Yep… high praise indeed, but these guys know how to construct a track. Simply put; DJ heaven! Thanks to you all (and everyone else) for contributing to the show as always. You can grab your copies (or see when they hit the stores) in the trck list below.

I’ll be live again this Friday on My House Your House from midday to 2pm PST, 8pm - 10pm if you’re in the UK.

See you all there!

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Track List:

# / Time	ARTIST	TRACK	LABEL	BUY / DOWNLOAD
1 / 00:00	Art Of Tones	The Looq	Fresh Meat	Prime Direct (vinyl) 29 Mar / Beatport 14 Apr / Worldwide 14 May
2 / 7:44	Deporto	Solar Stripe	Artizan Music
3 / 14:13	Sleazy McQueen	Fantasy	Deepfunk Records	16 March
4 / 19:54	Davidson Ospina	People (Stripped Dub)	Ospina Digital
5 / 25:07	Manik	Soul Glow	Fresh Meat
6 / 30:25	Native Intelligence	R U Westside	Headset Recordings
7 / 34:32	Melissa Rapp, Daniel Schiffer & Amit Shoham	Lapsed (Amit Shoham’s Unrequited Funk Mix)	Tarantic Records
8 / 40:51	Tal M. Klein & Anthony Mansfield	Bomba de Tigre	Aniligital Music
9 / 45:14	Sleazy McQueen	Love Bandit (You Stole My Heart) (Nono Brown Remix)	Deepfunk Records	16 March
10 / 49:53	Tom Lown	Love Potion	Lost My Dog	22 March
11 / 54:41	Your Only Friend	Spelunkin	Your Only Friend	1 April
12 / 59:19	The Shift feat. Bora Yoon	On This Side (Anthony Mansfield & Sneak-E Pete Remix)	Blunted Funk Recordings	15 March
13 / 1:05:05	Art Of Tones	Square Knocking	Fresh Meat	Prime Direct (vinyl) 29 Mar / Beatport 14 Apr / Worldwide 14 May
14 / 1:10:00	Forces of Nature	Phobos	Intelligent Audio
15 / 1:15:33	Brett Johnson	Missing You (Alland Byallo Remix)	Eight Tracks
16 / 1:22:00	Red Axes	Midnight Safari	Statra
17 / 1:28:49	DJ T	Marching Theme	Get Physical
18 / 1:34:23	Bang Bang	Bikini Days (Andrew Phelan & George Cochrane Remix)	Eighth Dimension

Enjoy!

You can check out the mix in the player here, along with the track list below.

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Or pop open our radio player (from here or the homepage) and click on Mark’s Percussion Mix, to listen while you surf!

Enjoy!

Track List:

(apologies for the gaps… it’s all we could find)

ARTIST	TRACK	LABEL	BUY / DOWNLOAD
Erefaan Pearce ft. George Sax	Start It Up (Hoodfellas 'Thug Passion Remix)	Kolour
Bang Bang	Love Insurance (Hector Moralez Remix)	Baker Street
Kirby	Back 2 Back (Neighbour Remix)
J.T. Donaldson	Brazil Bump
2000 and One	Honey Bush	100 Percent Pure
Lurob	Ice Lady
Block Committee	Delicate Beats	Tango
Tilla	All For One
Mike Steele	Trump Style
Southern Express	Funky Chicken Style
Chris Harris and Dominic Martin	This Is It
Vernon & Dacosta	Body	Kinjo Music
Jason Hodges	How We Do?	Lingo
Mr. Patron	It Should’ve Been You
Marc Madina	Free As A Bird
Matthew Brandy	Mile High House

Here’s a little look at the new homepage:

Head over to the new site to check out the full, MK2 experience, enjoy the live shows or the downloads, check out the forum where the MHYH community gets it all talked out, and become part of the family. You’ll love what you find!

Enjoy!

So to the show… it really had it all. Starting deep and vocal, making a few techy stops along the way (including a little Green Velvet which really got you going!) and then right back to sublime, vocal brilliance courtesy of Melissa Rapp on the Original mix of Lapsed. Simply beautiful!

OK, so here it all is. Check out the track list below for all of the information and links to grab your copies.

I’ll be live again this Friday on My House Your House from midday to 2pm PST, 8pm - 10pm if you’re in the UK.

See you all there!

