Tracklist
Liner Notes
Swedish House Mafia's "Ray of Solar" opens at 0:00 — an anthem from electronic music's most commercially successful act, deployed not as a crowd-pleasing closer but as an opener, a statement of confidence that the energy will hold. Fragma's "Toca's Miracle" at 3:15 returns and then again at 1:01:15, the double appearance bookending the mix's middle section like structural pillars. Axwell's "Feel the Vibe" at 3:30 and Ministers De La Funk's "Believe" at 8:30 — featuring Jocelyn Brown's timeless vocal — keep the opening firmly in classic house territory.
Andy Compton's "That Acid Track" at 52:00 — nearing the end of its remarkable run across sixteen mixes. Shouse's "Love Tonight" at 56:00. MATADOR & ARTBAT's "Apollo 11" at 1:01:15 — a track present since Mix 03. Gaetano C & DePandis' "Saw" at 55:30. The familiar names assemble one more time, like a cast taking their final bow before the curtain falls on a particular era. The middle section is densely packed — thirteen tracks between 52:00 and 1:06:00, each getting barely ninety seconds. Harrison, Magic Robot, Marcos Barrios, Marshall Jefferson, Alan Fitzpatrick — the archive's full cast cycling through at high speed, as though the DJ knows, on some instinctive level, that this is the last time they'll all share the stage.
deadmau5's presence here — "The Veldt Cinema" with Benny Benassi — carries extra resonance. "The Veldt" is named after a Ray Bradbury story about a nursery that becomes too real, about technology replacing the natural world, and its shimmering, nostalgic production has aged into something genuinely poignant. In a mix that will be the last to carry this particular energy, the track's longing for something already passing feels prescient.
Basic Channel's "Phylyps Trak II/II" returns for what will prove to be its fifth and final appearance. The Berlin dub techno touchstone retires alongside the hot era. Patrice Bäumel and Tassilo Hagström's "Berlin" at 1:04:30 carry the European techno thread one more time. Eelke Kleijn's "Transmission" in Armin Van Buuren's remix at 1:05:00 and Ramirez' "La Musika Tremenda" at 1:04:00 push the trance connection. The genre palette remains wide even as the era narrows to its close.
Miguel's "Sure Thing" in De La Vega's remix at 13:15 brings R&B warmth to the first quarter. Walker & Royce, Glass Petals & Elohim's "Stop Time" at 16:45 carries its own unintentional commentary — stop time, freeze this moment, because what's coming next is different. The energy builds in the second quarter, holds in the third, then releases — the architecture the DJ has been refining since Mix 07, executed here with the precision of long practice. Luke Alessi's "Aqua Stars" at 1:00:00 provides a brief moment of widescreen melodic beauty before the final descent.
Shania Twain's "You're Still the One" closes at 1:08:00. Country music. The gentlest possible ending for the loudest era. After sixty-eight minutes of driving house and techno, the DJ reaches for something so far from the dancefloor that it can only be sincere. No remix. No edit. Just Shania, singing about permanence and devotion, placed at the threshold of the archive's most dramatic transformation. The energy is about to drop by 42%. The mood is about to shift permanently. But the DJ ends the old era not with a banger but with a love song, as if to say: I know where I'm going, and I'm not afraid to arrive there quietly.