Tracklist
Liner Notes
Mr. V's "Jus Dance" at 0:45 and Matt Sassari's "Give It to Me" at 2:00 announce intentions by their titles alone — two tech-house tracks that put the body first and the head second. Flume & MAY-A's "Say Nothing" at 3:15 is a brief left turn into atmospheric electronica, just long enough to reset the ear before Shouse's "Won't Forget You" at 7:15 takes over with its aching vocal. The pacing is aggressive, decisive. Tracks arrive and depart with a confidence that the early mixes never quite achieved — each selection trusted to make its point in the time it's given.
Eric Prydz's "Opus" returns at 28:00 in the Four Tet remix — the same version that earned a nine-minute ride in Mix 05. Here it gets barely a minute, sandwiched between Da Hool's "Meet Her at the Loveparade" at 28:45 and Joel Corry & Da Hool's "The Parade" at 29:00. Two different tracks with "parade" in the title flanking one of progressive house's most revered recordings. The three-track sequence reads as a miniature history of dance music culture: the original 1997 loveparade anthem, the 2015 opus it spiritually descends from, and the 2022 commercial crossover. Past, present, and future in ninety seconds.
Frank Ocean's "Thinkin Bout You" at 36:45 is the quietest moment in the mix — an R&B ballad placed between house tools like a held breath. It's the kind of selection that separates a DJ who understands emotional dynamics from one who only understands BPM. The mix needs this moment of absolute stillness before Christian Smith & Wehbba's "Mutate" at 37:15 drives the energy forward again. Tinlicker appears three times — "Just to Hear You Say" at 14:15, "The Walk" at 26:00 and again at 28:30 — their strongest presence in any single session, creating a melodic house corridor through the middle that offers emotional relief between the tech-house workouts.
Fred again.., Romy & HAAi's "Lights Out" in the HAAi Remix at 48:45 is a significant convergence: three of the UK's most forward-thinking electronic artists on a single track, remixed by a DJ known for pushing into experimental territory. Its placement directly after John Summit's "Human" remix at 47:30 creates a productive tension between American tech-house directness and British electronic abstraction. Both approaches are valid. The mix holds space for both without choosing sides. Swedish House Mafia & The Weeknd's "Moth To A Flame" in Chris Lake's remix at 31:15 brings festival-scale emotion to the first half.
The energy arc builds in the second quarter, sustains through the third, then gently releases. Calvin Harris' "I Need Your Love" in the Nicky Romero Remix at 43:15, Watermät's "Bullit" at 43:30, The Weeknd's "Take My Breath" at 44:30 — the peak section stacks pop-adjacent dance music with genuine floor power. John Summit's second appearance in as many mixes confirms his arrival as a staple. Purple Disco Machine's "Playbox" at 41:45 adds funky, nu-disco flavour to the tech-house dominant palette.
Sofia Kourtesis' "Estación Esperanza" featuring Manu Chao at 1:04:15 is the most global selection in the mix — a Peruvian-German producer meeting a French-Spanish singer over house beats. "Hope Station" — the title translated — carries a warmth that transcends geography. PAX & Rui Da Silva's "Touch Me" at 1:14:45 brings Rui Da Silva back to the archive, and the closing fifteen minutes move through trance, deep house, and a string of increasingly atmospheric selections that dissolve the dancefloor into space and distance.
Mix 18 is the sound of the DJ stretching before a sprint. 2022 will prove to be the archive's most productive year — seven mixes between January and October — and this session sets the pace. Warm, energetic, globally aware, unafraid to place Frank Ocean between techno tools and Manu Chao after Chris Lake. The vocabulary has never been wider. The confidence has never been higher. What follows will be the consolidation era — the year the DJ stops discovering who they are and starts being it.