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b"Afflicted with the house bug? Don't worry, we know how you feel. Been addicted to house music since were were 16yrs old.

This is the best time for house music we've ever seen. It's wonderful to be excited every week about new house tracks you've never heard at your favourite mp3 stores. House DJ/ Producer friends on facebook and twitter sharing their mixes, their youtube video picks of cool house related stuff- it's endless!! Parties with different types of house music all over the city, tons of up & comers and tons of great international House DJs visiting Toronto.

Yes, there's too much house now, too many mixes, too many sub-genres and too many related electronic music- COMPLETE SYSTEM OVERLOAD!!

But, hey... gone are the days where you are begging for a mixed house cassette tape by a popular dj and having the pickings be slim. Gone are the days of going to your favourite record stores each week, buying the same records as 30-50 other djs and everyone playing the same records. The selection was scarce compared to now. Gone are the days of paying $16.99 for a 4 track EP- where you only bought it for the one goosebump track.

Now there's so much music out there that you can actually not sound like everyone else. You can listen to thousands of house tunes and the chances (at the sheer volume of what's coming out) of you sounding like someone else are small.

And the best part? It's dirt cheap, after getting a 15-20% online discount coupon you end up paying $50-60 bucks for 30 traxs- what a thrill!!

It's so good to be constantly re-excited (if there is such a word ; ) or re-energized about house. It's a ritual with Jim and I. Putting a few tracks every few days into our virtual bins or spending a weekend going crazy hunting for tracks that make us want to dance. Then listening to them together in a long car ride- finishing with some late night food in Chinatown or Greektown in downtown Toronto.

Then it goes into iphone or ipod and listened to in pockets of time, more car rides, getting on the treadmill, then making a mix.

Then another car ride together seeing if it makes us both happy- we've always DJ for ourselves and if some people like it along the way, then that's the cherry on top.

Back to the house ritual... then going through the frustration of redoing the mix over and over again because it just wasn't fun enough, wasn't good enough or wasn't timeless enough. You just don't want to throw something together. If it's not special to you, it won't be to someone else.

We want to make mixes where people would hopefully enjoy it enough to actually want to listen to it a 2nd time and if they listen anymore, then it's Christmas! In this day and age of having too much available and nothing getting any real attention- attention is a precious commodity. We don't value what is easily attained.

Rather have a few hundred people that really love our brand of house music, then to have thousands of people who don't care and can't tell the difference. Worst to be background filler house.

Usually make anywhere between 4-8 mixes from a selection of 60-90 tracks within a month or two (between the cracks of time sandwiched by work and family)- then the mix that moves us the most gets posted. That's the whole process in a nutshell.

Thank you so much for taking your time to visit us here and for listening to our mixes. We are so excited to share with you the tracks that move us each month.

All the best to you and all your endeavours- be the best you can be and stay passionate!! Cheers, dattrax

Please comment on each mix you enjoy or email us- we would love to hear from you.

In this mix, featuring tracks by these INCREDIBLE HOUSE PRODUCERS & VOCALISTS!!!
Marek Hemmann, Marian, Fabian Reichelt, Kellerkind, Klangkarussell, Nu, Jo Ke, Jamie Jones, Kevin Knapp, Kate Simko, Noir, Haze, Terranova, Reptile Youth, Trikohmat, Ewan Pearson, Metronomy, Javi, Saarid, Einmusik, Nicone, Sascha Braemer, Narra, Fabian Reichelt, Raycoux Jr., Stefan Barth, Niko Schwind, Oliver Koletzki, Fran, Julia Govor, Qbeck, Lil Magdalene, DJ Ra Soul, Hrdvsion, Amirali, Him_Self_Her, Mic Newman, Djamila, Toky, Ernesto, Soul Clap, Mario & Vidis, Angela Sheik, Fabo, Solomun, Pascal Bideau, Delhia de France, Marek Hemmann, Douglas Greed, Liz Cass, John Monkman, Joris Delacroix, William Besson, LOPAZZ Vs. Forever Jung, Tomas Barfod, Nina Kinert\\t

All tracks in this mix bought from www.Traxsource.com and www.Beatport.com.

If there is any track you particularly like and want to go buy for yourself, then let us know in the comment section, and we'll respond there.

BTW... if you enjoy this mix, then there's a PayPal DONATE button on the top right side of this website... Hint Hint, Wink Wink, Nudge Nudge : )

For Toronto or Global bookings: dattrax@gmail.com

This dattrax photo taken at a private party at CHROMA in Sept2012, a part of the super club complex of The Guvernment in Toronto. There are some crappy quality videos made from my iphone4 of Jim mixing on our youtube channel- link to the right here.

This house mix made on Traktor S4 Controller & laptop with no sync applied."