oh bro had mushroom 🍄 chocolate like 40 minutes ago. kicking right in

On Tuesday 17 August I was round at one of my friend's places for a catch up. It just so happened that on that particular evening it was announced NZ was going into another level 4 lockdown. I was feeling stressed and anxious as all get out, so I put myself in his studio to play some tunes to calm myself down. All I knew is that I wanted to play what I would play to a 2am floor. And this mix is the result, it's what a basement club would wear. 

On that very same day a beloved member of Wellington's dance scene and someone I had been dancing with and have loved since 1996 left us. I didn't know it at the time I was playing, but I feel like I channelled our beautiful Nick  as I danced during that jam session, ciggie in hand and all. 

Yesterday I wrote a piece about what it was like for me as a woman starting to DJ in the NZ scene 15 years ago. It wasn't easy but I had amazing support from very special humans and I am glad I spoke up so that maybe what I went through doesn't have to happen again.

So with all this in mind, with my thoughts harking back to 90s and early 2000s dancefloors, memories surfacing of humans who have come and gone (and some are still by my side to this day) and the knowledge of my musical dreams being an actual reality that I am so blessed to live, I decided to call this mix Foundations.

Thank you to Cooper for letting me unleash in his studio, James Jackson for yet another epic master, Vicki Watson for the photo, all my humans for being amazing, endlessly inspiring me and caring for me, and Nick Ryan, you wonderful and beautiful soul. Rest in peace and I know we will be on a dancefloor together again.

Be kind to one another and never stop dancing. 

Love,
Heylady. xx

Back on Track Sessions Vol 9

Back on Track Sessions Vol 9: Foundations

Part 3 of the "Space Breaks" series.

Highlighting the deep and obscure side of broken beat.

Part 1: https://soundcloud.com/jslyde/a-break-from-space
Part 2: https://soundcloud.com/jslyde/a-space-from-breaks

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Track list:
01. Essáy - Love & Air
02. Jon Gurd - Star
03. Baril - Take Ur Time (Original Mix)
04. Damian Lazarus - Wild Is Love (Original Mix)
05. Nordfold - Rituals (Original Mix)
06. Baril - One More Rush
07. Tame Impala - Is It True (Four Tet Remix)
08. Off The Meds - Karlaplan
09. Off The Meds - Karlaplan Remix
10. Tom Jarmey - Gaze
11. Will Silver - We Can Talk
12. Adult Fiction - Love Without Words (Italian Mix)
13. Laurence Guy - Experience Health
14. Wayward - Back To The Old Days
15. 1-800 GIRLS - Slipping
16. Sasha - Georgia Decay (Extended Mix)
17. Mia Mendi & Thomas Gandey - Cultum (Santiago Garcia Breaking Touch)
18. Klaves - Illusion Of Peace
19. Viggo Dyst - Everything Else Is Secondary (1-800 Girls Remix)
20. Third Son - Summer Long, Now Gone (Desert Sound Colony Remix)
21. Delay Grounds - Clatter
22. No_4mat - Metal Gear
23. Luke Chable - Melburn (Chable & Mangan Remix)
24. UNKLE - Farewell (Amtrac Rapid Remix)
25. Sasha & Franky Wah - Haunted (Original Mix)
26. Bonobo & Totally Enormous Extinct Dinosaurs - Heartbreak
27. LUUDE - Glenorchy
28. Franky Wah - You Don't Know (Extended Mix)
29. FC Kahuna - Hayling (Special Request Mix)
30. Shire T - Blue Kiss
31. Apashe ft Geoffroy - Distance (KOAN Sound Remix)
32. Lusine ft Jenn Champion - Not Alone (ReeLLove Remix)
33. Lusine ft Jenn Champion - Not Alone (Original Remix)

No Space From Breaks

Listen to parts 1 & 2

Tracklist:

