Credit, praise and thanks to the following artists who created the music that appears in Mix No. 19 - Vince's Dos & Don'ts: 
1.Strike the Match (Original Mix) - Uone
2.Awake (Original Mix) - Nicolas Viana
3.New Day (Original MIx) - VICHTOR
4.Around & Round (Original Mix) - Ranta
5.Thinking About You (Original Mix) - Alberto Hernandez (MX)
6.Hairy Mary's Apothecary (Original Mix) - Jim Rider 
7.Nocturne feat. Natacha Atlas (Original Mix) - Dimitri Nakov, Natacha Atlas, Limara
8.Hypnotized (Extended Mix) - Kamilo Sanclemente, Zalvador
9.Ty & Ya (Intro Mix) - Krasa Rosa
10.After The Storm (Yves Eaux, Octabar Remix) - Zimcerla

Vince's Dos & Don'ts (Mix 19)

Credit, praise and thanks to the following artists, producers, musicians and associates for the music in Mix No. 20 - The Lapis Love Lagoon: 
1.Thunderstorm Intro (Fantasy Movie Mix) - Alexander Metzger
2.7 AM in Tulum (Extended Mix) - Nursultan Kun, Soul Engineers
3.Rinconade (Original Mix) - South Atoms
4.The Journey (Original Mix) - Julian Marazuela
5.Slightly Frozen (Original Mix - Powel
6.Stay (Original Mix) - Amonita
7.Callahan (Tim Green Edit) - Serious Dancers
8.Out Loud (Extended Mix) - ID.Jay
9.Seven Eleven (Adam Ten Remix) - Dor Danino, Yamagucci (vocals stemmed and mixed with track 8. Out Loud)
10.From Here To There In Under A Second (Original Mix) - Daniel
11.Happy Together (Original Mix) - The Turtles (vocals stemmed and mixed with track 10. From Here To There In Under A Second).
12.Losing My Religion (Extended Mix) - Samantha Loveridge, Treetalk
13.Blue Lagoon (Original Mix) - STEREO MUNK, Dublew
14.Chestnut Heartsprite (Tim Green Edit) - Axel Boman (vocals stemmed and mixed with track 13. Blue Lagoon)
15.Jungle Bues (Makebo Remix) - Amonita
16.Solovey (Original Mix) - M.O.S., Krasa Rosa
17.Gilgamesh (Original Mix) - Molac
18.Spring Embers (Extended Mix) - Nora En Pure
19.The Drop Intro (Water Tap Mix) - World Of Intros

The inspiration for this mix came from a recent trip to Vanuatu for a dear friend's significant birthday (happy birthday Gordo, we love you!).  We stayed on the island of Espiritu Santo, and one day we took a day trip to one of the island's famous blue holes.  The water was very deep and I have never seen water so blue; the contrast with the green jungle around it looked like somewhere on the exoplanet Pandora. We swam and played in the warm water for a couple of hours and it was one of the most magical things I've ever done. The cover art is a real photo of this place, unfiltered. Simply amazing.

Notes on the music: 
This is my 20th published mix!... (well, it's actually the 21st because Mix 7 comes in two parts).  How did that happen?  Time flies when you're having fun.  I use Serato software to mix music, and this mix is the first where I've been game enough to use their new 'Stems' feature; if you don't know what this is, the software can split a track out into its various elements, allowing the DJ to remove those elements from the track in any combination.  You can, more or less, then make your own little remixes on the fly.  It's a very cool feature, albeit a little clunky in its early stages, but Stems will no doubt get much better as it evolves.
I went for a trippy, dreamy mode for this mix, and used a few unused and older tracks in this mix.  Amonita and Tim Green feature heavily in this mix, I am a huge fan of both of them.  Track 6 - Stay by Amonita is so lovely and Tim Green's take on  Serious Dancers 'Calllahan' (Track 7) improves on an original I didn't think could be improved.  
I looped a lot of vocals in this mix using Stems.  Track 11, Happy Together by The Turtles is the original song with everything stripped out except the vocals, then layered onto Track 10 - From Here To There In Under a Second. There's a few other examples of this approach throughout the mix.  Then on Track 12 - Losing My Religion by Samantha Loveridge and Treetalk, I used Stems to drop the bass line at the beginning of the track, and then, I changed the drums,  bass line and melody to Track 13's -The Blue Lagoon on the transition out.  I hope it works! 
I also purposely made long transitions between most of the tracks to accentuate the strange and kooky sounds in a lot of this music. It's meant to be floaty, you're swimming in a psychedelic blue love lagoon after all!   
Favourite track?  Have to say it's Track 15... can't beat Makebo remixing Amonita... kooky techy stuff is my fave and this track is all that. 

