Grab it from Apple | Deezer (preferred)| Amazon | YouTube - you can also watch the full recording on the YouTube video platform.

I’ve also embedded the YouTube video here - full playlist below:

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Here's the full playlist:

++Artist - Title (Remix) [LABEL]++

Armand Van Helden, Mark Knight, D.Ramirez - You (Extended Mix) [TOOLROOM]

Pinto (NYC), Moon Boots - Get On Up (Extended Mix) [JACKIES MUSIC]

DJ Fudge - When the Rhythm Talks (Extended Mix) [TINTED RECORDS]

EBTH vs Soul Vision - Tracey In My Room (Lazy Dog Bootleg Vocal) [VIRGIN RECORDS]

Angelo Ferreri, Gabriele Congedo - Add Somebody (Original Mix) [MOOD FUNK RECORDS]

Rue Jay, Kim Fai - Let Me Tell U Something (Extended Mix) [SOULFUL LEGENDS]

Dajae - Brighter Days (Harry Romero House Me Up Extended Mix) [BIG LOVE]

Mark Knight, Jay Vegas - Give Me Your Love [FOOLS PARADISE]

Angelo Ferreri - Let's Break [RAP JACK MUSIC]

Cajmere - Say U Will (Andy Van Remix) [DATA RECORDS]

Jay Vegas - DJ Kone & Marc Palacios - Raise Your Hands (DJ Kone & Marc Palacios Remix) [HOT STUFF]

David Penn, KPD - Get Yourself Together (Extended Mix) [URBANA]

Djomood, ELTE - The More I Need (ELTE Extended Remix) [KOOKOO RECORDS]

Junior Jack - My Feeling (Kick & Deep Extended Remix) [PIAS RECORDINGS]

Pietro Over Jack - We're Gonna Party (Original Mix) [RAP JACK MUSIC]

Purple Disco Machine - Disco Cherry [SWEAT IT OUT]

Cristoph - Disco Juice [THE CROSS RECORDS]

Mattei & Omich - Groove 558 (Extended Mix) [MATTEI & OMICH MUSIC]

Dam Swindle x 95 North - Find A Way To Believe (Extended Mix) [KING STREET SOUNDS]

Soulsearcher - Feelin' Love (RUZE & Chesster Extended Remix) [SOULFURIC TRAX]

DJ PP - That Funky Rhythm (Extended Mix) [BLACK BOX UNDERGROUND]

Deepmore - Move To The Rhythm (Extended Mix) [SNATCH! RECORDS]

Tiptoes - Gimme Some Mo [ON LOOP]

Dam Swindle - Do What You Want (Burnski Remix) [PIV RECORDS]

Kepler & Job De Jong - Need Your Love (Original Mix) [CONTACT MUSIC]

Marijn Jansen - Pumpin' It Up (Extended Mix) [EARDRUMS]

Discoplex - In The House Music (Extended Mix) [555]

Carlita & Paige Cavell - Patchwork (Extended Mix) [NINJA TUNE]

DJ Sneak - El Bodeguero (Original Mix) [REFUGE RECORDINGS]

Hotswing - Move This Way (Extended Mix) [GLASGOW UNDERGROUND]

Seal - Crazy (Robert Georgescu and White Remix) [WHITE LABEL]

DJ Gregory - Block Party (Low Steppa & NOLEK Remix) [AFRICANISM]

Enjoy!

https://link.deezer.com/s/33KqVY81IINlriEhWZJ4e

1. Cristoph - Disco Juice
2. Groove Armada - Loves Theme (Myd Remix)
3. **⣎⡇ꉺლ༽**இ•̛)ྀ◞ ༎ຶ ༽ৣৢ؞ৢ؞ؖ ꉺლ - ☼⃝☼⃝◉ ҉⃝O◉◖ƪ❍⊁◞..◟⊀ ̟̞̝̜̙̘̗̖҉̵̴̨̧̢̡̼̻̺̹̳̲̱̰̯̮̭̬̫̪̩̦̥̤̣̠҈͈͇͉͍͎͓͔͕͖͙͚͜͢͢͢͢͢͢͢͢͢͢͢͢͢͢ͅ ⦁ ⦁ ⦁ ❍|◗щ (*ㅇ△ Φ☆)ノ☼⃝⊖☼⃝
4. Hotswing - Move This Way
5. Soulsearcher - Feelin’ Love (Ruze & Chesster Mix)
6. Salute - Check Check
7. Dajae - Brighter Days (Harry Romero House Me Up Remix)
8. Michael Gray ft Mike Dunn - You & Me
9. Starzin Deeper , DJ LINCS - Feel It
10. Shade K, Terri Kynd - Toxic Spit

If you’re wondering, the weird logos is vocalised as ‘WingDings’ which is a project by Four Tet. Definitely worth checking out. But that Cristoph tune, my choice for tune of the summer!