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Track List:

# / Time	ARTIST	TRACK	LABEL	BUY / DOWNLOAD
1 / 00:00	Jenifa Mayanja	Eye Of The Storm	Bu-mako Recordings
2 / 08:23	Manik	Juice	Fresh Meat	Vinyl (Prime Direct) 1 Mar / Beatport 17 Mar
3 / 14:34	King Britt ft. Astrid Suryanto	Now	FiveSixMedia Recordings
4 / 21:21	Your Only Friend	Sandy Bitches	Your Only Friend	1 April
5 / 26:12	DJ T	Funk On You	Get Physical Music
6 / 33:00	Brett Johnson	Missing You (Space Bump Dub)	Eight Tracks
7 / 38:50	Pepperpot & Gwen Maze	Donea (Jussi Pekka's Back2Biz Remix)	Kaato Music
8 / 45:40	Melissa Rapp, Daniel Schiffer & Amit Shoham	Lapsed (Andrew Phelan & George Cochrane Remix)	Tarantic Records
9 / 51:05	Red Axes	Say No More	Statra
10 / 58:18	Moody B feat. Frankie Le Freak	Burn Em Down (Lesser Spotted Mad Mix)	Council House	29 March
11 / 1:02:25	Tiefschwarz	Ghost Track	Four Music
12 / 1:07:29	Green Velvet	Shake and Pop ft. Kid Sister	White
13 / 1:13:50	Manik	Yeah (Wiretappeur's Tappeurior Remix)	Fresh Meat	Vinyl (Prime Direct) 1 Mar / Beatport 17 Mar
14 / 1:19:54	Short Bus Kids	Freestyle	Bounce House Recordings	19 Mar
15 / 1:24:13	Planet Funk	Chase The Sun (Timo Garcia & Gus One Remix)	White
16 / 1:29:33	Demarkus Lewis & Maxime Cescau	Tussy Pickler	Artizan Music
17 / 1:34:10	Red Axes	White Murder	Statra
18 / 1:39:25	Melissa Rapp, Daniel Schiffer & Amit Shoham	Lapsed (Original)	Tarantic Records

If you’re back in the UK then we highly, highly recommend getting yourselves to one of the My House Your House MK2 Launch Parties. Our absolute favourite Internet Radio braodcaster, label, promoter, and all round party people will be hosting events in both Nottingham and Leicester on Saturday night featuring the incredible talents of Crazy P (at BOTH venues), Wafer & Klutz, Dan Vernede, Si James, Jonna & J-Shez, Rob Soulfood and MHYH boss-man himself, Alex Traska. You can grab full details about both events over at My House Your House.

And how about the Californicators in the house?!?! Fear not, we have an equally incredible looking Saturday ahead of us too! The unmistakably brilliant West Coast Collective will return to King King this weekend to throw-down a monster of a party with the 3 Amigos crew. The almighty deep house ruckass goes from 10pm - 4am, and will be one of the big features in LA this weekend. If you’re in town, head to Hollywood and just listen out for the cheers. This will be a MONSTER! For more information head over to the West Coast Collective website.

Have a great weekend!

Throughout the late ’90s and early ’00s anyone involved in the scene bounced between Fabric, Ministry of Sound, Turnmills, The End, Gatecrasher, The Cross, Canvas and a variety of legal and illegal warehouse venues on our BIG nights. If we were taking it a little easy (say a Monday, Tuesday or Wednesday!) then we’d hit one of the smaller venues that were just as cool and often hosted more intimate affairs with the same, incredible DJs that graced the big booths at the weekends.

It was the combination of these small, low ceilinged, super-snug venues interlaced with the gargantuan super-clubs that made London the hotbed for any type of club event. DJ Mag’s top 100 party, with Tiesto, Fatboy Slim, Paul Okenfold and Armand Van Helden’s egos all in one room? Absolutely - we’re off to Fabric. Small, nieche sound with obscure but brilliant Lithuanian DJ / Producer… no problem! That’s going to be somewhere more intimate like the iconic Plastic People.

The Curtain Road club, opened 16 years ago has been one of the open secrets of London’s underground scene. It’s cool as hell, many of the parties put on there have attained legendary status, and it has one of the best soundsystems in the city, if not the country.

So what is this… a public service announcement? We sort of. Plastic People, along with Ministry of Sound face very uncertain futures. These are two of the most influential locations in London entertainment. Both are steeped in history, having played integral roles in making London nightlife what it is. While Ministry of Sound faces the ever present ‘developer danger’ that closed the doors of The End last year, Plastic People faces legal issues following a Met Police application to Hackney Council to revoke their license on grounds of drug use and abuse of drink licensing laws. You can read more here.

