Relish (Mash and Munkee Remix)
11. The Breakbeat Junkie - What I Need (DJP's Boombox Remix)
12. Neighbour - Phyllo
13. Rephrase - Since 1939
14. Quantic - Transatlantic
15. Jayl Funk - Cabin Fever (Danny Massure)
16. B Team - You Wild
17. Afro Qben - Just Get Up and Dance
18. Calagad13 - Back to the Power (Slynk Mix)
19. DJ Stefunk - Everyone Loves to Dance (Danny Massure Remix)
20. Danny Massure - Mama Didn't Lie (Rephrase Mix)

Lounge Lizard

This mix was done as a promo mix for a gig at a lounge in town. Well the gig never happened, but I did have fun learning more about and mixing a different style of music: loungey deep-house. I find deep house can be quite boring sometimes so I tried to pick songs that have a bit more to them while still keeping that deeper edge. Not really meant for the dancefloor, but maybe more background music for other tasks or for a long drive home from a festival (the first time I played this for friends was our last hour driving home from Bushwacked Festival).



Tracklist:
Steve Bug feat. Todd Williams - Ain't Nothing
Albacares - Isolee
La French Brasserie - Sunflowers
Physics - Holdin On feat. Daisy (Karol XVII & MB Valence Mix)
Niels Friedel - Good
Karol XVII & MB Valence - Equilibrium
Nils Nurnberg - Caught in a Glimpse
Minilogue - Certain Things (Freska Mix)
Lana Del Rey - Video Games (Hannes Fischer Mix)
John Tejada - The End of It All
Kayot - Clear Sky (Manoo & Francois A Mix)
Kaskade - Nobody Else
Random Soul feat. Kristen Pearson - Take Your Time (Random Soul Classic Dub)
The Inspector and Steve Styls - Honey Honey (I Know)

Past Mixes of Mine:
Sunday Morning Bass Coast Mix (Downtempo/Nu-Disco)
Too Much Emotion (Female-Vocal Electro Pop)
Bedroom Dance Party (Breaks/Nu-Disco/House)
Groove Cereal for Breakfast (Jazz/Funk/Soul/Hip-Hop/Disco)
Groove Sandwich for Lunch (Jazz/Funk/Soul/Hip-Hop/Disco)
Groove Pancakes for Supper (Jazz/Funk/Soul/Hip-Hop/Disco/Breaks)
Keep the Change You Filthy Animal (Electro Swing)
Mr. Dressup (Breaks/Electro/House Bangers)

Mr. Dressup

I've never played at the peak hours of a big party so for this mix I thought I'd do exactly that... put together a mix of bangers that would hopefully rock the dance floor in the middle of the night.

As for the title of the mix "Mr. Dressup", for those that don't know Mr. Dressup was a man in a children's TV show, and every episode he would walk over to his tickle trunk, tickle it as he walked around it, and then pull out a costume. This is why we call our party-costume boxes "tickle trunks" , or in some cases even "tickle closet". So this mix goes out to my homey Mr. Dressup, an inspiration to us all to keep those tickle trunks going all your life and never stop dressing up!


As well, I plan on putting together a jazzy downtempo morning mix, and a groovy afternoon mix in time for those relaxing summer days that are sure to come. Thanks for listening!

Past Mixes of Mine:
Sunday Morning Bass Coast Mix (Downtempo/Nu-Disco)
Too Much Emotion (Female-Vocal Electro Pop)
Bedroom Dance Party (Breaks/Nu-Disco/House)
Groove Cereal for Breakfast (Jazz/Funk/Soul/Hip-Hop/Disco)
Groove Sandwich for Lunch (Jazz/Funk/Soul/Hip-Hop/Disco)
Groove Pancakes for Supper (Jazz/Funk/Soul/Hip-Hop/Disco/Breaks)
Keep the Change You Filthy Animal (Electro Swing)

Keep the Change You Filthy Animal

Wow I am stoked to finally get this mix recorded this afternoon. It's something I've been working on for a while, but never found the time to finish it until today. This one like a lot of my past mixes follows a concept rather than a genre, and that concept is some 1940's influenced Electro Swing! Don't know what that is? Neither did I until recently, but this should give you a pretty good idea.

The way I see it, when the bad ass gangsters of the 1940's weren't busy with organized crime and shopping for new top hats, they were likely at some warehouse rave getting down and dirty to a set like this. Enjoy! Comments much appreciated.


Past Mixes of Mine:
Sunday Morning Bass Coast Mix
Too Much Emotion
Bedroom Dance Party
Groove Cereal for Breakfast
Groove Sandwich for Lunch
Groove Pancakes for Supper

Newtimers - January Love

It's been a while since I posted anything on this blog, but I am not ready to let it die just yet, here a couple tracks you might dig a this time of year...

With only 2 days left of January I better squeeze this in. January Love by Newtimers starts out a bit cheesy but is catchy and smooth enough to get me nodding my head to this jam.
Newtimers - January Love by Newtimers

And in case you missed it last winter, a progressive breaks track by Digital Witchcraft called Snowday really does feel like a perfect track to watch through the window as fat snowflakes fall down. Check out Digital Witchcraft's small discography for a few more similar tracks.

Digital Witchcraft - Snowday (Left click, then right click "save as")

And here is one more for a free download. I just found this one a few minutes ago. Really nice chill vibes to this one from the amazing Emancipator, always making top-notch tunes.