1. WhoMadeWho - Silence & Secrets (Frank Wiedemann Version)(Embassy One)
2. Urmet K - Mantra Chants (Dub Mix)(Kindisch)
3. M.O.S - Mermaid Dance (Original Mix)(Melody of the Soul)
4. Sebastien Leger, Tim Green - Iso (Original Mix)(All Day I Dream)
5. Engimatic - Creatures of the Clouds (Original Mix)(Melody of the Soul)
6. Danny Bonnici, Thankyou City - Awakenings (Original Mix)(Balance Music)
7. Desert Dwellers - Dream Within a Dream (Jamie Stevens Hallucination Remix) (Black Swan)
8. Talemates - Gandalf & Hobbits (Amonita Remix)(Rubicunda)
9. Nukreative - Dream Sonika (Original Mix) (TRYBESof)
10. M.O.S - Kara (Original Mix)(Melody of the Soul)
11. Monolink - Swallow (Oliver Koletzki Remix)(Embassy One)
12. Mass Digital - Mellow Hearts (Original Mix)(Melody of the Soul)
13. Greenage - A Walk in the Clouds (Original Mix)(Tale & Tone)
14. Sebastien Leger - Son of Sun (Original Mix)(All Day I Dream)
15. Serious Dancers - Qallin (Original Mix)(Hoomidaas)
16. Shai T - One Night In Paris (Original Mix)(Lost Miracle)
17. Sebastien Leger - Lanarka (Original Mix)(Lost & Found)
18. Guy Mantzur - We are Together (Original Mix)(Moments)
19. Tibi Dabo - No Mantra (Original Mix)(Rebellion)
20. Amen Miran - The Beauty of Silence (Original Mix)(Forestrip Music)
21. Juno Mamba - Siargo Dreams (Original Mix)(Soothsayer)

Cara Murphy

Embark DJsInbox Mix - March 2022

Latest mix. Big banging vocal tech house

Get amongst.

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1. Analog Jungs- Surrender (Original Mix) [Meanwhile]
2. Khen- Angel`s Share (Original Mix) [Lost & Found]
3. Fabreeka- Blue Sky (NOIYSE PROJECT Remix) [Mango Alley]
4. Dmitry Molosh, Ric Niels- Walking In The Woods (Dmitry Molosh Remix) [Plaisirs Sonores Records]
5. Rikken- Rosette Nebula (Paul Hamilton Remix) [Soundteller Records]
6. Jeremy Olander- Sagan (Original Mix) [Vivrant]
7. EANP- Supreme (Original Mix) [Mango Alley]
8. Weird Sounding Dude- Lost In Moment (Original Mix) [The Soundgarden]
9. Sebastian Haas- Galex (Original Mix) [SLC-6 Music]
10. Tim Green, Sebastien Leger- Embre (Original Mix) [Lost Miracle]

Soul Mist 046

New Years Eve//Afterhours New Year 2023

First time in 3 years back behind the decks at The Taniwha's Den. Massive love to everyone that danced up a storm to my set!! 
I played at 10pm on the Sunday and loved every minute of it, that system was an absolute treat to play on.

Didn't record on the night so have reconstructed my set.

It went a lil something like this...

The Taniwha's Den 2023 [Reconstructed]

The breaks sequence from #12 - #16 is INSANE! TGIF, fam 🍻
1.       Gab Oliver – Drowning (McKeown & Bassiray Breaks Remix)

2.       Sasha – Coma (Gabe & Dimitri Nakov Remix)

3.       POPOF – Serenity (Oxia Remix)

4.       Cristoph – Swoon

5.       Quivver – Boom Boom

6.       Westbam feat. Richard Butler – You Need The Drugs (&Me Remix)

7.       Digitalism – Circles (Jeremy Olander Remix)

8.       Silencer – Drown In Me (Cicada Remix)

9.       Flash Brothers – Amen

10.   Kosmas Epsilon – Soho

11.   Thirteen Senses – Into The Fire (Cicada Remix)

12.   Steve May – Open Day (Luke Chable Remix)

13.   Lana Del Rey – Doin Time (Patrice Bäumel Remix)

14.   Framewerk – Enjoy The Silence (Framewerk Four Four Vocal Rewerk)

15.   Precision – Nightmare (Breaks Mix)

16.   Future Sound Of London – Papua New Guinea (Richie Blacker Remix)

DJtheJudd - Progressive House Highway 391 (21 April 2023)

A two hour set from a party at an infamous local setting - The Courtyard.

Tracks and remixes from Because of Art, Framewerk, Nixon, Echonomist, Overmono, Lone and more.

Squishy B : 007 (The Courtyard 13.05.23)

Closing set in the Cliff Zone on the first night (Saturday)
Epic sets from everyone leading up to our closing set, so much fun playing this one with the one and only Ryan Salt and of course All of you.

