Tonight’s set starts out with a few high-energy tracks from Astrix’s new album Red Means Distortion before slowing down into some deep trance by Zonka and Pakman. Just when you think you’ve drifted to the deepest edges of the Universe, a few tracks by Ephedrix will have you back home in record time.

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dj Smiley Mike Trance Adverture Mix

Astrix – Mir
Aquatica – Place of Panic (Sytem Nipel Remix)
Astrix – Eye to Eye (GMS 2010 Remix)
Astrix – Acid Rocker
Protoculture – 1998
Timelock – Radioactive
Space Cat – Feel the Future
Anti Matter – Absolute Zero
Ritmo – Dimensions (Zonka Remix)
Flegma – Blow Out (Zonka Remix)
Zonka – Heil (Erotic Dream Remix)
Erotic Dream – The Last Drop
Pakman – Change the Things
Pakman – Stage
Pakman – Some Noise
Easy Riders – Test Drive
Electro Sun & Brain Damage – Hypnotic Voices (Ephedrix Remix)
Ephedrix & Oonah – Space & Time
Astrix – Antiwar
Domestic – Bloom on Day

Encore Mix

Astrix – Dharma
Hysteria – One

Dose Presents Life Force
New Years Eve Rave 1995

I was digging through my collection of old mixtapes this week and found this gem, recorded from a Dose Productions rave here in Vancouver on New Years Eve 1995 featuring live sets from DJ Vitamin E and DJ Lace. These mixes are likely to be available only for a limited time, so grab them while you can!

You can find them on the dj Smiley Mike Soundcloud profile.

This week’s show is dedicated to the friends and families of the 19 people who were trampled to death at the 2010 Love Parade in Germany.

Is it possible to to be deep and fullon at the same time? I tend to think of them as somewhat opposite, but this week’s show really seems to bridge the gap. Two new tracks worth mentioning are Black Jack by Mekkanikka and Nu Metro by Broken Toy.

I couldn’t get the second half of the Simon Qudos guest mix working, so the second half of the show features a BBC essential mix by Christopher Lawrence from 2004. Watch for the second half of my Simon Qudos guest mix in the coming weeks!

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dj Smiley Mike 2010 Love Parade Mix

Bizzare Contact vs. Ultravoice – Ultrabizzy
Silicon Sound – Pure Reality (Ephedrix Remix)
Aquila – Alice (Ephedrix Remix)
Electro Sun – High Cue
Ephedrix – Far Away (DNA Remix)
Mekkanikka – Black Jack
Indigo – Moon Walker
Quadra – Time Immemorial
Quadra – Technoport
Quadra – Cyberfunk
Alien Project – Deeper
Broken Toy - Nu Metro
Dapanji vs Crazy Tone – Dance 2da Music (Original Mix)
Save the Robot – Robotz
Save the Robot – Feel Like a Star

It was tough to follow the intensity of Friday’s Rainbow Groove Invasion set so I started off with a bit of dark psy, which is a little unusual for me. I usually keep from getting too ‘demonic’ but I guess if the track is good enough I don’t mind dipping over to the dark side for a bit.

The second half of the show starts to get a little deeper with some of my less played tracks, and is it often turns out, it’s those less played tracks that had captured my interest by the end of the show. I’ve always struggled to deliver flawless sets as I constantly want to hear music that I haven’t heard in awhile. In fact, many of my sets include a substantial number of tracks that I’ve never played before. So I’ve had to get really good at playing ‘on the fly’.

Speaking of my DJ style, I haven’t covered what equipment I use in a bit. I come from an all vinyl background but now use control vinyl with Serato to play mostly MP3s while maintaining the feel of vinyl. I’ve started to experiment with Seratos SP-6 sampler, but didn’t use it all during this set. I’m also looking at Traktor’s Kontrol X1 to control the new effects rack that’s built into Serato 2.0 but, again, didn’t use any effects in this mix. I use a Vestax PMC-17A at home, however this mix uses the Denon 300X mixer from the studio (which I quite like – except that it’s not a 3 channel mixer).

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dj Smiley Mike Dark & Dirty mix

XSI – Dominion
XSI – Alchemik Machines (Mad Maxx Remix)
Mad Maxx – At the End of the Rainbow
Mad Maxx with XSI – The Shamen
Electro Sun – Secret Sequence
Silicon Sound – Pure Reality (Ephedrix Remix)
Ephedrix – Far Away (DNA Remix)
Ephedrix – Evolving Moods (Chronos Mix)
Peace Maker vs. Mad Maxx – Everyone Equal
Peace Maker – Japanese Tours
Mad Maxx vs. XSI – Creeping
Talamasca – The Awakening feat. Nomad (Ephedrix Remix)

dj Smiley Mike Down Deep mix

Save the Robot – Robotz
Quadra – L.S.D. Came Falling Down
Quadra – Bless the Robot
SubConciousMind – Essenz
Disco Hooligans – Running Out of Time (Smiley Mike Live Remix)
Disco Hooligans – String Theory (Smiley Mike Live Remix)
Disco Hooligans – Steady Now
Electro Sun – On Air
Jikkenteki vs. Katapult (PAR-2) – Swamp Monster
Disco Hooligans – This is How it’s Gonna Go

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