Thursday, February 3rd, 2011
I’m incredibly proud to announce the second installment of my mix series Driving North. For those of you who are new to this series, the idea is pretty simple: I take the last song of my last mix, and use it as the first song in my new mix. It’s a pretty simple constraint, but it helps give direction and makes for an easy gimmick. If you haven’t heard it already, take a listen to my first installment of Driving North. As always, please feel free to tweet/post/blog about this mix. You can find me on Twitter or Facebook.
About Part 2: This is a dark and moody collection of house, garage, and dubstep. Though I have a really hard time with “brostep” (dubstep that sounds like a chainsaw), there are elements of the genre that are really just incredible. The moodier part of dubstep tends to have heavy R&B influences, something I’ve always appreciated. If you’re looking for more of this sound, I highly recommend you check out extrawater radio by my friend Joe Lzrz.
This is a pretty good mix of new and old, all tied together by more or less one constant: I’ve never been able to play them out. That’s not entirely true, I’m sure I’ve managed to squeeze a couple of these into a set somewhere, but these aren’t typical going-out songs so it’s been nice to finally give them a home.
Download: Ezra Mechaber – Driving North, Part Two (save target as)
Tracklist:
- School of Seven Bells – Half Asleep (Lusine remix)
- Florence & The Machine – You Got The Love (XX remix)
- Paul Kalkbrenner – Sky & Sand
- CWB feat. Tash Baxter – Into The Twilight
- Katy B feat. Ms. Dynamite – Lights On
- French Fries & Chaos In The CBD – With You
- Joy Orbison – The Shrew Would Have Cushioned The Blow
- The Count & Sinden – You Make Me Feel So Good
- Joy Orbison – J. Doe
- Addison Grove – Footcrab
- Disclosure – Linstigator
- Throwing Snow – Un Vingt
- XI – Light
- Gold Panda – Snow & Taxis (Throwing Snow remix)
- Skream feat. Freckles – Give You Everything
- Todd Edwards – I Might Be (MJ Cole remix)
- Maddslinky – Special (MJ Cole’s “Back To The Future” remix)
- Broken Social Scene – All To All (Skeet Skeet remix)
- Drake – Fireworks (Deadboy Slo Mo House Edit)
Production note: this was recorded in 3 pieces and then cleaned up a little (2 volume edits, tweaking a loop, and smoothing out a recording glitch). The original sounds good, but this is a little shinier.
Comments ( 1 Comment )
dj lil elle Feb 07 11 at 11:41 pmloved the mix! made great travel listening on my trip back east last wkend. some killer songs in there i hadn’t heard before!