Tracks from the last few decades up until recently.  All were released at or around 108 bpm.

Track List:

1. You Made It, Pt. I - Weval
2. Unselfish Desires - Beatchild
3. Concept 3 - Kodomo
4. Sixtyten - Boards of Canada
5. Travel - Mark Farina
6. The Onion - The Jazzual Suspects
7. Persia - Mark E
8. Sometimes - Das Komplex
9. Despite the Weather - Kaytranada
10. La Perla - Saru
11. Memory - Com Truise
12. Interlude - Stump Valley
13. Prospects (Marshall Law) - Dabrye
14. Soulflute - Jega
15. Ascension (Rob Garza of Thievery Corporation Remix) - Tycho
16. This Beautiful Feeling (feat. Ebrahim) - Slakah the Beatchild
17. Sable émouvant (Pour Antoine & Dimitri) - Vadim Svoboda
18. You Made It, Pt. II - Weval


This mix was inspired by the release of "Unselfish Desires" (track 2) by Beatchild.

Aaron James French - Defected Unsung Heroes

Crossing Deep, Minimal and Progressive House in this mix.

UGKMix1 - On Board

UGKMix2 - On Board 2

Heavily jazz flavored.  Some rough points.

UDGK Mix 7 - FusedRhythms

Some jams I'm diggin' at the moment and one from the beginning, at the end.  A dope unreleased track by Doc Link and MC Party Mouth!  Small subtle tribute to Frankie Knuckles, also.

Tracklist:
1. Hands Up - Hotevilla
2. 13 Steps to Heaven - Cinthie
3. BSBF - Doc Link and MC Party Mouth
4. Bossa - Cinthie
5. Best of Me - Mark Lewis (Flow Culture Vocal)
6. See the World - Slacker
7. House Fusion (Tom Ellis Remix) - Barbara & John Thomas, Barbara Goes and John Thomas.
8. Do Bob Dee- Barney Osborn
9. Last Note - Filta Freqz
10. Happy Ending - Active nature
11. Ajare (Wild Pitch Mix) - Way Out West

- Aaron French

Equinox

Tracklist:

1. MAW Apes Groove - Masters At Work
2. Spacefunk - Alci
3.  Mind Games - Roberto Parisi
4.  Johnny's Hustle (Atjazz Remix) - South Beach Recycling
5.  Back in the Days - COEO
6.  Wild Card - Jorge Caiado
7.  Whatch Yo Step - William Caycedo
8. You Got It (Original Mix) - Daniel Steinberg
9.  Cassette 7 - Black Loops
10. Remember When - Patrice Scott
11.  Descambar - Barbara Goes

OneTwentyThree

This set here I am dedicating to my utmost amazing wife. Life has been the best since I met her 13 years ago.

Tracklist:

Blomst - Black Loops
Silk - Daniel Steinberg
Plants (Featuring Paul Cut) - Seb Wildblood
The Way (WTN Instrumental Mix, Aaron French vocal) - Syren Rivers
Come And Save Me (feat. Sabrina Chyld) - Abel
Wrong Mindset - Jorge Caiado
From the Ground Up - 16BL
Sometimes No - Katie Drover
Andere - Christian Bruder
The Message - Homero Espinosa
Paul Cut - Seaside

CristinaF

A selection of songs that were produced at or around 110 BPM.  A set good for the beginning of the night or anytime in the car. 

Track IDs available.  Please inquire in the comments section.  

Happy Holidays

-Aaron French

TreeSap

Transition-sion

A tribute to Restless Soul and the late Phil Asher.  He made great music.  He also may have been a bit of a comedian, as two of the tracks used were quite challenging to work with digitally.  It seemed as if the BPM deviated slightly from the digital counter.  

Tracks available upon request if anything is unshazamable.

Restlessness

Deep journey with a few impromptu actions.  Gal on first track is my wife that I edited in.  Track names available up request, or find my Mixcloud profile and see them there.

Dancingaling

Some dope jams from producers around the globe.  

Track IDs available upon request.

TheirOwnThings

Somewhat dark beginning then into shifting deep vibe with a super smooth finish.  I also had a short circuit occur during the recording, but was able to recovery from that during the set.  IMPORTANT-->please make sure you play this on a system with good low end output.   

Tracklist available upon request.  Just comment "ID", and I'd be glad to hook you up.

Selectz

This mix is inspired by some of the most talented DJs in the world, some 80's & 90's nostalgia, and my own findings digging in digital crates, lol.

Tracklist:

Untitled - Satoshi & Makoto
Black Sun (Above Japan) - Stump Valley
Fear Test (Sasse Edit) - Garnica
Beyond My Eyes - Bibio
GLOgli - STS9
Savannah - Nick Warren & Tripswitch
See the Moonlight - Disco Dandies
Cos I Can Do It Right - The Deadbeats
Alone (Paradise Version) - Don Carlos
Pack It Up - Saru
Mediate - INXS
Time Is Not Forever -Daniel Steinberg
Beercan - Beck
Get Down Right - Slakah the Beatchild, Divine Brown & Do

Midbeatin'

All tracks in this mix were produced by Esbe and released on his Bloomsday album.  
https://soundcloud.com/esbe1988

Tracklist:

