Endless Groove, Ep. 6

Sometime back in 2013, I recorded an episode of Endless Groove that was never posted here. Real new material will be coming soon, but this little bit of hard drive archaeology shouldn’t go unrewarded.

I’ll post a tracklist as soon as I figure out what it is.

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phoenix sessions 004 (Air Canada Edition)

A large chunk of this mix came together on a flight from Calgary to Montreal, early one morning a few weeks ago. It was a really nice way to spend the flight, and the presence of power adaptors on the seats really made my day. Flying the horrors of Continental or United lately has really blinded me to the perks the rest of the civilized world enjoys.

Only one comment this time about the set: Sultan and Ned Shepard have delivered one of the most mind-blowing breakdowns in recent memory in the form of “Jeopardy”. I’ve switched things around a bit here by combining the original’s techy progressions with 16-Bit Lolitas’ funkier remix, and it gives me chills. Enjoy.

Bonafied Lovin’ (Juri Hulkkonen Remix) – Chromeo
Movin’ (UNKLE’s Surrender Sounds Session 9) – Skylark
Mongoose (Guy J Remix) – Sasha
Jeopardy feat. Kuba Oms – Sultan and Ned Shepard 5. Jeopardy feat. Kuba Oms (16-Bit Lolitas Mix) – Sultan and Ned Shepard
One Dress, Two Legs (Dub Mix) – Jaytech and Jeff Drake
Fun Punch (Bag Raiders Remix) – Bag Raiders
Ikaros feat. Nicky (Retroid Remix) – Clesk, Pea and Shuda
Anime (Rocco Main Mix) – Hernan Cattaneo and John Tonks
Shine On – Soda Inc.
The Big Space (Subsky Mix) – 3kStatic
Dusty Horizon (Trafik’s Sirocco Mix) – Roland Klinkenberg
Pyramid – Jaytech

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CSS3 mixins for SASS

The Compass project provides a ton of useful mixins for SASS, but over the course of many projects I’ve created a streamlined set that’s more useful for my day-to-day development.

My mixins prefix where necessary and I try to provide smart defaults. The naming convention is descriptive and not just a flattened reproduction of the CSS3 properties being used.

/* Commonly used mixins for CSS3 in SASS by Ben Sargent (2012) www.brokendigits.com */ /* generically prefix any property name */ @mixin prefix($name, $value) { -webkit-#{$name}: $value; -moz-#{$name}: $value; -ms-#{$name}: $value; -o-#{$name}: $value; #{$name}: $value; } /* for border-radius, named to be consistent with roundedcorner */ @mixin rounded($radius: 6px) { border-radius: $radius; } /* used for rounding a single corner. eg. roundedcorner(top, left) */ @mixin roundedcorner($surface, $side, $radius: 6px) { border-#{$surface}-#{$side}-radius: $radius; } @mixin boxshadow($horiz, $vert, $blur, $color) { box-shadow: $horiz $vert $blur $color; } @mixin innershadow($horiz, $vert, $blur, $color) { box-shadow: inset $horiz $vert $blur $color; } @mixin opacity($level) { filter: alpha(opacity = $level * 100); opacity: $level; } @mixin borderimage($image, $top, $right, $bottom, $left, $repeat: stretch) { border-width: #{$top}px #{$right}px #{$bottom}px #{$left}px; -webkit-border-image: url($image) $top $right $bottom $left $repeat; -moz-border-image: url($image) $top $right $bottom $left $repeat; -ms-border-image: url($image) $top $right $bottom $left $repeat; -o-border-image: url($image) $top $right $bottom $left $repeat; /* border-image: url($image) $top $right $bottom $left $repeat; removed since Chrome's implementation is fundamentally broken */ } /* useful for semi-transparent borders which can have bleed-through. See https://developer.mozilla.org/en/CSS/background-clip */ @mixin backgroundclip($val: padding-box) { -webkit-background-clip: $val; -moz-background-clip: $val; } @mixin transition($property: all, $duration: 0.2s, $timing: linear) { -webkit-transition: #{$property} $duration $timing; -moz-transition: #{$property} $duration $timing; -ie-transition: #{$property} $duration $timing; -o-transition: #{$property} $duration $timing; transition: $property $duration $timing; } /* if you need to transition a prefixed property, use this instead */ @mixin transition-with-prefix($property, $duration: 0.2s, $timing: linear) { -webkit-transition: -webkit-#{$property} $duration $timing; -moz-transition: -moz-#{$property} $duration $timing; -ie-transition: -moz-#{$property} $duration $timing; -o-transition: -o-#{$property} $duration $timing; transition: $property $duration $timing; } @mixin transform($type) { -webkit-transform: $type; -moz-transform: $type; -ms-transform: $type; -o-transform: $type; transform: $type; } @mixin animation($name, $timing: 0.5s) { -webkit-animation: $name $timing; -moz-animation: $name $timing; -ms-animation: $name $timing; -o-animation: $name $timing; }

