Great night at Honey,

Here's my house warm-up set from the Viper Room at the Burdekin Hotel.

www.ilikehoney.com.au

Techno goodness to get your engine revving.

This set starts out down and dirty and revs up to banging techno, before spinning down the progressive wormhole.

The hard edges of Matt Mus, Darmec and Sian are softened by gorgeous Kostas Maskalides vocals.

Some very big names in techno here - Beyer, Capriati, Capuano, Lumem, Sian, Darmec, Kardinal & Lowkey, Runhag, Flug. Hope you like it.

Thanks for your support
Bear x

1. Determination (Adriana Vega Remix) FabioTek
2. Information (Original Mix) Sian
3. Skywalkers (Original Mix) Kardinal, Lowkey
4. Strapon (Original Mix) Djedjotronic
5. Listen (Kostas Maskalides Remix) Durtysoxxx, RunHag
6. Criminal (Original Mix) Steve Shaden
7. Coage (Original Mix) Matt Mus
8. I Got Love (Original Mix) Kostas Maskalides
9. Mirage (Matt Mus Remix) Gayle San
10. Gravity (Darmec Remix) I’Gor Loisium (Original Mix)
11. Octaves (Original Mix) Jay Lumen, Roberto Capuano
12. Parallels (Original Mix) Adam Beyer, Joseph Capriati
13. Insects (Chord Mix) Flug

Love playing house. Here's a mix with something for everyone - some old, some new. Guaranteed to get you moving and smiling.

1. It's All Right (Eric Kupper Remix) Sterling Void, Eric Kupper
2. The Message (Original Mix) Makito
3. The River (Original Mix) City Soul Project
4. Those Days (Original Mix) David Penn
5. Rescue Me Featuring Chance (MAW Magic Sessions Mix) Sunkids
6. Who Is He? feat. Kevin Haden (The Reflex Who's Who Remix) Alaia & Gallo, Kevin Haden
7. Big Fun 2013 feat. Inner City (Full Intention 88 Remix) Kevin Saunderson
8. Chunky (Club Mix) Format:B
9. Be Gone (Eric Ericksson Remix) Urban Sound Lab, Ursula Rucker, Eric Ericksson
10. So Hard (Original Mix) Angelo Ferreri
11. I LIKE IT (Original Mix) Demarzo
12. Take It Easy (Mike Dunn's BlackBall Ezee MixX) Gershon Jackson, Mike Dunn

Thanks or your support xx

So many tunes so little time!

This mix has deep chunky funky techno beats blended with helpings of juicy squelchy acid mayhem. A fresh direction for this genre that I'm really loving. Hope you like it too.

1. What You Gonna Do (Kaiserdisco Remix) Kevin McKay
2. Bataille (Original Mix) Noir
3. Synthella (Original Mix) Macromism
4. Technicolour Boogie (Chus & Ceballos Remix) Carlo Lio
5. Collinearity (Oscar L Remix) UMEK
6. Sleepwalker (Original Mix) Loco & Jam
7. Slow Loris (Original Mix) Reinier Zonneveld
8. Bang (Original Mix) Boy Next Door
9. The Overture (Joey Beltram) Marc Romboy
10. Edging Forward (Original Mix) Dense & Pika
11. Warg (Original Mix) Recondite
12. Sincero (Original Mix) Marc B, Juan Mora
13. Under You (Pele Remix) Reinier Zonneveld
14. Mouth To Mouth (Dense & Pika Remix) Audion
15. Ghost City (Flug Remix) Christian Bonori
16. Five (Oscar L Remix) Alberto Ruiz
17. Just For One Day (Original Mix) Paride Saraceni

Thanks for your support!
Bear x

Getting set for a massive Sydney Mardi Gras with some spanking hot techno and progressive to keep your celebration jumping.

This mix kicks off a little tech housey with some cool vocals from Shawnecy before getting deep and dirty with Kardinal, Moudaber and Sanguiliano. We shift up a gear with Nodin & Inphasia, before dropping into the vocal goodness of Michel Cleis & Klement.

Tale of Us and Radio Slave bring us up to the old skool mayhem of Slam. It's pumping from there but Pan Pot brings back the sweet vocals with a spanking remix from Joseph Capriati. There's a little progressive sweetness from Drumcomplex and Paganini to round things off. Something for everyone in this mix.

You can catch me playing these sexy beats at:

Harbour City Bears at The Shift on Sat 27 Feb
Extra Dirty at the Oxford Art Factory on Sun 6 Mar

Happy Mardi Gras!

