For Merchant's final show of 2023 they welcome Josh FB. Josh's dedication and passion for digging tropical grooves is second to none. His relentless energy is channeled into his label project, Discotheque Tropical, which completed its first year on the weekend.

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Merchant w/ Josh FB - December 2023

"Knee MIX" Nr.04

First show of the new season / Hosted by @lyl_radio

Waxist

LOVE PENALTY on LYL Radio | October 2024

Gold Suite is the island inspired recording alias of Bali based DJ and musician Joey Fitzgerald 🌞🌴

LOOSE.fm

SALOON OF DELIGHT W/ GOLD SUITE - 15 NOV 24

A very special 3 hour mix in support of what will be the best party in Sydney to kick off the New Year at The Lord Gladstone on 01 January, this is Mercury Strut Selects. 

Each of our DJs have chosen 3 tracks each as a taste of the music they will be bringing to you between 10am - 11pm on New Year's Day.

If there’s one thing the Got Music DJs excel at, it’s soundtracking the day after the night before. 

Long before “the afters” was even a term, there was the recovery party - an extension of the previous night’s excesses but with warm beats and warmer embraces designed to keep you smiling before the dreaded Sunday scares kicked in.  Between the 6 of us, we have facilitated and soundtracked many amazing recoveries since the early 90s, both here and abroad. 

We’ve also secured the talents of 12 of the best selectors we know to help us soundtrack the first day of the year via their superlative musical tastes. Handpicked from crews both new and old including Green and Jazzy, SOKA LOKA MOKI, Astral Planes, Analog Cabin, Systrum, Efficient Space and more, the diversity and positivity they possess is second to none.

Expect to move to the sounds of underground house, dub, jazz, drum and bass, hip hop, reggae, balearic, breakbeats, boogie, international, outernational, soul, rare groove and more.   We hope to see you there, this one is going to be special.

1st January, 2025
The Lord Gladstone Hotel, Chippendale
10am - 11pm
$15 on the door

Mercury Strut Selects - A Party Promo Mix

Special mix by Guydee for Warehouse Moscow. 
SC - https://soundcloud.com/warehouse-podcast 
IG - https://www.instagram.com/warehousemoscow
VK - https://vk.com/warehousepodcast
TG - t.me/warehousemoscow

WAREHOUSE MIX 206 - GUYDEE

Inspired by a deep dive into the lost world of Atlantis, imagining a Saturday night in the 1990s at Glasgow’s Sub Club (The Subbie), this mix channels the joy of shaking off the winter and welcoming spring with old school classics. With house, and acid classics, it captures the uninhibited, sweaty spirit of Atlantis—vocal, dubby, and full of life!
 
Find the full tracklist and related episodes on NTS: https://www.nts.live/shows/joy-2025/episodes/joy-2025-joy-in-atlantis-w-lynn-berlin-10th-may-2025

JOY IN ATLANTIS W/ LYNN BERLIN 100525

SpheraQ - Enaki (Original Mix)

Intense passion
Dance as a Metaphor for Love
Leonard Cohen's song 'Dance Me To The End Of Love' uses dance as a powerful metaphor to explore the depths and complexity of love. The lyrics suggest a continuous movement through the different stages and experiences of love, from its fiery beginning to its end, or until the love can no longer be sustained.
The reference to 'beauty with a fiery violin' and the dance 'through panic' may symbolize the intense passion and sometimes tumultuous emotions that accompany love. The imagery of the 'olive branch' and the 'homecoming dove' evokes feelings of peace and security, suggesting that love can be a refuge in times of difficulty. Dance as a central theme serves to illustrate the idea that love is an act of surrender and an ongoing process.
The song also touches on themes of desire, commitment, and the cyclical nature of love, as seen in the verses about dancing to marriage, through the curtains worn thin by kisses, and to the children begging to be born. Cohen thus manages to paint a picture of love that is at once beautiful and melancholic, full of hope and yet marked by impermanence.
Dance as surrender
So...
Enjoy this Remix

Free Download

Kerala Dust - Dance Me to the End of Love (Dude Skywalker Latin Love Edit) [FREE DOWNLOAD]

Internal conflicts and transcendence...
The End, by The Doors,explores profound themes of the human psyche, going beyond a simple farewell. The direct reference to the Oedipus complex in the lines "Father? / Yes, son / I want to kill you / Mother, I want to–" reveals internal conflicts and family taboos, demonstrating how the song addresses universal issues of rupture, symbolic death, and rebirth. Although Morrison was initially inspired by the end of his relationship with Mary Werbelow, he expanded the lyrics to address broader existential experiences.
The hypnotic atmosphere created by Robby Krieger's guitar, which imitates Indian instruments, reinforces the sense of travel and transcendence. Lines like "Lost in a Roman wilderness of pain" and "All the children are insane" suggest a civilization on the brink of collapse, which connects to the use of music in the film "Apocalypse Now" to illustrate the chaos of war. Metaphors like "ride the snake" and "the blue bus is callin' us" can be seen as references to both psychedelic journeys and processes of self-discovery. The somber, introspective tone, coupled with the narrative's fragmented structure, conveys the sense of an inevitable end, but also of a painful liberation, as in "It hurts to set you free / But you'll never follow me." “The End” remains open to multiple interpretations about death, transformation, and the limits of human experience.
So...
Enjoy this Remix

The Doors - The End (Chris Cargo Remake)[FREE Download]

Vincent Floyd mix as aired on Rinse Fm France, Dance Mania Takeover
Date: 9 June 2018
1. Armando - "Pleasure Dome" (Trax Records)
2. Tallberg - "Pekka" (Seahorse & Castle)
3. Mr. Fingers - "Sands Of Aruba" (Alleviated)
4. Boo Williams - "Digital Extensions" (Rawax)
5. Sterling Void, Vincent Coleman - Sweat" [DJ Spen Remix] 
(Quantize Recordings)
6. VeXaTioN - "JakMadness" - The Trackhead EP (Slaying Medusa)
7. Dept 1 - "Bravik" (Dept.)
8. The Salsoul Orchestra - "Ooh I love It"  [Club Remix](Salsoul Records)
9. Gershon Jackson, Sio Blackwidow, DJ E-Clyps - "How Did We Get Here" 
[DJ E-Clyps Blacklight Afro Mix] (Omni Music Solutions)
10. Mr. Fingers - "Inner Acid" (Alleviated)
11. Rick Wade - "Passion Play" (Shall Not Fade)

Mercury Strut Selects - A Party Promo Mix

Left Side Clouded