Here's Episode 24 of the Tomcast, and its another good one. This one is quite varied but its all mighty fine house music. Theres a bit of tech, a bit of chunkier stuff, some slightly retro bits and even a bit of dubstep, and of course my trademark happy ending. Another solid hours worth of mixing with lots of interesting tricks and layering. I'm pleased with this one.

Two more gigs at Fluid coming up, on Friday 20th and Saturday 28th November. And I've just invested in a Native Instruments Maschine, so I'm going to be making a few beats in the near future! I've literally only just got it so i'm still finding my way around it, but i'm really excited about the prospect of producing again. Watch this space!

TRACKLIST

Phil Kieran - Bend It Bend It My Dear
Adam Proll - Elevator
Martinez & Tanzmann - Ohh I Don't Know
Dusty Kid - Mantrakoma
Mateo Carino - French Factory
Picotto vs Papini - Gonna Get Ya
Style Of Eye - Grounded (Horns Mix)
The Minimal Kidz - As Time Goes By
Play Paul & Nicos Marcos - Breathe (Jan Driver Remix)
Spektre - Vertigo
Style of Eye - Air Race (Worthy Mix)
Benga & Coki - Night
Noob & Brodinski - Peanuts Club (BeatauCue Remix)
Marco G & Amin Golestan - Dagobert (Wehbba Remix)
Various Artists - Gunface
X-Press 2 - London Xpress
Alter Ego - Why Not (Tim Deluxe Remix)
Marco G & Amin Golestan - Dagobert (Spektre Remix)
Maverick & Tapesh ft. T - Rise (Tim Green Remix)
D.I.M. & TAI - Lyposuct (Noob Remix)
John Digweed & Nick Muir - Aquatonic
Freemasons Pacific

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Welcome to the wonderful Episode 23! The genre this week is tenuously called 'ghetto tech', so basically this mix is full of the dirtier, harder side of tech house, with lots of bleepy goodness and a bit of fidget thrown in. The tempo is high and the mixing is fast. It features quite a few tracks i'm well into at the moment - Riverside is in there of course, but i did manage to resist the temptation to put that Major Lazer track in because its just everywhere! There's a mystery track in the middle as well which i nicked from a DJ Zinc mix, but i've no idea what it's called! Its a massive tune though.

I ended up playing for 6 and a half hours straight at Fluid the other day, which is probably the longest time ive ever spent mixing! Playing out is playing out though, and i got paid so it cant be bad. Might be doing a bit of warming up for Thirsty Disko next weekend too.

So enjoy this mix, and there should be a Minimix on the way soon!

Jaksaw - Jack My Flow
Foremost Poets - Moonraker (Magik J's Future Dub Mix)
Alex Young - Uno
Hector Couto - Hidden In The Pampa
Harry Choo Choo Romero & Jose Nunez - Lifting Me High
Marco G & Amin Golestan - Dagobert (Wehbba Remix)
Fergie, Reset Robot and Alan Fitzpatrick - Gas Mask
Marco G & Amin Golestan - Dagobert (Spektre Remix)
Joakim - Watermelon Bubblicious
Mightyfools - Eat The Drummer (Liam Vizzle & Jak-z)
Unknown poinky track
Tiga - Mind Dimension 2
Phil Kieran - Tartan Paint
The Death Kit - Loser
Daft Punk - Harder Better Faster Stronger
Sidney Samson - Riverside (Afrojack Mix)
Silvio Ecomo & Chuckie - Moombah
Wolfgang Gartner & Francis Preve - Yin
Style Of Eye - Pad Problems
Oliver Klein, Flow & Zeo - Double Espresso
Magik Johnson - Feel Alright (Solid Groove Mix)
Sidney Samson - Just Shake
autoKratz - Stay The Same (Alex Metric Mix)

The latest episode of my podcast shows a slightly more commercial side of my mixing. Think vocals, big breakdowns and hands in the air piano moments. I've tried my best to stop it getting too cheesy though, so while there's lots of more familiar stuff, I've kept things fresh and interesting. Of course there's a little bit of tech house thrown in too to stitch it all together. Whilst i do like the more underground stuff, I think its important to play to the crowd and give them something a bit more familiar from time to time, so i thought i'd go all out and go for my most commercial Tomcast yet, although my own personal touch takes this beyond your average big room house mix. It's crammed full of nicely uplifiting songs with plenty of my own tricks blended into the mix.

