Good Morning Mix – Sander van Doorn makes his Essential Mix debut in 2006
Back in 2006 the dance music landscape was much different than it is today. Still a decidedly underground experience in the US, many of today's biggest artists were delivering sets that would shock and disappoint the festival crowds of 2013. I concede the point that it's most likely a purely subjective opinion, that nothing much has changed in the scene except for my age and my perspective. Then I listen to Sander Van Doorn's 2006 Essential Mix debut and I start to think otherwise. Call it the nostalgia for a simpler time, but simplicity is the one thing that Sander's mix was not - like many of his contemporaries did in 2006, Sander paid no mind to the trends of the time and instead defined them for himself, delivering a set that stands the test of time as a flawless representation of dance music at the start of its US rebirth. With early cuts from Dada Life, Ferry Corsten and even Steve Angello, Sander's Essential Mix is a two hour snapshot of the honest creativity and style that defined the scene seven years ago.
Good Morning Mix – Erick Morillo Space Ibiza Closing Party (8/7/2005)
In 2005 Pete Tong invited Erick Morillo onto the airwaves of his famed Radio 1 show to close out the summer season in Ibiza on the Terrace at Space. It was the ten year celebration of dance music on the White Isle, and from the sound of Pete Tong’s enthrilled voice and the exuding chants from the feverish crowd, you knew this party was more than an average Ibiza night out.