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The High School Mix (Dedicated to My Brother)

2010-08-03

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.

Cool Melodies I

2009-11-22

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.

The Lego Mix

2009-01-12

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.

The Summer of the Mind Mix

2008-03-15

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.

From Goa to AM Gold

2008-01-16

A tribute and homage to the great djs of American talk radio: Art Bell, George Noory and Rush Limbaugh. As the title implies, I play the classics in the spirit of a Goa trance set.

Music for White Pants (Remastered)

2007-07-28

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

4 Seasons of Pop: Winter 2006 Mix

2007-01-31

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.

4 Seasons of Pop: Fall 2006 Mix

2006-07-23

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.

4 Seasons of Pop: Summer 2006 Mix

2006-06-21

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".

4 Seasons of Pop: Spring 2006 Mix

2006-05-14

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.