WinterDaze, MixTwo by Dino & Terry (Strictly House Music)

dattrax: Thank you for stopping by and listening to our passion.      Please visit our main mix site or download the free Podomatic app and search 'dattrax' - with 155+ house music mixes: https://www.podomatic.com/podcasts/dattrax --------------- How do we describe the dattrax sound? Always Fun, Tech-Fused, Funky-Foot Stompin', Carved Deep and Woven & Laced with Sweet Smooth Hands in the Air Vocals... Strictly House Music- always dattrax. --------------- Reach out to us and comment if you've enjoyed our mixes. Just Google 'dattrax' and find all places we've been a part of online. Please share with your family, friends, co-workers, and acquaintances who could use a dose of musical candy. Isn't music such a great escape? --------------- DJ Bookings for Canada, the US, or Global: dattrax@gmail.com --------------- As always - massive thanks to the fantastic vocalists, producers, DJs, and dancers (even in your homes or while walking about) for their incredible advancement of this beautiful musical genre!! It makes us all feel young, vibrant, and extremely happy!! 45 Tracks in 1hr and 50mins!! Email for this playlist. Podomatic now has a 4,000 character limit including spaces for episode descriptions. Sad face. Lol

dattrax: Welcome to Toronto House Music DJs!! Thank you for stopping by and listening to our passion.      Here is a Classic house mix that will bring back a flood of memories if you were partying to house from 1990-1996. Jim and I both started partying to house music at 16yrs old. We met, while both were separately looking for a party when we were 19yrs old on the streets of downtown Toronto, and that's when we became friends. In search of good house tunes to dance to. An escape from both of our crappy restaurant jobs. Before collecting records, then DJing, partying to house was a drug. You'd go to 3-4 crappy parties to re-live the one good party before that series. And you'd keep doing it over and over again. But 'WOW', when there was a good party, there was nothing like it. 200 people dancing, laughing, having fun, hands in the air. House basslines and vocals just drift through the dark. Doing whatever it does to your brain. Imprinting it with good feelings and memories when you hear that song again or smell cigarette smoke. House tracks got ATTENTION those days. The songs grew on you from week to week, mixtape to mixtape (yes, cassette tapes & constant HISS), and party to party. These days you may hear a wicked track, but never hear it again- there is just so much out there and so many people who make it or spin it. Remember dancing till the sunlight came in and they were taking apart the speakers? Then we started connecting good parties with the DJs who played great tunes the way that they did. We started DJing when we were sick of going to 3-4poor parties. We thought, "hey, let's throw our own party and play the tracks that we love, and at least we'll have fun. Then we'll invite friends and maybe they'll have fun too, who knows?" --------------- Please visit our main mix site or download the free Podomatic app and search 'dattrax' - with 155+ house music mixes: https://www.podomatic.com/podcasts/dattrax --------------- How do we describe the dattrax sound? Always Fun, Tech-Fused, Funky-Foot Stompin', Carved Deep and Woven & Laced with Sweet Smooth Hands in the Air Vocals... Strictly House Music- always dattrax. --------------- Reach out to us and comment if you've enjoyed our mixes. Just Google 'dattrax' and find all places we've been a part of online. Please share with your family, friends, co-workers, and acquaintances who could use a dose of musical candy. Isn't music such a great escape? --------------- DJ Bookings for Canada, the US, or Global: dattrax@gmail.com --------------- This was an all-vinyl record mix.

dattrax: 'Electric City' is a tribute to the city we love and where we fell in love with house music, Toronto. A tribute to it's community of house music DJs, producers, promoters, club owners, everyone involved and the all the party people/ the dancers (included those of us who can't dance but love to ;) This is a tribute to the house we got into, grew into, grew up in and fell in love with each time we heard these tracks. A huge hi-five, hug and thank you to all the singers, producers and DJs that made and played these tracks!! 'Classic House' is a shifting definition... just depends on when you got into house and when those first 5-6 formative years were for you. For us tracks made in 1985-1996 are considered 'classic' but we started partying in 1990 and from 1990-1996 we were privileged to have heard and danced to the earlier tracks. For 'Electric City', I wanted to go for the 'what old is new again' intent, so it's not entirely a classic house mix because it contains some instrumental tracks that were created past '96 and I included covers and remixes of classics that had the same feel, had great sound quality and didn't care when those were actually produced. For the regular classics, sound quality was paramount also, but had to make exceptions for "Move" and "Music Take Me Up" because they are such wicked tracks (were my poor attempts at transferring my vinyl to digital). I'm sorry but on "Emotions Electric" was a CD version I bought at Sam The Record Man (sadly not in biz anymore)... back to my apology, I cranked the bass too much so... Over 5yrs ago, I wasted almost two months in the cracks of time between work and family recording a crate and a half (150 records) into my computer. Realised afterwards that because I had a crappy sound card the digitized tracks were flat sounding). After that Jim and I just started buying classics on beatport, traxsource, itunes and defected and probably 90% of the time the sound quality was excellent. Got a few classic tracks from friends like Eric Ling, Gene King, Devon Wills and Tyrone Solomon. Then Roberto Pinto told me about Discogs and all my classic house vinyl dreams are gonna coming true. We keep saying but bears repeating: "This is the best time for house music. Period!" As always, we hope you enjoy this mix and that it gives you that house feeling from head to toe. (If you were so inclined, then please donate any amount you'd like to with the paypal button to the right side of this site. We've had two donations in the last four years of operating this site, but hoping to set a record this year & you can be a part of that;) --------------- There are 42 tracks in this mix - email for playlist: dattrax@gmail.com Podomatic now has a 4,000 character including spaces limit on episode descriptions.   --------------- Please visit our main mix site or download the free Podomatic app and search 'dattrax' - with 155+ house music mixes: https://www.podomatic.com/podcasts/dattrax --------------- How do we describe the dattrax sound? Always Fun, Tech-Fused, Funky-Foot Stompin', Carved Deep and Woven & Laced with Sweet Smooth Hands in the Air Vocals... Strictly House Music- always dattrax. --------------- Reach out to us and comment if you've enjoyed our mixes. Just Google 'dattrax' and find all places we've been a part of online. Please share with your family, friends, co-workers, and acquaintances who could use a dose of musical candy. Isn't music such a great escape? --------------- DJ Bookings for Canada, the US, or Global: dattrax@gmail.com