Endless Groove, Ep. 5

Exit 9 – No Accident in Paradise
Sei A – Body of Eyes
Deep in Calm – You Will Pay
Midland – Through Motion
Reason Or Romanza – Radiance Trigger (Rescue Mix)
Commix – City Section
Danny Howells – Black Cat (Total Science Remix)
The Chemical Brothers – Swoon (Don Diablo Remix)
Cassian – I Like What You’re Doing (Nightriders Remix)
Bas Amro – Ten
Vincenzo – Where You Are
White Hinterland – Icarus

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Endless Groove, Ep. 4

Endless Groove is back with some super smooth beats to round out the summer. This session I went back to the basic idea that Endless Groove started with: mellow, driving repetitive beats with a lot of melody and some beautiful vocal effects. I also snuck in some true classics that I’ll let you find on your own. Enjoy.

Solee – Legends (Slow Motion Mix)
John Talabot – La Niña (Afrodub Version)
Pablo Bolivar – Memories (Nhar Remix)
John Talabot – Matilda’s Dream
Mock & Toof – Shoeshine Boogie (Wolf + Lamb Remix)
Der Dritte Raum – Weitwelt
Ripperton – Random Violence/Telépopmusik – Breathe
Kaito – We Are Living Here
Vibrasphere – Breathing Place
Die Antwoord – $0$
Ray Mang – Look Into My Eyes
Lindstrøm – Another Station (Todd Terje Remix)
El Guincho – Antillas (Prins Thomas Diskomiks)
Pollyester – German Love Letter (Permanent Vacation Mix)
Röyksopp – This Space

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Endless Groove, Ep. 3

Nothing says summer like a bit of Chromeo.

Technically, it’s not summer yet, but this should put you in the mood. Enjoy.

Ripperton – L’Ardo
Moonbeam – Tokyo Dragon (tONKPROJECT Ebencrib Remix)
Estroe – Inspirited Away (Nuno Dos Santos Remix)
Julius Steinhoff – Something Like Wonderful
Booka Shade – This Is Not Time
Estroe – High Maintenance
Don Diablo – I Am Not From France (Linus Loves Remix)
The Kleptones – Hiding in the Bayou (LCD Soundsystem vs. Black Crowes)
Ajello – Silert Tears (Space Ranger Remix)
Way Out West – Future Perfect (Henry Saiz Remix)
Estroe – Kiss & Make Up
Moonbeam – Tokyo Dragon (Roger Martinez Remix)
Chromeo – Night by Night (Siriusmo Remix)
Rodion & Bottin Galli – Give It Up
Libex & Marshall – Psychic Harmony 2010
Bvdub – To Live (edit)

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“Next Unread Message” Script for Apple Mail

One thing that’s always bugged me about Apple’s Mail.app is the lack of a quick shortcut to your next unread message, irrespective of which mailbox it is in. Luckily, it was fairly easy to whip up a quick little script which does just that. Note that the script assumes your mail is sorted with the newest messages at the bottom — otherwise, you’ll need to edit line 7, replacing “last message” with “first message”.

tell application "Mail" to try set mailAccounts to every account set messageFound to false repeat with acc in mailAccounts if not messageFound then try set unreadMessage to {last message of mailbox "INBOX" of acc whose read status is false} set messageFound to true set accountWithUnread to acc end try end if end repeat if accountWithUnread exists then tell message viewer 1 set selected mailboxes to {first mailbox of accountWithUnread whose name is "INBOX"} delay 0.1 set selected messages to unreadMessage end tell end if activate on error beep end try

Add a keyboard shortcut with your favourite tool, like FastScripts or Quicksilver.

