Enjoy this time.
Tracklist:
Keep It Deep (Original Mix)	Leandro Di
Isis (Original Mix)	Punu
Falling (Diego Poblets Remix)	Blusoul
 Antropofagia (Original Mix)	Gui Boratto
Spillage (Original Mix)	Gaiser
Let Me Down (Tube & Berger Remix)	Daniel Steinberg
Driftwork (Original Mix)	Gaiser
Right on Track (Original Mix)	Booka Shade
Blowball (Original Mix)	Mike Trend
 (Olivier Giacomotto Remix)	John Acquaviva, Nihil Young
Say What? (Original Mix)	Gaiser
Cassiopeia (Original Mix)	Kolsch, Gregor Schwellenbach
 Don't See The Point (Original Mix)	Alex Smoke
Victory (Original Mix)	Jaap Ligthart
Lost In A Moment (Original Mix) 	Matthew Dekay, Lee Burridge
 Satisfy (Tiger Stripes & Pleasurekraft Remix)	Cajmere, Dajae
 Night & Day (KÃƒÂ¶lsch Remix Vocal)	Kaiserdisco
Oozewave (Original Mix)	Gaiser
Summer Drops (UNER Remix)	Monika Kruse
 Imprint Of Pleasure (Original Mix)	Tube & Berger
Maintain (Original Mix) 	Fabio Giannelli
Aura (Anthony Yarranton Remix)	Matias Chilano
 Amore (Original Mix)	Julian Jeweil
Life Element (Original Mix)	Doomwork
 I Want (Original Mix)	Tony Romera
Meridian_Pryda Remix	Henry Saiz, Guy J
 Without You (Original Mix)	Lane 8
Can't Do Without You (Tale Of Us & Mano Le Tough Remix)	Caribou
Sky (Scuba Remix)	Audion
Fargo (Original Mix)	dubspeeka
 Free My Soul (Original Mix)	Ziger

With or Without You

Critics and audiences first fell in love with the Alex Smoke sound back in 2002 when his debut Soma single ‘Chica Wappa’ landed in their laps. His sensational debut album ‘Incommunicado’ – released back in 2005 on the Soma label – generated a lot of heat with scorching tracks like ‘6am’, ‘Don’t See The Point’ and the sizzling ‘Chica Wappa’. It was the result of Alex throwing a variety of genres in to a melting pot and then pouring it out to create something that was truly his own. The decision to partner up with fellow Glaswegians Soma seemed only natural and just one year later, in 2006, they released Alex’s second album ‘Paradolia’. Smoke’s unique style is a product of his background in classical music (Alex is skilled pianist and cellist), a love of electronic music and his experimental nature. He is a master of diversity and his ability to weave atmospheric soundscapes and deliver dance floor dynamics is what makes Alex stand out in the crowd as he sails through the ocean of artists that is today’s electronic music scene. Recently Alex has been touring across Europe and Japan and has also just released his third album, ‘Flux’, on his own label Hum+Haw (co-founded with Jim Hutchison).

In the first remix Detroit’s own experimental innovator Ryan Crosson goes surgical; injecting Smoke’s track with a rippling bass line that provides the main theme for the music as it sits comfortably underneath gentle synths and Alex’s mega-morphed, ghostly vocals. A percussion transfusion sees the original, intricate and glitch percussion being carved out and replaced with a more mechanical beat that compliments the bass and supports the other musical elements. Crosson stretches the track out to nine and a half minutes and maintains the song’s ambient soul while also including a driving end section, featuring percussive aspects that suggests homage to Smoke’s original rhythms.

Fellow Glasgow native and London based producer Sei A concentrates on delivering a slightly darker and atmospheric alternative ‘Never Want To See You Again’. While Alex’s original vocals may disappeared from the mix, Sei A has manipulated short vocal samples to achieve an eerie presence, enhanced by haunting synths to give this stripped back version a whole new feel. 

The laidback yet upbeat Roof Light Re Rub dives head first in to a pool of high-energy percussion featuring shakers, cowbells and hi-hats that gives the track a subtle Latin flavour while airy synths and jazz style piano slip in and out to drive the track and pace it through zones of liveliness and tranquillity. 


Alex Smoke - Make My Day (Ryan Crosson's Morning Sorrow Remix) - Soma 313d

Another work in progress.  Going for that old school psychadelic synth sound.

Sunday jazz

Able Heart - Worth It (Deep Mix)

This is my remix of Lazy by David Byrne from Talking Heads fame. I have posted previously but I didnt like the original Master so I have reworked it through Izotope.

Lazy Remix

Something to chill out with on one of the hottest days of the year on Amsterdam Beach

Dance Release - Manuel Tur 
Beat Goes On (Original Mix) - Pascal FEOS 
Destination Reached - Sterac Electronics 
Sun City 
Don't See The Point - Alex Smoke 
Monkey Safari 
Tim Engelhardt - These Pictures 
Blow Remix - GreenHouse

Relaxed atmospheric house tunes

House of mad (mad as hell remix)

Another mix from the cypher-music archives; this time from 2006, with Eddie Reynolds aka Tr One (@trone1234) and his well-crafted mix of house and techno - ranging from the subtle to the sumptuous.

alex smoke - dont see the point (henrik schwarz mix) (soma)
donnacha costello - orange (minimise)
vector lovers - boulevard (soma)
alex smoke - lost in sound (soma)
phonique - the good track (dessous)
tanzman and stefanik - the call (2nd mix) (dessous)
2 raum wohnung - wir sind die anderen (ricardo villalobos mix) (it sounds)
tanzman and stefanik - tinkerbell (dessous)
vector lovers - microtrongate (alex smoke mix) (soma)
five green circle - pop implants (D1)
phonique - lizard (dessous)
mike grant - dont hate the player hate the game (moods & grooves)
kirk degiorgio - gliese 436 (new religion)
lerosa - regret (D1)
kirk degiorgio - 55 cancri (new religion)
arne weinberg - last day of faith (meadow)
arne weinberg - the world keeps on spinning (11th hour recordings)

Sunday jazz

devin lucero

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