dattrax: Dino & Terry are legends in the Toronto House Scene since mid-1980s. A lot of people went to parties they DJ'ed at and got hooked! A handful of DJs influenced thousands to love, dance to, make or DJ house. This two part mix is just a small representation of what their music is like. Always top shelf. Classy. Proper house music. Can't wait till their next installment, hopefully before spring 2011 BTW.. 'Yes', I got permission from Dino to do this. And Aki for the other two mixes on this site. =============================== Please visit our main mix site or download the free Podomatic app and search 'dattrax' - with 155+ house music mixes: https://www.podomatic.com/podcasts/dattrax --------------- How do we describe the dattrax sound? Always Fun, Tech-Fused, Funky-Foot Stompin', Carved Deep and Woven & Laced with Sweet Smooth Hands in the Air Vocals... Strictly House Music- always dattrax. --------------- Reach out to us and comment if you've enjoyed our mixes. Just Google 'dattrax' and find all places we've been a part of online. Please share with your family, friends, co-workers, and acquaintances who could use a dose of musical candy. Isn't music such a great escape? --------------- DJ Bookings for Canada, the US, or Global: dattrax@gmail.com

dattrax: I got this tape from a friend (who is now a house producer and DJ) back before Industry Nightclub closed down. My memory of the timeline is foggy. But it was like Christmas morning to me listening to this wicked tape. I cherished this tape. Played the crap out of it in my Aiwa walkman cassette player; no Sony's are called walkmans. Beginning to end the house music flows from song to song and it's just beautiful. If anyone can listen to this beginning to end and not like house music, there's no hope- they'll be stuck in the top 40 world of crap. Dino & Terry have been rocking crowds in Toronto with their sophisticated brand of deep & vocal infused house music since before I got into house in early 1990. I just attended two parties recently in 2011 by Studio+ and they killed it!! Jim, my best friend and DJ partner turned to me at the last party in the middle of DT's set and said "If we close our eyes, then we'd be 19 again". The music created such an unbelievable vibe that night- just like the old warehouse days. =============================== Please visit our main mix site or download the free Podomatic app and search 'dattrax' - with 155+ house music mixes: https://www.podomatic.com/podcasts/dattrax --------------- How do we describe the dattrax sound? Always Fun, Tech-Fused, Funky-Foot Stompin', Carved Deep and Woven & Laced with Sweet Smooth Hands in the Air Vocals... Strictly House Music- always dattrax. --------------- Reach out to us and comment if you've enjoyed our mixes. Just Google 'dattrax' and find all places we've been a part of online. Please share with your family, friends, co-workers, and acquaintances who could use a dose of musical candy. Isn't music such a great escape? --------------- DJ Bookings for Canada, the US, or Global: dattrax@gmail.com

