Tracklist
Liner Notes
Anderholm's "Timecode" opens at 0:45 with patient, unfolding electronic textures, and then RÜFÜS DU SOL's "Treat You Better" arrives at 2:45 — but in Cassian's remix, not the original. That distinction matters. In Mix 01, RÜFÜS DU SOL appeared in their native forms. By the third chapter, the preferred versions are the remixes — the deeper, more textured readings. Cassian is becoming a creative lens through which familiar tracks are reinterpreted, not just an artist in his own right. The appreciation has moved beyond the song to the treatment, beyond the melody to the hand that shapes it.
Fred again.. slips into the archive at 21:30 with "Danielle (smile on my face)," tucked between Dead or Alive's "You Spin Me Round" and an Elektrodrei track. No fanfare, no obvious placement — just a sample-heavy, emotionally direct piece of electronic music nestled between an '80s pop classic and German techno. It's an understated entrance for an artist who will go on to appear in eleven mixes, becoming one of the most frequent names in the catalogue. His music has a quality that makes it belong wherever it's placed, and that chameleon nature shows itself from the very first outing.
The Energy 52 thread begins here, and it begins with conviction. "Café Del Mar" appears three times across the mix — first in the Tale Of Us Renaissance Remix at 50:30, then the Deadmau5 Remix at 54:45, and again in the Deadmau5 version at 2:10:30. This Balearic anthem, originally released in 1993, will echo through the archive all the way to Mix 46 — a thread that spans the entire seven-year journey. It functions as a talisman, a track that summons a specific feeling: sunset, open air, the precise sensation of being exactly where you're supposed to be. In Tale Of Us's hands at the fifty-minute mark, it becomes something almost devotional, all slow-building warmth and wide-open space.
At the eighty-four-minute mark, something genuinely unexpected happens. Bach's Toccata and Fugue in D Minor — Miklós Spányi's harpsichord performance — appears between a deep electronic stretch and Nora En Pure's "Come With Me." A classical piece in a DJ mix. The organ-like textures of the harpsichord bleed into the synthetic production that follows with an uncanny naturalness, as though four centuries of music were always meant to occupy the same room. It's a moment that reveals the full range of what these mixes are willing to attempt — not just genre-crossing, but time-crossing, pulling from classical repertoire with the same ease as pulling from last week's Beatport chart.
MEDUZA's "Piece Of Your Heart" at 1:34:00 makes one of its earliest archive appearances — the piano-driven vocal house anthem that dominated 2019. Then Space Motion's "Requiem for a Dream" returns from Mix 02 at 1:42:00, followed by an unexpected left turn into Bollywood via Munni Sarkar's "Kala Chashma" at 1:43:15 and immediately into Patrice Bäumel's cerebral techno "Serpent" at 1:46:00. The range is staggering. These aren't jarring transitions — they're the listening habits of someone who treats their entire music library as one continuous conversation.
The recurring cast from the first two mixes is now almost fully assembled. Mood II Swing's "Closer" returns at 1:03:30. Solee's "Shanti" at 1:46:00 — its third consecutive appearance, cementing it as a ritual. Kidnap's "Skin" in the Rinzen Remix at 1:57:00. Alex Dolby & Santos' "Raw Road" at 1:04:15. Each of these tracks carries forward a thread from Mix 01 and Mix 02, building an identity through repetition. They're not chosen for variety — they're chosen because they anchor each new session in a shared language. MATADOR & ARTBAT's "Apollo 11" bookends the mix, appearing at 14:45 and again at 2:08:00 — a techno piece framing everything between like a pair of brackets, its title feeling almost symbolic of the exploratory spirit that drives these early chapters.
The energy arc shows its first real contour. Where the first two mixes held almost perfectly flat, Mix 03 dips in its second quarter before rising to its highest intensity in the third — the first mix in the archive to build toward a genuine peak. Something is changing in the intuition. The DJ is beginning to think not just about what track comes next, but about where the listener is in the journey. The third quarter's push — MEDUZA, Space Motion, Patrice Bäumel, Solee, ZHU & Tame Impala's "My Life" at 1:51:15 — feels deliberate in a way the early mixes' flat sustain never did.
The final twenty minutes accelerate dramatically. Fragma's "Toca's Miracle" at 2:12:30, CHVRCHES' "Leave A Trace" through Four Tet's lens at 2:14:00, Virtual Self's "Ghost Voices" in Lane 8's remix at 2:19:45, The Chemical Brothers' "Hey Boy Hey Girl" in the Soulwax Remix at 2:38:15 — track after track in rapid succession, the jukebox instinct from Mix 01 reasserting itself but with better selections, more considered remixers, a sharper sense of occasion. And it closes with Lane 8's "Daya" at 2:38:30 — quiet, melodic, contemplative. Three mixes in, and the endings are finding their voice. Not a bang, not a fade, but a gentle landing after a long and restless flight.