Bear x

1. Trinity (Original Mix) Kaiserdisco
2. Sixtynine (Original Mix) Pele, Shawnecy
3. Iyewaye (Hatzler Remix) Oliver Koletzki
4. Dirty Tiger (Original Mix) Kardinal
5. Missile (Original Mix) Enrico Sangiuliano
6. Welcome To The Flipside (Nicole Moudaber Remix) Carlo Lio
7. Audiostrike (Lowkey & Kardinal Remix) Nodin, Inphasia
8. Marvinello (Feat. Martin Wilson) (Radio Slave Remix) Michel Cleis & Klement Bonelli
9. Dont Stop No Sleep (Tale Of Us Remix) Radio Slave
10. Make You Move (Original Mix) Slam
11. Kuasar (Original Mix) Kardinal, Lowkey
12. Rucola Apocalypse (Original Mix)
13. It's Time (Original Mix) David Temessi
14. Fugitives (Joseph Capriati Remix) Pan-Pot
15. This Then That (Coyu remix) Joseph Capriati
16. Apocalypse 9 (Lowkey, Kardinal Remix) Drumcomplex, Roel Salemink, My Evil Twiin
17. Shade (Timmo Remix) Sam Paganini

Funky techno and tech house.

Super cool, deep, techy, hotness by Dense & Pika, Noferini, Sassari, Bastida, Lazutkin and Sian.

1. Delta System (Original Mix) Dense & Pika
2. Plant 1 (Original Mix) 2000 And One
3. Wall Up (Original Mix) Stefano Noferini, Bulaklak
4. To The Piece (Original Mix) Drunken Kong
5. Phunky Cheet (Original Mix) Matt Sassari
6. Relate (The Black Madonna Remix) Nick Höppner
7. Mood Texture (Original Mix) Duss
8. Better For My Brain (Original Mix) Pele, Shawnecy
9. Flyknit (Original Mix) Miguel Bastida, Matt Sassari
10. TEX (Original Mix) Dense & Pika
11. Pink Puss (Original Mix) Elay Lazutkin
12. Mondano (Original Mix) Macromism
13. Wax (Original Mix) Julian Jeweil
14. Disto (Original Mix) Matt Sassari
15. Autogamy (Harvey Mckay Remix) Sian

Get into it!

Bear x

Just in time for the southern hemisphere summer! Messed up vocals and gorgeous house sounds, fused with spunky techy beats and basslines.

1. You Like This (Original Mix) Nicole Moudaber, Skin
2. Whitness (Original Mix) Miguel Bastida
3. Suga (Original Mix) Technasia, Green Velvet
4. Paradise (Original Mix) Deepdisco
5. Wrong Turn (Original Mix) Harvey McKay
6. Sleeping Dogs (Original Mix) Nick Curly
7. Unlisted (Original Mix) Metodi Hristov, Gallya
8. Aubrey (Original Mix) Guessbeats, Kidmalone
9. El Dorado (Original Mix) Elay Lazutkin
10. Underverse Feat. Mandel Turner (Adam Port Mix) Terranova, Mandel Turner
11. Soda (Original Mix) Elay Lazutkin
12. Sorry I Am Late (Original Mix) Kollektiv Turmstrasse
13. Walking On Ma Beat (Original Mix) Elay Lazutkin
14. U Can Stop (Feat. ?) (Shonky's Indiana Shonk Remix)
15. Rain Dance (Original Mix) Justin Jay
16. Pink Puss (Original Mix) Elay Lazutkin

Thanks for your support!

Bear x

Looking forward to this party on 11 July!

There's something for everyone in this little taster and you can expect to hear some of these at SPUNK.

Tickets: http://www.eventbrite.com.au/e/spunk-tickets-17406051970

Enjoy

Thanks for your support

Bear x

Tracks
1. Can U (Original Mix) Saccao, Antonio Santana, Heavy Pins
2. Somewhere in Our Minds (Original Mix) Nicole Moudaber
3. LARRYS GARAGE (Original Mix) Juliet Sikora
4. Low Frequency (Original Mix) Denney
5. That Book (Original Mix) Bruno Furlan
6. Alors On Danse (Original Mix) Oscar L
7. Jack To Jack (Original Mix) Prok & Fitch
8. Humanizer (Original Mix) ANNA
9. The Power (Stefano Noferini Re-Edit) Luca M, JUST2
10. Razor Sharp (Original Mix) Fernando Campo
11. Haute Mess (ANNA Remix) NERVO
12. Forbidden Fruit (Original Mix) Green Velvet, Weiss (UK)
13. It's About The Music Man (Original Mix) Dajae, Doorly
14. Glitz (Original Mix) Stefano Noferini
15. Bylusion (Metodi Hristov & Gallya Remix) Danniel Selfmade
16. Function Feat. PartyPatty (Original Mix) Justin Martin, Ardalan
17. Crazy Circus (Original Mix) Joeski

I'm probably better known for playing deeper stuff and techno right now and this has always been a passion for me. However, I am also a DJ who has played house from the beginning including house residencies at clubs like ARQ. The music of Frankie Knuckles was a big part of my life in the 1990s and it has remained a strong influence on my DJing, remixing and production.