Got a gig on the 17th October at my old haunt, Fluid in Farringdon. My first gig for a while and i'm looking forward to road testing some new tracks and tricks!

TRACKLIST

Basement Jaxx - Oh My Gosh
Freemasons - Love On My Mind
Hector Couto - De Burundi
Foremost Poets - Moonraker (Magik J's Future Dub Mix)
Bootyluv - Boogie 2Nite (Seamus Haji Big Love Mix)
Mark Mendes & Mike Jacinto - Relic
Eric Prydz - Pjanoo
Pete Heller - Sabotage (Kamisshake Remix)
Lissat & Voltaxx - Release Yourself (Vocal Club Mix)
Fake Blood - Fix Your Accent
Mark Knight & Funkagenda - Man with the Red Face (Jack De Molay Mix)
The Face Vs Mark Brown & Adam Shaw - Needin U (Norman Doray Mix)
Lissat & Voltaxx - Let There Be House (Nick In Time Mix)
Maverick & Tapesh - Rise
Fuckaponydelic - Switch The Lights (Motorcitysoul Remix)
Sucker DJs ft. Wray - Salvation
N Joi - Anthem
Superbass - I Go To Pieces
Surkin - White Knight Two (Laidback Luke Mix)
Attic Feat. Julie Thompson - Last Goodbye (Randall Jones Mix)
Murk - Reach For Me (TV Rock & Dirty South Mix)
Haji & Emmanuel - Take Me Away

The second in my minimix series and I've got some more electro type stuff for ya, featuring some absolute chooons by the likes of Jack Beats and Major Lazer. Mostly crammed full of nice groovy electro but veering towards fidget house at times. I've been busy with the likes of Bestival which was fully awesome but i'll have a new full length Tomcast done and dusted soon!xx

TRACKLIST

Jack Beats - UFO
The Cure Vs Digitalism - Fire In Cairo
X-Press 2 - Give It (Switch Mix)
Dubfunk - Mandala
autoKratz - Stay The Same
Shirley You Can't Be Serious - Alex Metric
Major Lazer - Pon De Floor
Goose - Bring It On (Acid Jacks Mix)
The Delta Sierra Clinic - Riding Armadillos
Tommy Trash - Australia

Here's a quick and dirty Tomcast i just made... some reasonably nasty electro on here, knocked it up quickly as i needed an electro mix to send off before i go to Bestival to try and get some gigs sorted for afterwards! It's got good bits and bad bits but all in all its not too baaaad!

Anyway enough talk, here it is!

TRACKLIST

Justice - Waters Of Nazareth (Erol Alkan Mix)
Kidda - Feel Too Good (Cockblockers Mix)
Dilemn - Brazen Boogie
Kidda - Strong Together (Matushima & Logan Mix)
X-Press 2 - Strong Together (Healey & Adamo Mix)
Play Paul - Lalaland (Ed Banger All Stars Mix)
Magik Johnson - Feel Alright (Solid Groove Mix)
Sidney Samson - Riverside
Noisia - Gutterpump
Dilemn - The Pressure
Kidda - Feel Too Good (Midfield General Mix)
Goose - Bring It On (Acid Jacks Mix)
Sidney Samson feat. Lady Bee - Shut Up And Let It Go
Aoo & ooA - The Next Day (W-Production Mix)
Goose - British Mode (Jester Mix)
Felguk - Do You Like Bass

As promised, here's the first in my Minimix series, complimenting my main Tomcast series, and to kick things off we have a little mix that I just made up on the spot - thats the idea of this series.. spontaneous little mixes that i can record there and then. It starts with a bit of MSTRKRFT (who i saw at the weekend and they were brilliant!), then it moves stright into fairly tough, pumping techno, before descending back towards deep, uplifting house near the end. Ten songs crammed into 21 minutes, and all newly downloaded stuff!

Well keep an eye out for more bite sized snippets of mixing skills soon!

