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.

As usual, you can stream it
HM4GU2 or download it by right-clicking the image on the right.

As always, your donations are welcome to help me pay for the file hosting!

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

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 jours 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! Get to downloadin’ and enjoy!

Oh! Wait! I’ve prepared a 21 minutes minimix that will be available exclusively to those who make a voluntary contribution of 10$ or more by clicking the PayPal Donate button below. Think of it as Cosmix 8: the extras!

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.

As usual, you can stream it
Monsieur Seb’s Cosmix 8: In Space, Everyone Can See You Boogie or download it by right-clicking the image on the right.

As always, your donations are welcome to help me pay for the file hosting!

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 Crécy
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

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!

As usual, you can stream it
xx or download it by right-clicking the image on the right.

As always, your donations are welcome to help me pay for the file hosting!

 

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

For my birthday, I’m the one giving y’all a gift!

Again, here’s a mix born out of an intense bout of inspiration.

From the initial idea to the completion of the recording session, this mix took me about 12 hours, which really isn’t long compared to the usual gestation time I need for a new mix, and it was just in time for my birthday party, last Saturday!

I really like this one, I hope you will too!

Thanks to Karim for the pic.

Cheers!

You can stream it Birthday Mix or download it by right-clicking the image. As always, your donations are welcome to help me pay for the file hosting!

TRACKLISTING

Bank Brotherhood – Ricardo Villalobos & Los Updates

Golden Complexion – Manuel Tur feat. Blakkat

El Ventresco – Shusi Khijada

Aundy – Claude VonStroke

Muramasa – Rozzo

Bless You (Minilogue Remix) – Lulu Rouge

Azzuro – Rozzo

wax10001_2 – Wax

My Time (Radio Slave’s Rekids Tribe Mix) – Dance Disorder

Stranger to Stability – Dustin Zahn

Beyond Senses (Pezzner Mix) – And If

Hurt – Matthew Dear & Seth Troxler

Jeudi 17 mai (Pheek Remix) – Ariane Moffatt

So Worried (Extended Mix) – Pheek

Orchestrating Manoeuvres in the Dark – Radio Slave

Tonto – Jerome Sydenham

Untitled – Wax

Drifting (C2 Deep Mix) – Glimpse

Storm on Lake Ste-Claire – Claude VonStroke

Fading (Vincenzo’s Phantom Image Mix) – Theodor Zox

Deeper Shades of Black – Psycatron

Mutation – Butane

Breathe Control – The 1200 Warriors

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!

You can stream it I Am Rhythm or “right-click/save as” on the image to download it.

Hyper linked tracklisting is here