I hope you enjoy this mix, and as always thanks for taking the time to listen. 
Love and hugs in music and as they say in Vanuatu, happy long life to you! 
Alla prossima, bellas! 
Albert
xo

The Lapis Love Lagoon (Mix 20)

Credit, praise and thanks to the following producers, DJ’s, musicians and related artists for the music in Mix No.21 - Deep Space Dance Floor, as follows: 

1.Record Press Intro (Ambient Mix) - Alexander Metzer
2.My Time with you (Original Mix) - Lee Burridge, Lost Desert
3.Groove You (Original Mix) - Mustafa Ismaeel
4.Nothingness (Original Mix) - Enamour, Mustafa Ismaeel
5.Funkily (Extended Mix) - Quivver 
6.Simple Question (Taleman Extended Remix) - pumbum
7.Missing Feat. Cari Golden (Extended Mix) - Cari Golden, Newman (I Love)
8.Almelda Social Club (Original Mix) (vocals stemmed and mixed over track 7.Missing)- Death on the Balcony 
9.Deepest Mind (Original Mix) - DAVI
10.Lost feat. Hedwig (Original Mix) - Hedwig, Jelle van Leeuwen
11.Be My Lover (Original Mix) - Nhil
12.Something’s Jumping In My Shirt (Walk The Body Mix) (stems used for vocals, melody, base and drums on track 11 in various combinations)  - Lisa Marie with Malcolm McLaren and The Bootzilla Orchestra 
13.Chasing Sunsets (Original Mix) - Double Touch 

I love lots of different sounds, a bit of techno here, some light and fluffy organic house there, and some acid, deep house and tech house in between; there’s something in most genres that will catch my ears. I’ve been stuck on the organic house sound for a while, and I felt like changing tact with this mix by putting together some music that had a bit more grunt.  M21 is still on the downtempo end of the scale at only 123BPM, but there’s some deeper stuff, acid elements throughout, and more base in different places which has been fun to play with.  When I listen to this mix, my imagination takes over and I find myself thinking of a nightclub somewhere in outer space, where robots are having a boogie on a dance floor as they take in views of distant galaxies and ringed planets.  Some of this music sounds (to me) like alien robots communicating with each other…. I need to lay off the cookies :).  This is a mix for no other reason than for music’s sake.  

Music notes: 
I landed on this order of tracks after spending many hours rearranging this mix.  Tracks 2 through to 6 are more on the deep house/deep tech side of things, I felt they needed to be grouped together.  Tracks 7 to 10 are more melodic and so I grouped them together for a change of pace, then tracks 11 to 13 take things up for the end.  There are acid sounds throughout the mix (I’ve always loved it) to tie it all together. 
I took Malcom McLaren’s absolute classic track 12. Something’s Jumping In My Shirt and used stems to layer it over track 11. Be My Lover.  Track 12 was an ecstasy anthem back in the heyday with its peaky acid elements; track 11 has its own acid sound and it was great to mix these two up.  It took many takes to get it right!  I love the reimagining of Missing (track 7) and Double Touch do it again with big beautiful key changes with track 13, Chasing Sunsets (love seeing Aussies bring it!) Favourite track? For me, has to be track 4. Nothingness, it’s got deep house elements but it’s not quite deep house.  Anything Mustafa Ismaeel touches sounds fantastic and he appears twice in this mix, I’m a fan! 

This will be the last mix for a couple of months as I’m travelling through August and September, so I’ll see you again in October for something new to listen to.  In the meantime, I hope you enjoy this mix and thank you for listening, I am very grateful.  
Love and hugs in music!
Alla prossima!
Albert   
Xo

Deep Space Dance Floor (Mix 21)

Welcome to our 32nd Il Modo Exclusive Series, October 2023.  This time we are headed back 'Down Under' to Melbourne Australia for a serious belter, a 2.5 hour progressive mix from the wonderful talent that is Pete Gordon.  Thank you Pete.  


