Jay Kaufman - Menacing

A remix that's sadly remained unreleased of a Toronto indie rock band that I did. The label asked me to do it in an Anjunadeep style and I have to say I'm quite proud of what I delivered.

The first hour of this was aired on the Progressive Channel of DI.fm for the 10th Anniversary of the Old Norsk Sessions show hosted by Nitemer. However, this mix is actually just over five hours and very much the stereotypical DJ 'journey'. It is a representation of how I would play over the course of an entire night... Starting out with progressive breaks, moving into some progressive house and then landing upon melodic techno with a few classics and also exclusive unreleased Jay Kaufman productions thrown in for good measure.. Turn this up loud and dance away! ARTIST - TRACK TITLE - ALBUM/E.P. NAME - LABEL - CATALOGUE NUMBER 1. Nick Devon - The Ghost In My Head - Monochromatic World - Steyoyoke Recordings 105 2. Budakid - The End - The End E.P. - Exploited Digtal 190 3. FC Kahuna featuring Hafdis Huld - Hayling (John Digweed & Nick Muir remix) - Subtract Music 016 4. Stage Van H - Paramythi (Science & Reason remix) - Massive Harmony Records 349 5. Joris Voorn featuring HÆLOS - Messiah - BMG Music 6. B.Traits - Mameya - 20 Years of Fabric - Fabric Records 7. Joris Voorn featuring Underworld - Too Little Too Late - BMG Music 8. Audion featuring Troels Abrahamsen - Dem Howl (Joris Voorn mix) - Kompakt Records 9. Kiko - Echoes Of Light - The Last Trip - Stil Vor Talent 266 10. Whirl - Atone - Steyoyoke Black Reserve 2019 - Steyoyoke Black Recordings 055 11. GNTN featuring Artche - Tensions (Original mix) - Tensions E.P. - Einmusika Recordings 12. John Digweed, Nick Muir & Gabriel Ananda - Tachyon Return - Soulful Techno Records 024 13. Depeche Mode - I Feel Loved (Fur Coat remix) - Mute Records 14. Fehrplay - Reach - Reach E.P. - Mood Of Mind 011 15. The Temper Trap - Sweet Disposition (Camille Luciani mix) - Renaissance Records 1904 16. Booka Shade featuring Lazarusman - Dear Future Self (Extended mix) - Dear Future Self E.P. - Blaufield Music 062 17. Brigado Crew, Ubbah & Faide - Gana - Equillibrium E.P. - Stil Vor Talent Records 268 18. Arel Yano - Aguariente (Jair Ydan remix) - 76 Recordings 19. DJ Samer featuring Dany Ivory - Immortal (Luke Chable remix) - Pangea XV 15 Years Part 2 E.P. - Pangea Recordings 080 20. Nihil Young (Less Hate) - Sol (Extended Mix) - Unified Volume 11 E.P. - Zerothree 15701Z 21. Solee - They Will Come for Us - Delirium E.P. - Parquet Recordings 210 22. Lines Of Communication - The Warning (Jay Kaufman's I Told You So remix) - unreleased 23. Giorgia Angiuli - Take Me Back (Hernan Cattaneo & Lonya remix) - You Shine E.P. - Warung Recordings 038 24. Foals - The Runner (RU¨FU¨S DU SOL remix) - Warner Records 25. Warung - Tibet - Only You E.P. - KDB 172 26. D-Nox & K.A.L.I.L. - Pangea (Stan Kolev & Matan Caspi remix) - Outta Limits 307 27. Ewan Rill - Primal Function - Magnitude Recordings 28. Enamour & Nox Vahn - Sleep Paralysis (Extended mix) - Sleep Paralysis E.P. - Yoshitoshi Recordings 29. Ben Böhmer & Monolink - Black Hole (Martin Roth Extended mix) - Anjunadeep 30. Fat Sushi - Absolom - Absolum E.P. - Parquet Recordings 205 31. Undercatt - Atlantico - Atlantico E.P. - Notturna 001 32. Airbas & Andrea Martini - Merisis (Airbas Edition) - Emotive Sounds 33. Underworld - Dark & Long (Christian Smith Tronic Treatment remix) - Tronic Records 073 34. Third Project - Kalele (Original mix) - BC2 294 35. Damian Lazarus & The Ancient Moons - All I Need To Get High (Ae_ther Dreaming Dub remix) - Crosstown Rebels Music 215 36. Antrim - Crossing The Ocean (Petar Dundov remix) - Crossing The Ocean E.P. - Univack Records 057 37. Shahin featuring Leiuna - Paradigm (D-Formation remix) - Parquet Recordings 211 38. George Acosta - Continuity - Black Hole Recordings 39. Sasha - Rabbitweed - Xpander E.P. - Deconstruction Records 40. André Sobota & Felipe Novaes - Prescience (Alex O'Rion Remix) - Club Sonica Records 061 41. Wally Lopez - All Has Changed (Mononoid remix) - ICONYC Essentials 3 Winter Edition - ICONYC 140 42. Adana Twins - C3PO - Picture Adana Twins E.P. - Diynamic Recordings 43. Lana Del Rey vs. Martin Dubiansky - Summertime Sadness - bootleg 44. Stil & Bense - Cheat Codes (Melody Stranger remix) - ICONYC Essentials 3 Winter Edition - ICONYC 140 45. Modeplex - Jaded (Supacooks remix) - Kitchen Recordings 075 46. R+ & Dido - My Boy (Meduza remix) - Loaded Records 4050538598438 47. Yotto - Hyperlude (Dosem Extended edit) - Anjunadeep 450 48. Gabriel Amato - Astral - Astral E.P. - Movement Recordings 195 49. Mental Order - Abias - Augmented 001 - Mango Alley AUG001 50. Third Project - Kalele (Luciano Vaninetti & Adelphos Remix) - BC2 294 51. OIBAF&WALLEN - Balder (Original mix) - Hela E.P. - Univack Records 061 52. Push - Universal Nation (Gai Barone remix) - Bonzai Progressive 53. Moby - Go (Jay Kaufman's Got It Going remix) - unsigned 54. Hakan Ozurun - Leave It Be (Original mix) - Bonzai Progressive 8922019 55. Jam & Spoon - Follow Me (Jerome Isma-Ae Extended remix) - Blackhole Recordings 9410

