Good People Better Rise Up! The Melodic Electronic Podcast Alex Whalen

This week's Best of the Stream comes from my Melodic Electronic Tuesdays livestream, where this week I played a nothing but my favorite tracks from 2022. This was originally broadcast live on both Twitch and Mixcloud, but since I know some of y'all prefer your mixes without voiceovers, the one you're getting here is entirely talk free.

 

 

Want the full track listing? Head on over to Mixcloud and you'll find what you need.

The podcast! It's back!

From here on out, I'll be using the pod to highlight one of the sets from my livestreams on Twitch (@DJAlexWhalen) and Mixcloud (@AlexWhalen). Right now I'm playing four or more times each week, with each set featuring a different style of melodic electronic. Although the complete archive for all these shows can be found on both SoundCloud and Mixcloud, those recordings include voiceovers and audience interaction, which some people REALLY don't want to hear overtop of their DJ sets. And that's why this pod now re-exists: to give those people someplace they can still get my mixes without any talking whatsoever!

Tuesdays feature a two-hour downtempo set and a three+ hour big room melodic electronic session, with the length of the set varying depending on whether I have a guest and/or am doing some kind of showcase. Thursdays see me doing a two-hour liquid funk & fast soul (a.k.a. hyper-melodic drum & bass), followed by four hour chunk-a-funk house session with one or more of my brothers from the Bootycorn Sound System.

For this week's episode, I've chosen my two hour set from the Bootycorn show. If you haven't heard me play in awhile, you're in for a surprise, as my house music alter ego has come out in full force since joining up with this crew. I won't ever claim to be Sam the Man, but what I do as a Bootycorn, I do partly in his honor, as he was taken from us far too soon.

 

A two-hour selection of tech house, progressive house, and House house.

Tilted (Original Mix) - Hot Since 82
Stranger Things (Subandrio Remix) - Max Freegrant, Miss Monique
Heliopolis (Framewerk Rewerk) - Banco De Gaia
Perfect Motion (Patrice Baumel Renaissance Remix) - Sunscreem
Everytime (Nalin + Kane vs. Whalen Edit) - Lustral
Teardrop (James Holden Mix) - Massive Attack
Swimming (Visionquest Remix, Ewan Pearson Re-Edit) - Tracey Thorn
My Lexicon (Original Mix) - Sander Kleinenberg
Sweet Disposition (Camille Luciani Mix) - The Temper Trap
Surin - Original Mix - Quivver
These Are The Days - Vocal Mix - Quivver
Love Stimulation (Tom Middleton Remodel) - Tom Middleton
Melburn - Shiloh Rmx (Whalen Edit) - Luke Chable
This Feeling feat. Julie McKnight (Original Mix) - Roger Sanchez, Park & Sons
Skin Deep (Original Mix) - Dusky
Yoohoo (Original Mix) - Dusky
Hallelujah Anyway (Director's Cut Signature Praise) - Candi Staton
Someone Like You (Full Vocal Mix) - Soulmagic

 
Took me two weeks to pull this one together for you, what with…well….everything going on. I’m taking y’all waaaaaaay back to the eighties and nineties on this one, back to my roots And trust me — if you know, YOU WILL KNOW.

Newcleus - Computer Age (Push the Button)
Newcleus - Jam on It (Whalen Megamix)
Shannon - Let the Music Play (12” Version)
Boby Konders - Nervous Acid
2 Bad Mice - Bombscare
VIM - Maggie’s Last Party
Chemical Brothers - Song to the Siren
Joey Beltram - Energy Flash
Drum Club - You Make Me Feel So Good (The Deep ‘N’ Hard Mix)
Greed - Pump Up the Volume (DMC Mix)
George Michael - Freedom! 90
LuvDup - Goodtime
Empirion - Narcotic Influence
Ralph Roasrio featuring Xavier Gold - You Used to Hold Me
Frankie Knuckles - You Got the Love / Your Love
Rachel Wallace - Tell Me Why (M&M Full vocal Mix)
X-Press II - Muzik X Press
House of Virginism -I’ll Be There For You (Slam Dub 1)
God Within - Raincry (Spiritual Thirst)
The Source - You Got the Love (Now Voyager)
Transformer 2 - Fruit of Love

 
Decided to make an ambient mix as a way to wind down the weekend, and about 45 minutes in….I….got a noise complaint from a neighbor? I mean….uh….give it a listen and tell me if you understand. Because I sure don’t!

TRACKLIST:

Symmetry (Original Mix) - Speedy J
Arcadian (Original Mix) - Link
Hector the Collector - Shel Silverstein
Ona (Original Mix) - Whithe
Your Smile Is a Light That Keeps Me Alive (Original Mix) - Yasda
Clear the Air (Original Mix) - We Are All Astronauts
Five Pieces feat. Makoto (Original Mix) - Makoto, Naibu
Stars (2015 Rework) - Puremusic
United We Were - Planisphere
Heliopolis (Framewerk's Floating in Space Mix) - Banco De Gaia
I Wish (Original Mix) - Delectatio
Epsilon Phase - Global Communication
Running Indoors (Original Mix) - Siarate
Doves (Original Mix) - We Are All Astronauts
Autumn Leaves (Irresistible Force Mix Trip 2) - Coldcut
Ogive - William Orbit
Drifting Like Whales In The Darkness - Sven Väth
All That Makes Us Human Continues - BT
Let Men Burn Stars - M83

 
Back by popular demand, this one was made back in the summer of 2010 as a tribute to the sound that defined a DC generation. As I said back then…..includes past and future classics from Jay Lumen, Jamie Matrix, Way Out West, Space Manoeuvres, Max Graham, Orbital, Spooky, Lazonby, Faithless, Hoxton Whores....