Vital's Podcast

A little over a year ago, I compiled and recorded a podcast which focused on the introspective chillout and downtempo tunes that accentuate my mood during the coldest time of year. I found that the selection process alone was just as enjoyable and therapeutic to create as it was to mix. Reacquainting myself with tracks and artists that at times I had gone months without hearing became very comforting, almost like seeing old friends that you forgot you need so much. I felt it was time to revisit this project once again and to share the sounds of beautiful melancholy that only winter can bring to our minds. I sincerely hope you enjoy.

TRACKLISTING
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1.) Blank & Jones - Florent 2 a.m.
2.) Jens Gad - El Momento
3.) Juxtaposes - Enlightenment
4.) Koss - Negai
5.) Essáy - Love & Air
6.) Aes Dana - Snöflinga
7.) Sun Glitters - There (Stumbleine Remix)
8.) Gerwin - 100 Reasons To Die 1000 Reasons To Live
9.) Birdy - Skinny Love (Owsey Remix)
10.) Sunchase - Restored
11.) Bebel Gilberto - All Around (Telefon Tel Aviv Remix)
12.) Stray Theories - Echoes
13.) Venture - If Only
14.) Kredit - Steps Of Change
15.) Icehouse - Don't Believe Anymore (Ivan Gough & Colin Snape Remix)
16.) Justice & Metro - Knuckles (Dominic Ridgway Remix) (Edit)
17.) Johan Reinhold - Shoot Me Down (Owsey Remix)

(recorded 1-8-12)

A reflection of my recent set at the Soul Rise gathering in Austin, TX.

TRACKLISTING
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1.) Nuage - Inner Space
2.) Trifonic - Parks On Fire
3.) Bonobo - Kiara
4.) Quivver - Fallin
5.) Stelios Vassiloudis - I Burn Like (Ambient Mix)
6.) Getz & Nuage - Is The Way
7.) Bonobo - Nightlite (feat Bajka)
8.) Scuba - So You Think You're Special
9.) Technicolour - The Unfolding Path
10.) Chase & Status - Time (Queensway Remix)
11.) Blu Mar Ten & Inside Info - Five Summers
12.) Synkro & Indigo - Turning
13.) Pallers - Come Rain, Come Sunshine (Youandewan Dub)
14.) Apparat - Limelight
15.) Blu Mar Ten - Believe Me (Double A Remix)
16.) Stelios Vassiloudis - Entropy

(recorded 11-20-11)

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1.) Zyon Base - "Ghetto Blues"
2.) Scott Allen - "Brighter Day"
3.) Smote - "Born To My Soul"
4.) Technicolour & Komatic - "Changeling"
5.) Lenzman - "Memory Loss"
6.) Nuage - "Between Trees"
7.) Blu Mar Ten - "Blind Soul"
8.) Flowrian & LaMeduza - "Inside" (2010-Remix)
9.) Nuage - "Different Places"
10.) Big Bud - "Fumbledub"
11.) Eclipse - "Believe" (Eclipse Remix)
12.) Lenzman - "More Than I Can Take" (Enei Remix)
13.) Vital - "Only For A Second"
14.) Smote - "Deeply In My Soul"
15.) Decem - "True Lies"
16.) Technicolour - "Day In Day Out"

(recorded 11-5-11)

TRACKLISTING
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1.) Nether - "True Believer" (Marcus Intalex Remix)
2.) Flowrian & LaMeduza - "Flow Back"
3.) Zyon Base - "Nightingale"
4.) Qumulus - "Soul Wave"
5.) Msdos - "Lazy Saturdays"
6.) Technicolour & Komatic - "Those Feelings"
7.) Bachelors Of Science - "The Ice Dance" (Lenzman Remix)
8.) Zyblot - "Beneath Time"
9.) Flowrain - "Poetic Vein"
10.) So Flow - "Plea"
11.) Blue Motion - "Neverending"
12.) Seba - "Crockett"
13.) Seba - "Painted Sky" (Flame Remix)
14.) Zyon Base & Hobzee feat. Brother - "125th Street"
15.) Indivision - "What A Thought"
16.) FD - "Third Glance"
17.) Joe Syntax - "Sightlines" feat Jono McCleery
18.) Vital - "Never Too Soon"

