ok, so you created the ultimate relaxing mix.

Truly, genuinely incredible. Thank you for this.

I've had both lungs collapse at different times....I'm smoking sum haze from Washington heights 169 st...the intro reminds us to breath and appreciate our lungs...ahhhhh.

In October of 2021 I was given the opportunity to craft a 30 minute mix for Rene LaVice's pivotal drum and bass mix show on the UK's legendary BBC Radio 1. Somewhat unlike my other mixes I decided to take this one in a deep future funk direction with much less emphasis on dancefloor tunes. The final product was hopefully something that sounded good on the radio and also appealed to a wide variety of forward thinking listeners. 

It's a quick one for sure...and I hope you enjoy!

Recorded at D.CELL, Brooklyn NY 

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TRACKLIST

Dan Structure - Accellerator
The Caracal Project + Skylark - Run
Night Shift - Move Me
SLANDER + Kompany - Broken (Mefjus Remix)
Teddy Killerz - Interference
The Upbeats - Not Forever
The Upbeats - Realm
Nuvertal - Skarabei Room
The Caracal Project + Skylark - Quick Of Breath feat LaMeduza
Levela - Barnacles
DLR + Submotive - Blipped On The Head
Dunk - Sex Beat
Klinical - Over
SL8R - No Fuss (Kiril Remix)
Nuvertal - Presage
Klinical + Waeys - Framed
Alex SLK - Bombaclot
Lavance + Skepticz + Klinical - Crush
Mefjus + Camo + Krooked - Sientelo
Phace + Kemal - Mode 101
Enei - Sinking VIP
The Sauce - Ultrasonic
Future Cut - 2021 (DLR Remix)
DKN - The Peak
Agressor Bunx - The Offering VIP
ChaseR - Vanishing Point
Breakage - Valhalla
Machinedrum + Holly - Goji
Voltage - Congo Bongo
Rohaan - Laser
Parallel - Warped Entity
Apashe - Distance (feat Geoffroy) (Buunshin Remix)
Apashe - Distance (feat Geoffroy) (KOAN Sound Remix)

Drum & Bass Show with Rene LaVice Guest Mix // 10.11.21

Originally released on Mixcloud only as part of the Drumz Clothing 25 Year sessions, now available here for DL and replay! Drumz Clothing & crew have been a staple of the US drum & bass scene since their inception in 1996. I was one of their early DJ team members and the mutual love has remained strong. This mix celebrates a quarter-century ride through an ever-shifting genre with an endless sound palette. It looks back nostalgically while embracing the present and whatever the future may hold for this genre we love so dearly. Please enjoy!


1. DJ Hybrid & Next Chapter - Still Here (Liondub)
2. Drumsound & Bassline Smith - Jungle Dreams (Technique)
3. SuM - All Massive (Liondub)
4. Joey Illah - Shatter (DeVice)
5. Rebel Scum - Fade (Space Yacht)
6. Cameron - DFR (Liondub)
7. Sweetpea & Iris - Revolution Not Televised (Sofa Sound)
8. PRFCT Mandem & High Maintenance - Hypersonic (PRFCT Mandem Remix) [Korsakov]
9. Chiyu - Chasm (Sinful Maze)
10. L-33 - Let Me Go (Eatbrain)
11. AKOV - Ensnared (Eatbrain)
12. Circumference - Breathe (Soulvent)
13. Coppa & Critical Impact - Pitch Black (A.M.C. & Turno Remix) [RUN]
14. Rebel Scum - Running (Space Yacht)
15. Azifm - Unpopular (Must Make Music)
16. Tyrone - The Disciple (Guidance)
17. Kings of the Rollers - Overload (feat. Sweetie Irie) [Hospital]
19. Linguistics & Monrroe - Eyes Shut (Shogun)
20. Particle - Wound (Critical)
21. Deekline & Ed Solo - No No No (Phibes Remix) [Jungle Cakes]
22. Bladerunner - Burnt Ground (Hi-Resolution)
23. Trex - Pieces of Eight (Born on Road)
24. Askel & Elere - Do I Know U (Soulvent)
25. Adam F - Circles (Pola & Bryson Bootleg)
26. P.Money & Whiney - Buss Da Red (Hospital)
27. Paperclip - Promise Keeper (Play Me)
28. Gella - Sunrise (Born on Road)
29. Pendulum & Hybrid Minds - Louder Than Words (Earstorm)
30. Circumference - See 
31. Inja - Listen Up (Hospital)

Drumz 25th Anniversary Session

Love is the message. Music is the universal language. 

