Tracklist
Liner Notes
The opening is breathless. Disclosure & slowthai's "My High" at 1:15 sets a tone of cool confidence, then Gaetano C & DePandis' "Saw" at 4:15 — a track that appeared in Mix 09 and is quickly becoming a regular — drops the first proper house groove. What follows is a torrent. Between the 13-minute and 17-minute marks, ten tracks arrive in four minutes: Sam Paganini's "Rave," Marc Marzenit's "Perron" in Wehbba's remix, Dann Howard, Madness Ba, Liva K, Kormak, Stephan Crown, Nora En Pure, Tommy Glasses, Allies for Everyone. It's deliberate compression — the DJ stacking ideas on top of each other, layering textures and rhythmic patterns until the mix reaches critical density. You don't listen to these individually. You let them wash over you as a single, evolving groove.
Marc Marzenit's "Perron" in the Wehbba remix debuts at 13:45 and will become another recurring fixture — six mixes through Mix 26. It's a bridge between the melodic and the techno: emotional enough to fit the archive's warmth, driving enough to push the floor forward. Its placement alongside Sam Paganini's rave-invoking techno signals that Mix 10 is going to lean harder into the underground than anything that came before. The DJ is no longer just collecting tracks that feel good. They're building a vocabulary of functional tools.
Disco surfaces explicitly for the first time. Mooqee & Beatvandals' "Player" in its 2019 disco rework appears twice — at 29:30 and 32:45 — flanking a passage that includes Miguel Campbell's "Something Special" and The Vision's "Heaven" featuring Andreya Triana. Selace's "So Hooked on Your Lovin" in Mousse T.'s extended disco mix at 37:45 continues the thread. The DJ is tracing a lineage: disco begat house, and by including both in the same session, the connection between eras becomes audible. It's one thing to know the history intellectually. It's another to make it felt in a mix.
The standout DJ moment comes at the sixty-minute mark. Âme's "Rej" at 1:00:45 — one of the most iconic deep house tracks of the 2000s, a record that redefined what minimal could make you feel — sits between Mode-One's "Lady of the Night" and Kygo's reworking of Tina Turner's "What's Love Got to Do with It" at 1:04:30. Then The xx's "Angels" in Kygo's edit at 1:06:15. It's a sequence of extraordinary emotional range: deep house introspection into pop warmth into indie fragility, handled with the confidence of someone who knows exactly what feeling they're chasing. "Rej" is a club record, built for Berlin basements at 4 AM. But placed alongside Tina Turner and The xx, it becomes something more personal — a record about longing rather than dancing.
The energy arc builds early, peaking in the second quarter, then gently descends through the back half. This building-then-releasing shape is becoming the DJ's signature architecture. The front half generates momentum; the back half cultivates atmosphere. It's the shape of a night: the early hours energise, the late hours contemplate. Duke Dumont's "Ocean Drive" in Purple Disco Machine's extended mix at 1:18:45 and Dua Lipa's "Break My Heart" at 1:17:00 anchor the middle descent with accessible warmth — reminders that the mix can reach deep into the crates without losing its ability to move someone who's never heard of Âme.
The late section introduces a South African and Afro-house thread that hasn't appeared this prominently before. DJ Stilo & Mr Thela's "Thel'umsindo" at 1:27:00, Euggy & XtetiQsoul's "Drumline" at 1:47:15, the Oluwadamvic remix of "&friends" at 1:48:15 — selections from outside the European and American electronic mainstream that widen the mix's sonic geography entirely. The DJ's ears are reaching further than Beatport, further than the algorithmically curated playlist, into traditions that carry their own weight and history.
RÜFÜS DU SOL appear in a new form: Lastlings' "No Time" in their remix at 1:51:15. The Australian trio have evolved from headliners in the early mixes to remixers in Mix 06 to this — a remix credit for another Australian act, shaping someone else's song through their lens. It's the quietest kind of presence, and the most telling. MEDUZA's "Lose Control" at 1:37:00 returns for its second archive appearance, and in a mix that has pushed deeper into house music's roots than any before it, the track serves as a reminder of the accessible crossover that first opened this door. The path from "Lose Control" to "Rej" is the story of the archive in miniature — from the charts to the crates, from the popular to the essential, from knowing what you like to understanding why.