It’s called SubTraKtion In AKtion, and is basically one long mix series of house, garage and breaks which I’m really feeling and can be an indicator of my DJ sets at the time.

The first episode (which I prefer to call a BroadKast) is now available at the following places (others too but these are the main ones)

Apple | Deezer | Amazon | YouTube

You can also manually add it to your library using it’s RSS Feed here.

BroadKast 1 can also be streamed right here…. enjoy!

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https://www.deezer.com/us/playlist/15036038543

1. Groove Armada - Love’s Theme
2. Steve Bug, Mikey V, Ammo Avenue - Don’t Stop The Music
3. Fred Again - HARDSTYLE 2 (Lou Nour Mix)
4. Detlef & Tony Romera - Pop It (Extended Mix)
5. Dale Howard - Get Bass
6. Harry Robson - Like Dat
7. Rony Seikaly & VITO (UK) - Running Cash
8. Rich XNT - Dewey
9. Tiptoes - In The Projects
10. Fabian Haneke & ACA (YU) - Hot Pott

Make sure to check the new podcast ‘SubTraKtion In AKtion’, available now on most podcast platforms.

Enjoy!

https://link.deezer.com/s/32GbfuSVgUkPMM4NsSNGA

1. Adamel - Clown’s Pocket
2. Job De Jong - Move Your Body
3. Sam Divine - The Groove
4. Matt Hudson, Kieran Jones - Lovin’ You
5. Matt Gillespie - Need You Now
6. Kepler & Paul Rayner - On The Move
7. Aaron Mount - The Rush (Original Mix)
8. Tripmastaz & DJ Sneak - XTC
9. AnAmStyle - Deja Vu
10. Urbi - Play It Back

You might even hear some of these tracks in the mix in my new Podcast ‘In AKtion’ coming (very) soon.

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So I think it’s worth laying out what I want to get done this year - as a foundation for the next few years/decade:

2026

1. Mix and produce new Podcast mix series. It’s going to be called ‘SubTraKtion In Aktion’, with EU-based hosting but delivery to all major podcast platforms. I need to consider the frequency - at present I am thinking of doing it Quarterly.
2. Learn BitWig Studio and begin to produce new music. This will be a difficult one, as it’s been well over 10 years since I last worked with a DAW, and that was Logic on my (very) old Macbook. That Macbook is now running MX Linux and I’ve put BitWig on it - but it’s really just a tester laptop so I can get a taste of Linux before considering moving over when the time comes for a new laptop. *
3. Continue to share on Instagram (@subtraktiondj) - with a view to redirecting to the privacy-respecting decentralised platforms (such as those on the ‘Fediverse’). I don’t think there’s much of an awareness of privacy issues with a lot of mainstream social media, so for now I think a large audience of who I want to share my mixes with are already on Insta. My mission is to help people switch to an (arguably) better decentralised platform where their privacy is better respected.
4. Get some remixes in the bag! Already been planning this out with some choice tunes. How this pans out across the year I don’t know, depends on how well I do with BitWig, but the intention is there.
5. Share my choice tunes of the month, starting February! My top tunes for the month and a bonus choice gym track you can add to your workouts :)

So back in 2012 following a near-ten year DJ career I decided to take a break. At the time, I had achieved a solid reputation. Notable achievements being:

• Ministry of Sound ‘Clubbers Guide’ Tour Resident & Headliner (Scotland/North)
• Stereo Sushi Resident DJ
• Colours Resident
• Local & Worldwide Radio Show (Kinda Groovy, Colin Sales Live)
• Established warm-up DJ for big events, warming up for the likes of David Guetta, Eric Prydz, Dimitri From Paris, and more.
• Weekly Bar Residencies in Glasgow
• Various singles and and album released with S.U.Z.Y (and others) on vocals seeing a good degree of success and support from major DJs across the industry (Roger Sanchez, Laurent Garnier, Grant Nelson, and more).

