Mixes
Classic mixes and more
People are always
asking where are my classic mixes from the early
2000's. The reason I don't keep everything here
is mainly because of space and bandwidth but now
you can find them on the new WCC site. We have
completely revamp our site for 2010. You have
to check it out. Big up to Kevin for doing
this. Here is the description from the WCC
site for The Vault:
As we’re doing a bit of 2010 ‘house’ cleaning to
the website in order to make it a bit more
fan-friendly, we certainly couldn’t remove ALL
the mixes we’ve done over the past 10
years. So for a limited time, we’ve decided
to create “The WCC Vault” of classic mixes.
Here you can find a range of mixes from house, to
downtempo, to funk, soul, and all around amazing
music that we’ve put together over our journey
through the past 10 years. Hope you enjoy
and certainly feel free to pass these along to
all that might enjoy.
New mix "FALLING"
With tracks from Miguel Migs, Lisa Shaw, Tortured Soul, Blaze, and Samantha James, among others, you can see the direction and the sound of it. The title could mean a lot of things but don't read too much into it. House music is about positivity and love and we all need a little bit of that in our lives sometimes. We are not perfect creatures but we have to try to do the right thing as hard as that is sometimes. You will find this one in the current mixes page. I hope you like it.
City Sonar Vol 3 is here
So who likes Deep House? Well, it seems like a lot of you because people can't seem to get enough of the City Sonar series. This was never intended to be a series but because of the great feedback it got I did a vol 2. Now vol 3 is here and it's pretty clear where the trend is going... as long as you guys dig it there will be more of City Sonar. This one has some nice old and new skool deep cuts. I think it might the deeper one of all the sets so far. It's very dubby with not too many vocals. I always try not to alienate people too much by going too underground with my mixes but since this series is really meant for the heads it doesn't matter. WCC Radio takes care of the cross over House and City Sonar just takes you deeper into that journey. I hope you enjoy the latest installment of this Deep House series. Please let me know what you think of it by leaving me a comment and rating it on the mixes page.
City Sonar Vol 2 now available
WCC Radio is not so much Deep even if I throw in a Deep House tune from time to time. I felt I have slowly gotten away from it over the years. That style is really how I started playing house music all those years ago. Also my first mixes online (in 2000!) were Deep House. They were hosted on the Deep House Networks and I know that some of you have those even if you can't find them online anymore. I'm glad there are still kats out there who are enjoying good Deep House. It seems the new generation of kids who are into house music like the harder (dare I say Electro) tunes when they go out and the Soulful and Deeper stuff is being played less and less in the clubs. It's sad but it might not be a bad thing. If anything those two styles will be pushed underground again and they will find their roots and come back even stronger. I for one am looking forward to that.
I hope you enjoy Vol 2 od City Sonar. I think this one is deeper than the last one. New and classic deep house tracks (some that I even played on vinyl). One notable mention is the Makam remix of the track Attica on Freerange. Wholly poop that track is incredible. It reminds me of the great Deep House from the late 90s and early 2000. Makam kills it as it goes from Deep to Funky and then back again. Like the boys at Stompy say it's the talk of the town. Keep it Deep!!
New Studio Mix - CITY SONAR
It's been a while since I've done a mix that is not a radio show. Doing WCC Radio once a month doesn't give me too much time to do other regular sets. The last one, Happy Hour on the West Coast, was done in December of last year. I decided this time to keep it strictly Deep and underground to differentiate it from the radio show. Ladies and gentlemen I give you CITY SONAR - vol. 1. This is a really moody late night set with a pinch of soul on two or three cuts. The majority of the tracks are just head bopping deep tunes with some live edit acapellas layered in. I hope you dig it and find it different. Don't forget to rate it and let me know if you like it cause I'll do more. I want to make a series of Deep sets - that's why this is volume 1. Download as an indexed ACC or regular mp3 on the Current Mixes page.
Full BALANCE set from March Available
The full 6 hours BALANCE set from our gig back in March is now available for download on the West Coast Collective site. Instead of one huge file with the full 6 hours we divided the set into six 1 hour segments to make the whole thing more manageable. If you play these files back to back (especially in iTunes) you will hear no pause or fade out at the end of one of the hours. The whole thing will feel like the original 6 hour set. It is available as ACC with the tracks name imbedded in the file and indexing or as a simple plain old MP3.
The West Coast Collective will also be back at BALANCE Saturday April 25th for yet another 6 hour House Music extravaganza. We will be again recording the whole night for future postings. If you live in LA or will be visiting around that date we hope to see you cutting the dance floor with us.
