Here is an energetic dancefloor friendly mix of heartstring-tugging tunes across the house music spectrum, and a bit beyond.  Exuberant joy occasionally delving into dissonance and melancholy...such is the ebb & flow of life and love.

Oh yeah, hello again.  Back in 2025 after over a decade of quietly collecting music and keeping it to myself in my vinyl-filled basement!    I feel like a new chapter calls for a new DJ name, therefore after almost 25 years:    Active8 --> Mr. B  

Tracklist: 
Midnight Magic - Same Way I Feel (Session Victim Remix)
Purple Ice - Dreamflower 
BNinjas - Two 2 One
Funky Judge - I Can't Go For That (Pagany Nu Disco Mix) 
Saison - Please Don't Go (Giom Mix)
Saison - One Day (Dub) 
SugarHill , Robin S -  Show Me Love (Afro Salsa Mix)
folamour - Ya Just Need 2 Believe In Yaself
Kings of Tomorrow - Finally (Mochakk, Jay Mariani & Cesar Nardini Extended Remix)
Pete Heller's Big Love - Big Love (David Penn Extended Mix)
SugarHill , Beyoncé - Deep In Love (Extended Mix)
Camila Cabello - Don't Go Yet (Major Lazer Remix)
Bushbaby - Addicted 
Murder He Wrote - Never You
Jamie xx - Treat Each Other Right
Makèz & Life On Planets - Downstream 
Subwave & BOP - Rave I Didn't Know Was The Last
O'Flynn & Frazer Ray - Satyr
Yo Speed - Escape
Mr. Mitch - R U IN2 IT?
Jorn Johansen - Falling In Love
Duodisco - Please Go
Murder He Wrote - Lights Down Low
The Blaze x Burial - Archangel Territory (Broken Lip Edit) 


Hope you enjoy!

Heavy Hearts

My closing set from a recent edition of Peace.Luv.House.  Recorded by Smitty's wonderful standing mic/recorder on May 4, 2013.  The recorder was placed at the edge of the decks, so the recording would be similar to what you'd hear if you were shrunk into an inch-sized version of yourself and were dancing next to the incense burner at the edge of the gear table.  The crowd chatter and revelry actually contribute a good impression of what it's like to be on the dancefloor at this monthly event in Buffalo, NY.  This particular edition featured our host Bflo Lydia and our guest, Rochester's James Revival. You can hear James being 'interviewed' by our friend DJ Twist, while I'm mixing my first track in.  Twist also provides us with some post-mix comic relief.  So bear with the reduced clarity & increased crowd noise, and enjoy 74 minutes of an underground house music party in Buffalo.  Provided you're not in a moving vehicle, get up from your seat ,dance, and clap with the crowd...or perhaps roll one up and pretend like you're listening to a newly traded-for Phish bootleg!
Tracklisting:
1. H-Foundation - New Funky Theory (Swags Version Dub)
2. Flapjackers - Covert Swing
3. Olivier Desmet + Oriental Funk Stew - Hot on Your Trail (Kinky Movement Remix)
4. Onionz - Ser Serg
5. Sheridan - Freak Show
6. Matt Meler - Slim Dizzy
7. Inland Knights - U Too
8. Matt Meler - Django
9. Chuck Daniels - Don't Be A Blockhead!
10. Paul Johnson - Brazilialisco
11. Ian Pooly & Magik J - Piha (DJ Sneak Remix)
12. Paul Johnson - It's a Love Thang
13. Louis Botella - Hi-Flight (Healing Mix)
14. The Sweet - Love Is Like Oxygen (Charles Feelgood Remix)
15. Mario Fabriani - Fender Bender
16. High Caliber - Jazz Hands
17. Spettro, Diesel & Desmet - That's the Joint (Spettro's Green Thumb Mix)

Active8 @ Peace.Luv.House #16

This is probably the first recorded mix I was ever fully confident in giving to anyone...from about 7 years ago on a minidisc recorder in a now-abandoned apartment on the corner of Grant & Amherst St. in Buffalo, NY.  There have been a few more prior to this, but all had at least one unreconcilable flaw so they were sent to the recycle bin.  This one is chill enough to play during dinner, funky enough to turn your foot tapping into actual dancing, and finishes with plenty of energetic tracks to get the party started.  Hope you enjoy! 

