Tracklist
Liner Notes
The sparseness is the defining feature. Nineteen tracks across fifty-one minutes gives each selection an average of nearly three minutes — luxurious by an archive that has often stacked records in thirty-second bursts. Cloonee & Dances' "To the Beat" at 0:00, James Hype & Tita Lau's "Vibrate" at 2:15, Borai & Denham Audio's "Make Me" at 3:15 — the opening is contemporary and club-ready, but after Mar3ko's "Finally" at 7:45, the mix holds its breath for over six minutes before the next track arrives.
Céline Dion's "The Power of Love" at 14:00 — the original, followed by Cyril's remix at 14:30. The most overtly sentimental selection in the archive: a power ballad from 1993, placed in a 2024 house mix with no ironic armour whatsoever. The DJ has been building toward this kind of fearlessness for thirty-six chapters. In Mix 01, the pop crossovers felt like someone playing their general Spotify library. Here, Céline Dion feels like a deliberate artistic choice — the selection of someone who has nothing left to prove and everything still to feel.
Nelly Furtado's "Say It Right" at 22:00 is the archive's most persistent pop selection, appearing in various forms since Mix 15. Here it arrives close to the original, which after years of hearing it filtered through house production sounds almost radical in its nakedness. Disclosure's "You & Me" in a Rivo Remix at 24:30 connects back through the archive to Mix 04, where the Flume Remix appeared — the same song, different hands, thirty-two mixes apart. Drake's "A Keeper" at 29:30 extends the hip-hop thread into the quiet era.
Dennis Ferrer's "Hey Hey" in a Jack Back remix at 39:45 provides the mix's peak functional moment — one of house music's most recognisable vocal hooks, deployed at the three-quarter mark when the session needs one last push of energy before its closing gesture. Steve Aoki, Trinix & Akon's "Locked Up" at 42:45 adds an unexpected pop-dance surge.
Lane 8's "Loving You" in the Solee Remix at 44:15 — the thread that has run from Mix 01 through the entire archive, now deep into its seventh year. In this sparse, minimal session, its warm melody carries even more weight than usual. Every appearance adds another layer of accumulated meaning to a track that was first discovered as a connection between two artists and has become something closer to a personal anthem.
Creed's "One Last Breath" closes — first in a Jojo Lorenzo remix at 46:45, then the original at 47:30. A hard rock ballad about desperation and survival, ending a mix that contained nineteen selections and no filler. The title reads as dramatic anywhere else. In the context of fifty-one minutes of carefully considered music, it reads as earned. Mix 36 is proof that less can be infinitely more. The quiet era has found its purest expression — and the DJ still has ten chapters left to write.