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Happy Happy Joy Joy

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I’m having a great day today.  It’s just nice to wake up in a good mood and have it continue hours and hours into the rest of the day.

Some new faves….

Lenzman – Bright Lights (track is in the player)

Saburuko & Brother – In Control (track is in the player)

Naibu – Fireflies (track is in the player)

Redeyes & Random Movement feat. Mutt – Groove Thing (track is in the Redeyes player) Nice collabo going on there.  Three of my favourite artists.  This is coming out on Future Retro.  BCee has a really good thing going with both Future Retro and Spearhead, I love a lot of the tracks that come out on both of them.

People are always asking me why I love liquid funk so fucking much.  LOL.  I’ve said this on numerous occasions but I’ll say it again…  I basically want pretend that I’m hanging out in a beautiful garden with multicoloured pastel drinks with umbrellas in them while lying in a hammock with sunglasses and pretty flower aroma blowing in the breeze and the sun shining through the trees but not on me as I don’t want it to be too hot.  Liquid funk pretty much helps me to create that pretend scenario,  Noisa on the other hand usually does not.  🙂

I’m halfway into this Zetek podcast mix and I already love it.  I will full on admit that I had no idea who he was until today but I’m definitely digging him now.

Toodles

Zetek – Rubik Podcast 14

Tracklist

01. Will Miles – Eye Believe – Sonorous
02. Kubiks & Lomax – Wise Words – Progress
03. Pentagon & Ethix – My Melody – Rubik
04. Zetek feat Kubiks – Why – Dub (Love it!)
05. Kubiks & Codename – Desimeter – Dub
06. Zetek feat Kubiks – Cyanide – Rubik
07. Zetek feat Kubiks – Level Plains – Rubik
08. L.A.O.S – We All – Spearhead
09. Blame – Stay Forever – Charge
10. Apex – Falling – Horizons
11. Matrix & Futurebound – Womb – Viper
12. Danny Bryd – Gold Rush – Hospital
13. Soulmatic – Anything you need – Viper
14. Zetek feat Kubiks – 3 Blind Mice – Dub
15. Unknown Error – Alone – Horizons
16. Zetek feat Kubiks – Wake Up Call – Dub

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Wobble Wobble Wobble

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The tracks that Distance was playing yesterday were pretty insane. Dubstep on a loud sound system is just crazy. I feel like I totally had my bass screwface on the whole time the wobble bass was in effect. It was just sick. 🙂 He didn’t go on til one though and I left at 2. So I enjoyed a good hour of the dubstep attack. I can’t stay out late when I have to be at work in the morning. I cherish the little sleep that I do get.

My boss isn’t here yet and I really don’t have anything to do so I’m kinda just twiddling my thumbs listening to Spinn on Bassdrive.

I feel like I’ve gotten a lot of really good mixes over the past couple of day so I’m kinda looking forward to listening to them this weekend.

Some of the mixes I have been listening to at work have been throwing in old jams which are so great to hear. I wanna do an old skool mix but the organization of my records is pretty crap as I had made the transition from crates to a lovely record shelf and didn’t keep order as I did that. Now that I’m going to have two lovely days off a week, wanting to make this mix might give me the incentive to put some order to my vinyl… I said might. 😉

I can’t believe I’m actually admitting this but I really like that Noisia track – Diplodocus. (track is in the player) Yikes. I generally dislike most Noisa stuff. It’s just not really my cup of tea. Diplodocus makes me wanna rave out though. I feel like it’s a total party tune.

I heard this track this morning but I don’t really have that much info on it. Boo. I just remember it was really pretty and I can’t seem to find any info on the artist. Boo squared.

Dub-L – Calling

I’m gonna try and make the clock move faster with my jedi mind tricks. Have a good weekend.

