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The cosmic journey continues with 'Constellations: Orion,' the latest episode in SLC-6 Music's mix compilation series.  This time our helm is in the experienced hands of Maltese hero, DJ Ruby.  The veteran dj has been a champion of progressive music on his home island for years, forging a thriving community and building a sterling reputation.  For 'Orion', Ruby curated an outstanding selection of tracks from the SLC-6 Music catalog, including commissions of new tracks from within the label's stable of artist-astronauts.  Also included are two new tracks from Ruby himself - an original and a remix with frequent musical collaborator, Paul Hamilton - each specially produced for inclusion in this mix compilation.  With the subtle touch of a master of his craft, Ruby's continuous mix is a gem.

The constellation Orion is prominent, visible, and recognizable the world over.  Named for 'The Hunter' in Greek Mythology, Orion was the son of Poseidon, god of the sea, and Euryale, the Gorgon. He is mortal enemy of The Scorpion, who was sent to kill him by the goddess Artemis for threatening to hunt all the animals of the earth.  In the night sky, Orion is never seen at the same time as its nemesis, Scorpius - one disappears as the other emerges.  The three stars that comprise Orion's Belt are easily identifiable and have aided navigators for millennia.
  
Purchasers of the entire unmixed release may send a copy of their receipt to music@slc6music.com to receive a digital copy of the full length continuous mix.

D.J. MacIntyre, Casper Keys - Helium (Nicolas Benedetti Remix) [SLC - 6 Music] - Preview

Mellow Prog Vibes 09 - September 24th 2021
Guest DJ: Gerardo Duran (Cancun, Mexico)
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TRACKLIST:
Gustavo Cerati - Pulsar (Maximo Gambini Rework)
Oliver & Tom - Beyond Stars (Original Mix)
Franca - Kill Your Darlings (Forniva Remix) 
Kastis Torrau - Route 88 (Dmitry Molosh Remix)
Waxman - Contact (Julian Nates Remix) 
Mario Bianco - Lollo
Shai T - Superstition (Original Mix)
Sebastian Busto Presents Moonlight Project - The Night Wanderer (Katzen Remix) (Preview)
Gustavo Cerati - Beautiful (Carlos Gatto Remix)


Gerardo Duran is one of Mexico’s main names in progressive. From an early age, his musical tastes made him interested in different kinds of rhythms. Electronic music ended up becoming his mainstay in 1995. From 2000 onward he started playing more seriously in raves and private events, building his sets with musical lines along the progressive-house, deep & dark progressive, melodic & harmonic ranges. 

As his career advanced, he played and collaborated with hundreds of artists including Daniel Camarillo, Stan Kolev, Stage van H, Monojoke, Katzen, Cream, Ewan Rill, Rick Pier O'Neil, Amber Long, Prya Sen, NAHS, Weird Sounding Dude, Bruno Andrada, NOIYSE PROJECT, Paul Sawyer, Gux Jimenez, Simos Tagias and many more. 
Gerardo’s sets are heard internationally on a number of radio stations and shows including Germany’s TM Radio (since 2014) and Cosmos Radio; Turkey’s Loops Radio; and Argentina’s By Ground Digital. He has been a guest on the renowned Proton Radio and on various radio shows in Russia, Sri Lanka, India, Argentina and of course all across Mexico.

This is his first Canadian appearance and we are thrilled to welcome him on Mellow Prog Vibes for this exclusive session.

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Ottawa Prog Vibes 120 - September 25th 2021
Alain M.

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TRACKLIST
VAUBAN – Ayampe (Original Mix)
Corei, Neurat – Theorema Zero (Original Mix)
Mario Neha – Lights on Mars (Maximo Gambini & Q.A.T. Remix)
BT – Dreaming (Kamilo Sanclemente Bootleg)
Sous Sol – Blurred Strings (Original Mix)
Kosala B – Heaven Voices (Yudi Watanabe Remix)
John Cosani – Bootes (Hicky & Kalo Remix)
Ozgur Ozkan – Try to Remember (Larson AR Remix)
DOMA – Lucero (Original Mix)
Weird Sounding Dude – Wonderlife (Original Mix)

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Tracklist:

CONTACT - Tone Deep on PROTON (SEP 2021)