BALANCE set from March and video.
We've also added short video clips of that night on our Facebook fan page but if your not on Facebook you can check out the videos on this new video page on my site.
The WCC will be back for a full night at BALANCE on April 25th. We are going to be welcoming the summer West Coast Styleeee.
New Guest Mix For Soul Harmony
12/17/2008 08:59 PM Filed in: Mixes
I've just completed a new mix for the Soul Harmony Podcast called "Happy Hour on the West Side". You can stream and subscribe to the podcast at the website. There is also a little Q&A so you can find out a little more about me. Alternatively you can download the mix on this site in the current mixes page. This mix is a standard 77 minutes so it will fit on an audio CD for those who are still burning them. It is also at 192kbps which is a higher quality than the rest of the mixes on the site which are at 128kbps. This is my little Holiday present for all of you. I hope you get a chance to rock it during your Holiday parties and that you enjoy it. Coming up next in the first week of January is the first WCCR show for 2009. Be good and be safe during the Holidays festivities!
WCC RADIO now on Raunchy Rhythms Radio
WCC RADIO has found another home for it's monthly
show. Besides
SS Radio UK
on the first Sunday of the month we are now also
on
Raunchy Rhythms
Radio
on the first Friday of the month. You will get to
hear on Raunchy Rhythms the mix before it is
posted and available for download. We premiere
with WCC RADIO EP012 (December 2008). The shows
air the first Friday of every month at 22:00 GMT.
Click
here
to find out at what time the shows play in your
corner of the world.
New mix "West Side Summer"
07/19/2008 07:47 PM Filed in: Mixes
A brand new mix that is not a radio show is available for download in the current mixes page. I wasn't planning on recording a new mix but this one kind of just happened. Sandra's new single is doing great, the WCC might start a new residency night on the West Side, and my VFX business is cranking out the jobs even in these hard economic times. Basically I don't have much to complaint about and I'm happy, so when I'm happy I like to jump on the decks and the result is this summer mix. I hope you enjoy it and don't forget to rate it.
WCC interview on LA's #1 Hip Hop Station (!?)
Ok, ok. In all fairness it was on a Electronic
Dance Music show called PowerTools and it did air
at 2 in the morning. Still check it out and
listen to our manly voices. I'm the one that
sounds like a chipmunk. You can also catch
an exclusive mix I did for the interview.
Click on the play button below.
PestoMix up again - New & Improved
03/27/2008 01:46 AM Filed in: Mixes
The NEW PestoMix is now up and its IMPROVED since it does not have any Defected tracks in it. If you are wondering why read the post below this one. This whole thing with this major label has left a real sour taste in my mouth and I feel it has tainted something I hold sacred which is the spirit of House Music. I also found out that I'm not the only one of their ex-supporters that they have done this to. Check this out. Please go out and support small independent labels like Pesto, Barcoda, Compost, Poji, Shifted Music and many others that are keeping the spirit of House alive and let's leave Defected and its sub-labels chase bedroom DJs for compensation. I'm sure they will make lots of money and pass the profits to their artists (yeah right). I hope you enjoy the mix.
And I Really Used to Like DEFECTED...
Some of you are wondering what happened to the DJ Mix I did for Pesto Music. Well within minutes after Pesto posted the FREE podcast they got this email from Defected:
"I have received a newsletter with a Pesto mix that includes 2 of Defected tracks that are unreleased. Defected has not granted you any authorisation to use them and we control the copyright. Please remove them from this mix immediately. You are giving our music away for free when you do not have the rights. We will seek compensation for this illegal usage."
First of all I purchased those "unreleased tracks" on Traxsource directly from Simon Dunmore (Defected's boss) Top 10. They don't even seem to know what tracks they are releasing or selling. Second, a big "respected" label like Defected coming after a small independent one man label like Pesto and threatening to sue them for giving them free promotion just floors me. Defected is in their legal right to do this but is it morally right? I've been a big supporter of Defected for years I have PURCHASED every single release I have from them vinyl or digital. No more. This is a slap in the face to our community. If this is their attitude then they will go down just like all the other main stream dinosaur labels that are crying that their profit margins are shrinking and are coming after the end users. I will re-do the PestoMix with out any tracks from Defected. Only tracks from labels that support and understand DJ culture. If you care to voice your opinion to them you can do to the label manager at their contact page here. The email above came from "Business Affairs and Licensing Manager". If you do contact them please be respectful. Like I said they are within their legal rights, I just feel they don't know how to pick their battles.
