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A giant adventure in Ireland mix

I got away for the first time during the pandemic. It was an adventure taken on my motorcycle. I of course took the pacemaker device out for the first time in a long time, so I did a mix while in hotel rooms. I did start a mix with key parts of the journey but it was long and didn’t really work together. Instead I took the Ireland part and skipped a few tunes to make this frankly great mix. Its quite different starting with some classic Orbital and ending at Home. Along the path, there’s lots of new tunes which I haven’t used before. What I like about this mix is the gel of the tunes and mixing. I also quite like the vocals in the mix which add something special to the whole thing.

Enjoy the mix, which is a new entry in journey with pacemaker mixes on my mini mixcloud (where you can hear it at super high quality and download it.

Belfast – Orbital
Eye – Ma5Haria
Suru (Martin Roth Nu-Style remix) – Super8 & Tab
Pǝsnɟuoɔ (Confused) – Laurent Garnier
A break in the clouds (Main mix) – Holden
Chordplay – Oliver Smith
Are you one of us (Cabriolet Paris remix) – Kyau & Albert
Dust in the wind – Arnej
Laguna – Protoculture
Polarize (Second sine remix) – Snejider
Avenue (Club mix) – Paul Van Dyk
Floyd (Extended mix) – Jerome Isma-Ae & Alastor
Home (Cosmic gate remix) – Paul Van Dyk Feat. Johnny Mcdaid

Updated on Sunday 26th September, a giant adventure in Ireland is now number 98th in the tech trance chart.

I was always scared of tresor mix

Tresor I had the absolute joy to see Laurent Garnier at the Manchester International festival recently (July 2021). During his video there was lots of references to different things in his career including Manchester and also Berlin. There was a distinct moment when I turned to my sister and whispered, I have been to many clubs in Berlin during the first 15 years of the fall of the Berlin wall, but Tresor scared me and I never went because of the fear. I had heard too many stories of this hard techno/gabba club and the crazy things which could happen in the darkness of the disused bank vaults. Do I regret not going? A bit, but it was genuinely a little scary especially with me not speaking German. Maybe this is why Victoria resonated with me. Its certainly a stronger almost techno mix with no let up in pace and heavy beats. Look out for the Acid Trax! Its a classic killer! Imagine dancing in a vault in the dark to the raw sounds of the TB 303!

Enjoy the mix, which is another entry in the locked down, mixing out album of mixes. Also linked on my DJ blog.

Acid drops – Meanwhile, back in communist Russia
M.I.L.F – Laurent Garnier
Trick – Carlo Ruetz
Opium – Jerome Isma-Ae & Alastor
Beat (Da Boxx) – Laurent Garnier
Energy Flash – Joey Beltram
Acid Trax (album version) – Phuture
System hack – Carlo Ruetz
Intruder – Armin van Buuren vs M.I.K.E
Shnorkel – Miki Latvak & Ido Ophir
Pǝsnɟuoɔ (Confused) – Laurent Garnier
Rheinkraft – Oliver Klein
Subrasumstimulation (Johnson mix) – Oliver Lieb
Interstate Emperors – Jeffed

Wednesday 18th August

Its been a while but getting some good responses to this mix.

My own mixcloud, finally?

I have been for a long time looking for an alternative to mixcloud. I have tried many things including some self hosted solutions like navidrome, subsonic, madsonic, airsonic and ampache. They have all been good except they are best for private sharing. I really wanted to use funkwhale but it was so geared up for single tracks it just didn’t make sense to run a node with my own mixes on it. There is so much I could suggest for making these software/services better for DJs rather than musicians. A DJ version of funkwhale could be pretty cool, especially seeing the amount of DJs using Youtube and paying for Mixcloud premium to mix live during the pandemic. ~~Heck you could even use web-monetization too~~ (just done).

So with all this and finally thought I have the bandwidth and the storage, I just need a site and some simple software which can share the music files. So I decided to actually setup WordPress with it looking at the local file system (which I can easily have tons of storage). I was going to explore the static file generators again but decided to get something going.

Over the last few days between helping someone out with Linux and cryptocurrencies, I setup WordPress on my RaspberryPi 4 using Yunohost again. As its pretty much static, I think it makes sense.

So here is my own mixcloud site, which I’m still populating, but the latest mixes from my locked down, mixing out album are up complete with artwork. Expect to see more changes over time including a better audio player, more mixes and more everything.