In the words of Denise Gordon:

Bad or good, misunderstood
Inside we're all the same
Time will fly by you, love may lie to you
Get on up and try again
Be colour blind, not narrow minded
Playing silly games
The time has come to unify
And live in peace again
There are times in my life
When I wish the world was a better place
No more war and no more pain
No more suffering and no more hate
When we could all reach for the stars
Nothing to stand in our way
Forward, onward, upward
Together

Music is the key, together we are strong
And nothing is impossible
If you see the beauty that's in everyone
Music mends and heals all broken hearts


Tracklist: 
1. London Elektricity - The Prescription is Love (Cliques Remix)
2. Polaris - Found You
3. Makoto - I’ll Be There (feat. Singing Fats) [Hospital]
4. Black Barrel, KSR - Gonna Be
5. Workforce - Forever
6. Workforce - Reintegration (feat. Leroy Horns)
7. Veak - Exclusive Style
8. Lupo - The Funk VIP (Liondub)
9. The Sauce - Shaken Not Stirred
10. Break - Release Me (Symmetry)
11. Phibes - Never Get Enough
12. Workforce - Occurs In The Mind
13. Bredren - Trench
14. Sam Binga, OneDa, Particle - Rude Girl (Critical)
15. Skantia, Bladerunner - Connection
16. Omen - Bad (Play Me)
17. SuM - Selassie I (Liondub)
18. Maurizzle & Master Error - Fever (Liondub)
19. Shy FX, Breakage - Michael Knight
20. Kleu - You 
21. Sl8r - In Ur Arms
22. Skellytn - Singularity (Des McMahon Remix) [Play Me]
23. Benny Page - You Know How To Love Me (Origin8a & Propa Remix)
24. Dungeon Kru, Pharaoh - Me & You 
25. Metrodome - Lover 2nite (1985)
26. DJ Hybrid - So Addictive
27. Emalkay - When I Look At You (J-Wok Bootleg)
28. Adred - Levitation
29. Conrad Subs - Stamina
30. DJ Hybrid - Comeback
31. London Elektricity - Funkopolis (Mozey Remix) [Hospital]
32. Chase & Status - Consciousness (EMI)
33. S.P.Y - Need You
34. Javeon, Duskee, Hyroglifics - Aura
35. Hyroglifics - If I Could
36. Monty - I Knew So (feat. Eva Mango) 
37. Theoretical - Exquisite
38. Workforce - So Long
39. DJ Hybrid - Cut To The Chase (Liondub)

Love Is The Message - Unbeing Radio Guest Mix

SPOR Essential Mix @ BBC Radio 1 (14/03/15)

Originally appearing on the Palm Pictures label back in 2000, "The 6ixth Session" was my best selling mix CD. It features Konflict's super awesome "The Messiah" which is one of my favorite drum and bass anthems of all time. The amazing graphic design is by Akira Takahashi and showcases 3D modeling of my head from Rene Garcia aka "Hyperform" who went on to do 3D work for the Matrix and Transformers movies. Suffice it to say, I have always been extremely proud of this particular work. It really helped push drum and bass music to a larger audience in North America.

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TRACKLIST

Dieselboy vs. Atlantiq - Initialize
Kemal & Rob Data - The Messiah
Technical Itch - Heavy Metal
Signal to Noise - Nanobugs
Underfire vs. Negative - Bios Fear
Future Cut + Futurebound - Homicide
Usual Suspects - Shrapnel (Stakka & Skynet Remix)
Andy C + Shimon - Firewire
Bad Company - Toxin
Dieselboy - Invid (E-Sassin VIP)
Dieselboy - The Descent (Phunckateck VIP)
Technical Itch - Pusher
Loxy + Dylan - Eclipse
Facs + B-Key - Plimsoul VIP
Teebee - Space Age Remix
Dylan - Dominion
J Majik - Solarize

