Tasteful, uplifting, long distance progressive house

G - SpotNZ - Let Me Take You On A Journey

I have been listening to dance music since hearing it for the first time in the late 80’s. Even before the 90s rave scene took off, I always loved electronic music from artists such as Depeche Mode, Yello, Pet Shop Boys and later 808 State. During the real early ninety’s, we were getting hold of recordings of sets by UK DJ’s such Sasha, Digweed, Danny Rampling, Judge Jules etc. We even made copies of these tapes and sold them at flea markets. This was long before anything was available at the record & CD shops. Music from those days that had a huge influence on me were albums from Letfield, Sasha & Digweed’s Northern Exposure and some earlier stuff from Carl Cox
The obvious next step for me was now collecting and mixing my own sets and I became a really great bedroom DJ. Moving on I managed to get the 4:00am to 6:00am slot at a club called Hideout. I’m sure everyone from Jobug has been to that club. It was the true definition of an underground night club. I remember the car park still been full at 3:00pm on Sunday afternoon. 
With the arrival of my second daughter, DJ’ing took a kind of back seat. By this point I had sold my SL1200’s and then my CDJs. I never stopped collecting music though, and it was around about 2005 I started playing around with Traktor and a Numark Controller. This opened up a whole new world with playing digital music files.
These days it’s about the music for me in dance tracks. What I mean is tracks that actually contain music. You can immediately hear the difference between interesting, well produced and clever tracks made with creative minds and the mass factory produced simple shit. Yes there are the banging tracks that are played in clubs every weekend, but I find that a lot of them are dull, rely heavily on the kick drum and are written by artists with a few basic skills and no real understanding of composition, melody, builds, chorus and tonal changes. They get boring quickly. 

The mixes I do always flow whilst letting the melodies and rhythm intertwine into each other carrying through to the next track. The tracks I select need to awaken a mood or emotion inside, not just a mix going from track to track using Online dance charts as playlists…..

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