Endless Groove, episode 2

Endless Groove Episode 2 continues in the idea of finding a nice, mellow relaxing groove and just letting it run its course. That’s not to say there aren’t moments that make you want to break out and dance, but this is music to work to. Or to drive to. This is a collection of music that I absolutely love, each track with a sprinkling of magic melody to keep things interesting. It also features one of the best tracks I’ve heard in years, the perfectly named The Magnificent by Lindstrøm. Killer.

Memory Tapes – Treeship (edit)
Tigerskin – Platin
Fritz Kalkbrenner – Blackmail
Hernan Cattaneo & Soundexile – Butterfly Effect (remix)
Pryda – Reeperbahn
Sebastian Davidson – Nightbird (Shur-I-Kan’s Sound of Summer Mix)
Lindstrøm – The Magnificent
Good Guy Mikesh & Filburt – Someone Told Me
Woolfy vs. Projections – Absynth (Markus Worgull Remix)
Shonen Jump – Vincenzo
Antix – The Hoard (Dousk Remix)
Dølle Jølle – Balearic Incarnation (Todd Terje’s Extra Doll Mix)
Iridium – Lullabies In The Dark

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Endless Groove, episode 1

I spend a lot of time sitting at my computer (shocking, I know). Sometimes, I just want some nice, mellow house music that sets itself into a groove and rolls. Some of my sets have had this characteristic, but I decided to create a new imprint called “Endless Groove”, just for these sorts of mixes. It’s got a bunch of tech house and a bit of progressive, and every once in a while the set kicks it up a notch and you may find you head bobbing along and your feet tapping your chair. At least, if you’re anything like me…

The Black Dog – Train By The Autobahn (Part 1)
Danny Howells – September
Lindstrøm – Where You Go I Go Too
Adele – Hometown Glory (Pocketknife’s Familiar Faces Remix)
Junior Boys – Hazel (Ewan Pearson’s House Dub Mix)
Felix Da Housecat & Kris Menace – Artificial
The Chain – Geo
Matias Aguayo – Minimal (DJ Koze Mix)
Schodt – First Breath (Dankann Remix)
Tore Jarlo – Raining Down On You feat. Pia (Dumb Dan Edit)
Bertrand Dupart & Gwen – Lolita (Rocco Remix)
Low Motion Disco – Things Are Gonna Get Easier (Windsurf Remix)
Paul Keeley – Life Aquatic
Danny Howells – September (re-entry)

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phoenix sessions 005

So it turns out that if you wait to too long between set releases, pretty much every one of your favourite artists releases a killer new track. I guess you could refer to this set as the Epic Mix.

16 Bit Lolitas make a couple of appearances with tracks from their magnificent new LP. DJBS favourites UNKLE, Jaytech and Way Out West all contribute in one way or another — I even found room for the new version of the all-time classic Shapeshifter’s track, Lola’s Theme (which made an appearance on one of my first ever mix sets, many years ago).

This will probably be the last set released under the “phoenix sessions” moniker for a while, as I intend to explore some new spaces in the near future. Stay tuned.

Black River (Gui Boratto Remix) – Bomb The Bass
Reformation (Robert Babicz Remix) – Lucca
Coconut Blues – Gabriel Ananda
Bazook (Bazookapella) – Chris the Greek & Matheos
Formula of Fear (Uberzone Dub Mix) – Hybrid
Murder Weapon – 16 Bit Lolitas
Azteca (KOS’s Stadium Mix) – KOS
Twilight (Layo and Bushwacka! Remix) – UNKLE
Lola’s Theme (2008 Re-edit) – The Shapeshifters
Heart & Soul – Yvel and Tristan
The Warning (Terracotta Army’s Eastern Invasion) – Way Out West
Nobody Seems to Care (feat. Jennifer Horne) – 16 Bit Lolitas
Candy (James Zabiela Remix) – Spooky
Geko – Guy J
Meaningful Story (Jaytech Remix) – Dinka
Omptine D’Un Ature Ete, L’Apres Midi – Jay Haze and Yann Thiersen

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