Artist debut for my new project 'Owl'. Owl comprises of Nicholas Vining and myself. We have been working away slowly in the studio for just over a year and this is the first of our tracks to bear fruition from start to finish oiutside of several remixes we've done. A cheeky sample pinched from a powerful YouTube reading by Benedict Cumberbatch acts as the centrepoint to this dancefloor burning tune. All the right bits are included... Epic buildup, breakdown, hands in the air 'woo' moment and finally a release. This is just the first of many and will be on our forthcoming E.P.

Progressive Trance? Melodic Techno? Progressive House? Either way, I'm quite proud of this! Literally just finished it. Now to sign it somewhere!

This is a combined effort in between myself and my new studio partner, Nicholas Vining - who records with me as Owl. I've spent probably 40 hours on this remix - and I feel it shows. The production is dense and there's lots of layers of various things going on - including edits of the vocals, filtering of the various parts, shaping the original bassline into something new, etc. I have been following Andrew for a while now and upon hearing this, I immediately thought I could ramp up the original for the dancefloor. While the original is a pop song, I think I was able to maintain the concepts of the original whilst injecting some more energy that will keep club dancefloors swaying. I'm exceptionally proud of this remix. While this is the first collaborative remix I've done as Owl, I had already started it before Nicholas came in to help me with the chorus and when I got stuck. He wrote some beautiful Rhodes chords as well as some ad-lib Rhodes lead and synth lead sounds to set the whole bridge off.

This is a cover of Fat Boy Slim's 'Star 69' track. I've always been partial the the original mix and I had a few of the parts, but not enough to really make it a remix, so I wrote around what little I had and it tunred into this. Released through Kiwi progressive house label Emotional Content Recordings in February of 2019

Released through Kiwi progressive house label Emotional Content Recordings in February of 2019.

Here's part two of the Menacing release I've done. Proper progressive house and melodic techno!

Progressive house? Progressive trance? Both?

Technocracy began as the first electronic music show on college radio station CFBU 103.7 FM (Brock Radio) in St. Catharines, ON, Canada in 1995. The (then) new radio station lacked any electronic music being hosted on its airwaves and Jay Kaufman was the man to carve out what went on to become *the* premier electronic music and culture radio show for the Niagara Region. It ran on Friday nights and later on, Saturdays as a way to kick start the weekend. Other shows soon followed, as well as a club night using the same name as the show. Technocracy the FM radio show ran for a total of five years - 3 of which Jay was the main host. Featured guests included people like BT, Timo Maas, Mark E.G., Chris Liberator, Commander Tom, Nils Landstrumm and many more. The club night ran for three years and hosted some of the same names. Fast forward to now. Technocracy is back in the form of a podcast doing what Jay does best - bring you the best DJ sets from himself and the world over.