Mix 25: February 2023

February 2023

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Dance (41%)Electronic (24%)House (18%)R&B/Soul (4%)Techno (4%)Downtempo (4%)Meditation (2%)Soundtrack (2%)Pop (2%)

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Liner Notes

Something shifts. Mix 25 opens with Aaron Tracey's "Gameweek 9" at 0:00 and Jamila Woods & DRAMA's "Boundaries" at 2:00, but the defining selection arrives at 16:00: Takkra's "Divine Particles," a downtempo ambient meditation piece that sits alongside deadmau5's "XYZ" and the driving house around it as though contemplative stillness and dancefloor machinery belong in the same breath. At 41:15, a literal meditation recording — "B - Dur (80 Bpm)" from My Meditation Music. The DJ is drawing from entirely new wells, and the water tastes different.

Eighty-two minutes, fifty-three tracks, an energy that barely varies across four quarters — the flattest arc since the early marathons, but where those flat arcs came from not knowing how to shape a mix, this one comes from choosing not to. After Mix 24's closing-strong build, Mix 25 is deliberately level, pitched for contemplation rather than crescendo. The mood is searching, inward, as though the DJ is looking for something the dancefloor alone can't provide.

Tinlicker & Robert Miles' "Children" returns at 51:15, the melody shimmering between Ice Beats Slide's Afro-house "Dangerous" and Amtrac's "Nobody Else." Mood II Swing's "Closer" at 31:00 and Rui Da Silva's "Touch Me" at 1:00:45 and 1:04:30 continue the signature tracks' appointed rounds. Bicep's "Meli (II)" at 29:00 — from their second album, deeper and more abstract than "Glue" or "Atlas" — sits alongside Tinlicker & Solomon Grey's "Choir To The Wild," building a melodic electronic corridor with an almost devotional quality. The meditation track, the choir reference, the Takkra downtempo — Mix 25 is searching for transcendence.

Röyksopp's "Impossible" in &ME's remix at 46:15 is one of the standout selections of this period. Norwegian synth-pop veterans reimagined by a Keinemusik member — Scandinavian melancholy colliding with Berlin club culture, producing something neither artist could achieve alone. Skream's "You Know Right" at 50:15 and Marten Lou's "My Love for You" at 42:00 anchor the middle passages with UK bass weight and vocal warmth.

Cristobal Tapia De Veer's "Renaissance" — the White Lotus: Season 2 theme — appears at 1:04:45, the most unexpected selection since Bach's Toccata. A television soundtrack piece in a DJ mix, its eerie, maximalist production sharing more DNA with electronic music than most film scores. Placed between Rui Da Silva and The Weeknd's "Take My Breath" in the Agents Of Time Remix at 1:06:15, it says something clear about the DJ's philosophy: if it moves you, it belongs. The source doesn't matter.

The South African and global threads continue: Dave Anthony at 1:11:00, Sides' "Cape Town" at 1:10:00. Sebastian Ingrosso's "Kidsos" at 1:08:45 carries a Swedish House Mafia pedigree. BAYNK & DRAMA's "1 Chance" at 1:14:00 closes the selection proper with the kind of forward-facing electronic pop that bridges the gap between clubs and headphones.

Donna Lewis's "I Love You Always Forever" closes at 1:17:15 — a 1996 pop ballad, played straight, no remix, no edit. The most emotionally naked ending in the archive: a love song with no ironic distance, placed at the close of a session that began with meditation and passed through techno, Afro-house, deep house, and a television soundtrack. The DJ is saying something simple, and means it entirely. Twenty-five chapters of credibility earn you the right to end with a pop ballad and have nobody doubt you.