1. Tribute to Music
2. Autumn Bliss (1st 75%)
3. Day by Day
4. Forever
5. Reverie
6. Songs We Danced To
7. Folklore
8. Float
9. Intimate
10. Feel Good
11.  Sky Blue
12. Darling
13. Fulfill / The Dream
14. Serenade
15. Fragment
16. Blossom
17. Hello World
18. Wanderlust
19. Thousands of Rhythms
20.  Autumn Bliss (Last 25%)

Bloomsday(Mixed - tracks produced by Esbe)

Track List:

1. Mltply - Machine Drum
2. Think Twice - Paul Cut
3. Superfly Funk - Jazz Spastics & People Without Shoes
4. Keep on Tryin' - The Deadbeats
5. City Raw - Quaid (Sourced from: https://soundcloud.com/mikecashen/street-sould)
6. Rising and Falling - Sound Patrol (Derek Carter and Chris Nazuka)
7. Why I Love You (feat. Jenny Vasquez) - Prefuse 73
8. Der Kurze Weg - The Slipmat Brothers
9. Control - Saru
10. With a Professional - Dabrye
11. The Lights - Kay & Nicolay
12. Rockin' It  or Spanish Harlem - Camp Lo
13. Maynelyne - Nitemoves
14. Rue the Whirl - Boards of Canada
15. So Far To Go - J Dilla
16. Everything Under The Sun - Lusine
17. Strictly 4 All (Instrumental) - Figub Brazelvic & Teknical Development.is (Sourced from: https://soundcloud.com/user-575328430/mike-cashen-live-from-the-great-northern-at-mf-50-3222019)
18. Tear Strips Off - Tipper
19. Autumn Rain - Freddie Joachim

Rolling Hills

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MF54 in header image.  
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Found House Music in 1997 at The Underground shop in North Highlands, CA, after hearing about a party that went down around that time in San Francisco (Wicked). House proved to be a very uplifting, non-aggressive, and non-depressing new music genre that appeared highly underrated.  In fact, I did not see House as dance music until much later in life. The DJ mixes I was listening to were more like “soundtracks for daily living”.  Was very, very intrigued by the United DJs of America and Global Underground DJ 💿 mix albums. I did not make it to the club scene at all as a young father, and also being in Sacramento.  The scene seemed wack compared to what was happening in San Francisco.  Listened only for about 7 years every chance I could possibly get (approx 11,000 hours of ear time between 97’ and 04').  Yes, I was the guy strollin’ thru Arden Fair Mall slammin’ house beats in my headphones (that could easily be heard from other people nearby) because IDidntGAF.  I used to make the staff in the stock room at Ross Stores Inc. listen to House on the little boom box (cassettes!) they had while we processed merchandise.  I had them convinced for about a year that it made everyone more productive (98'-99'). Lol.  Did have a super unfortunate event in 04'.  My car was broken into and about 350 store bought CDs (dj mixes) were stolen.  There were other valuables in the car that were not taken.  I paid for all of those cd albums with tips I received working in restaurants. 
Despite this happening....
...I started mixing on my own in 05' self-learning and applying by way of ear on a Numark CDMIX2, years before sync button technology.  I will also give credit to Chris Almazan (Beat Fleet DJs), as he gave me some fundamental beat matching tips back in the year 2000.  

Last, my basis on selecting and using tracks is if they sound good, and that’s it. 

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Faded Opportunities:

Ink Eats and Drinks August 2003-brought in a few CD album mixes (MF sets.  Live at OM and 🤔) that were played in the bar b4 their vinyl DJ came on (he played top 40, 80s to then.  Justin) Told the bar tender (Demitrious) that I’d be interested in doing sets there, too.  No DJ experience, but didn’t care.  I was going to learn, quickly.  He said he would push for it if I could bring a similar sound to the CD mixes I brought.  Planning for express emergency equipment procurement began.  The very next week, Ink’s entertainment sector was shut down by the city planning commission.  Dreams smashed.  Fund squandered.  No equipment.  Would have been vinyl turntables.  

SRO Corporation May 2008-AKA Bistro 33 and a few other venues.  4 years practice in on cd mixing equipment.  The company had planned to open Club Tré, on Howe Ave in Sacramento.  I connected with one of the Executives for SRO corp and he passed me on to a Desi who was involved in the entertainment for the Sacramento club known as Town House.  Desi had been recruited as the Director of Entertainment for Club Tré.  I submitted some cd mixes to him, and he called me back and said he’d like to get me in there as a DJ.  Club never opened, and it probably shouldn’t have because it was a seemingly good location that was actually not as viable as it once was.

Then I left DJing, and just became a listener again.  Found the EDjing app in 2013 and bought a Pioneer DDJ.  Did almost 100 mixes in the app while the ddj sat in a closet.
Went to MF50 and was revived.  Started mixing on the DDJ regularly.  

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Finally jumped into vinyl (Dec 2019).  One House record purchased, however, way back in 06’.  

Released two wack tracks in 2020 and one in 2021 that were produced using Apple Garageband software (Iphone).  

Joined Underground Kollektive Radio in late 2022.

https://undergroundkollektiv.co.uk

Might end up being “washed up”….from the land side.  And thats ok.  Had a good amount of curveballs in life.  So this is where it be for me.

Aaron French

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