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

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!

As usual, you can stream it
HM4GU 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

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

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.

To celebrate the return of Fred Everything in Montreal today (@Picnik Electronik tonight at 8pm), I’ve decided to share my favourite tracks by my old friend from Quebec City.

I stayed within his album productions because had I decided to choose among his hundreds of productions and remixes, it would’ve been a tad complicated to pick just a few.

Hop to see y’all there today! “Opening” for Fred are Slim Jim, Justin Long and JT Donaldson.

If you can’t make it, there’s always the Lazy Days Recordings podcasts mixed by Fred which you can download.

From Light of Day – Elevate feat. The New Mastersounds
Elevate

From Lost Together – Mile End
Mile-End

From Under the Sun – Revolution

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