TRACKLIST

MSTRKRFT - Heartbreaker
Scope - Omoplata (313 Mix)
Solaris Heights - No Trace (Neil Quigley Mix)
Foremost Poets - Moonraker (Magik J Dub)
Sidney Samson feat Lady Bee - Shut Up & Let It Go
AJ Scent - Naughty Times (Paul Woolford Mix)
Alexi Delano - What Is Control (Adultnapper Mix)
Rodriguez Jr. - Offshore
Vath Vs Rother - S'Krankt
Audio Soul Project - Don't Sleep (Trojan Horses Mix)

Here we are at last at episode 20! This one's taken me ages. Several reasons, there was a new version of Traktor which took me a while to get used to, I've been downloading a huge amount of music which has been taking up a lot of my spare time, and there have been loads of other distractions. Then it took me several tries to get this recorded but i've finally nailed it, this is an excellent mix!

Its an excellent selection of the techiest of tech house, plenty of vocals to keep things interesting, and full advantage taken of the added effects possibilities of the new Traktor Pro.

From now on the format of the Tomcast will be changing a bit. I'll still be doing full length mixes, but i'm going to try and get a 15-20 minute minimix out every week or so as well. I'll still be cramming as many tracks and tricks in as possible, but now it's bite size! So look out for the first Tomcast minimix soon!

TRACKLIST

Adam Proll - Adaddon
Spirit Catcher - Loving System
Square One - Vesuvius (Justin Martin Mix)
Mikael Jonasson - Twenty Se7en
Dusty Kid - Mantrakoma
Brown & Slim - You Know What's Up
Matteo DiMarr - Addicted
The Face Vs Brown & Shaw - Needin U
Tapesh - La Madrina
DJ T - Before Light
Claude Vonstroke - Who's Afraid Of Detroit (3 Channels Mix)
Kamisshake _ Dark Beat (Deadmau5 Mix)
Lucio Aquilina - Magic M
Rhythm Code feat. Simone Denny - Rise
Ryo Murakami - Sown The Sky
Uto Karem - Trentatre
Luomo - Tessio (Stimming Mix)
Someone Else - You Don't Got Me
Arian - DadapDadap
Superbass feat.  Relation - Solution (Lee Fisher & Rebekah Mix)
MHM 1 - Bubububadub
Future Audio - Soulterrain
Sir G vs DJ Sake - Always Been Real (Dimitri Vegas & Like Mike Mix)
Wolfgang Gartner & Francis Preve - Yin
Legowelt - Disco Rout (Freeform Reform)
Raiders Of The Lost ARP - Summer 1986

It's only been a week since the last one but I'm back with another new mix... well i had nothing better to do on a nice Sunday afternoon so decided to lay down some filth! This mix features my first foray into the murky world of dubstep, but only a couple of tracks. Like many DJs, I've been gradually succumbing to the wobbly charms of dubstep for some time now, and its the perfect thing to add a bit of variety and pure wrongness to sets like this. I don't pretend to be a dubstep DJ because i'm not and don't want to be, but I love dropping some of those silly basslines!

It's another excellent mix with a sustained energy level. It flickers between dubstep, crunchy electro and all out filthy filthy house music with a bit of wonky techy stuff to sew it all together. This is another one that'll be getting sent out to the right people to hopefully get some gigs sorted out soon.

Don't forget my twitter - www.twitter.com/tomsawyerthedj - and myspace - myspace.com/tomsawyerthedj - I always value any feedback and if you know of anyone who might be able to sort out some London gigs for me, please, please send them my way!

TRACKLIST

The Count Of Monte Cristal - Dub More Forward
Raffertie - Antisocial (Toast Mix)
Hector Couto - Ragdoll (KItsam Mix)
Jack Beats - What (Boy 8 Bit Mix)
Urban Monkeys - Disfunctional Caterpillar (The Bulgarian Mix)
Rusko - Mr Chips
Kyle Watson - He Was Like
Dave Aju - Weebles
Matteo DiMarr - Addicted
Mendes & Jacinto - Relic
Rockwell D - Plain Loco
Tee'Ski & Shab Ruffcut - Ooww Barr Booo (Kyle Watson Mix)
Raffertie - Do That
Rusko - Moaners
B-Phreak - Crunk
Caspa - Marmite
Matthew Garton Feat. Baldwin Blaq - Colourful (Kyle Watson Mix)
Picotto Vs Papini - Gonna Get Ya
DJ Sneak Vs Herve Feat. Kid Infinity - Droppin Kisses (Herve Mix)
Mightyfools - Eat The Drummer (Liam Vizzle Mix)
Analogue - Crystal Gypsy (The Bulgarian Mix)
Rene van Munster - Phonesmack (Deviant Soundsystem Mix)
The Death Kit - Beetlebum
Felguk - Do You Like Bass 2009

Hello! Episode 18 of the Tomcast series takes you on a journey deep into the world of underground dance music, featuring some dark, trippy and downright bizarre tech house. This is a solid mix making good use of all 4 decks to create a multi textured landscape, full of quirky breakdowns, razor sharp build ups and chunky drops. Once again im pleased with this one!

