I haven't posted enough messages here to be able to post links to my sets or my site so if you want to hear this you'll have to send me a private message.
I'm living in BsAs until the end of March. Get in touch with me if you would like to have me DJ an event that you're holding.
Sometime at the beginning of 1999 I got the DJ bug – badly. I had already been into electronic music for many years and had even dabbled in creating music on computers from about 1992 – 96. But I had never been clued into the party and house music scene that had already been going on for years before I discovered it. I bought my first decks (Gemini) and a mixer (Numark) that spring. From that point there was no looking back. Over the years DJing had always been a secondary, luxurious, expensive and indulgent hobby – but around about 2005 I started to get super relaxed and comfortable playing in front of friends and crowds and from there the act (art?) of playing for people became a serious addiction. Every time I played I didn't want to stop. At the end of the session I was craving it more than ever and I was planning my next party minutes after the last one had ended. I love seeing the look on people's faces when you play them a song that blows their mind for the first time. When I can see them running out of steam I love dropping the classic tune that melts their hearts and has them raising their hands in the air and thinking how great it is to be alive and keeps them dancing way past their bedtime. You feed off it. It gives you energy which you feed back to them.
This mix series celebrates my ten years of DJing for all of you, my friends. Ten years of buying, collecting, digesting, spinning and living and breathing music. The first part is mostly the dark techno/tech-house early hours stuff that I’ve been playing a lot since returning from Burning Man. The second part will be a classics mix – the stuff that I only get to play about one or two times a year when I'm running into my 5th hour up on the decks – when I get into classics mode, it's anybody's guess how much longer the party will continue for. If I have time then I will complete a third chill-out mix but don't count on it.
Thanks everyone for dancing. Please don't ever stop. I hope the next ten years are as amazing as the last.
Mike Ryan
Ten - Part 1
January 8, 2009
1 - Butch, Julie Marghilano - Last Tango
2 - Ost & Kjex, Solomun - Federgewicht (Hamburg Version)
3 - Matthew Dear - Free To Ask (D'Julz)
4 - ICube - Supernovac (Live At The Lanchonete Version)
5 - Maskio - Monday (Dusty Kid Likes Maski)
6 - Funk D'Void, Sian - Ginebra (Onionz Corrosion)
7 - Hugo & Daniele Papini - Arduer
8 - Deepgroove - Bad Acid
9 - Brodinski - Oblivion
10 - Kerri Chandler - Pong (Ben Klock's Bones & Strings Rework)
11 - Paolo Mojo, Jim Rivers - Ron Hardy Said
12 - Sei A - Smile For Me (Chaim)
13 - Radio Slave - Bell Clap Dance (Slam Paragraph)
14 - Kiko - Sunburn (Hot Burn)
15 - Einmusik - Pearls
16 - Cedric Vital - Panorama (Manuel De La Mare)
17 - Plus & Minus - Atlantide (Kiko)
18 - Tommyboy - Airlead
19 - M83 - Couleurs (Sasha Invol2ver)
20 - Motorcitysoul - Change You feat. Ovasoul 7
21 - Deepgroove - Bad Acid (Style of Eye)
22 - Francis Preve - Caboose (Josh Gabriel)
23 - Pryda - Wakanapi
Mike Ryan
11-3139-6938
djmikeryan.com
