I’ve been DJing for the love of it for 20+ years and giving my mixes away for free online for well over a decade. I’ve been approached by advertisers to put ads on my site and I’ve always resisted as making money out of mixing other people’s music doesn’t sit well with me.
I am just the vessel through which their music flows.
Even though I’ve plowed enough money to buy a house into my music collection over the years, I never really thought about getting paid for something I got so much out of. Playing music always seemed like payment enough.
But, recently a few people have asked if I have a Patreon and seemed a bit disappointed I didn’t. Each one of them wanted to thank me personally for years of listening pleasure and so here I am…
I will keep on doing what I have always done and run The Ear & Drum as a 100% free site where I can share my love of music with others.
If you do wish to support me, know that I see you as a true patron and that your patronage means a lot to a guy who just lives to mix great music.
Chilled out bass, techno and house are the order of the day with this downtempo mix.
A few personal highlights – Rainforest’s sublime Between Us, Lane 8’s The Great Divide with Are Scott on sultry vocals and the throw your hands in the air fun of Purple Disco Machine’s Where We Belong. But if I had to be honest, every tune is in here on their own merits and they are all great. 🙂
Cern – What We Bring Upon Ourselves
Calibre – Sand Promise
Pete Saturn – Loophole #2 (Rhea)
Rainforest – Between Us
Pageant – Slow
Thriftworks – Scene Unseen feat. Rusitx
Joe Seven – Endings
Lane 8 – Cosi
Instra:Mental – Waterfalls
Jasper Byrne – Decade Dance
Jasper Byrne – Kill Streak
Purple Disco Machine – No Lips
Lane 8 feat. Are Scott – The Great Divide
Bicep – Just
Terranova – Tell Me Why (feat. Stereo MCs)
Naibu – 5 Pieces (feat. Makoto)
Lane 8 feat. Matthew Dear – Undercover
Purple Disco Machine – Where We Belong
Andhim – Horse Society
Dave DK – Nueva Cancion
Erkka – Talk to the Hand
Calibre – Limbo
Some of the more frequent visitors may have notice the mixes have dried up lately.
I haven’t given up on the blog.
I am currently waiting to be connected to the NBN (National Broadband Network) here in Oz. For some unexplained reason it now takes 3 months to be connected to the internet instead of a week due to the new fiber optic infrastructure.
A first world problem I know, but I promise I’ll be back bigger and better in the new year with more mixes and an improvement in the provision of D&B and Bass Music related news and free tunes.
In the meantime you can find my some recent Down Low Sessions at pfradio.com under my Low Profile alias.
Another new mix up this time focusing on the harder and deeper side of things. Kicking things off with Marcus Intalex – The Guillotine, a track destined to kick off many a set in the future. J Majik & Wickaman manage to remain on form, this time with the help of SunddenDef on their colab Hologram and Seba returns to rotation with his uber deep roller Nightraider. The half step revolution continues with Jubei doing a Marka with his track Say Nothin’ and the originators Dub Phizix prove it wasn’t just a fluke with their follow half stepping monster Never Been.
Marcus Intalex – The Guillotine
Submotion Orchestra – All Yours (S.P.Y Remix)
J Majik & Wickaman vs SunddenDef – Hologram
Komatic, Technicolour & Jayma – Stay
Loxy & Resound – Metro
SpectraSoul – Light In The Dark feat. Terry Walker
Seba – Nightrider
Jubei feat. Flowdan – Say Nothin
Able Danger – Asteria
Dub Phizix feat. Fox – Never Been
Logistics – 2999 (Wherever You Go)
Kodo – Affirmative Action
Hybrid Minds – Drifting
Duoscience & Scott Allen – Astral Travel
Bungle feat. Ayah Marar – The Siren (Bladerunner Rollers Remix)
Those lovely people from Creative Wax are giving away this unrelease piece of history from on of D&Bs founding fathers. The press release reads…
Here’s an unreleased track by brothers Alex and Oscar Reece, circa 1999. The track features Pevin Everett on vocals and was part on an EP that never quite made it out the lab…enjoy
Can’t say fairer than that now can you. Go get it. 🙂
Well summer has wrapped up for another year in the Nothern Hemisphere which means most the big festivals has once again come and gone. It also means festival season is about to hit down under. I wouldn’t describe this as strictly a festival set, but it is the closest I’ll ever come to playing the ‘big tunes’ from the festival season. It is also the first long form mix I’ve done in quite a while, as I figured I may as well get it all out of my system in one big hit.
So if you are missing the summer just gone, or looking forward to the oncoming season this is the mix for you. 🙂
Fostec – Future Motion
Sundancer – Hold On
Flaco – Thunder
London Elektricity – Invisible Worlds (B Complex Remix)
Subsense & Defence – Road 2 Zyon
Friction – Someone (Feat. Mclean) (The Prototypes Remix)
London Elektricity – The Plan That Cannot Fail (Logistics Remix)
Physics – Party Starter
Getz – Keep On Loving Me
Calibre – Hummer
Marco Del Horno ft Emi Green – This Town is Ours (S.P.Y Remix)
Feint – My Sunset
Calibre – Touch Me
Metrik – More Than Words
London Elektricity – Elektricity Will Keep Me Warm (S.P.Y Remix)
London Elektricity – Yikes! (Lung Remix)
Metrik – T1000
Bungle – The Siren
S.P.Y – By Your Side (Logistiics Remix)
Eveson – Marley VIP
BCee – Glitter Balls
Genotype – Bass Fight
The Prototypes – Evolution (feat. Darison)
Friction – Flip The Page
Electrosoul System – Aquatique
Command Strange – Shine
Templecloud – One Big Family (Dexcell’s 7am Remix)
Bass Divison – Good Thoughts Good Things
London Elektricity – U Gottah Be Crazy (Enei Remix)
Naibu – Use of Weapons
ICR – Love, Hate and Between
ShockOne feat. Phetsta – Crucify Me (Part 1 Extended DnB Mix)
ShockOne – Polygon (Dirtyphonics Remix)
