I love it when a new mix just pops out on its own, like this one…

I sat down to fool around with a few house and techouse tracks a few days ago, and everything just fell into place.

The title refers to the overall very deep vibe of this mix and to the fact that the tracks on this mix are all little pearls in their genre.

The older listeners will undoubtedly appreciate certain very old school-sounding tracks sprinkled here and there throughout the mix.

People who know me know I don’t bullshit, so I want to say this: the first two mixes are not quite up to par, but I must say that I had to work with a track that’s either voluntarily wild pitched or simple not tight.

Otherwise, I think this monster-mix (2h40m43s) is quite spot-on!

Enjoy!

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TRACKLISTING

Diving for Pearls

1. Sun (Bowski Remix) – Caribou
2. Big Fun (Agoria Remix) – Inner City
3. Lost In The Ether (Filtered Boogie Remix) – DJ Shine
4. Soldiers (The Revenge Dub) – Mademoiselle Caro & Franck Garcia
5. Square Knocking – Art Of Tones
6. Slideaway – Robert Babicz
7. The Logical Song – Rodion
8. Elle – Pablo Cahn
9. Sunstream – The Backwoods
10. Can U Feel It – Marc King
11. D2000 (The Godson Remix) – Urban Tribe
12. Forever And A Day – Franc Spangler
13. Blueprint – Kink & Neville Watson
14. One Lonely Knight (Extended Live Mix) – Arto Mwambe
15. Ocean (Jacksonville Remix) – 2020 Soundsystem
16. Disco 2080 – The Planty Herbs
17. Love Or Leave Me (Johnny D’s Power To The People Remix) – Johnny D
18. The Rain (Version 3) – Freaks
19. Happy People (Pol On edit) – Brass Construction
20. Junggesellenmaschine – Ame
21. A Break in The Clouds – James Holden
22. Cash The Chord (Audiojack Remix) – H.O.S.H.
23. Around – Julio Bashmore
24. Button – Brandt Brauer Frick
25. The Soul Is Back (Underground Resistance Timeline Remix) – Soul Designer
26. OFI – Model 500

So… Tech House is all the rage, huh?

There’s not a genre I haven’t spun or can’t spin, always with me very own unique touch, cuz I hate doing things just like everybody else.

So that’s what I set out to do with this mix.

But, really, I also dig this genre, or at least I did when I recorded this mix.

Since then, it has started going in circles, in my opinion, much like a snake eating its own tail.

Some FX and signature sounds (like those sweeps of white noise every few bars) have become so cliché and widespread among the established, as well as up-and-coming, producers that it seems no one is doing Tech House because they genuinely like it anymore, but rather because that’s where the money is at the moment.

Oh, well…

Hope you enjoy this mix, I think it is a very good portrait of that scene, at that time and, maybe, even since, plus it’s technically quite accomplished, if I may say so myself

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Hyper linked tracklisting is here