Since COVID hit I’ve been listening to more DNB again and really enjoying some of the early stuff. I dug up this mix I did back in 2012 as preparation for a promo mix I was planning to release at the time. This is the first full practice run that I did to hear how the track selection would come together. This recording of the mix was never intended for others to hear. However, since the likelihood of me recording a tight “releasable” version now is slim to none I felt it was worth sharing despite it’s imperfections. You can hear a few tempo adjustments and briefly mismatched beats but the track selection and programming are something I still get fired up about. The concept behind the would be promo mix was set to be a double mix release called “Tired of Sleeping” which was making reference to the year or two I had taken a break from DJing after my son was born. This mix, Volume 1, was called “Head On The Pillow” and Volume 2 would have been “Feet On The Floor”. The idea for the two was that Volume 1 represented a collection of tracks that I loved from the earlier years of jungle/DNB that I was dreaming of while I was “asleep” or away from the scene. Volume 2 would have been contemporary, upfront tunes that were a collection of tracks that inspired me to get back to work, get out of bed and put my feet on the floor as well as move some feet on the dancefloor. I always had as much fun with my mix titles as I did the mixes themselves. So anyway, here is the first pass I made at Volume 1. If you give it a listen I hope you enjoy the mix and that the music takes you down memory lane the way it does for me.

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