Good People Better Rise Up! - Alex Whalen

An Arrival Industries mini-reunion, you say? (Baker, where you at?) A gig in San Francisco, you say? DJing in a time of COVID-19 sure is strange, but hell yeah, I'm in. No tracklist, because WE DID IT LIVE.

Tilted (Original Mix) - Hot Since 82 Stranger Things (Subandrio Remix) - Max Freegrant, Miss Monique Heliopolis (Framewerk Rewerk) - Banco De Gaia Perfect Motion (Patrice Baumel Renaissance Remix) - Sunscreem Everytime (Nalin + Kane vs. Whalen Edit) - Lustral Teardrop (James Holden Mix) - Massive Attack Swimming (Visionquest Remix, Ewan Pearson Re-Edit) - Tracey Thorn My Lexicon (Original Mix) - Sander Kleinenberg Sweet Disposition (Camille Luciani Mix) - The Temper Trap Surin - Original Mix - Quivve These Are The Days - Vocal Mix - Quivver Love Stimulation (Tom Middleton Remodel) - Tom Middleton Melburn - Shiloh Rmx (Whalen Edit) - Luke Chable This Feeling feat. Julie McKnight (Original Mix) - Roger Sanchez, Park & Sons Skin Deep (Original Mix) - Dusky Yoohoo (Original Mix) - Dusky Hallelujah Anyway (Director's Cut Signature Praise) - Candi Staton Someone Like You (Full Vocal Mix) - Soulmagic

Took me two weeks to pull this one together for you, what with…well….everything going on. I’m taking y’all waaaaaaay back to the eighties and nineties on this one, back to my roots And trust me — if you know, YOU WILL KNOW.

So far as I am concerned, it's always right and proper to wrap your weekend with an extended ambient set. Apparently one of my neighbors disagrees? Now I really have seen everything. Oy

Haven’t left those islands yet, but the sun’s gone down and it’s time to get big. Yet another one from the vaults, circa 2007.

Another one from deeeeep in the vaults, this time with progressive house, under the sun vibes.

The soundtrack for a very special occasion back in May 2007, this one’s been sitting in the vaults without being heard for a good long while. The track list does exist somewhere, but where that is I cannot at the moment say…

A mix from back in 2010 dedicated to the sounds of 2000.

If you know, you know….Maui 2.0.

Long holiday weekend means some time behind the decks. Full tracklist posted here shortly, but available now over at Mixcloud.

Full tracklisting available at https://www.mixcloud.com/alexwhalen/

Why isn’t this mix named after a Star Wars planet? I honestly have no idea at this point, but I promise you that it made sense to me back in 1995!

The fifth and for now final installment of downtempo mixes taken from my mixtape vaults, Kessel dates back to the early months of my time in SF.

The very first mix I ever recorded.

The third in what I think you can tell was a series, this was the B-side of the second mixtape I ever recorded back in 1995. Sound quality suffers a bit here and there as the original tape was damaged, but hopefully not so much that it takes away from your enjoyment of the mix.

Bepsin dates all the way back to 1994. Recorded live using a Vestax mixer, three 1200s, and two non-pitch-shifting CD players, because y'all, we weren't even dreaming of those yet.

By special request, I’m going back in time to repost a downtempo mix I made all the way back in 2002 while living in San Frandisco. Of all the mixes I’ve ever made, this is the one that seems to have left the biggest mark. If this keeps up, I may have to do a 20th anniversary edition some day, eh?!?

Full tracklisting available at https://www.mixcloud.com/alexwhalen/

Full tracklisting available at https://www.mixcloud.com/alexwhalen/

Full tracklisting available at https://www.mixcloud.com/alexwhalen/