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House Music for Grown-Ups

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Good things can be said about working from home: when contracts are less forthcoming, I get more time to mix!

Hence, this fifth mix in little over a month.

Those who are in contact with me on Facebook know that I announced a new Lounge mix a couple of days ago but, lo and behold, here is a new House mix.

I’ve explained before how a new mix comes to be with regards to the way I work and, to make a long story short, this here House mix competed for my attention with that Lounge thing and won.

Not only did it win, but it litterally took over me: whereas I usually spend a few hours preparing a new mix, carefully researching the tracklist and mixes, this one came out almost automatically in just about twice it’s recorded length…

OK, that reads strangely…

What I mean is: this mix is one hours and forty-three minutes long and it took me only three hours and a half to do it, planning and recording included.

In any case, as the titles suggests, it is a mix of good, dare I say “mature”, House music.

No frills and dancefloor gimmicks, just good songcraft.

Kick back and enjoy.

By the way, there a few tracks in there that are freely and legally downloadable, so do click the links in the tracklist below to get yer goodies!

You can stream or download it here and your donations are welcome to help me pay for the file hosting!.

TRACKLISTING

House Music for Grown-Ups

  1. Nattestid – Diskjokke
  2. Fail Forever (DOP Remix) – When Saint Go Machine
  3. Best Friend (Charles Webster Vocal Remix) – Voom Voom
  4. Leggs Feat. Stephanie (Live At Footowork) – Pezzner
  5. Over The Ice – The Field
  6. Sous Le Sable – Appleblim & Ramadanman
  7. In My System (The Revenge Remix) – The Gathering
  8. Paris (Arto Mwambe Remix) – Friendly Fires
  9. Head On A Stick – Palm Skin Productions
  10. Uncomfortable – Levani Uchaneishvili
  11. Miezekatze – Ogris Debris
  12. Ghost In The Machine – DiskJokke & Strangefruit Presents The Sjukt
  13. Bug In The Machine – DiskJokke & Strangefruit Presents The Sjukt
  14. Journey To The Core Of The Unknown Sphere (Kyle Hall I’m Only Breathing Remix) – Space Dimension Controller
  15. Transatlantic Landing Bay – Space Dimension Controller
  16. Sobeck – Fred Everything
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Monsieur Seb’s Cosmix 8: In Space, Everyone Can See You Boogie

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Here it is, Cosmonauts and Cosmonettes: the new Cosmix is about to hit your ears and endorphin production centers!

Several weeks in the making, this iteration of the series is a proud successor to its predecessors inasmuch as it doesn’t much sound like any of them! 🙂

Its 29 tracks range from 115 to 124 beats per minute and from pure disco to so called slo-mo house and deep house with a splash of italo-feeling groove and even an ambiant conclusion that I litterally decided on seconds before the track began. The mix was initially supposed to end with Carl Craig’s remix of Tiga’s track, but for reasons which belong to creators and artists, I just had to throw in Arp’s amazing tribute to krautrock as a coda to this mix.

Despite the high track count, it is a relatively short affair compared to previous iterations in the series. What that means is simple: unmixed, all the tracks on Cosmix 8 total 3,7 hours of music. Mixed (if one excludes the last track that’s not really “mixed” per se), you get 2 hours and 30 minutes. So more that an hour of that tracklist happens while two tracks are playing at the same time… Yeah, I like long haul mixes, a luxury afforded by new technological tools like Mixed in Key and pitch lock.

In any case, enough geek-talk! Enjoy!

You can stream or download it here and your donations are welcome to help me pay for the file hosting!

P.S.: In case you haven’t checked it out yet, don’t forget to give a glance at Cosmix 7.5, which was an exclusive podcast for my friend Mike’s label CCCLTD and kind of a sneak peek at Cosmix 8.

