This week I tackle mixing on 3 decks, or as close as I can get at the radio station. The studio here has a Rane Serato SL-3 which has a built in SP-6 sampler. So I can play triples where I start with the samples track and then mix two tracks into it. Unfortunately the studio here only has a 2 channel mixer, so it’s a little tricky mixing 3 audio sources with only 2 faders. Some of the mixes are a little rough around the edges, but I’m pretty sure some of the triples worked out pretty well, so it’s just a matter of refining them. I think you’ll see more 3 deck mixes from me soon. Maybe even a CD this summer.

Caddyshack has gone full on into a hardcore drum and bass phase, which I am loving. His taste in music has traditionally been very similar to mine, so all the tracks he’s been searching out have the kind of sounds and elements that I like.

dj Smiley Mike on 3 decks
2  turntables and a sampler

Ephedrix – Evolving Moods (Chronos Remix)
Aquila – Alice (Ephidrex Remix)
Ephidrex – Fly Away (DNA Remix)
Indigo feat. DJ Anneli – My Time
Visual Contact vs. Electro Sun – Facing the Future
Quadra – Time Immemorial
Bizarre Contact – Run Away (Electro Sun Remix)
Dapanji – Attention Please
Mad Maxx & XSI – Creeping
Talamasca feat. Nomad – The Awakening (Ephedrix Remix)
Dapanji vs. Crazy Tone – Dance 2da Music
Save the Robot – Robotz
Quadra – Time Immemorial
Quadra – Cyberfunk
Peacemaker – Hallucination Power
Peacemaker – Japanese Tours
Ephedrix & Aquila – 10 Miles Out
Hunab Tech & Antigravity – Nitro (Lamat Remix)
Space Cat vs. Onyx – Time Wolers

dj Caddyshack Hardcore Drum & Bass Mix

Pendulum – Slam
State of Mind – Dune
State of Mind – Sunking
Netsky – Eyes Closed (Original Mix)
Netsky – Sweet Dreams (Bootleg Mix)
Prodigy – Voodoo People (Pendulum Remix)
State of Mind – Back to the Jungle
State of Mind – Real McCoy
Netsky – Lost in this World
Zyon Base – Tombstone Blues

BAD AUDIO! – This week’s podcast has a terrible problem with the audio feed. Sorry everyone. Should be fixed in time for next week’s broadcast.

My featured artists this week are Ephidrex, a Psy Trance group from Mortsel, Belgium comprised of Jochem Peeters & Joris Marckx. These guys have several releases on Dacru Records, a psy-trance label located in Ghent, Belgium that’s managed by Koen Van Cauwenbergh (Eskimo) and Bert De Decker, better known as DJ Nemesis. I happened across Dacru Records after tracking down releases from Electro Sun, a psy-trance DJ from Beer Sheva, South of Israel, who happens to be my other featured artist this week.

Caddyshack pulled out some tracks that date back, even before the classics, to early rave tracks. Cosmic Baby’s Space Track is unmistakable – but Caddyshack pulls another surprise remix intro! An interesting note on Cosmic Baby – Harald Blüchel was born at Feb 19, 1963 in Nuremberg, and classically trained as a concert pianist who began playing at the Nuremberg Conservatory when he was only 7 years old!

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dj Smiley Mike Psy Trance Set:

Ephedrix – Evolving Moods (Chronos Remix)
Peace Maker – Japanese Tours
Timelock – Radio Active
Talamasca feat. Nomad – The Awakening
Silicon Sound – Pure Reality (Ephedrix Remix)
Ephidrex & Aquila – 10 Miles Out (Lamat Remix)
Protoculture – Magnetik (Ephidrex Remix)
Electro Sun & Brain Damage – Hypnotic Voices
Electric Sun – Double Trouble
Hunab Tech & Antigravity – Nitro (Lamat Remix)
Dapanji – The Dog is Talk
Dapanji vs. Crazy Tone – Dance 2da Music
Lamat & Han Solo – Next Generation of Science
Visual Contact vs. Electro Sun – Facing the Future

dj Caddyshack Deep Trance Mix:

Cosmic Baby – Space Track (Caddyshack Edit)
Sasha – Xpander
Sydney Blu – Senses and the Mind (Original Mix)
Energy 52 – State of Mind
The Grid – Swamp Thing (Grid Southern Comfort Mix)
The House Crew – Euphoria (Nino’s Dream Remix)
Three Drives – Greece 2000 (Man with No Name Remix)
Union Jack – Tryclops
Union Jack – Funnelweb
Union Jack – Vowel
Union Jack – Two Full Moons and a Trout (Orkidea Remix)

I’m listening to the first third of this weeks podcast right now and watching Metrotown pass by while I ride the train through the blue sky on my way back from another busy day that started off with three hours of dentistry this morning. So now you get why this week’s show is untitled. I could have called it the Froster.ca launch show, but that seemed a little too corporate. Yeah – I do have a day job, and this week I was right in the middle of it during the show. How is that possible, given that the show airs from 10pm – Midnight in my timezone? Well, let’s just say I’m a dedicated employee that is lucky enough to work with some pretty dedicated people.

Alright, so none of that really has to do with anything musical. What’s on the decks this week? I’m still well into my PsyTrance kick. Steve played some of the wonkiest, most twisted trance I’ve ever heard (sorry, I wasn’t able to capture the track list), and Caddyshack dropped a fine mix of old-made-new epic trance.

dj Smiley Mike PsyTrance Set:

Timelock – Radioactive
Disco Hooligans – Clear Skies
Disco Hooligans – Easy to Get Lost
Quadra – Pure Ecstasy (Dynamic Remix)
Save the Robot – I Care
Domestic – Bloom on Day
Quadra – We Shall Overcome
Dapanji – Attention Please
Dapanji – The Dog is Talk
Hunab Tech & Antigravity – Nitro (Lamat Rmx)
F.F.T – Frequency Request (Lamat Rmx)
Lamat & Hans Solo – Next Generation of Science
Dapanji vs Crazy Tone – Dance 2da Music

Steve Krueger Twisted Trance Set:

I didn’t get Steve’s track list this week because I was winding up a pirate game and launching a new Froster website for Mac’s.

dj Caddyshack Trance Mix:

Deadmau5 – Jaded (Caddyshack Edit)
John ’00′ Fleming & The Digital Blonde – Nine Inch Nails (The Dub Mix)
Christopher Lawrence & Nicholas Bennison – Continuation (Original Mix)
Ummet Ozcan – Timewave Zero (Original Mix)
Cirez D vs Armin Van Buuren feat Sharon – On Off Love (Armin Van Buuren Mash-Up)
Andy Moor vs Motorcycle – So Much Rush (Myon & Shane Mash-Up)
Dave 202 – Generate the Wave (Original Mix)
Ben Gold – First Class Travel
The Prodigy – Smack my Bitch Up (Richard Durrand Remix)
Taucher – Science Fiction (Cosmic Gate Remix)
Push – Universal Nation (Dumonde Remix)

Easter long weekend is just another excuse for an extended show! The first two hours is uninterrupted and journeys from PsyTrance into Hard Trance, then through some heavily remixed Trance Classics before weaving back into PsyTrance and then finishing with some more Hard Trance.