I felt I was putting a huge amount of effort into securing further DJ work, but wasn’t really getting anywhere. There was lots of effort for little return in a very saturated market. One particular offer to play a bar gig for £30 was the straw that broke the camel’s back.

So I hung up my headphones.

But one thing stood true: I still had a huge passion for the music.

A decade passed, Covid had caused chaos, and following the Cambridge Analytica scandal I had deleted my social media - including WhatsApp. I became interested in the privacy and security of my own personal data and started to live a value of independence. I subsequently became a customer of hardened end-to-end encrypted services including Proton, Signal but I generally figured that I’d be a little private person using Apple’s ecosystem and wouldn’t have to be concerned about privacy and security.

Now throw in some USA geopolitics, Apple’s decision to pull it’s Advanced Data Protection tool from the UK, and then some Amazon Web Services (AWS) outages into the mix (amongst others), and it became clear to me that in order to maintain my privacy, digital independence and security - including avoidance of US surveillance (yes, as a UK citizen - this is a thing!) I was going to need to switch some of the services I used to something more European or UK-based.

Let me be clear, I’ve nothing to hide - except my own data. I prefer to control who has access to it, and not give that decision to my phone or my browsing habits.

So I took the decision to end my dependency on Apple’s ecosystem.

Part of the problem with Apple was that it was getting even more ridiculously expensive. But the threat of tariffs on new iPhones meant this could go higher, so I felt that I knew I was making the right decision.

I bought a FairPhone (Gen 6) and migrated from iOS to the de-googled /e/OS mobile system. I moved away from Apple Music to Deezer (because Spotify collects LOADS of data including health info, WTF?), and I also converted my old Apple Macbook to MX Linux (just for fun and to experience Linux at a low level). I do still have my current Macbook Pro which is a newer model and will likely last me through the next decade, but my full intention is to switch right over to Linux going forward.

But crucially, my love for the music hasn’t gone away.

++The Spark That Brought Me Back++

A close friend decided to buy himself some new decks - a standalone Pioneer unit and I ended up using it to DJ at a private party which was absolutely brilliant fun and really spurred me on to invest some time and money back into the artform.

So I splashed out on a Pioneer XDJ-RX3, recorded some mixes (I hadn’t lost my skills, thankfully! ) and put them out under a production alias ‘SubTraKtion’ which I’d already use around the time my headphones got hung up. Unfortunately, YouTube took down some mixes already, but everything I have is on my Mixcloud and Soundcloud pages.

I chose the name ‘SubTraKtion’ because a) I love basslines, especially on a good subwoofer! b) I used to use Traktor Pro software, so the ‘Trak’ is a nod to that, plus c) ‘Traktion’ is of course a word to describe ‘movement’, so I felt that worked pretty well.

++Where My Sound Is Today++

Whilst I still absolutely LOVE House music, as you can imagine over the last two decades my taste in the various sub-genres' of House has developed.

I’m a stickler for a good bassline, and the evolution of ‘bass house’ has been interesting - I like to combine that with garage, tech, and minimal/micro house sounds, and that’s what ‘SubTraKtion’ is all about. But, at the same time, I love funky & soulful tracks, and big-room sounds with lots of energy, that love will never go away.

So, here I am, back online with my own website. Ready to go again for maybe another decade (or more!) of House whether it’s mixing or producing. I intend to log my progress on this very blog which I’ve aptly named Kronicles (a little play on using the ‘K’ in the new name).

But first, I need to set a few DJ/Producer goals, and get my first Podcast up and running, then begin work on producing some new music.

I also need to get my social channels up and running.

As an advocate for privacy-first, open source and digital sovereignty - I won’t be on Facebook, Twitter, TikTok etc (only Insta for a short period for ‘promotional purposes’.

++Join The Journey++

I’ve registered accounts on Mastodon, Pixelfed, MakerTube, and this blog on Writizzy. These are all federated UK or EU-based services which don’t steal, sell or hand over your data. Hopefully you can join me on there - drop me a little follow or subscribe (for free) to my video channel (on MakerTube).

Lots to do - lots to mix, and lots of good times and good vibes to be had.

I hope you can join the ride with me. Big fun incoming!

Colin (SubTraKtion)