Toodles

Redeyes – Breakbeat.Co.Uk Podcast 8/21/08

Tracklist

  1. Redeyes – Clapslap [CIA DEEPKUT]
  2. Random Movement, Mixmaster Doc, Focus – My Sentiments [INNERGROUND]
  3. Lomax – BigFoot
  4. Lynx – Break The Mod [SOUL:R]
  5. Digital Hunters – Red Glass [INNERGROUND]
  6. Mutt – Rumours [HORIZONS]
  7. Redeyes – Let It Shine [SPEARHEAD]
  8. Brookes Brothers – Tear You Down [BREAKBEAT KAOS]
  9. Lenzman – ? (Last Day On Earth)
  10. Breakage – Come Back [BASSBIN]
  11. Optical – The Shining (Remix) [METRO]
  12. LIS – The Phlebass Consideration [PLAY MUZIK]
  13. Nu:Tone – Troopers
  14. SPY – Flash Point OK
  15. Bill Riley – The Chill [FULL CYCLE]
  16. Calibre & Spacek – Shine [SIGNATURE]
  17. Redeyes & Sweed – Poetry In Motion [SPEARHEAD]
  18. Random Movement, Focus, Mixmaster Doc, Noah D – Sacrifice
  19. Lenzman – Mesmerized
  20. Naibu – Opium Lady
  21. Eveson – Simply
  22. Calibre – Always Lovin You [SIGNATURE]
  23. D-Bridge – Mr Malcontent [EXIT]
  24. Seba & Krazy – Finola [INNERGROUND]
  25. Naibu – Aki [BREAKIN]
  26. D-Bridge – True Romance [METALHEADZ]
  27. Calibre – Ringtone [SAMURAI MUSIC]
  28. SPY – New Begining
  29. Fracture & Neptune – Killerwhat [PLAY MUZIK]
  30. Icicle – Spartan [SHOGUN AUDIO]
  31. Instra:mental – Rogue [DARKESTRAL]
  32. Photek – Rings Around Saturn
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Doctors & Nurses

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I’ve been hearing some Logistics tunes lately that have totally made me fall in love with his music again. When his album Now More Than Ever came out, I was full on obsessed. I loved every track and was so into his production. Winter Blues was my favourite. I had heard an unfinished version that Flight had played on her 1xtra show earlier in the year and totally sought it out quite regularly and it didn’t come out until way way later and I wasn’t even annoyed that it took so long, I was just happy to own it. Also his remix of The Great D&B Swindle was so awesome. Then I started to not be so into his stuff. It wasn’t that it wasn’t good, it was more that i was on a totally different page dnb wise. Now I’m all on it again. There’s something so deep about his production. I feel like I just get it. Does that make sense? I think it’s cool when you’re listening to an artist and you connect with their music cuz you can say to your self, “I know what you’re on about, I get it.”

I was listening to the latest Hospital Podcast and heard one of Logistics new tunes Intervention on there. Hot stuff. I actually enjoyed the podcast this time around. I feel like it’s very hit or miss with me. Sometimes I’m super into it and other times I can’t even get through the first couple of tracks. Blasphemy!!! I know, I know 😉

There’s a wicked Matrix remix of that Redeyes Luv & Haight tune with Deeizm that I said I didn’t like on the podcast. I still don’t really like the vocal but the remix is awesome. Matrix!! I’ve always really liked him. My copy of his Sleepwalk LP is too through! I can only play the first half of my fave track Asylum cuz it’s just too scratched up. Dang.

Like I said though, I thought this installment of the podcast was really good. I’ll post it once I see a link but you can also just go subscribe to it on itunes.

I also am currently loving that Nu:Logic (Nu:Tone & Logistics) Trademark track. (It’s in the player.) I heard it on that awesome Marcus Intalex mix from July and it’s just a banging track.

I don’t have any mixes to rate for you right now. I’m kinda in that zone I’ve talked about before where I just seem to listen to the chunk of mixes that I have right now on repeat. I’m sure I’ll move on to a new group of mixes pretty soon.

I feel like my summer has been a bit boring. I usually am so excited about Chicago summers but I think that this time around it took so long that the enthusiasm died and now it’s almost over. Boo. I do have an exciting fall coming up though so hopefully that will make up for it. I have two weddings to go to which are actually going to be really fun cuz they are two of my really good friends.

Seminar tonight. Stunna!!!!