The 6ixth Session

Here is “The Soldier’s Story”, my first truly original cd for the prestigious American electronic music label Moonshine. For this release I was given complete control of choosing all of the music and really went out of my way to find the best future thinking, unreleased and heavy as hell drum and bass at that time. This one was not just for the dancefloor and really started to establish the way I would approach choosing music for all future mix projects. Some of the key tunes on here would be my collaboration with Technical Itch “Atlantic State”. The bassline was born out of a keyboard glitch and the cool pads in the intro are from a Skinny Puppy sample cd. The name was a nod to the classic 808 State tune “Pacific State” (the Atlantic ocean separates the USA and the UK ;). Jonny L “Bellz” was just a white hot smasher that I loved to death. And “The Stalker” was a weird super minimal tune that eventually became the anthem for my drum and bass weekly “Platinum" in Philly (everyone used to love that track!). For the intro I used a bunch of samples from the videogames Half Life and Quake (I found the sound libraries and broke them up and mined the shit out of them). At one point I was contacted by some people who worked on Half Life and they said they used to play my mix at the office. That was awesome. This mix sounds fast because I mixed it on my home turntables that were modified to play faster than normal. I always thought faster was better. The artwork was done by the late Todd Baldwin of Airline Industries. He hired famous Marvel comics artist Paul Gosier to draw me as a super soldier for the cover. Most people didn’t really think it looked like me ;) Finally, I lifted the title from the movie “A Soldier’s Story”. In the drum and bass scene a “soldier” is a die hard fan of the music. That pretty much sums me up to this day. Enjoy!

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TRACKLIST

Dieselboy - Precautionary Procedure
Konflict - The Beckoning
Usual Suspects + Fierce - Sawn Off
DJ Friction - Photon Remix
Future Cut + Mark Da Intallex - Plastic
Technical Itch - Deception
Technical Itch - Stack
Moving Fusion - Sex Drive
Jonny L - The Bellz
Usual Suspects + Loxy - Stalker
Vertigo - Drained
Danny Breaks - Dissonance
Peshay - Vegas
Kosheen - Yes Men (Decoder Remix)
Technical Itch + Dieselboy - Atlantic State
Decoder - BS9

A Soldier's Story

FOUR MEN - ONE MISSION

It happened during the summer of 2000. North America’s most prominent drum and bass DJs joined forces to create the legendary crew known as PLANET OF THE DRUMS. Using their combined muscle to push drum and bass music into the spotlight of the main stage they toured tirelessly for well over a decade, fronted by the vocal rhyme animal known as Messinian. Their incessant drive and motivation helped set the groundwork of the scene that exists today.

Feeling their work completed, the team turned their focus to personal projects and the PLANET OF THE DRUMS program was retired. But as was soon discovered, the drum and bass scene in North America began a slow freefall into underground obscurity.

This could not stand.

Reuniting in 2017, the PLANET OF THE DRUMS crew returned to continue their original mission - celebrating, honoring and advancing drum and bass music. “AWAKENING” represents a retrospective of some of their favorite sounds, highlights and moments from the past year. What always made POTD special was the compelling combination of the boys’ varied styles - AK and his raw motherfucking breakbeats. Dara’s rolling dancefloor vibes. Dieselboy with the heavy cinematic pressure. Three hundred and sixty degrees of futuristic drum and bass business.

THE PLANET HAS AWAKENED!

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PLANET OF THE DRUMS ➤
fb.com/planetofthedrums

AK1200 ➤
fb.com/ak1200official
twitter.com/ak1200
soundcloud : soundcloud.com/ak1200

DARA ➤
fb.com/thedjdaraofficial
twitter.com/daralickt
soundcloud : soundcloud.com/dj-dara

DIESELBOY ➤
fb.com/dieselboy
twitter.com/djdieselboy
soundcloud : soundcloud.com/dieselboy

MESSINIAN ➤
fb.com/messinianmusic
twitter.com/mcmessinian
soundcloud : soundcloud.com/messiniandubstep

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CLICK HERE FOR TRACKLIST >> https://tinyurl.com/yblufllg

Awakening

Planet Of The Drums - Awakening

JOURNAL ENTRY - MARCH 26 2019

“I was a wanderer on a prehistoric earth, of an earth that wore the aspect of an unknown planet. Going up that river was like traveling back to the earliest beginnings of the world, when vegetation rioted and the big trees were kings. An empty stream, a great silence, an impenetrable jungle. The air was warm, thick, heavy, sluggish. The long stretches of the waterway ran on, deserted, into the gloom of overshadowed distances…and this stillness of life did not in the least resemble a peace. It was the stillness of an implacable force brooding over an inscrutable intention. It looked at you with a vengeful aspect. As I slowly penetrated ever so deeper into this heart of darkness my soul was set ablaze with an infinity of wonders that I discovered…”

