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house music by dattrax

dattrax is Jim and Dat, friends for over three decades, DJ Duo, and fanatic House Fiends! From Toronto, Ontario, Canada. Friends since they were 16yrs old. Dat creates these themed recorded DJ sessions that are his therapeutic outlet for his emotions, good or bad. When bad, he uses anything to do with house as a release, recharge and renewal, so that he can start fresh another day. One moment at a time. One step at a time. One crisis at a time. It's all that we can do isn't it? Dat shares a few words with each mix, called 'Chinses Fortune Cookies".   God gifted him with a love, care and boundless curiosities for WORDs as a little boy. He was insatiable. He read everything. Wanted to know much. Was the one in every situation, classroom, job or business that was ASKING A ZILLION QUESTIONS. At 50 young, God took hold of Dat again. The first time was when he was 19. When he heard that, "God Don't Create NO Junk". The simplicity of this TRUTH melted his heart and he cried like a baby in public. (He had hated himself since he was a little boy of 6 or 7yrs old.) God's Truth is Simple. Why???!! So it can reach more people around this beautiful planet. In Jan 2025, God shared a molecule of knowledge with Dat: 1) EACH PERSON IS CREATED PERFECT IN THEIR IMPERFECTIONS. 2) WE ARE TO LIVE WHAT BELIEVE. SHOW PEOPLE OUR LOVE. NOT JUST TALK ABOUT IT. TALK IS CHEAP. TREAT YOUR NEIGHBOUR AS YOURSELF. GIVE YOUR ENEMIES YOUR OTHER CHEEK WHEN THEY MISTREAT YOU. 3) EACH DAY, YOU WILL FIGHT THE BATTLE IN YOUR MIND WITH YOURSELF. THE ANGEL OR DEVIL ON YOUR CARTOON SHOULDERS. WHO WOULD YOU LISTEN TO NOW? __________________ How do we describe our sound? ALWAYS FUN, ENERGETIC, Tech-Fused, Funky-Foot Stompin', Carved Deep and Woven & Laced with Sweet Smooth Hands in the Air Vocals. Strictly House Music- always dattrax. __________________ We only listen to house music or anything that would sound good mixed with it. Enjoy our passion, and please comment after listening. You are the inspiration. Thank you for dropping by. We ae so grateful. Crossing various subgenres of house music from deep, vocal, funky, afro-tech, minimal tech, melodic progressive to classic house. Dropping special edits with 80's pop and classic house blended with the newest and funkiest house instrumentals.__________________ DJ Bookings for Canada, the US, or Global: dattrax@gmail.com __________________ Instagram dattrax: https://www.instagram.com/house_music_by_dattrax/ FaceCrack dattrax: https://www.facebook.com/dat.so.940/__________________ From DJ Bio: "...I was in love with house and DJing when I realized that it wasn't music in the sense of Mozart, but a form of self-expression - participating in making a musical collage like a musical cut and paste.  You get to pick your favourite songs, how fast or slow, how long you want to play them, which part of the song you want to highlight, whether you want to cut it up or layer it and whether you want the feel to be smooth or charging, whether you want... The combinations are endless w/ house music and that much fun!"  __________________ Just Google 'dattrax', and you'll find the Podomatic link. ***Podomatic is both a website and a free mobile app platform.   Just download, sign up, search 'dattrax' and follow.  Voila. Access to 195+ House Music Mixes. __________________ DONATIONS OR SUPPORT ETRANSFERS TO: dattrax@gmail.com __________________  LAST UPDATED: Apr11th, 2025
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Episodes

CLOSINGinONthatSPOT » Strictly House Music

dattrax: WOW!!! Two months since the last mix was uploaded. In an ideal world I'd love to pump out a mix a week, and much respect to the DJs that regularly pump out house mixes. Lots of discipline and love displayed there. Thank you to all the HOUSE DJS out there for sharing with people your hard work finding the gems, and piecing together something that can be enjoyed with multiple listens and shared with like-minded friends. Please check out our Toronto, Ontario, Canada Facebook group called "...

Feb 20, 20121 hr 15 min

TechEdgedSoul » Strictly House Music

dattrax: Wanted to put these tracks into a good mix before they became classic house... really, really wanted to make this mix before Christmas. Unfortunately best laid plans often times don't become realised as work and family leave very small opportunities to indulge in my hobby. But if I had a soundproof room where I can have house music blaring at any time of day or night- wow, that would be a dream! Apologies though... there are two instances where the track playing skips... don't know why ...