Whatever your thoughts on the illicit nature of the Met’s alligations (and for what it’s worth - that’s all they currently are) or the potential for residential development in the heart of Elephant & Castle, you might want to get behind the campaigns to save both locations, before the quality of London’s scene is diluted once more.

Plastic People have a facebook campaign going here.

While MOS have their own petition available to sign on their website here.

Don’t leave it too late!

Neurosonics Live from Chris Cairns on Vimeo.

If you’re watching this and thinking - much like us…WTF?! - it’s all real and the method used is “MUSION Eyeliner 3D Holographic Projection”. If you’re still thinking WTF after reading the name of it - click here for some enlightenment.

Also worth a look is the Film on the Neurosonics website.

So I thought it was time to put together a chart of 2009 - the biggest tunes that hit the high notes for you all, either on the dance floor or across the airwaves in the last year. A big thanks to all of the regular contributors too - Kahua, 8DPromo, Kaato, Fresh Meat, Berwick Street, Ospina Digital and many more. You guys ROCKED 2009!

Below is my chart of 2009, plus a 1 hour 49 min mix of the tracks in order. Check it out and let me know which were the big hits for you!

Enjoy!

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Track List:

# / Time	ARTIST	TRACK	LABEL	BUY / DOWNLOAD
1 / 00:00	Bang Bang	Bikini Days (Gavin Hardkiss Remix)	Eighth Dimension Records
2 / 6:07	Tiefschwarz	On Up (Magik Johnson Mix)	Promo
3 / 10:42	Butch	Amelie (Format:B Remix)	Great Stuff
4 / 16:25	Frederik Olufsen	Ain't No Sunshine (Rasmus Liebst Remix)	Krone
5 / 20:07	Afrilounge	Glissando	Kaato Music
6 / 25:05	Forces Of Nature	Red Planet	Intelligent Audio
7 / 30:06	caTekk	Nightwatch	FLEX Schallplatten
8 / 37:53	Miss Mee	Rythm is our Business	Patsada Records
9 / 41:58	Andrew Phelan & George Cochrane	Haterade feat. Audio Angel (Scope Mix)	Prismatic
10 / 49:21	MSRS and EMan feat. Onaje Allan Gumbs	Soul Liberation (Deez Rhode 2 Freedom Mix)	Liberate Recordings
11 / 55:01	Ronan	What Do You Know? (Office Gossip Remix)	OneThirty Recordings
12 / 1:01:15	Pete Dafeet	94 (Andrew Phelan & Origami Mix)	Prismatic Tracks
13 / 1:06:42	Soul Conspiracy	Freak	Rootz
14 / 1:11:34	Davidson Ospina	Do You (Anthem Dub)	Ospina Digital
15 / 1:16:24	Mastiksoul	Bofe De Elite (Original Mix)	Spinnin Records
16 / 1:22:00	Easily Influenced	Rockit (Derrick Carter's BHQ Reheat)	Hawt Music
17 / 1:27:36	Timo Garcia feat Manu Delago	The Hang Drum Track	Berwick Street Records
18 / 1:34:38	Gramma Rose	Edit	Grooveland Records
19 / 1:39:25	Red Hot Chilli Peppers	Give It Away (Wez Clarke Booty)	White
20 / 1:43:48	Laera	Harmonica (Club Mix)	Stranamente Music

Wherther you’re a fan of genre de-compartmentalisation or not, you cannot deny the incredible variation of music that’s available today. A quick internet search estimates anywhere from 5,000 to 20,000 different styles are out there, but who really knows? Anyone involved in dance music over the 90s and 00s will recall the introduction of a new style or two in your local record store every week… Hyper-funky, deep, psy-minimal anyone?!?!

Sync/Lost is a brilliant, visual project that aims to bring all of the genres, styles and sounds of electronic music together in one interactive experiment. You can check out the video below which shows 3 users visually selecting content (via Wii remotes!) which is then interlaced and delivered sonically over headphones or external speakers. In the words of Sync/Lost themselves:

“SyncLost is a multi-user installation for immersion in the history of electronic music. From a complex timeline, rhythms and sub-rhythms merge to create new sounds.”

Sync/Lost from 3bits on Vimeo.

It’s pretty incredible, however it works! It’s also a great representation of where today’s music comes from.

You can find out more about Sync/Lost’s Brazilliant creators; 3bits at their website here.