Tracklist
Liner Notes
Nora En Pure's "Enchantment" opens at 2:15 with nearly six minutes of breathing room before the second track arrives. Then MEDUZA's "Paradise" in Cassian's remix at 8:15 — Cassian's touch lending it a warmer, more introspective quality than the original's festival sheen. Mood II Swing's "Closer" appears at 12:15, its fifth archive appearance, placed near the top of the mix like a familiar hand on the shoulder. In a session this measured, "Closer" signals intent: this is going to be a mix that prioritises depth over speed, feeling over function. The soulful vocal and the deep house groove are given room to settle and hold.
YOTTO & Cassian's "Grains" arrives at 19:00, and the space around it tells the story. Roughly twelve minutes pass before the next clearly identified track. In a mix this sparse, twelve minutes with a single record is a statement of absolute confidence — the DJ sitting with a slow-building, hypnotic piece and trusting it to carry the listener without any help. This is the antithesis of the early marathons, where a new track arrived every ninety seconds. The DJ has learned that sometimes the most powerful thing you can do is let a record play until it's finished saying what it came to say.
Morgan Page's "The Longest Road" in the deadmau5 remix surfaces at 23:30 — its fourth archive appearance, always arriving in the first third, always functioning as a threshold. Gorgon City appear three times across the middle section: "Trapdoor" at 24:30, "Alive" with PAX at 30:00, and "Sky High" at 1:01:45 — their strongest presence in a single mix, cementing their role as the UK house anchor. Alan Fitzpatrick's "We Do What We Want" at 16:30 and Patrice Bäumel's "Serpent" at 20:15 add techno edges to the opening quarter, but even these harder selections feel restrained in this context, their energy absorbed by the overall atmosphere of contemplation.
Fine Young Cannibals' "She Drives Me Crazy" appears in three forms across a ten-minute stretch — Dimitri From Paris's disco-inflected remix at 42:45, and the David Z 12" Remix twice at 44:15 and 46:15. It's the boldest pop interpolation since U2's "With or Without You" in Mix 06. An '80s pop-funk classic pulled into late-night house context, given enough room to reveal dimensions the radio version never showed. The Dimitri From Paris treatment in particular transforms a three-minute single into a slow-burn journey. It's the centrepiece of the mix — the moment where everything slows to walking pace and the DJ's love of melody completely overrides any obligation to maintain dancefloor intensity.
Master KG's "Jerusalema" at 1:14:15 is THE song of 2020 — the South African gospel-house track that became a global phenomenon during lockdown, spawning dance challenges in hospitals, fire stations, and living rooms worldwide. Its inclusion here, deep in a mix full of European underground selections, is both a nod to the cultural moment and a recognition of the track's genuine quality. "Jerusalema" is a house record that crossed over without compromising a single element. In a mix made during the year that redefined isolation, its communal energy — millions of people around the world dancing alone to the same rhythm — carries a weight that transcends any dancefloor.
The energy arc tells the story of a candle burning down. The opening quarter carries the highest intensity, and each subsequent quarter descends — a continuous, slow dimming until the mix is barely there. Mixed on a December night, during the darkest month of the darkest year most people could remember, that shape feels not just appropriate but inevitable. The South African thread continues from Mix 10: Prince Kaybee, Shimza, Black Motion & Ami Faku's "Uwrongo" at 34:30 and Claudio x Kenza's "Yasha Imizi" at 51:15 deepen the Afro-house connection.
Marc Marzenit's "Perron" in Wehbba's remix returns at 1:10:15, deep in the mix's quietest section, its driving techno energy reduced to something almost meditative in this context — a lullaby wearing a kick drum. Jayda G's "Both of Us" at 39:30 brings a warmth and humanity that the surrounding tracks lean on. Phil Weeks' "It's the Inside That Counts" at 1:06:30 — a title that reads as accidental philosophy — anchors a stretch of deep, soulful house that refuses to raise its voice above a murmur.
The close is barely there. Logic1000's "I Won't Forget" at 1:34:00, MEDUZA's "Discopolis 2.0" remix at 1:34:45, and David Guetta & MORTEN's "Dreams" at 1:38:15 — a final track named, like Fleetwood Mac's in Mix 04, with a word that carries its own weight at the end of 2020. The pandemic year ends not with a bang but with a sigh. Twelve mixes now exist. The journey from three-hour-forty-five-minute enthusiastic sprawl to a one-hundred-and-one-minute atmospheric meditation is the arc of someone learning that the spaces between notes matter as much as the notes themselves. The pandemic forced an inward turn, and the music followed — deeper, quieter, more patient, more honest. Whatever comes next will be built on this foundation of stillness.