(recorded 8-18-11)

TRACKLISTING
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1.) Riya & 8 Bits - "On Your Mind"
2.) Indivision - "Land Of The Rising Sun" (feat. Miri)
3.) Danoo feat. Jett - "Twilight"
4.) Komatic - "Dickinsons Rocket"
5.) Komatic - "Now She's Free" (Technicolour Remix)
6.) Camo & Krooked - "Time Is Ticking Away" (feat. Shaz Sparks)
7.) Smote - "Feel To Me" (Decem Remix)
8.) Earl Grey - "The Lick"
9.) Pro Luxe - "Under Water"
10.) Blu Mar Ten - "Overwhelm" (Seba Remix)
11.) Mr. Sizef - "Forgotten Toy"
12.) Mr. Sizef - "Garmoniya Mirov"
13.) Komatic - "Make The Most Of Now" Technicolour Remix)
14.) Kharm - "Second Thought"
15.) Lenzman - "Rags To Riches"

(recorded 5-8-11)

TRACKLISTING
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1.) Luca - "Speakeasy"
2.) Miusha - "Out Of Mind" (Implex & Spherique Remix)
3.) Komatic - "The Entire City"
4.) Technicolour - "Skyline Boulevard"
5.) SKC and Bratwa - "Heart Of Love"
6.) Random Movement and Focus - "Shattered Dreams"
7.) Decem - "Clouds Over The Streets"
8.) Calibre - "Don't Want Your Love"
9.) Coldbreaker - "Take Me Nowhere"
10.) Pro Luxe - "Alone"
11.) Komatic - "Silently She Cries"
12.) Komatic - "Now She's Free"
13.) Pro Luxe - "Radiance"
14.) Shapeshifter - "One"

(recorded 3-27-11)

In the quiet moments of the darkest season, I accentuate the thoughts in my mind with the music that reflects my mood. One avenue that I constantly explore during this time of year is chillout/downtempo. The holidays bring with them happiness and family, but at times can also be a bit melancholy. I truly believe this is necessary to make us appreciate what it is we have and the people we are blessed to surround ourselves with.

At times when we can't be with friends and family, there is still beauty in the fact that they are constantly on our minds and in our hearts. This mix is an ode to those times when we're surrounded by joy as well as the moments when we need to create it for ourselves. I hope it brings you closer to what you wish for most this winter.

We are never truly alone.

TRACKLISTING
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1.) Lostep - "6am Sedna"
2.) Blu Mar Ten - "I Wake Up"
3.) Scuba - "So You Think You're Special"
4.) Scuba - "Before"
5.) Trifonic - "Good Enough"
6.) Telefon Tel Aviv - "Fahrenheit Fair Enough"
7.) Little Dragon - "Twice" (16 Bit Remix)
8.) Miika Kuisma - "Trying My New Wings"
9.) Adam Johnson - "Kriegspiel"
10.) Sofa Surfers - "Sofa Rockers" (Kruder & Dorfmeister Remix)
11.) Death Cab For Cutie - "President Of What" (Vital Reprise)
12.) Apparat & Raz Ohara - "Komponent" (Telefon Tel Aviv Remix)
13.) Blackfish - "Hidden Shore" (Asia Mix)
14.) A Perfect Circle - "3 Libras" (Feel My Ice Dub Mix)
15.) Trifonic - "Lies" (Vital's Confession Dub)
16.) A Perfect Circle - "When The Levee Breaks"
17.) Miss Kittin - "Dub About Me"
18.) BT - "Satellite"

(recorded 12-22-10)

I love this time of year for the change it brings about in my perception. Days get shorter, light becomes more scarce. The shift in seasons is always a major catalyst for what music I seek out as well as that which influences my mind. Darker, slower, more sinister sounds take over my turntables and subsequently my music players. Over the summer I began crossing paths with a stellar group of people that are big fans of what dance music has to offer, but fans of a specific sound I had yet to become really familiar with; Techno.

Techno is a genre of electronic dance music (e.d.m.), but it does not define ALL music with an electronic beat. Techno was born at the end of the disco era in Detroit, Michigan. To my ears, the way it sounds today perfectly represents the essence of Detroit's automotive heart while staying true to the original underground affiliations and sound it created for itself.

