Let’s Play!
A bit of background:
Location: household, Melbourne, Australia.
Date: 19-09-15 first day of mid-term holidays.
Temper Gauge: immediate risk of major family breakdown!
First day of holidays and tempers were at breaking point! Kids complaining they were bored, Spouse close to losing it having to pick up everyone’s mess lying around, pleading for help and getting blank hostile gazes as only responses... I propose to put some music on.. The communal answer I get is: “You haven’t done anything fun for aaaages “.. Daggers straight to my parental, spouse and music lover heart!
I rig up the full DJ set-up, connect the lasers and lights, pump up the volume and start playing something I had half put together during my travels..
Having in mind that they wanted something new but not just new, that they NEEDED something fun and uplifting, sing-a-long and dance-a-long tunes, I shifted to trusted classics of 2007/2009, chose those uplifting progressive trance keys which induce wellness and movement, span and watched…
Devices were slowly put down, lips started humming and eventually singing and when I saw my wife’s hands starting to move to the music I knew I had them on the correct path of unplugging from their chores, IPhones, IPads and IMacs to just PLAY and enjoy the moment.
They were hearing tracks they knew and some they didn’t. Got their ears full of the Chicane, Kaskade, Deadmau5, Calvin they are perfectly entitled to ache for but also willingly discovered new tunes they were dancing to with a smile on their faces.
Crisis averted.
This is what music does… it heals..
Playlist:
Highlights:
I will start with Adam K & Soha.. Two Canadian producers and remixers with a distinct trance/prog uplifting feel. The right touch and the perfect keys to turn a good tune into greatness! I could very well have dropped their recent “ I Need to Feel Loved” remix but thought trusted and less current tracks would do the job nicely. You cannot listen to their remixes and not want to move!
Internet resources:
https://www.facebook.com/adamkandsoha
https://www.mixcloud.com/Soha/
“The Bridge” from Jody Wisternoff. I have written it previously and will repeat that is it most probably the best progressive track of the year. AnjunaDeep and Chicane on the re-rub. I had a bit of a play on the fly with the Anjuna keys on top of the amazing Chicane remix, worked a treat on the intro but shifted a bit on the next break. Pity about that but DO NOT MISS the Chicane remix, it is pure bliss!
Deadmau5 “Finished Symphony”: dropped it for the kids, added the Candi Staton dub on top and it worked!!! I could see they knew what they were listening to in the background and one day I will actually use this setup live to get into the Larse remix on this amazing tune. Can’t wait to see how vintage clubbers would react!
Not writing anything on the Kaskade and Chicane jams, dropped them because the family loves them and what I had on the original playlist was too hard for my purpose.
From there I wanted to shift back to current tunes. The Fehrplay tune bridged the set towards Avicii’s take on Faithless’ Insomnia to peak into Tranceland.. God is a DJ indeed J.
From there had to bring it down, with lo and behold my first EVER Calvin Harris drop, his new single “How Deep is Your Love”. Mashed up the two main remixes to give a bit of extra flavour and quietly daydreamed of Gigi Haddid moves... Not that I do not like the Calvin but obviously we are not connecting that much. My kids absolutely loved it, Viv thought it sounded a bit R&B but she was still smiling!
Wrapped it up with the Darone’s remix of “Over Now”, maybe pushing it to an overly commercial closing but they were all humming the main chorus, so mission accomplished.
I have a few sets tucked away I really should upload and therefore will be back in true house mode very shortly.
Hope I bring a smile to your faces and Let’s Play!
A bientot
Xtian