01. Nick Warren - Buenos Aires (Nicolas Rada Remix) [Hope Recordings] 
02. Jos & Eli feat Alex Clare - Mistakes (Original Mix) [Watergate Records] 
03. Galestian - All for You (Anton Make Remix) [ICONYC Noir]
04. Zankee Gulati - Moon Drops (Original Mix) [The Soundgarden]
05. Yashar - Midnight Decisions (Dub Mix) [Balkan Connection]
06. Mike Rish - Tuumla (Original Mix) [Juicebox Music]
07. KODA (LK) - Sara(Original Mix) [One Of A Kind]
08. Budakid, Jamie Stevens - Story Of Tokay (Khen Remix) [Lost & Found] 
09. Paul Deep (AR) - Masha (Original Mix) [meanwhile]

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CONTACT - Tone Deep On PROTON (SEP 2021)

GAEO's Grip was the first step for Stellar Limited to take, as it started the label's journey into more electronica based releases. The highly acclaimed original of GAEO deserved a pack of remixes with a focus of keeping the main vibe in these version. Yöurr worked brilliantly with the subtle, dark atmosphere lifting the piano line in the center. Blue Cell gave a harmonic boost in their chilltronica rework, which can be a cool stater in any forward thinking dj's sets.

Release date : October 22, 2021
Beatport : https://www.beatport.com/label/stellar-limited/91533
Youtube : https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCNapHTKxBCCT0rIFezAiLDQ

GÆO - Grip (Blue Cell Remix) [Stellar Limited]

Let us behave like true spiritual warriors <3

Tracklist:

1. Dar Pan - Blessing (Original Mix)  [Balance Music]
2. East Cafe  - Break the Mold  
3. Fulltone - C'est Bon (Original Mix)  [Klassified]
4. ADHM - Kessa (Mass Digital Remix)  [Mirrors Label]
5. Volen Sentir - Jivoe Serdce (Original Mix)  [Shanti Radio Moscow]
6. Double Touch - Von Paradiso (Original Mix)  [TRYBESof]
7. Sebastien Leger - Ashes In The Wind (Original Mix)  [All Day I Dream]
8. Sebastien Leger - Menabelle (Original Mix)  [All Day I Dream]
9. SANDRINO, Frankey - Acamar (Original Mix)  [MTN Muting The Noise GmbH]
10. Khen - Manginot (Original Mix)  [Lost Miracle]
11. NOSSSIA - Clandestino (Original Mix)  [BeatFreak Recordings]
12. Soul Button - Utopia feat. Terry Grant (Armen Miran Remix)  [Steyoyoke]
13. German Tedesco - Naipi (Agustin Lupidi remix)  [One Of A Kind]
14. Claudiu Adam - Somewhere In Time (Original Mix)  [Where The Heart Is]
15. Kasper Koman - In Circles (Extended Mix)  [Juicebox Music]
16. Nahue Sintes/Fourni - U Don't Know (Alex O'Rion Deep dub mix)  [Consapevole Recordings]
17. Fernando Olaya - Naturalia (Original Mix)  [Sonnet Speciale]
18. Nick Curly - No Takers (2019 Remaster)  [8Bit]
19. Mollono.Bass, Marc Vogler - Unforgettable Times feat. Marc Vogler (Original Mix)  [3000 Grad Records]
20. Josh Butler, Dennis Cruz - Ahora Todo Va (Gorgon City Remix)  [Crosstown Rebels]

Peggy Deluxe @ Eat Beat & Culture, Dudelange (LUX) 25.09.2021

Grip Remixed

Premiere: GÆO - Grip (Yöurr Remix) [Stellar Limited]

Ottawa Prog Vibes 124 - October 23rd 2021
Alain M.

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TRACKLIST
ARTN – Birdbox (Corei Remix)
Modulon & Freaky Chakra – Yo-Yo (Tripswitch Remix)
Tali Muss – Yalla (Highjacks Remix)
Sebastian Leger – Son of Sun (Original Mix)
Sotela, Javier Portilla, Emalaine – Your Eyes (Hernan Cattaneo & Lonya Remix)
APNITUS – Magic Time (Alberto Hernandez (MX) Remix)
Carl OS – Without You (Guido Elordi & Juan Erbin Remix)
Ivan Aliaga – Parallel (Original Mix)
Facundo Navarro – Renacer (Original Mix)
D.J. MacIntyre & Lorely Mur – Cold Water Army (Kenan Savrun Remix)

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Ottawa Prog Vibes 127 - November 13th 2021
Alain M.

