Cache Mix Series

A spontaneous genre-spanning journey that goes to both light and dark places. This mix was made at home on a pair of CDJs that I recently got hold of. 

The last time I shared mixes on here was over a decade ago! Back then, soundcloud would take down tracks that didn’t have licenses for copyright-protected material in them, even if they were mixes, so there are no traces of them left behind (probably for the best given that my music taste was very different then). Glad policies have evolved over time and made doing this possible now.

Cache 001

It's been quiet for a bit, but here comes the second installment of this series. Cache 002 is a journey centered around house and hypnotic techno, with playful hints of psytrance, bass, and rave music.

Equipment: 1 Pioneer CDJ-2000nxs2, 1 Pioneer CDJ-2000nexus, Pioneer DJM-750mk2 mixer.
Recorded using the DJM-REC iPhone app.

Cache 002

Cache 003.. This one is a journey in 3 parts. 
With this mix, I knew where I wanted to start and my ultimate destination: both tracks, the first and the last, have Indian elements and Hindi vocals. For the rest of it, I had some idea about the landscapes I wanted to traverse, but didn't plan the path and turns until I started playing.

Gear: CDJ-2000nxs2, CDJ-2000nexus, DJM-750mk2. Recorded with the DJM-REC iPhone app.

Cache 003

Cache 004 is a vinyl-only mix that is centered around IDM, breakbeat, drum & bass, jungle, and halftime, with hints of some other genres. It starts off with a powerful chant (go buy the track: https://mi-el.bandcamp.com/album/from-the-river-to-the-sea) before picking up and arranging the beats, and then destroying it.

Gear: 2x Technics SL-1200MK5, DJM-750mk2. 
Recorded with the DJM-REC iPhone app.
(Intro track played digitally off my iPhone)

Cache 004 [Vinyl Only]

Cache 005: I swear, I Really Wanted To Make A "Techno" Mix But This Is Literally the Way the Music Moved Me This Time

I was planning to make a techno-centric mix last weekend but that's not what happened. I went on a walk to listen to the new album 'New Blue Sun' by André 3000 and it completed changed my mindset and moved me to an opposite direction. So here's something that is ambient, downtempo, experimental, and with lots of texture. The title of this mix is a nod to the opening track on André 3000's album ("I Swear, I Really Wanted to Make a 'Rap' Album but This Is Literally the Way the Wind Blew Me This Time"). Yes, the mix also opens with that track ✨

Gear: CDJ-2000nxs2, CDJ-2000nexus, Technics SL-1200MK5, DJM-750mk2. 
Recorded with the DJM-REC iPhone app.

Cache 005: I swear, I Really Wanted To Make A "Techno" Mix But...

Kicking off the year with a bang and a beat. Recent travels to Europe and India played no small part in influencing where I went with Cache 006. This one is a (mostly) high energy mix with UK bass, garage, house, trance, and techno sounds that are laced with acid, breakbeat, and electro ⚡️⚡️ 

Gear: CDJ-2000nxs2, CDJ-2000nexus, DJM-750mk2. Recorded with the DJM-REC iPhone app.

Cache 006

Cache 007 is an adventure ride through the world of breakbeat 🥁
It crosses boundaries of several genres – dub, hip-hop, soul, bass, garage, electro, EBM, drum & bass, IDM, rave, and even some dubstep – while maintaining flow and harmony. In this mix, I put my own spin to timeless tunes spanning decades of music, from 1972 to 2024, in a quest to showcase the magic and power of breaks in dance music 🔮

Gear: CDJ-2000nxs2, CDJ-2000nexus, 2x Technics SL-1200MK5, DJM-750mk2.
Recorded with the DJM-REC iPhone app.

