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Mix 35: January 2024

January 2024

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Dance (40%)House (25%)Electronic (17%)Urbano latino (3%)Techno (3%)Pop (2%)Hip-Hop/Rap (2%)Electronica (2%)Alternative (2%)Singer/Songwriter (2%)R&B/Soul (2%)Country (2%)

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Liner Notes

Five mixes into the quiet era, this is no longer a phase. Eighty-three minutes, sixty-four tracks, energy firmly in the new baseline that has held since Mix 31 — and the DJ shows no sign of fighting it. The quiet has become an identity, not an aberration. The architecture remains restrained, peaking gently in the third quarter before settling back.

Tyla's "Water" at 2:30 — one of the breakout global hits of late 2023, an Amapiano-pop crossover from South Africa — signals that the DJ is still tracking the wider musical world even as the mixes have turned inward. Bakermat's "So Glad That The Lord" at 5:00 brings gospel-inflected house warmth. P. Diddy's "Last Night" at 7:45 (placed after a house track of the same name by Serite) and the Martinez Brothers & Tokischa's "KILO" run the hip-hop and Latin thread stronger than in recent sessions. Overmono's "Is U" at 18:00 — one of 2023's most acclaimed electronic releases, bridging UK bass with melodic rave — confirms the DJ's ear for the contemporary remains sharp. The quiet era isn't a retreat from the present. It's a different way of inhabiting it.

Hozier's "Take Me To Church" at 1:02:45 appears in both a Das Beachhouse remix and its original form — back to back, the house version setting up the naked acoustic source. It's a technique the archive has perfected across dozens of mixes: present the dance reading, then reveal the raw material underneath. The original's gospel-inflected vocal carries more emotional weight after hearing it filtered through production. Context shapes perception, and the DJ understands that deeply.

Queen's "Another One Bites the Dust" at 1:08:30 gets the triple treatment — three versions in ninety seconds. The bassline that drives the original has always been a house music prototype; the remixes simply make that lineage explicit. Sonny Fodera's "Angel" at 1:10:15 and Don Diablo's "Let Me Love You" at 1:13:30 provide accessible dance energy in the closing section.

Bicep's "Glue" at 1:10:30 — appearing once more, carrying the accumulated weight of thirty-five mixes of history. In Mix 01, it was a discovery at track three. Here, in the quiet era, it's track fifty-three. The same melody, the same cascading nostalgia, but the listener who hears it now is fundamentally different from the one who heard it first.

Andy Compton's "That Acid Track" at 1:01:00 makes its sixteenth and final appearance. The most-played single recording across the entire forty-six-mix archive, quietly retiring here in the quiet era. It arrived in Mix 02 and stayed through Mix 35 — a three-year, thirty-three-mix residency. No farewell, no ceremony. Just a deep house track doing its work one last time, then stepping aside without looking back.

Oliver Anthony Music's "Rich Men North of Richmond" at 1:20:30 — a viral country protest song from 2023 — is the most politically charged selection since Nina Simone's "Strange Fruit" in Mix 09. Country music has appeared before (Shania Twain, Sam Hunt), but this is the first time the genre carries explicit social commentary. The Stickmen Project's "Not Over Yet" at 1:15:45 and Ridney's "At Night" at 1:17:45 sustain the dance thread through the closing passages.

Marc Ustari's "Alone Together" closes at 1:21:00 — the title a perfect summary of what DJ mixing has always been: alone in a room, connected to everyone who listens. Five and a half years into the archive, the mixes have become a record of one person's evolving relationship with sound, and Mix 35 is the chapter where several threads quietly end while the larger story continues forward.

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