Its not exactly a mixcloud replacement to be fair and my plans to use the .cue files and make better use of playlists, is put on hold for now. I’m sure there is audio plugin which will make use of them. Love to have UPnP and Subsonic apis access from wordpress, but I dream?

Do enjoy and let me know what you think could be improved.

Little update

Following my point about making it work for DJs and mixes. One of my biggest bug bears is playlists. I have been through many of the wordpress plugins for audio playback and I can’t find one which allows me to specify points in a long mix, when different music is played. Its simply a tracklist but all of the ones I have seen and tried are focused on single tracks. Meaning slicing the mix into pieces instead of marking out areas. None of them seemed to support CUE files or things like Ogg vorbis chapters. If there is one I should be looking at, do send it my way because it seems like such a simple thing to do, but I guess theres not enough interest to make it?

Another update

I have retired the old Mix site and replaced it with a new better one.
Learn more about the changes and WebMix.

Pattersons pandemic run mix

Here is the first mix of the new year and its a Simon Patterson special. If you liked the previous Patterson’s panic attack. Its likely not going to play in certain regions as its all the same artist and mixcloud thinks I’m uploading a whole album.

Its a very heavy trance mix which whips along at a speedy 138 bpm and never lets up for 50 solid minutes.

Try going for a run with this mix playing, avoid those people and wear a mask.

Here is the playlist for Patterson’s pandemic run mix, enjoy!

F16 – Simon Patterson
Latika – Simon Patterson
Brush Strokes – Simon Patterson
Smack – Simon Patterson
Whites of her eyes – Simon Patterson
Panic attack – Simon Patterson
Opulence – Simon Patterson
Dissolve – Simon Patterson feat Sarah Howells
Strip search – Simon Patterson
Taxi – Simon Patterson
Us – Simon Patterson

https://www.mixcloud.com/cubicgarden/pattersons-pandemic-run/

Replacing Mixcloud with Funkwhale

For a long while I have been threatening to leave Mixcloud in favour of hosting my own mixes. I looked around and thought funkwhale looks great as its a federated network for music. With some help from JonT, I started to scrape the metadata I stupidly forgot to keep for myself.

I installed Funkwhale on the Yunoserver but spent too much time trying to work out how to mount my NAS on the Yunoserver. I gave Navidrome but decided it wasn’t right as there was no way to listen without logging in, so went back to Funkwhale and got things up and running.

Seems Funkwhale might not be the best solution for the mixes, plus the developer is looking for new maintainers recently. Its really setup for single tracks not mixes. I could upload mixes but my plan to use cue files, won’t work. The only place to put playlists is in the comments. I also need to do more digging as I can’t change the year of the mixes. More importantly, the public sharing is a bit broken for me. You should be able to listen to the radio but its not working for me

As I get my head around it all but you can subscribe via RSS and if you’re using Mastodon or other fediverse applications, you can subscribe to this account: @digitalitalicmixes@mixes.cubicgarden.info.

Enjoy, I’m one step closer to self hosting my mixes.

The mayday lockdown night dance

Taking some hints from my previous live mix, I decided to make some changes and do another mix. This time not live, so its at the perfect volume now. Enjoy the mix which is up to 135bpm with lots of hands in the air trance for your listening pleasure… enjoy!

Gouryella (From the heavens mix) – Ferry Corsten presents Gouryella
Arise – Victor Ruiz & D Nox
Follow me (Jerome Isma-Ae Extended remix) – Jam Spoon
Call the galaxy taxi (Martin Roth Nu Style remix) – Plastic Angel
Stellar – Driftwood
Floyd (extended mix) – Jerome Isma-Ae & Alastor
Borealis – Dj Eco
Breathe (Blake Jarrell remix) – Anna Nalick
Freedom (extended mix) – ARTY vs Muvy
Grotesque – RAM & Alex M.O.R.P.H
Soundbar (extended mix) – Giuseppe Ottaviani
Numb the pain – Will Atkinson
Everythings been written – 8 Wonders
Tears (protoculture remix) – Dakota
Hello (Jerome Isma-Ae remix) – Above & Beyond
The Legacy 2.0 (Alphazone remix) – Funabashi pres. Saltwater
Valhalla (tonerush remix) – OneBeat

The mixcloud metadata take down

I mentioned a while ago how I was slowly migrating away from Mixcloud as their business model is starting to impinge on people listening to my mixes and I’m not so keen on that. I already mentioned trying to get Funkwhale working and using cue files.

