Hey everyone, long time no talk – it’s been a minute since I’ve posted anything up, but, you know how that whole “real life†thing goes. Between the new job, buying a house, my laptop breaking, and everything else going on in my life – it’s been pretty hectic – all good though, I’ve got a TREAT for you all. Last Sunday was the 10 year anniversary of me starting to DJ – it’s when I finally got my 2nd turntable (which I still have mind you): a Technics 1210 from Cue Records down on South Street, Philadelphia. Prior to that point I’d been using my parent’s direct drive pioneer turntable with a pitch wheel to listen to the records that I was buying. Since then a LOT has happened – I learned how to dj, I met a TON of amazing people, dj’d at some awesome venues, started my whole music production side thing, made somewhere in the neighborhood of 100 mixes if not more (I still have the large majority of them as well), and have had a blast doing it ever since. From Pedro Grayfox coming over and teaching me how to beatmatch and beatcount in my dorm room, spending ~5 hours that first day, to DJ’ing at Fluid on the same bill as J Majik and The Upbeats, to getting signed to Skynet’s NVision label, to having my own weekly event, to making multiple mixes with over 100,000 downloads – I couldn’t ask for more. I’ve done a lot of mixes in the past, but for this one I wanted to do something special – I wanted to go through all of the different genres of music that I’ve dj’d – showcasing my evolution over the years, and put it all into a single mix. I’ve come up with a pretty solid representation of my musical taste and the evolution of that over the years – going from Drum and Bass to Electro to Moombahton to Oldschool Hip Hop, it covers all of the bases for me. I really hope that you enjoy this mix as I’ve put a lot of thought into the whole thing. Prior to tracklist and mix link though, I’d like to give some thanks to people who’ve made a difference over the years:
Pedro Grayfox for teaching me how to beatmatch and beatcount + getting me the gig at Fluid, Daniel Cyanide for showing me that Neurofunk is in-fact awesome and many many other things as well, Jason MaginBoo for taking thousands and thousands of my dollars (4,600 in the first 4 months of DJ’ing alone) and selling me amazing records at 611 – even letting me in for 30 mins to an hour before the store opened to go through the newest tunes, the entire Let Me Ride crew – Art, Joey, Illy MC, Kevin Kong, Structure for trying to book me 2-3 times for fusion prior to each of their subsequent shutdowns, Mason and DStar for being great friends and always willing to take a listen to my tunes, Nathan Skynet for actually signing my music and being a solid friend while you were in Philly, Leigh Texel, Mike Advanced, Atlantic Connection, MC Sharpness, Armanni Reign – for always being down to work on tunes, Kevin Gimble, Messinian, James Intrinsic, Dave Nada/Tittsworth/Thijis Noisia/Chris BluMarTen/Jae Kennedy/Elhornet for always giving advice on the tunes that I was working on, Jake Kill The Noise/Treasure Fingers/Fanu/TeeBee for sending me tunes along the way, the entire Philly DnB community along the years, and all of you who’ve listened to my mixes, passed them along to others, commented on the blog, etc – you’re all amazing people every one of you.
Now with that taken care of, the tracklist:
1: Marcus Intallex ft Lynx and Danny Fierce – Climbing Up The Walls
2: Mos Def – Travellin Man (Basic Operations Remix)
3: Drifter – She Gives Me Forever
4: TeeBee – Liquid Light (Original Mix)
5: Psidream – Orbiting Earth
6: Kiko – Callisto
7: Current Affairs ft. Dom – Sand Gun
8: Origin Unknown – Sound In Motion
9: Corrupt Souls – Seppuku
10: Noisia – Desolation (TeeBee Remix) – Unreleased
11: Helix – The Nephilim
12: Skynet – Lifeforce
13: Dom and Roland – Can’t Punish Me
14: TeeBee – Let Go
15: Ewun – Screw Up
16: Technical Itch – Soldiers (D-Bridge VIP)
17: Birdy Nam Nam – Goin’ In (Skrillex Goin’ Hard Mix)
18: Birdy Nam Nam – Goin’ In (Skrillex Goin’ Down Mix)
19: Feed Me ft. Lindsay – Embers
20: The Prodigy – Smack My Bitch Up
21: The Chemical Brothers – Hey Boy, Hey Girl
22: Lil Wayne – A Millie (Nadastrom Remix)
23: Switch – A Bit Patchy (Original Mix)
24: Helix – No Can Do
25: Say Whut – Go Time Anthem
26: Ludique – Learning The Ropes
27: Simian Mobile Disco – Hustler
28: Uffie ft. Pharell Williams – ADD SUV (Armand Van Helden Vocal Remix)
29: Treasure Fingers – Lift Me (Original Mix)
30: Nas and Damian Marley – As We Enter (Breakdown Remix)
31: Bag Raiders – Sunlight
32: Stardust – Music Sounds Better With You (12″ Club Mix)
33: Justice – D.A.N.C.E.
34: Jeremy Glenn – New Life (Torro Torro ReWork)
35: Dillon Francis vs Kill The Noise – Dill The Noise (Original Mix)
36: Bro Safari – Da Worm
37: Dillon Francis – Masta Blasta (Original Mix)
38: The Chemical Brothers – Block Rockin’ Beats
39: Munchi – Esta Noche
40: Armanni Reign – Blowin Up (Produced by Helix)
41: Dillon Francis – Brazzer’s Theme (Original Mix)
42: Slick Rick – Mona Lisa
43: Naughty By Nature – Uptown Anthem
44: Del The Funkee Homosapien – Mistadobalina
45: Salt n Pepa – Let’s Talk About Sex
46: Notorious BIG ft. Ma$e and Puff Daddy – Mo Money Mo Problems
47: PM Dawn – Set Adrift On Memory Bliss
48: Nas – Nas Is Like
49: Buckshot LeFonque – Music Evolution (DJ Premier Remix)
50: Marco Polo ft. Masta Ace – Nostalgia
You can grab the link from here: Helix – The 10 Year Mix
As always, please tell your friends, let me know what you think, enjoy the mix, and here’s to another 10 years of greatness!
-Helix
