Trance was my first love, in terms of music, and shows like last night’s remind me why. Tiesto spun at Webster Hall for three nights in a row, and rocked it out the whole way through. He spun, as usual for him, a “traditional” set, eschewing a laptop and working from CDJs. Flawlessly mixed all night, with only one hiccup that I ca remember (probably just a scratch on the cd).

If you’ve never seen him live, I highly recommend it. He’ll pack the room tightly, but it’s usually a good crowd (as was last nights) that is knowledgeable about the music, or at least his music, and that just adds to the energy of the night!

Here are some pics:

Coming up in July are Van Buuren and Deadmau5.
With Van Dyk closing the summer out in August.

Hope to see you there!

Welcome (back), everyone!
I just want to say thank you to everyone that’s been listening. People that get to do what they love usually say something like, “This is my passion. I would do this even if I wasn’t getting paid.” Well, I’m not getting paid to do this, but the sentiment is there. I love doing this, and do it first-and-foremost for myself. But the encouragement and support I’ve been getting over the last few months have made it SSOOOOOOOO much easier to make these mixes happen! So for that, I want to thank everyone for their kind words and open ears.

A quick note: A few people have been asking me where If at First v.1 is, and the short answer is that it’s somewhere, but it’s not really part of the monthly series. The first If at First was a mix I did about two years ago, and even though the track selection was great (I thought), the mixing was not nearly as good as I would have liked it to be.  Now that I started to mix again, I wanted to keep the name, so I have turned it into a monthly series.
So for organization’s sake, and to get the number to line up with the months, since this is a monthly mix, March is v.3b and April will be v.4 the previous 2 mixes have been renumbered so March is now v.3.

This month was A LOT of fun for me to do. I tried a few new things, and feel like I pushed myself a lot… especially in the first half of this set. I learned a lot from this set, and I know that by practicing with music like this my technique is going to get better. This mix sounds very different from what I’ve been doing so far, but I really wanted to do this. Since it’s the March mix, it is part of the If at First series, but it’s subtitled “Intermission” for a reason. So here it is.
I hope you guys enjoy it.

This mix was previously v.3b.  It has been renamed for organizational purposes.

Direct download link: If At First v.3
Playlist:

1. Buy Now – Body Crash (Intro)
2. Far Too Loud – Play It Loud (Broken Robot Mix)
3. The Prodigy – Climbatize
4. Hybrid – Finished Symphony
5. Paul Van Dyk – We Are Alive (Angel Rafael Mashup)
6. Leon Bolier – Ocean Drive Boulevard
7. Progresia – Tears Behind Sunglasses
8. Walsh & Couture – Burn ft. Holly
9. Gabriel & Dresden – Hello ft. Evanescence (Gabriel & Dresden Mix)
10. Heatbeat Presents Mathias Faint – Sxing (Bruxxas Remix)
11. Rex Mundi vs Ronski Speed – The Perspective Space (Markus Schulz Mashup)
12. Onova – Platitude (Sebastian Brandt Remix)
13. Above and Beyond – Home (Stoneface & Terminal Remix)
14. Buy Now – Body Crash (Outro)

Nice!! 2 months in a row! A week late, but it’s here!  I wanted to go more trancey this time around, but house is just hitting hard all over. I <3 trance, but there was no room for it this month.  Once I get more practice, I may try to go for 2 hour mixes; that should give me a lot more room to play around with my track selection. Even so, I’m happy with my track selection this time around. Shout out to my brother, Michael, for introducing me to a few of the songs for this month’s mix.

This mix was previously v.3.  It has been renamed for organizational purposes.

Direct download link: If At First v.2
Playlist:

1. Daft Punk – Aerodynamic
2. John Dahlbäck – Hustle Up
3. JF presents SMOKESCREAM – Retox (Wendel Kos Remix)
4. Martin Soveig – C’est la Vie (Fedde vs Martin Club Mix)
5. Tiësto – Carpe Noctum
6. Kleerup – With Every Heartbeat ft. Robyn (Pete Tong & Dave Spoon Remix)
7. Morgan Page – The Longest Road ft. Lissie (Deadmau5 Remix)
8. Cicada – The Things You Say (Dirty South Remix)
9. Eric Prydz & Steve Angello – Woz Not Woz
10. Goldfrapp – Ohh La La (Benny Benassi Dub)
11. Starkillers – (Can U) Scream (Kobbe & Austin Leeds Remix)
12. Soulwax – Lovelight (Soulwax Ravelight Dub)
13. Outkast – Ghetto Music (Benny Benassi Club Mix)
14. Junkie XL – Fuck More ft. Lauren Rocket
15. Mark Mendes – Beneath You
16. Muse – Knights of Cydonia (Angel Rafael’s Nights in Sardinia De-evolution Mix)

This mix was previously v.2.1.  It has been renamed for organizational purposes.

Direct download link: If At First v.1
Playlist:

1. Paul Kalkbrenner – Gerbruenn Gebruenn
2. Cirque Du Soleil – Pokinoi
3. Pryda – Muranyi
4. DJ Tocadisco – Morumbi
5. Monochrome – Pearl (Gabriel & Dresden Remix)
6. D. Ramirez & Mark Knight – Colombian Soul (Gabriel & Dresden Tuscan Soul Reconstruction)
7. Quentin Harris – Let’s Be Young (Mzo’s Re-Edit)
8. Ian Oliver – Bucovina ft. Shantel (Ian Oliver’s Clubovina Mix)
9. Dash Berlin – Till The Sky Falls Down (Vocal Mix)
10. First State – Falling ft. Anita Kelsey (Tiesto Mix)
11. Seal – Amazing (Thin White Duke Remix)
12. David Guetta – Love is Gone (Fred Rister & Joachim Garraud Remix)