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Good People Better Rise Up! is a podcast from Alex Whalen, a 25+ year veteran of the dance music industry who has rocked dancefloors across the Americas and Europe. Over his career, Alex has, among other things: held down residencies with legendary clubs like DC’s Buzz, SF’s Spundae, and Boston’s Avalon; managed Deep Dish's Yoshitoshi Shop and Yoshitoshi.com; appeared on numerous syndicated dance music radio shows, including John Digweed's show in the UK and Thump Radio here in the US; toure ...
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A two-hour selection of tech house, progressive house, and House house. Tilted (Original Mix) - Hot Since 82 Stranger Things (Subandrio Remix) - Max Freegrant, Miss Monique Heliopolis (Framewerk Rewerk) - Banco De Gaia Perfect Motion (Patrice Baumel Renaissance Remix) - Sunscreem Everytime (Nalin + Kane vs. Whalen Edit) - Lustral Teardrop (James Ho…
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Took me two weeks to pull this one together for you, what with…well….everything going on. I’m taking y’all waaaaaaay back to the eighties and nineties on this one, back to my roots And trust me — if you know, YOU WILL KNOW. Newcleus - Computer Age (Push the Button) Newcleus - Jam on It (Whalen Megamix) Shannon - Let the Music Play (12” Version) Bob…
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Decided to make an ambient mix as a way to wind down the weekend, and about 45 minutes in….I….got a noise complaint from a neighbor? I mean….uh….give it a listen and tell me if you understand. Because I sure don’t! TRACKLIST: Symmetry (Original Mix) - Speedy J Arcadian (Original Mix) - Link Hector the Collector - Shel Silverstein Ona (Original Mix)…
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Back by popular demand, this one was made back in the summer of 2010 as a tribute to the sound that defined a DC generation. As I said back then…..includes past and future classics from Jay Lumen, Jamie Matrix, Way Out West, Space Manoeuvres, Max Graham, Orbital, Spooky, Lazonby, Faithless, Hoxton Whores....…
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If you know, you know… Tracklist: 1 Move With the Present (Dio S Remix) - Jimmy Be 2 Tachyon Return (Original Mix) - Nick Muir, Gabriel Ananda, John Digweed 3 Ekhi XIX (Original Mix) - Luka Sambe, Filter Bear 4 Plasmatic (Lemon8 Remix) - Micah Paul Lukasewich 5 Edges (Original Mix) - Quivver 6 Remains of the Day (Original Mix) - Hot Since 82 7 Ip D…
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While I’m digging in the vaults, I’ll just go ahead and post a few of these classic ambient and downtempo mixes for y’all. This is the B-side of the very first mixes I ever did, so it dates all the way back to 1994. Recorded live using a Vestax mixer, three 1200s, and two non-pitch-shifting CD players, because those hadn't even been invented yet.…
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By special request, I’m going back in time to repost a downtempo mix I made all the way back in 2002 while I was living in San Frandisco. I still think the Tatooine tape is my best downtempo work, but all y’all have always told me that no, this one is really the one, and who am I to judge? So by request, Hoth. No tracklisting, as it was done live a…
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A one-hour mini-mix done just before heading out the door for the train down to NYC. This one sits somewhere between progressive and tech house, if you ask me. TRACKLISTING: 1 Sombras Chinescas (Original Mix) - Victor Soriano 2 Something's Not Clicking Right (Quivver Remix) - Dan Sieg 3 Nuances (Original Mix) - Subandrio 4 Ahora (Eran Aviner & Herm…
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Your annual Thanksgiving mix, and this year it's funky breaks. This one was originally going to be White Chocolate Volume II, but by the time it was done that didn't quite seem right. As you'll see in the tracklist below, this one is even more heavily mashed and edited than usual. Big thanks to whomever it was that released that Molded Breaks set -…
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Third and final installment in a recent trilogy of downtempo sets. I had a pretty clear sense of what I was doing and where I was going in the first two sets, but this one was much more freeform. Tracklisting 1. Seawaves - Images (We Are All Astronauts Ambient Mix) 2. Abdomen Burst + Yavanndiel + Malevich - Changes (Lime Time Remix) 3. Ad Brown - S…
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The second in what is turning out to be a series of downtempo mixes made as the weather begins to turn cold up here in the North-East. Tracklisting: 1. Emeli Sandé + Rick Smith - Here It Comes 2. Chymera - The Chase 3. Hybrid - Steal You Away 4. Stars + Spoons - Music Sounds Better Chasing X-T-C (Whalen MultiMash) 5. Puremusic - Stars (2015 Rework)…
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Who... are... you? Tracklisting: 1. Josh Gabriel + Winter Kills - Tomorrow 2. Asura - Everlasting 3. Junkie XL - Take Off on Molly’s E 4. Unfabled - Time Is Out 5. Puremusic - The Music & The Universe 6. Nils Frahm + Olafur Arnalds - a1 7. M83 - I Guess I’m Floating 8. Puremusic - Dreams 9. Puremusic - Unsaid 10. Shpongle - Juggling Molecules 11. W…
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Just got back from an absurd weekend in San Francisco, and this mix is the result. It's my portion of an event that took place at Monarch with some of my very best friends in the world: Christian Nelson, James Brennan, and Kramer. Let's hope this wasn't a one-off! 1. Heartik - White Island 2. Wayne Dudley - Falling For You 3. Underworld - Downpipe …
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Work slows down during the summer, and that means it is time to deliver some new mixes. First one up is straight progressive, and it includes both modern and past classics. As always, All tracks legally purchase at Beatport.com and then very heavily edited and reworked by me in Ableton. 1. Leftfield - Song of Life (Betoko remix) 2. Monkey Safari - …