While looking through my mixes I noticed I really didn’t do a great job with some of the metadata. While I had spent most of my time adding to the metadata to Mixcloud (not ideal)

In Mixcloud (once logged in) there are some human friendly urls which I was able to grab images from. The key one being the upload edit page – https://www.mixcloud.com/upload/{username}/{mixname}/edit/ for example https://www.mixcloud.com/upload/cubicgarden/follow-me-into-the-fading-moonlight/edit/

Follow me into the moonlight edit page

My plan was to manually copy the times into my newly written cue files but while talking to Jon about it, he said give him 5mins and he could knock up a script to pull the values out of the HTML page. I thought about it before but using XSLT, however noticed there is a lot javascript rendering making things difficult.

Jon’s quick script written was just what I needed.

#!/usr/bin/env python3

import csv
import sys
from collections import namedtuple
from typing import List

import bs4
from bs4 import Tag

SongInfo = namedtuple('SongInfo', ['number', 'artist', 'title', 'time'])

def load_html(filename: str):
    with open(filename, 'r', encoding='utf-8') as fo:
        return ''.join(fo.readlines())

def extract_song_info(song: Tag):
    try:
        number = song.find(class_='section-number').text
        artist = song.find(class_='section-artist').text
        title = song.find(class_='section-title').text
        time = song.find(class_='section-time')['value']
        result = SongInfo(number, artist, title, time)
        print(f'Extracted {result}')
        return result
    except AttributeError:
        print(f'Error with item {song}')
        return None

def parse_table(input_html: str):
    soup = bs4.BeautifulSoup(input_html, features="html5lib")
    songs = [row for row in soup.find_all(class_="section-row")]
    return [x for x in [extract_song_info(song) for song in songs] if x is not None]


def save_to_csv(file_name: str, songs: List[SongInfo]):
    with open(file_name, 'w', encoding='utf-8') as fo:
        writer = csv.writer(fo)
        for song in songs:
            writer.writerow(song)


if __name__=="__main__":
    if len(sys.argv) != 3:
        print('Usage: extractor.py [input_html_file] [output_csv_file]')
    html = load_html(sys.argv[1])
    songs = parse_table(html)
    save_to_csv(sys.argv[2], songs)
    print(f'Saved to {sys.argv[2]} successfully - Done!')

With it and the HTML pages, which I almost got with Chromedriver, again thanks to Jon, but I couldn’t be bothered to sort out the cookies, etc. I quickly wrote a quick /dirty bash script and fired up a terminal.

#!/bin/bash
./extractor.py $1.html $1.csv
# Verify
echo Details for $1

I thought about modifying Jon’s script to generate the cue files directly bypassing the csv file but decided I should just get them all done. Because I still need to get funkwhale going.

I did notice the edit page doesn’t include genre or the year of the mix, but I can live with that, for now… Scraping web pages is certainly a throw back but its better solution that what I originally was thinking.

This will teach me to sort out my own house of data!

A better way to listen to mixes online?

For a while I have been thinking about leaving Mixcloud. Its nothing personal, I think its a great service for djs but its clear their business model is starting to interfere with the listening experience.

I had a thought about what Mixcloud do for me and decided these are the key things.

Hosting the full mix with limited rights problems (unless you do something like play a track from the same author twice)
The community of people and djs in one place
Ability to see the actual tracks within the mix

With this in mind, I thought I’d see what else was out there as I’m lucky enough to be sitting on a large enough internet connection to host my own mixes and become a node on a larger decentralised network. If it was build like the fediverse, that could solve the community side too? After looking around for alternatives I found a new upstart called funkwhale. You may have seen I mention it recently in a previous blog.

Maybe 1 and 2 could be solved but what about 3?

The last part of the puzzle seemed to be the track problem, as you want seamless playback but get an idea of what you are listening to. Mixcloud does this via metadata, which you can create via a slider over the audio waveform. Some DJ systems create this for you like the Pacemaker for example but that metadata is lost in translation I found. If only there was a standard way to define areas of a mix without slicing the audio mix up?

For example, here is a ambient mix I liked recently.

Its by Tonepoet and even they have gone through the effort of adding this metadata to their personal site complete with timings. I do a similar thing but without the timings (which I really should have added since I had them all and entered them into Mixcloud manually.

I looked a number of things including a bunch of playlist formats including pls, m3u and xspf. Even looked at smil and asx to see if they would help, but their problem was player support. The issue seemed to be they all treated their smallest objects as physical files rather than subsets of files. I did buy into xspf thought it was close with this extension.

