A few days ago, I set out to do a new House/Tech mix (and I write House/Tech rather than Techouse on purpose) and, just a few tracks into the planning, it became obvious that this new mix was going to become the second iteration of a new series.

The more I think about the concept, and the more I listened to the original House Music for Grown-Ups mix, the more I realized I was onto something, here.

“Yeah? What?” I can hear you say…

Well, what I’m onto is a new series of mixes devoted to House music, and electronic music in general, that can be used on a dancefloor — if only because of its tempo —, just as well as in a living room, lounge, car, or whatever.

Fear not, the Cosmix series won’t suffer from this coopetition.

In other words, this new series will be devoted to House music devoid of the usual (and ultimately boring) dancefloor gimmickry, House music that you are not ashamed of liking and playing for your mom (if you’re under 40) or for your friends (if you’re over 40).

One might call it headphone House, but I find that limiting.

I must say that from this point of view, I am REALLY proud of this mix, as much for the musical selection as the technical aspect of the mixing.

As a matter of fact, I think it is one of my best outputs, technically, with several mixes lasting well over a minute or three, with one even lasting a full 5 minutes (from 1:01:31 to 1:06:39).

Now, I’m not saying I’m an mix athlete.

No.

I’m just an old-school DJ and as such I was taught that a good mix is a long mix and that the real art of DJing is creating a new atmosphere, almost a new track, from by combining two tracks.

Well, I humbly think I’ve succeeded, here.

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TRACKLISTING

House Music for Grown-Ups, volume 2

1. Phobos – Forces of Nature
2. Speechless – Agoria feat. Carl Craig
3. Find Your Soul (Minilogue’s Introspection mix) – Larsson
4. My Girls (Mike Monday’s Unofficial Remix) – Animal Collective (unreleased)
5. Silk City (Fred Everything Lazy Vox Remix) – Kruse & Nuernberg feat. Nathalie Claude
6. Subzero (D Pulse Remix) – Amberflame
7. Every Minute Alone (Tale Of Us & Seth Troxler Dub Edit) – WhoMadeWho
8. Strange Aeons (Strictly Jazz Unit Muzic Eternity Mix) – Snoretex
9. 40004 A – Wax
10. Easy As Can Be (Tom Middleton Liquitech Mix) – Guy J
11. Somebody’s Property (OOFT Bassline Dub) – Mash
12. Naked Lunch – Subwave
13. Everything – Prommer & Barck
14. OFI (SDC’s Evasive Funk mix) – Model 500
15. You Know The Score – Hardfloor feat. E.R.P.
16. Clear & Present – Paperclip People
17. Reindeer Salsa (The Knights of Jumungus Jingle Jungle Morning Mix) - Skatebård

Well, the day came, I played and the day went.

It wasn’t as sunny as one might’ve hopped, therefore not as many people showed up, but it was, all in all, a great day!

As I said in the Q&A I answered on the Piknic Électronik website, all the different styles of electronic music are part of one big continuum, but our tendency to try and categorize everything makes it confusing.

Well, this set aims to prove just that with its wide ranging spectrum of sounds (and quite a lot of acid throughout).

Hope you enjoy!

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TRACKLISTING

Monsieur Seb Live @ Piknic Électronik, May 30th, 2010, 4pm to 7 pm, Scène STM

1. Stars (Rodion & Mammarella Mix) — Visti & Meyland
2. Do It To The Max — 6th Borough Project
3. Looking Up To You — The Revenge
4. Stratus Quo — 6th Borough Project
5. Hotz 4 U — The Revenge
6. Night Dance (Max Essa Remix) — Pete Gooding & Chris Coco
7. Pionir (Lusty Zanibar Remix) — Ichisan & Nakova
8. Motorcycles — Tiago
9. Beat-N-Path (Brennan Green’s Anxious Acid Version) — Cage & Aviary
10. It’s More Fun To Compute (Busy P Remix) — Kraftwerk
11. Highway 24 — Toby Tobias
12. Highway 1 — Toby Tobias
13. Filter 57 Mild — Ichisan & Nakova
14. Big Bang Love (The Phenomenal Handclap Band Remix) — Gina & Tony
15. Roller Coaster — Sebo K
16. The Longest Day — Layo & Bushwacka!
17. Love Harmonic (Carl Craig’s Soundscape Remix) — Mirko Loko
18. More Than You Know — Midland & Ramadanman
19. 99 (Tim Green Rmx) — Cassius
20. Okay, Cool — Tbd
21. Voodoo — Tigerskin
22. Jam Hot (Tensnake Remix) — Johnny Dynell
23. Fantasy (Faze Action Special Disco Edit) — Johnny Hammond
24. Dance Me (Beatport Extended Bonus Version) — Riva Starr feat. Trim
25. Feel Me — Tigerskin
26. Under The Radar Feat. Fadila (Rozzo Mix) — Mike Shannon
27. Where Were You Feat. Robert Owens (Kirk Degiorgio Vocal Remix) — Robert Owens, Tj Kong, Nuno Dos Santos
28. Miracle Man (Lovebirds Instrumental Mix) — Jones, Blank
29. Thermionic — Lazersonic
30. Rolling Bass (Ooft Remix) — Vadim Yershov
31. Rise Rhythm — Willie Graff & Tuccillo
32. Moon Jocks N Prog Rocks (Todd Terje’s Even Stiv-En Dub Version) — Mungolian Jetset
33. Surprise Bonus Track

I recorded my last set in my fourth — and as it turned out, last — year as a resident at Montreal’s nicest terrasse, and I think it’s a nice farewell mix with tracks that encompass everything I’ve played there over the years.

A couple of the mixes are not top notch, but those things can happen to the best of them when playing live and talking to guests at the same time!

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Hyper linked tracklisting is here