--

Dieselboy returns to deliver another mind-bending powerhouse of visionary drum and bass programming - the electrifying HEART OF DARKNESS! 28 years of World Tour DJ’ing with an obsessive focus on clever and creative mixing has driven him to craft this STAGGERING 91 minute / 125 track subsonic BEHEMOTH that pushes the boundaries of a DJ mix. Moving far beyond the traditional “linear” mixing model, Dieselboy has perfected a style of layering tracks that can only be described as “threaded” or “braided” - songs, loops and samples twist around one another in specific ways so that every element enhances those around it. With HEART OF DARKNESS the man has created an absolutely compelling audio experience - painting vibrant peaks, deep valleys and broad vistas of dense sonic textures designed to spellbound the intrepid listener. Come and take this incredible journey with him…DEEP INTO THE HEART OF THE JUNGLE!

Recorded at D.CELL, Brooklyn NY 
Graphic Design by Dieselboy
Artwork by Dan Dussault

TRACKLIST LINK >> https://tinyurl.com/y4d4om4a

Heart Of Darkness

HALEN
SEVEN DAY WEEKEND

Halen (alter-ego of drum and bass DJ Dieselboy) has delivered a JAM-PACKED insta-classic party BANGER. “Seven Day Weekend” is a double stacked 75 minute disco / funk / jacking house mix brimming with 100% pure sonic sunshine. Featuring heavily layered mixes and a tightly curated tracklist of some of the most anthemic, soaring, and groove laden dancefloor dynamite that you have ever heard. Feel like dancing? This is for you. Want to liven up your day? Just press play. Need to channel good fucking vibes? I'M GLAD YOU ASKED!

DIAL THE 24/7 PARTY LINE AT 1-800-7DY-WKND

Operators are standing by...

Recorded at D.Cell in Bushwick, Brooklyn

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TRACKLIST

Halen - That House Party Scene From A Movie On HBO (1983) // INTRO
J Paul Getto - Tribute To Paul Johnson // FOGBANK
Amtrac - Make Me Hot // UNRELEASED
Block & Crown + Chris Marina - I Wanna Get Down // PORNOSTAR
Alex Herrera - House Muzik // CRUDE TRAX
Random Funk - Good Time // SPACEDISCO
Malente - I Like It (Riva Starr Snatch Mix) // FOOLS GOLD
Rubb Sound System - Cast A Spell // GUESTHOUSE
Alex Herrera - I Got The Music // CRUDE TRAX
Crazibiza - Everybody Dance // PORNOSTAR
DJ James Ingram - Shame On U (J Paul Getto Remix) // HOUSE BISCUITS
Todd Terry + J Paul Getto - Go Bitch (Part 2) // INHOUSE
The Phantom’s Revenge - Death By Chillwave (Pablo J + The Lobsterettes Remix) // UNRELEASED
Block & Crown - Bass Bops // RAWTONE BLACK
Adam Port - Sally (Halen Edit) // PLAY IT DOWN
Kenny Summit + J Paul Getto - The Herb // PLAY IT DOWN
J Paul Getto - Rock The Place (Alex Herrera Remix) // GUESTHOUSE
J Paul Getto - The Ultimate // LABEL 294
Purple Disco Machine - Move Or Not // OFF SPIN
Alex Herrera - Thinking About You // FOGBANK
The Phantom’s Revenge - 80s Dating Show // OF UNSOUND MIND
J Paul Getto - Just For You // MAGNETIC RECORDINGS
James Talk + Ridney - Forever // DEFECTED
Hatiras - No Worries // SPACEDISCO
Vasovski - Sexual Ecstasy (J Paul Getto Remix) // FOGBANK
Jay Vegas - Come Soon // HOT STUFF
Alex Herrera - Confusion // NERVOUS
Block & Crown - Feelgood Funk // PORNOSTAR
Olav Basoski - Hulk Sneakers // FEVER
Alex Carlsson - Paris Fried Chicken (J Paul Getto Remix) // FOGBANK
Getto Blaster - French Fries And Funk // SPACEDISCO
Jay Vegas - The Question (Dub Mix) // HOT STUFF
Todd Terry vs J Paul Getto - The Sure Shot 2014 // FOGBANK
Todd Terry - Keep On Jumpin (Simone Vitullo Jumpin Mix) // BASICA
Amtrac - Never Dug Disco // UNRELEASED
Hatiras - Cosmology // SPACEDISCO
Mark Knight - Second Story // SUARA
El Funkador - Check Out // GROOVY RIDDIM
J Paul Getto - Imma Let You Know // MAGNETIC RECORDINGS
Fausto - Elevators (J Paul Getto Flower Shop Remix) // NURVOUS
Odyssey Inc. - Watcha Gonna Do // BLOCKHEAD RECORDINGS
Alex Herrera - The Groove // CRUDE TRAX
Halen - Not Us, Not Here, No Way // OUTRO

