Welcome to 2022!

2021 produced some incredible progressive house music. In honor of that and to start the year off right, I decided to mix up some of my favorite progressive house tracks from 2021. This mix includes tracks that I played regularly on other mixes or live. 

Tracklisting:

1. Ferry Corsten - Lemme Take You (Extended Mix)
2. James Hype - Dancing (Extended Mix)
3. John Summit - Make me Feel
4. Dosem & Tinlicker - I can Feel (Extended Mix)
5. Tinlicker feat. Helsloot - Because you Move Me (Jan Oberleander Extended Remix)
6. Enamour feat. Hydrah - Hypertrophy of Heart (Dub Mix)
7. Sofi Tukker & John Summit - Sun Came Up (Extended Mix)
8. Gai Barone - Reverie
9. Matt Fax - Torn (Extended Mix)
10. Infinity Ink - Aya (THEMBA's Herd Extended Remix)
11. Dezza - In your arms (Jackarta Extended Remix)
12. Marsh - Liberator (Extended Mix)
13. Allan McLoud - Gerascophobia (Höhnflug Remix)

That last track is one of my favorites for the year!

Here's hoping for a wonderful 2022 filled with good friends and great beats!   <3 - Critical Value

Critical Mixes

Critical Mixes 23 - Best of 2021 Progresive

Halcyon and On and On - Orbital
Birthright  - Nora En Pure
Brothers & Sisters  - Quivver
Melburn (Chable & Mangan Remix) - Luke Chable
Get Me High (Original Mix) - Franky Wah
Atlas (Original Mix) - Bicep
What Now - Nisene
Salzburg - Worakls
Mirage - Nisene
Skywalk - Extended (Original Mix) - Gorgon City
Soon You'll Be Gone feat. Thomas Oliver (Original Mix) - Thomas Oliver, Tinlicker
Open Up (Durante Remix) - Cassian
Toto (Extended Mix) - My Friend
Lost Control - Nisene
Cedar (Original Mix) - Dusky

Halcyon NYE 2022 - Jody Wisternoff Support Set

Here's my live set from the WAVE RAVE at "CAMP" - Calling All Magical People: Music and Arts Retreat in MD the 4th of July Weekend 2022.
Thanks for having me and to everyone who danced their asses off with me in the HOUSE party! It was such a blast! Far from perfect, but hey, so are you  :)

For those of you asking for ID's, see my set list below:
Cour T. & Kaanuhea -  "No No No"
District South - "Pure Square
DJ Glen & Bruno Furlan -  "What's Going On?"
Green Velvet & Walter Philips - "Shake & Pop"
Pedro Costa - "Changes In Life"
Shaded & Cari Golden - "Layback Maybach"
Sacha Robotti & Kevin Knapp - "King Midas"
Girl Unit & Claude VonStroke- "Wut" (Claude VonStroke Fully Dressed Mix)
VNSSA, Wongo & Nacho Pop - "Im The DJ" (VNSSA Remix)
Average Citizens & Epitomic - "Cruel Summer"
BIJOU & Party Favor - "WHOA"
Endor - "Sway"
CЯiSPY - "Say It Back"
BADDIES ONLY - "BAD LITTLE KITTIES"
Born Dirty - "Check Your Bell"
Gabe - "My Dimension"
Kill Frenzy - "Gorilla"
Escapade(Walker & Royce & Ardalan)- "Animals"
Salomé Le Chat - "Cruising On The Playa"
Brokenears, Milk & Sugar & Roland Clark - "Celebrate" (Brokenears Remix)
Kyle Watson, Ardalan & Claire George - "Osci" (Kyle Watson Remix)
Labrinth, Zendaya - "All For Us"(HBO Original Series Euphoria)
James Curd - "I Can Still Fly"

CRSPY - CallingALLMagicalPeople *Live Set

For this month I'm incredibly proud and honoured to present one of the originators of the Halifax rave and club scene, none other than Nick Nonsense himself. Here are some words he wrote about the mix below. 

There was a time when a lot of the music I played was a trance or ambient style of electronic music. It was a time when I had yet to find my own signature style and when the subgenres of electronic music were less defined as they are today. I still enjoy those records that fit into that sweet spot where you might imagine a bunch of different DJs liking it enough to chart it. I’ve tried to compile and mix a bunch for them for this AMP mix, my first for the series. It’s a soup of techno, minimal, stuff the online record stores calls Deep House (but I don’t), bubbly acid, spacey house, electro/breaks, and a couple of big room tracks. 

Aviatrix is building something special here that I truly respect in both vision and substance, and I really wanted to contribute something. So I stepped out of my normal format of just house or techno and went looking for deeper cuts in a progressive or dark ambient style. Since I often pick the tracks in that style by artists or from labels not known for that sound, I like to think my mix sounds a little different from the others in the series while still capturing the flavour. This mix features my new found love for the Boston-based minimal label Little Helpers, the most recent work in the progressive vein of well-known house music producer Kevin Yost, a couple of really old classics that are hard to pigeonhole, and a few of my favourite progressive artists like Dusky and James Dexter. Ultimately aren’t we all just trying to do a good impression of Sean Keating anyway? I know I am.