New Mix for Pesto Music
03/25/2008 11:08 PM Filed in: Mixes
Pesto Music asked me to do a DJ Mix that coincides with the release of my wife Sandra's new track coming out on their imprint April 20th, 2008. Sandra's new track called "Higher" will be coming out in two EPs. The first one (Pesto 011) will include Jay-J's (Shifted Music) mixes and Jon Silva's aka The Mulder (Pesto Music). The second EP (Pesto 011R) will have remixes by Justin Michael (Hermosa Recordings), Thomas White (Natural Rhythm), and our own Torin Rea (WCC). We've already passed out some promos to a few jocks and we are getting great feedback. You can hear Jay-J's vocal mix in my set (track 11). If you are part of the Pesto community you will get this mix as an iTunes Podcast. If not you can download right here. You will also notice that this mix is at higher bit rate. The mixes on this site are at 128kps but as of the PestoMix they will be 192kps. Bandwidth is getting cheaper so I'm passing on the savings to you :)
Tracklist is Complete for Balance Live Set
All of the tracks for our 6 hour set at Balance
back from November are accounted for. If you
downloaded the set and are curious as what those
are you can check it out here. BTW the WCC
will be back at the best House Club In Los Angeles
on February 2nd, 2008. Mark your calendars
cause it will be another epic night...
6 hour live mix for your NYE from the WCC
First of all Happy Holidays to you and all of your love ones. I want to thank you for the support that you have given me through out 2007. I can't believe this year is already over. It certainly flew by for me.
As a "Thank You" and a late holiday gift I would like to offer you the full set from our last gig at Balance here in Los Angeles. This is kind of rare that you will find sets like these online because it is 6 hours long! It is our full night un-edited. If you are looking for music for your NYE party this year you just put this on and you are good to go. It starts off smooth and then just peeks with some old, new and rare tracks that we like to take out when we play live.
You will find the tracklist for all 57 tracks on the download page with who was playing what. Basically Torin Rea, Dustin Brown and myself were rotating every 4 tracks so we kept it fresh. We compliment each other when we play but we all have a little bit different style (in a good way).
This download is pretty big, 317 MB. On a standard broadband connection it could take from 10 to 20 minutes to download so please be patient when you do. I need to thank Pablo Godel of Server Grove Networks for letting me host the mix on his servers. If it wasn't for Pablo's help I wouldn't be able to offer this mix to you because of the amount of bandwidth it would eat up with all the downloads that it will have. If you need any kind of hosting solutions please check out Server Grove Networks and give them a try.
Again thank you for 2007 and have a wonderful, safe and fun New Year Eve and stay soulful trough-out 2008!
Last Shameless Sessions of the year is up
12/01/2007 10:49 PM Filed in: Mixes
The last Shameless Sessions radio show for 2007 is now available for download. For this one I actually took out some of my old vinyl that I haven't played in a long time. These are a bunch of old white labels that I hardly take out anymore since turntables are hard to come by at clubs these days. For the last few years I've been playing mainly digital files from CDs on CDJs. You will probably hear the sound difference from these old records when you hear them in the mix. I played the hell out of these tracks and they are a little worn out. Don't be alarm if you see Michael Jackson or Diana Ross on the track list... You might be pleasantly surprise ;)
The Mailing List is Back
11/04/2007 07:26 PM Filed in: Personal
In the last few months I have received quite a
few emails from people wondering what had
happened to my old mailing list or why I wasn't
sending any updates. They were wondering if
they had been dropped from it. I would send an
email once or twice a month to let them know
about new mixes or gigs. When I re-did the new
site and I included a blog I didn't think I would
need the list anymore since people can subscribe
to it and get the updates right here. Well, the
list is back! New and improved. When you
join now you can chose your interest so I can
send you an email that is relevant to what you
want to be informed about. For example most
people want to know when I have a new mix up but
not necessarily when I have a gig in Los Angeles
if they live in Barcelona. The emails are also in
HTML format now so they look much better than the
old ones. You can join on any of the site's pages
by entering your email and clicking join on the
sidebar to your left.
