Caddyshack totally steals the show this week with an amazing breakbeat influenced Drum n Bass set that will melt your brain. Do not miss his set this week!

Before Caddyshack rocks the house, I feature two Canadian Psy Trance producers – Clone (Gordon Brown) from Ottawa, Canada and Ekoplex (Ray Vincent) from Toronto, Canada.

dj Smiley Mike Deep Psy Trance Set

Clone – Mile High (2009 Remix)
Ekoplex – Give us the Creature
Ekoplex – Neuro Highway
Ekoplex – Graxon
Ekoplex – Druid Walker
Clone – Forest Green
Clone – Maelstrom
Clone – Midnight Sunshine
Ekoplex – Alchemistics
Ekoplex – Inner Focus
Ekoplex – Modoc
Ekoplex – Julia
Ekoplex – Palaka
Ekoplex – Twisted Robot

dj Caddyshack Drum n Bass Mix

Deadmau5 – Jaded (Caddyshack Edit)
Netsky – Lost in this World
Netsky – Eyes Closed (Original Mix)
Zyon Base – Tombstone Blues
Deadmau5 – Strobe (DJ Markey & S.P.Y. Remix)
Sub Focus - Follow the Light
Sub Focus – Timewarp
The Prodigy – Smack my Bitch Up (Sub Focus Remix)
Deadmau5 feat. Rob Swire – Ghosts n Stuff (Sub Focus Remix)
Sub Focus – Join the Dots
Pendulum feat. Sub Focus – Triad Warrior (Nosia Remix)
Sub Focus – X-Ray
Sub Focus - Sound Guy

Just before the show this week I discovered two albums worth picking up. Usually I only like one or two tracks off an album, but these two are fantastic all the way through. The first feature album is “Love Machine” by a group called Save the Robot. Save the Robot is made up of Ari Linker (also known as Alien Project) and Ido Liran (also known as Quadra). It’s not surprising since I discovered Alien Project a few weeks ago after falling in love with their “Activation Portal” album, and along the way I found a few tracks by Quadra that were equally rich. I can only hope we see/hear more from these guys!

The second album featured is by non other than Quadra. After the first few tracks that caught my interest, IU went looking for more and found their “Voice of Reason” album. We live in the era of music download sites like iTunes and Track it Down, where you can pick and choose which songs you want for as low as 99 cents – so I know an album has to be exceptional when I fork out for the whole damn thing!

So I’m just the first third of this week’s mix. Caddyshack and Steve Krueger lay down breaks and deep trance sets to make it a 3 hour show this week. If you like the show, don’t just download – subscribe in iTunes – it looks good in the radio station stats!

dj Smiley Mike PsyTrance Mix:

quadra – back again
save the robot – dream catcher
save the robot – let it play
save the robot – i care
save the robot – lowrider
save the robot – robotz
save the robot – she came
save the robot – what the funk
quadra – back again
save the robot – feel like a star
quadra – bless the robot
quadra – cyberfunk
quadra – technoport
quadra – time immortal
quadra – unification
quadra – we shall overcome
phil reynolds & ben bennett – progress (adrenaline dept. remix)

dj Caddyshack Breakbeat Mix:

dj czech – czech fu (re-edit)
dj czech – rockin’
funkagenda vs. eurythmics – sweet f*@# (Funkagenda WTF Mix)
dizzee rascal – bonkers (absorb breaks mix)
far too loud – pay it loud (broken robot mix)
deadmau5 – strobe (plump dj’s mix)
dirtyphonics – vandals
prodigy – smack my bitch up (sub focus remix)
deadmau5 – ghosts n stuff (sub focus remix)
adam f – original jungle sound (tc remix)

Steve Krueger Deep Mix:

daniel heathcliff – phoenix (original mix)
richard durand – tiger’s appology (original mix)
marcus schossow & robert burian – kofola (shy brothers mix)
deadmau5 – FML (original mix)
tiesto – bend it like you don’t care (extended version)
dada life – let’s get bleeped tonight (tiesto mix)
wippenberg vs daft punk – pong around the world (de jan bootleg)
dada life – bleep satisfaction

electrixx – tetris (original mix)

Sorry about the delay in posting this week’s podcast. There was a glitch with the podcast server but it’s fixed so this week’s show is ready for download.