Cache 007: Break That Beat

Spring has arrived and here's a soundtrack for it 🌸 
This mix is a bright, bubbly, cheerful, delicate, euphoric, textured. It starts off by slowly waking you up from winter and welcoming longer days with chirping birds. Early days of the season also call for occasional cloudbursts (track @ 12:45 titled 'Rain Again' by @nadia-khan-10, remixed by @ccl-url) followed by some balmy spring days ('springtime flows in three ways' by @parris_dj @ 22:00). Around the 40 min mark, things get really playful and bubbly ('Fusing Bubbles' by @samgoku). Day turns to night filled with dance and festivity around 1 hour into the mix ('Feels So Good 2Nite') before euphoria sets in and catches us in the moment, in the midst of nature among little bugs and insects (@piezopz – 'oh man, there was a lot of tiny weird animals'). This spring celebration ends with the words "feel the heat... I feel the heat... the heat is on... I want you here tonight" echoing repeatedly ☀️🦋🌼

Mood Pairing Suggestions:
★ Waking up on a weekend morning 
★ Tired after a long day/week and you need a lift-me-up
★ Getting ready for a party 
★ Out at a barbecue, picnic, or a pool
★ Soaking in the sun, taking a nature walk, or lazing on a hammock
★ Bidding farewell to summer and welcoming fall (for those of you down south) 🍂
★ [Add your own mood suggestion in the comments] 

Gear: CDJ-2000nxs2, CDJ-2000nexus, DJM-750mk2.
Recorded with the DJM-REC iPhone app.

Tracklist:
Emeka Ogboh & Ilpo – Lagos Drift
tondiue – Lilypad Part 1
Mogambo – जीना
Purelink – Fine Pink Mist
Ciel & Morgan Wright – Halls of Voices
K-LONE – The Falls
Nadia Khan – Rain Again (CCL Remix)
Roza Terenzi – Spiral
RAMZi – Coucou Mon Ami
Parris – springtime flows in three ways
Adam Pits – Push Around
Ilpo – Azurean
Olof Dreijer – Echoes From Maori
Facta – Mirage
Sam Goku – Fusing Bubbles
Flora FM – Wave Station
Yushh – Same Same
Call Super – Sapling (Doves of Discipline Mix)
Beta Librae – Red Herring
Fantastic Man – Alltogethernow
Emma – Light Bounce
Addvibe – Feels So Good 2Nite (Main Mix)
Baalti – Kirpa (Seb Wildblood Remix)
Peverelist – Undulate
Oceanic – Green-Blue
Hodge – 03 Lanacut (Shanti Celeste Remix)
µ-Ziq – Twangle Frent
Pepe – From Seed
Piezo – oh man, there was a lot of tiny weird animals
Soichi Terada – Epoxy Lamp
FCL – Its You (San Sodas Panoramabar Acca Version)

Cache 008: Spring In Your Step

As summer approaches, for this mix, I wanted to channel the energy and moods of an outdoor rave... somewhere in a forest, a sandy beach/desert, the mountains, on a boat, or in your very own backyard 🌵 Cache 009 is an all-vinyl mix that takes you on a psychedelic, hypnotic, euphoric trip through space and time with flavors of acid, electro, house, techno, trance, breaks, and everything rave to keep you dancing 👣 
Stay till the end, I promise it'll be good 🦉

Mood Pairing Suggestions:
★ Getting it started at the pre-party 
★ Continuing the rave... the other one ended too soon
★ Skipped the festival but still want the feels
★ Working hard or hardly working on a Friday afternoon
★ Having your own li'l party at the pool or in your living room
★ Need to let off some steam with a musical stress-buster
★ Just want to vibe out to something upbeat

If you want any track IDs, just leave a comment and I'll get it for you 💿

Gear: 2x Technics SL-1200MK5, Xone-96. 
Recorded with a Tascam DR-40X.