"Originally from Wellington, NZ, now living in Melbourne Australia, Pete Gordon’s first taste of dance music was, like many, stumbling upon The Prodigy’s “Music For The Jilted Generation” and the record store geezers suggestion to listen to BT’s “IMA”. This was the first thing to turn him away from the heavy metal, grunge and alternative rock that he pretty much exclusively listened to at the time and when a mate took him out to see Plastikman in 1998, everything changed in an instant!

Bouncing around in the techno and trance scenes for a few years, I was convinced to attend a proper house music gig at a time when I thought that all house music was cheesy radio crap like La Bouche, M People and Real McCoy…how wrong I was! The funk was electric, but there was still something missing, and when I heard progressive house, I knew I had found my home. It was like it had taken all the elements of techno, trance and house that I loved, and smushed them all together in a neat little euphoric and ethereal package.

I first started DJing around 2001 when a mate brought his decks around to my place and the vinyl addiction commenced with fury! Progressive, house, tech-house, techno, breaks, electro I felt were all fair game and always loved weaving sets that slipped in and out of different genres, shades of dark and light. Back in the day in Wellington I was lucky enough to support a lot of big names when they toured through our windy little city; Ali B, Freq Nasty, B.L.I.M, Krafty Kuts and the highlight was closing for Steve Lawler and Nick Warren on their CD release tours for Global Underground “Lights Out 2” and “Shanghai 28” respectively.

My approach to this mix was a deep dive into anything from the last 15 years or so, I don’t care if a tune is old or new, it’s all about how you use it and a quality tune is always a quality tune. Old, new, borrowed or blue, I love digging around SoundCloud for tasty free download bootleg gems and often pepper my sets with a “classic” or a modern re-working of a classic, there’s at least 8 of those in this mix…from deep to organic to progressive to melodic techno and spattered with breaks/electronica, I hope you enjoy the journey!"

Track list in comments.

Il Modo Guest Mix

The Exclusive Series - Episode 33 - Pete Gordon

Credit, praise and thanks to the following DJs, producers and related artists for the music in Mix No. 22, Sun God (in order of tracks played):

1.Stellaris (Flowers On Monday Organic Remix) - Gorge, Danjo (ITA)
2.Ancient Rider (Nicolas Viana Remix) - Umannto, Maja Iris
3.Into The Stars (Original Mix) - Volen Sentir, Makebo 
4.Rainbow (Original Mix) - Dre Guazzelli, Drellrium
5.The Moon and the Stars (Original Mix) - Newman (I Love)
6.Bali Sunrise (Original Mix) - Alexey Romeo
7.A Guy Called Ra (Erdi Imrak Remix Version 2) - Anjei, Anjei & Ego
8.Anatonic (Greg Ochman Remix) - JFR
9.Summer O’Clock (Original Mix) - Shai T
10.Gold of Gold (Original Mix) - Tim Green

I was suffering a severe case of jet lag a few weeks back and was finding myself waking up at 1am for nearly a week.  In the quiet of night, tired but unable to sleep, I kept myself busy looking for music to put into Mix 22.  I wanted to do a little ode to Katniss Everdeen from The Hunger Games and found a heap of music I liked, but when I started to put the mix together I realised it all sounded a bit depressing.  Must of been the combination of the lack of sleep and the inspiration for the mix (Katniss’ world is a very sad one after all).  With that realisation, I decided to do a U-turn and put a mix together that was bright and happy to ward off the jet lag, and so I came up with this combination of sounds for M22. 

Music notes: 
To be honest, there isn’t a lot of complicated mixing in this mix; a few times I used stems to isolate vocals and remove melody, but the rest is straight forward mixing.  Some of my favourite sounds in this mix are track 4-Rainbow by Dre Guazzelli & Drellrium, track 5- The Moon and the Stars by Newman (I Love), and track 10-Gold of Gold of Gold by Tim Green (is that Jimmy Somerville in there?).  However, my absolute favourite track in the mix is track 7- A Guy Called Ra by Anjei and Anjei & Ego; this little number kicks in at about 40mins into the mix, it's an Erdi Imrak remix and it's a beauty… it’s so euphoric!  When I listen to this track, I imagine I am in a field at a dawn rave back in the late 80’s/early 90’s, the sun is coming up and everyone is loved up with hands in the air.  Such an amazing track.  

