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

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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

Online music spot Stompy is giving away it’s Summer Sampler, 12 tracks totally free that you can even download in WAV format, and there’s lots of yummy stuff in there, too!

To wit: 1200 Warriors feat La Bru, Alland Byallo, Dan Curtin, Matthew Bandy, Gramophonedzie, Hard Mix!, James Braun & Dan M, Jay Tripwire, Lars Behrenroth, Marko Militano feat Sunny (A Dub instrumental by Fred Everything), Nick Chacona & Anthony Ma (remixed by Brothers Vibe), Nikola Baytala & Myles Eg.

Head on to Stompy, all you need to do is create a free account.

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

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Hyper linked tracklisting is here