Toodles

D’zine – August 2008 Mix

Tracklist

01. ICICLE & SPECTRASOUL – WOUNDED
02. ZERO T & ALIX PEREZ – THREADS
03. SABURUKO – LOVE SENSATION
04. LENZMAN & SUBMORPHICS – RESPIRATION
05. REDEYES – CONART
06. ATLANTIC CONNECTION & LYNX – DANGER ZONE
07. ZERO T & ICICLE – GO 4 YOURS
08. KJELL – DUNNSHINE
09. Q-PROJECT – JUST CHILLIN
10. D-KAY – GREATER LOVE

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Mes Amis

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I’m a wee bit crabby today. Boo. 😦

Too much annoying work and I sure as hell don’t feel like doing it, which is just pathetic since it’s only tuesday. Boo squared.

I am really looking forward to this weekend though. It’s my friend Jessica’s 30th bday and a bunch of our friends from Minneapolis are coming for the weekend. Jessica is one of my oldest and dearest friends. She was my old roomate when I lived in Minneapolis and she moved to Chicago the year after I did. I think it was a bonus for me because I’m pretty sure I wouldn’t have settled in as easily to my Chicago lifestyle if I hadn’t had someone that was a good friend that knew me really well to kick it with while I went on my quest to meet new people.

I’m quite fond of my friends. Five of them from Minneapolis are coming up for the weekend and they are both mine and Jessica’s mutual really good friends. I know it sounds dumb and corny to talk about how much you appreciate your friends, but as you get older it’s a lot harder to make new friends. I’ve had the same tight knit group of friends for 11 to 12 years. They aren’t acquaintances who I just see out. They are genuine people who have been a part of my life consistently and actually care about what happens to me. I thought that everyone had those go to people that they rely on no matter what but I’m discovering that that isn’t really always the case and therefore I am very grateful for my friends. The key test to friendship is when you have significantly big changes in your life, whether or not those people continue to be your friends. Be it having a child, moving to a different state or getting married. All three of these things have happened to our group of friends and our friendships are still in tact and still as strong. I’m quite fortunate that I met some really great people once I moved to Chicago too and have added them to my little group. I hope others have the same luck I do cuz honestly, there’s nothing better than having great friends. 🙂

*end of emo rant*

I heard some new Hospital Records stuff that wasn’t really my cup of tea. Bah, I think I might just not be that into the direction they are heading these days. No harm done. Not every sound is gonna please everyone. it’s still a pretty good label regardless.

Part one of Redeyes’ LP is out on promo. I really like the Conart track. I can’t say I’m really into that Deeizm track. I think she’s a really great emcee but I kinda get annoyed when the vocals tend to dominate a whole track unless your Diane Charlemagne or something. Yeah I’m a picky bitch. Whatever.

Redeyes – Poetry In Motion LP Part 1

I’ve been waiting for this Random Movement for ages. I fucking love this Lesson & Aftermath. It’s so melodic and just plain ol lovely, beautiful, liquidy, pretty, all those adjectives and then some. Definite make out music. 😉 The flip is really good too.

Random Movement – Lesson & Aftermath

I’m going to go back to being crabby and continue sulking as I get my work done.

Laters

Dj Presha – Samurai Music Show 07/22/08

(a couple of stream dropping issues here and there but a great show nonetheless!)

Hobzee & Zyon Base – One Thousand Paper Cranes – Samurai
Red Eyes – Seperate Ways (Amen Mix) – Innerground
Atlantic Connection – Situations (Zero Tolerance Remix) – Dispatch
Survival – Back Again – Integral
Data – Termite – ???
Klute – Media – ??
Lomax & Kasra – Warrior – Critical
Mosus & SPY – Drop Shadow – ??
Calibre – Roundfhouse – Signature
Mixmaster Doc – ??? – Innerground
ST : Cal – Back Again – Moods – Soul:R
ST : Files – Moods – Soul:R
Zero Tolerance Feat Steo – Too Much – Integral
Cern – Lucid State – Critical
Cern – Dark Before Dawn – Xtinction Agenda
Cern – Tmeslip – Samurai
State Of Mind – Space Surfer – SOM Music
Stunna & Subz – Night Shift – ??
Red Eyes – Untitled – ??
Soul Intent – Studio Pressure – Influence
Subwave – Think – Shogun
Data – Blowpipe – Revolution
Data – The Causeway – Influence
Luca – Eastern Highway – ??
Marcus Intalex – Skizm – Soul :R
Soul Intent – Orbit – ??
Insight – Metro – ??
Mosus & Spy – Shades Of Grey (Dub Mix) – ??
Break & Survival – Sick – Dispatch
Data – Skinwalkers – ??