Shameless Sessions Mix For November is posted
11/03/2007 08:11 PM Filed in: Mixes
My Shameless Sessions show for the month of Novermber is available for download. It aired Sunday the 4th on SS Radio UK. This is one of my favorite one from the year. I'm getting a lot more adventurous with the accapellas ;)
Shameless Sessions Mix For October is posted
10/07/2007 01:12 PM Filed in: Mixes
My Shameless Sessions show for the month of October is available for download. It aired Sunday the 7th of October on SS Radio UK. Just to make it clear; My Shameless Sessions shows airs every month on the first Sunday of the month not necessarily the first week of the month. I had quite a few emails this week asking me where the mix was. I even had one that said that "it's been more than week and where is the fuckin' October mix?". Wow, did not know that people got so emotional about these sets. I hope it's clear now when they come out. Peace and enjoy the "f@#&ing" mix ;)
New mix "Glow Nights"
09/23/2007 10:21 PM Filed in: Mixes
I posted a brand new mix that is not a radio show. It's been a while since I had done one that's your standard 70 minutes set that fits on a CD. "Glow Nights" captures the vibe of the residency I had for about a year now in Marina Del Rey, California. The tunes are high energy and they are meant for the dance floor. You will recognize a lot of the tracks in the set but these remixes might be brand new to most of you. Let me know what you think and enjoy. Also a new Shameless Sessions coming up in the first week of October.
Shameless Sessions Mix For September is posted
09/02/2007 06:03 PM Filed in: Mixes
My Shameless Sessions show for the month of
September is available for download. It aired Sunday the
2nd on SS Radio UK. If you want to the
listen to the online stream with the voice
overs you can do so here on SS Radio and you
can also vote and leave comments on it. Fun
with acapellas , some unreleased promos, and
some nice classics. Enjoy!
Shameless Sessions Mix For August is posted
08/05/2007 05:48 PM Filed in: Mixes
My Shameless Sessions show for the month of
August is available for download. It aired Sunday the
5th on SS Radio UK. If you want to the
listen to the online stream with the voice
overs you can do so here on SS Radio and you
can also vote and leave comments on it. The
shows includes that great track from Vernon
& Dacosta "As Darkness Falls" that I was
talking about in the post below. Enjoy!
Artwork for the Mixes is Complete
07/07/2007 09:00 PM Filed in: Mixes
I finished putting all the artwork together for
my mixes that are online on my site. Not only
does the artwork show up in the mixes page for
downloading but also in the MP3 file itself. This
means that when you play the mix from iTunes, an
iPod or an iPhone you see the artwork in al it's
glory. Pretty :)
Shameless Sessions Mix For July is posted
07/02/2007 01:10 AM Filed in: Mixes
Shameless Sessions Mix For June is posted
06/03/2007 06:56 PM Filed in: Mixes
Shameless Sessions Mix For May is posted
05/13/2007 10:20 PM Filed in: Mixes
Radio Shows For 07 Are Posted
05/11/2007 06:28 PM Filed in: Mixes
All of my Shameless Sessions radio shows are now
posted. On my old
site I used to replace the one that was
online with a new show every month. Now I
will leave them all available for the whole
year. I will post the show for May this
coming Monday after it airs this Sunday the
13th on SS Radio UK.
All Archived Mixes are up
05/10/2007 10:45 AM Filed in: Mixes
I just finish posting this morning the rest of my
legacy mixes going all
the way back to 2002. These were available
on my old site except for one that I added
called "Later At The Loft". I'm also
re-mastering some of the first mixes I
posted on the web which were on Deep House Network back
in 2001. They were only available in Real
Audio back then and the quality was poor.
Next up are the My Shameless Sessions for
this year and the guest mixes. Hopefully I
can have this done in the next few days.
Archived Mixes Are Coming Online
05/10/2007 12:09 AM Filed in: Mixes
I just posted 7 mixes from the archives that range
from 2004 to 2005. Included in there is my
most downloaded mix, BLANC, and two live
sets that I did back in the days for Planet
Soul Network. Those were my first radio
shows. I still have another 7 to upload in
the archives and also, on a seperate page,
all of my Shameless Sessions radio shows for
2007.
Main Mixes page is up with new mix
05/08/2007 12:42 PM Filed in: Mixes
Sorry for the slow update of the site but work
has been crazy busy lately as we got awarded a
couple of big jobs. I just posted the new
main mixes page. You will
find in there the current mixes. I will
create other pages for the archived mixes
(before 2006), guest mixes, and Shameless
Sessions radio show. Check out the new
interface and let me know what you think or
if you have any problems. If you are on a
mac (or PC for that matter) the mixes should
NOT open in a blank page with Quicktime like
they used to. No need to do a key
combination when you click on download mix.
The link should automatically download to
your desktop (or where ever you download
files).
At the top of the list is the live set I recorded from the Jay-J and friends party we did in Miami WMC 2007. I will also so post soon my May set from Shameless Sessions.
At the top of the list is the live set I recorded from the Jay-J and friends party we did in Miami WMC 2007. I will also so post soon my May set from Shameless Sessions.