Mix 33: November 2023

November 2023

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Dance (51%)Electronic (15%)Pop (13%)House (8%)Hip-Hop/Rap (5%)Electronica (3%)Techno (3%)Trance (3%)

Tracklist

Liner Notes

Bicep's "Glue" opens at 0:00 — the track that started everything, returning in the quiet era for the first time since Mix 17. It's immediately followed by Rui Da Silva's "Touch Me" at 0:15 and again at 4:00. Three of the archive's most foundational tracks in the first four minutes. The DJ is reaching back to the very beginning, as though the quiet turn has prompted a need to reconnect with roots, to remember where the journey started before deciding where it goes next.

Sixty-four minutes, thirty-nine tracks. The energy peaks in the final quarter — the closing-strong arc giving the mix a forward momentum that the overall quietness doesn't suggest. This is a mix that's quiet, but it's going somewhere. Kidnap's "Skin" in the Rinzen Remix at 4:45 — one of the archive's longest-running threads — anchors the opening alongside BUNT. & Elley Duhé's "Lost My Mind" at 8:30.

Bicep appear three times — "Glue" at the opening, "Vale" at 15:00, "Aura" at 26:00. Their strongest single-mix presence since the early archive, spanning their full catalogue from breakthrough to second album. In the quiet era, their music reads differently — less as dancefloor material and more as emotional architecture. "Vale" in particular carries a melancholy that the louder earlier sessions might have overwhelmed. Here, with the volume turned down, that sadness can breathe.

"Children" appears at 55:15 in three different versions within ninety seconds — a genocideyear remix, the Robert Miles & Tinlicker version, and an Exxen & Mr. Yash rework. The melody, already one of the archive's most sacred elements, refracted through a prism. It's the most concentrated treatment of any single song across all forty-six chapters, and it reads as tribute: the DJ paying homage not just to the track but to the specific feeling it has always represented — nostalgia, innocence, the memory of discovering that electronic music could make you feel something.

Charli XCX & Sam Smith's "In The City" at 10:00, Dario G's "Sunchyme" at 13:00, and Taylor Swift's "Cruel Summer" in LP Giobbi's remix at 56:15 keep the pop thread alive, though every pop selection arrives filtered through a dance production lens. SolyMar & Megamen's "All I Need" at 50:30, MK's "Take My Chance" at 51:15, CamelPhat & Elderbrook's "Cola" in Mousse T.'s Glitterbox Mix at 53:15 — the signature names continue to appear, the vocabulary still intact even as the volume drops.

KH's "Only Human" and Elektrodrei's "New World Order" return together at 36:00 and 37:00 — both tracks from the early archive, resurfacing as a pair for what feels like the last time. Technasia's "I Am Somebody" at 52:30 and Carlos A's "Soma" at 52:45 carry the techno thread. Goose's "Synrise" at 56:00 — Belgian indie-electronic, all live drums and festival energy — provides a rare burst of brightness.

The close moves from Loods' "Cold Hands, Warm Heart" at 58:45 — the title a perfect description of the quiet era's aesthetic — through iilliaa's "life gets hard" at 59:15 to G-Eazy's "Down For Me" at 1:01:45. The final sequence descends from atmospheric electronic through raw honesty into hip-hop's bravado, the DJ cycling through emotional registers in search of the right one to end on. None fully resolves. The mix ends in motion, which may be the point.