mpegg music 🎧

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Monthly Mixtape - A monthly mix of new music from several different genres.  Try to listen in order with shuffle turned off and  If you're using Spotify Premium switch the crossfade setting on to ~7 seconds.  Playlist is available on Spotify, YouTube & Apple Music, and SoundCloud. All past monthly playlists are on my Spotify profile and all tracks from each mixtape are all on this playlist. 

Check out last month's mixtape here!

Modern Remixes of Classic Tunes - Take popular pop, rock and disco songs and tastefully remix, cover and mash them up. Available on Spotify, YouTube and  Apple Music and Tidal.  Recently made 3 new versions of this playlist (Hard, Chill, Deep) to fit different listening vibes. 

00s Progressive Trance & House Classics Mix - Drift back to the turn of the millennium with this journey through early 2000s progressive trance and house. Most are original recordings with a few remixes that preserve the catchiness of the original tune.

90s Trance Mix - This is my first recorded DJ mix that pulls together an hour of timeless, epic electronic music from an era when I was first discovering trance and house.   

Playlists that I curate:

⬇️ crowd-pleasing music for all gatherings:

Feel Good Happy Chill Tunes  - My collection of chill, upbeat, fun music for parties, gatherings or just chilling. Nu disco, funk, pop, synth, house and more. Chill, upbeat, fun music. Similar: Nu-Disco Satin Jackets Nu-Disco Nu-Funk, Crisp, Hypebae's Nu Funk 

Modern Disco Party - Disco house parties. sporadic disco dancing urges. all around good party vibes.

Afro Tribal House - Chill and fun afro house tunes

Backyard Summer - Crowd-pleasing big rock and pop hits across decades.  Great backyard listening.

⬇️ focus, work, study, morning zen: 

Audio Sunrise - Optimistic, new, renewal. morning walks and drives, first hour of work, relaxing.

Optimistic, Upbeat Electronic - Songs with hopeful, upbeat, optimistic feels. Great for morning work and inspiration. "Things-are-gonna-be-alright" kinda music. Similar: Happy Beats

Slow, reflective, contemplative - Very slow, ambient, blissful. Similar: Reflections Radio, lofi hip hop beats, A&B Flow State

⬇️ Hard hitting, deep & niche electronic: 

Electronic Bangers - Hard hitting, high energy electronic across all genres. Good for exercise and workouts. Similar: Trance Mission, Played By Above & Beyond, Progressive House, Ajunabeats Trance Classics

Modern 80s / Retrowave - I'm an 80s kid and lots of new modern music is starting to tap into the same vocals, sounds and beats of the late 70s and 80s.  This is a collection of my favs. Similar: JODA Selects, Michael Cassette set @ Explorations

Fast running, high energy workout - These are my favorite songs to train and run marathon races to! Some are long burns and tracks that give you energy to dig deep.

Brisk - Swift, brisk beats with high BPM. Some of my current favorite dance and house tracks. Similar Similar: ZENITH

House of mpegg - House music tracks that have caught my attention.  Be sure to check out my 90s House Music playlist too! Similar Similar: Housewerk

Apple Music Playlists 

Monthly Mixtape / Modern Remixes of Classic Tunes

Playlists and streams I listen to:

• Weekly/Monthly Show and playlist favorites: Above & Beyond's Group Therapy / Nora En Pure's Purified / Sultan + Shepherd's Dialekt Radio / Monstercat Silk Showcase/Roald Velden's Minded Music / Mees Salomé's Distant / Miss Melera's Colourizon / Nourey's Sound Diary / Sebastian Campo's Progressive Sounds / LESH DreamTime / Kyau & Albert's Euphonic Sessions / Arnie / Omer Gigi

• Channeled, streaming radio: 

  • Very chill: Relaxing ambient, chill, and downtempo / Chillhop Radio

  • Chill Study & Relax: Relaxing Music • Chill Study Music

  • Deep Chill: Relaxing Focus Music (1) / Relaxing Focus Music(2) / Relaxing Music • Chill Study Music 

  • Upbeat Relax: Melodic Beach & Adventure Music / 

  • Best of Trance and Progressive 

  • Digitally Imported Radio - All electronic music genres!

• Curated or themed (in addition to the similar playlists linked beside mine above): Mint / Follow the Sun / John Dahlback's Night Drive / EMBRZ Endless Drive / Notaker's The Vessel / Deeparture: Lastminute (Spotify) / TYCHO Selects / / Headphone selections by RUFUS / Hosini / Mau5trap's There might be coffee / Durante Selects / Qrion / 

• Friends:  Ed's Links / Playa Sunset / 2023 / Parvesh's re-shares / NoonTide / Dream me to life / Caribou mixtape + Daphni's Track IDs

• New Music: New Music Friday Dance / Dance Rising / Electronic Rising / Metropolis / Anjunabeats / Anjunadeep (Spotify) / Monstercat Silk / Enhanced (Chill) / Armada / Beatlick / Elliptical Sun / Emergent / Purified / TNH / DeepState / Colorize (Spotify) / Songspire / Enhanced / UV / Immersed (Spotify) / Reflections Future Classic / DAYS like NIGHTS / Beatport New Releases / Traxsource

Fun music tools, sites & playgrounds:

• Every Noise at once - Deeply explore every music genre.  An insanely awesome and deeply interesting music tool to have fun with.  (Update 14-Feb: Spotify layoffs have impacted the freshness of this web app)

• Discover Quickly - A fantastic Spotfiy playlist explorer and companion.  Roll over song tiles to quickly listen and sample tracks. 

• Poolsuite - Boot up this amazing throw-back 80s music experience [Site Playlist here]

• Outdoor Sets  - Some of my favorite epic location recorded sets from the DJs that I follow. Great to cast onto a large TV!

• Google I/O 2012 - After Hours - Paul Oakenfold [pics] (+ TC Interview) - Paul Oakenfold is the DJ that drew me into trance and electronic music in the 90s.  During the back half of the decade I saw him play a large Canadian weekend festival, was first in line to see him play a downtown Toronto club show and then saw him open for U2 at The Skydome.  I bought several compilation and album releases and looked for recorded sets across the web and kept following his music.  Fast forward 15 years and my job involves helping to pull together an event that sees Paul as the guest musical act.  Completely serendipitous.  I chatted with him around soundcheck, took a photo with him before he went on that remains as my SoundCloud profile picture to this day, and had the chance to sit and have a drink with him after and hear crazy stories about his journey as one of the world's top DJ, producer and artist.  It was a huge thrill for me the links above include a part of the set, photos (with a few really bad videos.. sorry!) and an interview he gave to TechCrunch while in SF on that trip.  

• Lo-Fi Earth & Lo-Fi ATC - Cruise the world and listen to Air Traffic Control with soothing Lo-fi Music as a backdrop. 

• Neil Young Archives - Neil is my favourite classic rocker.  This is a great exploration tool of his music throug the decades.  Hard to get your hands on Neil's music with it being taken down from several streaming sites.

• 1001tracklists.com - Crowdsourced set tracklists + YouTube listening companion

• Top 200 Most Shazamed songs this week - Always an interesting chart of music

• DJMag Top 100 - I check in on this list peridically to see who I'm missing.