Hey everyone! So the other morning, while on morning baby duty at 5am, I found that I was in the mood for the first time in…oh probably 4+ years easily, to do a Drum and Bass dj mix. Now keep in mind, beyond the live set I did at Fluid prior to heading out to the best coast, I haven’t done any drum and bass mixes since 2008 – I was really getting into a LOT of other kinds of music and wasn’t really feeling much in the world of dnb. Regardless, I decided to just have a freestyle mix of tunes that I haven’t heard in YEARS, without any pre-planning or style that I was going with, or anything else – really just an organic process, but quite an enjoyable one to say the least. While doing the mix, I didn’t feel like I had to cram 36 tunes in within the span of an hour and 20 mins, or that I had to do anything at all really – just enjoy actually dj’ing the music, and whatever happened, happened. So what I ended up coming out with was a pretty summery styled mix of tunes – nothing too crazy or hard or anything else – just something to get your head nodding and feet tapping with some fantastic music. Without further adieu, here’s the tracklist:

1: Die – Clear Skyz (Break Remix)
2: Current Affairs Feat. Dom – Sand Gun
3: Klute – Halloween
4: D-Bridge Feat. Calibre – Hot Flush
5: Danny Byrd – Feet Won’t Touch The Ground
6: Kiko and Rob F – Naughty Girl
7: Teebee – Catch My Breath
8: Matrix Vs. Futurebound – Womb
9: Holdtight – East West
10: Marcus Intalex – Out Of Touch
11: Spectrasoul – Un-Earthed
12: Calibre – Second Sun
13: Commix – Five Reasons (Syncopix Remix)
14: Brookes Brothers Vs. Futurebound – Dawn Treader
15: Drifter – Close To Me (Matrix Remix)
16: Mutt – I Used To
17: High Contrast – Kiss Kiss Bang Bang
18: Psidream – Orbiting Earth
19: Kiko – Callisto
20: Noisia and Pacific – On Your Mind

After listening to it a number of times, I’m really quite pleased with how it turned out – one of my better mixes in recent years. It comes in at just under 60 minutes, and I’ve put it up as a 192k mp3 file.

Download link: http://www.1217design.com/DJHelix-SummerSteez.mp3

I’ll also be putting up a mixcloud stream link shortly as well, but for now, enjoy the music and tell your friends!
-Helix/@Menace_SC2