Not much to report on the gig front, but i'm going to start making a real effort to get these last few podcasts heard by the right people so i should have something lined up soon. Glastonbury was awesome as expected... as always i ended up missing most of the music i planned to see, but special mentions go to Krafty Kuts for his awesomely feel-good sunset set on the G Stage and Rusko for filling the Glade with some ridiculously sick dubstep. Look out for a breakbeat/ dubstep flavoured Tomcast soon!

Anyways I hope you enjoy this Tomcast! and I've upped the quality from 160 to 192 kbps as well so it should be that little bit crisper!

TRACKLIST:

Ramon Tapia - Time Clock
Seph Vier - Get a Blow
Rasmus Faber feat. Emily McEwan - Never Figure Out (Stimming Mix)
The Subjekts - Mirage (Robot Needs Oil Mix)
Extrawelt - Im Garten Von Eben
Oliver Koletzki - Technika Salsa
Uto Karem - Trentatre
Tom Flynn - Spaced Out
Paolo Aliberti - Reprise
Kaiserdisco - Pipe!
Yankee Zulu - Natori (Worthy Mix)
Brown & Andrew Phelan - Gimme a Beat (Fingermonsters Mix)
Deepgroove & Jamie Anderson - Butterflies
Dave Aju - Weebles
Dubfire vs Oliver Huntermann - Diablo
Grooveria - Cranck Dot
Maetrik - Envy
Sidney Samson - Riverside
Matthew Garton feat. Baldwin Blaq - Colourful (Kyle Watson Mix)
Worthy & Yankee Zulu - Concumbia
Gerald Lucas - Wait Pulse
Alex Young - Uno
Helge Kuhl - K. Ping

At long last, here's the new Tomcast! It's been absolutely ages since i've made anything but i'm back on form with this one. For Episode 17 I serve up a tasty portion of groovy electro flavoured disco, sprinkled with some techy treats. There's a couple of disco classics (Earth Wind & Fire, Anita Ward) mixed in with some surprisingly funky tech house and a couple of absolute stormers. It's been a long time coming but i'm pleased to say this one rocks!

Apologies for lateness with this one... it's not that i'm going off mixing, far from it. Mixing is still my life and i love it, but its taken me a while to build up some fresh new tracks and come up with a mix that i'm satisfied with and that offers something different to my usual. Add to that the distraction of Glastonbury fast approaching, and thats my excuse! I can't wait, its the biggest, best, most crazy festival in the world and ive got a feeling its going to be a good one. I'll get to see a whole load of my favourite DJs and acts (Erol Alkan, Josh Wink, Deadmau5, Freq Nasty, Stanton Warriors, the list goes on) and legends like Blur and Madness too... anyone whos been to Glasto will tell you it consumes your life for weeks beforehand. I've got a week off work once i emerge from the other side of it all so i'll try and lay down a new podcast then.

In the meantime enjoy the funk, and in a week i'll be off to a field in Somerset to drink cider for 5 days!

TRACKLIST

Jay West - Bottom Line
Earth, Wind & Fire - Let's Groove
Tommy Largo - Do Your Dance
Syndicate Of Law - You're The One For Me (Andrea Bertolini Mix)
Spencer Hill vs Felguk - Fingertips
Carlos Kinn feat. Alexi - Lost Dreams
Atnarko & Sleazy McQueen - Holding On
Rico Casazza - Maieranek
Rockwell D - Plain Loco
Big Brother - Octopussy Mission
Don Diablo - Disco Disco Disco
Anita Ward - Ring My Bell
Hector Couto - Hidden In The Pampa
The LoFi Samurai - Butz!
Uto Karem - Trentatre
Ian Pooley & Magik J - Heke
Don Diablo - Too Cool For School
Scape feat. D'Empress - Be My Friend
Tee'Ski & Shab Ruffcut - Jacket Potato House
Formidable Force - Zip Jumper (Bon Johnson Mix)
Felguk - Do You Like Bass 2009

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