If you like quality progressive house music (and people making faces on webcams), make sure to tune in to a new edition of the Wasted Sessions™ on Saturday 11/2, around 9pm CET. For the third time, I’ll be hosting a live DJ mix with a few of my friends, including Alkama (Live Act), Birdy (Nû Records) and Noki (Pomf & Thud).

No plan, no schedule, just good music and good company.

The Wasted Page: Audio/Video Stream & Chat.

White Label

Keane Leaving So Soon (Faskil’s 120BPM Re-Edit) (6:30)

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Frisky Radio

Biotones Neverending Story [Round Triangle]
Mylène Farmer Maman A Tort (Amine Edge Vocal Mix) [White]
Vitaly Depp London (Magnetic Brothers Remix) [Mistique Music]
Lovetone & Turismo Can You Feel Me (Original Mix) [Macarize]
Satoshi Fumi feat. Aelyn You Know (Kobana Dub Mix) [Spring Tube]
Kay D Awakening In The Green (Original Mix) [Mistique Music]
Hypnotic Duo PT (Enton Mushi Remix) [Soundtribe Rekords]
Max Freegrant Cradle Of Emotions [Freegrant Music]
Fon.Leman Mar Del Sur (Aknael & Bekeela Remix) [Bomba Records]
Max Freegrant Miss You (Alex Di Stefano Remix) [Freegrant Music]
Glenn Morrison & Matt Lange Bowed (Original Mix) [Morrison Music]
Sezer Uysal Little Indian Girl [Oron]
Andrea Bertolini & Eva Kade I Need You (Kobana Instrumental Remix) [Majestic Family Records]
Ad Brown & Nick Stoynoff Nebulas [Proton Music]
Harmony Music vs Da Fresh Arpegia (Nick Muir Edit) [Pumpz]
Techi Midnight Traveler (Anton Stellz Remix) [Liquid Grooves]
Rui Da Silva Touch Me (Dirty Harris Bootleg Mix) [White]
Ewan Rill Eat Me (Nicholas Van Orton Remix) [Balkan Connection]
Cid Inc & Monaque Collaboration [Microcastle]
Hazem Beltagui Here Comes The Sun (Atlantis Ocean Remix) [Macarize]

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If you like quality progressive house music (and people making faces on webcams), make sure to tune in to a new edition of the Wasted Sessions™ on Saturday 21/1, around 9pm CET. For the second time, I’ll be hosting a live DJ mix with a few of my friends, including Bee (friskyRadio), Birdy (Nû Records), Boombatcha (Kindred Recordings) and Noki (Pomf & Thud).

No plan, no schedule, just good music and good company.

Facebook event: The Wasted™ Sessions, episode 02: this Saturday 21/1 at 9pm CET.
The Wasted Page: Audio/Video Stream & Chat.

Frisky Radio

Timewave The Essence (Suffused Dark Beat Remix) [Mistique Music]
Delerium Innocente (Deep Dish Gladiator Remix) [Nettwerk]
Biologik Breaking Through (Weepee Remix) [Fragments Records]
D-Nox & SQL Swarm (Microtrauma Remix) [Qilla]
Solee Ice [Renaissance]
Glenn Morrison Triangle & Strings (Tom Middleton Remix) [Morrison Recordings]
Portishead Glory Box (Gav Fraser Remix) [CDr]
G & P Tauro All Around [Balkan Connection]
Burial Fostercare (Marcelo Vasami Remix) [CDr]
Deep D & Sofin Mimnisoma (Moshic Remix) [Underground City Music]
Dimitry Liss Groove Monger (Luke Porter Remix) [Flip Flop]
Reii Panic (Andrew Benson Remix) [Spring Tube]
B-Max My Angel (Blood Groove & Kikis Remix) [Spring Tube]
Verche Milkdrop (Guy Mantzur & Khen Remix) [Somebody's Story]
Eximinds feat. Aelyn Fairy Tale (Lessov Remix) [Spring Tube]
Hypnotic Duo Earth (Original Mix) [Mistique Music]
Lanvary The Pusher [NRG Beats]
Pinkbox Special The French Don’t Cry (Abdomen Burst “SoftBit” Remix) [Silk Digital]

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I never rant on this site but this time I feel like I need to. Let me tell you a little story, a sort of annoying one, the kind of tale that makes me mad about the music industry and the way it “works” nowadays.

You all remember those Ozark Henry remixes I did a while back, right? Well, at first, it was just a project for fun. Through some common acquaintances I managed to get in touch with Piet (Ozark Henry) and asked him if I could grab parts from a couple of his songs to make remixes for my own purpose. I really liked his voice and his sense of melody and I thought two tracks had a really good potential to be turned into floor fillers.