The extension element allows non-XSPF XML to be included in XSPF documents. The purpose is to allow nested XML, which the meta and link elements do not. xspf:playlist elements MAY contain zero or more extension elements.
<playlist version="1" xmlns="http://xspf.org/ns/0/" xmlns:cl="http://example.com">
  <extension application="http://example.com">
    <cl:clip start="25000" end="34500"/>
  </extension>
  <trackList />
</playlist>

Close but not quite right and player support for extensions was going to be low. This is when I rethought the problem with something like .nfo files and found .cue files. Here is an example…

REM GENRE Electronica
REM DATE 1998
PERFORMER "Faithless"
TITLE "Live in Berlin"
FILE "Faithless - Live in Berlin.mp3" MP3
  TRACK 01 AUDIO
    TITLE "Reverence"
    PERFORMER "Faithless"
    INDEX 01 00:00:00
  TRACK 02 AUDIO
    TITLE "She's My Baby"
    PERFORMER "Faithless"
    INDEX 01 06:42:00
  TRACK 03 AUDIO
    TITLE "Take the Long Way Home"
    PERFORMER "Faithless"
    INDEX 01 10:54:00
  TRACK 04 AUDIO
    TITLE "Insomnia"
    PERFORMER "Faithless"
    INDEX 01 17:04:00
  TRACK 05 AUDIO
    TITLE "Bring the Family Back"
    PERFORMER "Faithless"
    INDEX 01 25:44:00
  TRACK 06 AUDIO
    TITLE "Salva Mea"
    PERFORMER "Faithless"
    INDEX 01 30:50:00
  TRACK 07 AUDIO
    TITLE "Dirty Old Man"
    PERFORMER "Faithless"
    INDEX 01 38:24:00
  TRACK 08 AUDIO
    TITLE "God Is a DJ"
    PERFORMER "Faithless"
    INDEX 01 42:35:00

Perfect, so I took one of mixes, Quiver in the underground and turned the .nfo file into a .cue file.

REM GENRE Tech Trance
REM DATE 2019
PERFORMER "Digital Italic"
TITLE "Quiver in the underground mix"
FILE "Quiver in the underground mix.mp3" MP3
TRACK 01 AUDIO
TITLE "Activator, I know you can (That kid chris mix)"
PERFORMER "Whatever girl"
INDEX 01 00:00:00
TRACK 02 AUDIO
TITLE "Air traffic (Erik De Koning remix)"
PERFORMER "Three drives"
INDEX 01 02:07:00
TRACK 03 AUDIO
TITLE "Chinook"
PERFORMER "Markus Schulz pres. Dakota"
INDEX 01 07:25:00
TRACK 04 AUDIO
TITLE "Opium (Quivver remix)"
PERFORMER "Jerome Isma-Ae & Alastor"
INDEX 01 10:32:00
TRACK 05 AUDIO
TITLE "Surveillance"
PERFORMER "Jordon Suckley & Kutski"
INDEX 01 15:24:00
TRACK 06 AUDIO
TITLE "Nitric (Division one remix)"
PERFORMER "Hybrid system"
INDEX 01 19:02:00
TRACK 07 AUDIO
TITLE "Circa-Forever (Galen Behr & Organ Nilsen remix)"
PERFORMER "Rapid eye"
INDEX 01 23:55:00
TRACK 08 AUDIO
TITLE "Opulence"
PERFORMER "Simon Patterson"
INDEX 01 30:05:00
TRACK 09 AUDIO
TITLE "J'ai envie de toi (Protoculture remix)"
PERFORMER "Armin Van Buuren presents Gaia"
INDEX 01 35:10:00
TRACK 10 AUDIO
TITLE "Z.I.T.A (M.I.K.E's progressiva mix)"
PERFORMER "Hiver & Hammer with Funabashi"
INDEX 01 39:30:00
TRACK 11 AUDIO
TITLE "Kubrick (Extended mix)"
PERFORMER "Jerome Isma-Ae & Alastor"
INDEX 01 42:01:00

Tried it out on a number of media player and they all worked except Plex.

There is a very good chance if I was to run my own funkwhale node/server I could set it to index .cue files and playback the mix in a seamless way like Mixcloud? Theres only one way to find out really… Get Funkwhale installed!

On a side note I am slightly kicking myself now because I entered all that metadata into mixcloud but never stored it myself. I’m going to need to go through 90 of my own mixes and convert my .nfo files into .cue files.

I have the SQLite Database for my pacemaker device with the actual real timings but I need to identify which mix is which one (another thing I should have done, as changed the names of the mix depending on many things). I also hoped mixcloud’s developers guide would come to the rescue but it looks like maybe a GDPR request is my only option if I want the metadata for my mixes?

