Endless Groove, Ep. 8

Blond:ish — Endless Games (Patrice Bäumel Mix)
Henry Saiz — Not Last Words (Guy J Remix)
David Hohme — Fear Less (Jody Wisternoff Remix)
Fort Romeau — Secrets & Lies
Guy Gerber — Secret Encounters
Acid Pauli — Nana
Digitalism — Zdarlight (Chopstick & Johnjon Remix)
Dele Sosimi Afrobeat Orchestra — Too Much Information (Laolu Remix (Edit))
Classixx — Just Let Go feat. How to Dress Well (Ray Mang Remix)
Alle Farben — Metaphysik Der Röhren
Henry Saiz — The Way The Sunlight Plays Upon Her Hair
Ten Fé — Make Me Better (UNKLE Reconstruction)

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Endless Groove, Ep. 7

It’s back! I’m super proud of this mix and excited to get this out there. This episode really captures the spirit of Endless Groove, and I hope you enjoy it. It’s been a long time coming.

Stole the Night – Howling
Ossian’s Hall – Lord of the Isles
4th Bell (Henry Saiz Remix) – Eekkoo, Flowers & Sea Creatures
Glory (16Bit Lolitas Remix) – Jean-Michel Jarre & M83
HEVA – Tom Middleton
Waiting for You feat. Black Hills (Fingerpaint Remix) – Kris Menace
Eggos – Dale Middleton
050504 – Lee Van Dowski
Sunday – Traumer
Walk This Way (Alle Farben Remix) – MØ
Cork – Ashworth
Cassiopeia – Kölsch

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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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