dattrax:  I only got into the Toronto Underground House scene as a party goer in 1990-1991, I was 16 and in grade 11. My friend Noel Nanton got me into house, he was a grade up and in the same highschool. Noel was also an awesome DJ and producer (he would mix on two belt drive turntables with no pitch controls and a tiny radio shack mixer with no single channel EQ's). I can't find him, so Noel if you're reading this, contact me. There would be illegal 'warehouse parties' every Saturday night starting at 1am and finishing at 5am-7am. There would be 6-8 different spots House Headz would wander to even if they weren't told by anyone. They were usually by Spadina & Dundas, or Bathurst & King, or Richmond & Peter, King & Dufferin or that whole strip down at Wellington and a bunch off the beaten path. No flyers or flyer people, no text messaging, no email, no facecrack, no cell phones used by the masses (i think i got my first motorola cantel in '93 and it was huge- probably fit inside a box of straws)- super low tech. Word of mouth only. Sometimes there would be a guy standing at one of the usual locations telling people where the party really was. There were about 5-6 promoters that I can remember, that's it. The spaces were just holes in the wall, pitch black, sometimes a light bulb or two or some candles. I can't believe we weren't scared going to abandoned warehouses and buildings or real estate properties that were in construction or temporary vacant. It looked like they broke in, plugged in the power and threw a party! Last call in Toronto was at 12:45am and no one served booze after 1am. But at the warehouses, $5 cover and $5 a luke warm beer in a cheap plastic cup. No anti-smoking, so smoked filled rooms. I remember smoking in shopping malls and movie theatres still (at least at an Asian movie theatre at Dundas & Spadina). Sometimes no washroom facilities, but every time you'd have to go line up 20mins before you needed to go. Usually no toilet paper. Now no one will go anywhere unless the place looks like millions were spent. The crowd was awesome. Every party... you'd walk in and there would be 50-100 people with their hands in the air, smoke everywhere, no one just standing around staring at people. You actually couldn't do that because there wasn't enough light. All types of people, young & old, black & white, housers & hip-hop guys, gays & straights, you name it. They came for the two turntables, mixer and a few bass bins and a few hallow sounding speakers set up in a corner near the DJ area (no booths). continued... =============================== Please visit our main mix site or download the free Podomatic app and search 'dattrax' - with 155+ house music mixes: https://www.podomatic.com/podcasts/dattrax --------------- How do we describe the dattrax sound? Always Fun, Tech-Fused, Funky-Foot Stompin', Carved Deep and Woven & Laced with Sweet Smooth Hands in the Air Vocals... Strictly House Music- always dattrax. --------------- Reach out to us and comment if you've enjoyed our mixes. Just Google 'dattrax' and find all places we've been a part of online. Please share with your family, friends, co-workers, and acquaintances who could use a dose of musical candy. Isn't music such a great escape? --------------- DJ Bookings for Canada, the US, or Global: dattrax@gmail.com

dattrax: At that time every weekend we'd fork over the $5 bucks to listen and dance to our favourite DJs like Mark & Aki, Dino & Terry, Peter, Tyrone and Shams, known as "PTS", DJ Eric Ling & Patrick "D-Nice" Hodges. The second wave of DJs we'd always partied to were: Kevin Williams (although Kevin was my first experience with live house music at Go-Go's on Richmond St. and later on Kat Club near Church St., I don't recall going to many warehouses where he spun at), Dave Campbell & Jason Palma. Jim, my best friend of many years and DJ Partner grew up listening to these guys. I don't know who else has fond memories from those times like we do, but these guys were legends in our minds and because of them, we grew to love house music, loved to dance till the AMs, and got into DJing. Classic house tracks got a lot of attention those days because not very much of it was coming out in Toronto. They may have been 10-30records coming out each week, but I doubt that much. The hot ones got scooped up by the same dozen DJs. People would know the songs after a few weeks because everyone had the same tracks. And for bedroom DJs, we would have the vinyls, make our own mixed tapes, buy or get mixed tapes from DJs and go to parties that played the same tracks. It sounds boring, but it wasn't, every DJ had their own style and it was amazing fun!! This mix that AKI made is incredible and beautiful from start to finish. The end of side B is a little warped sounding because I mangled the original tape playing it so much (burned out a ton of walkmans). THANK YOU AKI for one of the best house mixed tapes I ever got!! The way he brings in the tracks, the flow, and the house music... WOW. Makes you want to stomp it out. This is what we looked forward each saturday after working all week at our crappy, low paying jobs. This mix might not do anything to you if you weren't part of that era, but who knows maybe some newbies will enjoy this two special part mixes of Toronto history.  Cheers, dattrax BTW... These two mixes are originally from a double sided cassette tape made in 1996 by AKI. Mixed at his home, recapturing his famed "Mark & Aki" parties. Mixed on two technics 1200's vinyl turntables and a mixer. There were no single channel EQ's on both channels/line in's in those DJ mixers back then. Which makes these two mixes even more incredible.  Enjoy, dattrax =============================== Please visit our main mix site or download the free Podomatic app and search 'dattrax' - with 155+ house music mixes: https://www.podomatic.com/podcasts/dattrax --------------- How do we describe the dattrax sound? Always Fun, Tech-Fused, Funky-Foot Stompin', Carved Deep and Woven & Laced with Sweet Smooth Hands in the Air Vocals... Strictly House Music- always dattrax. --------------- Reach out to us and comment if you've enjoyed our mixes. Just Google 'dattrax' and find all places we've been a part of online. Please share with your family, friends, co-workers, and acquaintances who could use a dose of musical candy. Isn't music such a great escape? --------------- DJ Bookings for Canada, the US, or Global: dattrax@gmail.com