Tracklisting:

1. James Organ - Lost (feat. The Angel) (Lord Leopard Spritz Mix [Street Tracks Pool Jams]
2. Kevin Yost - Don’t Get It Twisted  [TSOY]
3. Atjazz & Fred Everything - Stay A While (Méchant Dub) [Lazy Days]
4. Harrison BDP - Hate The Taste of Whisky [Lost Palms]
5. Randall Jones & ariaano - Little Helper 384-6 [Little Helpers]
6. Orbital - Lush 3-4 (Psychick Warriors Ov Gaia Mix) [ffrr]
7. Kevin Yost - A Void [TSOY]
8. James Dexter - Little Helper 330-5 [Little Helpers]
9. James Dexter - She Looks [heDZup]
10. Bukalak - Little Helper 256-7 [Little Helpers]
11. Chez de Milo - Need Someone [FutureBoogie]
12. Peter Hamilton & Peter Mac - Digit (G.Pal Remix) [Houph]
13. Dallomo - Juanito [Houph]
14. K.A.M.A. - Little Helper 223-4 [Little Helpers]
15. Harrison BDP  - All That’s On My Mind  [Work]
16. Terry Francis - Jazz hands [Jack’s House]
17. The Martian - Sex In Zero Gravity [Red Planet]
18. James Dexter  - Little Helpers 237-1 [Little Helpers]
19. Tom Middleton - HEVA [Anjunadeep]
20. Legit Trip - Around [Jack’s House]
21. Dusky - Static [Running Back]
22. Dusky - Hildegaard [17 Steps]
23. Robert Babicz - Starchild [Babiczstyle]
24. Butane & Riko Forinson - Little Helper 367-5  [Little Helpers]
25. RAC - Blurt [Unreleased]

AMP Mix 06.09.22

Amplified with Nick Nonsense September 2022

Just B understands the assignment.  Dropping big tunes perfect for a fire breathing DJ booth yet keeping it seductive with occasional sultry lyrics. Bearing in mind the year's theme, you'll hear samples like Eurythmics "Sweet Dreams" or Biggie's line "It was all a dream".  A very cool tech house assortment for your eardrums.

Opulent Temple Podcast #146 - Just B - Live at Burning Man 2022

Simon Harrison | Live at The Junkyard | Lightning In A Bottle 2022

Blessings to all in this new year. Special thank you to the Sayulinda family for the magical atmosphere and the very lovely people we encountered.

Excellent start to a new year.

My Collection

New Years Day - Sayulinda Hotel Sayulita MX - Rooftop Pool Party - 2023

20223-01 Wolf Moon

2023-01 Wolf Moon

I had the pleasure of playing "the most exclusive party at the most exclusive party" aka Club Kewpie at the end of last year. I hope you enjoy!

Club Kewpie [November 2022]

Gabriel & Dresden -  Live @ OT Sacred Dance Burning Man 2018

Opulent Temple Podcast #143 - Gabriel & Dresden -  Live @ OT Sacred Dance Burning Man 2018

WE ARE ONE: https://www.simonshackleton.org/we-are-one
FB GROUP: https://www.facebook.com/groups/weareonemusic
DONATIONS: https://www.paypal.me/simonshackleton

In these strange and challenging times, we need friends, family, and community more than ever. For that reason, I've created a series of online gatherings under the 'We Are One' banner as a means of bringing people together from all corners of the globe to laugh, love, and dance (like no one's watching).

These social events put YOU first, with a High Definition audio stream via Mixlr and additional capacity for up to 100 Zoom video attendees as well as Twitch & Facebook streams.

This set was created using 5 decks on Ableton, an APC40 Controller & a LaunchKey MIDI keyboard (with 3 channels of overdubs), and as such it's as much about on-the-fly live performance as it is about straight-up DJ'ing.

Enjoy!

We Are One

We Are One Vol.03

Critical value (Justin B ) is a curator of fine melodic progressive house and trance tunes. Originally from Southern California, he got his start DJing in the Los Angeles music scene in 2001. Growing up in a Lebanese-American family, music was always an integral part of his life. His first gigs were in dimly lit chill-out spaces of the back rooms of clubs. He later co-produced a "UK-style" queer weekly at a nightclub in L.A. Those experiences left a mark on his style today and he continues to be influenced by the rave scene, desert parties, dirty dirty house clubs, burning man, and sounds that remind him of home. 

Today, Critical Value wants to take you on a sonic journey through the deeper and darker parts of progressive house and progressive trance tunes. Although, don't be surprised if Critical Value takes you to other places too, perhaps some psy-trance, downtempo, tech-house, techno, or even a few cheesy vocal trance numbers. 

Enjoy your sonic journey as critical value takes you on a floating voyage through the music that he loves to listen to in hopes that you will fall in love with these tunes like he has.

Critical Mixes 23 - Best of 2021 Progresive

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