The delicate interplay of light and dark, the lush piano, the extravagant orchestral flourishes, the fat beats and bass lines, the crisp hats and percussion and of course the pretty synths and emotive vocals, are the key elements of house laid down by Frankie and his peers over the last 30 years. Frankie in many ways set the standard for high quality dance music production.

Even the deepest, darkest and hardest techno I play has a house pedigree, whether it's bass lines, percussion, synths, vocal samples, or that classic bouncy groove. The development of the two genres has shared a common path; in my mind they are branches of the same tree. One way or another house always features in my techno sets.

I was lucky enough to dance to an amazing set by Frankie at Sublime when the Fuzzy boys brought him out in the late 1990s. He actually worked for my event production company when we invited him in 2002 to Sydney to play at the last of six Harbour Parties we produced from 1997-2002.

It was a great thrill to meet the very tall and softly spoken Frankie with his massive warm smile and humble manner in the DJ booth on the harbour's edge that summer's afternoon. This was the smile of a man who took great pleasure from what he did and saw every day in music as a privilege.

I'm really looking forward to playing the warm up set at I Remember House at the Ivy on 28 June. I will be doing my best to do justice to some of these great Frankie tunes and deliver a classic house set that will not only warm the cockles of your heart but also get you on the dance floor.

Frankie Knuckles has left his mark on me as a person, as a DJ and as a producer and I am grateful for what he has done for the world of music and entertainment.

Respect and love.

Bear xxx

Track list

1. Bring Me Love (Classic Frankie) Andrea Mendez
2. Whatcha Gonna Do With My Lovin' (Def Mix) Inner City
3. Hallelujah Anyway (Director's Cut Signature Praise) Candi Staton
4. Too Many Fish feat. Adeva (Classic Frankie Version) Frankie Knuckles, Adeva
5. Hangin' On A String (Frankie Knuckles Club Mix) Loose Ends
6. In It Together (Director's Cut Signature Togetherness) Human Life
7. The Pressure (Frankie Knuckles Classic Mix) Sounds Of Blackness
8. Workout feat. Roberta Gilliam (1992 Vocal Mix) Frankie Knuckles, Roberta Gilliam
9. It's Hard Sometime (FK Classic Club) Frankie Knuckles
10. Give It 2 U (Frankie Knuckles' Gagatha Christie Mix) Ultra Nate, Quentin Harris
11. The Ones You Love (Original Mix) Frankie Knuckles, The Shapeshifters
12. Tears (Classic Vocal) Satoshi Tomiie, Frankie Knuckles
13. Where Love Lives (Come On In) Alison Limerick

Awesome party!!

Track list - all available at beatport:

Techno Jam (Original Mix) Onno
Y.E.A.H. (Original Mix) Ramiro Lopez, Coyu
Outcross (Original Mix) Andy Notalez
Sensation (Original Mix) D-Unity
Aging Bones (Original Mix) Spartaque
Freak Bitch (Housemeister Remix) DJ Deeon, Bitchin' Camaro, Gettoblaster
The Line (Original Mix) Jay Lumen
Bang (Original Mix) D-Unity
Giv Me Luv (Nicole Moudaber Remix) Alcatraz
The Crossing (Original Mix) Adam Beyer
Call It What You Want (Acensor Break Remix) DJ Emerson
Pornogames (Alex Di Stefano Remix) Cristian Varela
Chimique (Original Mix) D-Deck
Smokin (Original Mix) Kalden Bess
Apocalypse 9 (Lowkey, Kardinal Remix) Drumcomplex, Roel Salemink, My Evil Twiin
The Box (Alex Di Stefano Remix) Drumcomplex, Roel Salemink
Therapy – Acapella - Dan Diamond
Theravada (Original Mix) Tom Laws
City Liner (Original Mix) Luigi Madonna
Voices (Lowkey & Kardinal Remix) The YellowHeads
Rave (Original Mix) Sam Paganini
The Pressure (Frankie Knuckles Classic Mix) Sounds Of Blackness
Behind The Shadow (Gabriel D'Or & Bordoy Remix) Kardinal, Lowkey
Milf (Anthony Hypster Remix) Ronny Vergara
Passion (Original Mix) Gat Decor
Nails (Alberto Santana Remix) Pedro Delgardo, Lorenzo D'Ianni
Love Sensation (Original Mix) Tom Hades, Kostas Maskalides
Phoneutria (Original Mix) Alex Di Stefano

Bear x