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Bad Kiki

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So I’m a bad dnb girl.  I didn’t exactly make it out to the last Dynamite.  Word on the street is Klute rocked the house.  I had some family stuff so it was a no go.  I’m not gonna sweat it.  Definite signs of becoming a senior citizen are not really feeling like  I missed out when I don’t go to a show.  When I was younger I used to feel like my life was “totally over” if I missed an event.  I of course chalk that up to being an utterly dramatic teenager.  Now I’m just like if I was supposed to be there I would have been.  End of story.  Am I a hater if I say I’m not really too sad about Dynamite?  Probably.  I just have way way more fun at Seminar usually.  As long as they don’t get rid of that I’ll be fine.  *shudder*  If they get rid of Seminar then my life really would be over…  I told you it was fun to be overly dramatic every once in a while. 🙂

I’ve been listening to that Patife mix I posted the other day.  Talk about lovely summer vibes indeed.  If you haven’t listened to it yet you totally should give it a listen.  Lots of outdoor jams on there.  What’s an outdoor jam you ask?  Well any track that makes you wanna lay in the sand and drink colourful drinks with umbrellas in it.  The pic to the right is where I would be drinking these drinks.

I was talking with Stunna this morning and we were talking about our summer anthems.  I don’t feel like there’s any significant major release so far like there usually is every summer but for me I would definitely say mine was Stunna & Tyler Straub’s Weak.  I feel horrible that I don’t have a sample for you but if you do manage to track it down you won’t be disappointed.  SWV dammit!  You can’t go wrong there.  I also really like Tyler Straub’s Easy Does It (the track is in his music player) and a new addition is Skyform’s Hanging (the track is also in the music player).  They just give me the exact vibe that I like to have when it’s nice and sunny out.

Well it’s monday.  I should at least pretend that I’m starting out the week with the mindset of being the perfect employee. 🙂  We’ll see how long that lasts.  I’m already eagerly awaiting the weekend cuz I’m going to see my mum and I haven’t seen her in ages so I’m excited to go kick it with her.  My mum is actually really fun to hang out with so that’s always something to look forward to.

Redeyes mix below.  Yay.

Laters

Redeyes – Live in Bangkok@ Club Culture (Homebass Communications)

01 Redeyes & Eveson – State Of Mind [Forthcomin Channel 82]
02 Redeyes, Random Movement, Mutt & Mc Mike Romeo – Groove Thing [Poetry In Motion LP]
03 Redeyes – Turn Around [CIA Deepkut]
04 Redeyes & Deeizm – Luv & Haight [Poetry In Motion LP]
05 Redeyes – Hey Lover [Bingo]
06 Redeyes & Sweed – Poetry In Motion [Poetry In Motion LP]
07 Redeyes – Seperate Ways [DUB]
08 Redeyes – Conart [Poetry In Motion LP]
09 Redeyes – Clapslap [CIA Deepkut]
10 Redeyes – Cruise Ship To The Stars [Poetry In Motion LP]
11 Redeyes – Born With A Headache [Forthcomin Brand:Nu]
12 Redeyes – Dusty [Poetry In Motion LP]
13 Redeyes – I Live [Creative Source]
14 Redeyes & Sweed – The Night Is Over [Poetry In Motion LP]
15 Redeyes – Soul Brother [W10]
16 Redeyes – Let It Shine [Poetry In Motion LP]
17 Redeyes – Pusherman (S.P.Y. Vip) [DUB]
*Poetry In Motion LP – Forthcomin Spearhead

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Don’t Tell Kiki The Babysitter’s Dead

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My brother always makes fun of me for my issues about being left out. I’m convinced it’s a drawback of being the middle child. I have no qualms admitting that I suffer from middle child syndrome. You’ve witnessed it many times on here already… “Why don’t I know who Paul SG is?” “Why don’t I own that Zero T and Icicle track?” “Why didn’t anyone tell me I had a high voice?” and the latest “Am I the only one that doesn’t really know anything about beatport?” I act like people purposely exclude me from stuff. 😉

I posted that top 10 of Stunna’s yesterday. I didn’t know you could get the tracks. I’ve actually never used Beatport. Pipeline was telling me how he bought a bunch of tracks off of there the other day. Is it mostly for electronic music? Is it like an itunes store? I feel like I always ask stupid questions so sometimes I just keep shit to myself and live in a bliss of ignorance but then when everyone starts talking about shit I don’t know, I’m all like “How come no one told me?”