The Helsinki drop out mix

Somewhat as a forerunner to the peace of mind in Brussels mix. The Helsinki drop out mix is also a bit slower but a lot more punchy with harder tunes.

Recorded while sat in the city centre of Helsinki, watching people go by. Enjoy!

Tenshi (Magdelayna’s Resurrection mix) – Gouryella
Empty Cities, Dead Ghost (Chronosapien remix) – Fictitious Riceboy
Big Sky (Agnelli & Nelson remix) – John O’Callaghan feat Audrey Gallagher
Circles – Robert Nickson
Everythings been written – 8 Wonders
Hello (Jerome Isma-Ae remix) – Above & Beyond
Kubrick (Extended mix) – Jerome Isma-Ae Alastor
Out of the Blue (5am mix) – System F
The Wave 2.0 (Extended mix) – Cosmic Gate
Crayons (Leama and Moor remix) – Starkid
Torrent – Dave 202
The Game (Extended mix) – Fatum

The call of the Barcelona sun mix

One of my mixes from Barcelona I didn’t upload first time, so I re-uploaded it for the collection. Lots of familiar tunes mixed together with some classics such as Tears and Hello. At just over the hour mark, its a nice energetic mix to add to the collection.

Enjoy!

Helsinki Scorching – Super8 vs Dj Tab
Against the flow (Astuni & Manuel Le Saux Extended Re Lift Dub) – Stine Grove
Hello (Jerome Isma-Ae remiix) – Above & Beyond
Avenue – Paul Van Dyk
Labyrinth (Paul Keyen remix) – Lee Cassells
Embrace (Ferry Fix) – Embrace
Nebula One – Warren K
Frosted (Foreign Force remix) – Kyamoto
Shelter (Photographer remix) – Dash Berlin feat Roxanne Emery
Ecstasy – Eddie Makabi feat Einat
Tears (Protoculture remix) – Markus Schulz presents Dakota
Nailed (James Dymond remix) – Paul Webster
Valhalla (tonerush remix) – OneBeat
Its time (ferry corsten’s flashover mix) – Ferry Corsten
B29 (extended mix) – Attila Syah & LTN

Cruising at 35000 feet mix

I was able to rescue one of my mixes from a flight from Helsinki. Its a little rough and ready in parts but theres some excellent tunes and mixes. This one needed a lot of work because the crossfader was in the wrong place for critical parts of the mix.

At just under 2 hours it certainly a long musical ride into trance

Enjoy!

Empty Cities, Dead Ghosts – Fictious Riceboy
Big Sky (Agnelli & Nelson Remix) – John O’Callaghan Feat. Audrey
Gallagher
Bulgarian (Signum remix) – Travel
Hello (Jerome Isma-Ae remix) – Above & Beyond
J’ai Envie De Toi (protoculture remix) – Armin Van Buuren presents Gaia
The Oblivious – Muhamed Sherief & WAAJII
Journey (extended mix) – Iversoon vs. Alex Daf vs. Glus
October winds (deep care november mix) – Six Senses pres Electric Nova
Labyrinth (Paul Keyen remix) – Lee Cassells
Please Save Me (Push Remix) – Sunscreem Vs Push
Love stimulation (Pvd love club mix) – Humante
Resound (Original Mix) – Thomas Bronzwaer
Shadow World (Original Mix) – Thomas Bronzwaer
Refused – Mark Sixma & Jerome isma-Ae
Rapid eye (R.E mix) – Circa Forever
Orange sky – Signalrunners presents Syndica
The Pride in Your Eyes (Martin Roth Remix) – Tillmann Uhrmacher

Bringing down Skopje super mix

My last mix from Skopje and its a long one with lots of cool tunes. Recorded while in Skopje but I had to piece the mix together as it was in 2 pieces after my pacemakerdevice battery ran out. Suspend doesn’t last as long as I was expecting it seems.

The mix has beatmatching flaws but mainly due to loud noises while walking about. Generally its varied mix and well worth listening to with some old and new tunes mixed together.

Enjoy!

