Codenamed "The Revenge Mix", or as my roommate put it, the "remember the music you all thought was so crappy?" mix.  As much as this is a compilation of the music I was listening to in high school (almost exclusively thanks to my brother to whom this is dedicated), this is also for those who are still in high school today, looking for a dose of reality in an artificial world. 

Two years in the making, Cool Melodies fuses vocoders, melody and dance rhythms into a modern day pop music manifesto, a style I'm calling "Newer wave".  Part 1 of a 3 part series.

This could have been called the RE/Search Mix, as it was inspired in large part by the San Francisco publishing house that helped define the intellectual underpinnings of punk and new wave in the 1980s. In this latest musical manifesto, I attempt to create a mix that is both inspired by and sounds like LEGO.

Inspired by that special frequency that seems to characterize 70s AM gold, this collaboration with special guest Ryan Lockwood makes an attempt to create the BBQ mix to end all BBQ mixes. 

This experimental mix represents a bold attempt to bridge genres with songs from disparate musical movements.   

As one friend put it while listening to Nirvana's "Negative Creep" halfway into the mix, "This sounds like mid-January". The final chapter of the series, and probably my favorite.

Fall, the third part of a four part series, where I embarked on the long and seemingly impossible journey of bridging pop music with the exotic and obscure spirit of the psychedelic trance genre.

A tribute to the world's largest sporting event. In order to keep it as mainstream and accessible as possible, I challenged myself to pick tracks exclusively from iTunes (not an easy task).

In the summer mix, I tried to choose songs that evoke the beautiful days of summer in sunny Saskatoon, Saskatchewan. I remember taking a harmonica on a bike ride in the country when I was a teenager, sitting in a grassy ditch trying to emulate the "harp" in Paul Simon's "The Boy in the Bubble".

The first in the series of mixes I embarked on the long seemingly impossible journey of bridging pop music with the exotic and obscure sound of the psychedelic trance genre. In this mix, I sought the upbeat, inspiring melodies of Spring.

This Dub podcast welcomes Outland, a good friend of mine from Saskatoon who always had an eye for cool culture.

A classic dub podcast featuring legendary innovators King Tubby, Lee 'Scratch' Perry and Scientist. Great for the beach or just plain old inspiration.

This is a recording of a set I played at an outdoor party thrown by a couple of friends (Bud and Michelle). This mix represented the newer, more minimal sound of psychedelic trance that was coming out of Germany at the time.  Heavy Duty!

This set was created for a live event in Regina, Saskatchewan, where I played at peak time (1 AM or so). The recording is a little lacking on bass,but it's well worth the listen if you like your trance solid, unpredictable and crazy! Don't miss this one.

Created for a live show, this set starts deceptively laidback before turning up the crank into full on psychedelic trance.

Created for a live show, this set starts deceptively laidback before turning up the crank into full on psychedelic trance.

Originally created for a DJ competition at the Double Deuce in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, this half hour mix builds with psychedelic breaks and peaks with deep, hard, heavy metal guitar trance. I'll never forget the inspired 40 something year old man dancing and cheering me on as I played The Delta. I came in second, not a terrible result considering I was playing a music genre no one in the bar had heard before.  

My first journey into psychedelic techno, an aggressive and inspired assault that relenquishes on the B side into a kind of progressive, psychedelic trance.

My first journey into psychedelic techno, an aggressive and inspired assault that relenquishes on the B side into a kind of progressive, psychedelic trance.