Dec 28, 20111 hr 16 min

They BEGGED to be MIXED » Strictly House Music

dattrax: A friend of a friend that I recently met, Chris Z. went on a trip to Hong Kong in the summer and posted this image on Facecrack that he took at a party. I asked for his permission to use it. Thanks again Chris! Read the sign, it's the best ever! Love it because it has happened or will happen to every House DJ out there when you spin at every crappy venue just to hear your music LOUD. So funny. I saw Karizma on a youtube vid talk about people requesting stuff when you are deep into a hou...

Sep 27, 20111 hr 17 min

HEartBeATZ ) ) ) Strictly Vocal House

dattrax: Summer is here in Toronto- the sun is shining and the temperature is at a usual beautiful 27 Degrees Celsius and higher- consistently now. Just in time for a summertime all vocal house mix! Usually like to do one of these back to back vocal mixes per year. We usually have a personal DJing rule of never mixing a vocal into a vocal, but we shelve that once per year. Think the last summer mix was "MAINSTAY" (scroll down to find it). Hands in the air and your head bopping as you drive to th...

Jul 08, 20111 hr 22 min

( (The Depth Field) ) ) Strictly House Music

dattrax: Just bought about 25 new tracks from www.stompy.com and www.traxsource.com + a few older tracks and then banged out this mix. 3rd track in is "In Too Deep", which is a brand new Phil Collins tribute bootleg by Toronto's Jason B. Happy Retirement Mr. Collins. Hope you enjoy this mix, loved making it. Please comment & interact with us below on any mixes that you like. This is the 2nd mix made with the Traktor Kontrol S4 (pictured top). 1st mix w/ S4 is "DIRECT DRIVE" below. Starting t...

Apr 12, 20111 hr 11 min

Direct Drive » Strictly House Music

dattrax: This mix was a blast to make and received the most 'likes' in Facebook that we've ever gotten when posting mixes in the house music related groups that we've joined. Over 3 dozen 'likes' so far and over 1300 plays/downloads in total (inc. FB visitors), and it's only been up for 3 weeks as of this written post. So happy that others in the world are enjoying our vision of house music, it's very gratifying. Thank you all very much. Please feel free to interact with us in the comment sectio...

Mar 26, 20111 hr 14 min

Speakrz JuMpin' » Strictly House Music

dattrax: These past two weeks I've been reacquainted with some old DJ friends and met some new ones on FaceCrack. It's been a blast sharing each others' house mixes online (no more cassette tapes or cds!!). I've been inspired time and time again by tons of great house music from Toronto DJs & Producers. We always think that the grass is greener elsewhere. Torontonians want to talk about how great the house scene is in New York, Miami, San Fran or Europe. We forget that the reason why there a...

Jan 21, 201157 min

Second Nature » Strictly House Music

dattrax: It amazes us how house has grown into so many genres within itself, but the love of house is universal. It's so much fun to make a mix and share it online with HouseHeadz all over the world. DJing is such a blast!! You get to put together your favourite songs anyway you want. Any speed, any length for each track, how you mix trxs in or out, how you like it to sound with more bass for some or more hi's (guilty). The best part is that you don't have to know any music theory or have any mu...

Jan 13, 201139 min

Forever Is Not Long Enough » Strictly Vocal House

Strictly House Music... Will return here w/ comments, dattrax BTW... if you enjoy this mix, then why don't you buy us a beer? There's a PayPal DONATE button on the top right side of this website. For Toronto or Global bookings: dattrax@gmail.com This was an all CD house mix.

Dec 07, 20101 hr 19 min

LightHouse » Strictly House Music

dattrax: Made this mix with M-Audio's Xponent midi-controller, their Torq software & my laptop. After using my friend's Xponent a few times I'd have to say that I'm not a fan. (Sorry, not being ungrateful Devon. Thank you for letting me borrow it). The cueing of tracks from the beginning on the jog wheels don't work each time, so you have to use the forward/backwards buttons a lot- major pain and time waster. The cross-fader and pitch controls are way too loose- it's difficult to be precise....