Echoes (FloE edit) – Andski
Beauty hides in the deep (John O’Callaghan remix) – The Doppler effect
Gaurtlet – DNSProject
Heal – Electrique Boutique
J’ai Envie De Toi (Protoculture remix) – Armin Van Buuren pre Gaia
Labyrinth (Paul Keyen remix) – Lee Cassells
Kalopsia (Monogato’s Filth remix) – The Bizzard
One little arab – Matt Darey
Massive Motion – M.I.K.E
Opium – Jerome Isma-Ae & Alastor
Into the Danger (M.I.K.E remix) – M.I.K.E vs Andrew Bennett
Prosac – Dj Tomcraft
Kinetic 99 (Commies full edit mix) – Golden girls
Rewind (Mikkas Remix) – Emma Hewitt
The Oblivious – Muhamed Sherief & WAAJII
Whites of her eyes – Simon Patterson
Running up the that hill – Markus Schulz Presents Dakota Featuring Bev Wild
Intution (Martin Roth remix) – Marninx pres Ecco
Valhala (Tonerush remix) – OneBeat
Love Stimulation (PVD love Club mix) – Humate
Totem – Rodrigo Deem
Hello (Jerome Isma-Ae remiix) – Above & Beyond
Brush Strokes – Simon Patterson
Delores – Indecent Noise
The Evil ID – Max Graham
Desoolee (Radion 6 remix) – Disfunkton
Mass Noise 2015 – Fred Baker & Seb B

Dont be afraid in Dublin mix

Really enjoyed this mix, which was recorded while walking around Dublin one day. It includes quite a few familar tunes and some completely new ones. I found a lot of street art in Dublin including the house with “Don’t be afraid” written on the side.

All recorded on the Pacemaker Device as usual but I did need to make a few tweaks to fix the pauses as I walked around and crossed roads, tram tracks, etc. Let me know what you think on Mixcloud.

Enjoy!

Electronic toy – Tomcraft
Whites of her eyes – Simon Patterson
Eclipse – Neo
Suru (Martin Roth Electrance remix) – Super8 & Tab
Daisy – Sander Van Doorn
Voema – Ferry Corsten
Brush Strokes – Simon Patterson
As One – Daniel Kandi and Martijn Stegerhoek
Dark side of the moon (Marc Simz remix) – Ernesto vs Bastian featuring Susana
Cuckoo – Jon Mangan
Ephemeral – Nakhiya
Innocente (Mr Sam remix) – Delerium
The Labyrinth (part one) – Moogwai
Eternity (Armin’s rising star mix) – Alibi
Intution (Martin Roth remix) – Marninx Pres Ecco
Neba – Ferry Corsten presents Gouryella

The Skopje Jetstream mix

Another strange mix of trance from across the spectrum of trance. Recorded from Skopje (SKP) to Berlin (SXF) recently, I tried to pick a few different tunes but also double down on the obvious as I do currently love that tune. Sound levels are not idea along with some of the mixes but a good mix generally.

I have another mix from Skopje to come but that might take some time to upload. Till then sitback, ensure your seat belts are fasten and enjoy the smooth Skopje jetstream.

Love (Vocal mix) – DJ Eco Feat Lira Yin
Solarcoaster (Protoculture remix) – Solarstone
The Obvious – Muhamed Sherief & WAAJII
The Situation (Liquid life remix) – A Situation
Please save me (push remix) – Sunscream Vs Push
Tears (Protoculture remix) – Markus Schulz presents Dakota
Perpertual Motion – Protoculure
Take me away in the night (purple haze remix) – 4 Strings
Torrent – Dave 202
Winter Falls – Calgar C
Time of Our lives (Paul Van Dyk club mix) – Paul Van Dyk
Underlying feeling (Adam K & Soha Club mix) – Sylvia Tosun
The Obvious – Muhamed Sherief & WAAJII
Barcelona (Gene Xander remix) – Addictive Glance
In and Out of Love – Armin Van Buuren feat Sharon den Adel
Humming the lights – Armin van Buuren presents Gaia

Travels with Pacemaker… live from Skopje

Travels with Pacemaker Skopje — Taken by Adriangradinar

This is what Skopje does to @cubicgarden pic.twitter.com/1wCRSIntFB

— Adrian Gradinar (@adriangradinar) November 2, 2018

Its rare when I get the opportunity to Dj on a big stage in front of a crowd live but I certainly do enjoy it. This time it was live from British Council’s PlayUK 2018 in Skopje Macedonia. Someone couldn’t make it and I said well if you need a DJ I’m totally up for it.

@cubicgarden @MKC_Skopje #PlayUK pic.twitter.com/kloNAP47Zx

— Ilija Tiricovski (@flatness) November 2, 2018

Very enjoyable, shame I didn’t have longer and I started mixing during the sound test meaning I didn’t hit record. I did consider hitting stop and then hitting record but people were dancing and well the mix was pretty simple.