I don’t know what I’d do with the mp3s anyways. I guess I could listen to the individual songs on my ipod. I don’t own serato so that’s a no go. I definitely wouldn’t burn them to mix on cdjs because I’m absolutely rubbish on those things. I think it is a combination of being too heavy handed and impatient and therefore not really being able to master them. I’m sure if I didn’t have the attention span of a 3 year old it’s something I could learn to do properly but since I don’t mix out regularly enough to warrant getting the hot new tunes on mp3 I think I’ll just stay in my bliss of ignorance that I talked about a couple of sentences ago.

* Does everyone speak in long run on sentences like I do?? *

Moving on, I can’t remember the name of it but there was this Specific tune that I was nutters about, something about “breaking my heart.” Stunna turned me on to it and I’m pretty sure I even myspaced Specific to tell him how much I loved it. I swear I really don’t think I’m that much of a nerd in real life, crazy, yes, but nerdy, not necessarily all the time. Unfortunately when it comes to dnb I start to do super geeky things. I can’t help it some tunes just make me too excited.

The #3 Vandal Records podcast is by Specific. I’m excited to listen to it. I didn’t listen to the last Vandal podcast but the two before that by Redeyes and Peyo were my favourites for a while. It’s become quite silly to talk about what are my favourites. Basically i like dnb. I have a lot of favourites. The only things I will really say I dislike are clownstep and really noisy angry white boy dnb.

I have a bunch of tracks that I keep wanting to write about but time keeps escaping me. When I get all caught up at work I’ll have to do a list of my top ten or something.

Toodles

Specific – Vandal Podcast #3

01. Specific – Tell Me [Phunkfiction Dub]
02. Hobzee & Zyon Base – Red Letter [Diverse Products]
03. Ben E – Shallow [Dub]
04. Valuetime – Mesh [Dub]
05. Redeyes – Stories [Vandal Digital]
06. Henree – Liberty [Vampire Dub]
07. Dan Intrinsic – Tangents [Dub]
08. Matrix & Dillema – Springbox Dub [Genetic Stress]
09. Deo & Matik – Boulder (Martsman Remix) [Trust In Music]
10. Sabre – Global [Dub]
11. Subterra – Serengeti [Frequency Dub]
12. Zero T – Speak Low [V dub]
13. Redflower & Ignite – Rendered (Kubiks Remix) [DSM Dub]
14. The Green Man – In Custody [Dub]
15. Specific – It Could Happen [Dub]
16. Sinistar – Nothing But You [Integral Dub]
17. Alix Perez & Zero T – Threads [CIA Dub]
18. Specific – Next Time [Dub]
19. Hobzee – Don’t Go [Diverse Products]

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Windex Used To Be My Best Friend…

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I’ve been really enjoying these days off. I have the apartment to myself as my roomate is out of town and I’m actually just loving the alone time.

My place reached a point where even after you straighten up it still seems dirty so I’ve been doing a thorough cleaning. I went to the supermarket and got really into buying all these great supplies. I used to just use windex to clean everything in my apartment when I was like 19. Now I’m super into the results of new cleaning supplies. Mildew remover, lysol bathroom cleaner, clorox disinfectant wipes, vanish, the list is endless but the end result is a shiny, happy clean place. It’s so clean I almost don’t want to touch anything. Hee hee.

The best part about cleaning was that I got to listen to mix after mix after mix. I think I’m all caught up now. Side note, that Marcus Intalex mix is a great mix to clean your place to!! So is that Sabre Pyro mix. There’s a Survival tune on the Sabre mix that I’m really digging but Sabre doesn’t say the name of it so I guess I’ll just have to hope I hear it again some time soon.