TRACKLISTING

Monsieur Seb’s Cosmix 8: In Space, Everyone Can See You Boogie

  1. La Ninya (Afrodub Version) – John Talabot
  2. Whispering Twirl – Tornado Wallace
  3. Costa Verde – Space Ranger
  4. Superstring – Space Ranger
  5. Le Troublant Acid – KZA
  6. Matilda’s Dream – John Talabot
  7. Freekend feat. Danielle Moore (Anthony Mansfield & Nick Chacona Dub) – Hot Toddy
  8. Wake Up – The Glimmers
  9. Naked (Kink Mix) – Sleazy McQueen
  10. Hot Pepper Sauce – Stopmakingme
  11. Superbacon – Kasper Bjørke & Tom Barford
  12. I Know You’re Mine – Roberto Rodriguez (Manolo)
  13. The Jammer – Chamboche
  14. Cosmic Radiation – Dionigi
  15. Pushin’ – Toomy Disco
  16. Shave Me, I’m Famous (Instrumental) – Space Ranger
  17. 60 Minutes – Dionigi
  18. Distant Shores – Petar Dundov
  19. Mitch (Emperor Machine Long Version) – Acidkids
  20. No Brain (Serge Santiago Remix) – Étienne De CrĂ©cy
  21. Will I (Instrumental) – Sportlotto
  22. Moody Bang (Tensnake Remix) – Ajello
  23. Soul Train – The Glimmers
  24. Subgreen (Arto Mwambe’s Saap-Green Mix) – Extraproduktionen
  25. Eleven Dimensions – Dionigi
  26. Megalopolis (Beatfanatic Remix) – Cloned In Vatican
  27. All Night – Oliver
  28. Love Don’t Dance Here Anymore (Carl Craig Remix 2) – Tiga
  29. Pastoral Symphony: I. Dominoes — II. Infinity Room – Arp

Because you made it all the way down here, you deserve a little treat: Cosmix 8: Deleted Scenes, a minimix of songs I wanted to use but didn’t in the final version!

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Diving for Pearls

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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 simply not tight.

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

Enjoy!

You can stream or download it here and your donations are welcome to help me pay for the file hosting!

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
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Monsieur Seb’s Cosmix vol. 6: Set the Controls for the Heart of the Ultraworld

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Some mixes just beg to be recorded.

Barely two months since the last installment in the series comes a new one.

The pieces just fell into place, or, more appropriately, the sculpture was already in the stone, all I had to do was remove the excess material, to paraphrase what a great sculptor once said.

So, here it is, in all its glorious two hours, fifty-five minutes and 40 seconds, my new 30 tracks-large sound sculpture.

It is all at once very different and totally similar to its predecessors.

It’ll make you groove, move, sway and play, it’ll take you through all kinds of emotions, ideas and dreams.

Or so I humbly hope.

Please abuse responsibly by clicking the title to strem or download the mix.

Monsieur Seb’s Cosmix vol. 6: Set the Controls for the Heart of the Ultraworld

  1. Burning Jupiter – Ilya Santana
  2. Totally Tubular – Lovesick
  3. Ufology – B Project
  4. Lose Myself – Manolo
  5. Falling – I:Cube
  6. Dog Got My Wah Wah – Out In The Sticks
  7. Rosenrod – Diskjokke
  8. Love Honey (Ilya Santana Remix) – Sugardaddy
  9. Time To Come – Ilya Santana
  10. Kahluha Madness – Ytre Rymden Dansskola
  11. Belfast (Sleazy McQueen’s Gabe Bass Mix) – Filipsson & Lindblad
  12. Can You Feel It – Tensnake
  13. Spindle – Brinton McKay
  14. Maratona’s Grey Sky (Kid Who’s Cosmic Mix) – 3AM
  15. Bleep Me (Dairmount & Honesty Perspective) – Dj Honesty
  16. Eurodancer (Azari & III Mix) – Mano Le Tough
  17. Endorphinmachine – Erobique
  18. Chemise (Tony Underground Remix) – Sorcerer
  19. No Static – Bottin
  20. Jet Set (Ray Mang Version) – Marius
  21. Home From The Can (Tensnake Remix) – Polargeist
  22. In The End (I Want You To Cry) – Tensnake
  23. Wait A Minute (Arto Mwambe Remix) – Osborne
  24. Quiet Please – The Heels Of Love
  25. Men Of The Future (Kris Menace Remix) – Moonbootica
  26. Thermionic – Lazersonic
  27. Norfolk Nights – Shit Robot
  28. Komischer Ruckenwind – Dj Kaos
  29. Oxygène (Greg Wilson Edit) – Jean-Michel Jarre
  30. Pulsations – Brain Machine