That is the biggest floor ever on the first night at Taniwha's Den and a real privilege to play it with my best friends.

Taniwha's Den 2023 - Cliff Zone Closing Set

Dannyboy b2b Ryan Salt (Tequila Flange)- Cliff Zone |Taniwhas Den | 2023

01 Prince - 1999 (Deltavox Edit)
02 Fever Ray - I'm Not Done (Still Not Done Dancing Mix)
03 Pale Blue - Together Alone (Kölsch 'I Have You' Remix)
04 Woo York - Samum (Echonomist Remix)
05 Sinful Biz - Come Around Sundown (Extended Mix)
06 Franck Dona, Romina - No Education (Tone Depth Extended Remix)
07 Soundbreeze, Enlusion - Starchitects (Original Mix)
08 Spaceship Commanders - Dark Space (Enlusion Remix)
09 Following Light, TINYgiant - Jibb Hawk (Geerk Remix)
10 Whoriskey - Save Yourself (Nomas Remix)
11 Adriatique, Delhia De France, Marino Canal - Home (Konstantin Sibold Remix)
12 Sasha, lau.ra - Burnt Letters (Original Mix)
13 Joseph Ray - Changing Lanes (Original Mix)
14 Anyma (ofc) - Running feat. Meg Myers (Original Mix)
15 Sandhog - Accent (Renato Cohen Remix)
16 Tristesse Contemporaine - I Didn't Know (Original Mix)
17 Block & Crown - Axel (Extended Mix)
18 Hot Since 82 - Planes & Trains (Original Mix)
19 Alison Goldfrapp - So Hard So Hot (Yotto Extended Mix)
20 Adana Twins - Origo (Original Mix)
21 RÜFÜS DU SOL - On My Knees (Adriatique Remix)

Deltavox Live at Castle Closing Party

In the mid to late 90’s, the dance scene in Wellington was a fully fledged adolescent with an ever-growing foothold on the local nightlife. Dance itself was about to go through a global cultural shift which would see it’s popularity explode and it become completely integrated into the musical landscape, but for the most part it was still an underground movement. It was an exciting time to go out and discover a new evolving sound, something the bars that plied the likes of R’n’B, Top 40 and Rock music were unable to provide or keep up with.  It was in this new melting pot of sound that HAPE first heard the pulsating rhythms and melodies that would go on to change his life. Being a punter first and foremost for a few years allowed him to refine the sound he liked to listen to and discover the venues that best catered to it. Golden era bars and clubs such as Tatou, Phoenix, The Nine Complex, Vurtigo, Paradiso, and a multitude more all touted the way forward for Wellington dance.   Looking back it’s now obvious that HAPE was going to naturally progress from being a punter on the dance floor to being behind the decks, such was his appetite and voracity for the music. With an ever growing collection of records it wasn’t long before he got some 1210’s, delved into learning the craft, honing his skills and playing alongside friends. Some of whom were, and still are, heavyweights in the scene today. He cut his teeth at the likes of Paradiso and Mercury Lounge alongside Dannyboy and Mr. Oz before holding his first residency at Terrace Bar for 4 years. It was here that he would come into his own and develop the sound he’s known for today. This is also where several club nights were born, his own High Calibre, and with the rise of Heylady, Back On Track. Both going from strength to strength. HAPE was soon a regular on club nights and outdoor party line ups all around the capital and further afield.   In recent times, HAPE continued to make a name for himself during a 4 year stint in Auckland where he ran monthly club night Pitch n’ Faders at Red Bar with old Terrace Bar cohort Matt Empyre. Together they also found a new space to continue the High Calibre club night, at Auckland’s ancestral home of house music, the infamous Ink Bar. HAPE continued to play across the city for some of the Auckland scene’s most loved and well respected club brands and venues before returning to the capital in 2018 where he has been a regular face behind the decks, most notably at Dirty Laundry alongside long time friend Mr. Oz.   From those early hedonistic nights in the plush surrounds of Wellington clubland to the gritty freedom that only a large outdoor rig can provide, HAPE is a through and through beat merchant with an absolute passion for storming any dance floor you give him. Constantly striving to both push himself and take the audience on a journey through dark vocal prog with lush servings of deep tribal tech and everything in between, it’ll always be infused with his own twist of high energy funk.

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