Many may look to Alan Braxe & Fred Falke as the gods of French house, but one must never forget the true color that has made French music what is it today.

Monsieur Etienne de Crecy has been there, done that.

Working with the likes of Alex Gopher plenty of times, Etienne has been able to set a standpoint for his style.

He is his own sound.

He can manipulate what hears in his head and re-create the carnival of music to share with the rest of the world.

Very special, if you ask me.

If you aren’t a fast tracker, fuck it. It’s about time you became more aerodynamik and hope that my love sees you.

I think that you’re gifted, but the future is out of my hands.

Am I wrong?

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Etienne de Crecy – Fast Track ft. Julien Delfaud and Alex Gopher.mp3
Etienne de Crecy – Am I Wrong.mp3
Etienne de Crecy – Out Of My Hands.mp3
DJ Mehdi and Etienne de Crecy – Gifted.mp3
Kraftwerk – Aerodynamik (Alex Gopher and Etienne de Crecy Dynamix).mp3

I’ve been listening to a lot of very Euro sounding house lately, as have a few friends of mine – I know I’ve said it a few times, but my ears just need a break from the raging electro that took over the circuit last year.  Talking with producers, and from my own experience, it’s clear that the European style of production is in technical terms, of very high quality.  A lot of people here and in North America brush it off as noisy pop, but in a big room the stuff sounds awesome.  I was playing a set at The Social the other night for example, and what seemed to be a group of top 40 lovers were really digging the Euro house and Disco I was throwing at them.

Anyway, here are a few tracks that are new to me, one of which made it on a recent podcast.

Cal

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Lorena C – Rock Your Body (Barcelona Loves Ibiza).mp3
Major Boys – Pan America (Denis The Menace Club Mix).mp3
Moonbeam ft Mohammed El Fatih – Malaria (Vocal Mix).mp3

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Dre Skull feat. Sizzla – Gone Too Far (Buraka Som Sistema Remix).mp3

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Keys n Krates tossed out some 320s of their live remixes. Definitely worth sharing with our readers. Any DJ knows that its hard to get away with playing below 320 and these tracks haven’t been available in high quality until recently.

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Keys N Krates – Ceo (Hov x Keys N Krates).mp3
Keys N Krates – One in a Milli (Keys n Krates Aaliyah Live Remix).mp3
Keys N Krates – City of Awards (Keys N Krates x Tribe Remix).mp3

Very pleased to present something I’ve been meaning to do for a while – an underground hip hop mix.  I don’t DJ hip hop that much, so the mixing is pretty basic, but I’m happy with it and the mixes are undistracting.  The songs are some real favorites, and it was hard picking tracks from these artists because I listen to them all so extensively.

The 9th Wonder track is soo sick – awesome hook, and the Nas lyrics are perfect for the beat.  This song is really hard to find in good quality – you’ll notice the Nas vocals sound muffled.  I have this song in FLAC and it sounds exactly the same as the 320 I used for this mix.  The Atmosphere track is perhaps one of the first of his that I really liked.  I should really do a post on Atmosphere soon.. I have some pretty strong opinions about his stage personality and his music, which I guess I’ll save for something in the very near future.  The Mcenroe beat is something my younger brother turned me on to ages ago, but I couldn’t tell you what the track name is.  All I know is it’s off his album “Billy’s Vision”.  The RJD2 track is a fucking slammer – one of the most amazing hip hop beats ever made, I think.

Enjoy the mix

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DJ Cal – UGHH Mix.mp3

Tracklist:

Cunninlynguists – Beautiful Girl

9th Wonder and Nas – Warrior Song

Atmosphere – Godlovesugly

Mcenroe – Track 5

RJD2 – Ghostwriter (Remix)