I was cleaning for so long I started running out of mixes that I wanted listen to so I started go back looking for old gems that I had downloaded but never listened to. I found the Bcee Spearhead podcast from March and it’s lovely. It has some bits from Redeyes’ upcoming album. I was quite in love with his track “I Live” on Creative Source. There’s also some stuff from the Moodswings LP on there. I really do like Spearhead Records. They have some really good releases.

I also saw that Zero T was on Bailey’s show on 1xtra, so I’ll definitely be checking that one out.

Hopefully it’s nice and sunny wherever you are and you can enjoy the holiday.

Toodles

Spearhead March Podcast 3/18/08

Bailey Feat. Zero T @ 1xtra Intabeats 5/21/08

Influx UK – Take My – Formation
Utah Jazz – Back In Time – Liquid V
Matt Doubt – Stop On By (NexGen)
The Invaderz – All The People (Liquid V)
It’s Jazzy – Roni Size (Nu Tone Rmx) (V)
Iron Hands – Cripple Fight (Muzik Hertz)
DJ Vapour – Shut Up (White)

***Zero T In The Mix***
Zero T -Why Would You (CIA)
Zero T Ft Beta 2 & Steo – Inside Man (CIA)
Zero T Ft Icicle & Steo – Go For Yours (CIA) *Exclusive*
Zero T – Angel Heart (CIA)
Zero T Ft Mosus – Headspace – DUB *Exclusive*
Zero T F Steo – Refusal (Calibre Rmx) –(Integral) *Exclusive*
Zero T Ft Alix Perez – Thrgads (CIA)
J Rawls Ft Middlechild – Music Over Madness (Zero T Rmx)
Lemon D – I Can’t Stop (Zero T Rmx) (V)
Zero T Ft Conrad – Morning Sex (CIA) *Exclusive*

*** End Of Zero T Set**

Zero T Ft Bailey – Robots (CIA)
Jubei & Tyrone – Tremor (Invaderz Transmissions)
Goldie Ft Jenna G – Lettin Go (Metalheadz)
Selector Moldy – Assassin (Counter Intelligence)
Drumsound & Bassline Smith – Special (White)
Shy FX Ft Bailey – Lion Sound (White)

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Let Me Tell You What I Don’t Want To Hear…

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Eek. So I went to Digital last night. I actually just wanted to go hang out with my friends so I didn’t really expect anything spectacular. For the first hour it was actually ok. Nothing horrible. And then I had to go open my big mouth. I just got done saying to Stunna how the music wasn’t bad and then a clownerific tune accosted my ears. Woah. After the first impact it was just clown mania. I don’t even understand what happened. Everything was fine and then it was clownstep track after clownstep track. My friends started leaving one after another. I left soon after that.

Seriously, what is the deal with clownstep? It’s not good and you know it. This isn’t even about me being a liquid funk lover. I just love good tracks, whatever genre they are. Am I a music snob because I ask to hear good music? I guess so.

Enough about bad music.

I’ve got a horrible cough, I can’t stop sneezing, I’m just gonna listen to an older Redeyes mix and pretend to do some work.

Laters

Redeyes – Vandal Podcast

Tracklist

01 Lynx & Kemo – Carnivale – SoulR
02 Furney & Conrad – Drum Toolz – GLO
03 Loxy – Green Destiny – Digital Soundboy
04 Calibre – Trip it – Digital Soundboy
05 Eveson – Bittersweet
06 Calibre – Free – Signature
07 Alix Perez – Crooklyn – SoulR
08 Random Movement – The Things You Do – Innerground
09 Logistics – ? – Hospital
10 Physics – Dreamworld – DBridge remix – MidnightSun
11 Redeyes – Dusty – Spearhead
12 NuTone – Hit&Run
13 Spy & Mosus – Mercury Tears – Product
14 Subterra – ? – Frequency
15 Naibu – Midori
16 Alix Perez & Lynx – Allegiance – SoulR
17 Seba & Krazy – Detroit Track – Innerground
18 Redeyes – The Contrast – Spearhead
19 Redeyes – My Valentine – Vandal
20 Icicle – Untitled Liquid
21 Sks & Generic – Bayard St – Vandal
22 Alix Perez -Never Believe – Bassbin
23 Redeyes – Turn Around – Cia Deepkut