I hope you enjoy Mix 22 - Sun God and as always, thank you so much for taking the time to listen.  If you like what you hear, push the like icon on the track in Soundcloud, and add a comment on the track, I would love to hear from you. 

Love and hugs in music!
Alla prossima 
Albert 
Xo

Sun God (Mix 22)

Credit, praise and thanks to following artists, producers, musicians and everything in between for the music in mix no. 23, The Empath’s Guide To The Galaxy (in order of playlist): 
1.Alien Intro (Invasion Mix) - World of Intros
2.Lovely Mistake (Original Mix) - Armen Mirin
3.Exosphere feat. M Damingos (Original Mix) - Norma (GR)
4.Menari (Original Mix) - Slow Hearts 
5.Apocalypse (Original Mix) - DAVI
6.Roswell (Original Mix) - Lunar Disco (vocals stemmed onto track 5. Apocalypse)
7.Fernweh (SEVN (CA) Remix) - Useh
8.Inspiration (Greenage Remix) - Taleman
9.Extremely in Green (Original Mix) - Valdovinos
10.Gemidis (Extended Mix) - E.F.G.
11.Love in Space (Original Mix) - Fulltone
12.Bunch of Rays (Original Mix) - Greg Ochman
13.Identity (Extended Mix) - Namito,ARMEI
14.Surge (PROFF & Igor Garanin Extended Mix) - Above & Beyond 
15.What Is That Sound (Original Mix) - Limara 
16.Cyclops (Tim Green Remix) - Mathew Jonson, Quenum
 
This mix is for Adam, my most dear and most hilarious of friends.  In addition to riding the wave of life, the good and the bad, we have spent nearly 35 years with a mission to make each other laugh more than the other.  Sometime many many years ago, we were watching Star Trek ‘The Next Generation’ and were presented with the character Ship Counsellor Deanna Troi. Deanna has given us a feeling of great joy and gratitude over the years with her empathic powers as she senses her way through the galaxy, and we’ve used her lines many times to describe a mutual observation, a moment in time or when there was no other way to explain something; and always with a double or hidden meaning. Counsellor Troi is the gift that keeps on giving and it’s about time there was a mix dedicated to her! 

Music notes:
This is a slower mix at 120bpm with lots of floaty, space inspired sounds. It’s not dance music! I’ve had a lot of this music up my sleeve for sometime and could have made a mix about 4 hours long with this vibe of sounds from unused music in my library. I absolutely love track 2. Lovely Mistake by Armen Mirin (which is actually the first track of music in the mix).  Track 4. Menari by Slow Hearts is one I purchased a couple of years back and have finally found a home for it, it’s music from aliens.  Track 7. Fernweh by Useh is one I’ve used in a previous mix, but it wasn’t this version which is the SEVN (CA) remix; this version is a wicked little genre breaking track, one part techno, one part trance, one part downtempo organic house.  Superb!! 
Favourite track has to be track 11. Love in Space by Fulltone… I’ve used it before in a very early mix (M4) and had to bring it back for this mix.  It’s 100% Albert, pure popcorn, gorgeous and happy and fluffy and it makes me smile. 
You’ll hear Counsellor Troi from time to time throughout this mix. Like all good empaths, she’s feeling it.