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TRACKLIST
Nicolas Rada – Schiphol (Original Mix)
Imran Khan – In My Head (Original Mix)
Goda Brother – With Pleasure (Darren Bray Remix)
Hicky & Kalo – Borealis (Nick Warren & Nicolas Rada Remix)
Papai ACCI Attila – Another World (Original Mix)
Oleg Espo & Muline – Magic Land [feat. Doomsayer] (Weird Sounding Dude Remix)
SALAZAR & Pablo Arbelaez – Resilience (Mick Whitehouse Remix)
Stan Seba – Air Supply (Facundo Borras Remix)
Sebastian Busto – The Key of Dreams (Original Mix)
Monolink – The Prey (Gui Boratto & Vintage Culture Remix)

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Beautiful Life

Seba GS - Beautiful Life (Original Mix)

Ottawa Prog Vibes 130 - December 4th 2021
Alain M.

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One of my favourite mix CDs in the iconic Global Underground collection is, without a doubt, GU019 - John Digweed Los Angeles, released in 2001. Two decades later that mix hasn’t aged. I must’ve listened to it hundreds of times - and if you have too, you know exactly how it starts - with Pole Folder and CP’s hauntingly trippy track “Apollo Vibes”.

For this episode of Ottawa Prog Vibes, I reach way back into the crate and bring back the unreleased mix of “Apollo Vibes” - an 11-minute opus that epitomizes everything that is brilliant about good electronic music. If you remember this track, this one’s for you :)

TRACKLIST
TD – The Observer (Original Mix)
Enamour – Heartstrings (Extended Mix)
Approximate – Cat in the Rain (Original Mix)
Juan Ibañez & Dylan Deck – Touching the Sky (André Moret Remix)
Forty Cats – Yarilo (Original Mix)
Riigs – Stay Forever (No Distance Remix)
Rikken, Max Hendricks – Labyrinth (MZN Remix)
David August – Epikur (Mariano Montoni Edit)
Pole Folder, CP – Apollo Vibes (Unreleased Mix)
Juan Sapia & Eric Lune – Anyone Who Had a Big Dream (Original Mix)
Massive Attack – Paradise Circus (Tidy Daps Remix)

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Ottawa Prog Vibes 133 - December 25th 2021
Alain M.

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As is the tradition every year, the last episode is devoted to my 10 best of the year. In a typical year, I will listen to about 8,000 tracks and play fewer than 600, less than 10 per cent, in my recorded or live sets. Of those 600, the 10 best are for me the ones that I either particularly liked for a variety of reasons, and/or those that got a huge reaction when played live in a gig. Some are from big names, others from lesser known or up-and-coming producers. What I care most about selecting my music is how it makes me feel and therefore what I think I can transmit to those who listen to me playing. 

Each of my top-10 has its own reason for being there, in some cases I like the buildup, in other cases the melody, in other cases the groove, in other cases how they set the table - they are simply my own faves.

Every year I make a mix with my top 10 and it is a different kind of set - the flow of the mix is fundamentally different since this is not a set that I built the same way - and my mixing style for some of the transitions, as you’ll notice, is also a bit different.

Here the are, in the order that I play them in this mix (but not in rank order)

Above & Beyond – Sun in Your Eyes (Spencer Brown Club Mix)
LOFAB – Mekong (Alberto Hernandez (MX) Remix)
Alberto Blanco – Multiverse (Tomek Remix)
Darren Bray – Sanctum (JFR & Julian Rodriguez Remix)
Cayto – The Last Glance (Original Mix)
Mattias Herrera – Nimbus (Original Mix)
Gorge, Danjo (IT) – Verenacio (Original Mix)
Far Distance – Hyperspace (Rauschhaus Remix)
Katrin Souza – Butterflies in My Tummy (Julian Liander & Arnaud Cordova Remix)
Sebastian Busto – The Key of Dreams (Original Mix)

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Timeless Connection

Echoes of the City

“Animal Lust – Tribal Instincts” is a primal dance ritual reimagined for Gen Z nightlife. Inspired by the power and sensuality of wild animals, the album fuses Afrohouse drums, techno grooves, and cinematic orchestral textures into a hypnotic club experience. Each track channels the spirit of a predator or a sacred beast, turning the dancefloor into a jungle of lust, ecstasy, and tribal energy. A sonic tribute to instinct, passion, and the erotic wilderness within us all.


Falcon Sky

One thing that I'm keenly aware of, as a music producer who used to be a nightclub dj, is that a lot of the Interbay tracks, even those designed as "dance" tracks, are still Interbay-enough to confuse some dj's and some dancefloors.  My everpresent need for novelty can strip away the hypnotic pull of a groove that never ends.  No matter the dance music genre, the sense of being able to lose yourself as the music goes on and on is usually present in most dance songs (maybe not dubstep.)  I tend to switch things up, too much and too often, for the types that close their eyes on the dancefloor and just letting the groove to take them somewhere.  

