Live at Destination 2012

This was my “farewell set” recorded live at the Shakti Collective’s NYE event 2011/2012. I wanted to round out a decade of DJing in Toronto with a retrospective set filled with classics, particularly those classics that were regular fixtures of my sets back in the day. I also looked upon it as an opportunity to play a few old tunes that I always meant to drop at some point or another but never got around to (Neuro, for instance, which is one of the songs that got me into trance in the first place). I know, the programming in this set is a bit weird. Perhaps it was the hour (I started shortly after 5 in the morning and the party had emptied out a lot) but there simply wasn’t a lot of energy to work with. This should explain some of the awkward twists and turns; it’s a tough crowd when old workhorses like these hardly elicit more than a nod and a smile! Still, I had a great time, and the technical side is relatively solid, so here it is…

Artwork by Andre Castro.