Seven Day Weekend

Halen - Seven Day Weekend

This was one of the biggest deals of my DJ life. Being asked by the legendary BBC Radio 1, to show off your best mixing to the Drum & bass world, is every Junglist's dream. I like to think of myself as musical storyteller,  and this may be one of my finest-told stories to date. We're in such an crazy world-time-place right now, and I feel like I was able to time-capsule all this insanity,  plus a healthy dose of personal narrative, into one realllllly short set. At first I tried to channel my inner Doc Scott/Andy C/ Alix Perez but then I said FUCK IT JUST CHANNEL YOU. 
All the shout outs to @renelavice for trusting my skills, and so many thanks to all the amazing producers who answered my call for unreleased heat.
I hope you enjoy consuming it as much as I enjoyed making it! 

1. Alewya - Sweating (Breakage Remix) [Because London]
2. Droptek - Dropout [Korsakov]
3. ZeroZero & Brain - Peanut Butter [Dispatch]
4. Exile & Airglo - Nothing Really Matters [Unreleased]
5. Picota & Kumbh - 1960 [Play Me]
6. AC13 - Unit Riddim feat. King Deepfield [Hospital]
7. ID - ID
8. Dr. Apollo & Reid Speed - Unholy [Play Me]
9. Danger - Rise Up [Ram]
10. Phibes - Roads [forthcoming]
11. Levela - Woke VIP [Critical]
12. Enei - Rollin Machine [Critical]
13. Saint Jhn - Roses (Cliques Edit)
/ Dr Apollo & Reid Speed - Aion [Play Me]
14. Lost City & Ward 21 - Sicko (Jungle Mix) [Liondub]
15. NC-17 -  Only One Way Out (Myth Remix) [Forbidden Frequencies]
16. Martha Reeves - Heatwave VIP (Saxxon Bootleg) 
17.Toots & The Maytals - 54 46 (Phibes Remix)
/ Dope Ammo - Badboy [Dope Ammo]
18. Shy FX & Gappy Ranks - Warning (Bou Remix) [Cult.ure]
/ Sofi Tukker & Gorgon City - House Arrest [Nightshift Remix]
19. Low:r - The Journey [ProgRam]
20. Missing - Junglist Nation [Hospital]
21. Camo & Krooked - Turn Up (The Music) (Pola & Bryson Remix) [Hospital]
22. Whiney x Hugh Hardie - Blind Eyes (Feat Inja) (Whiney VIP) [Hospital]
23. Karmasynk - Depths of Perception [Unreleased]
24. War - Heat VIP [Dispatch]
25. Halogenix - Independent [Critical]

BBC RADIO 1 DRUM & BASS SHOW WITH RENE LA VICE

“Take a deep deep breath and slowly…begin…to relax”

Inspired by the classic albums and mixes from DJ legend LTJ Bukem and more than a decade in the making, “Heavy Breathing” is Dieselboy’s full-length all liquid drum and bass magnum opus and a love letter to the form. This stunning 130 minute / 108 track mix was curated from thousands of tunes he has collected for this project since the early 2000s, and painstaking care and attention was given to weaving a tight tapestry of double and triple drops plus multiple layers of edits, loops and samples in order to bring this creation to life. Designed for use as both a subtle background soundtrack as well as loud sessions when good vibes are desired, “Heavy Breathing” will pull you on an inner journey through deep waves of soul, funk, disco, rhythm, blues and lush ambience. As always Dieselboy brings his trademark mixing style to bear in crafting a truly unique and scintillating long player that bears repeated listens to unlock all of its secrets.

Sit back...and enjoy the ride

Recorded at D.CELL, Brooklyn NY 
Graphic Design by Teenage Stepdad

TRACKLIST LINK >> https://tinyurl.com/y4h3ajxf

Heavy Breathing

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