This is a roller coaster mix. Things have been kinda crazy lately so I tried to portray exactly that by blending big, energetic tracks with more mellow, introspective sounds in between. This is my first mix with 2 MIDI controllers: I used my Axiom 61! A 3rd MIDI Controller, my new Mixer, is already on its way to Lisbon!

A couple of tunes of the year here: Steve Angello’s Monday will be huge, In for the Kill and what about Eric Prydz’s new remix?

Download it here or stream it below.

Enjoy!

DJ Bammer – November 2009  by  djbammer

1- Steve Angello – Monday (Original Mix)
2- Norman Doray – Tobita (Original Mix)
3- Florence + The Machine – Drumming Song (Boy 8-Bit Remix)
4- Calvin Harris – Flashback (Eric Prydz Remix)
5- Jerome Isma-Ae & Sebastian Krieg – 308 (Original Mix)
6- Mark Norman – Restart
7- Vitalic - Poison Lips
8- Way Out West – Only Love (Jerome Isma-Ae Remix)
9- Fatboy Slim Vs Fedde Le Grand – Praise You (FLG Remix)
10- La Roux – In for the Kill (Skream’s let get Ravey Remix)
11- Erok Alkan & Boys Noize – Waves

This mix may be the best I have done in a long time- I actually believe it may be the best 65 minutes of music I ever blended and I have been doing this for years. I think it’s a great journey with a lot of different sounds- hopefully, you will like it too.

My apologies for a couple of small sound glitches you may hear- they are discreet but they are there, blame the software! Speaking of software, this is the first mix I posted with my new core i7 super PC and may be the last one I post without my future mix, the Ecler Evo 5!

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Enjoy!

DJ Bammer – October 2009 by djbammer

1- D. Ramirez, Mark Knight & Underworld – Downpipe (Original Club Mix)
2- Guy Gerber – Timing (Original Mix)
3- Glenn Morrison – Satellite
4- Fedde Le Grand – Amplifier (Original Mix)
5- Paolo Mojo – Nightlaw (Original Mix)
6- Damian DP – Broken Heart (Original Mix)
7- Moby - Pale Horses (Apparat Remix)
8- BoA feat. Sean Garrett – I Did It For Love (DJ Escape and Johnny Vicious Main Mix)
9- The Scumfrog – Domino (Full Length Mix)
10- Roland Klinkenberg and DJ Remy – Mexico Can Wait (Original Mix)
11- Josh Gabriel – Intention (Original Mix)
12- The Killers – Spaceman (Sander van Doorn Mix part 2)

Ibiza was amazing (yes, I did not forget that I have pics to upload, sorry!) and this mix is a small 30-minute tribute featuring some of the most memorable tracks I heard during my stay there. This is not the usual “DJ Bammer mix”, but I am quite happy with the end result.

I will probably upload another mix this month, stay tuned.

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Enjoy!

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1- Swedish House Mafia & Laidback Luke – Leave the World Behind (Dimitri Vegas & Like Mike Vs SHM Dark Forest Edit)
2- Michel Cleis – La Mezcla (Original Mix)
3- Joris Voorn – We’re All Clean
4- Chris Lake & Lys – La Tromba (Original Mix)
5- Lee Cabrera Vs Thomas Gold – Shake it (Move a Little Closer)
6- Steve Angello & AN21 - Flonko (version 1)
7- Dirty South, Sebastian Ingrosso and David Guetta feat. Julie McKnight- How Soon is Now

Eden is on the opposite side of the Island, so I went earlier to see Sant Antoni. It is a bit different from Ibiza town / Platja d’en Bossa, not as busy but just as pleasant. Before Eden I went to the pre-party in Savannah, where Pete Tong was doing his radio show in the new 9 pm time slot, and caught Faithless. I also went to Cafe del Mar and Cafe Mambo, important places to visit of course!