Dec 07, 201059 min

Capsized » Strictly House Music

dattrax: We want to THANK every single visitor for coming to our site over the last 15mths. We love house music just as much as you do. We started this site at the end of jul2009 not knowing what to expect from all this online stuff (we're a few years removed from all the younger people who actually understand the internet). But WOW... over 65 mixes on this site now- it's oct.7th, 2010, and our backend says that we've had 37 393 total plays/ downloads in last 12mths, 6088 unique visitors, 5554 s...

Oct 07, 20101 hr 12 min

First Glimpse » Strictly House Music

dattrax: My DJ Friends often called hunting for great tracks, "Junk Hunting". That's what we all do who love spinning House, don't we? We went though beatport.com & traxsource.com for weeks and probably listened to 2500+ tracks to buy 68 between the both of us. Jim took beatport and I took traxsource. I think our total bill was less than $140 bucks. In the vinyl days, it would have cost at least $1300 for 68EPs. Yup, it was $16.99 (b4 taxes!) for a 4 track EP or 2Trx double sided 12" or some...

Apr 28, 20101 hr 18 min

Relentless » Strictly House Music

dattrax: this mix was made w/ two technics 1200 vinyl turntables, pioneer djm-500 mixer, rane SL1 convertor box, and serato scratch live dj software, itunes playlists and sony soundforge for recording. Borrowed a friend's serato/ rane set up and it is a blast. Had more fun making this mix than most of the last gigs w/ mixing w/ cds. Made about 1/2 a dozen mixes before this on serato. "Mainstay, MixTwo" was made w/ serato/ rane set up. This is the best of the fusion of digital music files and the...

Feb 26, 20101 hr 19 min

Mainstay, MixTwo » Strictly Vocal House

continued: To keep the crowd & staff happy and interested we had to almost completely play all vocals. Imagine DJing for 3-6hrs (depending how busy it was)and changing songs every 3mins (we have house-ADD where we compulsively cannot play tracks for a long time)! I guess that I probably wouldn't want banging house in a non club environment but... No, sure we would! We get into different moods when it comes to spinning types of house music, but usually mix it up- that's our sound. We broke ou...

Feb 04, 20101 hr 11 min

Until The Morning, MixTwo » Strictly House Music

Strictly House Music... Will return here w/ comments, dattrax BTW... if you enjoy this mix, then why don't you buy us a beer? There's a PayPal DONATE button on the top right side of this website. For Toronto or Global bookings: dattrax@gmail.com This was an all vinyl house mix.

Jan 27, 201047 min

Until The Morning, MixOne » Strictly House Music

Strictly House Music... Will return here w/ comments, dattrax BTW... if you enjoy this mix, then why don't you buy us a beer? There's a PayPal DONATE button on the top right side of this website. For Toronto or Global bookings: dattrax@gmail.com This was an all vinyl house mix.

Jan 27, 201046 min

Nu Daze » sTriCtLY hOuSe mUsiC

Strictly House Music... Will return here w/ comments, dattrax BTW... if you enjoy this mix, then why don't you buy us a beer? There's a PayPal DONATE button on the top right side of this website. For Toronto or Global bookings: dattrax@gmail.com This was an all vinyl house mix.

Jan 26, 20104 min

Just Like Before » Strictly House Music

Strictly House Music... Will return here w/ comments, dattrax BTW... if you enjoy this mix, then why don't you buy us a beer? There's a PayPal DONATE button on the top right side of this website. For Toronto or Global bookings: dattrax@gmail.com This was an all vinyl house mix.

Jan 26, 201053 min

Renewed » Strictly House Music

Strictly House Music... Will return here w/ comments, dattrax BTW... if you enjoy this mix, then why don't you buy us a beer? There's a PayPal DONATE button on the top right side of this website. For Toronto or Global bookings: dattrax@gmail.com This was an all vinyl house mix.

Jan 26, 201055 min

Trial Memories » Strictly House Music

Strictly House Music... Will return here w/ comments, dattrax BTW... if you enjoy this mix, then why don't you buy us a beer? There's a PayPal DONATE button on the top right side of this website. For Toronto or Global bookings: dattrax@gmail.com This was an all CD house mix.