Caddyshack discovered Drum n Bass last week and goes mental this week in what may very well be his first ever Hard Drum and Bass set.

dj Smiley Mike Hard Trance Mix:

Space Cat vs. Onyx – Time Wolers
Disco Hooligans – String Theory
F.F.T. & Frenessy - Psychedelic system
Hunab Tech & Antigravity - Nitro (Lamat Remix)
Astrix – Tweaky (Alien Project Remix)
Save the Robot – Robotz
Alien Project - Activation Portal
Simon Qudos - Lets Get Higher
Phil Reynolds & Ben Bennett – Progress (Original Mix)
Simon Qudos - Ascension Protocol
Simon Qudos – Next Generation
Phil Reynolds & Ben Bennett – Progress (Adrenaline Dept. Remix)
Quadra – Bless the Robot
Quadra – We Shall Overcome
Save the Robot – Communicate
Save the Robot – Feel Like a Star
Alien Project – Deeper
Quadra – Back Again
Alien Project – NRG
Save the Robot – I Care
Fabio Stein – Agent of Chaos
Ben Nicky – Catapult (Fabio Stein’s Uprise Remix)
Nick Robertson – Identity Crisis
Nick Sentience & Nick Rowland – Meridian
Nick Larsen – Push (Fabio Stein’s Back 2 Basics Remix)
Nick Sentience – Electrify (Uplifting Mix)
Dave 202 – Generate the Wave (Fabio Stein Crasher Remix)

dj Caddyshack Drum & Bass Mix:

Reflekt – Need to Feel Loved (Deep Focus & Incontext Mix)
Gorillaz – Feel Good Inc (DnB Mix)
Sub Focus – Timewarp
Sub Focus – X-Ray
Pendulum feat. Sub Focus – Triad Warrior (Noisia Remix)
Adam F – Original Jungle Sound (TC Remix)
Prodigy – Take Me to the Hospital (Sub Focus Remix)
Prodigy – Smack My Bitch Up (Sub Focus Remix)
Deadmau5 feat. Rob Swire – Ghosts n Stuff (Sub Focus Remix)
Friction & K-Tee – Untitled Blues
Inhaler feat. Christian Burns – Something About You (J. Magik & Wickamann’s Extended Mix)
J. Magik & Wickamann – Crazy World
Sub Focus – Follow the Light
Sub Focus – Join the Dots
Ed Rush & Optical – Pac Man (Upbeats Remix)
Martsman – 8 Bit Bouncer
Spor – 1 up
Rank 1 – L.E.D. there be Light (Tn DnB Remix)
DJ Czech – Rockin’
Ed Solo – Age of Dub (Parker Remix)
DJ Czech – Untitled

Here’s the track list for this week’s show.

dj Smiley Mike Full On PsyTrance Mix:

Han Solo & Inference – Just a Dream
Alien Project - Activation Portal
Simon Qudos - Even Harder, Even Faster, Even Stronger
Alien Project vs Space Cat vs Quadra  - I Dose
Quadra - LSD Came Falling Down
Quadra - Pure Ecstasy (Dynamic Remix)
SubConsciousMind - My Music
F.F.T - Frequency Request (Lamat Remix)
F.F.T & Frenessy - Psychedelic System
Hunab Tech & Antigravity - Nitro (Lamat Remix)
Lamat & Antigravity - Accidental Overdose (Lamat Remix)
Lamat & Han Solo - Next Generation of Science
Spanknoise and Lamat –  Fogo Na Selva (feat. Janelo)
Alien Project – NRG
Alien Project - Missing Linker
Alien Project – Deeper
Astrix – Tweaky (Alien Project Remix)

Steve Krueger Vocal Trance Mix:

Mike Shiver & Aruna - Everywhere You Are (Intro Edit)
Steve Kruger - The Great Denva Escape Mashup
George Acosta feat Fisher – True Love (Garry Cueto Remix)
Stoneface & Terminal - Don’t Give a F*** (Vocal Mix)
Dirty Vegas - Days Go By (Airspark’s Gateways Mash)
Tocadisco feat. Nadia Ali - Better Run (Wippenberg Remix)
Robbie Rivera feat. Denise Rive - Back to Zero (George Acosta Remix)
Zoo Brazil feat. Leah – You Can Have it All (George Acosta Remix)
Jes – Love Song (Cosmic Gate Remix)
Nic Chagali feat. Johnathan Mendalsohn – This Moment (Prog Mix)
Mat Zo – The Fractal Universe (Original Mix)