It's a fair cop.  But this might be the exception that proves the rule.  Without losing its inherent and intrinsic Interbayness, "Fathoms" manages to also exude that "we just turned the machines on and let them run" vibe that most people expect from their dance tracks.  

This is a song about deep house while not exactly being a deep house song.  (It is also a potentially happy ending version of the story of rich people who board a submersible that claims to be able to take them down deep enough to see the wreck of the Titanic...only to blink out of existence when the ship proves to be unworthy.)  Even if the BPM of "Fathoms" is well within the range you could expect from deep house, there's also enough synth arpeggiation to throw the trance hat into the ring.  (Can you have deep trance?  Probably...I have probably missed quite a few genre identifications since retiring from dj'ing and record store managing 21 years ago.  And yes, you're right.  I'm an old.)  

This might be my purest dance track yet, whatever the genre you feel most comfortable putting it in.  I hope you like it as much as I do.  

The only way to find out is to listen.  Then you can give it a righteous like--and I hope you do!  

And if you feel so moved as to repost it, share it, add it to a playlist, or comment on it--you are absolutely welcome to do so.  That'd be really cool if you did!

There are new Interbay tracks dropping here on SoundCloud, EVERY SINGLE DAY (so far!--and we're closing in quickly to the 500 straight days of dropping a track on SoundCloud milestone!)  The only way to keep up with this insane posting schedule is to follow the page--that way, you won't miss any new drops along the way!  

Hope you'll check out tomorrow's Interbay drop.  We can both discover what it'll be together, as of right now, I'm not sure what you're going to get!

"Fathoms" *SoundCloud Exclusive*

ABOUT OTTAWA PROG VIBES

Alain M.'s weekly podcast, Ottawa Prog Vibes, is now in its 7th year and is a recognized presence among Canadian Electronica shows. The show has two goals: showcase progressive DJ's from Ottawa (and Canada) to a global audience, and bring international DJ guests to an Ottawa (and Canadian) audience). 

Alain plays three out of every 10 shows. His mixing has been noted as particularly creative and smooth, a skill that allow his sets to be experienced as seamless stories.

An offshoot series, called Mellow Prog Vibes, is released every two weeks and focuses on more chill vibes, slightly more downtempo, to create a more relaxed vibe. It is curated by OPV resident DJ Boraa, who plays every other episode, with guest DJs playing the alternate.

Ottawa Prog Vibes and Mellow Prog Vibes are broadcast weekly on UK's Saturo Radio, New York's Chill Lover Radio and Ottawa's Blast the Radio.


ABOUT ALAIN M.

Alain M. started dj’ing in his early 20s and played a variety of clubs, big and small, in Ottawa, Montreal and Kingston. From teenage influences in progressive rock, metal and blues, and later New York and Chicago house, Dutch techno and early trance, his style has evolved towards the more melodic, infectiously rhythmic and thoughtful sounds of progressive house, with a particular fondness for Argentinian productions.

Over his 30+ years as a DJ, Alain has cultivated a signature melodic, danceable, and thoughtful style with enough surprises to keep even the most devout listeners on their toes. His live events, organized only a few times annually, are a hypotonic, transformational experience for attendees, putting the Nation’s Capital on the map for electronic music. He has organized and collaborated in a number of events including Levitar, Sunday Meet & Beat, Sit-Down Sessions, Shake my Thursday and Expeditions, attracting a thoughtful crowd who stay mesmerized by his melodic, danceable sets, always peppered with delightfully unexpected sonic elements.

Alain M. is also a guest DJ submitting regular sets to several radio and online outlets. He is a resident on X-Beat Radio (France, Belgium). He was a monthly resident on Abyss Sound Experience on QuestLondon Radio in 2021 and on UK-based Beach Radio between 2021 and 2024.

He has appeared as a guest on a number of shows in several countries including the UK, Argentina, Spain, Poland, Brazil, Sri Lanka, Peru, Turkey, Israel and the US. In Canada, he has been featured as a guest DJ at several events by Ottawa-based Music.Art.Ppl, on CHUO FM’s Vanguard Pulse Radio, on CKCU FM’s Lost In Bass and Mapped Out Radio, on Montreal’s Afterhour radio show and on Toronto’s ION radio show.

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