Tracklist
Liner Notes
Crazy P's "Heartbreaker" opens at 0:00 with disco-inflected warmth — live instruments, a groove that moves the hips before the head. It's followed by Dele Sosimi's Afrobeat-inflected "You No Fit Touch Am" at 5:00, then David August's "Hamburg Is for Lovers" at 5:15, a track whose title alone evokes late-night European studios and the kind of wistful electronic music that feels like looking out of rain-streaked windows. The pop crossovers that peppered the first four mixes are almost entirely gone. Dua Lipa's "Don't Start Now" at 15:45 arrives in Dom Dolla's remix — still pop at its core, but filtered through a house sensibility that strips away the chart polish and finds the groove underneath. This is a DJ who has found their lane and is comfortable staying in it.
RÜFÜS DU SOL's presence here is subtle but telling. They appear first as remixers — Foals' "The Runner" in their rework at 6:45 and again at 12:00, the same double-play technique that has become a signature move across the archive. It's a reversal from the early mixes where RÜFÜS DU SOL arrived as headliners, their own songs the main event. Now they're the lens through which other artists are refracted, shaping the atmosphere rather than dominating it. "New Sky" returns near the close at 1:54:15, followed by its Audiofly remix at 1:58:30 — a familiar title given a new reading, the song examined from two angles before being released. They're no longer the destination. They've become the weather.
The middle section reveals a new emotional register. Robin S.'s "Luv 4 Luv" in a Stonebridge mix at 28:45 — classic early-'90s diva house, all vocal power and four-on-the-floor devotion. Maxwell's "Bad Habits" remixed for the club at 32:00. Jeremih's "Planez" at 32:15. There's an R&B warmth running through this stretch that the earlier mixes never attempted, a sense that soulful vocals over house beats create something more emotionally resonant than instrumental electronics alone. It's a thread that will continue to develop across the archive — the discovery that dance music's emotional ceiling is raised by the human voice.
The sequence around the fifty-minute mark captures the mix's range in a single breath. A dance remix of U2's "With or Without You" at 52:15 sits beside the original at 52:45 — the biggest rock band in the world, their most iconic ballad, dropped into a house set with absolute sincerity. Then Monolink's "Take Me Home" in Purple Disco Machine's remix at 56:15 carries the yearning forward, and the transition from U2's arena emotion into Monolink's melodic electronic warmth feels not just seamless but inevitable. This is where mixing becomes something more than track selection. It becomes storytelling — the art of placing one feeling next to another and letting the listener find the connection.
FKA twigs' "Two Weeks" at 1:06:30 is one of the most unexpected selections in the early archive. An R&B-electronic hybrid from an artist who exists entirely outside the dance music ecosystem, built on vulnerability, physical presence, and vocal acrobatics. Placed between Regard's "Ride It" and a Queen cover reworked as "Radio Ga Ga" at 1:10:15, it signals that the DJ's taste is no longer bounded by what other DJs play. The listening has expanded beyond the Beatport chart and into the broader musical landscape, and it's brought back treasures that no genre purist would think to include.
The energy arc makes history for the archive: Mix 06 is the first to finish stronger than it starts. The closing quarter carries the highest intensity of any section, building through MEDUZA's "Lose Control" at 1:25:30, Joris Voorn's "Antigone" in YOTTO's extended mix at 1:30:00, and Lovebirds' "Want You In My Soul" at 1:32:45 — each selection lifting the floor a little higher, the mix rising toward resolution rather than fading toward sleep. After five chapters that wound down or plateaued, this one climbs. It's the energy signature of someone who has learned that an ending can be a destination, not just a stopping point.
CHVRCHES appear twice — "Clearest Blue" in Gryffin's remix at 44:00, and "Death Stranding" at 1:40:30, the latter named after the Hideo Kojima game and carrying its own weight of atmospheric melancholy. The close that follows is the most intentional ending the archive has produced. RÜFÜS DU SOL's "New Sky" and its Audiofly remix. Flume's "Rushing Back" in MJ Cole's remix at 2:00:00 and then "Friends" at 2:03:45. Meditative Drift's "The Further the Landscape" at 1:56:45 — the mix dissolves from dance into pure texture, the lights coming down slowly, the last beats giving way to ambient waves and New Age drift. It's the ending of a year. The ending of an era.
Six chapters in, and the marathon age is complete. The trajectory from 3:45 to 2:06, from ninety tracks to fifty-two, from flat sustain to shaped arc — this is the story of someone finding their voice by learning what to leave out. RÜFÜS DU SOL evolved from featured headliners to atmospheric touchstones. The signature tracks established their roles: "That Acid Track" as rhythmic anchor, "Shanti" as meditative constant, "Closer" as soulful grounding, "Children" as emotional centrepiece. The endings improved from fade-outs to intentional descents. And most importantly, the mixes began to feel like they were going somewhere specific rather than everywhere at once. What comes next will be shaped by a world that none of us saw coming — four walls, closed borders, and a silence that makes the music matter more than ever.