Tracklist
Liner Notes
The first three minutes signal the range. John Epps' soulful "iLove" at 0:00, Shane Fontane's "Rituals" returning from Mix 04 at 1:45, then Lana Del Rey's "Born To Die" in a Two Friends remix at 3:30. The pop crossover that vanished in recent mixes is back, but filtered through dance production in a way that the early archive's raw pop inclusions never attempted. Alex Kenji's "Ytaca" at 3:00, Gabry Ponte & LUM!X at 4:15 — the opening is rapid, confident, unafraid of melody.
Lane 8's "Little Voices" at 15:45 marks his return after a five-mix absence — the longest gap for an artist who has been present since Mix 01. Alongside Armin van Buuren's "This Is What It Feels Like" at 16:30 and Corey Hart's "Sunglasses at Night" at 16:45, the early section leans into hooks with unusual directness. Calvin Harris' "I Need Your Love" at 17:00 is unashamedly pop-dance. Drake's "Massive" at 11:15 extends the hip-hop thread. After the austere house focus of Mix 17, the DJ is allowing themselves to enjoy accessible music again.
Fleetwood Mac's "Gypsy" at 31:45 is a beautiful selection — not their obvious choice (that would be "Dreams" from Mix 04), but a deeper album track. Stevie Nicks' vocal sits between Sébastien Tellier's French electronic pop at 31:30 and Benjamin Bates at 32:00, creating a corridor of warmth that has no business working as well as it does. The DJ's instinct for placing rock inside electronic contexts has matured from the early mixes' happy accidents into something deliberate and effective.
Elvis Presley in PNAU's remix at 41:15 is audacious. The King, reanimated by an Australian electronic duo, dropped into a 2022 house mix. It echoes the persistent instinct for historical recontextualisation — the same impulse that placed Leonard Cohen in Mix 07 and The Rolling Stones in Mix 14. LP Giobbi's "All In A Dream" at 36:15 and Golden Features' "Touch" at 25:30 anchor the Australian electronic thread that RÜFÜS DU SOL established years earlier.
Morgan Page's "The Longest Road" in the deadmau5 remix returns at 50:30 — its fifth archive appearance, and every time it appears it signals the transition from middle section to final act. The data is consistent across mixes: "The Longest Road" marks the beginning of the end. Here it leads into Eric Prydz vs. Hans Zimmer's "Opus Interstellar" at 56:30 — two of progressive house's most iconic compositions fused together, the emotional reach of Hans Zimmer meeting Prydz's slow-building precision.
Fred again.. and deadmau5 appear back to back near the seventy-minute mark — "Jungle" at 1:06:15 into deadmau5's "XYZ" at 1:10:00. It's a symbolic pairing: Fred, who represents the future of UK electronic music, and deadmau5, who represents its established legacy. The younger artist's sample-based intimacy followed by the elder's studio precision. Two approaches to the same art form, placed in conversation. Tensnake's "Antibodies" in LP Giobbi's remix returns at 1:00:15 and 1:05:30, still irresistible after its triple play in Mix 20.
Tiësto & Charli XCX's "Hot In It" at 1:16:45 is a bona fide pop chart hit deployed without apology in the closing stretch. OneRepublic's "Someday" at 55:30 and The Chainsmokers' "The Fall" at 1:18:45 keep the pop thread alive through the descent. The mix ends with ambient organ textures at 1:21:00, dissolving from pop energy into stillness. It's a summer sunset captured in eighty-seven minutes — warm, generous, social, the sound of someone mixing for the pleasure of it rather than to prove anything.