So while we were in Barcelona, my friend Kane had and idea to put together mixes for this blog. Each would be known as a SPECTRACIDE mix– a fresh exercise for him to sharpen his DJ skills and to bring sick music to your next party or marathon run. I agreed that the idea was awesome and told him I’d handle the cover art duties as well as I could.

Well here we are, a few months later and have his first mix of the best electro and progressive house out right now. Preview at your leisure and below or via the artwork. If you dig the mix, comment here or on soundcloud to give him some props. Tracklist is after the break, enjoy!

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So under the suggestion of a few friends after sending out the 10th MMDS e-mail, I’ve decided to go forward with releasing compilation “mixtapes” of sorts of songs that I’m currently digging. These compilations have no restriction to genre or release date (although most tracks, I’d imagine, are newish), contain somewhere around 8-12 songs, and also have my own personally made custom album art (thanks to Mich for the inkblot drawing for the main art). Each compilation has been heavily ID3 re-tagged in an attempt to not clutter up your respective iTunes libraries (more on that below). Simply download the compilation, unzip the archive, add to library, and you’re good to go. The extra details about “Grouping Compilations” you only have to do once, but will aid in cleaning up your Artist list. The only drawback to all of this, however, is that I had to remove the Album name from all the tracks in order for them to group correctly in iTunes, sorry.

So first, do yourself a favor and get your iTunes settings correct (you only have to check one stupid box) to group the compilation into a single entity rather than a ton of singles by different artists. Open up your iTunes Settings (command + , on Macs), navigate to Advanced and do this:

Tracklisting

1. The xx – Intro
2. Miike Snow – Cult Logic
3. edIT – Ants
4. HEALTH – Lost Time (Pictureplane Remix)
5. Friendly Fires – Lovesick
6. (I just noticed I fucked up this first one, there is no track 6. God dammit.)
7. Bloc Party – Flux (Extended 12″ Vinyl Mix)
8. Boys Noize – Sweet Light
9. Tiësto – Love Comes Again (Original 12″ Vinyl Version)
10. Deadmau5 – Strobe
11. The Mamas & Papas – California Dreaming (Benny Benassi Remix)
12. Minus the  Bear – Patiently Waiting
13. Bloc Party – SXRT

→ Download Monospectra Compilation 01 ←

I hope you all enjoy.