Tracklist
Liner Notes
The opening minutes move at a sprint — Hayden James' "Nowhere To Go" in Dom Dolla's remix at 0:00, New Baccara's italo-disco "Fantasy Boy" at 1:15, Radio Slave's "Another Club" at 4:15 — genres flipping like channels on a television, no single aesthetic holding the floor for more than a couple of minutes. By 8:30, Tinlicker & Robert Miles' "Children" appears for only the second time in the archive, placed so casually in the rush of early tracks that you could miss it entirely. The melody still carries the full weight of Robert Miles' 1995 original, one of electronic music's most recognisable themes, but its placement here suggests it hasn't yet earned its status as a centrepiece. That reverence will come.
RÜFÜS DU SOL's presence takes a new shape. "Hypnotised" arrives at 20:15 — dreamy, patient, suspended in that characteristic haze of yearning. Then "Solace" in Lastlings' remix at 40:15, the Australian connection deepening. But the most revealing moments come with "Like An Animal," which appears in three forms: YOTTO's remix at 71:30 and 73:45, and the original at 71:45, tucked between them. When a DJ returns to the same track multiple times within a single session, it's because they can't get it out of their system. YOTTO adds patience and hypnosis to what is already a slow-burning track, and the DJ wants to inhabit both versions, to hear the song from inside and outside simultaneously. This is the first time the archive shows someone actively working a track rather than simply playing it.
The middle hour — roughly 52:00 to 1:30:00 — is where Mix 04 reveals its most distinctive character. The Cranberries' "Dreams" at 52:00 and Fleetwood Mac's "Dreams" at 1:25:45 — two different songs named "Dreams" from two different rock traditions, both dropped into a dance mix with absolute sincerity. Between them: Oliver Koletzki's "Hypnotized" at 59:30, a Mousse T rework of "Purple Rain" at 1:05:00, French 79's "Hometown" at 1:08:45, Rick James' "Super Freak" at 1:21:45 flowing into Block & Crown's "You're a Freak" at 1:22:15, Lipps Inc.'s "Funkytown" at 1:10:30. The mix becomes a house party, not a club set — the sound of someone putting on records for friends who trust them, cycling through decades without apology or explanation.
The underground thread runs deeper here than in any previous mix. Christian Smith & Wehbba's "Mutate" at 34:30. Hackler & Kuch's "Special K" at 1:16:00. Shane Fontane's "Rituals" at 55:45. Mr. Fingers' "Can You Feel It" at 1:40:30 — one of house music's foundational texts, the Chicago original that defined what a 4/4 kick drum could make you feel. Robin S.'s "Show Me Love" at 1:48:00, her first archive appearance in a career that will echo through to Mix 46. Marshall Jefferson & Solardo's "Move Your Body" at 1:47:45. The reference points are widening beyond the current and the trending — the DJ is reaching back into dance music's history, building a lineage alongside the collection of new releases.
The energy arc peaks gently in the third quarter before easing down — the contour of a long afternoon rather than a nightclub arc. There's no moment designed to blow the roof off. The highest intensity passages sit around the 1:35:00 mark, but they feel more like a second wind than a calculated climax. Fatboy Slim's "Praise You" at 2:09:15, FISHER's "You Little Beauty" at 2:12:45, Ed Sheeran's "Don't" in the Don Diablo Remix at 2:15:30 — the energy lifts when the selections demand it, but the overall feel is sustained warmth, the sonic equivalent of a Saturday that never quite becomes a Saturday night.
MEDUZA's "Piece Of Your Heart" appears three times between 27:45 and 31:15 — original, CYA remix, original again — the DJ circling the biggest dance track of 2019 as if reluctant to leave it behind. CamelPhat & Cristoph's "Breathe" at 2:18:45 marks a different kind of landmark: the Anjunadeep-adjacent progressive sound that will grow more prominent in later mixes. And Nirvana's "Come As You Are" in a remix at 1:57:30, followed by The White Stripes' "Seven Nation Army" remix at 2:00:15 — rock anthems pulled into the mix with the same democratic instinct that includes Gigi D'Agostino and Prince.
The final forty minutes contain arguably the mix's finest unbroken sequence. Disclosure's "You & Me" appears at 2:58:30 in Flume's iconic remix — the bass-heavy, future-bass reimagining that defined a generation's festival experience — then its Future Bass edit at 3:00:15. The Blaze's "TERRITORY" follows at 3:01:15, all cinematic visuals and slow-burning emotional techno. And Lane 8 & YOTTO's "I/Y" at 3:06:45, the two melodic house architects collaborating on something patient and luminous. It's the highest concentration of quality in the entire recording, buried deep in the third hour where only the committed listener will discover it.
The very end turns contemplative in a way nothing before it has. Klangkarussell's ambient textures at 3:18:00. Jean-Michel Jarre meeting Tangerine Dream on "Zero Gravity" at 3:19:45 — pioneers of electronic music from the 1970s surfacing in a 2019 DJ mix. The Temptations' "I Wish It Would Rain" at 3:20:00 and again at 3:24:30, Motown soul closing out a session that spanned techno, house, rock, pop, hip-hop, classical impulses, and ambient electronics. The mix drifts away from dance music entirely and into something cinematic, something final.
After this, everything changes. Mix 05 will drop to two hours thirty-nine minutes. Mix 06 to two hours seven. The track counts will halve, then halve again. The deliberate, disciplined mixes that define the later archive are on their way. But they need this mix to exist first — this generous, overstuffed, occasionally brilliant survey of everything the DJ loves. You have to know what's in your collection before you can decide what to leave behind. Mix 04 is that inventory. It's messy and it's necessary, and the mixes that follow are better because it dared to include everything.