Salvation Saturday

This mix is the last day of the week in this "week-long" mix series. Similar to the others, there's a a variety of styles of house music, warm and funky, deep and melodic and a couple bangers. Hopefully this mix can be a source or means of being saved from harm, ruin, or loss on this Salvation Saturday! Photo art by Mesi Jessie. Taken on Bowen Island at the Sanctuary Shack. 1. Dan Siegel - Savanna (Bearson Remix) 2. Darius - Hot Hands 3. Jon Nedza/Gazeebo - Left My Feet In San Francisco 4. Dauwd - Lydia 5. Andre Plati, Sugar Hill - Feel the Way I Feel 6. Lounge Loafers - Losing You 7. Dusky - Mr. Man 8. Rufus Wainright - I Eat Dinner (Lekesch & Schekel Edit) 9. Jakatta - American Dream (Andre Crom & Chi Thanh Remix) 10. Gemini Brothers - Jeraldine Affaire (Neighbour Remix) 11. Kidnap Kid - Stronger 12. Nicone - Burnhain (Teenage Mutants Remix) 13. Oliver $ & Jimi Jules - Pushin On 14. Miguel Migs - Dance and Clap 15. Carnao Beats - Know My Name (Low Steppa Tuff Remix) 16. Jason Burns - Hold On 17. Shiba San - Westside Connection 18. Skiitour - Ice Cream Sandwiches 19. Shiba San - Okay 20. George Benson - Give me the night (The Tailors djs remix) 21. Worakls - Good Night My Love (Joachim Pastor Remix) 22. Bonobo - Les LeBas (Bonobo Remix) 23. Nora En Pure - Price and Joy

Thirsty Thursday

The week-long grooving continues. Another dose of deep and funky house on this Thirsty Thursday. Catch up on all mixes in this series from Sunday to Wednesday if you haven't already on my blog or soundcloud. Let me know if you're feelin' it!

Thanks to Anna Alexander for the lovely photo from Austria.

Strange Spaces and Comfortable Places

The inspiration for this mix comes from an artist I recently discovered, Nicholas Jaar. His music is strange yet enthralling, weird yet beautiful and nothing quite like I've heard. Therefore, ten of the twenty-five tracks in this mix were produced by the man himself. I've attempted to expand on this experimental vibe and take you through many Strange Spaces and Comfortable Places. I would love to hear some feedback on this, thanks for listening!

Photo art by Jessica Janzen.

Weird Wedneday

Ever notice things often get a bit weird on Wednesdays? Ya know, the good kinda weird. Like the deep and sexy booty-shaking kind. Join Cookie Monster and come get weird.

Cookie Monster's epic after-party was created/edited by by Jessica Janzen.

Ideal Conditions

This is a follow up to the dreamy downtempo mix I did last year called Unconditional Happiness. This edition features Thievery Corporation, Emancipator, Telepopmusik, Nujabes, Psychemagik, Neighbour and a whole splatter of other beautiful music.

Hopefully today, and everyday, you find your Ideal Conditions.

The Squirt Special

The first time I dropped the "L-Bomb" on Jess I also recorded this mix for her. Until now I haven't shared it with anyone, but today being her birthday I thought it would be a good time. It's got a few slow jams, some folk, a couple oldies, and finishes up with a true classic that we both really dig.

Soundcloud won't let me put this one up, so you can either listen to it straight off mixcloud, or download it directly by clicking right here.

Thesquirtspecial by Evan Drops on Mixcloud

Tracklist:
Give it a listen first. Ask me if you really need a track name.

Tasty Tuesday

Treat yourself to the next day in this week long series, following Sunny Sunday and Moody Monday. Get down to some disco, vocal, funky, melodic, deep house.

Also, the sequel to Unconditional Happiness is now in the works and should be ready by the end of November.

Moody Monday

I had a few days off after returning home from Burning Man so I had a chance to sneak this mix in. In June I put out a mix called Sunny Sunday.

This is the end of summer sequel Moody Monday. And after a few listens it definitely feels pretty moody the way it flows throughs many different styles and emotions. With so much good music coming out these days I had to make it an hour and a half long even after cutting a bunch of other great tracks. These moody skies were found at sunrise over Cheakamus Lake last summer.

All of my previous mixes, some of which aren't on soundcloud can be found on this blog below.

Sax on the First Date

Finally, I can post this mix! It was done almost 8 weeks ago but I had to hold out for the perfect photo. Thanks Kevin Su for finally getting the job done! This is a follow up to a mix I did last fall called Sax Appeal . If you haven't had a listen to it, I suggest you do that as well. So here it is, from 95 to 135 bpm all things funnnkkkkyyy! Sax on the First Date:

Sunny Sunday

Well finally on this Sunny Sunday, I bring you my first mix since I got back form my travels in Central America. I took the photo above of Jess near San Juan Del Sur, Nicaragua. As for the music, it's a pretty solid dose of laid-back house music to help you bring on the Summer!

Also coming very soon is the follow up to Sax Appeal, and a straight up Disco mix. Enjoy, and leave me some comments if you dig it.

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.

Groove Pancakes for Supper

This is the final instalment of my Groove Meals mix series. First there was Groove Cereal for Breakfast then came Groove Sandwich for Lunch and now I present you Groove Pancakes for Supper And yes, as a kid I only ate pancakes for supper.

The Groovy Meals mixes have no real specific genre, just whatever I deemed groovy enough to make the cut, which has included some funk, soul, nu-jazz, reggae, hip-hop, disco, breaks and house. Essentially they are meant to be something you can just nod your head to and not feel like you need to be at a crazy party. This final mix picks up just enough to send you into your evening!

Groove Pancakes for Supper (Left Click)

Other Mixes:
Sunday Morning Bass Coast Mix
Too Much Emotion
Bedroom Dance Party

The Foals

Yesterday was my last day of landscaping for the year and it was a pretty awesome day. The sun was mostly out the crew had plenty of laughs. I came home wanting to hear something mellow and unelectronic and so I had my first full listen of the album Total Life Forever by Foals. For the most it's an upbeat but relaxing inde-rock album which I throughly enjoy. But I must say, upon searching for photos of the band somehow I wasn't surprised that every band member has the hair-pushed-sidways-across the-face hair do. Maybe that's how they decided who would be in the band in the first place? Anyways, check out the title track from the album.


Here's a download of the second track on the album, perhaps my favorite:
Foals - Miami (left click)

Chrome Sparks

Sometimes bands names mean nothing, and sometimes, you just have a feeling that you wanna hear what the band or producer has to offer just by the name it has chosen for itself. "Chrome Sparks" I thought, "Must be some super dreamy pop music" and I was right. Listen to the stand out track below on soundcloud, and if you want you can purchase (for free) his entire 7 track release form the link below. Just name your price.

All There Is (Feat. Steffaloo) by chrome sparks