Ironically, I've never been much of a fan of Techno myself. 12 years after I first fell in love with e.d.m., I have finally begun to explore some of the origins of it's creation....and actually enjoy it. Hopefully you can enjoy something now that took me over a decade to discover, even when it's been right there the whole time.

TRACKLISTING
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1.) Trentemøller - "Evil Dub"
2.) Camea - "Both Hands"
3.) Troy Pierce - "Konrad Gets Lost On The Way To DC10" (Konrad Black Remix)
4.) Bart Skils & Anton Pieete pres. District One - "Time For Grace"
5.) George Delkos - "Deftoner"
6.) Guy Gerber & Chaim - "Beaches"
7.) Patch Park - "Spaceshuttle Backpack"
8.) Robin Onrust & Deepmind - "Erato"
9.) Stephan Bodzin vs Marc Romboy - "Ferdinand"
10.) Dave Robertson and Jon Gurd - "Tikka"
11.) Maetrik - "Paradigm House"
12.) Chelonis R Jones vs Marc Romboy - "The Beat" (Technasia Remix 1)
13.) Sideshow feat. Paul St. Hilaire - "If Alone" (Chateau Flight Dub Mix)
14.) Beckers and D-Nox - "Beefcake" (Leon Popsicle Remix)
15.) Chaim - "Love Rehab" (Dub Mix)

(recorded 11-3-10)

TRACKLISTING
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1.) EZ Rollers - "Blow"
2.) Seba - "Your Deepest Love"
3.) Alaska and Seba - "Back From Eternity"
4.) Tayla - "Language"
5.) Adam F - "Circles" (Album Edit)
6.) London Elektricity - "The Mustard Song"
7.) Kharm - "White Picket Fences"
8.) Riya & Lenzman - "Open Page" (Vital Edit)
9.) Kharm - "Day After Day"
10.) Furney and Tayla - "I Choose You Baby"
11.) Blu Mar Ten - "All Over Again" (Sabre Remix)
12.) Kharm - "Hiding Place"
13.) Nu:Tone - "Set Me Free" (Vital Edit)
14.) Camo & Crooked - "Turn Up (The Music)"
15.) Miike Snow - "Black & Blue" (Netsky Remix) (Vital Edit)

(recorded 8-22-10)

TRACKLISTING
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1.) Makoto - "Get To This"
2.) Dub FX feat. Mr. Woodnote - "Flow"
3.) Bachelors Of Science feat. Redeyes - "Hold On"
4.) DJ Marky & Total Science feat. Ayah - "2nd Date" (Vital's Chivalrous Remix)
5.) DJ Marky and XRS - "Striptease"
6.) Young Ax - "In The Groove"
7.) Neyo & Ghostface - "Back Like That" (DJ Marky & Bungle Remix)
8.) Bachelors Of Science - "Sugar"
9.) Brooklyn & Bachelors Of Science - "Wicked Ways"
10.) Logistics - "Follow That Star"
11.) Aphrodite - "Calcutta"
12.) Future Prophecies feat. Mari Boine - "Miniamba"
13.) Seba and Paradox - "Move On"
14.) D Kay & Rawfull - "Be There 4 U"

(recorded 7-26-10)

TRACKLISTING
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1.) Patrick O'Hearn - "Where We Once Stood"
2.) Rudy Adrian - "Return To Fire Island"
3.) Jon Jenkins - "S. O. T. V."
4.) Jon Jenkins - "Beyond City Light"
5.) Deuter - "Distant Dreams"
6.) Hybrid Leisureland - "Strawberry Planetarium"
7.) Rudy Adrian - "Disturbed Reflections"
8.) Oasis - "Gas Panic!"
9.) Firewire - "Substructure"
10.) Jon Hopkins - "A Drifting Up" (Vital's Digital Embrace Edit feat. Courtney Wachtel)
11.) Kaya Project - "One God Dub" (Dubsahara Remix)
12.) Sunlounger feat. Zara - "Crawling" (Album Version)
13.) Arovane - "Tokyo Ghost Stories"
14.) Vital - "Lost In London"
15.) Kaya Project - "Rise Above"

(recorded 6-29-10)