Tracklisting:
1. Wahoo - Make 'em Shake It (Isolee Remix)
2. DJ T - Philly
3. JT Donaldson - Leave Your World (Hydro's Disco Dub In The Hour Of Chaos)  
4. Inverse Cinematics - Detroit Jazzin' (All Good Funk Alliance Remix)
5. The Shift - Soulville
6. H-Foundation - New Funk Theory (Swag Unplugged Remix)
7. Mr. Scruff - Sweet Smoke (Ashley Beedle's Street Boogie Mix)
8. Inland Knights - My Memory
9. Gavin Froome - Think of You
10. Kevin Yost - What is Cool? (Main Mix)
11. Dopeheadz - Mumbasa
12. Digital Minds - Sleeping With Gloves On
13. Troydon - Good Shit Bad Shit
14. Lawnchair Generals - The Truth
15. Olivier Desmet & B. McCarthy - Disco Dust
16. Toka Project - Handwriting
17. Mario Fabriani - Attack of the Disco Bubbles
18.  Ken Christensen & Thomas Sahs ‎– Mista D 
19. Chuck Daniels - Bumpy Nights
20. Tim Deluxe feat. Jamie Anderson -  We All Love Sax
21. The Sound Republic - When I Get Paid
22. All Good Funk Alliance - Watch Out 
23. Chuck Love - Funkinwitdasystem
24. Scud Bloom - Midnight Hustle



Active8 - Solid Flavor Injector

Just a house music & vinyl enthusiast living in a digital world.

Lover of: house music (funky, jazzy, disco, jackin’, Chicago, soulful, tech, tribal, acid), disco & funk edits, techno, breaks, UK bass, electro, garage, trip-hop, juke, drum n bass (jungle, dancehall, atmospheric, liquid, jump up), and some genres I honestly don't know the names of.

Played records (and mp3s) at some fun places in Buffalo over the years: Osaka Blu & O Lounge for Fractal Project; Groove/Opium Lounge, Level, and Pure for Factory Nightlife; Elmwood Lounge for Drop The Beat Thursdays; Soundlab, DBGB & waxmuseumradio.com with Queen City Cartel; Sample & Mode with MGI; Golden Key Tavern, Buffalo Bar & Grille, Electric Avenue for Peace.Luv.House; Sunset Sessions for MNM Presents; Gypsy Parlor and Acqua for Igloo; Off The Wall, Prespa, The Stillwater, Social, Iberia, Left Bank, Nektar, Jade, “The Loft”(RIP), 960 Grant :), 658, 464 Gallery, and a bunch of house parties filled with some truly fun & interesting people.
Highlights would be closing for Junkie XL with DJ Rob Decker…and opening for Dubfire with Dave Gold & Eric Fiebes.
Most terrifying was closing for DJ Craze at a multi-venue fest downtown in ‘08 armed only with a deep house set I was supposed to play 5 hours earlier at another spot.  Cool to plays after Craze, but epic fail on keeping that crowd going!  😂

Thanks to my favorite Buffalo-area DJs since 2000 for giving dancefloors some great tunes & vibes…here are a good chunk of em: Dirwood, Twist, Bill Bacon, Xotec, Ryan Liddell, 3P0, Stevie Washington, Zuk, Paaj, Mark Webb, MDK, Hippie, Soma, The Oracle, Flip, DJ Truth, Aural B, JP Soul, Marty McFly, James Revival, Rob Morley, Mike Parker, Bflo Lydia, Cutler, Biz-E, Mark Kloud, Cable, Valiant MC, US Marshall, Hoogs, Perceptor, Basha, JJ Kakes…and most importantly Dave Gold, Eric Fiebes & Rob Decker since we all dove into this shit together!  

People who shaped my perception of DJing: Carl Cox, DJ Dan, Derrick Carter, Deep Dish, Charles Feelgood, DJ Sneak, Fatboy Slim, Pete Tong, Frankie Knuckles, Mark Farina, Paul Johnson, Francois K, Coldcut, Deko-ze, Hatiras, Mark Oliver.

Mr. B (Active8)

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