Tracklist:
eXquisite CORpsE – Outlandis (Deep Anatolian Mix) 
Hame DJ – Nightlife
Jurango – This Better Worth
A.S.O – Go On (Lew E Mix)
Reba – Azimuth Circle
eXquisite CORpsE – Calling The Quarters (Beauty Below Mix)
Acid Synthesis – Rhythm of Life
Jeku – Astral Dream
Kosh - Despair
Paolo Mosca – Acqua
Spray – OT Rails
Data Memory Access – Euphoria
Theo Kottis – Lighthouse
Moisk – Deoxyribose
Zuul – Nieur Acid
Cromie – All in the Mind
S.O.N.S – Snow White And The Seven Mushrooms
Naone – Perfectly Harmless
Opium Den – Opium Den
Om Unit – Prophecy
Paz Pooba – Feeling

Cache 009: Rave the Night [Vinyl Only]

We're switching things up for the 10th installment in the Cache series: coming in HOT, we have a very special guest mix by our bass-brother familymart (@familymart_dj) 🍦

✤ What was the inspiration behind this mix? 
This mix is an exploration of psybient and acidic textures prevalent in the proggy realm of dance music. Incorporating still fresh sounding tracks from as far back as 1993 to new releases as recent as this month, the mix is equally geared towards the dance floor and for headphone listening.

✤ What situation, mood, or state of mind would you say it is best suited for? 
Picnic blanket hang with lovers and friends 🌱🌸 Drink fizzys 

✤ Describe the mix in 3 words? 
Tript; Rollie; Punchy

Love to the homies that we hung out with under a Japanese maple 🫰🏽

Tracklist:
Ivna Ji – Waiting Times
Freaky Chakra – Goodbye
trickpony – Room To Breathe
Sepehr – Diaspora Cocktail
Vani-T & DJ GIRL – Found U (Pent Up Rework)
Suki – Watkins Street Finale
Inner Flight – Explorer 3000
Essa 3 – Coalesce
Psychick Warriors Ov Gaia – Obsidian
Dorisburg & Efraim Kent – Data Smuggler
Na Nich x Vera Logdanidi – Journey (Original Mix)
Yu Su – Melaleuca
Seph – OBI
nthng – 1 2 Butterfly
Rudolf C – Forrest Dweller
JCow – Pay no mind
Dukwa – Time Out
Or:la – Wendy Wild
Carré – Cute Mad
Attraktta – Closer
Dauwd – Jean Rouch
Girada Unlimited – Reserval
Ulo S. – It's Phizzy in Here
Roza Terenzi – Elevate
Big Ever – Hollywood
Makesome Breaksome – Bong
KMA Productions – Phantasy Trip
Jump Source – Radiant Shift
Fantastic Man – Sparticle Boom!
Kosh – Break It Until You Make It
Danvers – Broken Machine

Cache 010: familymart guest mix

Cache 011 is an exploration into deep, psychedelic, and hypnotic techno, interwoven with ambient and IDM soundscapes. It draws energy and inspiration from this year's Monument festival, nestled in the Norwegian woods, and channels the interplay between the fast & the slow, the light & the dark, in sounds that I've been loving 🌲🛖☀️

Gear: CDJ-2000nxs2, CDJ-2000nexus, Xone:96, Eventide Timefactor.
Recorded with a Tascam DR-40X.

Cache 011: Deep (Techno) in the Woods

Bass music is back, and it's big & bad ♨︎
Cache 012 is an explosive expedition across bass-centric music: shake up the low end with some broken beats, dubstep, leftfield techno, and drum & bass 👾
Lots of new/unreleased tunes as well as some older ones in this one ⚛︎

Cache 012: Big Bad Bass

Dinner is cancelled but JODI are here to cook 🌶️🌶️
Cache 013 introduces the world to your flight attendant’s least favorite duo: JODI = Jordan aka DJ MoM (@jordan-bellman-441504977) and kaydi aka MoM’s cave dweller get together to try and out-dubstep each other in this debut mix! During this unplanned single-take b2b, we go one-on-one-off to play tunes we love across several genres.. rap, bass, broken beats, hip-hop, acid, IDM.. it’s got it all!
This one is extra-special because it’s DJ MoM’s final exam after a month-long crash course in nocturnal mixology 🎛️🎚️🎛️ Did she pass with flying colors? — You tell me!

Cache 013: The JODI Debut

journeys over genres, bends over blends 🪁