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WOW! Lightning in a Bottle did not disappoint! I heard so much great music that week - mostly at the Woogie stage where I was working. I was BLESSED to play a surprise stage open set too, dream come true on the insane Funktion One sound system. I played 80s and 90s hip hop like my last podcast episode, and some gangster rap like the Rat Trap mix from last summer. The Woogie stage has definitely THE place to be at LIB! Amaz...

Hopping in to a new genre here for DJing - one that I was in to when I was like 5 years old for dancing. Something about these beats just made me want to jam on the floor!!! This set is representing what I was playing at Neotropolis at the Rat Trap bar. Neo is a future - cyberpunk - space vibe event, so I thought to go with some Afro-Futurism energy with a lot of the music I was playing. I played plenty of the popular hits...

I performed two contemporary dance acts in the Zirco Loco circus show this March, and DJ'd the afterparty from midnight to 2 am. This episode is the first half-ish of my set! I played a lot of tracks I heard out here in the Mojave Desert for the first time over the last couple years, and plenty of other stuff too.  This flavor of house music has really been exciting to hear out here when I am on the dancefloor, so I gave a...

Finally brinigng it back to that techno stuff I was exploring with mixes two years ago. It's taken me that long to figure out how to place some of these tracks!!! Once again well worth the wait. This mix is wild! Speed ranges from 128 to 157 bpm! That old techno goes so hard. Bring it back - where do I have to go??? I put this mix up at a low bitrate to add to the grime of the techno, and to be a bit more authentic to the ...

The annual trance mix has arrived! SO thankful to again have mixed this while it was snowing out. Extra winter vibes! I was worried this one wouldnt come together but the music pulled through and showed me the way. These songs have kept me warm for weeks and now its time for them to get you warm with some dancing.  This set starts out somewhat chill, will take you up to some really high energy (understatement) and place yo...

I have bee BUSY and under a lot of pressure to do a lot of things - so I named this month's podcast. Here is a bunch of house music I have been listening to lately, plenty from the last couple years. Tracks in here date back to 2005! A couple very hard to locate gems : )

Enjoy!

Tracklist -

1. T.B.C. - Movin' Out (Andrea Bertolini Massive Mix)
2. JedX, Tim Brown - Good Intentions
3. Simon Adams...

This one has been a long time coming! I looked forwards to taking a real vacation for a month in Florida to finally relax after a crazy busy year, and immerse myself in the Orlando music scene again. The AAHZ party was completely off the wall this year. It never disappoints! SO many wild jams from the 80s and 90s. Heard a ton I had never even heard before. Danced my ASS off! Ending my summer in Orlando every year has alway...

Struggled and struggled to figure out the name for this months episode. I do not think a word exists in the English language that covers how I felt for this one. So much culminated for 6 months in my life and I wanted to cap it off with a fancy podcast episode name. Found nothing. ChatGPT failed me. 

The last few events had some of the coolest house and techno music I heard all year. So many beats, so much new space...

Two months in to one. I have been playing music at the Rat Trap bar a ton over the last two months at Burning Man and Wasteland Weekend. I do it like this every year but never before have I gone so hard with it. I was excited to run the bar at Burning Man almost every night from about midnight to right before sunrise. Hence the name 6 N The Mornin, plus thats also my favorite Ice-T track that I drop a ton. 

I made u...

It was a wild month - between wishing it was more humid, to not being able to escape rain for days. I was surrounded by house music but had my mind focused on what I will be doing later in August, and what I wanted my soundtrack to be. July is always one hell of a podcast. It's my sound track for the road to Burning Man. This breakz mix will help me put down hundreds of miles with a smile on my face.

A FAT stack of ...

I have spent my whole spring and summer so far working at festivals, traveling all over the country, and doing the Van Life thing. There was a moment a few months ago where I realized - I was going to be on the road, with my van, far far from home - and the opportunity of freedom and adventure was showing itself to me again. I had this amazing feeling, realizing that I would have so much time to be free again. It was a cho...

SKTTRBRAIN is back with another guest mix for the Kontakt Recording’s monthly. Feeding off the vibe of Kontakt’s December podcast, this old vs. new school set brings out the most paragon and fresh of breakbeats with undertones of acid, bass, electro, synth-wave, vocal, and overall classic energy. Subtle hints of dub, hip hop, jazz, and trance contribute to the atmosphere of Fuse. Experimenting with a new mixing style, SKTT...

WOW The procrastination hits hard this month. Two weeks late on a mix I recorded a month ago. Life has been real lately! Festival season is thick for me this year, and I am so thankful!

Heres a little list of what I have been up to - 

Neotropolis
Joshua Tree Music Festival
Lightning In A Bottle
The Gathering

And preparing for lots more later this year!!!

Here is the second half of my li...

Yes I have been sitting on this mix for two weeks now without uploading. OOPS! Sometimes you just have to live life as it comes to you and stay away from the computer. I've been having an epic time out here in the Mojave Desert in and out of Joshua Tree National Park. Making lots of new friends and spending good times with old ones.

This mix is a cut of the first half of my live set for my friend Zircon's birthday m...

What has changed for you in the last two years?

Tracklist:

1. Adam Byrd - Time Machine (Pablo Roma Remix)
2. Appleblim, Ramadanman - Void 23 (Carl Craig Re-Edit)
3. Dome Patrol - The Cutting Edge (Carl Cox & Julika Remix)
4. Black V Neck, E.R.N.E.S.T.O - I Push (Truth x Lies Remix)
5. Prok & Fitch - Rebound
6. Joshwa (UK) - You're Not Alone (Club Edit)
7. Shermanology - Follow ...

It's my favorite time of the year again, musically - when my big trance mix comes out. Always worth the wait, and for me the only mix I do all year that I don't easily forget. This is another mix with a few years of tracks that have been percolating, and some from long long ago that I've never had the right context for. Last year I swayed to the dark side with hard techno and some total banger tracks - not much from this y...

For only the fourth? time ever, I put out one podcast a month for an entire calendar year of this podcast. !WOW! 2023 was a great year for myself and music. Better than I has planned. I started with a lot of motivation and kept it up all year. I really impressed myself this time :)

The December mix for 2023 is another one from Orlando with a good amount of tracks from artists I've seen playing in town lately like On...

This mix is a Part Two to my episode 117 from December 2021. Yes, I've been working on it since I started working on that set, so going on three years. This months mix is a lot of low-fi 12" rips that I grouped together because they were absolute bangers, but were very hard to put in to other sets with better recording quality. Almost none of these could have fit with 117, even though both are vintage mixes with tracks fro...

This month I am bringing back the weird spooky October vibe from past podcasts. Always a fun month to build up tracks for, this collection of music is from 2020 - 2023, but tracks go way back to 2000. The Crowd Song by Rhythm Gangsta is one of the fattest house tracks ever produced for me, and I am very excited to be dropping it this month in the podcast. The name celebrates my new pet mouse - KRONK!

 The icing on t...