Thanks as always for taking the time to listen, I am sincerely grateful. 
I hope you like this quirky little mix.  
Love and hugs through music!
Alla prossima 
Albert Challis 
xo

The Empath's Guide To The Galaxy (Mix 23)

M24 - Last Train to London
Credit, praise and thanks to the following artists, musicians, producers and everything in between for the music in Mix No.24 Last Train to London (in order of playlist): 

1.Djambore (Original Mix) - Julian Liander, Mauro Masi
2.This is Acid (Original Mix) - Maurice Joshua, Hot Hands Hula 
3.Many Different Ways (Original Mix) - Death on the Balcony
4.Amber (Original Mix) - Big Al
5.Magic Orchestra (Original Mix) - The B-Sides
6.Can’t Stop (Original Mix) - Junior, Plez, Lost Desert
7.Carry It With Us (Original Mix) - Death on the Balcony 
8.Happy Man (Original Mix) - Vandelor
9.Forever (Original Mix) - Gorje Hewek, Dulus 
10.Evolution (Kabi Mix) - LDS
11.The Tape (Original Mix) - Frank De Wulf 
12.Kuasi Riviera (Original Mix) - Eternal Love 
13.A Journey of a Thousand Miles (Extended Mix) - Savvas
14.Love Sparkles (Original Mix) - Bona Fide, Wassu
15.Good Life 2017 (Extended Mix) - Inner City 


This little mix is for my dear friend Dean.  We’ve been great friends for over 30 years and have shared many good times both on and off the dance floor.  Dean’s a native Londoner who came to Australia in the late 80’s for a look and ended up having such a good time that he stayed for roughly 25+ years before heading back to Old Blighty.  Music has always been such a huge part our friendship - we’ve danced to it all; the techno days, the house music days, the deep house days, the camp disco days… many stories and fuzzy memories.  So many musical reference points that putting a mix together for Dean was a fun rabbit hole of epic proportions!

Notes on the music 
So many ways I could have taken this mix… acid, techno, house…? In the end, I went for more of a deep house vibe with a nod to the glory days, but I didn’t want to lay it on too thick with the old stuff.  The result, most of the music in this mix is new but sounds old school, with some true old school sounds and tracks layered on top.   
I loved putting the famous acid track ‘This is Acid’ over track 1. Djambore; likewise putting one of the original Belgian techno anthems ‘Magic Orchestra’ over track 4. Amber.  Death on the Balcony’s track 3.Many Different Ways and track 7. Carry It With Us are both really long and give the mix its deep house roots.  Track 9. Forever by Gorje Hewek and Dulus is a nod to London Town; and for no other reason that I love the track and she’s British, listen out for Maggie Smith sharing wisdom in track 10. Evolution by LDS.  Track 12. Kuasi Riveria by Eternal Love is one I’ve used before (M13), it’s got that acidy vibe from way back, love it. 
Finally, you can’t have a nod to the past without the legends Frank De Wulf and Inner City (tracks 11 and 15 respectively).   

Deano!  I hope you enjoy this little bit of fun and it brings a smile to your face!  

Thanks to everyone who takes the time to listen, I am always and sincerely grateful. 

Love and hugs in music!
Alla prossima 
Albert 
xo

Last Train to London (Mix 24)

Credit, praise and thanks to the following artists, producers, musicians and everything between for the music in Mix No.25, My Reverie (in order of play):
1.Final Straw (Original Mix) - Black Soda, Jim Rider
2.Firestone (Mass Digital Remix) - Mass Digital
3.Floatish (Original Mix) - Lost Desert, Felix Raphael
4.Preciosa (Original Mix) - Mass Digital 
5.Fragments (Original Mix) -Kentaro Takizawa, Erdi Irmak
6.Serenata (Extended Mix) - Dee Montero
7.Letters from Home feat. Eleonora (Mass Digital Remix) -Eleonora, Rowee, Flowers on Monday
8.Cielo (Original Mix) - Dee Montero
9.Follower (Original Mix) - mredrollo
10.Is A New Day (Original Mix) - DJ Zombi
11.Evima (Original Mix) - Jiminy Hop
12.Reverie (Original Mix) - PROFF 

Last little mix for 2023.  Just a little ode to Mass Digital and Irdi Irmak who have put out some absolutely amazing music this year.  
Favourite track has to be track No. 10 'Is A New Day by DJ Zombi.  Simply outstanding.  