So I did the remixes and played them a lot, Piet liked them very much and it seemed that people were wanting to buy them. So, all good, right? Right.

I finally met with Piet in Paris to talk about it but his manager kept on insisting that we released them on vinyl too. I told him that no netlabel would be ready to invest money for such a release but that I was in touch with a few of them eager to get it out there on Beatport.

Nothing happened.

At that point, I asked Piet if I could simply put them as a free download on my website, to which he first agreed but then, after talking with his manager, he changed his mind.

Was I a bit pissed? You bet your ass I was.

Anyways… I completely forgot about the whole thing for a while when one day… A letter from a lawyer. In short, he was working for Ozark Henry and was asking if I was ok to release the “Christine” vocal mix on a forthcoming compilation. The deal was shady and I fought them a bit about it but eventually, I signed the contract, very happy that at least this one was going to see the light of day.

And on the 21st of November, it finally came out on Beatport.

I was so happy and ready to tell the world about it when I realized that the track timing as told by Beatport was a bit… off. 7 minutes for an original 9+ minutes remix, that was a bit weird. So I bought it and gave it a listen.

You know what? It was a raw rip directly from the compilation DJ mix, not the actual track. No intro, no outro. Which means that basically nobody would be able to play it since it’s already mixed with a couple of other tracks at the beginning and at the end. Unplayable. Useless.

A slightly bit pissed? Make that 10000 times more.

So now what? Well, nothing. The remix is out. I’m probably gonna make zero money out of it because no-one is going to buy it in its current form… And that will be that.

Sad, isn’t it? Well, welcome to the crazy world of the music industry.

See you guys, I’m gonna find myself a new hobby.

Edit: if you guys want to listen to the remixes, they’re on YouTube. Here are the links. Enjoy!

Ozark Henry La Donna È Mobile (Faskil’s “Magnetic Portals” Remix)
Ozark Henry Christine (Faskil Vocal Mix)
Ozark Henry Christine (Faskil Dub)

And here’s a clip of Martin Garcia playing the Dub in Cordoba last year.

White Label

Faskil Clear Mayhem (Alejo Gonzales Breaks Remix) (9:39)

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Silly Waffles Studios

Sasha Rabbitweed [Deconstruction]
Marscruiser vs Andy Page Elementalectrofunk (Original Mix) [White]
John Creamer & Stephane K I Wish You Were Here (PMT Remix) [Alternative Route Recordings]
PMT Gyromancer [Acetate Recordings]
John Creamer & Stephane K I Love You (Hybrid’s Claustrophobic Remix) [Acetate Recordings]
Phil K & Habersham Cloudbrake (Original Mix) [Audiotherapy]
Chris Nemmo Nightshade (Retroid Remix) [Digital Sensation UK]
T.R.O. Dispersing Sound (Elfsong’s Dispersive Mix) [Digital Sensation UK]
His Boy Elroy Step Into The Light (Emissary & Starfire Remix) [Proton Music]

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If you like quality progressive house music (and people making faces on webcams), make sure to tune in to my Justin.tv channel this Saturday 3/12, around 9pm CET. I’ll be hosting a live DJ mix with a few of my friends, including Birdy (Nû Records), McGregor (Pumpz Recordings), Noki (Pomf & Thud) and Odessa (Pumpz Recordings).

No plan, no schedule, just good music and good company.

The Wasted™ Sessions, episode 01: this Saturday 3/12 at 9pm CET.

Frisky Radio

Franzis-D Purgatory (Matteo Monero Remix) [Deepsessions Recordings]
Derek Howell feat. Faskil Untitled [CDr]
Digital Mess Foliant [Get High Music]
Hector Sawiak Dark Pulses Part II [Mistique Music]
Rytek Ritma (Original Mix) [Stellar Fountain]
Sound Process Simple Chords (Nikko Z Remix) [Sound Avenue]
Simon Vuarambon Inception (Scotty A Remix) [Tetsuko Records]
Marvin Gaye If This World (Simon’s Garcia’s Private Dubtherapy Remix) [CDr]
Natalino Nunes You [Get High Music]
Apologist Flute (Lank Remix) [Proton Music]
Go Wild Stars (Ciur Remix) [Spherax]
Alexey Sonar Flashback (Ben Coda Remix) [Tactal Hots Music]
Stereopole Ark Moor [friskyRecords]
Gregory Esayan & Duality Parting (Sensitive5 Remix) [Incepto Music]
Kash Trivedi Barnard 33 (Hypnotic Duo Remix) [Dazzle On Records]
Opus 3 Fine Day (Kasey Taylor Mix) [CDr]
Stefan Anion Cosmonaut (Kerry Leva Remix) [Silk Textures]
Mindset Olympus (Matao Remix) [Macarize]

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