Jan 25, 20101 hr 3 min

Shared Stain » Strictly House Music

Strictly House Music... Will return here w/ comments, dattrax --------------- Reach out to us and comment. Just Google 'dattrax' and you'll find all places online that we've been a part of. Please share with other like-minded individuals. --------------- There's a PayPal donate button on the right if you're on our Podomatic site if you want to buy us a beer to say cheers ; ) Our PayPal donation email if you are listening to our mixes on another platform. Any amount of support is welcomed. We app...

Jan 25, 201049 min

Safe & Sound » Strictly House Music

Strictly House Music... Will return here w/ comments, dattrax BTW... if you enjoy this mix, then why don't you buy us a beer? There's a PayPal DONATE button on the top right side of this website. For Toronto or Global bookings: dattrax@gmail.com This was an all CD house mix.

Jan 25, 20101 hr 11 min

Distinctual » Strictly House Music

This was an all vinyl house mix. --------------- How do we describe the dattrax sound? Always Fun, Tech-Fused, Funky-Foot Stompin', Carved Deep and Woven & Laced with Sweet Smooth Hands in the Air Vocals... Strictly House Music- always dattrax. --------------- Reach out to us and comment if you've enjoyed our mixes. Just Google 'dattrax' and find all places we've been a part of online. Please share with your family, friends, co-workers, and acquaintances who could use a dose of musical candy...

Jan 25, 20101 hr 15 min

Earthtones » Strictly House Music

Strictly House Music... Will return here w/ comments, dattrax --------------- Reach out to us and comment. Just Google 'dattrax' and you'll find all places online that we've been a part of. Please share with other like-minded individuals. --------------- There's a PayPal donate button on the right if you're on our Podomatic site if you want to buy us a beer to say cheers ; ) Our PayPal donation email if you are listening to our mixes on another platform. Any amount of support is welcomed. We app...

Jan 25, 201046 min

Chatterbox » Strictly House Music

dattrax: Let these non-stop funky beats keep talking to you! Deep techy house w/ rhythmic basslines. Layered w/ so many textures all the way through- dattrax style! Hardly any vocals on this mix, just crammed full of tracks w/ change ups every 3mins or so. Can't you see? There's not enough free time to listen to anything other than house music. Be narrow- minded! BTW... if you enjoy this mix, then why don't you buy us a beer? There's a PayPal DONATE button on the top right side of this website. ...

Jan 22, 20101 hr 8 min

Emergency » Strictly House Music

Strictly House Music... Will return here w/ comments, dattrax BTW... if you enjoy this mix, then why don't you buy us a beer? There's a PayPal DONATE button on the top right side of this website. For Toronto or Global bookings: dattrax@gmail.com This was an all vinyl house mix.

Jan 19, 201056 min

Redlined Tech » Strictly Tech House Music

Strictly House Music... Will return here w/ comments, dattrax --------------- Reach out to us and comment. Just Google 'dattrax' and you'll find all places online that we've been a part of. Please share with other like-minded individuals. --------------- There's a PayPal donate button on the right if you're on our Podomatic site if you want to buy us a beer to say cheers ; ) Our PayPal donation email if you are listening to our mixes on another platform. Any amount of support is welcomed. We app...

Jan 19, 20101 hr

Fallen Circles, MixTwo » Strictly House Music

Strictly House Music... Will return here w/ comments, dattrax BTW... if you enjoy this mix, then why don't you buy us a beer? There's a PayPal DONATE button on the top right side of this website. For Toronto or Global bookings: dattrax@gmail.com This was an all vinyl house mix.

Jan 19, 201048 min

Fallen Circles, MixOne » Strictly House Music

Strictly House Music... Will return here w/ comments, dattrax BTW... if you enjoy this mix, then why don't you buy us a beer? There's a PayPal DONATE button on the top right side of this website. For Toronto or Global bookings: dattrax@gmail.com This was an all vinyl house mix.

Jan 19, 201043 min

Freed » Strictly House Music

Strictly House Music... Will return here w/ comments, dattrax --------------- Reach out to us and comment. Just Google 'dattrax' and you'll find all places online that we've been a part of. Please share with other like-minded individuals. --------------- There's a PayPal donate button on the right if you're on our Podomatic site if you want to buy us a beer to say cheers ; ) Our PayPal donation email if you are listening to our mixes on another platform. Any amount of support is welcomed. We app...

Jan 19, 20101 hr 14 min
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