Here's to more wonderful music in 2024.  Thanks for listening and I hope you like it. 
Love and hugs in music!
Alla prossima
Albert 
xo

My Reverie (Mix 25)

Kaboobie (mix 26) 

Credit, praise and thanks to the following musicians, producers, DJ’s and related artists for the music in Mix 26 - Kaboobie, as follows and in order of playlist: 
1. Give (Original Mix) - Juan Deminicis, Matias Fittipaldi
2. Silk Road (Original Mix) - DJ Phellix, ENKINAKI, Pooria Shiringoo
3. Karavan (Dodeca Remix) - ANUQRAM
4. Bending the Light (Original Mix) - Enamour 
5. The Dwellers (Original Mix) - Rossel
6. Qallin (Original Mix) - Serious Dancers
7. Ojos Turquesa (Original Mix) - Ismaehl
8. 1001 Nights (Original Mix) - Serious Dancers
9. Etheria (Original Mix) - Kamilo Sanclemente
10. Pharaohs Trumpet (Original Mix) - Lateral Shift 

Ring time Sis…. 
As I’ve been digging around in the world of online music stores in recent times, I’ve started noticing an increase in sounds inspired by Arabia, some of which is very good stuff indeed. From time to time over the last year or so, I’ve picked up tracks with a Alvibe that I have particularly liked and have been storing them for a rainy day.
Electronic music has always taken me on a journey.  This mix got me thinking about Shazzan, the classic cartoon from the late 1960s that was on high repeat on our TV when I was a young boy growing up in the 1970s. It was such a magical thing to watch as a child. I went through some of the Shazzan cartoons on YouTube to get the soundbites I liked for this mix and found myself transported back to the floor of my lounge room in the suburb of Sydney where I grew up, where I would have my chin in my hands watching with wide eyes. Looking at Shazzan through adult eyes, it’s still pretty cool, although I have to say Chuck now appears to be a brat with an anger management issue, poor Nancy… that aside, who wouldn’t want a winged camel and a genie on call? 😊 

Music notes: 
Amongst the newer music in this mix from my collection, I’ve dug out two of my favourite oldies that you would have heard before if you’ve been following me for a while; track 4, Bending The Light by Enamour is a few years old but I would play it time and again as it’s just so good, and Track 8, 1001 Nights by Serious Dancers (who appear twice in this mix along with Track 6, Qallin). 1001 Nights makes its 3rd appearance in one of my mixes, this mix is its home however.  There’s lots of soundbites from the cartoons layered in too.  This mix was a lot of work and a lot of fun.  

I hope you enjoy Mix 26 - Kaboobie. 
Thanks as always for taking the time to listen, always grateful! 
Love and hugs in music
Alla prossima 
Albert 
Xo

Kaboobie (Mix 26)

Welcome to the first instalment of Hug Beats Radio!
In this episode, Albert mixes a set of music almost entirely from the music label 'Be Adult Music'. You'll hear elements of both the organic house and deep house genres from producers and artists from across the globe including Erdi Irmak, Gadi Mitrani and Death on the Balcony amongst others.
This is downtempo style electronic music recorded at 122BPM, so turn it up and enjoy the laid back vibe. 

Credit, praise and thanks to the following artists, DJ's, producers and everyone in between for the music in Hug Beats Radio #1, as follows:
0:00 Intro
1:32 Track 1 - Thinking About (Original Mix) by David Ol.
6:34 Track 2 - Follow The Beat (Original Mix) by Death on the Balcony.
13:59 Track 3 - Voo Da Borboleta (Original Mix) by Ootken.
20:27 Track 4 - Easy To Try by Gadi Mitrani
27:21 Track 5 - You Have Been Loved (Original Mix) by Gurhan.
33:03 Track 6 - Fallen In Deep (Extended Mix) by Erdi Irmak, Traumhouse.
39:30 Track 7 - Sonshine Love (Original Mix) by Gadi Mitrani.
45:17 Track 8 - Lovi Wami (Sunset Mix) by Paul Ross, Daniele Soriani, Gianrico Leoni.
50:44 Track 9 - Bruges (Original Mix) by Oliver & Tom.
56:27 Track 10 - Turquoise Paradise (Original Mix) by Cedric Salander.

Alla prossima and grazie!!
Albert 
xo

Hug Beats Radio Show #1

Broadcaster of Hug Beats Radio. A lover of all things house and techno since 1988.
Australian DJ and dreamer from the South Coast of New South Wales on Yuin Country.
Proudly queer. Happily lost in music. Always with a hug. 💕🏳️‍🌈💕

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