This week Caddyshack and I were going to play a Nukleuz Records tag team set but we’ve postponed that until next week (Sep 14). In it’s place this week’s set is filled with tracks off the brilliant intelligent hard trance label WellWicked as well as the complex layered trance of Noom Records.

I tried to write down the playlist as I went but be warned there could still be a few tracks out of order.

Natious – Lift (Bluestone Records)
Nuw Idol – Polly’s Pharmacy – Dr Bob X-SDose Remix (WellWicked Records)
Nuw Idol – Not Afraid (WellWicked Records)
Natious – Another World (Bluestone Records)
Nuw Idol – Kick Drum Domination (WellWicked Records)
Sonik Kross – Walking with Dreamz (WellWicked Records)
Nuw Idol & Gianni – The Gates of Time – Nuw Idol UK DK Mix (WellWicked Records)

Les Logos – 1.17 – Original Mix (Noom Records)
Instinct – Zero (Noom Records)
Nuw Idol – Out of Id (WellWicked Records)
Natious – Thrust 1
Nuw Idol – Dreamweaver (WellWicked Records)
solarize – DJ Idge (WellWicked Records)
Snack vs. Uwe Hacker – Dampframme – Street Mix (Noom Records)
Waterhouse – Is It Right (Noom Records)
Nuw Idol – The Gates of Time (WellWicked Records)

I even put a little thought towards which records I should bring for this weeks set – but I think the first hour got off to a bit of a shakey start. I’m not sure, because I haven’t given it my usual Monday morning second listen yet, but I’m pretty sure the second hour was mixed a little better than the first hour. Some nights the mixes really pull together and other nights I just can’t hold the mix right to the bitter end – and believe me, more often than not I push the mix as long as it can go. Not always in my best interest, but short mix DJs never really earned my respect the same way a long mix does. 

I’m working on building a solid base of records to work with right now, so you’ll probably hear some of these tracks again. I’m trying to work in a couple Platipus Records and a Couple Eve Records – which often have such distinctive sounds that it’s hard to mix them seamlessly with tracks from other record labels. 

Sure enough – I’ve only listened to part of the first hour but I’m not very thrilled about it. Right from the get-go I started with a bad mix and that just set the tone for the first hour. It’s too bad because the first mix was going quite well for 3-4 minutes. But all it takes for a great 4 minute mix to go bad is the last 15 seconds. Growing up as a kid I used to hear ‘Close only counts in horseshoes and hand-grenades’ and sure enough – it’s easy to get close. 

I’m also not very happy with the phrasing of the first set. I’ll maybe post something more in-depth another time – but basically (and I’m not even sure if phrasing is the right term) after you get good at matching beats and have it figured out that you have to line up the down-beats – you extend that whole concept to ‘phrases’ of a song. It’s like lining up the first beat of a 32 or 64 note segment on both records. If you can do that then magic can happen!

Here’s an example of what proper phrasing sounds like. Download this week’s podcast and listen to the mix between 1:35:23 and 1:37:35. Once you can phrase your mixes like this it’s practice, practice, practice until you can do it every time. (Easier said than done!)

Caddyshack returns after many weeks off for this week’s extended 3 hour show on BC Day long weekend. Smiley Mike plays an all Platipus set for the first hour. Caddyshack plays the second hour and then we tag team for the final hour – playing two records each.

Smiley Mike’s Platipus playlist

POB featuring X-Avia – The Awakening (Quietman Remix) – 1997
Jamnesia – Get Busy – 2002
Libra presents Taylor – Anomaly – Calling Your Name (Original Mix) – 1995
Art of Trance – Easter Island (Cygnus X Mix) – 1999
Chromium – Chrome (Terra Ferma Remix) – 1997
Universal State of Mind – All Because of You (Mindsweeper Mix) – 1996
Libra presents Taylor – Anomaly – Calling Your Name (Forth’s Remix) – 1996
Patrick Reid – Goose – 2001
Star – Rock Rose (Chab Mix) – 2001
Union Jack – Cockroach or Yeti (Can’t Remember) – 1997
Union Jack – Two Full Moons and a Trout – 1993
Quietman – The Sleeper – 1997