A couple of minutes after midnight I was entering Eden, was actually the first person to get in! It is more of a humble club if you ask me, compared to the other 3 I visited, and much more traditional (you can, for instance, be 1 metre away from the DJ, has less pyro and gimmicks, etc). The resident DJs, 3 altogether, did a good job to warm up the crowd, especially Rob Marmot, until 2 AM. And then… well, then it was time for Mr. Eric Prydz…

I am a huge fan of the man as a producer (Eric Prydz is also Pryda and Cirez D) and I have always loved his livesets, but this… well, this one was totally unbelievable! During Marmot’s last track you could hear the trademark “Pryda Synth” coming in and after a fabulous first track, we were in for one hell of a ride. Eric Prydz is working on his new album and judging by what he showed, it will be off the hook! But that was not all: in his 2 hour set, he still played Daft Punk’s “Aerodynamic” (with his synths in the background of course), his remix of New Order’s “True Faith” (amazing!), On/Off, 747 (by Huggy and Dean Newton), his new remix of Pjanoo, Waves and to finish things off, “Leave the World Behind” (Ibiza Special Intro Mix). This was a fantastic journey with different paces and vibes and I loved every minute of it. It was my favorite set in Ibiza and it was kind of funny to hear the Mafia play this same remix of “Leave the World Behind” on the first night and Prydz as the last tune of his liveset.

After Prydz, Faithless Sound System did a small performance (about 45 minutes) singing “Insomnia” or “We Come 1″ and then Pete Tong closed the party with a set very similar to his latest Essential Selection, which was a bit of a “Best of” of what I heard in Ibiza during my stay there. Some encores followed and “Music is the Answer” was the final track of Wonderland.

Amazing night, where Eric Prydz was king and what a way to finish the Summer!!

Here are some pics:

Eden – Wonderland closing 25sept09

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Amnesia has won the award for best global club in recent years and, in my opinion, deserves it judging by this great party that I attended.

Amnesia is near a motorway so I had to wait for a bus to get there. I arrived at about 0h45, with already a big queue to get in. About 20 minutes later I was in and Gareth Wyn was already playing in the main room. Gareth’s set was a very good one, pumping the crowd to what was yet to come. Gareth played some remixes of classics such as BT’s Flaming June and his own productions, much to the delight of the (great) Amnesia crowd, ready to listen to some trance.

Amnesia has a couple of nice features: the DJ booth is elevated but it has mirrors in the rear, so you can see the whole DJ hardware etc easily. And it has a fantastic equalizer (that truly represents what is going on) below it. When I looked at the mirror I immediately noticed PvD’s setup: the 2 laptops, the APC-40, the XONE 3D mixer and the 2 Axiom MIDI keyboards were already ready to go!

At 2 AM came the moment I have been waiting for: Paul van Dyk’s performance. I actually expected for him to play later on, but that would mean Eddie Halliwell would kill the crowd first with his banging trance, so this was a great decision. PvD played for 3 hours, in yet another epic set which consisted of 3 different parts: in the beginning it was mostly PvD’s new productions (kicking things off with the 2009 remix of “For an Angel”), then a bunch of crowd pleasers (like Underworld’s “Born Slippy”, Alter Ego’s “Rocker” or New Order’s “Blue Monday”) and to finish, Time of Our Lives and Home, sang live Johnny McDaid (Vega 4’s singer). 3 hours flew by as Paul played “Kidsos”, 4 String’s “Into the Night”, “Zombie Nation” with “We’re Alive” lyrics and even “Flaming June” (with “The Other side” vocals). Great stuff! Johnny McDaid being there just made things even better and the whole club sang “Time of Our Lives”, which is always a great track to hear live.

At 5 AM Eddie took over and obviously, he did not disappoint in bringing amazing banging tunes, with a couple of epic breakdowns for good measure, such as a some remix of Binary Finary and Sander van Doorn’s Remix of “Spaceman”, by The Killers. The crowd went nuts for the 90 minutes Eddie played. I am not sure at what time Sasha played, if he actually did, since the main room was REALLY busy as soon as PvD started and nobody left afterwards… Sasha joined the main room to say hi to Eddie during his set, so I am not sure if he actually played in the other room or not.

After Eddie, Gareth Wyn returned to finish off with Flaming June (yes, again) and a couple of tracks more, constantly pointing to his watch (maybe telling the people to go home?) and at 6h45, that was it.

Unbelievable night. Great atmosphere in a great home, awesome music and I never thought Trance would be so much fun in a club- maybe because I am from Portugal and no one cares about Trance here… but this was just incredible!

Here are some pics:

Amnesia – Cream closing 24sept09

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