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This one, well....let's just say that I recorded it at a moment when I wasn't feeling particularly optimistic about the state of the world around me. Although it took a much darker direction than the last few sessions, I'd like to think that you'll can still hear the hopefulness in it. Because as a much wiser man than me has written: ...the death o…
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As promised, the third in a series of four drum + bass podcasts. This episode heads back in the proggy direction: 1. Technimatic - Solace 2. Lenzman - Starz feat. Kevin King 3. Silence Groove - Sun in the Winter 4. LM1 + Indigo Sync - The 591 (Original Mix) 5. LM1 - Shadows 6. Mutated Forms - Crowlin 7. BLT + Blue Motion + iBSTRACT - Skyline 8. dRa…
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A bit of a different take on drum + bass from me this time...Must be the change in the weather! 1. T-Coy - Carino (DJ Marky and S.P.Y. Remix) 2. Rowpieces - Cuban Jungle 3. John B. - Tequila Slammer 4. Nu:Tone - E.Spresso 5. Miles Davis - Rated X (Doc Scott Remix) 6. Dub Tao - Ready Done 7. Sigma feat. Doctor - Rudeboy (DJ Version) 8. Mistabishi - …
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A new and extremely proggy drum+bass podcast for you today, the first of what should be several between now and the end of the year. Loads of new goodies in this one! 1. Technimatic - Looking For Diversion Feat. Lucy Kitchen 2. Phil Tangent - Remembrance 3. S.P.Y. - Double Trouble Feat. Total Science 4. LM1 - The Calling 5. Kove - Gone (6AM Mix) 6.…
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I'm in the process of putting together some new mixes, but while you wait here's something old skull and by request. Dagbah was the original B-side to Tatooine, the first mix I ever recorded a long, long time ago. As with its flip, this was recorded live on 3 turntables, 2 CD players, and a mixer in my living room. It starts a bit more uptempo than…
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Reposting this to the new feed by request... This one is from 1994, and is the very first mix I ever recorded. 3 turntables and 2 CD players, all running live into a single mixer. Some say the Star Wars samples make the mix; others say they ruin what would otherwise be the best set they've ever heard. All I know is, I'm as proud of this as anything…
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That's right...I disappeared for six months, then reappeared to drop three sets on the same night. I'm telling you, it was a fantastic trip! Tracklisting: 1. Croatia Squad - Be Good To Me 2. Nora En Pure - Lost In Time 3. Sonic Future - I Pretended 4. Universal Solution - Yukon (Tom Middleton Rmx) 5. Soundprank - 15 Bar 6. Pacco & Rudy B - Coral Ca…
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The second of three sets inspired by a fantastic trip out West. Tracklisting: 1. Croatia Squad - Soul Desire 2. Nora En Pure - You Are My Pride (Croatia Squad Remix) 3. Nora En Pure - You Make Me Float 4. Heartik - White Island 5. Oscar G - Hypnotized feat. Stryke (Synthetic Mix) 6. Hot Chip - Flutes (Sasha Rmx) 7. Tom Middleton - 10:10 8. Mark Kni…
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Hey Christian....It sounded something a bit like this, right? Because I'm not sure I remember it all... :) Tracklisting: 1. Electrobios + B.O.N.G. - It’s Getting Funky 2. Croatia Squad - Don’t Give Up 3. Me & My Toothbrush - July (Nora En Pure Rmx) 4. Tracey Thorn - Swimming (Visionquest Remix, Ewan Pearson Re-Edit) 5. Tom Middleton - WYV AUW CHU 6…
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Starting the new year off with some drum and bass. Mostly kept this one in line, so it stays pretty chill from start to finish. Tracklisting: 1. Karma - Reminisce 2. Blu Mar Ten - Half the Sky 3. Seba - Never Let You Go (Blu Mar Ten Remix) 4. Sunchase - Violet 5. Subside - My Own Life 6. Lenzman - Diamonds 7. Blu Mar Ten - Break It All Apart feat. …
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So I was planning on making this one drum + bass, but then the new Colombo album Station 21 came out on iBreaks, and it is easily one of the best breakbeat albums of the last 10 years. So that got me crazy inspired, which led directly to this mix. As always there are a few classics thrown into this one, including PB+J's The Way, which is one of the…
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Been a long time since I've done a progressive breaks podcast that didn't revolve around Hybrid. Time to stretch a bit.... Tracklisting: 1. Tom Middleton - Shinkansen 2. Stiven Rivic, Michael & Levan - Cyacya (Phonic Deep Break Mix) 3. CPM - Takeaway (His Boy Elroy's Up And Away Mix) 4. Absance - Eurhytmy (Retroid Eurhytmic Remix) 5. Space Manoeuve…
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This is my version of house. I know, I know, its not your version of house. But that's fine! Because this is my version of house. Tracklisting: 1. Ananda Project - Falling for You feat. Terrence Downs (GPal's Child of the Sun Rmx) 2. Sander Kleinenberg - Triple Seven) 3. Wamdue Project - King of My Castle (Juan Diaz vs. Alex Gomez + Doneyck Rmx) 4.…
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This mix is unlike anything I've ever tried to do at any point in my now two-decade-plus DJing career. The music has all been taken from some of my favorite film and video game soundtracks and scores, leading to a mix of orchestral and electronic tracks that are all over the BPM and time signature map. As a result, it took me nearly three weeks to …
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After I released the original version of this mix a few weeks ago, I got a request from my Arrival Industires co-conspirator Kramer to make an edit or two to eliminate the swerve I made mid-mix. As you no doubt already know, I don't normally take requests, but in this case I've decided to make an exception. It was enough motivation that Kramer is b…
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